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Not so rich at all. I believe Forbes recently cut him off the Forbes 400 list. Despite all the trying, he failed at grifting from the WH. He succeeded at making his brand poison around the world. 😂😂😂
Garry Kasparov, Russian World Chess champ Like every con man, Trump reserves his greatest contempt for those who support him, because he knows better than anyone what gullible fools they are for trusting him.
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 i agree 👍. I retired after ago 27years in the army. I thought I had put all those experiences behind. That combat mode is coming back and I don't like it. It seems surreal
Those who are just conservatives should have acted years ago, when Trump was showing them what he stood for. It'd be better late than never, but I'm not hopeful.
If they manage it, it won't redeem them in my eyes, there is nothing short of public apology and eschewing politics that would do that. But it might help to restore some functionality to our government...
All you had to do is look at those TV shows that he was "Boss" & see that he was Wacko! Then his example of what he did in mocking a Disable person & finely that Access Hollywood interview! you had a great picture of who he was!
Isn’t that what republican voters are looking for? A strong man (or women in this case) that just does what he / she deems right without regards for the law?
I live in Idaho, I commented on the Boise news channel. The lieutenant General was obviously engaging in a ploy to get attention from the far right. I can't imagine her tricks will work. Little is a centrist leader. He didn't force vaccines but at least he encouraged them. He also followed the science. I'm a rare Democrat in a Republican state but I can live with someone like Little. I appreciate you bringing this up and discussing it.
I really need to get out of Idaho somehow... as a trans person I feel less safe here every day. I don't know how I'm going to financially do it but I have to get out before I'm killed by these psychopaths here.
@@reneelyndamartinez1362 thankfully Idaho is all about the guns.. so I am safe in that regard. Human rights groups are too concerned about us trans people in sports that we still can't even get our healthcare covered by insurance. So far nothing extreme has happened but I guarantee shit will hit the fan if types like the LT Governor keep moving into more positions of power. The general public here is very anti lgbt. Northern Idaho has a large KKK and Aryan Nation majority. The extremists from around the country are moving here now and it just feels like a powder keg ready to blow made worse by the amount of private militia types that reside here
I know it's in the south, but Lexington, Kentucky, is very LGBTQ+ friendly. We have a large community, lots of pride events, and have had an openly-gay mayor. We're an oasis for progressives in Kentucky. Be careful and stay safe. ✌️💜🌈
@@tammytate579 as a fellow Kentuckian, I can second your comment! I live a little north of you in Harrison Co (I'm a blue dot in an absolute sea of red here) but I do know Lexington to be a great place and really the opposite of what is generally thought about Kentuckians. I love my home state but some of the people in it are 🤬🤬🤬
Uk comedian Billy Connolly said once “the desire for that much power should serve as immediate disqualification”. That phrase has always stuck with me.
He's right, but sadly the truth is people have constantly handed over total power to demagogues who they are misled to believe they "agree" with. History is littered with examples. Desperate, angry and uneducated people will take the easy way out and elect "strong" totalitarians because their simple logic is "if we give them all the power, they'll fix all the problems."
We should also mention her ties to far-right militias such as the Real 3% of Idaho, which claims to have up to 2,500 armed members. And her coziness with Amon Bundy's People's Rights Network. It should be very clear what she has under her belt if she becomes Governor. We should keep an eye on the Republicans and their militia activities, and perhaps build a community capacity for our own. Because we can't rely the *moderate* GOP to control their own radicals
These seditious states are chomping at the bit. And they are ALL armed, and have had years, generations, of feeding their attitudes towards a real Free Democratic country. They romanticize the Revolutionary and Civil War. I believe we are in a ‘cold’ civil war. And if the
@@thisisit333 you are not the only one. Beau does a great job educating, researching, consistently addressing issues daily. Multiple times daily. But the way you stated The facts of the agenda of this radicalized group of terrorists, and their power hungry cult leaders sends a gut wrenching message that To little to late is not an option. That is what this country needs to hear. That is what Biden, Pelosi, Harris, Manchin, the whole lot need to emphasize. I give them the credit due, but until the doj is reigned in to do their actual job and prosecute to the highest level, there is no way our democracy has a chance. I'm inclined to go along with the commenter who has been pushing for execution of these treasonous Fascists. Let the heads roll. I'm over all the slap on the hand reaction to the insurrectionists plotting their moments of glory. I think we all are.
Be aware that Idaho is already a Fascist police state. Note also that northern Idaho has simultaneously the highest percentage concentration of retired police officers in the country and the highest concentration of Nazi Party members in the country. This is NOT a coincidence.
Heck, I live right over the border and I keep forgetting that. Should I mention that I've lost respect for and confidence in the Spokane county sheriff since his pathetic televised eagerness to engage "Antifa socialists" in combat during the protests. Now he's basically refusing to enforce laws, citing the new use of force restrictions. This whole region could be under Trumpublican control pretty quickly in a revolt.
@@shoveI Having anything to do with noted psychopath Dave Grossman should be an immediate and permanent disqualification for employment in any job that doesn't make you ask if they'd like fries with that.
@@NWPaul72 The Spokane County Sheriff refused to accept that an internal investigation proved his dept had unlawfully helped convict 2 innocent men claiming they still are guilty of something. He's waiting for congresswoman McMorris-Rodgers to move on so he can have a run. Good grief. Spokane did elect a mayor whose experience in running a city was being a news reader on TV so ......
@@melissalayson7275 Missing it. You got the Queen who is the Majority Leader. The King that’s the Minority Leader. Thanks to the Fillabuster neither can do anything without the others votes. The Royal Court who are the Senators. Then you have the Electoral college who are the landowners. A Rose is a Rose by any other name. Your in a Monarchy
Democracymatrix has USA listed as "Deficient Democracy" in their ranking at 36th. Most of Europe is above USA in that ranking (listed as "Working Democracies"), and so are many non European developed nations.
Actually, I'd say we have more cows than people. This is a state with a lot of very rich people, controlling the rest of us and telling us to be grateful.
That's an important point. There are some incredibly sparsely populated states, that probably don't have enough people to legitimately qualify to be a state. Maybe we should consider redefining what a state is.
Sorry, but I am not going to hold my breath waiting for conservatives to do the right thing. We have had 4+ years of evidence showing that they are not willing to do so.
That Lt Gov's latest move was applauded by a loved one of mine living in Idaho. Why? "She doesn't let anyone tell her what to do." And I said, "She's elected. She supposed to do what *you* tell her to do." .... Still no reply to that message. And it makes me afraid.
Wow. Just wow. It makes me afraid too. Your loved one is just willing to simply hand over all their autonomy to a crazy person based on a silly premise. The fact that no higher priciples like honor, truth, justice, intelligence, empathy, etc. animates them is really sad.
it doesn't matter that it is nonsense and it will be undone in days. next election she will bang on about it and the trumpers will support this failure. this will make her look good to anyone who cheered jan 6 and trump.
That's exactly what's happening. Their party is being overrun. And there are large donors actively endorsing the people overrunning it. I think that instead of the cruelty, it's the chaos that's the actual point. Manufactured chaos can tear apart the foundations of any democracy if sustained long enough. And quite a few people seem to be banking on that very thing.
Their party is already overrun. That ship has sailed. If 2 impeachments and an insurrection weren't enough to drive the point home I don't know what room they've got for fixing this themselves.
You are absolutely, 100% correct. Accountability is a fading memory. Actually there really hasn't been any accountability since Nixon resigned. We the people have been unrepresented for generations and both parties have been benefitting from the ignorance that grows like mold in a society that does not care to educate.
Hey neighbor! I got to Spokane in like '98, right? Right when they busted up the Aryan Nation day camp up here. A lot of people I met around then thought that was too harsh. So it wasn't too purple then, and it's only gotten redder. It feels like it's maybe started purpling since this last summer, as the hospitals filled up and the workers started staying home, but before that it was a lot of coal-rolling, hate criming proud ignorance, from what I could tell.
Once, when I was a kid, late 70s, northern Idaho had pretty strong labor unions. Helped to put our last Dem governor in office- Cecil Andrus. Not trying to excuse the presence of the aryan nation compound.
It needs to be said more often. Leftist youtube has been doing it since the start, but I actually see it being used more on MSNBC of all places. And then the fascists come in and like to say, "fascism doesn't even mean anything anymore lol, anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist" and other pretend it just means "gubbamint is mean." Means what it always did. A far-right ideology opposed to all forms of the left, believes liberal democracy is obsolete, opposed to liberal enlightenment values (that the US was based on) and aims to achieve a totalitarian one-party state, combining nationalism with racism and bigotry against the poor, disabled, lgbt and religious minorities considered the "out-groups." Highly militarized with expanded, near total authority given to law enforcement. It calls for a return to greatness, a conservative and mythologized version of the nation. Republicans, basically, and trump, definitely.
A B S O L U T E L Y. TRUMPISM IS FASCISM. Sadly, we are in a ‘cold’ civil war. This is what it must have felt like for people that could ‘see ahead’ with their critical thinking skills to their scary future in 1930s Europe.
@@thisisit333 please excuse my correction. The Fascist movement began in 1920’s Italy, by Benito Mussolini. It was Mussolini that coined the word Fascism to describe his nationalist movement. Yes hitler was greatly enamored with Mussolini’s fascist move, it’s where his brown shirts came from, and how Mussolini and Italy were invited to be a part of the Axis powers.
@@kevinmcconnell9426 it's important to go way back when discussing fascism. At least to the mid 1800's to point close to the root. Before it earned its name or had any power, so that people observing who end up looking it up and learning more can see how it starts under classical liberalism, that mixes with fears of overcrowding (never possible. We have spaceflight. We can now expand infinitely $$$$ pricy but doable) and with fears of weakness or excuses of the cruelty of homelessness being written off with "social Darwinism" or its modern equivalents like "welfare queens" and "lazy bums" and they are lies just like they where back then. From there they slowly add more. Like the birds and bull hypothesis of economics (feed the seed to the bull, the birds can eat the seeds at the other end, aslo called trickle down economics), then calling for "party unity" to be strong, then start calling for isolationism and nationalism, etc etc all the way until most of the 13 features of fascism are present, and it's too late. That also. Ya know. Tells a story that people can relate to, they can start to connect dots within thier own ideologies and they can start to see things more clearly.
Idaho is such a joke of a state. My personal favorite thing happening in Idaho now is the unofficial minimum wage increase the towns that border Washington are experiencing. People finally caught on that no one in Moscow is gonna work for 8/HR when they can make 14 at zips 10 minutes away in Pullman.
I know its hard to stomach what the extremist GOP do as a democrat, I cant imagine how much worse it has to be if you once were a proud party member of the GOP and youve watched it become a beacon for the absolute worst American citizens. Good Luck to those who still are reasonable and rational in the GOP trying to deliver reason and rationale.
They've had years of opportunity to stand up and holler about the naked emperor, but they never did. Even as he was being impeached, they staunchly defended him. Only the Lincoln Project Republicans took a stand for what is moral. I have no time for anyone else in that party.
They live in a information bubble that erodes your perspective of reality. The person could be a reasonable human being but fed with distorted information during 20 years they lose connection with reality.
I have and do believe in good ethics, good standards, good principles, good morals, honesty, no matter the political party, but while the republicans claim to be of this, I do not see it in action. They claim 1 thing and do the opposite.
She is only doing what Trump did hei is still standing has faced no negative consequences. Not even charged for crimes committed. So why wouldn't some use his actions as inspiration?
How is it legal for the Lt. Gov to do that when the Gov is ONLY out of state on business. Why is anyone in the gov't going along with it in the first place. Wow... she needs to be stopped ASAP... Idaho might have a problem.
That depends on the state constitution. In California when ever the governor leaves the state the Lt governor has all the powers of the governor including signing or vetoing laws. Fortunately that rarely happens. That constitutional clause comes from a time when there wasn’t near instantaneous world communications.
The Governor is at the border doing performance politics so, of course, the Lt. Governor thinks I can outdo him. We need serious people who believe in public service but I dare say there's not any in the Republican Party and I'm skeptical about the other party as well. I'm looking at you Sinema.
I hope they melt down into so many factions that they are not a viable party for the foreseeable future. I hope they take some Democrats like Manchin and Sinema with them and a few more with them. This country needs to move forward now.
The correct word for her is USURPER...in addition to the dictionary definition, it turns out there is also a Biblically based definition So, for all you "Christian first, Republican second" folks: Usurper: seize or exercise authority or possession wrongfully.
I am from Idaho, since I was 4yr old. My state being behind the curve is something I can bear, but we need to throw this girl out of our state, not that I would wish her on anyone. Maybe Mar-a-Lago😎 RANKED CHOICE VOTING. NOW!
I live across the border in WA. I am afraid you underestimate the average Idahoan. My money is that she is doing this because she knows it will be well received. Idaho is probably more fringe than reasonable where Republicans are concerned. Just saying.
When I lived in Idaho decades ago, if the governor was out of state the lieutenant governor automatically assumed his powers. It was part of Idaho law and probably still is.
Be honest, the Republican Party and their supporters were already barreling down this track. trump is just a manifestation of what they've been cultivating. Luckily, trump is a f'n idiot. Imagine the damage someone with intelligence and tact could have done to this country. Now is the time for a third party made up of liberal and conservative moderates. This is their chance with both parties infighting and weakened, this may be their only chance. A third party would force negotiations and concessions in Congress. All parties would then need to show how they best serve ALL voters, so they could be re-elected. There would then be blue, red, and a party to represent the majority (non-extremest voters).
My niece lives in Idaho. I was terrified for her and her family when Idaho's hospitals were went into triage mode. Yes, they're all vaccinated but breakthroughs happen --- so do broken legs and heart attacks and car wrecks and bleeding ulcers. And now this. I'm just hoping they find a way to get out while they can.
Brad Little told us that we don't need to have mandates (mask/social dist) because "I know Idahoans will do the right thing." Now we're last in vaccination rates, hospitals swamped and still Idahoans are pretending that they're exempt from caring about their neighbors.
You've talked about Idaho, my home state, a few times recently. This tells me my state has gone into a far right realm that I'm not comfortable with. Attempting to vote for some balance in a very red state is a gargantuan task it seems. But I will not give up.
Due to the pandemic, lack of resources and crises in some parts of the world has made lots of people jobless and the financial status of some families aren't okay & this leading to increase in crime rate in our society.
@Sayid Ali You're absolutely right,but many out there are confused about what part of stock should they invest into..for me! I invested into Bitcoin and it has been a success for about four months now.
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Come on now, you know as well as I do that the kind of people who agree with the things she was trying to do will not see her actions as a negative. They'll love it. "She's got balls - we need more of her kind!" They'll lap it up. Because that's how stupid and blind they are.
A quick caveat to your T-shirt, Beau. There are a quite significant section of law enforcement that should be taught respect for laws and citizens…..all of us.
Idaho will elect her governor in a heartbeat. As long as her power grabbing and authoritarianism is perceived as beneficial to them, they don't care. By the time it would negatively impact them it would be too late.
The difference is that she won an election with the Iowa Dems ran a weak candidate in 2018. There’s no governor to return to Iowa and return things to normal. As long as we’re providing nicknames for her, I call her aunt Kim, a la Gilead. Her actions and policies over the past year or so have just been mean.
Her response to the coronavirus in Iowa has been appalling. The reason she won the election is her brutal ad campaigns against Hubbell making him out to be an elitist and corporate crook. Like most dems he didn't fight back and point out her many faults. Democrats definitely aren't without faults but playing fair when it comes to politics doesn't win elections.
I'm in California, It seems that the most radical, Trump loving, conservative's in California are moving to Idaho. I feel sorry for the good, normal people of Idaho. The lieutenant governor is showing her constituants who she is and what she stands for. She is actively campaigning.
The Republicans have been courting the religious right (and their authoritarian "everyone should live by our interpretation of a book by several authors art over centuries" tendencies) since (at least) Reagan. The reversal won't happen overnight.
@@evee8462 🤣 I was wondering if autocorrect took over or if you had dropped it. I remember when my kids used to send messages like ‘ddggtydsfh jhhggg’ to my volunteering group WhatsApp group. And they quickly figured out it was my babies and they would all wave and send love to my kids. 😄 So 👋🏾❤️🌈☀️🙂to yours.
So what're the odds she gets into trouble for this? Is it just gonna blow over like so many with... let's call it 'political protection'? If there's no consequences this is just the start.
@@maryknight4109 I wouldn’t know. ‘Lt.’ stands for ‘lieutenant’ which means ‘place-holding’. Imo she should do nothing but watch the teller, while the grocer is out. He has the mandate, not she. These things you would expect to be ensured in the constitution. And violating such rules makes her a usurper of sorts.
And like pagans Republicans want to believe in an idol. All because they are afraid to be called out by the bully on the playground! Not an ounce of self respect or an original thought!
@@seidmadr2024 I'm offended and I'm not even pagen. She is the mirror image of a Republican. Inverse and obverse, same coin. Right wing left wing, same sick bird.
Other than the pagan part (hee) I totally agree. Some people just need a leader and are uncomfortable without one. They are ripe for any manipulative force that comes along.
@@suedawnnym7134 I am often misunderstood. It was Beau's shirt that I was agreeing with. I have enjoyed your contributions to the comment section. Thanks for challenging my comments. I am often clueless and depend on the folks in the comment section to help me try to keep up.
@@sabotagesavant5277 Thanks, I'm not a fan of Louis L'Amour but I read everything I can get my hands on. This quote was dropped clumsily into the middle of THE LONESOME GODS. I sift a lot of sand looking for gems.
I would be interested to see how the "executive order" banning vaccine requirements would be resolved against the federal executive order requiring vaccinations or weekly testing for larger employers. I presume the state level order would be overruled by the federal, but I am curious how it would play out.
Do I have to admit that I live in Idaho? Granted, I live in the part of the state called the cesspit of liberalism by a state official, but still, she is such an embarrassment.
@@NWPaul72 Sad but true, however, it might be worth it for what swing voters are out there, and as a reminder to those 'moderate', 'normal' conservatives that are left. Doing nothing, saying nothing is never an answer. It should be called out every single chance.
In 2016 my state (Arkansas) amended its constitution over just this sort of nonsense. The LG is no longer acting governor every time the governor is out of state. Those were understandable provisions in state constitutions a century ago, but they really make no sense in the modern era and should be amended out in all fifty states, in my view.
She's demonstrating to that core group that she is willing to uphold their views and the ideals of their "dear leader." It is dangerously performative and basically an application sent to the next person who takes office touting fascist tendencies.
Let's see, power for power sake... Desantis comes to mind, MTG, Matt Gaetz, Bobert and probably a few I can't think of at the moment . How is that for starters?
It's funny because in most countries I know (Including here in Canada), if someone from ANY political party did anything as out of bounds as that Lt. Gov. did, the party would kick her/him out of the party (Probably would demand their resignation, but even with that aside, they would still make sure to eject them from the party, even if that person stayed in office as an independent). Here, people get kicked out of parties all the time for all sorts of small scandals and faux-pas... That seems to be an alien concept in the US as I can't remember the last time a Dem. or Rep.Senetor or Congressperson being shown the door by the party leadership for not being in line with the party line (How come?)
Thank you Beau 🤗. We ALWAYS appreciate your work & intelligence VERY MUCH! I'm in Spokane (30mins away) & have family & friends in Idaho. I'm grateful to learn Idaho has an adult in charge. Thanks again. 🤗
I live in Idaho. She's an absolute nut. She ignored court orders. She is asking the state to foot her legal bills for violating the court order. She is completely unhinged and she is a breath away from the governor's office.
"a semi-functioning democracy" you say, Beau? That is being overly generous looking from the outside. Semi- imparts the idea of roughly halfway and you folks fell quite far below that notion years ago. You're barely clinging to basic necessities of a working democracy in many areas these days.
Great Shirt! Some police don't understand or care about the difference between fear and respect. Respect has an element of character and ethics. Police Unions try to insulate police from that requirement.
I live right next door in Washington like you say this is the second time 🤣 but like Beau says never under estimate the power of crazies there's plenty of them out there
