Congress needs to start confronting the executive office and stop blaming the president (who we already know has never had the strength required to be held accountable) for their inability to stay on the mat and hold each other and themselves accountable. Your children are watching. They can still feel your unconscious carried shame, fear and guilt. If you care about your children and their emotional maturity then…Congress you need to get out of your closet of fear. Grow up or resign. Accountability is not easy. It Requires not collapsing into our fears and false security. Be merciful 🌎☮️
Did anyone notice. Trump has attacked 3 Democrats with physical arrest, and the rest of them have just kept thhir heads down and done nothing about it???
It’s time to replace the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party. Neither is good for the country.
Certainly agree with Fox being a part of the lack of accountability. Journalism is about holding oneself and others accountable. Otherwise all you have is marketing and advertisement to make money. Fox, and our present administration do not have the emotional maturity required to be accountable. As long as we fall for adults, blaming other adults for their incompetence and unwillingness to be held accountable. We will remain loyal to any story that does not make us feel uncomfortable. We live in a culture that rewards not dealing with uncomfortable feelings. So we cover up truth and shame the truth tellers …. then have to hide our authentic self in order to maintain the cordial hypocrisy. Entertainment is meant to make you feel good. News is meant to help you grow and hopefully to be and do better. Accountability begins in childhood. For example, in our terrible twos, we want a toy or a cookie. If we don’t get that toy or cookie, will start to cry. If we still don’t get that cookie or that toy, then we’ll get angry. If our parents can’t handle Our crying or our getting angry or our temper tantrums and if our care givers give in to us…we learn that’s all we have to do to get what we want…. Scream, kick, break things. If our parents maintained the NO with love and compassion and firmness we would learn about accountability. We would cultivate self-esteem. We would learn how to care about other people. The terrible twos is a developmental stage. This is where we are learning about accountability, resilience, and how to balance self-worth while recognizing the impact we have on other people at the same time.. the only way we hurt other people as adults is if we haven’t learned how to feel our own pain. As long as we blame other people for our inability to deal with life, we never grow up. We don’t really have self-esteem. In fact, many of us have confused grandiosity with self-esteem.
Mark.. we need a National Newspaper. Are you up for it? No doubt people will work for very little and make it worth your while financially. You can easily replace the Times and Post. Electronic media is not the end -all.
I agree we need a National Newspaper. However, I believe you get what you pay for. We need ethical, moral and knowledgeable people reporting our news. We need a voice or voices we can trust.
There’s a lot of honest talented journalists, reporters on Substack. People like Jim Acosta, Katie Phang, The Meiselas Brothers, Aaron Parnas, Don Lemon, etc. Maybe they can help……..
Ridiculous: the Times is out front on Page 0ne every day reporting honestly and accurately about Trump’s failures to support the Constitution and his everyday lies!
Not true. To compare The NY Times with the Enquirer reflects your views on freedom of the press transparency in government. In other words, you are being obtuse.
If I wanted to buy the ragtag National Enquirer I’d buy iit at the grocery store! But then again, I wouldn’t waste my dime on it, and if it was such a good newspaper so many people wouldn’t be telling Mark Cuban to write a decent one would they? so maybe you should go back on your fucking rock!!
This is the problem with this country, why do professional journalists need to “work for very little” to make a newspaper business worthwhile for a billionaire?
Cheri Jacobus already has an excellent plan for a daily fact-checked briefing from the Capitol. I understand Marc Cuban endorsed the plan which many of us support. Apparently the Dems in congress can’t or won’t even try. Cheri and I prefer having Pete Buttigieg do the briefing as he is articulate and can field questions. If a non-politician would be better, how about Jen Psaki?The thing is Cheri could help set this up if only the Dems would allow this credible fact-checked daily briefing. Google Cheri Jacobus Pete Buttigieg to find her podcast. Or ask the Oregon Senators and Oregon Rep Salinas. I have contacted them many times.
This. Do this. Strategically change the discussion;
Want to put a lid on disinformation? Defund it. We all know the most powerful tool in the right wing is media. To biggest transgressor is FOX. If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX and that destroying honest media makes it even worse; Eviscerate FOX. Deny them ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time. See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this. Details matter. Talk to me. See Target and Tesla for examples.
I stopped spending at HD a few months ago (and I was a huge HD guy). I go to Lowe’s now and my local hardware store. I pay more but can’t support those that support this regime.
Good show Al. If we can get all those millions of people following the likes of Meidas and JoJo from Jerze and Lincoln Project to do the same….FOX will lose their funding, and therefore the hate train will lose momentum.
We’ve also cancelled our Amazon Prime membership, are off of FB and Instagram, and don’t shop at Walmart anymore. These changes come at a cost ($), but in a world where it’s easy to feel like you have no control, it’s a way to regain a sliver of it back. We need to unite!!
Restack. NEVER LET ANYONE FORGET- trump cabinet members are rapists & criminals. Elon paid a flight attendant to TOUCH HIS ERECT PENIS in 2024!
I was looking up John Gotti - trump LOVES to compare himself to this CONVICTED murderer who died in prison- and found this Dec 2024 article by THE NATION
Here is a GRAPHIC excerpt. I trust you can pick out trump cabinent members Hegseth Bessant. Linda McMahon. Steve Ludnick. Rfk jr. Stephen Miller. And Elon by the description
Trump has shown a particular fondness for those connected to or accused of sexual offenses.
In The American Prospect, Maureen Tkacik has provided a horrifying list of Trump officials accused or guilty of terrible misconduct:
The presumptive Secretary of Education is married to a man whose former employee alleges he forced her to perform sex acts with his friend for an hour and a half after he defecated on her head. The presumptive Commerce Secretary preemptively sued his former assistant in 2018, after her lawyer threatened to publicize “not pretty” 2 a.m. text messages she’d received from him and his wife. The presumptive Health and Human Services director’s explanation for forcibly groping a former nanny’s breasts while holding her hostage in a kitchen pantry was that he “had a very, very rambunctious youth”; he was 46 at the time. The White House efficiency czar, currently a defendant in a putative class-action lawsuit filed by eight former employees who accuse him of perpetrating an “Animal House” work environment of “rampant sexual harassment,” and paid a quarter of a million dollars to a flight attendant who says he got naked and asked her to touch his erect penis in exchange for the gift of a horse.
And of course the presumptive Defense Secretary was accused of raping a woman who was tasked with monitoring what she described to police as his “creeper vibes” after a Republican women’s conference at which he was a keynote speaker, just a month and change after the birth of his fourth child with a woman who was not his wife at the time.
If Abraham Lincoln created, in the words of historian Doris Kearns Godwin, “a team of rivals” in his cabinet, Trump is creating a team of sexual predators, with himself as the miscreant in chief.
MAGGOTS HAVE ALL THE POWER UNTIL 20 JAN ‘27! DO WE WANT TO RETURN POWER TO the average American resident? Are we willing to DO THE WORK, NOW, TO SEE A CHANGE TAKES PLACE??
Mark, why aren’t we hearing more from you-using your money and your actual voice and visage and why aren’t you rallying other rich people, of good, moral, character, to standup en masse to point out and condemn Trump’s deplorable, illegal and unconstitutional plan to be a Dictator is destroying our republic. You have a great deal of power. Please direct it for the betterment of our Democratic System of government. Would love to hear/read a response.
Thank you for the info. I’m older and don’t understand the nuances of most websites. Wish there were directions about substacks (don’t even know what they are), if I don’t subscribe, does that mean you will not show up on this site for me tomorrow? Just found this comment you posted multiple days ago, sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Didn’t know two individuals could interact. Trying to learn something new every day.
I generally just follow people, and they seem to show up for me. But I admit, I don't know Substack that well either. I'm not a content creator, mostly just a reader and restacker.
It doesn't go to your email, you just see it here but you count as a subscriber and you will see all their posts. It's the same as “follow” in Facebook.
I will take another look around. I'm on an ipad, and sometimes I get freezes and things don't work well. I do remember subscribing to one person, and a popup came up asking if I wanted email. But it's only happened that one time. I generally just follow people, not subscribe.
You know I always wondered why the MAGA billionaires hide. Why won’t they come forward and have a conversation with leaders who have differing opinions? Why do they have to have every cruel intention and none that are all inclusive? Why doesn’t someone create an online list of people they know are MAGAS and it be maintained by someone signed up for Steve’s Save America coalition or 501-C4. Right now all I can think of is what the acronym MAGA stands for. It stands for MAGA hats and apparel Made In China. How does that make this country good again? How many jobs does that create?
Couldn’t have said it better Mark. And McConnell (who I call Kermit for obvious reasons) should be censored. His state has 30% of constituents on Medicaid and he says they will get over it. He has the best health insurance money can buy. They get 24 plans to choose from annually. All the very best coverage. His should be taken away. And his pathetic money grubbing wife’s. Thank god this is his last term in office.
Congress needs to start confronting the executive office and stop blaming the president (who we already know has never had the strength required to be held accountable) for their inability to stay on the mat and hold each other and themselves accountable. Your children are watching. They can still feel your unconscious carried shame, fear and guilt. If you care about your children and their emotional maturity then…Congress you need to get out of your closet of fear. Grow up or resign. Accountability is not easy. It Requires not collapsing into our fears and false security. Be merciful 🌎☮️
We, the people, must retire them!
Agree
We MUST!!
I think Fox Network has radicalized the maga people.
Nailed it!!!!
The perpetual cordial hypocrisy is deafening…🌎☮️ no pun intended 😔
I agree
Truth!!! But not holding my breath!!!
Best choice is to retire in shame!
@Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @Congressman Jared Moskowitz @Congressman Wiley Nickel @Congresswoman Alma Adams @Congressman Matt Gaetz @Congressman Greg Casar @Congressman Robert Garcia @Congressman Greg Landsman @Congressman Dan Kildee @Congressman Suhas Subramanyam @Rep. Jasmine Crockett @Rep. Jamie Raskin @The Constitutional Republic
Say republican
Did anyone notice. Trump has attacked 3 Democrats with physical arrest, and the rest of them have just kept thhir heads down and done nothing about it???
It’s time to replace the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party. Neither is good for the country.
Certainly agree with Fox being a part of the lack of accountability. Journalism is about holding oneself and others accountable. Otherwise all you have is marketing and advertisement to make money. Fox, and our present administration do not have the emotional maturity required to be accountable. As long as we fall for adults, blaming other adults for their incompetence and unwillingness to be held accountable. We will remain loyal to any story that does not make us feel uncomfortable. We live in a culture that rewards not dealing with uncomfortable feelings. So we cover up truth and shame the truth tellers …. then have to hide our authentic self in order to maintain the cordial hypocrisy. Entertainment is meant to make you feel good. News is meant to help you grow and hopefully to be and do better. Accountability begins in childhood. For example, in our terrible twos, we want a toy or a cookie. If we don’t get that toy or cookie, will start to cry. If we still don’t get that cookie or that toy, then we’ll get angry. If our parents can’t handle Our crying or our getting angry or our temper tantrums and if our care givers give in to us…we learn that’s all we have to do to get what we want…. Scream, kick, break things. If our parents maintained the NO with love and compassion and firmness we would learn about accountability. We would cultivate self-esteem. We would learn how to care about other people. The terrible twos is a developmental stage. This is where we are learning about accountability, resilience, and how to balance self-worth while recognizing the impact we have on other people at the same time.. the only way we hurt other people as adults is if we haven’t learned how to feel our own pain. As long as we blame other people for our inability to deal with life, we never grow up. We don’t really have self-esteem. In fact, many of us have confused grandiosity with self-esteem.
65% of cable News viewers watch Fox weekly for their lies and manipulation of current events which support their dysfunctional views and agendas.
Mark.. we need a National Newspaper. Are you up for it? No doubt people will work for very little and make it worth your while financially. You can easily replace the Times and Post. Electronic media is not the end -all.
I agree we need a National Newspaper. However, I believe you get what you pay for. We need ethical, moral and knowledgeable people reporting our news. We need a voice or voices we can trust.
Agreed.. Many of those are here.
There’s a lot of honest talented journalists, reporters on Substack. People like Jim Acosta, Katie Phang, The Meiselas Brothers, Aaron Parnas, Don Lemon, etc. Maybe they can help……..
Joy Read
The NY Times is doing just fine.
NYT is bought and paid for by republicans. They rarely have truthful stories!
Ridiculous: the Times is out front on Page 0ne every day reporting honestly and accurately about Trump’s failures to support the Constitution and his everyday lies!
But do they address the marches correctly? I feel that they whitewash them.
not true
Your opinion! Mine is different and I have been disappointed with them for the last few years!
It’s really not my opinion. I did some research and came up with the poll if I find it again I’ll post it up here for you.
Trust me. If the NYT were even in the slightest way republican, my liberal nose would detect it. It’s an excellent newspaper.
No. They are a venerable source of truth that have defended freedom of speech for a hundred years.
Like I said that is your opinion, mine is different!
Depends on the day
The times has turned into the East Coast National Enquirer
Not true. To compare The NY Times with the Enquirer reflects your views on freedom of the press transparency in government. In other words, you are being obtuse.
It’s totally true! they turned into a total trash rag, not worth the ink or paper it’s written on!
😂😂😂😂😂 go back under your rock
If I wanted to buy the ragtag National Enquirer I’d buy iit at the grocery store! But then again, I wouldn’t waste my dime on it, and if it was such a good newspaper so many people wouldn’t be telling Mark Cuban to write a decent one would they? so maybe you should go back on your fucking rock!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love the NYT & the Washington Post
Truth. I am down to reading the Guardian myself.
Why offer to be underpaid?
This is the problem with this country, why do professional journalists need to “work for very little” to make a newspaper business worthwhile for a billionaire?
Independent media is where it’s at. YouTube, Substack
Independent media hosts get paid.
Yes! I will write a monthly article from Oklahoma free for you. It can give an alternative voice in a red state.
I know Kara Swisher would want in. The Washington Post and LA Times journalists would!
Cheri Jacobus already has an excellent plan for a daily fact-checked briefing from the Capitol. I understand Marc Cuban endorsed the plan which many of us support. Apparently the Dems in congress can’t or won’t even try. Cheri and I prefer having Pete Buttigieg do the briefing as he is articulate and can field questions. If a non-politician would be better, how about Jen Psaki?The thing is Cheri could help set this up if only the Dems would allow this credible fact-checked daily briefing. Google Cheri Jacobus Pete Buttigieg to find her podcast. Or ask the Oregon Senators and Oregon Rep Salinas. I have contacted them many times.
This. Do this. Strategically change the discussion;
Want to put a lid on disinformation? Defund it. We all know the most powerful tool in the right wing is media. To biggest transgressor is FOX. If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX and that destroying honest media makes it even worse; Eviscerate FOX. Deny them ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time. See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this. Details matter. Talk to me. See Target and Tesla for examples.
I stopped spending at HD a few months ago (and I was a huge HD guy). I go to Lowe’s now and my local hardware store. I pay more but can’t support those that support this regime.
Good show Al. If we can get all those millions of people following the likes of Meidas and JoJo from Jerze and Lincoln Project to do the same….FOX will lose their funding, and therefore the hate train will lose momentum.
We’ve also cancelled our Amazon Prime membership, are off of FB and Instagram, and don’t shop at Walmart anymore. These changes come at a cost ($), but in a world where it’s easy to feel like you have no control, it’s a way to regain a sliver of it back. We need to unite!!
Same here. Lowe’s does donate but they split their donation. It’s hard to find a big corp store that didn’t support Trump.
Restack. NEVER LET ANYONE FORGET- trump cabinet members are rapists & criminals. Elon paid a flight attendant to TOUCH HIS ERECT PENIS in 2024!
I was looking up John Gotti - trump LOVES to compare himself to this CONVICTED murderer who died in prison- and found this Dec 2024 article by THE NATION
Here is a GRAPHIC excerpt. I trust you can pick out trump cabinent members Hegseth Bessant. Linda McMahon. Steve Ludnick. Rfk jr. Stephen Miller. And Elon by the description
Trump has shown a particular fondness for those connected to or accused of sexual offenses.
In The American Prospect, Maureen Tkacik has provided a horrifying list of Trump officials accused or guilty of terrible misconduct:
The presumptive Secretary of Education is married to a man whose former employee alleges he forced her to perform sex acts with his friend for an hour and a half after he defecated on her head. The presumptive Commerce Secretary preemptively sued his former assistant in 2018, after her lawyer threatened to publicize “not pretty” 2 a.m. text messages she’d received from him and his wife. The presumptive Health and Human Services director’s explanation for forcibly groping a former nanny’s breasts while holding her hostage in a kitchen pantry was that he “had a very, very rambunctious youth”; he was 46 at the time. The White House efficiency czar, currently a defendant in a putative class-action lawsuit filed by eight former employees who accuse him of perpetrating an “Animal House” work environment of “rampant sexual harassment,” and paid a quarter of a million dollars to a flight attendant who says he got naked and asked her to touch his erect penis in exchange for the gift of a horse.
And of course the presumptive Defense Secretary was accused of raping a woman who was tasked with monitoring what she described to police as his “creeper vibes” after a Republican women’s conference at which he was a keynote speaker, just a month and change after the birth of his fourth child with a woman who was not his wife at the time.
If Abraham Lincoln created, in the words of historian Doris Kearns Godwin, “a team of rivals” in his cabinet, Trump is creating a team of sexual predators, with himself as the miscreant in chief.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-gravano-government-gangsters/
I want someone to investigate if Congressional Republicans are being threatened, how they are being threatened or if they are just on the take.
MAGGOTS HAVE ALL THE POWER UNTIL 20 JAN ‘27! DO WE WANT TO RETURN POWER TO the average American resident? Are we willing to DO THE WORK, NOW, TO SEE A CHANGE TAKES PLACE??
Why don’t you buy ads on National TV showing them taking people from their immigration appointments? People need to see this
Hello Mark Cuban, I’m an admirer. I look forward to your insights in your various areas of economics, business, and motivation.
It is a sad, sad day in America but I am here to also fight the “Good Fight” and help vanquish this evil. Trump will go down, mark my words!
https://open.substack.com/pub/renaissanceman2025/p/two-real-heroes?r=5hj2gn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Mark, why aren’t we hearing more from you-using your money and your actual voice and visage and why aren’t you rallying other rich people, of good, moral, character, to standup en masse to point out and condemn Trump’s deplorable, illegal and unconstitutional plan to be a Dictator is destroying our republic. You have a great deal of power. Please direct it for the betterment of our Democratic System of government. Would love to hear/read a response.
Mark, please run against pa$ton or Cornyn, and
SAVE OUR STATE!!!!
Please use your influence to get Trump and Vance’s impeached.
I would appreciate reading a few of your articles before spending money for a subscription. You may write at a level I do not understand.
It's free, hit the orange subscribe button then you will see you have a free subscription 🥰
Thank you for the info. I’m older and don’t understand the nuances of most websites. Wish there were directions about substacks (don’t even know what they are), if I don’t subscribe, does that mean you will not show up on this site for me tomorrow? Just found this comment you posted multiple days ago, sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Didn’t know two individuals could interact. Trying to learn something new every day.
I generally just follow people, and they seem to show up for me. But I admit, I don't know Substack that well either. I'm not a content creator, mostly just a reader and restacker.
But I don't want it going to my email, I want to read it here. If it's free, why doesn't it just open here?
It doesn't go to your email, you just see it here but you count as a subscriber and you will see all their posts. It's the same as “follow” in Facebook.
ok thanks I subscribed. But I think I did the other day and it went to my email. But I could be wrong. 🤷🏼♀️
I’m not certain, but I think there may be a setting either on the website or in the app where you can toggle to not get the email??
I will take another look around. I'm on an ipad, and sometimes I get freezes and things don't work well. I do remember subscribing to one person, and a popup came up asking if I wanted email. But it's only happened that one time. I generally just follow people, not subscribe.
Mine doesn't go to email, good luck 😊
You know I always wondered why the MAGA billionaires hide. Why won’t they come forward and have a conversation with leaders who have differing opinions? Why do they have to have every cruel intention and none that are all inclusive? Why doesn’t someone create an online list of people they know are MAGAS and it be maintained by someone signed up for Steve’s Save America coalition or 501-C4. Right now all I can think of is what the acronym MAGA stands for. It stands for MAGA hats and apparel Made In China. How does that make this country good again? How many jobs does that create?
Couldn’t have said it better Mark. And McConnell (who I call Kermit for obvious reasons) should be censored. His state has 30% of constituents on Medicaid and he says they will get over it. He has the best health insurance money can buy. They get 24 plans to choose from annually. All the very best coverage. His should be taken away. And his pathetic money grubbing wife’s. Thank god this is his last term in office.
You can talk up a storm about anything you want. Your integrity isn’t in question.
The Mavs, great team. Cost plus, reliable, cost effective and easy to get the prescriptions filled.