Donld Trump and maga Republicans checked off all revenge boxes the Democrats said he would and now his administratin is circiling the drain

Echo ABC televised Sunday interview with Charlamagne tha God. In the interview, he revealed what was most surprising to him about politics in 2025, pointing to what he called a lack of respect for the working class, in a critique of both parties.

Maine Writer- the quote I took away from this ABC interview should be made into a Republican mantra:  Charlamagne summarily put the entire Donald Trump incompetent administration into an easy to understand context.  He said, all thatDonald Trump had to do during his second administration, to be successful, was to "NOT do" what his Democratic opponents said he was going to do. Instead, Donald Trump checked all the boxes on revenge and weaponization of the justice department. Therefore, as a result, the Trumpzi administration is circling the drain. Just my opinion.

On ABC's "This Week," host Jonathan Karl asked the radio host what has surprised him the most on the political front this year.

"I was about to say the lack of respect for the working class. You know, because I always knew that America didn’t give a damn about poor people. America doesn’t care about poor people. America doesn’t really care about people who are just trying to make it every day, just trying to survive," Charlamagne said.

"But really, man, everything from the DOGE cuts earlier in the year to the government shutdown — like, people really have no idea, politicians really have no idea what their constituents are going through," he continued.

The radio host said people don't even talk about the lives the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) "ruined" earlier in the year, before he pivoted to the government shutdown that occurred in the fall.

"Then you fast-forward and get to the government shutdown. And I understand that they were taking a stand for people’s healthcare. But, just the fact that they weren’t even thinking about all the government workers that were also out of work, who are still right now, they’re watching this on television, trying to catch up," Charlamagne said.

He urged Democrats to side with Republicans in opening the government in November. (Sadly, I reluctantly agree with Charlamagne tha God about his position.😥)

"I feel for all those federal workers who have missed two paychecks already, especially when most of them are living paycheck to paycheck," Charlamagne said on his show, "The Breakfast Club," at the time. "People are not getting their SNAP benefits. It’s time to reopen the government. I don’t care whose fault it was. Let’s stop playing politics with people’s lives."

He added, "It’s time to open the government back up, y’all," before noting that "The premiums have already gone up."

"They are set for the year. It’s time to move on," Charlamagne said. "We appreciate the fight, the valiant effort, but come on, man. People got rent due. People got child care to pay for, light bills, car notes."

During the ABC interview, Karl also asked Charlamagne about where he thought Donald Trump was successful❓🤢

"I would say probably the border, but it’s the way that it’s happening, right❓ If the numbers are true, people aren’t coming across the border anymore," Charlamagne said.

"But, I mean, man, do you really want to see people who have been here for years — who are actual citizens, are trying to go through the process to get legal citizenship — do you really want to see them snatched off the street the way they are, do Latino people need to just live in fear❓" he added.

Karl noted that Trump has performed better among Hispanic voters than any Republican on record.

"I really just wonder what goes through their minds, and how are they going to vote come 2026, how are they going to vote come 2028❓" Charlamagne asked. "Because they bought into a dream, but that dream turned into a nightmare."

JD Vance is an embarrasement! Yale University gave this man a diploma? What were they thinking?

Echo essay published in Politico by Greta Reich:

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear came out swinging against the former president and his current running mate when he said on ABC’s “This Week” that “there is no lie too big for Donald Trump and JD Vance,” referring to their refusal to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020, election.

Governor Beshear has the highest approval rating of any Democratic governor in the country,

“I mean, when you ask [Vance] about the last election, all you’re asking him to do is admit reality,” Beshear, a Democrat, told “This Week” host Martha Raddatz. “And we deserve to have a Vice President who believes in democracy and can say, yes, DonOLD Trump lost the last election, and now we’re running in this election.”

Beshear appeared on “This Week” just moments after an appearance by Vance himself, where Raddatz questioned him repeatedly about whether or not Trump lost the 2020, election.

Vance’s responses echoed what he said during the vice presidential debate, and multiple times after, when asked the same question.

“I’ve said repeatedly, I think the 2020, election had problems. You want to say rigged, you want to say he won, use whatever vocabulary term you want,” Vance told Raddatz, adding that he wants “to focus on the fact that we had big technology firms censoring our fellow citizens in a way that violated our fundamental rights.”

This censorship is in reference to independent studies that have — Vance has said — suggested affected the vote.

Adding to his critique of intentionally spreading misinformation, Beshear also slammed Trump and Vance for lying about FEMA’s disaster response during Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.

“In Kentucky, we went through our worst tornado disaster and our worst flood disaster in our history, and I didn’t have to deal with any of the shenanigans that Donald Trump is putting out right now, and these lies can hurt people,” Beshear said, presumably referencing the lethal tornadoes that hit his state in May.

“I mean, the line that $750 is all that’s available,” he said. “That means that individual might not apply for the $40,000-plus in individual assistance.” ($750 is the initial money given to those affected to help with immediate needs.)

He continued: “If you truly care about the people that are harmed more than yourself, you wouldn’t politicize this. You wouldn’t be putting out all this misinformation. As somebody who has led through national disasters, it hurts.”

When asked why the race appears so tight despite the lies, and the record-breaking amount of money raised for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Beshear blamed heightened partisanship.

“It’s something that I hope after this election that the Vice President can move us beyond, that she can remind us that this isn’t supposed to be an us versus them, that Donald Trump seems to do in everything that he’s about,” he said. “She can remind us that we are all Americans first, and Democrats, Republicans, and independents, second, third, or fourth.”

By the way, shame on Yale University! When J.D. Vance applied to law school, he viewed it as a pathway out of his chaotic upbringing in working-class Middletown, Ohio. Then he won a spot at his dream school. Yale Law not only accepted him for the fall of 2010, but also offered a nearly full ride the first year (What were they thinking?)