I know, it's also the Epstein Shutdown, what with Holy Mike adjourning the House for another week so that he doesn't have to swear in Adelita Grijalva — but there's enough material there for a whole 'nother post
Thanks for the reminder. I attended the last one in June. I live in a ruby red state and there were at least 1.000 who turned up. I showed up with no sign and came away with two signs. An elderly gentleman next to me had an asthma attack, and many others, including myself, watched over him and his wife until the ambulance arrived. They gave me their signs before the ambulance took them away with a look in their eyes saying "carry on the fight!" God bless them!
For the longest time I'VE been thinking (and saying) IF there was 'a god' WHY would he (or she) have allowed ANY of this in the first place? WHY would he (or she) allow this rotten POS unfeeling monster to 'win' the 1st time and baby girls with their daddies to be fucking DROWNED in the Rio Grande surrounded by barbed wire? WHY would ANY of this be happening to these innocents? Not trying to hurt anyone's feelings or beliefs but I'm long-since past accepting that there's a 'higher power' who gives a single damn OR flying fuck, especially about children or little girls OR boys being RAPED! While I still hold certain 'spiritual' feelings that have zilch to do with a god or religion, I truly think WE are on our own and WE are the only ones who can fix the current abominable fuckery we're all living through. I'm glad you have their signs and will show up. I plan to, even if I have to crawl.
Here is a theological explanation that works for me. God did not create us to be children, infantilized and helpless. He gave us a world, a good world, and he said, “This garden is yours to tend." If we fail to tend the garden well, then we suffer together until we back up, start over, and get it right. God gives us freedom, like the Prodigal Son, until we get ourselves back on course. I'd rather be an adult with the free choice to make mistakes than an infant with no choice and no responsibility than always cared for like an infant.
I agree with you. God didn't help the Jews, or any other people in need. I have a friend who says we have to pray, but I'm thinking he is not going to help.
I'll be attending on the 18th now that the heat is finally letting up in FL. When it was +93° here, I feared heatstroke. I only wish I'd kept my signs! Hope everyone attends a local demonstration. This one's for all the marbles.
At least sign up on an Indivisible page for your area so they can keep track of the numbers. Even if you sit in your car with a sign on the windshield and the AC on, it all helps!! Stay safe.
Hey, great idea. I broke my hip in February and am depending on a walker right now. Been mourning the inability to march. I do have signs, though, and could tape ‘em on my car. Thanks for the idea!
I went to Dollar Tree and got a poster size piece of foamcore and some orange letters that I had to glue on. My sign reads "NO KINGS! NO KINGS! NO KINGS!" on one side and 'I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK' on the other side. Less than $3! I also made a sign that reads "Too Much Sh!t to List!" on one side a 'F-ELON & 47!' on the other side.
These events are a wonderful way to meet sane, compassionate people. We always have a great time at our small town's protests which last time gathered over 5,000 people according to the local newspaper.
I read a post yesterday where the author was speaking to a French couple who remarked on US protests, that the French don't schedule them one at a time, they go out every day until what they are protesting is fixed. Shades of a friend's observation when in Paris--she saw three or four protests a day.
The French are far more into protesting than Americans are. They actually have general strikes where everyone just stops working until a problem gets fixed.
Angry White House Staffer on Patreon said the same. Nothing would move the needle without a general strike. The French gave us the template for democracy.
YES! THEY created. built and shipped across the Ocean (a massive undertaking) the Statue of Liberty who is MY guiding light - my first glimpse through a thick fog as we sailed into New York Harbour after a grueling 8 days of crunching through ice on the Atlantic. That incredible feeling which overwhelmed my heart then and still does...she's a main reason I've never left NY. They gifted her to America based on us following THEIR Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite (Liberty, Equality and BROTHERHOOD!) They saw us as becoming just like their Revolution against Monarchy, which we USED TO BE. Now we have the dimmest fuckwit in our White House determined to make himself a fucking 'king' because his daddy was rich and he's obsessed with monarchies and gold crap? A million times Non!
To paraphrase a point make in the Michael Moore documentary Sicko, in America the citizenry is afraid of the politicians, while in France the politicians are afraid of the citizenry. The French have it right!
The US is a little bigger than France, too. It’s hard to get the kind of crowds that garner attention when we’re so spread out. We can’t all hop in the car and head to DC every week.
I’m an organizer, finding some people fear the Brownshirts will appear…there simply needs to be more of us, than them. An overwhelming number of demonstrators are not easily overwhelmed, I’ve always reasoned. Thanks Kathleen!
I have a chronic illness which is which is why I could not stick around for the US to destroy their already failing health care system. I need insurance and not to have it become too expensive to pay. I don't even want to tell you what happened with my long term care insurance when I retired it angers me so much.
I hope and pray people are waking up. I’m not talking about the people who come here or to Blue Sky, I’m talking about the American Populace who moves to the beat of his drum.
I'm afraid it doesn't matter if Americans hate Project 2025. It didn't matter that most Americans hate everything the administration is doing. I was one of those who wanted the Dems to hold firm and demand no changes to ACA. Now I feel like a fool, and we played right into Vought's hands. And the military is in our cities. When are the silent generals going to say no to unlawful orders?
Nope, we didn't play into Vought's hands. Without the shutdown, the healthcare cuts were guaranteed to remain in place. Without the shutdown, they would have done what they're doing, anyway. They're trying to gaslight us into believing we gave them an advantage. Don't buy into it unless there's incontrovertible proof it's true. I don't expect to see it.
Been there, saw that. Good point, Kathleen. They're trying to make us feel as if every move we make is the wrong choice. Reinforcing the helplessness is their strategy. Not having it.
Exactly, Will. It seems to me that Rump wouldn't be bragging about how the shutdown is everything they've wanted, unless they're feeling scared and cornered. "Admitting" that the shutdown gives them so much more power is a risky gamble that might backfire on them, as Jeff points out.
Donnie Demento is doing right now what every abuser does when his victim defies him: he is becoming more and more violent. Whenever an abuser feels his control slipping, he only escalates the abuse.
Yes, and Donny hasn’t exactly surrounded himself with moral, smart, capable, competent people. They’re all so full of themselves (full of shit.) Even Russ Vought can’t keep his mouth shut. McGeobbels is insane, evil and getting worse. Trump is brain dead and dying. They are doomed to failure. So, release the damned Epstein/Trump pedo files!
YES, Carrie! Nothing of this is 'new', especially to those of us who've 'been there, lived through it and come out the other side a WHOLE LOT wiser'. I saw the orange fuckwit coming from a MILE away - even when he was calling into Cindy Adams & Steve Dunleavy pretending to be 'John Barron', (stupid doofus imagined he was fooling them or ANYONE!) while desperately trying to become the 'new' Hugh Hefner. He made me want to puke then. NOW? I wish him in the ground asap along with EVERY fucking abuser, male OR female.
Yes, it is military people, orders come through Trump, Hegseth, and layers of military leaders, until some enlisted man drives the drone that then fires the missiles.
Could be CIA. I knew a guy who used to fly them for the Agency. Not that there's any difference to the blown-up people. There is a little Navy 'flotilla' down there now.
As Hillary once asked, "What difference does it make?"
Maybe, but regarding the generals, timing is everything. I doubt they’d do something immediately after that meeting. I think their position is increasingly awkward and unclear, and they don’t like the lack of clarity.
As long as no American troops are killed in these illegal conflicts, it's all just one big video game to the generals and the public. Treating immigrants and their children in the U.S. like alleged terrorists at Abu Ghraib, to be demeaned, brutalized, disappeared ... all a quasi-military training exercise.
Please reference DoD Directive 1344.10 regarding political activities of personnel when in uniform. Nothing they do can imply DoD support or endorsement for any political ideology, candidate, or movement.
I’m trying to be optimistic too. If they’re discussing and planning something, this shut down provides opportunities with the locked out Congress. We wouldn’t be knowing what’s going on and we’re in the long game.
From what I’ve heard, though, most of these high ranking military types have a passion for oaths and keeping to them. Of course none of them are going to speak out right now. That’d be stupid and these people are not stupid. (Okay, forget about evil disgraced ex-general Mike Fynn.) It wouldn’t surprise me if there aren’t some plans being made.
As an Army vet and a military wife of 40+ years, I think the generals were quiet because right then that was the best they could do. Military protocol dictated that they couldn't clap or cheer during a briefing. Walking out isn't allowed, contrary to what some of you think. The SecDef gives you an order, and, unless it's illegal, you salute and move out smartly. The order to come to Quantico was stupid, but not illegal. I'm basing my thoughts on the things Mark Milley did as Dumpy's Chief of the Joint Chiefs. I don't like the guy - I was acquainted with him when he was stationed here at Ft. Bragg, and certainly knew lots of people who worked for him. But he stuck to what was right and legal all the way through his term under Dumpy, and even worked in the background to head off some things he thought might go badly. I think these generals, for the most part, take their oath to the Constitution seriously and will stick to it.
Just by the way - senior NCOs, like command sergeants major and chief master sergeants, were at that meeting too. It wasn't only general officers and admirals.
That's what armies do Jeff. Germany pulled it off. There's a long history of the military taking the side of .......they might as well burn the constitution.
Chris, I hadn’t heard that, but you have? They do have a different set of rules for sure giving them the right to refuse orders from the prez is kind of a big deal. Seperate court system, you know it was all constructed to to prevent the king thingy.
At this point, they are sending in only a very small number of National Guardsmen (200 in Portland), but a whole lot of other federal law enforcement in camouflage. They're trying to normalize a small number military amid a larger number of paramilitaries. Wake me up when they send in 10,000 regular troops into an American city. Of course, I won't actually be napping.
The situation is dire, but the healthcare cuts have provided an opportunity for the resistance. Every Democrat just needs to howl out the facts: Donnie Demento can't stop bragging that he's inflicting more and more harm on ordinary Americans, in order to punish them for the shutdown over the annihilation of healthcare. The suffering of the American people is the deliberate Republican plan; Demento is telling the whole country that ruining the lives of ordinary people is, in fact, all he's doing and all he wants to do.
I do believe that everything is going to get far, far worse--especially since the militarized attack on an American city and on US citizens. I keep hearing the refrain that all of Demento's perversions are illegal and unconstitutional.......except.......the Extreme Court granted him total immunity and the corrupt Republican Party is never going to stop him, anyway.
In the meantime, everyone who eagerly and happily voted for this creature is getting schooled in exactly what they endorsed with their votes: their own destruction.
“Extreme Court”…perfect way to call it. The Heritage Foundation bought justices made ALL of this possible. Let’s jope that we have free and fair 2026 elections WITHOUT the presence of troops or guard and WITHOUT required proof of citizenship and other election interference. AND that the SCOTUS gets expanded.
I feel like we’re moving toward Marshall Law and if that becomes the case I would hope after last week, that our Military will respond the way S Korea’s military responded when their president initiated Marshall Law recently. I hope they have the balls, and arrest this entire sham.
I doubt it ever will, beyond the stochastic terrorism already happening.
I suspect that the next phase is Blue states doing a soft secession. The Red states have governed themselves despite federal law for decades. Now the Blue states will do it as well.
From your lips, Cyndi! WE are paying FAR MORE to the Federal Government (supporting red states AND this fuckery) than we ever get back. So, long past time to stop that one-way flow? How about this: Blue State Governors: 'GET your military troops OUT of our States or we'll continue NOT sending you our money, keeping it to handle our own issues'. Sweet and simple. Red states - after the next major 'natural' disaster with zero help from him will go berserk.
So belatedly many who did not bother to vote, or worse, voted for the fascist pedophile, are finding out they "feel negatively" about P2025? Where the fuck were they when Kamala warned America? When they talked about it and its dangers at the Democratic National Convention? When Kenan Thompson hefted a copy of it and said it can also be used to crush small animals?
FAFO, dumbshits. We are all suffering because of you assholes.
When Kamala lost the first thing that went through my mind was this country does not respect women. We have not been able to wrap our heads around voting for a female president. And a brown female president? Fucking idiots! I hate Trump the most, but sometimes I hate the stupid masses that put us in this situation just as much. No, I take that back. I hate Rupert Murdoch a whole fucking lot. If you vote, you should be informed you should do a little homework. Pay attention. I’m so tired of a world of FOX News and TikTok brainwashed idiots not respecting their job in a democracy.
Murdoch largely flies under the radar - and WHITE WOMEN voted 53% R… trying to figure out why women don’t vote in their own interests (or their daughters’ /granddaughters’?). Explain that to me like I was 5…
I’ll never understand it either.How any self-respecting woman,black or brown person,military personnel and others can see it to support these traitors is waaaay beyond my comprehension.
It's not hard to understand. I'd bet good money that those white women were overwhelmingly straight and probably married. In patriarchal, i.e., male-dominated, societies, it's safer to identify with men than with women. Factor in the teachings of too many male-dominated religions and it gets worse.
Well-situated white women also didn’t ‘love’ the Barbie movie, I’ve heard… too many issues they don’t need to really worry about? Voted their race vs gender? 🇺🇸 have become so short-sighted (I.e. self absorbed)… disappointing to say the least…
The society's default settings matter. If you're white, voting white = going with the more powerful side. If you're male, ditto. Too often this overrules your own self-interest. Think of all the white Confederate soldiers from hardscrabble backgrounds who threw in their lot with the wealthy slaveholders rather than make common cause with the enslaved and free Black people. That continued through the Jim Crow era and up to the present day -- and needless to say it wasn't just about the South.
I have a few thoughts on this based on what I have observed: 1) I suspect an awful lot of people -- women in particular -- have been groomed to tolerate abuse and gaslighting, and have spent their lives providing cover / making excuses for / **enabling** abusers (family members, colleagues, religious leaders, etc.), so this shit is normal to them (and I suspect some rationalizations along the lines of "this is what I got, so others should have to suffer this too" are in play as well); and 2) more people than we might think are just surviving their lives with their brains operating in failure mode, so they're on autopilot running whatever they're programmed to do rather than putting any careful thought or deliberate effort into anything they don't see as critical to their own ability to survive the next 10 minutes. Just my $0.02.
I had my own credit cards at two VERY big stores in NY who carried expensive clothing - back when I was only 18 - 19 (just before....) I'd buy one beautiful suit then pay it off $10 a week; go back and buy 'Villager' outfits (matching jackets/skirts) do the same, until I'd acquired a nice wardrobe of work (office) clothes. THEN my life imploded. :( But I'd already paid off my OWN credit cards and still had them under my name - no males/parents involved. I believe she's also wrong about the birth control pill and serving on a jury since I KNOW I was called for one somewhere around that time. Working for a Law Firm upped my creds, I guess?
It wasn’t until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed, that women in the U.S. were granted the right to open a bank account on their own.
(Technically, women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused to let women do so without a signature from their husbands).
people will attach to whatever/whoever provides the highest perceived status....thus--for instance, the higher the corporate title, the tighter that person will cling to the corporate narrative even they are personally not benefitting from the corporate stance. It was explained to me as the same kind of mindset that separated enslaved indoor workers from enslaved field workers. The indoor status was perceived to be so much higher than any status that even a freed field worker could achieve that many house workers supported the enslavers.
And as has been commented, religion--especially evangelical and apostolic sects are also responsible for much of this mindset.
How do you clean the pond (public discourse) - if you don’t turn of a toxic spigot (🦊 news) that’s filling it at the opposite end? I’ll never understand it
Turns my stomach. White women are beholden to their white patriarchal husbands. They like the status that the white patriarchy gives them. I am a white woman and all my white women acquaintances who are educated actually split per the data you reference. It sickens me. One of them is Latina works for the Navy and she and her military son are Trumpers. Unbelievable - haven’t spoken to her in years, but heard through the friend grapevine. We are up against something very fierce
Because they are white and support Demento's racism. Republican women also believe in "traditional values": ie, they marry men who can support them. Their interests--and their interests in their daughters' futures--are firmly invested in that "traditional" standard of living. A woman like VP Harris is extremely threatening to them: first of all, she's Black; second, she sets the bar quite high for what women could achieve....and the ambition of the 53% begins and ends with snagging themselves a man with a considerable income and, preferably, power. Harris is frightening, because she presents the challenge to the status quo: she has her own income and power.
I have been following some of the statisticians posting that the election was stolen. Very compelling when you think what are the odds that Trump won all seven swing states, never triggered a recount in one of them, 85 counties flipped red from blue, but not one flipped to blue from red and then of course that one little electoral vote and I think Nebraska stayed blue almost as if they forgot to engineer that flip as well in their Starlink enabled BS. But then the Atlantic did an article on the team of statics arguing it was stolen and said that it’s a lot of conspiracy theory stuff. But when you observe the lengths this criminal empire will go to seize power, how can we so easily dismiss that they stole the 2024 election?
I agree. I remember joyfully voting for Kamala as a senator and then again as president. She is a bad ass to me and always will be.
If others can't lift the veil and see him for what he truly is- it's embarrassing. It makes me sad - we can't have nice things because people can't get over that a woman can/ could do a better job.
The Fact that WOMEN DIED for that RIGHT TO VOTE - and they either pay zero attention or just toss it away, don't 'bother' or don't think their vote will count just kills me. That neighbour of mine, the magat Puerto Rican one who STILL is all in on the orange fuckwit - is barely scraping by and often not (which is why we've been so kind to her over the years). I know she's a Blue Cross/Blue Shield customer. I'm waiting until the next time she bemoans the TRIPLING of her monthly bill - then blames Democrats, which is her wont.
Couldn't have said it as well myself. None of this came out of nowhere. Trump didn't come out of nowhere. We had maggots before there were MAGAts, and don't get me started about those who sat out the election because of Gaza and Biden's Middle East policy. U.S. Middle East policy has been mostly terrible my whole life and I was born in 1951. The only real bright spot was opposition to the British, French, and Israeli invasion of Egypt over the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956. I was only 5 at the time so I learned about it later.
I’m having a hard time believing that, knowing Yarvin and Trump disciple’s involvement with P2025 the Butterfly Revolution and their insane ideologies Sunny. However, considering people get their news from social media and FAUX, I’m probably giving the denizens of this country too much credit!
1968: "it is now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous, divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them." RFK (the real one)
The real RFK also wrote a book called “The Enemy Within”. Isn’t it interesting that the so-called president his disastrous namesake serves suddenly came up with calling the Democratic Party “THE ENEMY WITHIN”?
I needed Obamacare (thanks Obama ♥️) when I retired but wasn’t yet eligible for Medicare. It was a lifeline and much less expensive than COBRA. Fuck this fucking government for fucking over the American people. And fuck the fuckwits that voted for this.
Jeff, thanks for highlighting P2025.. All of us screamed about this fascist playbook prior to the election… we spelled out what the intent of this scheme was all about.. People didn’t believe us, was told we were overreacting, a liberal fantasy, or just worrying too much. And now? We have seen these ex J6 terrorists, pardoned terrorists, tatted out terrorists who know nothing about policing, treat people in such brutish manner all for what? The $50,000 signing bonus, pay off your student loans, monthly salary and the kicker… a bounty paid for folks apprehended. It’s become a commodification of people. A Democracy does not work in this manner, a Democracy is “tethered to facts and reality” to borrow a phrase from a federal judge. Remember folks… first they roll up on Brown folks, then Black folks, then LGBTQ after that probably Jews as history has demonstrated. Best to All and have a plan.
Fastball Fredo: thank you for highlighting the money being thrown at the bounty hunters. Think about the informants who turned people into Stalin, the Nazis and the Stasi. Like Anne Frank’s family. Think about Judas Iscariot. 50 pieces of silver. Chump change to the oligarchs and Christofascists. Big bad bill money will buy a lot of bounty hunters. That is really, really terrifying. But it never ends well for them. The generals better re-read their oaths and unite. The SCOTUS is gone, so besides mass protests of the majority of us, the generals need to back us up or we’re fucked.
I agree as well, they know throwing money from a helicopter draws a crowd, money, money, money the king throws a bag of nickels onto the street and isn’t he so kind.
I'm still amazed that there are so many stupid and functionally illiterate people in this country that have fallen for Don the Con. I'm at the point where please Lord, let them suffer that voted for this shit and leave the rest of us alone. I happen to like a fully functioning government and the services it provides.
Yup. You’re right on the money as usual. Perhaps also worth mentioning in passing that there is a distinct gap between the coherence and vocabulary of those social media posts and the verbal diarrhea that typically characterizes the Taco’s style of communication. Oh my. Could someone be writing on behalf of the Clown in Chief? Reads like propaganda. Smells like one of the puppeteers in action. How long before they don’t need the puppet anymore?
Knowing Dumpty the way we unfortunately do, odds are high that the last thing that happens before someone hits "Post" is Dumpty looking it over and giving it the Okee-Doke.
Ain't nothing happen but what The King Of Turds gives it a nod. Unless he has advised "do it but I don't wanna know."
The Treasury has already started minting commemorative coins with Shitler's face on both sides, an honor reserved by law for dead people only. So I'm wondering what Project 2025 will call itself in the year 2026, less than 3 months away.
Fingers crossed. The land of the free, the home of the brave, and the most easily-distracted, laziest gaggle of voters on earth. And as long as CNN keeps mugs like Scott Jennings around, and for fucks sake CBS (not gonna say anything more about that)… our existence is tenuous.
And yet, I remain hopeful. Happy Sunday, sisters and brothers.
Besides pushing Project 2025 details, dems need to keep repeating that not only has Argentina taken our soybean market, but is also getting a $20B bailout from Cankles. What happened to America First?
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
That first tweet? With its complete sentences, proper punctuation, etc? Do you really think he got up from his sick bed to write it? Hell; do you think he travelled back 20 years to when Trump was that articulate/literate? Somebody else wrote that tweet. Throwing in some all caps & catch phrases doesn’t make it written by Trump. As we clearly see with Newsom’s tweets. (Btw, Newsom’s aides do a better job of mimicking Trump’s tweets than Trump’s aides.
Ordinarily, I’d just sit back & enjoy watching the USS America sink like a stone at the hands of the dumbest, laziest electorate in the world - until I remember that these very same mouth-breathers have stuck me in the same boat. I desperately want to think that overreach, incompetence and overwhelming opposition to this nightmare will ultimately alter the march to fascism. But fascism, by its very nature doesn’t give a fuck how upset the populous is. Ask Germany 1932. The greatest power on earth was given to the worst people on earth, and with a $50BB army of Proud Boys and tattooed dead-enders being assembled to break heads - it’s starting to smell very Russian around here at the moment.
Yes, but after the last two weeks, we're no longer the greatest power on earth. They have an empty shell, falling apart on all levels, except perhaps the West Coast. The country does have a lot of soybeans, though.
I know, it's also the Epstein Shutdown, what with Holy Mike adjourning the House for another week so that he doesn't have to swear in Adelita Grijalva — but there's enough material there for a whole 'nother post
!!! FREE GROUP THERAPY !!!
There will be a No Kings demonstration on October 18. Spread the word! 👑👑👑👑👑
This No Kings demonstration was scheduled so that We the People can respond to the Republican government shutdown!
To find a location, follow this link--
https://www.nokings.org/
Thanks for the reminder. I attended the last one in June. I live in a ruby red state and there were at least 1.000 who turned up. I showed up with no sign and came away with two signs. An elderly gentleman next to me had an asthma attack, and many others, including myself, watched over him and his wife until the ambulance arrived. They gave me their signs before the ambulance took them away with a look in their eyes saying "carry on the fight!" God bless them!
For the longest time I'VE been thinking (and saying) IF there was 'a god' WHY would he (or she) have allowed ANY of this in the first place? WHY would he (or she) allow this rotten POS unfeeling monster to 'win' the 1st time and baby girls with their daddies to be fucking DROWNED in the Rio Grande surrounded by barbed wire? WHY would ANY of this be happening to these innocents? Not trying to hurt anyone's feelings or beliefs but I'm long-since past accepting that there's a 'higher power' who gives a single damn OR flying fuck, especially about children or little girls OR boys being RAPED! While I still hold certain 'spiritual' feelings that have zilch to do with a god or religion, I truly think WE are on our own and WE are the only ones who can fix the current abominable fuckery we're all living through. I'm glad you have their signs and will show up. I plan to, even if I have to crawl.
"I plan to, even if I have to crawl."
That's the spirit!
Here is a theological explanation that works for me. God did not create us to be children, infantilized and helpless. He gave us a world, a good world, and he said, “This garden is yours to tend." If we fail to tend the garden well, then we suffer together until we back up, start over, and get it right. God gives us freedom, like the Prodigal Son, until we get ourselves back on course. I'd rather be an adult with the free choice to make mistakes than an infant with no choice and no responsibility than always cared for like an infant.
My feelings exactly! trump proves there is no god.
I agree with you. God didn't help the Jews, or any other people in need. I have a friend who says we have to pray, but I'm thinking he is not going to help.
I'll be attending on the 18th now that the heat is finally letting up in FL. When it was +93° here, I feared heatstroke. I only wish I'd kept my signs! Hope everyone attends a local demonstration. This one's for all the marbles.
At least sign up on an Indivisible page for your area so they can keep track of the numbers. Even if you sit in your car with a sign on the windshield and the AC on, it all helps!! Stay safe.
For asthmatics, that might be the winning strategy.
Hey, great idea. I broke my hip in February and am depending on a walker right now. Been mourning the inability to march. I do have signs, though, and could tape ‘em on my car. Thanks for the idea!
I went to Dollar Tree and got a poster size piece of foamcore and some orange letters that I had to glue on. My sign reads "NO KINGS! NO KINGS! NO KINGS!" on one side and 'I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK' on the other side. Less than $3! I also made a sign that reads "Too Much Sh!t to List!" on one side a 'F-ELON & 47!' on the other side.
These events are a wonderful way to meet sane, compassionate people. We always have a great time at our small town's protests which last time gathered over 5,000 people according to the local newspaper.
I read a post yesterday where the author was speaking to a French couple who remarked on US protests, that the French don't schedule them one at a time, they go out every day until what they are protesting is fixed. Shades of a friend's observation when in Paris--she saw three or four protests a day.
The French are far more into protesting than Americans are. They actually have general strikes where everyone just stops working until a problem gets fixed.
Angry White House Staffer on Patreon said the same. Nothing would move the needle without a general strike. The French gave us the template for democracy.
YES! THEY created. built and shipped across the Ocean (a massive undertaking) the Statue of Liberty who is MY guiding light - my first glimpse through a thick fog as we sailed into New York Harbour after a grueling 8 days of crunching through ice on the Atlantic. That incredible feeling which overwhelmed my heart then and still does...she's a main reason I've never left NY. They gifted her to America based on us following THEIR Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite (Liberty, Equality and BROTHERHOOD!) They saw us as becoming just like their Revolution against Monarchy, which we USED TO BE. Now we have the dimmest fuckwit in our White House determined to make himself a fucking 'king' because his daddy was rich and he's obsessed with monarchies and gold crap? A million times Non!
The French also financed the American Revolution with the help of my personal hero, Ben Franklin.
Well, we helped them first.
To paraphrase a point make in the Michael Moore documentary Sicko, in America the citizenry is afraid of the politicians, while in France the politicians are afraid of the citizenry. The French have it right!
The US is a little bigger than France, too. It’s hard to get the kind of crowds that garner attention when we’re so spread out. We can’t all hop in the car and head to DC every week.
These protests are happening all over the country. Next big one is Saturday, October 18th -- www.nokings.org -- find your local tribe.
Go to Indivisible’s website and click on the headline for the Oct 18th protests and LOOK AT THAT MAP!!
French people had it right with the French Revolution Carrie!
It is going to be a MASSIVE GROUP THERAPY!!
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I’m an organizer, finding some people fear the Brownshirts will appear…there simply needs to be more of us, than them. An overwhelming number of demonstrators are not easily overwhelmed, I’ve always reasoned. Thanks Kathleen!
I have a chronic illness which is which is why I could not stick around for the US to destroy their already failing health care system. I need insurance and not to have it become too expensive to pay. I don't even want to tell you what happened with my long term care insurance when I retired it angers me so much.
I am having a No Kings gathering in Germany.
Joined!
The perfect comparison to 2025 theocracy is of course the beloved Sharia rule.
Thank you! You just gave me inspiration for my sign!
Project 2025 = SHARIA LAW
And also the collapsing economy shutdown.
The economy was already collapsing.
Everything Donny Touches Dies™
Krasnov, go touch yourself.
Buy Rick Wilson's book while you're at it. 😘
https://www.therickwilson.com/buy-ettd/
Curious post today about Yarvins disdain for trumps mishandling of Project 2025 you might care to read:
https://substack.com/@michaeldsellers/note/c-163224428?r=qvheo&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Curious post on Curtis Yarvins disdain for Trumps handling of Project 2025
Looking forward to reading that one!
I hope and pray people are waking up. I’m not talking about the people who come here or to Blue Sky, I’m talking about the American Populace who moves to the beat of his drum.
Thanks Jeff.
I'm afraid it doesn't matter if Americans hate Project 2025. It didn't matter that most Americans hate everything the administration is doing. I was one of those who wanted the Dems to hold firm and demand no changes to ACA. Now I feel like a fool, and we played right into Vought's hands. And the military is in our cities. When are the silent generals going to say no to unlawful orders?
Nope, we didn't play into Vought's hands. Without the shutdown, the healthcare cuts were guaranteed to remain in place. Without the shutdown, they would have done what they're doing, anyway. They're trying to gaslight us into believing we gave them an advantage. Don't buy into it unless there's incontrovertible proof it's true. I don't expect to see it.
Classic abuser rationale: "I never would have slapped you if you hadn't disagreed with me. So, stay sweet, darlin'!"
Been there, saw that. Good point, Kathleen. They're trying to make us feel as if every move we make is the wrong choice. Reinforcing the helplessness is their strategy. Not having it.
Bingo. These narratives that it’s all part of the plan and therefore we’re screwed are highly suspect.
Exactly, Will. It seems to me that Rump wouldn't be bragging about how the shutdown is everything they've wanted, unless they're feeling scared and cornered. "Admitting" that the shutdown gives them so much more power is a risky gamble that might backfire on them, as Jeff points out.
That's wrong. If it's not what they want, it's the right move.
Donnie Demento is doing right now what every abuser does when his victim defies him: he is becoming more and more violent. Whenever an abuser feels his control slipping, he only escalates the abuse.
Yes, and Donny hasn’t exactly surrounded himself with moral, smart, capable, competent people. They’re all so full of themselves (full of shit.) Even Russ Vought can’t keep his mouth shut. McGeobbels is insane, evil and getting worse. Trump is brain dead and dying. They are doomed to failure. So, release the damned Epstein/Trump pedo files!
It does occur that we can see everything coming just from our lifelong experience with abusers (whether personal or several degrees of separation).
YES, Carrie! Nothing of this is 'new', especially to those of us who've 'been there, lived through it and come out the other side a WHOLE LOT wiser'. I saw the orange fuckwit coming from a MILE away - even when he was calling into Cindy Adams & Steve Dunleavy pretending to be 'John Barron', (stupid doofus imagined he was fooling them or ANYONE!) while desperately trying to become the 'new' Hugh Hefner. He made me want to puke then. NOW? I wish him in the ground asap along with EVERY fucking abuser, male OR female.
YES, and the media needs to be reporting that along with screenshots of Project 2025 as Jeff did above. This was going to happen anyway.
It feels like they would have done it already if they were going to. I hope I’m wrong.
I think the 'generals will save us' ship may have sailed. I really do hope I'm wrong
Oh, it has totally sailed, as soon as they ordered the reaper drones on the Venezuelan boats.
Regardless of how stoic they were in Q last week, they're clearly on board with following orders.
Pardon my ignorance, Geoff, but are you saying it's military personnel who control the drones that are attacking those boats?
Yes, it is military people, orders come through Trump, Hegseth, and layers of military leaders, until some enlisted man drives the drone that then fires the missiles.
Orders came from Steven Miller, not Trump.
Could be CIA. I knew a guy who used to fly them for the Agency. Not that there's any difference to the blown-up people. There is a little Navy 'flotilla' down there now.
As Hillary once asked, "What difference does it make?"
Maybe, but regarding the generals, timing is everything. I doubt they’d do something immediately after that meeting. I think their position is increasingly awkward and unclear, and they don’t like the lack of clarity.
I agree.
As long as no American troops are killed in these illegal conflicts, it's all just one big video game to the generals and the public. Treating immigrants and their children in the U.S. like alleged terrorists at Abu Ghraib, to be demeaned, brutalized, disappeared ... all a quasi-military training exercise.
Right. As soon as they pick on someone who bites back, it won't be any fun anymore
Same. Silence can usually be taken two very different ways. I guess we all see what we want to see. I'm hoping for the best..
Please reference DoD Directive 1344.10 regarding political activities of personnel when in uniform. Nothing they do can imply DoD support or endorsement for any political ideology, candidate, or movement.
Which is why the generals and admirals at that Quantico meeting last week did not react or applaud. Trump encouraged otherwise, but no one did.
I’m trying to be optimistic too. If they’re discussing and planning something, this shut down provides opportunities with the locked out Congress. We wouldn’t be knowing what’s going on and we’re in the long game.
They did get through the ‘BD Parade’ rather cleverly, however…🫡
From what I’ve heard, though, most of these high ranking military types have a passion for oaths and keeping to them. Of course none of them are going to speak out right now. That’d be stupid and these people are not stupid. (Okay, forget about evil disgraced ex-general Mike Fynn.) It wouldn’t surprise me if there aren’t some plans being made.
As an Army vet and a military wife of 40+ years, I think the generals were quiet because right then that was the best they could do. Military protocol dictated that they couldn't clap or cheer during a briefing. Walking out isn't allowed, contrary to what some of you think. The SecDef gives you an order, and, unless it's illegal, you salute and move out smartly. The order to come to Quantico was stupid, but not illegal. I'm basing my thoughts on the things Mark Milley did as Dumpy's Chief of the Joint Chiefs. I don't like the guy - I was acquainted with him when he was stationed here at Ft. Bragg, and certainly knew lots of people who worked for him. But he stuck to what was right and legal all the way through his term under Dumpy, and even worked in the background to head off some things he thought might go badly. I think these generals, for the most part, take their oath to the Constitution seriously and will stick to it.
Just by the way - senior NCOs, like command sergeants major and chief master sergeants, were at that meeting too. It wasn't only general officers and admirals.
That's what armies do Jeff. Germany pulled it off. There's a long history of the military taking the side of .......they might as well burn the constitution.
Chris, I hadn’t heard that, but you have? They do have a different set of rules for sure giving them the right to refuse orders from the prez is kind of a big deal. Seperate court system, you know it was all constructed to to prevent the king thingy.
There is a thing called slow-walking…
At this point, they are sending in only a very small number of National Guardsmen (200 in Portland), but a whole lot of other federal law enforcement in camouflage. They're trying to normalize a small number military amid a larger number of paramilitaries. Wake me up when they send in 10,000 regular troops into an American city. Of course, I won't actually be napping.
Truth.
The situation is dire, but the healthcare cuts have provided an opportunity for the resistance. Every Democrat just needs to howl out the facts: Donnie Demento can't stop bragging that he's inflicting more and more harm on ordinary Americans, in order to punish them for the shutdown over the annihilation of healthcare. The suffering of the American people is the deliberate Republican plan; Demento is telling the whole country that ruining the lives of ordinary people is, in fact, all he's doing and all he wants to do.
I do believe that everything is going to get far, far worse--especially since the militarized attack on an American city and on US citizens. I keep hearing the refrain that all of Demento's perversions are illegal and unconstitutional.......except.......the Extreme Court granted him total immunity and the corrupt Republican Party is never going to stop him, anyway.
In the meantime, everyone who eagerly and happily voted for this creature is getting schooled in exactly what they endorsed with their votes: their own destruction.
“Extreme Court”…perfect way to call it. The Heritage Foundation bought justices made ALL of this possible. Let’s jope that we have free and fair 2026 elections WITHOUT the presence of troops or guard and WITHOUT required proof of citizenship and other election interference. AND that the SCOTUS gets expanded.
I feel like we’re moving toward Marshall Law and if that becomes the case I would hope after last week, that our Military will respond the way S Korea’s military responded when their president initiated Marshall Law recently. I hope they have the balls, and arrest this entire sham.
I be keep wondering when armed conflict will start Marianne
I doubt it ever will, beyond the stochastic terrorism already happening.
I suspect that the next phase is Blue states doing a soft secession. The Red states have governed themselves despite federal law for decades. Now the Blue states will do it as well.
From your lips, Cyndi! WE are paying FAR MORE to the Federal Government (supporting red states AND this fuckery) than we ever get back. So, long past time to stop that one-way flow? How about this: Blue State Governors: 'GET your military troops OUT of our States or we'll continue NOT sending you our money, keeping it to handle our own issues'. Sweet and simple. Red states - after the next major 'natural' disaster with zero help from him will go berserk.
Interesting take, please say more.
So belatedly many who did not bother to vote, or worse, voted for the fascist pedophile, are finding out they "feel negatively" about P2025? Where the fuck were they when Kamala warned America? When they talked about it and its dangers at the Democratic National Convention? When Kenan Thompson hefted a copy of it and said it can also be used to crush small animals?
FAFO, dumbshits. We are all suffering because of you assholes.
When Kamala lost the first thing that went through my mind was this country does not respect women. We have not been able to wrap our heads around voting for a female president. And a brown female president? Fucking idiots! I hate Trump the most, but sometimes I hate the stupid masses that put us in this situation just as much. No, I take that back. I hate Rupert Murdoch a whole fucking lot. If you vote, you should be informed you should do a little homework. Pay attention. I’m so tired of a world of FOX News and TikTok brainwashed idiots not respecting their job in a democracy.
Murdoch largely flies under the radar - and WHITE WOMEN voted 53% R… trying to figure out why women don’t vote in their own interests (or their daughters’ /granddaughters’?). Explain that to me like I was 5…
I’ll never understand it either.How any self-respecting woman,black or brown person,military personnel and others can see it to support these traitors is waaaay beyond my comprehension.
Don’t forget churches- they are a big influence.
Thinking the same. And why the hell would ANY woman vote for a convicted rapist??!! Arghhh.
It's not hard to understand. I'd bet good money that those white women were overwhelmingly straight and probably married. In patriarchal, i.e., male-dominated, societies, it's safer to identify with men than with women. Factor in the teachings of too many male-dominated religions and it gets worse.
Well-situated white women also didn’t ‘love’ the Barbie movie, I’ve heard… too many issues they don’t need to really worry about? Voted their race vs gender? 🇺🇸 have become so short-sighted (I.e. self absorbed)… disappointing to say the least…
The society's default settings matter. If you're white, voting white = going with the more powerful side. If you're male, ditto. Too often this overrules your own self-interest. Think of all the white Confederate soldiers from hardscrabble backgrounds who threw in their lot with the wealthy slaveholders rather than make common cause with the enslaved and free Black people. That continued through the Jim Crow era and up to the present day -- and needless to say it wasn't just about the South.
That is pretty dismissive of the majority of white people who have put our lives on the line to protect civil rights of all.
Their divide and conquer seems to be working on you?
I have a few thoughts on this based on what I have observed: 1) I suspect an awful lot of people -- women in particular -- have been groomed to tolerate abuse and gaslighting, and have spent their lives providing cover / making excuses for / **enabling** abusers (family members, colleagues, religious leaders, etc.), so this shit is normal to them (and I suspect some rationalizations along the lines of "this is what I got, so others should have to suffer this too" are in play as well); and 2) more people than we might think are just surviving their lives with their brains operating in failure mode, so they're on autopilot running whatever they're programmed to do rather than putting any careful thought or deliberate effort into anything they don't see as critical to their own ability to survive the next 10 minutes. Just my $0.02.
👍 wasn’t that long ago when women couldn’t even have their own credit cards… just another day in the United States of Amnesia, I GUESS
Amnesia!
Here is the list of "nine things a woman couldn’t do in 1971" in the post:
1. Get a credit card in her own name.
2. Be guaranteed that they would not get fired for getting pregnant.
3. Serve on a jury.
4. Fight on the front lines.
5. Get an Ivy League education.
6. Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment.
7. Decide not to have sex with their husband.
8. Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man.
9. Take the birth control pill
- Jessica Hill / USA Today
I had my own credit cards at two VERY big stores in NY who carried expensive clothing - back when I was only 18 - 19 (just before....) I'd buy one beautiful suit then pay it off $10 a week; go back and buy 'Villager' outfits (matching jackets/skirts) do the same, until I'd acquired a nice wardrobe of work (office) clothes. THEN my life imploded. :( But I'd already paid off my OWN credit cards and still had them under my name - no males/parents involved. I believe she's also wrong about the birth control pill and serving on a jury since I KNOW I was called for one somewhere around that time. Working for a Law Firm upped my creds, I guess?
* When Could Women Open a Bank Account?
It wasn’t until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed, that women in the U.S. were granted the right to open a bank account on their own.
(Technically, women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused to let women do so without a signature from their husbands).
people will attach to whatever/whoever provides the highest perceived status....thus--for instance, the higher the corporate title, the tighter that person will cling to the corporate narrative even they are personally not benefitting from the corporate stance. It was explained to me as the same kind of mindset that separated enslaved indoor workers from enslaved field workers. The indoor status was perceived to be so much higher than any status that even a freed field worker could achieve that many house workers supported the enslavers.
And as has been commented, religion--especially evangelical and apostolic sects are also responsible for much of this mindset.
TY👆‼️
How do you clean the pond (public discourse) - if you don’t turn of a toxic spigot (🦊 news) that’s filling it at the opposite end? I’ll never understand it
Idiocy
Turns my stomach. White women are beholden to their white patriarchal husbands. They like the status that the white patriarchy gives them. I am a white woman and all my white women acquaintances who are educated actually split per the data you reference. It sickens me. One of them is Latina works for the Navy and she and her military son are Trumpers. Unbelievable - haven’t spoken to her in years, but heard through the friend grapevine. We are up against something very fierce
Because they are white and support Demento's racism. Republican women also believe in "traditional values": ie, they marry men who can support them. Their interests--and their interests in their daughters' futures--are firmly invested in that "traditional" standard of living. A woman like VP Harris is extremely threatening to them: first of all, she's Black; second, she sets the bar quite high for what women could achieve....and the ambition of the 53% begins and ends with snagging themselves a man with a considerable income and, preferably, power. Harris is frightening, because she presents the challenge to the status quo: she has her own income and power.
Obviously voting with their husbands, or they’re uninformed stunods Sunny!
While I agree with everything you say, Kamala didn’t lose
I have been following some of the statisticians posting that the election was stolen. Very compelling when you think what are the odds that Trump won all seven swing states, never triggered a recount in one of them, 85 counties flipped red from blue, but not one flipped to blue from red and then of course that one little electoral vote and I think Nebraska stayed blue almost as if they forgot to engineer that flip as well in their Starlink enabled BS. But then the Atlantic did an article on the team of statics arguing it was stolen and said that it’s a lot of conspiracy theory stuff. But when you observe the lengths this criminal empire will go to seize power, how can we so easily dismiss that they stole the 2024 election?
Especially when we know every accusation is a confession from these liars.
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Quite possible you’re right, documents of proof have yet to be released though Joseph!
I agree. I remember joyfully voting for Kamala as a senator and then again as president. She is a bad ass to me and always will be.
If others can't lift the veil and see him for what he truly is- it's embarrassing. It makes me sad - we can't have nice things because people can't get over that a woman can/ could do a better job.
That "we" does not include myself nor 48.3% of those who voted. Dumpty got 49.8%. Not a massive bunch of masses in that 1.5 % margin.
The Fact that WOMEN DIED for that RIGHT TO VOTE - and they either pay zero attention or just toss it away, don't 'bother' or don't think their vote will count just kills me. That neighbour of mine, the magat Puerto Rican one who STILL is all in on the orange fuckwit - is barely scraping by and often not (which is why we've been so kind to her over the years). I know she's a Blue Cross/Blue Shield customer. I'm waiting until the next time she bemoans the TRIPLING of her monthly bill - then blames Democrats, which is her wont.
Couldn't have said it as well myself. None of this came out of nowhere. Trump didn't come out of nowhere. We had maggots before there were MAGAts, and don't get me started about those who sat out the election because of Gaza and Biden's Middle East policy. U.S. Middle East policy has been mostly terrible my whole life and I was born in 1951. The only real bright spot was opposition to the British, French, and Israeli invasion of Egypt over the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956. I was only 5 at the time so I learned about it later.
Where are those protestors now? 😒
I am the same age as you. Yes, those were big events and feel the exactly like you!
Me, too. I’ve never understood the US Middle East policy. So shortsighted.
Absofuckinglutely!
18M stayed home, I believe :/
According to US News and World Report, “89 million people, or 36% of the eligible voting population, did not vote in 2024.”
Yeah and now they’re complaining???
Apathy kills, literally
Deport the 89 million; they don’t deserve to live here.
Or force them to take civics lessons
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To be fair, some portion of that 89 million was
A) gerrymandered into irrelevance
B) deprived of a viable polling place
C) refused to vote by mail
D) voted and had their vote thrown out
Voter fraud is almost undetectable. Voter suppression is the real enemy.
I’m having a hard time believing that, knowing Yarvin and Trump disciple’s involvement with P2025 the Butterfly Revolution and their insane ideologies Sunny. However, considering people get their news from social media and FAUX, I’m probably giving the denizens of this country too much credit!
This.
Taraji P. Henson @BET Awards 2024 - literally sounding the 🚨:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/bet-awards-taraji-henson-project-2025-rcna159770
1968: "it is now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous, divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them." RFK (the real one)
The real RFK also wrote a book called “The Enemy Within”. Isn’t it interesting that the so-called president his disastrous namesake serves suddenly came up with calling the Democratic Party “THE ENEMY WITHIN”?
H-ly shit
As Lou Reed sang in 1989: “your poor huddled masses, let’s club ‘em to death
And get it over with and just dump ‘em on the boulevard.”
I know he wrote this about New York City’s downtrodden, but today it’s all of us.
I fucking love that song
I love the entire album.
that, too
I agree wholeheartedly
Me too
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That's a great song, from the awesome New York album IIRC.
I needed Obamacare (thanks Obama ♥️) when I retired but wasn’t yet eligible for Medicare. It was a lifeline and much less expensive than COBRA. Fuck this fucking government for fucking over the American people. And fuck the fuckwits that voted for this.
Fuck them several times then flip them over and fuck them again! Really tired of all their bull shit!
Abso-fucking-lutely!!!!
This was the same with us. I was shopping at food banks for seven months until the ACA came in.
And those who didn't bother at all.
Jeff, thanks for highlighting P2025.. All of us screamed about this fascist playbook prior to the election… we spelled out what the intent of this scheme was all about.. People didn’t believe us, was told we were overreacting, a liberal fantasy, or just worrying too much. And now? We have seen these ex J6 terrorists, pardoned terrorists, tatted out terrorists who know nothing about policing, treat people in such brutish manner all for what? The $50,000 signing bonus, pay off your student loans, monthly salary and the kicker… a bounty paid for folks apprehended. It’s become a commodification of people. A Democracy does not work in this manner, a Democracy is “tethered to facts and reality” to borrow a phrase from a federal judge. Remember folks… first they roll up on Brown folks, then Black folks, then LGBTQ after that probably Jews as history has demonstrated. Best to All and have a plan.
Fastball Fredo: thank you for highlighting the money being thrown at the bounty hunters. Think about the informants who turned people into Stalin, the Nazis and the Stasi. Like Anne Frank’s family. Think about Judas Iscariot. 50 pieces of silver. Chump change to the oligarchs and Christofascists. Big bad bill money will buy a lot of bounty hunters. That is really, really terrifying. But it never ends well for them. The generals better re-read their oaths and unite. The SCOTUS is gone, so besides mass protests of the majority of us, the generals need to back us up or we’re fucked.
I agree as well, they know throwing money from a helicopter draws a crowd, money, money, money the king throws a bag of nickels onto the street and isn’t he so kind.
I'm still amazed that there are so many stupid and functionally illiterate people in this country that have fallen for Don the Con. I'm at the point where please Lord, let them suffer that voted for this shit and leave the rest of us alone. I happen to like a fully functioning government and the services it provides.
Yup. You’re right on the money as usual. Perhaps also worth mentioning in passing that there is a distinct gap between the coherence and vocabulary of those social media posts and the verbal diarrhea that typically characterizes the Taco’s style of communication. Oh my. Could someone be writing on behalf of the Clown in Chief? Reads like propaganda. Smells like one of the puppeteers in action. How long before they don’t need the puppet anymore?
absolutely, someone is writing Donny's social media posts for him
Probably that vile piece of shit/psychopath Miller.
And Vought. Maybe his sons too!
Knowing Dumpty the way we unfortunately do, odds are high that the last thing that happens before someone hits "Post" is Dumpty looking it over and giving it the Okee-Doke.
Ain't nothing happen but what The King Of Turds gives it a nod. Unless he has advised "do it but I don't wanna know."
Yeah, I can't imagine the illiterate Donold writing "he of Project 2025 fame"
He’s no Shakespeare.
Not much longer, I'd bet.
The Treasury has already started minting commemorative coins with Shitler's face on both sides, an honor reserved by law for dead people only. So I'm wondering what Project 2025 will call itself in the year 2026, less than 3 months away.
It'll call itself, "the government."
Fingers crossed. The land of the free, the home of the brave, and the most easily-distracted, laziest gaggle of voters on earth. And as long as CNN keeps mugs like Scott Jennings around, and for fucks sake CBS (not gonna say anything more about that)… our existence is tenuous.
And yet, I remain hopeful. Happy Sunday, sisters and brothers.
It's called CBS because that's what you see: B.S.
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein!
I just want his fing Administration out of my city and out of my country. Whatever it takes.
Off the planet.
Besides pushing Project 2025 details, dems need to keep repeating that not only has Argentina taken our soybean market, but is also getting a $20B bailout from Cankles. What happened to America First?
No, no, no, Mark. It's oligarchs and dictators first. America has nothing to do with it.
What they need to be pushing is two things. Two things:
1.) This shit is crazy.
2.) He is hurting you.
1.) This shit is crazy.
2.) He is hurting you.
1.) This shit is crazy.
2.) He is hurting you.
1.) This shit is crazy.
2.) He is hurting you.
1.) This shit is crazy.
2.) He is hurting you.
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
This spreadsheet is so good!!! Thank you, Megan. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That first tweet? With its complete sentences, proper punctuation, etc? Do you really think he got up from his sick bed to write it? Hell; do you think he travelled back 20 years to when Trump was that articulate/literate? Somebody else wrote that tweet. Throwing in some all caps & catch phrases doesn’t make it written by Trump. As we clearly see with Newsom’s tweets. (Btw, Newsom’s aides do a better job of mimicking Trump’s tweets than Trump’s aides.
We’ll see which Trump shoes up today in Norfolk.
Ordinarily, I’d just sit back & enjoy watching the USS America sink like a stone at the hands of the dumbest, laziest electorate in the world - until I remember that these very same mouth-breathers have stuck me in the same boat. I desperately want to think that overreach, incompetence and overwhelming opposition to this nightmare will ultimately alter the march to fascism. But fascism, by its very nature doesn’t give a fuck how upset the populous is. Ask Germany 1932. The greatest power on earth was given to the worst people on earth, and with a $50BB army of Proud Boys and tattooed dead-enders being assembled to break heads - it’s starting to smell very Russian around here at the moment.
Yes, but after the last two weeks, we're no longer the greatest power on earth. They have an empty shell, falling apart on all levels, except perhaps the West Coast. The country does have a lot of soybeans, though.
I wonder if one can make gin from soybeans.