Maybe, just maybe, it’s someone who was a long range sniper in the forces. You realize that the world record is held by a Canadian soldier at 5 miles??
THIS!!! Our politicians seem to be only equipped for “strongly worded letters”. Like this is not what they signed up for and they are COMPLETELY at a loss at this point.
Yes, few of us are qualified to lead a revolution. But most of us know enough about revolution to know they’re bloody. We hope the judiciary are not all insane or evil and that some legal procedure will be found to bring us back to service as normal in all its flawed adequacy.
The adults are in the minority party. The repubs have admitted they are too cowardly to stand up for the the oath they took to the Constitution. Unfortunately, too many dem pols are showing they are not capable of addressing the moment either.
there was a way out. now there’s not. but there was. people just believed so truly that things were Already As Bad As Possible that they took the way out for granted and didn’t bother to show up when it mattered the most
They probably won’t. They can’t be bothered with anything that might interfere with their beer, SUVs, trips to Disneyland.
And since 54% of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, and nearly one in five adults reads below a third-grade level; the US is fucked!
This is what happens when the school systems goal is not to educate but to prevent being sued. All school; public, private and charter have serious issues. If I had school aged kids now, they've be homeschooled.
I have a petition is at https://change.org. I call it: An Amendment to the US Constitution, Checks and Balances. Here is the link. https://chng.it/DBqPdkb5YV Add to that recall petitions across the country.
Recall Trump, the GOP Congress and for good measure Democrats as well. The idea is to see just what the American People are thinking. To establish how they expect issues to be dealt with.
I don't understand either! Why doesn't Military, FBI, CIA arrest him or something! They knew about the KGB stuff surely, if not we all know now. He's an enemy of the people and destroying the Constitution - what more do they need??
The SCOTGOP has ruled that the President is not bound by laws. This assertion will soon be tested, and undoubtedly The Supremes will double down and say the Constitution doesn't apply to him, either. Then we'll have to take the Declaration of Independence to heart and depose the despot.
Thanks for this there seems to be several items, like the insurrection...he should have been arrested right there?! And this
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." Sounds like DOGE
I'm not at all sure WHY you used that image [cross] for this post --- DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT "RELIGION" IS THE ROOT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE RIGHT-WING AND MAGA??
"religion" is actually a, *SOCIO-POLITICAL IDEOLOGY [SPI]*
You are obviously not familiar with domesticenemyhat (take a look at posts)/popehat on twitter... the symbology is more against than for organized religion. Pardon me if I appear to be stepping toes.
Nope, it's going to get WAY worse before it gets better, if it can get better. And it won't get better until we learn to act in unison. Even then, we're still in for a fight.
We need to clean up our house! 545 people controlling all of us, taxing us to death and wondering why people need help. Corporate America, millionaires and billionaires need to step up and pay their share!
The opposition and resistance are the adults. We have to be the heroes. Stay loud, stay in elected representatives face, find ways to protect the vulnerable, don't surrender, DON'T obey in advance. Be the challenge to authoritarianism, be an agent of change. Be not afraid.
It is because they came for all fronts at once...but, the lack of education, the Faux News lies, then tRump lying constantly with the Republican chorus backing him up. The courts, the congress...they have been putting this in place since the 1980s. The perfect antichrist came along and they all fell
And he's already done REALLY bad things. Think of those children ripped away from their families in his 1st term. Think of the woman & child who drowned, caught in razor wire, while troops kept BP from saving her. Think of all those families without an income bc their parents were fired this month.
Why should Obama show..a good chunk of the country Shit on Him and his wife en masse...racism and all.....Clinton..he didnt help his own cause..unless you mean Mrs clinton who is heavily despised...Bush would be warmonger puppet callin the kettle a nazi ....so I mean cant blame em
There is a group, 50501, that is making noise.
I try to share the Ralph Nader radio hour often and with Americans that show their support of Canada.
Share away!
I think many of us grew up thinking that certain chapters of history were "closed", that we had grown past the worst of it. I had an almost spiritual belief that things were always getting better. If I am lucky enough to have children, I will teach them about this moment and about my naivete.
When the US takes on dictatorship abroad, congress signs off. Until this is labeled the coup it is our military can’t step in. There is not going to be a military presence to count on. But if civilians rise up then he will declare martial law. Congress needs to act.
Trump is the result of extremely soft and lazy men refusing to pay even slight attention to facts or reality... and instrad sereving their own personal delusions of grandure. And weak men make hard times.
We can’t afford to be armchair Americans. We have an obligation to stand up against those who are dismantling of our Constitution and our Laws and our freedom.
We're experiencing a nationwide version of Bystander Effect. Stay connected and informed. Sign up for notifications about marches or movements in your area. We can stop this together. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
It's us. The adult is us. It's time to step up, everyone. Our freedom is worth it. We can't let fascism make its home here, nor can we let it spread to the rest of the world. We've defeated this brand of ugly before, and we can do it again. 💙
Voter engagement and participation in the mid-terms will be unimaginably epic and that is why they are in such a hurry to smash everything so the mid terms become easy to manipulate
It is definitely "duck and cover time," for all intelligent and educated Americans, as the uneducated hate-mongers have free reign.
Welcome to 1933 Germany, after Hitler gained full authority.
Indeed very sad, a bloody TV celebrity and con man with a rich rascist from South Africa is now running the show with little regard for anyway but themselves and a few very rich men. 🥵🥶
Agreed. Now that he's moved on to the military brass, the final steps will be in place to finish the job of destroying our government and way of life. Loyalist traitors at the head of every agency. Decent, sane, Americans need to get prepared like it's April 12, 1861.
They literally would come out of the voting booth say they voted for him, be of a group he vowed to do x to and they would say, 'awe nah, he isn't serious about that.' Or 'that won't actually happen.'
I left a country with a dictatorship when I was young. A great percentage of Americans, not all, only know dictatorships in 'theory' not experience. Many believe it can't happen here. Think again. The move towards authoritarianism is already happening, it first comes with acquiescence.
As Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaws through federal agencies with budget and staff cuts, Tesla and SpaceX, cornerstones of his wealth, continue to benefit from public money. They probably wouldn’t have succeeded without it.
One of the problems in the US is having basically just a two party system and too much presidential powers.
Having a multi party government makes it much less likely that one party has an absolute majority and thus can create laws on their own
A historian friend points out that all Americans alive today have lived their lives in a period of largely stable political consensus, compared to earlier eras- even taking into account the Vietnam/ civil rights struggles (and I'm of that generation) the foundations have seemed steady.
The end of WWII was the beginning of an era when there was a huge emphasis on nonviolent conflict resolution, even with Vietnam and the civil rights movement.
It really seems as if he sees the world as Russia (eventually subsuming Europe), the US, and China, each with their areas of dominance. That's what "making America great" means to him- 19th century imperialism to go with his 19th century economic understanding.
I might suppose that this notion of an external savior out-there-somewhere fits in well with the Judeo-Christian mythos of Messiah, but the best we've had through Nixon/Reagan/both Bushes has been US, and WE are going to have to step forward once again. Don't ask me how, I'm not so good on planning.
Yep, we Americans have had it pretty easy with government stability. This could be why so many people don't pay attention to politics and government -- they haven't needed to.
Can't happen - the DOJ and FBI are gone. Congress is a RED Butted Baboon, SCrOTUS is in Der Furrer's Pocket as with most Fed Judges. We have a FAKE DOGE dept that doesn't have a leader patching and destroying infrastructure and ignoring the Legislative Branch all together! Not-So-Civil WAR
You have less than 3 weeks left.
Proposed GOP budget :
Debt ceiling +$4T
Tax cuts skewed to rich : $4.5T
Spending cuts : $1.5T after increase of $325B in Defense/Border
Other cuts in programs including Medicare & Medicaid : $2T
Mortgage Interest Deduct gone?
Does not include tariffs.
Look up your after Federal after-deductions income.
Above $74k (US median income) = "PARTY!!!"
Closer to $47k then, "Too bad."
This does not include :
Medicare/Medicaid & SNAP & Dep of Edu cuts
Capital Gains or Corporate rate changes
Mortgage Interest deduction removal?
Tariff effects.
The NEW AMERICAN ORDER = the GOP mantra of the past 5+ decades :
Keep 'em poor, afraid, ignorant, armed and pregnant.
Now contains sick & substance-dependent additives.
This term's specials are increased mortality and decreased safety.
Limit one death per customer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmfsmasjVA
Oh, and after the wink to the fiscal hawks, if/when Thomas and/or Alito retire and are replaced by Cannon and/or Kacsmaryk and if Sotomayor or Kagan don't hang on another 4 years, it'll be a 6-3 or even 7-2 SC(R)OTUS through 2052.
All Hail The Perpetual Unitary Executive.
Snug complacency.
Turnout in the 1995 Quebec Referendum was 93.52%. The margin voting NOT to start down the path to secession was 1.16%, lower that the 1.82% of "invalid" ballots mostly "found" in the predominately "NO" ridings.
Had 1 person in 50 not voted, then Canada might not exist today.
We have truly been too complacent , too affluent, too lazy, too self serving and watch way too much reality tv. We deserve this. Now let’s get busy and recover.
I suspect that by making such a big deal about illegal immigrants, Trump has brought about the unintended consequence that they know to keep a very low profile if not actually go into hiding, and be extra alert.
The moment an unfortunate and embarrassing amount of Americans realized that things were usually fair to middling because there wasn't an actual sociopath in the White House. Furthermore, there were no ultra wealthy robber baron capitalists as acting president. I love this for ancap Libertarians.
I think so too! We’ve had a relatively safe government, can do what we want, go where we want…the majority I should add. Therefore, the care isn’t there. Add to that the lack of civics education in schools. AND, the advent of social media with short attention spans.
Taking the system for granted helped cause this. Most people have no idea how much they rely on the system until it's gone. In fact, only the system successfully functioning for so long could have bred this attitude - we are victims of our own success. Democracy dies of irony.
I am honestly fine with people who are reasonable, kind and tolerant helping one another because that is their usual impulse (even when voting) and with the sort of assholes who voted Republican because they believe in rugged individualism eating hard potatoes and dying alone.
Americans seem to think freedom is free because they’ve never had to fight for it, and that democracy will magically withstand a President, Congress, and the Court trying ti destroy it.
Also until just now there were an alarming number of middle class white men in America who imagined they were some kind of superior John Galt character from an Ayn Rand novel, when in fact they have below average self awareness and below average social reasoning, and are in truth weak little fools.
We need the Military chiefs who are still there(are they?),who align themselves with protecting the constitution,to step up and stand with us,not the nazis.
I fear that if they don't,this nation will burn and millions will either be disappeared or die.
Thats where we are now.
Stop under reacting.
yes, from the cradle up Americans are raised on the idea of the strong "individual", through school and TV etc. They are not raised learning the mindset of joining together. So yes, they are waiting for SOMEONE, ANYONE, emphasis on ONE, to save them - rather than joining up and using numbers!
Not just Americans. For every level of Canadian government, I've heard people saying pretty much this thing. How did we become so disconnected from our own citizenship?
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Tyranny concedes nothing without a demand.
And since 54% of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, and nearly one in five adults reads below a third-grade level; the US is fucked!
https://www.thepolicycircle.org/briefs/literacy/#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%2054,competitiveness%20on%20the%20global%20stage.
I guess that's the military's job to dispose of him
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." Sounds like DOGE
"religion" is actually a, *SOCIO-POLITICAL IDEOLOGY [SPI]*
But greed and power are the root- religion is just a convenient vehicle for manipulating people's emotions.
There’s millions
Us
We have a few. We need more.
love out to @sanders.senate.gov , @newyorkstateag.bsky.social
Where is #Clinton?
Where is #Bush?
Movements need leaders.
Are you just trolling?
Why aren’t they on the streets in their millions?
Why aren’t they grinding everything to a halt in protest?
I try to share the Ralph Nader radio hour often and with Americans that show their support of Canada.
Share away!
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/does-non-violent-protest-work-23b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50501?wprov=sfti1
And trump said they were why his first admin was bad and he wanted to fix it. And he has.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
Aerosolized poison floods the WH
Welcome to 1933 Germany, after Hitler gained full authority.
Having a multi party government makes it much less likely that one party has an absolute majority and thus can create laws on their own
Not now.
Not under Trump. He believes in raw power & spheres of influence, where less powerful countries do what the more powerful force them to.
Democracy is irrelevant, power is everything.
Only we can save ourselves
https://5calls.org/
Proposed GOP budget :
Debt ceiling +$4T
Tax cuts skewed to rich : $4.5T
Spending cuts : $1.5T after increase of $325B in Defense/Border
Other cuts in programs including Medicare & Medicaid : $2T
Mortgage Interest Deduct gone?
Does not include tariffs.
Above $74k (US median income) = "PARTY!!!"
Closer to $47k then, "Too bad."
This does not include :
Medicare/Medicaid & SNAP & Dep of Edu cuts
Capital Gains or Corporate rate changes
Mortgage Interest deduction removal?
Tariff effects.
Keep 'em poor, afraid, ignorant, armed and pregnant.
Now contains sick & substance-dependent additives.
This term's specials are increased mortality and decreased safety.
Limit one death per customer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmfsmasjVA
All Hail The Perpetual Unitary Executive.
Turnout in the 1995 Quebec Referendum was 93.52%. The margin voting NOT to start down the path to secession was 1.16%, lower that the 1.82% of "invalid" ballots mostly "found" in the predominately "NO" ridings.
Had 1 person in 50 not voted, then Canada might not exist today.
They are us.
Unfortunately, they seem to have succeeded.
"And when power stagnates, power becomes corrupted."
I fear that if they don't,this nation will burn and millions will either be disappeared or die.
Thats where we are now.
Stop under reacting.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-herle-burly/id1280218816?i=1000694514591
We are literally The Government.
If nobody has stood up to them by now...?