We can’t count on the media or politicians to stand up to him. It’s going to be on us. Every single one of us standing in the way every single day. - ThreadSky

piperformissouri.bsky.social • 182 days ago

We can’t count on the media or politicians to stand up to him. It’s going to be on us.

Every single one of us standing in the way every single day.

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corithna.bsky.social•182 days ago

But at the same time, we can also bring the politicians and media in on the resistance. No we can't rely on them to do it for us. But I bet there are a lot of willing partners out there who just need to know we are with them.

petelewis136.bsky.social•182 days ago

The media has rolled over and he wont even rub their belly.

annemariebs.bsky.social•182 days ago

Unless the Military intervenes or President Biden lets Kamala Harris take over thus being immune. We are the Cavalry.

wywyfly.bsky.social•182 days ago

I don’t want to give up but it’s exhausting hopping on this app and seeing something bad happen, yet again. I just need to tune it out for four years bc I can’t stomach this. massive corruption is about to happen and the media won’t report it. we will be in the dark.

alexshroff.bsky.social•182 days ago

Just give Trump a chance, he seems changed this time round, he's a lot more mature, not sure of the people he wants to appoint though, some are chancers. But if he reduces spending like cutting waste, that might be a good thing.

aremsan.bsky.social•182 days ago

I’m hoping he dismantles the whole thing, maybe start a war with California. This system SUCKS! love, genX

unfortunateprophet.bsky.social•182 days ago

It's time we all take a stand, we had it good in the 90's/2000's. However in that time we were also ignorant to the wider world in a way that was defined for us, we have the technology now to learn and develop solutions between us. Let us not waste this one opportunity for change.

wearethetruth.bsky.social•182 days ago

What she said!!!!

daaman81.bsky.social•182 days ago

So true, Jess! A timely post indeed right after the fossil zombies in the Democratic Party refuse to step aside and let AOC be the leader of the Oversight Committee.

jesushchr1st.bsky.social•182 days ago

Yall are gonna have to get pissed. Like really pissed.

resistance1984vet.bsky.social•182 days ago

Media, politicians, billionaires are all sucking up to him, afraid of his new DOJ on a leash.

sameastheold.bsky.social•182 days ago

You can only count on what can be bought in America.

adeniyis.bsky.social•182 days ago

This!

johnbilbrough.bsky.social•182 days ago

And certainly not corporations!

lightloveandpeace.bsky.social•182 days ago

True!

lmc55g95.bsky.social•182 days ago

I watched a clip from @maddow.bsky.social. She talked to @timothysnyder.bsky.social about a strategy forward for us. He talked about a #ShadowGovernment. I do hope that somewhere, behind the scenes, that there IS a group of folks who WILL stand up for Us. I'm skeptical. But, glad you're out there!

jtll24.bsky.social•182 days ago

‘I like the cut of your jib’

ogmiriote.bsky.social•182 days ago

How though? Not to be combative, but I'm at a loss. I don't have $ to spend, so I'm pretty much useless there. I write to my Senators but they pretty much ignore me. I volunteer and do the protests and confront shit when I see it, but I just don't feel any of this is actually "standing in the way."

piperformissouri.bsky.social•182 days ago

You are doing the things. You are also just one person. When we all come together and do those things, it does make a difference.

ogmiriote.bsky.social•182 days ago

Thanks, that's encouraging. And also, thanks for all you do! Hoping someone in Arkansas will follow your lead. Trickle down effect. Heh.

michaelbersin.bsky.social•182 days ago

One person doing something somewhere is enough.

Do what you can, when you can.

Talk to others as you can.

angryknees.bsky.social•182 days ago

You recognize the problem with an individualized approach. The idea that we must push for change alone or that it's effective to do so is a lie. Find something you want to resist and then join an organization for it. People power is built on collective action.

cindywakefield.bsky.social•182 days ago

Anytime you share and confront, you are either planting a seed or growing understanding. Thank you for persisting.

deliver23.bsky.social•182 days ago

You are spot on Jess.

cmcmillin.bsky.social•182 days ago

You're right Jess. Now what do we do? Boycott? Rally? Write? Call? Surely there is a way to let congress, media, corporations know that we will have their back IF they stand up - or that we can cause a giant headache if they don't. I'm looking for leaders with clever ideas.

overflickdbean.bsky.social•182 days ago

Pull a January. We have more people than the nazis.

angryknees.bsky.social•182 days ago

Don't look for leaders. Look towards your neighbors. Get organized with them, be that through a union, an activist group, a mutual aid organization, or the like. We are stronger together.

carla2626.bsky.social•180 days ago

It would be better to do all that and have some leaders as well…

angryknees.bsky.social•180 days ago

Maybe I just believe too much in the whole democracy thing, but I think we'd do best when allowed to decide on our own affairs alongside our community, without some person at a special position at the top separated from the rest.

activisthugh.bsky.social•182 days ago

One of the best ways to resist is to clutter the system with mundane tasks and requests—basically, make their own red tape work against them. This particular method of protest is very effective and is credited with saving many lives during the Holocaust.

allyhartwell.bsky.social•182 days ago

Pour endless grit in the wheels, delay and deny with legal action and make a lot of noise 💙

newjackrap.bsky.social•182 days ago

Yup. No crown for the clown.

jubilado251.bsky.social•182 days ago

It’s not the media’s job to pick a side. They’re not on a team. Their mission is to find and report the best available version of truth they can find. PERIOD.

jcorstvet.bsky.social•182 days ago

You do that by sanewashing 45 and nitpicking the Democrats, Right?

piperformissouri.bsky.social•182 days ago

No shit?

melbelle8.bsky.social•182 days ago

The problem is the media has picked a side. They side with anything that brings them profits instead of factual reporting and holding our country's elite and politicians accountable.

hazdaz.bsky.social•182 days ago

The media is complicit in getting him elected, so not only will they NOT stand up to him, they will actually HELP him in spreading propaganda.

anetjane.bsky.social•182 days ago

He can take money, power, and jobs from them. What can he take from us that he hasn't already taken? My sense of safety and security was all I had. He already took it. I'm ready to stockpile toilet paper again.

tfuzzy.bsky.social•182 days ago

And the reason it’s us is everyone else is bought.

takeoffeh.bsky.social•182 days ago

Nothing gets solved on the internet.

kamalatheloser.bsky.social•182 days ago

Stand up to who?

Biden is leaving

dudepoolrising.bsky.social•182 days ago

The media has always been spineless when it comes to presidents.

jimmasonauo.bsky.social•182 days ago

Jess, this is not relevant to this post but to an earlier one which I can’t find now. About poor folks having to kill deer to eat.

This is wealth inequality. We need to fix that. Sorry-ass situation when people feel they have to kill an animal for food.

lindawarner.bsky.social•182 days ago

It's us, it's always been us.

bobmthesecond.bsky.social•182 days ago

Psychologists have to develop a list of suggestions, find out what he cannot put up with, then do precisely that.
I imagine a rally where everyone turns their backs as he opens his mouth.

bobmthesecond.bsky.social•182 days ago

Graffiti might work too.

takenoprisoners.bsky.social•182 days ago

💙

djwetmoney.bsky.social•182 days ago

The only thing American corporate media fears is you not watching.

Turn off your TV. Make their nightmare reality.

somewhereinco.bsky.social•182 days ago

Prime time MSNBC won’t let you down!

defiantlyalive.bsky.social•182 days ago

It’s so exhausting thinking about what is ahead of us, especially with the media failing us. But you are right, it will be up to us everyday people to stand up to him.

dovel100.bsky.social•182 days ago

@Sue Clark on Texas Paul's show, coined the word for the press.
"Press-titute"

sparticus.timeto.resist.is•182 days ago

No one's coming to save us.

Our success will depend on our ability to ignore the distractions and persist.

dddyslttlgrl.bsky.social•182 days ago

How?

peanutbuttercookie.bsky.social•182 days ago

“Aux barricades!”

girlinterupted.bsky.social•182 days ago

Mass protests. Everyone stay home for a week and shut the economy down again.

msmads.bsky.social•182 days ago

I'm in! Let's go, I will NOT roll over 🙌🏼

oraclebungee.bsky.social•182 days ago

donbrock15251.bsky.social•182 days ago

Right there with you Granddaughter.

skippeymamma.bsky.social•182 days ago

I think you could publish a daily resistance act of the day for all Missouri citizens. Sometimes it feels like there’s absolutely nothing I can do and a daily reminder of what direct action to take would be helpful and useful

teleskier12.bsky.social•182 days ago

Spot on!

actualfreedomluvr.bsky.social•182 days ago

Luckily, him and his gang of criminals will be replaced on Jan 20th, which can't come soon enough....I'm hearing that with the Biden scumbags selling the Southern border wall material for pennies on the dollar that they might be prosecuted for cheating the taxpayer...Hope springs eternal....

jpylko.bsky.social•180 days ago

✋💙

resilientboomer.bsky.social•182 days ago

As should have always been. Democracy is too important 😞 to all of us to leave in the hands of the easily corrupted.
Just look to South Korea. They understand this more than most.

thefunkybuddha.bsky.social•182 days ago

I will not move aside.

sassysue.bsky.social•182 days ago

It’s revolting how much of the MSM have already bent their “knee.” Only doing independent media from now on: The Atlantic, Substack, 24sightNews, Meidas Touch, and so on.

nycresident.bsky.social•182 days ago

It was always us standing in the way every single day. We thought that the media and politicians would stand with us until they did not.

jennyfern18.bsky.social•182 days ago

It’s us! We are it!

msdenisesays.bsky.social•182 days ago

It’s going to be hard.

willoak.bsky.social•182 days ago

But that isn’t how it’s supposed to work! We tell them, they aren’t listening.

marianthelibrarian.bsky.social•182 days ago

Right there with you. I will NEVER bend a knee

markabuchanan.bsky.social•182 days ago

I was hoping that the Press would help, since without it, my understanding is that it's hopeless.

allyhartwell.bsky.social•182 days ago

The mainstream media is dying, independent media is where people go now @meidastouch.com and @thebulwark.bsky.social are good places to start 💙

brandnub-n.bsky.social•182 days ago

Gathering for a Day of Atonement at the Lincoln Memorial and MLK, Jr Memorial on January 20, 2025

Return of the Power to the People. True Democracy.

All Congress members should boycott the crowning and attend the Gathering.

☮️🆓DOM🗽⚖️🌅🦋🇺🇸

#RESIST

nfinityphoenix.bsky.social•182 days ago

Stay vigilant in your communities, stand up when you see something. Being quiet is how we got here in the first place.

sylviarivers.bsky.social•182 days ago

March in January

dovel100.bsky.social•182 days ago

@Sue Clark on Texas Paul's show, coined the word for the press.
"Press-titute"

bchanson.bsky.social•182 days ago

Boy, that’s the truth. Disappointments all around.

vixenbite.bsky.social•182 days ago

Every Revolution begins with the People!!

allyhartwell.bsky.social•182 days ago

75 million voted for Harris and 111 million did not vote at all - that is a lot of noise to come against a demented orange buffoon who does not have a popular mandate 💙

alanhowe.bsky.social•182 days ago

My pinned post:

Know this. If Biden does not release all US intelligence on the relationship between Trump and Putin, Trump's sycophants will destroy all of it for him. Putin will have installed a "Manchurian candidate" in plain sight of all of us.

Are you going to let that happen unopposed? 1/3

dumblebror.bsky.social•182 days ago

get up, stand up
stand up for your right 🗣️

willoughby12.bsky.social•182 days ago

gnarlygeek.bsky.social•182 days ago

This really hit home for me. Thank you for sharing it.

jonrademacher.bsky.social•182 days ago

I think we are beyond the point of words likely now

mareumbra.bsky.social•182 days ago

Proud to be donating! Since billionaires are buying our country, it seems that money can be an effective method to fight back!

https://www.citizen.org/

mimimomma.bsky.social•182 days ago

And the lawsuit will disappear!

5buckchuck.bsky.social•182 days ago

This⬇️⬇️

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