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Absolutely. This should be an ongoing investigation with a front page story every day.
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I tried it, but I don’t feel any cooler.
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The Alt National Park Service (well worth following on Facebook). They had representatives at nearly every protest and got numbers from local police.
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No Kings was at least twice that. As high as 13 million.
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See “The Matchmaker,” with Janeane Garofalo and Denis Leary.
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Oh my god, fuckin’ fifty. Yikes.
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Nixon!
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Being streamed live on Cory’s Facebook page.
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Done.
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Did another round of 21 Republican reps and 12 Senators using that profile, etc. only took 90 minutes this time because I had saved all the info. A few have responded saying they will protect Ukraine, or Medicaid, or Medicare. Written by staff, of course, but specific, at least. We’ll see.
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For our next project, I would like to suggest a national strike, and I propose we strike on May 1, International Workers Day. Protests that day should be focused on recalcitrant Republicans in Congress, who must see and feel the overwhelming consensus that Americans refuse to lose their democracy.
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I would like to propose a National Strike that shuts down the country for one day, and I suggest May 1, International Workers Day. Protests should be focused especially on recalcitrant Republicans in Congress, who must see and feeling the overwhelming will of the people to reject what is being done
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Normally, yes, but this is a reconciliation bill and can’t be filibustered.
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Such a great category!
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Love “nutless cracker”!
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It will take time for this to sink in, but I believe a critical mass of people recoiling from the Musk/Trump actions will force Republicans in the House and Senate to take note, and to change their tune.
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Like the Vietnam war, eventually the bad news is going to hit home in Republican-led states, and those folks are going have their Fox News bubble popped. Eventually everyone will know someone who has lost their job or been wounded in some way by these arbitrary cuts to government programs.
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Everywhere, but including states like Texas, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conservative strongholds. Gutting the health care system is going to affect poor, rural areas (typically Republican) more than it will blue states.
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Much of that money was going to red states. Another Washington Post headline says, “Layoffs hit contractors and small businesses as Trump cuts take effect.” Where are these businesses and contractors?
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Farmers in red states are feeling the effects of cutting funds to USAID, which supplied American food to many regions in the world. The Washington Post reports that “Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses.”
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But if you look at the effects already of the Musk/Trump actions, all will not be well for them for long. Already constituents of Republicans in Congress are protesting the loss of government contracts.
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Today it looks like Musk and Trump have everything going their way. They have a complicit Congress, and many believers are stuck in a Fox/Newsmax bubble, not getting information that others are getting.
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Eventually a majority of people came to believe the war was wrong.
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I believe that what really ended the war was reaching a critical mass of people personally affected by the war. Eventually everyone knew someone who had been killed or wounded. Even those who were not wounded came back changed, often with symptoms of PTSD.
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In the beginning it was very difficult, because people had been convinced to support the war. The war was popular for a long time. But eventually the war took its toll. By the end of the war, 58,000 Americans died, and more than 300,000 were wounded.
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The disaster of Vietnam was what woke me up politically. I attended protests, wore a black armband to school, etc.
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I was a teenager during the Vietnam War. The U.S. still had the draft, and we all got draft numbers, signaling the likelihood of being drafted. Mine was 40, although the draft ended before I could be called up.
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Voted for Collins. Not awake yet.
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Yes. It's pretty bad here in the states. That will mean, for now, a longer walk in nature. Plus I've got a wood stove and purring cats.
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Excellent questions, too!