“Our worst enemy is not Trump himself, but fatalism about our ability to stop him. The Constitution’s checks and balances are not self-enforcing; they work only where citizens and civil society institutions fight back.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/11/18/what-could-stop-donald-trump/
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/11/18/what-could-stop-donald-trump/
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Ever notice how the fascists don't even need to PRETEND any more because they already REWROTE the book?
That said, I’m so damn mad at the Democratic Party for the colossal defeat that just happened. Its pathetic. Was the Dem’s race to lose.
I needed to read this.
I was becoming frustratingly detached thinking ‘the hell with it all’.
Legacy media maybe.
Who else right now?
His team is incapable of even the simplest tasks
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
…as examples for the rest of US.
https://www.scribd.com/document/802733739/Complaint-120724 Complaint in USDC-DC
https://www.scribd.com/document/802734253/Chutkan-120724 Argument
https://www.scribd.com/document/802736158/Motion-4-Pseudonym Motion for Anonymity
https://bsky.app/profile/tribelaw.bsky.social/post/3ldwakugmik2l
They are playing a losing game by obeying in advance
They will lose that scenario 100Xs
Just ask Mike Pence.
I don’t know how these same institutions will serve as a check on Trump’s worst inclinations if they weren’t able to hold him accountable when he wasn’t in power.
Some ppl is US were attracted to the purity, IMO.
Not enforced. AND slowly...less and less enforceable.
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
I don't want to hear stern rhetoric. I want deliberate forceful action.
What are the odds?
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
As a Norwegian, I found that I wasn't even able to sign the petition, unfortunately.
As for Joe “stepping down”… he was ousted. The party turned on him once his dementia was exposed during the live debate. 🤷🏻♂️
Both the House and Senate had Majority votes determining he incited the insurrection.
To remove that disqualification requires a 2/3rds vote of both chambers.
But if that's what is needed, and if it even just has a smidgen of a chance of success, I would join the shouting match now.
I'd contact them by mail and sign that fkn petition.
Alas, being only a Norwegian onlooker, I can't.
It is a darned shame, to put it mildly. trump should have been detained no later than the day following the attack on the Capitol. To allow him on any ballot is OBSCENE. The miserable dolt should never have been accepted as a presidential candidate in the first place.
Not fatalism- it’s reality. Look what history’s despots destroyed (including millions of lives) before they were “stopped”.
Convention of States and what they will do to the Constitution
BTW
Imagine what would happen if 50 million Amazon users stopped using Amazon and returned to brick and mortar.
Boycott Amazon
#Resist
Welfare rancher Cliven Bundy had highly armed white vigilantes show up r his ranch to challenge federal agents to settle 20 years of lost court cases.
Feds backed down - local sheriff sided w vigilantes & still unsettled- since 2014
His duty as a supposed leader of a social organization still under the oversight of the US legal system should have limited him from such divisiveness.
Sedition and treason if you will.
Disobey.
it’s really hard to swallow that scotus has become that corrupt.
Not hard to understand, just hard for me personally to swallow because I really thought scotus had worked through previous terrible decisions. But the 2000 election changed that.
There was no one else other than trump who would have put themselves up to all that he’s done.
His relentless nature driven by a disability to acknowledge his own failures convinced them that trump would be their guy.
he did what he said he would.
He ruined the US.
I’m pretty sure Musk and Vance are part of those plans.
Trump's second impeachment for insurrection satisfied that requirement.
Trump didn't take the hint and ran anyway.
But removing Trump is not going to force the wealthy to pay their taxes and not shield their money - only Congress can do that and Congress (both Dems & GOP) don't want to do that.
Here she's speaking with Glenn Kirschner. Several of her latest videos on this are worth a watch/listen.
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
Our institutions - especially the courts - and elected officials failed us. And continue to fail.
Demand they faithfully discharge their duty of office.
We've not done that. MAGAts don't care and Dems don't care enough.
I have one senator now: Bernie Moreno. The other *was* JD Vance. My congressman is Jim Jordan. He always wins reelection because my district is gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
I am screwed coming and going.
-Biden and his handlers should have flatly rejected debating the criminal in the first place.
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-Here is the difference ... Trump lost in 2020 and filed lawsuits, demanded the election not be certified and fomented an insurrection on the Capitol. Although Democrats well know Republicans have been corrupting our elections we just sit by.
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Stephen Spoonamore: Duty to Warn letter to VP re the hacking of the 2024 election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5h49eLdntk
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE WAR ON VOTING
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-War-Voting-Stole/dp/1523087781
https://www.peoplesmarch.com/
Things won't change if all you do is be sad.
Even Grok is fighting back.
I'd love to see the 14th Amendment raised as reason not to declare Trump the winner of the Electoral College votes on January 6, 2025, but I suspect that's a pipe dream.
Some stand up
Others cower and acquiesce ..
They are showing us who they are now
The cowards are shitting on Democracy
We FAIL to recognize the power ordinary people have when they UNITE.
It will take losing most rights to wake up the electorate. Unfortunately.
We need to unite-TOGETHER. 👍😄
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“Yielding" to overcome:
Instead of directly resisting your opponent's strength, you can sometimes "yield" to their movement and then use their force to execute a throw or takedown.”
2026 and 2028 loom.
https://www.bigwin2024.com/
https://www.youtube.com/live/eN67FF-0ajc?si=N62j0lRbfstvJk_y
It was dead the day congress failed to have a spine and hold him accountable.
It was dead the day a 'memo' stopped legal action against a president. No law, no amendment to the constitution, a fucking memo.
Lady Justice weeps.
Oh yeah, the citizens gave him another go.
He was allowed to run for president somehow and the SCOTUS didn’t stop it.
14th amendment is worthless apparently. He violated the crap out of it for sure.
Why didn’t the constitution protect us from him?
https://www.scribd.com/document/802733739/Complaint-120724 Complaint in USDC-DC
https://www.scribd.com/document/802734253/Chutkan-120724 Argument
https://www.scribd.com/document/802736158/Motion-4-Pseudonym Motion for Anonymity
Project 2025 is going to make protesting illegal & punishable by extreme force?
We know Trump wants to use deadly force...
To "crack skulls" & "beat the fuck out" of protesters.
Soon he will have the immunity to do it!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls
Trump's insurrection impeachment is the legislation Sec 5 required and Congress can move on to vacating the 'disability' or not.
There are avenues. Know your Constitution and fight for it.
https://www.scribd.com/document/802733739/Complaint-120724 Complaint in USDC-DC
https://www.scribd.com/document/802734253/Chutkan-120724 Argument
https://www.scribd.com/document/802736158/Motion-4-Pseudonym Motion for Anonymity
On Tyranny, Snyder 👇