I stand with pitchfork at the ready, torches waiting, for when we march on the Orange ogres castle!
Do NOT piss off old people! We got nothing to lose!
Especially us older women. We'll chew you up, spit you out, belch like a longshoreman while reapplying our lipstick, and keep right on walking without even missing a beat. We cheerfully hate everybody.
Exactly! We're invisible! Like an army of gray haired ninjas that appear out of nowhere and will absolutely kill you where you stand, but will need to stop often for potty breaks and might need a little help with technology.
They will leave social security and Medicare for last. It will then be too late for their lemmings to do anything about what actually affects them. Too late for us all
They are currently fucking with social security and Medicaid and Medicare and anything else they need too in order to get Elon and Bezos and Zuck and whoever those tax breaks.
Those of us old enough to remember Y2K and who have programmed in COBOL know what the problem is. We are also more likely to be collecting Social Security! Maybe Musk needs a few of us older folks to consult rather than relying on 19 year olds.
Red states rely heavily on the federal government for education funding which is ending. Farmers in red states also rely on selling their crop to USAID. So I think they’re getting hit harder.
When several million take to DC to protest this corrupt regime, the military will decide whether to fire upon citizens criminally or turn on the criminals issuing illegal orders.
An authoritarian never leaves voluntarily. There may be midterms and elections, but the Republicans are already rigging them. Revolutions normally start with as an underground movement.
My suggestion…exercise your second Amendment right and understand what is at stake.
Yes. And if you decide to make a few "purchases" learn how to use them! Not just for a couple of days but for months and under as many varying conditions as possible. To protect doorways I suggest a "legally" sawed of pump action shotgun. For the rest whatever you're comfortable with. No revolvers!
I took the Oath, spent years in combat. Would have made a career in the Army but was finally wounded badly enough that it was time to give it up, go home start the family I wanted so much. But I am still willing and able to support and defend the Constitution, family and friends! My Country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪶
Unfortunately, many within the military and various law enforcement entities are on their side.
Throw in something approaching 100,000 private militia members in this country and... Match, meet fuse.
A fantastic display of true patriotism. Let's hope if push comes to shove it's what we see nationwide. It's what lies in the shadows to be concerned about.
Law enforcement is no surprise, although there's ones against an insurrectionist domestic terrorist, who sees nothing wrong with cops being beaten by Magat terrorists.
I’ve hated guns all my life. My husband got a bunch in 2020. We have enough ammo for the zombie apocalypse and I sleep better knowing it. Best to be prepared…
I worked with the war dead and pulled bullets out of corpses. I’m not a huge fan either. My neighbor gave me full access to his arsenal should the need arise. I have small kids. They need better not arise. Still, I was an expert marksman on a 9mm and an M16. I’m not playing with my kids lives.
Well you’ll be waiting forever & there’s no time to wait for anyone else. It’s all on YOU, Cynde. There are many as you; they just need a light/hero to lead them. Arm yourself, be invisible to them evil & be that light/hero & others will follow & join you. Go strong solo & act now! What do you say?
George, it already has I'm afraid. 1/6 was just party of it, don't forget the plot against Gov. Wittmer(prob misspelled) also Charlottesville and other places. The riots after George Floyd's murder. America is literally a Rubbermaid bin of wooden matches waiting to go up.
Speaking of violence, odd there's no follow up on this week's statement:
- President Trump issued an ultimatum on Monday to Hamas, saying that if all remaining Israeli hostages are not released from Gaza by noon on Saturday, then "all hell is going to break loose." -
What? It looks like genocide! He's supporting Netanyahu obliterating Gaza so he can build hotels. Palestinians have been trapped and the plan is to eradicate them. It's horrific.
There will be, because elections are run by the states. Whether Trump and Musk will respect the results if the elections don't go their way is another story.
There wasn’t a blue wave after Roe got overturned. Then Kamala got conned into accepting a defeat by voter suppression, hacking, programming, foreign influence, and bomb threats. I wouldn’t hold my breath. The destruction is well underway.
Enough with the Kamala - she was a 1% candidate and the needed electorate stayed home. Let’s work the problem and choose better outcomes. she runs again and nothing will change.
Well I admit that you may be right. But simply accepting that you are gives me cognitive dissonance because all of her rallies appeared to be packed to the brim and over flowing with people. And most of his rallies had empty seats and people walking out. So. And I don't like being told what to do.
Well then, I guess anyone can commit any crime and use the old, I was trying to save my country argument. Now we can get rid of courts an law enforcement.
We're all having great difficulty seeing it not moving that direction and he's trying every damn thing to provoke it but what little does he realize is it's a war he cannot win and he will not win. Because unlike their January 6th if we have to storm the capital we're going all the way and we're not
How would anyone know? There were 50 protests in 50 states and it barely made the news. This is why I believe things will start to get violent - because then, and only then, will the legacy news outlets cover it.
Hi George, it is just a matter of time. The biggest Trump supporters in the St Louis area have recently taken down all their Trump flags and Trump signs but the rest of us still know where they live.
If conflict breaks out we have a pretty good idea of who his most ardent supporters are.
Oh - that’s really very interesting. Are the flags and signs down because those folks don’t want to be ID’d as DJT supporters when the community revolts, or because they no longer support him? Only way to know is to ask them I guess.
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
Incorrectly attributed to Thomas Jefferson & Ruth Bader Ginsburg - but it’s still a great quote.
More importantly -
We have a helluva lotta injustice that demands a helluva lotta resistance!!!
Me too!
America, do you understand that this is tRump’s “dog whistle” to his private army of pardoned violent insurrectionists to do anything they damn please to anyone who opposes the dictator as long as it’s to “save his Country”? Get it???
Agree 100% this is a "dog whistle" to PBs, OKs, etc...BUT...The absolute worst thing we could do is partake or promote or incite violence OF ANY KIND!!! This would give F47 the very reason HE CRAVES to enact a national emergency and martial law...then it IS game over! IMHO...
Where is the strong opposition from HakeemJeffries and Chuck Schumer? Shameful disgrace to Democratic Party…every bad proposal by Trump must be stopped. You don’t “pick your battles” This isn’t a bully in elementary school! This is a tyrant in America. Stop him!
Gandhi and MLK both went after the wallets of the people in power. MLK Protesters sat in a busy restaurant taking up space. In that vein let’s see him declare martial law over us spamming his hotels phones and Tesla dealers with prank calls. Photo says once a month but we can do more!
We need young people to mobilize in the millions. Get colleges involved. Young people through peaceful protest large part of ending Vietnam War. Must mobilize in large numbers especially in middle and red America to get fn bought media attention.
The country is way too large for martial law. If he tries that .... it's gonna get bad and messy very quickly to the point where I think the other rich capitalists might "stop" Trump. No one spends money when the country has broken out in violence.
It could happen. There are more guns than people in the US. Its seem like a powder keg right now.
The very reason my wife eventually wants to leave the US.
Who could blame her? Fuck knows how much time there is left.
But where to go? It appears the tangerine is setting the world on fire by brownnosing Putin.
There was a time when certain people reading was considered a crime in this country.
Criminality, it's about state power... Not Justice, not truth.
Or else, United health's business model would have never been allowed in the first place.
Correct. And I say this as someone with a CyberSecurity Degree. I believe the election was absolutely compromised. The vote totals don't make any real sense.
Even if you let the “fascists” win they would just destroy civilization and we will be back to feudalism, wars, and daily chaos. Their nihilistic approach has no positive endgame because America has never been greater and it will only be used as a way to sow violence and justify mayhem.
I paraphrased, but the precise phrase “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable” was delivered by President John F. Kennedy in a 1962 speech addressing Latin American diplomats at the White House.
That's
Why I find it weird that he already dismantled everything having to do with gun laws and gun violence 🫠 He's expecting and pushing for people to commit violence against each other. When most people know where the violence would be aimed
Nah. He knows that won't be with gun violence. He is dog whistling to the cult because they're docile and only ranting on tiktok about eggs 🥚
He just wants any form o chaos that would distract
That brings up a question though doesn't it. The Billionaire crew needs an endless supply of cash from the blue states. Can't make it off the red. If we're under martial law, are folks going to continue shopping?? How does that work at the street level??
1 -- Enough MAGA won't participate
2 -- Once MAGA realizes it's muti-day, they'll buy to fill the gap
3 -- They have enough money to sit it out since it will topple the country but not them
Most taxes are automatically collected. What you could is FOIA/FOIA/APRA tax collection records from local businesses and then just let them know that you did.
Trump has to follow the law and the constitution to remain President. Declaring himself monarch is an illegal act beyond the Presidency by definition lol
At that point there will be a free for all. Trumps thugs vs everyone else.
Enforcement depends on people acting in good faith. That is not Trump. Right now, Trump is literally breaking the law and defying Federal judges' ORDERS. Neither Federal district courts nor SCOTUS have any ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM to physically stop Trump from being a monarch.
I have to imagine that Jim Comey would do things differently if he had a chance to relive the fall of 2016. Dude could have prevented all of this by just doing the normal thing and not doing that statement shit.
Jan 21, 2010 was another wake everyone slept on. Should have been riots in every city until it was repealed. But everyone fine with as long as stonks go brrrrrrr. I am not so sure it will be different this time.
Thought so! I was finishing my last semester of college at the time, so I was more focused on writing a thesis on a novel I absolutely hated than the news. 😅 Oh to be 21 and apolitical again…
I was incredulous. I knew then the SCOTUS had lost the true vision of their purpose. SCOTUS laid the doubt when they ruled on December 12, 2000 in GW Bush's favor.
The most ironic bit, at least for me, was the fact that I went to college on a partial scholarship from the California State Bar Association because I won an essay contest they ran my junior year of high school. The topic? “The importance of an independent judiciary.”
35% of the country possess ALL of the 400M guns… What do you think🤷🏼♂️. A whole lot of people are going to have to get over their anti-gun issues really quick is all Im saying.
In NYC, just 20%(1in5) of the 7.9M population own a gun. And the notorious MAGA NYPD will not be coming to save them either.
Well of course, because we not dare be able to compile a database on the actual stats of gun possessions… all of our data can only be based on Sales and scraped together public records of registrations. (Records not even publicly available in many RED states) But we do have a pretty accurate
understanding of how many guns are in the country based on the manufacturing and sales reporting. Either way… it’s still incredibly… to say the least… troubling on just how few actually do posses the bulk of the known 400M that are out there. And knowing 65% of the country are literally defenseless.
Be very cautious about protests after a fascist takeover. I have not had a high opinion of protests in America for a while, in fact; they wound and run out the finances of resistant people, and the people in charge just double down on the policy. Protests only work when leaders have a heart.
Marie Antoinette begs to differ. We are an outrageously armed, historically violent culture. I don’t see it coming to full scale Union/Confederate action but it will involve at least people in the streets. We’ve been here to an extent before in the 60s.
I think it will. Even if you cut off the head of the snake, it won't be enough. They are too entrenched. I think it will happen with enough of his base, particularly the easy to anger ones with low conscience and lots of guns, gets pissed off at the last straw broken.
I have no doubt it's coming, the Magats have been dreaming of a civil war for years.
History is repeating itself, and apparently no one learned their lesson from 2016, or back in the day either.
True, but the real turn will come when the Magas begin to see it's not all fun and games and that they are being directly hurt by what he's doing.
Trump's power is in having the Maga army ready to threaten and attack. When that fades, because they're getting hurt, he's vulnerable.
This right here. These f*cking idiots actually thought they'd have a coup on Jan 6th and go back to their 9-5 on Monday. Revolutions aren't pretty, and you're certainly not going to have your Sunday night football to decompress with after a day of pillaging. They have no idea the pain that's coming.
There is a hardened element of Maga, then there is a soft element. You don't need 100% turnabout; even 15% is a game changer. Trump only won by 1.4%.
Plus the 89m people who didn't bother to vote.
The turnout for Americans under 30 was 42%.
The turnout for over 65 was 74%.
All that will matter.
The 89 million ppl who didn’t bother likely skew even further right, I’m not sure they should be considered as saviors. Also, there’s nothing to suggest 15% change in maga is possible. They’ll continue to blame democrats for any hardship they suffer
You're likely wrong.
Under 30s skew left. 58% of them didn't show up.
65+ skew right. Only 24% of them didn't show up.
There is already evidence of Magas now decrying their choice.. Wait until millions of them lose Medicaid, veteran's benefits, job protections.
Meanwhile, ICE is sending out 1/
The militias are out there, but unlikely big enough to matter if the people can come together.
And a lot of those khaki-pants militias are beta males trying to act tough, IMHO.
Correct. I was using that term figuratively. Meaning they can harass, bully, dox, scream and threaten.
Look at how Lindsey Graham fell in after a few people yelled at him in an airport.
Look at Cassidy folding when there was a threat of being primaried.
Susan Collins. 🤮
GOP is a bunch of cowards.
To me, the fight depends on a lot of people who voted for Trump (or the 89 million who didn’t bother voting) coming to their senses. That’s what will make the difference.
MAGA won’t fade because they’re a cult and he’s their messiah. There are more of us. We just need to all head in the same direction to topple them but time is running out.
Maybe, but not everyone who voted for Trump is hardcore Maga. A lot of people voted for him based on the incredible smear campaign on Harris. They may be a cult, but there's nothing like losing your Medicaid or Social Security or job to clarify the mind.
Don't forget the 89m people who didn't vote.
I know a fair number of people who are longtime conservatives, who are very reluctant to ever vote Dem, but are also not Trump cultists. They are regretting things already.
We don't need or want a civil war (period). That is foolish beyond reason. Martial Law is the goal of much of this. We absolutely do need surgical precision scalpel excisions. Cut off the head and the body will follow. Impeach!
People talking about Martial Law! We will simply defy any curfews! We will face down the military! If the military dare turn their guns against civilians they shall stand trial along with musk and the oligarchs when the people take back our democracy!
Stand trial? Are you serious? There will be no court to hold them accountable. SCOTUS has abdicated their power to the far right. Face down the military? Do you not remember Tieneman Square? You will be dead. I am not sure how we win this but it won’t be through force. Honestly I think Americans are
The traitors on the SCOTUS should not be allowed to escape the righteous retribution of the American people either.
They enabled this evil and they should pay. The fascist five would have to go.
Agreed. But scotus and the method of selection is anti- democratic! Once the people are victorious, they should reshape scotus! 25 or another number? But no political/presidential appointments! Appointment by straw-poll of qualified judges, with 8 year max term limit! Current scotus are oligarchs!
Amazing how the previous method worked until Republicans fucked things isn’t it? We were getting decent decisions until the Christo-fascists got a foothold.
I didn’t begin to deeply distrust the Court until it became the Roberts Court.
Citizens United was a farce.
Money is not speech. Period.
going to have to take to the streets by the millions. Congress needs to be more afraid of us than Musk and Trump. A certain amount of republican and MAGA voters are going to have to turn on Trump & Musk. But that is going to require more destruction and pain before they do that. I think it will
Of course my words are impotent and reflective of a sense of helpless rage! I wouldn't just throw my life away, but at the same time I'd rather die standing on my own two feet than live on my knees as a coward! I just don't believe our democracy is retreivable without violence!
Sean, I do not understand where your faith comes from my friend because so far “the people” are doing nothing. “The People” did not understand how urgent the situation was last year and did not act accordingly to prevent this. Why do you think the same people will do something now?
I don't have faith! It's wishful thinking! It will have to get worse before it gets better. Our hope is that it will get worse, thus better! I'm frustrated too! Stay strong, take solace in others who love democracy and feel like you! Look for your chance to serve! The fight is just beginning!
I've always been more of a "shoot them in the chest with an elephant-hunting round" but gutting does have the perk of less-chance of bone-fragments getting in your eyes
I do too. Martial law, suspend elections, dissolve the Congress, and rule until death or overthrow. What a dark time for the country formerly known as the United States of America.
But will the generals abandon their oath to uphold the Constitution and go along with it?
The top military people have spent their careers both adhering to this principle and fighting against dictatorships.
There are plenty of Maga soldiers, but when their Maga parents lose healthcare, or can't afford rising prices, or see Social Security threatened, they won't defy orders.
It's too soon for this to happen right now, but it's a strong possibility when things reach a tipping point.
Social media manipulates you by telling you what other people want. If they can make you believe that other people want to do something, you will want to do it, too. They hack your brain.
I've got a friend in the dod that has told me those claims are questionable. Having been in the army myself it wouldn't surprise me to learn they moved the goal post and then claimed victory.
Loading up on Maga white supremacists. People who will find pleasure in following every illegal command from 47. It will become an army of thugs that will run rampant without conscience, ethics or morality. His very own SS troops. Psychopaths commanded by psychopaths. 47's wet dream.
People need to stop letting their children in enlist in the military . This country sacrifices typically children from poor backgrounds to fight battles for billionaires .
Interesting point. Every single ad I have seen for recruiting lately shows a POC as the recruit and their mission is a “peace keeping” or “I’m helping the world” attitude.
I would not allow my son or daughter to serve right now. THEY WILL BE USED AS PAWNS to interrogate, intimidate and incarcerate
Or about to create one
They seem to be following the nazi playbook right now, so this is the next thing I'm expecting to see
And who will they blame I wonder?
So they want Americans to take their facism lying down and also take the blame for any potential violence that occurs from trying to resist it. Repulsive creeps.
It will, It must - unfortunately. Because it is the lesson which has to be learned, at last. America has been on the path of a death cult - false hope, looking for leadership, self-interested individualism.
Belief in the 'I' and not the 'We'. Don't know if you'll see this post, but take heart,
And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.
40 And he comes to the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done.
Weather we want it or not. Canada and Mexico are in For a fight. The President of the USA wants to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland and of course my favorite Gaza on the Riviera. These guys cannot win. THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN. SURPRISE ITS THE GOP. COWARDS & TRAITORS.
They’re very own holocaust. A lot of today’s generation actually don’t believe the holocaust ever happened. Same with the wars. They may have to experience their own disasters before they realize what a danger the world is. I hope it’s not too late.
Lots of people must be asking same question. I’ve noticed certain types of ammo prices beginning to go up. Ammo hoarding doesn’t usually happen when republicans get elected.
This country was born out of revolution…I don’t know how one of those starts or how it gets organized but I am 100% here for it. I will not raise my daughters in the handmaids tale.
Agreed, but also never forget it was conceived in the myth of white supremacy. It will die by it too, unless eradicated from the very core of this nation for which it stands...
It's usually something ridiculously stupid and unpredictable that becomes the tipping point. Often a misunderstanding while tensions are high - which is where we are now.
As a GOT (game of thrones) fan girl, the Jan20 gathering in the Rotunda was a perfect time to have eliminated the whole GOP, my bad for thinking that way🤭
That's exactly what donald and leon want. Then he invokes the insurrection act, gets the military in the streets, and start hauling people off to Guantanamo
Well, he may want to get the military in the street to get at their countrymen, but I seem to recall a little oath they took that is sacred. I doubt they would fight us.
That's what they said at Kent State too.
And Lafayette Square was cleared with tear gas and troops in uniform so believe what you like.
And just to build confidence, mike flynn was a general, and steve bannon was in the navy - both officers, still bound to that oath.
Some military are full-on MAGA and will blindly follow illegal orders. Others take their paths seriously. He will fracture the military as surely as he is fracturing the country.
The United States military is not big enough to enforce martial law across the entire country, especially if he wants to start a bunch of wars with our neighbors as well.
choles1968 is right. Fux entertainment channel has been playing 24/7 for 20 years or more in military bases. Exclusively. There will be more maga than not. And the definition of an 'unlawful order' will be so broad as to be useless.
Do you live on a military base? Fox is not the only channel that plays. While I do agree that there will be maga, I think it’s more split than you may realize. As for the definition of an “unlawful order”—all it will take is 1 to stand up and refuse an order that’s unlawful. Many will follow suit.
Civil War might really be in the cards then. Because a lot but not all is where we are right now as a country. I think that the military would likely be divided.
Trump does not have full support from military leaders at this point. But I wouldn't put him past a "Saturday Night Massacre" of military leaders to achieve his goals.
EVEN IF 100% of the military, including all high-ranking leaders were MAGA (I highly doubt) and Posse Comitatus is ignored, there's way more of us than them and more guns than people. They could kill some sure, but... not all. I don't see a path where they would use advanced weaponry on citizens.
As an Army vet, if I were in now I would never turn my weapon on a U.S. citizen. Even one I disagreed with. That goes against everything we swore to uphold. I'd rather go AWOL.
I have to believe there's a clandestine group of true heroes working around the clock behind closed doors on how to stop this coup. I can't see our LE branch just blindly following Trump and Musk. I get by on the belief that there's something in the works. I have to believe this.
I could be mightily wrong, but with many military leaders already wary of tRump for several years, I don’t see in them a willingness to give those orders.
well.... there will be violence... there will be terror from domestic and foreign individuals who benefit from total disorganization ... maybe even civil uprising... democracy is weak... now it has been dismantled by a rogue administration.
I am so scared. Before Jan 6, I thought talk like this this was hype. Now I have a knot in my stomach. Are we really heading for a dictatorship with no guardrails other than violence which will be defeated by our own military? Is it really that bad?
But breaking the economy they want to seize with strikes and spending freezes breaks them without violence.
The 'normies' - the people that only get their news from Fox, or even from networks, don't realize how bad things are. But if there are massive job losses, empty shelves...then they will.
You need the people that aren't paying attention to realize how bad things are, and unfortunately the only peaceful way there is economic hardship. Protests get spotty media coverage. Telling them gets rejected because it's not 'from the news'. But when the leopards eat *their* face, they wake up.
Wage economic and psychic warfare. I am cutting out the non-necessities, going back to reading more books and shopping locally when possible. Growing things at home, and spending more free time with free shit.
The Shining City on a Hill
American Exceptionalism
Separation of Church and State
Rule Of Law
2nd Amendment
The Bill of Rights
Civil Rights Act
The Vaunted Constitution
Women Rights
Civilian Control of Military
Peaceful Transfer of Power
No, the entire culture and set up of society and political system of your country is why you’re here.
I really feel for you, but stop pretending you’re not a part of this.
You, all of you, need to fix this and then make some serious changes.
I don't think Trump has as much support as the rigged opinion polls are giving him. It will be much more of a problem for him than he realizes. Also Musk and his tech bros stole the election - when it comes out - and it will - the people are going to be pissed.
Agree. Hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but if brazen Musk/Trump illegally shut down the people's departments and copies the people's data in daylight, what's to keep them from stealing the election using voter suppression & inaccurate counts. Musk, Trump, Putin want to rule the world.
I wish reporters would weave comments about the election in with their questions daily. Not even “did you cheat” type stuff. Just run-of-the-mill mentions so he starts talking about it. He will come right out & confess within short order.
People don’t care too much about the truth anymore if you haven’t noticed. Even solid proof of Musk tampering with the election would be a blip on our news chyrons
I totally agree! Look at the stakes. The Tangerine Tyrant was running to stay out of prison and his billionaire sidekick saw a chance to loot our Treasury. So far they're getting away with it. The courts look like our best shot at moderation.
I truly believe that Musk rigged it and that he continues to rig X to show maga support is far greater than it really is. If we end up in civil war, the maga will cower. If medicaid and social security is stopped, they will revolt along side of us to burn the WH and congress down to ashes
I am trying to find a better/accurate resource for polling -if you have any could you share. I don't want them to say what I want - I just want to see how they picked their pool
Acceptance that the life they had is over. They need to grieve and move on. American myth of greatness is dead. Time to fight to rebuild a better democracy.
I think too many are still be pacified by empty Democrat Party promises. They keep being told someone is going to save the day. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. I think people are getting to the depression stage of grief. acceptance is coming.
Russia admitted to helping, thousands of votes were suppressed by being contested, Musk is buddies with the voting machine CEO. It was rigged in so many ways.
It's mind-numbing to think that anyone would exert sooo much time & energy to rigging & faking EVERYTHING. No wonder he lives in "projection world." He thinks EVERYBODY is as slimey & unscrupulous as he is. We're talking DECADES. Ugh. Make it stop!!
I would love to believe that cause it’s easier to think it’s fake support than to believe half of our country is ok with this.
But the reality is I work with all MAGA from a variety of states. They exist and there’s a lot of them. And the very worst part? You can’t reason with them.
They want us to believe he ‘won’ with a mandate. Same thing as 2016. That election was rigged in his favor and so was 2024. They were counting on Democrats to concede and ensure the peaceful transfer of power Biden didn’t receive. They underestimate the will of the American people.
I would bet a lot of people won’t want to admit they were wrong or will stay willfully ignorant of the realities so they don’t have to face what their vote meant.
Until the Democrats figure out a way to counter the Fox News brainwashing, I just don’t see many people who voted GOP switching sides.
I hope you are right. It is astonishing to me that he could have an approval rating over 50%. Meanwhile, Doge and Musk not so much. Speaks volumes to how stupid people are. Doge and musk exist bc of Trump.
If people are showing credible signs of revolt, Trump will start an overseas war and use this as an excuse to crush dissent here. It is part of the dictators playbook.
I’ve long thought Musk stole the election for Trump. Vance bringing up Romania annulling their election after Russian interference, validated my suspicions.
Musk helped the campaign do the math and focused on key regions and demographics. There is no definitive proof of any cheating. Research the voting process and companies. Do you think VP Harris would have conceded had she had doubts?
Being pissed isn’t enough WE HAVE BEEN PISSED since 2016 — but most Magats could be shit on and still defend this insanity- why? Cause 1 they’re ignorant and 2 Racist and they can’t count to 3 cause they’re DUMB
Question is, will SCOTUS hold up the words of the longest-serving Chief Justice (34 years), and the man who established the Supreme Court as an equal branch of government?
Yeah you're all fucked. Keep talking about it though as if it will change for the better if you make a mockery of it. I'm sure they're worried about people whining online. As a Canadian, watching you all just bend over, is quite something. Actions speak louder than words
Thank you. You are the heroes I am hoping for. I knew there had to be some that still honored their oath they took. May God protect you in your honor to our constitution. We will be along side you in this battle. 💙
Hi, sorry to interrupt. I'm clueless about firearms, but want to change that. It that a decent weapon for a smaller woman? Clueless, but looking into training.
Everyone you ask will have their own opinion about what is "best"
What is actually best is the firearm that is most comfortable for you. If you aren't comfortable using it to practice you aren't comfortable using it in need.
Everyone has different size hands or different needs, etc
I am taking a practical approach. Prepare yourself for a possible zombie apocalypse, and you'll be ready for anything, from a tornado to a revolution. Have a stash of food, shelter, fire, medical, self defence.
Try fuckin with a 60 year old woman. I taught middle and high school, 34 years. Started in East NY in the late 80s. I am afraid of nothing and no one. I retired two years ago and now I can’t even have peace. Oh well, war it is. Full throttle and fuck it.
Time for live fast, die young leave a good looking corpse are long gone. It’s tear some shit up, slide into home plate all tore up. Retirement has sucked.
You have to. At least they’ll know their history. Had to medically retire at 60. Rough patch, better now. I don’t condone Luigi, but I understand it. Tryin to take care of my own bidness, and not in the mood for these Fuko’s to think they’re gona run game. Too much family/ personal history not to.
Nazis are like mold or fungi spores, they can easily sprout back from lawless greedy power seeking narcissists. It’s only through a constant vigilance as Germany practices through education and laws. The gall of Vance lecturing Germany after only meeting w/the Nazi party 2 wks before their election.
I know, right? When we go somewhere and our veterans discount comes up on our account, everybody looks at my handsome, Canadian, 6'3 husband as the veteran. It's only 130 lbs of me... but I'm a dead shot and really, REALLY pissed off.
Thank you. You are the heroes I am hoping for. I knew there had to be some that still honored their oath they took. May God protect you in your honor to our constitution. We will be along side you in this battle. 💙
I wish all took their oath serious forever. I think some have forgotten it and pledged to the orange menace I hope they turn on him and realize he is not for the good of the country. 💙.
That deserves a follow.
Eventually we're going to have to have meetings in basements with blacked out windows.
Park the car blocks away and let's get to planning.
We didn’t ask for a fight, they did. We wanted joy and real progress. Let them underestimate us. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to violence but we need to prepare for it. We’d be absolute fools not to. I personally like my freedom.
You'd want to have a plan. They are not playing with us, nor should we play with them . Our lives are at stake here, and I take their actions as a threat. Tricks are for kids!.
Oh really. So to make a plan, we have to have darkened basements and park blocks away? Sounds dodgy as hell, oath keeper type of nuttery. It's a nope from me.
Planning things that require darkened basements and can't be advertised on social media.
No dictator leaves willingly. Are you going to condemn your progeny to the whims of Billionaires and fascists?
The mechanisms can and will be taken away by a lawless president.
What's your plan? Voting?
Remember midterms and vote. In the meantime peacefully protest and let your representatives know how you feel. Protest. Stand up. Get the word out. Peace ☮️
I love this stereotype. Someone in my neighborhood (big truck, bigger flags) mocked my hair and "hippy-chick" wardrobe. Wish I captured his face the day I told him I had trouble carrying my .380 under what I wore that day, but the 9mm was more comfortable.
I love it when the enemy underestimates us, and mocks the stereotypes that they have in their heads.
Infantry Veteran here (11 Bravo), with twenty plus years experience in teaching self defense (with Black Belts in two different arts, and a Brown Belt in a third...)~
Let this falsehood continue unchallenged. It's one of our best weapons. One look at X and you'll see these folks have an idea of who we are that is dangerously incorrect (dangerous to them). But keep it a secret. Let them continue to think we're afraid of firearms and don't own any.
Always. They will never not think, let's have some sane gun laws to keep our kids safer translates to nobody left of center has ever fired a gun, let alone own one.
We need meaningful organization we would be much more effective as a unit vs as scattered individuals. We need to start organzing like they did during the Vietnam war. Back then we had groups like the Weathermen. We won't accomplish much on our own. How do we avoid prison for the moment n group up?
People have already died. The plane crash victims have died. Internationally, the sick and starving dependent on USAID are dying. The death toll of this war has already started, but it has only affected the innocent so far. I will gladly throw myself in harms way for their sake.
That’s how revolutions are won. With bravery like that. I’m not being complimentary. It’s true. Turnip and his gang are the weakest sort of people: bullies. You must punch them in the fucking Dave as hard as you can. They will back down. Because they are weak at heart. And you are strong.
I think the thinking here is, we are better than them. So we continue to exist on this “being above them” mentality, while they continue to destroy the country. We can be above them while actively dragging their arses to prison when they violate laws blatantly. Patriots need to ignore illegal orders
Correction - those aren’t American men. Those are fascists converted and molded to do his will. REAL American men are still trying to address this before there’s bloodshed. That’s exactly what they want. To set the narrative, institute martial law, and bring in all the excuses to strip it all away.
Thanks for such an informative article. We must resist every day tRumps attempt to undo our country, our constitution, our way of life!!!
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The violence has started. What they are doing to civil servants and to the most vulnerable Americans is violence. They will not march down the boulevards, they will put DOJ staff in a room and threaten them. This is war. This is violence.
Direct violence is more immediately serious of course!, but jeopardizing the wellbeing of vulnerable people leads to morbidity and mortality. Firing government workers part of the system of checks and balances will harm many Americans in short time. Those actions have consequences, sometimes deadly
Correct. Some violence is physical. But what Trump/Musk/Vance are beginning with is psychological, emotional, soul destroying, demoralizing violence. Job loss, career destruction, personal upheaval is also violence.
Violence is violence. It’s physical by definition. There’s plenty of other words in the English language to describe the horrors they are committing right now. Definitions matter.
I wonder when the oligarchs finally figure out this kind of mayhem results in destroying their own markets? Killing the golden goose literally, because jobless people don’t buy TV, subscription, or even eggs.
It’s irrelevant to them. They’ll be sunning their magnificent six packs in tropical climes and reading their wonderful financial statements. Meanwhile America sinks into 3rd world status and China ascends.
The 2nd Amendment was intended to protect the nation from invasion; preventing tyranny was supposed to happen at the ballot box by electing people who would represent our values, with governance split between three branches of government acting as a check and balance on each other.
Oops.
They also have no clue what city fighting would look like. Oh and we also have a lot of drones, I mean just about every household around here has at least on drone. They can be modified rather easily.
i was unaware of that in that case, PINO will probably pardon him anyway. calling attention to the corruption in the insurance and pharma industry is still something that really needed to happen. it is a shame that someone had to die to call attention to the thousands of deaths that happen everyday,
Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court, yet he is on the $20 bill. I’m not saying I support it, I’m just saying that our country has a lot of scars that were never healed. We need to handle Trump by removing him from the spotlight. Kamala, Biden, Newsom, Walz and others need to make more noise.
it's hard to make noise when the legacy media is being controlled. the first revolt needs to be from journalists and reporters and major news agencies. we can be informed as fuck on Bluesky, but that won't help if no one else is getting the message.
This situation has gone beyond rhetoric and soundbites; it's not just gaslighting. It's happening right before everyone's eyes, yet you still refuse to believe it's real.
California still loves you! We still love everybody! We understand our racist old people are acting horribly, and we are sorry, they’re really awful to us too 😢
Yes unfortunately they do. Justifies the continued march towards fascism by justifying the deployment of armed troops to squash "rebellious leftist" or "riots".
They'll continue to rob the people of their rights, time, money, and souls then cry when finally punched for doing so.
I'm inclined to agree with you. If it doesn't then people are just accepting fascism or really White Nationalism. Does anyone know where Russ Vought gets his money from?
There is a novel written in the 1930s which foretold exactly this and is called “It can’t happen here”. It was a written about the rise of a dictator in America, but was a warning about the rise of Hitler. Please read the book ASAP and ask everyone else to read it.
You're not the only one, not by far (ignore anyone moralizing or shaming you about this). This is the most common response. We need to begin getting comfortable with the idea that our options have diminished and we may need to protect our country with all tools at our disposal.
Yeah, I don't believe most people foresaw or expected it coming to violence. After J6, yes, that changed everything. And I say that as someone who was maced at a Vietnam War protest. Friends I was with got it full blast. I just got the edge of it.I do ignore the scolders.
Really… how could you not? We’ve been screwing the lower and middle class for a couple generations and the south has been dumbing down the population with strong intent… it’s obvious, especially in hindsight. Run away capitalism = fascism. This is a CLASS WAR.
It may be a class war (it is), but have you noticed that even liberals have bought into the idea that it’s actually a generational war of Gen (fill in blank) vs. Boomers? They are laying the groundwork for young people to accept the idea of needing to kill old people for their own economic interest.
Absolutely this. Started with Reagan funnelling $ from the poor to the rich and the hollowing out of the middle class. Social mobility almost completely disappearing. The hate on MAGA's faces is directed at the elites who have abandoned them for generations. This is their revenge. Equity=peace.
Media of all kinds are corrupted and play a part but are not the only contributor. Media is misdirection, attention away from greed/ power/ money/ oligarchy the profits on us from birth until death. We are wage slaves. Down versus up 100%.
I see fear, anxiety, and anger in the comments section of many posts and plenty of left versus right. I urge you not to give up, to turn against each other. Division & infighting are their tool to keep us from turning on them. They fear us uniting... as they should. No brother versus brother.
Information control had been quite meticulous before they needed to start spending so much time and effort flooding the Internet with bullshit as well.
Yeah but I'm pretty sure this is all gonna lead towards Europe, canada, and China forming a pretty big alliance. That's a big enough force to go up against the US.
this is an in for China, the US is shooting themselves in the foot.
China can take advantage of free trade and their silk road 2.0 plan by opening up deals with Canada and Mexico. US wants to be isolationist and China will become the dominant power as a result of that.
You are correct. China is about to become very powerful. Trump's alienating America, people are going to look for cheaper trade deals, and better quality. America is heading towards a massive technological and political regression, which will make it's goods and products of lesser quality.
China will feel the same squeeze the rest of the world will feel as trump and elon complete the US transition into complete tyrannical fascism. One thing China excels at is adapting and innovating, I wouldn't write them off from joining forces with an enemy's enemy.
I think it's more likely that Europe has to ally with countries like India, Pakistan, etc. as Russia and China attempt to carve up Europe and Asia together. The US will be left alone in the Western hemisphere.
Not saying it *will* got that way, but I can see a scenario where Trump sells arms to all sides of that conflict to turn military equipment into tax cuts and other benefits for billionaires, and turns a blind eye to everything on the other side of the globe.
We must do what we can to prevent violence. Study and teach nonviolent political and social changes in the past. Study and teach nonviolent strategies and techniques for direct action.
There are many organizations to help https://forusa.org/
Hopefully not, but as I’ve said in previous posts leading up to this second Trump term - get over your distaste for firearms if you are anti gun. At the very least, take a class and familiarize yourself with properly handling a weapon.
There is no evidence that the chaos and destruction Trump and Musk are creating is SAVING ANYTHING!
The provide NO DETAILS just general statements, NO EVIDENCE, NO REFERRALS of fraud to DOJ...
And Musk doesn't know how OUR gov works. How did he pass citizenship exam? $$$ ?
At the very least, there'll probably be a situation similar to N. Ireland's "The Troubles". Worst case: all out civil war, and more than that, in order to accomplish either side's goals, it would have to be a literal genocidal war, because the MAGATS will never get the AmeriKKKa they demand 1/
unless they eradicate us and all trace of us completely, and conversely, we will never be able to live our lives in peace and freedom, unmolested, unless we do the same to them. An ugly, repulsive conclusion, but given human nature and history, as well as the rhetoric of the last 10 years or so, 2/
P.S. Andrew DullFart made it clear 13 years ago that was their ultimate endgame (and when he said "war", he didn't mean "meme war", or "war of ideas"; he meant the real fucking thing). Time we start believing his mouldering ass.
Bird Flu first , then they come for Cows. But prior to that they’re coming for LAND ! These billionaires & Oligarchs are buying up all large tracts of Land & farms in distress to control food supply.
Whoever owns the food & water supply OWNS & controls the World.
We’re a satellite campus as of Jan 20. So YES the plan was to use greedy idiots as your foot soldiers and destroy America without ever firing a shot yourself. Greatest and most successful psy op of all time. The ruins of this country will be visited in the future just like the ruins of Rome are.
It looks like it may be through the banking/finance industry. If they can mess with people's finances enough that a lot of people default on their mortgages, they can take over your property.
They're undoing all the safeguards that went into place after the 2008 crash
Not that I'm aware of. We don't have a true "martial law" here.
We have the insurrection act. I think Congress was trying to update it after J6 but I don't know what was accomplished. Likely nothing, knowing them.
That is very disturbing thanks for sharing such a sad time here in this country I was really hoping for forward together instead of nazis in the White House
Have you listened to Rachel Maddow's podcast "Ultra"? The USA nazis had a paramilitary group called the Silver Shirts, akin to the Nazi Brown Shirts & Mussolini's Black Shirts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America
It was grim. Season 2 really helped me understand the McCarthy debacle much better. At least we had principled people on both sides of the aisle then that stood up against the worst of these episodes. Now - not so much, it seems. I suspect Rachel doesn't like much being right so much of the time. 😔
Remember midterms and vote. In the meantime peacefully protest and let your representatives know how you feel. Protest. Stand up. Get the word out. Peace ☮️
Bai Lan. That’s how disaffected Chinese young people are resisting some CCP policies and directives. Dysfunction is more effective than disobedience. Go real slow and ‘let it rot’. Experts build in inefficiencies. Their replacements will usually be incompetent. Schindler made useless munitions.
If crooked accountants can hide assets of crooked clients from legitimate authorities, then the reverse is also possible. If the US freezes private funds to restrain wealthy non-citizens, other countries could do the same. Start small. Small fry Trumpers. A yacht here. A villa there. Then factories!
That’s just how we all feel right now. That dreaded angst. It’s probably how the administration wants you to feel. Gives them power, thinks you’re giving up.
I’m for standing and speaking out. The Democratic process is more than them.
Oh, yes there will. The people won’t accept otherwise. There are a lot of people real pissed now. They’ll stand up and speak and make sure the Democratic process continues. Hundreds of thousands of people… millions even. Just be patient.
Given what’s happened in just three weeks , I’d be hugely surprised if there are any midterm elections . This is a literal dictatorship in the making. It will not be stopped through peaceful means.
There will be midterms because the people will make it so. America is strong. But the process to counter the administration may not be easy, as they try to throw in their fascist cards.
Yes, there will be midterms. But, I'll bet Republicans expand their majorities...what do you think the richest person in the world is capable of doing with all the data he's collecting? Russia still has elections. I hope I'm wrong, but don't see how this ends without a revolution.
Have you seen how fast the US has turned fascist and has begun to threaten all its former allies?
Your votes in the midterms will not count.
Peaceful protest might have mattered before but the democrats and others have been sitting on their hands for so long that they handed the US over on a…
The campaign did the math and focused on key regions and demographics. There is no definitive proof of any cheating. None. Research the voting process and companies. Do you think VP Harris would have conceded had she had doubts?
I’m real as rain, good buddy. I even have a crappy YouTube channel no one ever goes to and everything. But if you think I’m a bot, well, that’s pretty sweet. 😂 (or did my master make me text this…?)
The problem is that Trump is now taking Medicaid away from those Jan 6 rioters. That’s why Steve Bannon is pissed off.
Maybe that’s why Musk continues to use his child as his human Shiel
That may not turn out the way he thought it would.
He didn’t pay their legal bills, they’ve lost jobs, homes, etc and many of them are now learning that DOGE cuts, etc are going to hurt them directly - and their leader is cheering Musk on
Angering the pro-violence members of his base is not wise.
For libs/dems BLM business fires are fine, but a protest that got out of control is Satanic Evil. And I am supposed to feel sorry for cops now? The American left is as crazy as the right. Fact.
George, it’s no secret that people have to hit the streets in very large numbers CBS this morning says 60% of the country does not agree with major elements of the Maga policy. Violence will come if Trump is able to mobilize police or troops to stop the protest.
While I cannot say for sure…I do not believe the career military brass will listen to “Heh-Heh” (Hegseth). I don’t believe they respect him or his judgement. Their silence has been deafening and it would be naive to think that this hasn’t come up in discussions among them.
I hope you are right and fear you are hanging on to hope long gone. Special Ops should have prevented him from running again by imprisoning him and all the Supreme Court members who gave him absolute immunity. And it didn’t happen. The USA is over. And what they have is even more corrupt. Slavery.
Sentiment many of us share, Judge Merchan dropped the ball. Had he sentenced him like any other felon, then we’d have a real need to enforce it. As it is, he basically slapped his wrist. He could’ve forced SCOTUS to rule. Don’t depend on courts & military…be prepared & decide what you’ll do.
I keep hoping when some of the more reasonable maga people realize what's going to happen to them, their families, and everyone they know-from job loss to food insecurity to losing social services- that we'll have some converts: fellow Marchers and reunited families
Canadian here. We're feeling a bit like we're Poland in 1939. I'm sure if there's anything we can do to stop the Cheeto's attack on humanity (and his threats of Canadian annexation), we'd be there in a heartbeat.
If Elon was so smart, he would know that children are not bullet proof armour. And a proper Luigi doesn't give a single fuck about the life of his child, while the Palestinians are being slaughtered. Thank you, bluesky for letting me use the actual words.
Exactly. I think they believe they are infallible. Do they think the career FBI, CIA, and military intelligence are incapable of …let’s just say, being loyal to the Constitution. Tyrants & authoritarians have left this world in peace…
Trump may think he has a monopoly on force (via the military) and coercion (via the DoJ), but there's growing evidence of miscalculation. Nearly 40% of the Army is Black or Hispanic, and this is a group that was already insulted by references to DEI by Trump and Hegseth.
Military professionals take an oath to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I would like to see a serious discussion of what it would take for Trump and Musk to be declared as Enemies of the Constitution.
But the oath also says they will follow the orders of POTUS.
One of the reasons Hitler was able, with only 37% of the vote, to take over Germany was that the equivalent party to the Democrats didn't fight them off from the beginning.
1/2 With Hitler it was an even worse story. To get the "Enabling Act" passed (making Hitler a dictator LEGALLY), Nazis needed a supermajority in Reichstag. Necessary votes were delivered to the Nazis by an explicitly Catholic party (Zenter) led by a priest. Zenter Party had some 20% of seats.
2/2 The argument was "if we are nice to Hitler now, he will not harm us later". Which OF COURSE was childish - year later the Zenter Party was dissolved by the Nazis and many Catholic priests imprisoned in Buchenwald or Dachau.
"Anticipatory obedience" does not protect you.
It's shocking how much of this isn't taught in US schools. I'm a GenXer and I never learned about this stuff in school, just "Hitler bad" but still here we are. My Grandfather (Polish heritage codebreaker in the Pacific) must be spinning in his grave at what this country has become.
1/3 US is a very complex society, hard to generalize. Note that probably ever since Declaration of Independence the "what US officially is" was decided by some 5-10% voters who tilt the 50/50 split.
It is not like the Sodom, where not even 10 righteous could have been found.
Hope is not lost.
Honey, I have been wired to the fight vice flight response from childhood. I am 69. Being a veteran & retired fed, I will always stand to protect the constitution I swore to.
Here's their strategy: deprive hundreds of thousands of people ways of supporting themselves, whether it's their jobs or government assistance, to the point where their desperation leads them to crime. The job of affluent people, like you, is to make sure that everyone is housed, fed, and healthy.
Not out of the goodness of your heart, not even because it is your moral imperative, but because wealth normally comes at the sacrifice of its most destitute people. It is a debt that must be paid for the price of freedom and democracy.
You can see this in the comments under crime stories, have seen for years - the contempt for anyone so much as living in a "crime-ridden Democrat city" but also a complete lack of interest in doing a goddamn thing to help anyone out.
This has been in motion for far longer, but Trump and tech billionaires accelerated it. What we’re seeing now is a more sophisticated continuation of Jan 6. They want Trump as America’s CEO, while they act as the board, pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Its darker - This has been in motion for far longer, but Trump and tech billionaires accelerated it. What we’re seeing now is a more sophisticated continuation of Jan 6. They want Trump as America’s CEO, while they act as the board, pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Greenland and Canada are set to be "climate winners" (I'm quoting the FT) as the warming climate makes frozen land liveable and resources reachable. Trump's greed for those territories shows climate scepticism is for his base only. The plutocrats are insulating the 1% against coming climate hazards.
Cant forget McConell's vote to acquit Trump on charges of inciting the Jan 6 insurection. A decision that allowed a proven threat to democracy to remain elegible for office. History will view this as a catastrophic failure & defining turning point in American history.
We know Trump got you Elon to do it for him. You have no protection. You have not realized why the Republican Controlled House/Senate has not gotten involved to support your decisions, Mid-Term Elections. You are the pasty. Once the dirty work is done the Felon will not save you just your money
If they have a cultural successor to the Marquis de Lafayette that wouldn't mind teaching us a thing or two...that'd be good. French speaking fella saves America again, I could see it.
It only takes a simple majority to impeach. Look at the representative margin in the house. But still, there's not a change in hell it'll move beyond that because yes, too many are owned.
So does that mean we the people can overthrow the government and remove him from office? We’d be saving our country therefore not violating any laws according to him. He is a weak man abusing power that does not belong to him. Even little “X” knows he’s not the president and needs to go away.
the entire problem right now is that half the country thinks everything is great, and they have solicited people from that demographic to come and defend them. there is no unified opposition because they are too divided. who are liberals willing to take a bullet for?
We’re taught our whole lives to abide by the law or suffer the consequences. My country has shown recently and for decades that if you have money you’re above the law. What a great example to set. If we did half the things he’s done they would lock us up and throw away the key. I am so disgusted.
Le problème des États-Unis c'est d'avoir cru au rêve Américain, pour accéder à ce rêve ils n'ont pas hésité à craché sur les plus faibles... résultats les milliardaires pullulent et ne s'acquitte pas de leur impôts ! Le bide c'est qu'il ont cru qu'un milliardaire megallo voulait faire leur bien
Bribery is an abrogation of the social contract. It negates the will of the voters. Publicly funded elections are much more cost effective for our country than having it looted through bribery.
The problem is the state has military grade weapons, tanks, and drones. The revolution isn’t violent it’s financially crushing capitalism by having huge numbers of people Not participating, no work no buy Interfere with profit they will dump Trump. Consumers have Power. We Need to use it!
The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Trump needs to be arrested and charged with treason. And Musk.
I wonder what would happen if millions of American people , were to March into Washington and yank him out of the White House.. The military would have a big decision to Make... Either stand with the people or stand with the fascist...
1) The founders were treasonous bastards. The became “patriots” only after the successful overthrow if a tyrannical government. Had they failed, they would have been regarded by history as villains.
This is a right wing/libertarian myth; claiming that the second amendment is ensuring citizens the right to overthrow a “tyrannical government”. When in reality it was meant to create state militias instead of a standing army.
It's always a calculation between risk of possible consequences and being successful. Just from the point of possible consequences the stakes are pretty high.
Yeah quoting Hitler isn’t exactly the best thing he could do to calm down the people. Remember. This is noise to remove focus from what he does behind the scenes. He’s taking action to make sure he, same as Hitler did in his 53 day takeover, get supreme power in the end. Resist.
His plans is to copy hitlers actions. That’s what he’s done so far. He uses noice to distract you from seeing what’s happening under your nose. And what you are describing there is the exact kind of noise he loves. To get rid of him he has to be removed. He’s already positioned himself well.
Absolutely agree he’s copying, absolutely agree he’s distracting, absolutely agree he’s positioned himself well. The rest I am leaving to someone else, I am a chronic illness patient and don’t have the ability.
Exactly. In many ways he’s worse than Hitler. In others he solve it in different ways. Trump dumps the unwanted in countries like Panama, no care given where they come from. Afghanistan, Asia, etc. they are all dumped. Just dropped off with what they have on them.
It’s sliding into fascism without a shot fired so far. Why would that change?
A popular revolt can’t defeat a state as strong as the US. The ultimate bulwark is the military. They could inform him and Vance it’s time to retire and assume control until a special presidential election is called.
Actually, the succession would kick in, and we'd get the speaker of the House. If the House can squeak Democratic before then, we'll all breathe easier.
So, if it's going to come down to 'the people vs. the tyrannical state' or 'states vs. the federal government', it's not a foregone conclusion that the latter wins.
But that depends on which side the military chooses.
True but republicans are slow learners. We need a certain amount of them to turn on Trump. Dems, independents, and sane republicans can’t do everything when Congress and SCOTUS have abdicated their power.
Just care about different things and they try to see a silver lining where there is none. It’s up to us to explain and reach and break it down for them in the way they understand. Don’t give up.
Before or after trump and musk do irreparable damage? Before or after they start wars with other countries? Do you really want to live under authoritarian law for years, hoping things will change in time? Really?
At one point or another we have to recon with the fact that American democracy has been toppled by a dictator who has used loopholes in the constitution to do it. And there’s nothing legally left that can be done except resistance. Problem is now, who’s leading said resistance?
I am having difficulty understanding why politicians refuse to put treasonous traitors in jail. It’s beyond obvious that trumputin and musk endeavor to destroy the country and yet no one is doing anything! Wtf!
When they declare martial law George you do know they are going to come for you right? Not being facetious either sorry but I 100% believe that’s where we are headed & he has the courts that will let it happen. We are fucked big time.
The left doesn't even need to start anything. The violence will 100% come from the far-right the first time they don't get exactly what they want along with sufficient gratitude and praise.
As a disabled person, material conditions changed drastically on 1/20. We’re always the canary in the coal mine, give it a few weeks, everyone will be feeling it soon enough.
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Do NOT piss off old people! We got nothing to lose!
All voices matters, let's make a roar
It’s corporate farming who’ll squeal like a stuck pig.
Never showed
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My suggestion…exercise your second Amendment right and understand what is at stake.
How you gonna come?
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Military in the streets is a fever dream of theirs.
Throw in something approaching 100,000 private militia members in this country and... Match, meet fuse.
- President Trump issued an ultimatum on Monday to Hamas, saying that if all remaining Israeli hostages are not released from Gaza by noon on Saturday, then "all hell is going to break loose." -
In addition we are in the fucking right!!!! We are not in a cult and there is one way to treat Fascists.
If conflict breaks out we have a pretty good idea of who his most ardent supporters are.
Incorrectly attributed to Thomas Jefferson & Ruth Bader Ginsburg - but it’s still a great quote.
More importantly -
We have a helluva lotta injustice that demands a helluva lotta resistance!!!
America, do you understand that this is tRump’s “dog whistle” to his private army of pardoned violent insurrectionists to do anything they damn please to anyone who opposes the dictator as long as it’s to “save his Country”? Get it???
It’s a Class War…not a Culture War.
The very reason my wife eventually wants to leave the US.
But where to go? It appears the tangerine is setting the world on fire by brownnosing Putin.
Criminality, it's about state power... Not Justice, not truth.
Or else, United health's business model would have never been allowed in the first place.
Good to know.
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election?r=ezg75&utm_medium=ios&triedredirect=true
The America you knew is gone. Time to build a better nation or let the fascists win
This is totally metaphoric and foreboding. & I hoped the US would never face the horrors of facism.. but here we are.
He/him are the problem.
Why I find it weird that he already dismantled everything having to do with gun laws and gun violence 🫠 He's expecting and pushing for people to commit violence against each other. When most people know where the violence would be aimed
He's gonna get something else he's not expecting.
https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/us-capitol-hill-siege-the-simpsons-predictions-fans-draw-comparisons/
He just wants any form o chaos that would distract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHXJRqq-qo
More$$$ for the oligarchs
https://demwriter.substack.com/p/regrettable-news?r=3ozbwu
2 -- Once MAGA realizes it's muti-day, they'll buy to fill the gap
3 -- They have enough money to sit it out since it will topple the country but not them
We need to freeze out red state businesses from blue state marketplaces.
At that point there will be a free for all. Trumps thugs vs everyone else.
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
That one made a lot of people incredulous. What a crazy ruling.
🔫 🪖🚁
In NYC, just 20%(1in5) of the 7.9M population own a gun. And the notorious MAGA NYPD will not be coming to save them either.
That is my question.
Protests, sure. Doing it on Monday.
Town Halls, sure, went to one today.
But it isn't enough.
Oops... Never mind. My bad. They are no longer with us.
Their treason was resolved the old fashioned way.
History is repeating itself, and apparently no one learned their lesson from 2016, or back in the day either.
Trump's power is in having the Maga army ready to threaten and attack. When that fades, because they're getting hurt, he's vulnerable.
The UK has retained a functional government.
Plus the 89m people who didn't bother to vote.
The turnout for Americans under 30 was 42%.
The turnout for over 65 was 74%.
All that will matter.
Under 30s skew left. 58% of them didn't show up.
65+ skew right. Only 24% of them didn't show up.
There is already evidence of Magas now decrying their choice.. Wait until millions of them lose Medicaid, veteran's benefits, job protections.
Meanwhile, ICE is sending out 1/
He has his militia in place.
And a lot of those khaki-pants militias are beta males trying to act tough, IMHO.
Look at how Lindsey Graham fell in after a few people yelled at him in an airport.
Look at Cassidy folding when there was a threat of being primaried.
Susan Collins. 🤮
GOP is a bunch of cowards.
And will local police if they’re way outnumbered?
Don't forget the 89m people who didn't vote.
They enabled this evil and they should pay. The fascist five would have to go.
I didn’t begin to deeply distrust the Court until it became the Roberts Court.
Citizens United was a farce.
Money is not speech. Period.
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
Use to that’s not my answer anymore. 💔😢
The top military people have spent their careers both adhering to this principle and fighting against dictatorships.
It's too soon for this to happen right now, but it's a strong possibility when things reach a tipping point.
Last week it was reported that US Army recruitment has reached its highest level in 15 years
Anyone enlisting right now is asking for a death sentence and/or serious mental brainwashing.
I would not allow my son or daughter to serve right now. THEY WILL BE USED AS PAWNS to interrogate, intimidate and incarcerate
They seem to be following the nazi playbook right now, so this is the next thing I'm expecting to see
And who will they blame I wonder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree?wprov=sfla1
Belief in the 'I' and not the 'We'. Don't know if you'll see this post, but take heart,
Matt. 26:38 - Then says he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry you here, and watch with me.
40 And he comes to the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done.
Which is one source of why it is best to Stay Woke...
Now it’ll have to be the big 🎪 tent, just sayin!
2/19-2/22
Gaylord Hotel
Make some noise
2/17
Suit up
Show up
1-4
https://www.villagedemocrats.org/president_s_day_protest
@50501movement.bsky.social
And Lafayette Square was cleared with tear gas and troops in uniform so believe what you like.
And just to build confidence, mike flynn was a general, and steve bannon was in the navy - both officers, still bound to that oath.
Get the fuck out of the way.
They got the guns
Blues have been catching up, especially those in the gay community. They are taking the threat seriously.
Stop being this guy:
Logic and reason never stopped #trump.
Trump and Musk both also PISSED THE FUCK outta the Military with some of these orders.
They're not going to follow him. Maybe some of his paramilitary goons, yes. But the Military at large ain't gonna follow him.
Trump can break any law he feels like, because he is 'saving the country'.
Trump fires the head of the US Office of Government Ethics.
The 'normies' - the people that only get their news from Fox, or even from networks, don't realize how bad things are. But if there are massive job losses, empty shelves...then they will.
American Exceptionalism
Separation of Church and State
Rule Of Law
2nd Amendment
The Bill of Rights
Civil Rights Act
The Vaunted Constitution
Women Rights
Civilian Control of Military
Peaceful Transfer of Power
And many more …
Lasted 249 years and …
3 Weeks!
I really feel for you, but stop pretending you’re not a part of this.
You, all of you, need to fix this and then make some serious changes.
This CANNOT be real!
But it is.
Should have been investigated last November, imo.
🗽
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/social-self-defense
But the reality is I work with all MAGA from a variety of states. They exist and there’s a lot of them. And the very worst part? You can’t reason with them.
Until the Democrats figure out a way to counter the Fox News brainwashing, I just don’t see many people who voted GOP switching sides.
Freedom of speech,
Not a threat or harassment just my opinion.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
🙄🤣
I got lots of spoons. Ready or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/democrats4good.bsky.social/post/3liaxhnewf627
What is actually best is the firearm that is most comfortable for you. If you aren't comfortable using it to practice you aren't comfortable using it in need.
Everyone has different size hands or different needs, etc
I just love being underestimated... it makes the look of fear & panic in their face, that much sweeter.
But I can still see. I can still shoot. And I can still do it very, very accurately.
The Left - "Nope."
Locked and loaded, HOOAH!
Eventually we're going to have to have meetings in basements with blacked out windows.
Park the car blocks away and let's get to planning.
Don't tell me violence. We have many mechanisms before it would come to something like that.
We are not the nutter oath keepers or proud boys.
No dictator leaves willingly. Are you going to condemn your progeny to the whims of Billionaires and fascists?
The mechanisms can and will be taken away by a lawless president.
What's your plan? Voting?
Bring your dogs too! Mothers are not taking away all that we worked for!!
Thermite
Baseball bats
Take your pick 🤷🏻♀️
Infantry Veteran here (11 Bravo), with twenty plus years experience in teaching self defense (with Black Belts in two different arts, and a Brown Belt in a third...)~
I don't wish him ill. But he is not a war time leader.
He will push ever harder for a civil war.
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
My heart goes out to you guys.
#FightAgainstAutocracy
#FightBackAgainstTRump
Killings, kidnappings, rape, all carried out by "law enforcement" officials.
Demoralization
Destabilization
Normalization
Read Yuri Bezmenov’s
Four stages of ideological Subversion
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
Oops.
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
Wtf.
When we fight, we fold!
They'll continue to rob the people of their rights, time, money, and souls then cry when finally punched for doing so.
And religious leaders haven't been corrupted, this is their nature. It is who they are.
What is being done in the name of a "mandate" in no credible sense has a ma date.
Stop it, US citizens, if you dare.
…….
170,000,000 🇺🇸 Men
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms in Case of
Tyrannical Government
1,000’s Kids Shot by 🇺🇸 Men
Thoughts and Prayers
Tyrannical Gvmt Shoots Back
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Fascism Arrives in 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Men: Crickets
Superbowl & Daytona
🇺🇸 Men: Watching like they are on Heroin
China can take advantage of free trade and their silk road 2.0 plan by opening up deals with Canada and Mexico. US wants to be isolationist and China will become the dominant power as a result of that.
There are many organizations to help https://forusa.org/
However on this fallen earth, non-gratuitous violence is possible. See Romans 13.
The provide NO DETAILS just general statements, NO EVIDENCE, NO REFERRALS of fraud to DOJ...
And Musk doesn't know how OUR gov works. How did he pass citizenship exam? $$$ ?
Perhaps if you define "save your country" as getting rid of Trump, then ....
Trump is not capable of orchestrating this.
Why else shutter a Government unless the plan is to purposely cause civil unrest.
Shut it down. Unleash civil war. Wait till it’s over then reboot Government…
These people WANT DEATH
of Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
Whoever owns the food & water supply OWNS & controls the World.
BUY LAND NOW
you would think people obsessed with rome would know how they turned out
They're undoing all the safeguards that went into place after the 2008 crash
We have the insurrection act. I think Congress was trying to update it after J6 but I don't know what was accomplished. Likely nothing, knowing them.
The people find a way…
Let’s share this…
I’m for standing and speaking out. The Democratic process is more than them.
Watch my crummy YouTube channel.
That’ll distract you.
The US is weak. They were defeated by fascism almost without a single shot fired.
Your votes in the midterms will not count.
Peaceful protest might have mattered before but the democrats and others have been sitting on their hands for so long that they handed the US over on a…
Read.
Research.
Stand up.
Communicate.
Protest.
‘Mind games,’ like the John Lennon song.
Maybe that’s why Musk continues to use his child as his human Shiel
He didn’t pay their legal bills, they’ve lost jobs, homes, etc and many of them are now learning that DOGE cuts, etc are going to hurt them directly - and their leader is cheering Musk on
Angering the pro-violence members of his base is not wise.
And it works because most of them got lawfared.
For libs/dems BLM business fires are fine, but a protest that got out of control is Satanic Evil. And I am supposed to feel sorry for cops now? The American left is as crazy as the right. Fact.
Change my mind.
Kushner met secretly to plan Beach Resorts while Uncle Bibi grazed Gaza.
Hamas leaders wait for their cut in air-conditioned luxury in Qatar while Palestinian children paid the price.
But the oath also says they will follow the orders of POTUS.
“Campaigns of peaceful civil resistance that involve a threshold of 3.5 percent of the population of a country consistently topple autocratic regimes.
"Anticipatory obedience" does not protect you.
It is not like the Sodom, where not even 10 righteous could have been found.
Hope is not lost.
There’s a reason he posted it on 2/15.
@mcuban.bsky.social
https://www.instagram.com/azagmayes/p/DGByU8_zjm2/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE?si=utlnbOMu8B1wZuVU
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=5RjY_xgHqZrVtMxe
The best in the world and they couldn’t see this coming?
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=5RjY_xgHqZrVtMxe
"We do not let the law stand in the way of necessity.” - Stalin
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation, and law must serve the revolution." - Lenin
ABA issues a statement.
"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law." - ABA
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/02/aba-supports-the-rule-of-law/
You really need to pay attention
It only takes a simple majority to impeach. Look at the representative margin in the house. But still, there's not a change in hell it'll move beyond that because yes, too many are owned.
Now, it's about our self-defense.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-if-it-saves-country-its-not-illegal-2025-02-16/
Problem is that when you attempt to do and fail they will accuse you of breaking a dozen laws.
Catch-22.
I’m mean yeah we probably are bound by it, but if he and others fail to uphold the constitution according to the oath they took…
I feel we have a right to put down a tyrannical regime, 2nd amendment and all.
The buck stops with the people.
Another flaw in the system which needs to be remediated if the USA ever gets the chance to do corrections again.
Trump needs to be arrested and charged with treason. And Musk.
1) The founders were treasonous bastards. The became “patriots” only after the successful overthrow if a tyrannical government. Had they failed, they would have been regarded by history as villains.
They love democracy so we can blame 'the people' and forget the perpetrators, it's all pretty beautifully orchestrated, as the people can't do jack.
But since these militias are a direct threat to democracy they must be removed.
A popular revolt can’t defeat a state as strong as the US. The ultimate bulwark is the military. They could inform him and Vance it’s time to retire and assume control until a special presidential election is called.
So, if it's going to come down to 'the people vs. the tyrannical state' or 'states vs. the federal government', it's not a foregone conclusion that the latter wins.
But that depends on which side the military chooses.
Domestic terrorism and lawlessness seem to be deemed bigger or at least more imminent threats.
Stop him before it is to late
Will we fight back when they decide to kill us?
Han shot first.
Don't be a coward.
I’d rather take the fight in the street.
The alternative (not looking @gtconway.bsky.social ) would just be so sad. Sad... some people are saying.