Launching an armed assault on the WH or Mar a Lago is frowned upon but that’s probably what it will require eventually. Any number of federal agencies could do this with legal cover, though, if they remember their oath is to the Constitution and not to the felon.
Ok, which streets? My own semi-rural neighborhood? My state capitol? Nearest big city? Tesla dealership? Or DC? Tomorrow? Or Saturday? For how long? Do I commit to being the lone voice on a soapbox, or do I wait until I have 11 mil committed?
My point isn't that we shouldn't be in the streets. I think we should. But we need to be out there together the same day/s, for a set duration of time, with a specific goal in order to have a measurable effect. Occupy Wall Street had more organization than we do now and they fizzled out quick.
April 5, the nearest one. I can assure you something is organized at your state capital, the nearest big city, and maybe a small town near you. Check Mobilize, the Indivisibles and 50501. There are at least 4 other groups involved.
We know now, what they eventually figured out then. We fight now, not later. And there are thousands of things we can do involving disobeying. Civil disobedience is the weapon. The time to start is now.
I don't know what we can do? Maybe that's why so many German citizens went along?
We could all decend on Washington before the barricades and barbed wire go up, and camp there, but we need money and food.
What else can we do?
When your Army, institutions turn against you, what can you do?
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We should be marching on DC and demanding accountability from tfg, musk, the Republicans and the dems. There should be hundreds of thousands of Americans joining that march.
Honest non-trolling question: what should that be? We call our representatives, we show up at rallies, and none of it can stop a megalomaniac with a legislative branch of sycophants. What can we actually do to make actual change?
Growing a Victory vegetable garden with flowers!
getting a Ham radio for when they shut down the News,
which they already are.
If you eat eggs, find a neighbor who can keep chickens.
Form a local co op for the various things we can do to support on another.
I do keep calling my reps too!
Because we’re geographically spread out so it doesn’t look the same. There are mass protests but they’re spread out (and getting bigger.) You’re also not seeing them in our media. Threads is suppressing everything too. Forget about X…
no sorry, in Berlin are 3,5 Mio people and Brandenburg around it has barely any cities above 40k, so veeeery spread out.
E.g. NY alone has >8 mio people and 20mio in the whole region!
Serbia has only 6,6 mio people in the whole(!) country. Nevertheless 350 000+ marched in Beograd.
There have been enormous protests in NY, DC and LA. Did you see them? One of them shut down the LA freeway. There’s 500 planned on April 5th. I’m saying people are protesting closer to their homes in greater numbers. Add those up and it’s more.
I think that's entirely the wrong take, people need anger. The problem has been people having too much hope and just assuming things will work out fine if they don't do anything, like "Well, Bernie and AOC will take care of it" akin to NPC villagers doing nothing while the RPG hero fights for them.
The main thing is that people aren't lacking in hope, and aren't full of resignation instead, but rather constantly asking or expecting things to work as they expect them to,and constantly finding that they don't.
whereas e.g. the student protests in Serbia create hope and hence grew unbelievably strong throughout the population and are winning others, "normal people", over.
I feel like the Internet has created a bystander effect writ-large. People go online and think "all these other people will surely handle it, they don't need me".
I'm not American, but I've found myself falling into this trap myself. You have to consciously push yourself to break out of it.
Pressure the solidly Dem states to secede, give up the poison of unity that has been held as a cudgel over you since the days of founding.
The priority of unity is the poison baked into the constitution from day one.
Russia and China are cancers on the planet for the same reason.
I get quite a few books from the "free" section at my library and inter-library loan is my pal. That's going away if they destroy our post office. Book rate mail is basically free, as a government service, transportation of printed media.
To counter Trump's MAGAt klan now, more Americans should be doing what Americans should've done in 1933. It's America's legacy of unfettered evils that cultivated the base that props him up. Even the Nazis were inspired, informed, by America's evil.
Yeah, the answer is keeping my nose down and trying not to get noticed, keeping my ears perked for signs of danger, and trying not to kms to escape the anxiety.
The difference between me and my ancestors is I have the internet and know exactly what’s going on whether the papers publish it or not
I understand that.
but that is not the answer to what you had hoped from Germans, is it? and, yeah, I would flee in such a situation if I had the chance.
Nah I think awareness of their surroundings is basically what I would want. Fewer dead people.
Fighting for an armed guerrilla force from the woods isn’t something I’ll volunteer to do while I still have comfortable stability and the ability to leave.
No survival isnt but complicity is. And doing nothing until 1933 was that. I would have wanted my ancestors to do something. but most of them were complicit or nazis.
armed guerilla is noting one can demand right, but that's also rather 1939 onwards.
Now, there is still >
Then I think you misunderstood. I already did the protests. My wife and I even got arrested together during one in 2020. We have already gone through the activism meat grinder and our mental health deteriorated because of it.
a chance to protest for privileged people? at least there was 4 weeks ago. Now it might be already quite dangeous and everyone needs to decide for themselves. But it is oing to get worse.
obviously those who can should consider if flight is an option.
Over the years, I’ve heard many times people ask why did Germans support Hitler? Well America now it’s our turn. Will our generations ask why did you let this happen?
I went shopping and bought nothing made in the US. I've been working on some information materials. I've been trying to spread info both face to face and online.
So only three things - which is still better than nothing.
I love your advice Ms. Junker, but do you have any specific recommendations? All I can think about is fleeing, demonstrating and speaking out until I do, but are there better alternatives I'm overlooking?
Cleanse your socials. Pay for VPN. New email addie, none of Trump’s donors. Research your state’s laws re: unseating elected reps before the end of their terms. Research your elected rep’s big donors, (legally) harass donors. Research election laws in your state, be ready for when they’re suspended.
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Never ever ever ever post a photo of you, your surroundings, or make mention of anyone you know. New socials with not-your-name using new email addie. And LEARN HOW TO TURN OFF LOCATIONS AND TRACKERS ON YOUR PHONES ffs. Biggest mystery of my life is why ppl leave meta data on their pix.
Yes. Play dirty. Install our own people into running for office as a magat. Like the Dem traitors Sinema, Fetterman, Gabbard etc,. We need to vote them all out, if we ever get these chances again. But really? I'm probably outta here.
The excercise of fascist power isn't disrupted by wishful thinking. Unless there is an organized counter power then America has no way back right now. The time to refuse to comply with the new regime in everyway you can manage, is here, now. There is no alternative. No one is coming to save you.
History is your teacher. Pay attention. There are loads of books and films that cover the descent into fascism in previous decades. They tell me that power is what you must fight. This is not a war of words now. Outrage is just the beginning for you.
Um, can Trump actually overrule D.C. gun control laws like that? This is a really important one, because the law he's trying to rewrite by Executive Order is the one that keeps protestors safe when protesting in D.C., or just working in the Government.
Omg I've been yelling that long before the 2024 election. You are so right, you know, and Germany can help the citizens in the USA who are resisting all this authoritarianism. Many of us have not learned the lessons your country suffered thur how Hitler took power just like Trump with propaganda.
We need the cooperation of local law enforcement to suspend certain enforcement actions. We need prominent legal authorities to declare, to certify, the administration is acting illegally, unconstitutionally, & to consider its opposition as resurrection of constitution, not insurrection against it.
What we need is 5 million patriots to take over DC, peacefully. We would shut down govt & demand resignation or expulsion of the Constitutionally disqualified resident (of White House), who is ineligible by virtue of majorities of 2 houses of Congress having voted he incited insurrection.
That is a very good point. I shall incorporate it into my warnings to strangers going about their business in Arlington VA.
If you’re now wondering, yes, I’m “that guy!”
you don't meet them head on, you go after supply chain, infrastructure, industry, soft targets. One hundred thousand quiet sabateurs might be able to bring the whole country to a standstill. It's an insurgency read up on how they work.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
What if ten million Americans marched to the White House and stormed the place in a non violent fashion and physically Remove The President and his team of incompetent idiots from the White House and replace them with a political neutral ?
Second, they have weapons and guns and military helicopters, and would have already evacuated the people you’re trying to remove and would then proceed to mow down the protestors in a bloodbath. 1/
2/ And then they’d all brag about it after and show clips on truth social. And all the deplorable Nazis who voted for them would laugh about “owning the libs.” This is the seriously effed up world we live in.
3/ But it wouldn’t end there. Trump would use this to declare martial law and go after every blue state with the military, attacking its own people. They’ve fired all the people who wouldn’t swear an oath to Trump (Putin), and not the Constitution they took an oath to defend. So the entire
4/ military is now run by his sycophants who will break every law if he tells them to.
We need our allies to declare war on this administration. We need NATO to acknowledge this admin as criminals and to aid us in removing them from power.
5/ It’s that simple. Our own leaders (Biden admin) KNEW this was coming and DID NOTHING TO STOP IT.
They’ve all disappeared into the ether, probably transferred their money and all flew somewhere overseas. We were betrayed and bamboozled by the biggest PONZI scheme in history.
I am not on X anymore for months and months. But fascist Musk will not let me delete the account. they just shut me out, I have no access to the account anymore to delete it.
Okay Andrea. So annoying. We are boycotting, calling, sharing information, being disruptive when articulately called, giving money and voting. What more are you doing???? Tired of the comparison. Can you organize folks to quit their jobs, sabotage machinery and throw shit through windows???
According to Erich Kästner they'd be late in doing so:
"The events from 1933 to 1945 should have been fought in 1928. Later it was too late. One must not wait until the fight for freedom is called treason. One must not wait until the snow ball has turned into an avalanche. ...
I'd say hope that it's more 1928 than 1933 in that analogy.
The US and Germany in the late 20s and early 30s differ in a lot of ways, I think the takeaway here should be that there will be a point at which it will be nearly impossible to do anything if this development isn't stopped.
Americans can't fight back because they don't know how. They are too scared, privileged and unwilling to make the sacrifices it would take. This will go where Germany went in 1939 and the only way back is a revolution, and/or the military following their oath and remove all threats domestic.
This. And don’t think it’s fear or cowardice. People don’t know how to use a weapon, build a bomb, don’t know tactical warfare. That’s why we paid our taxes for a military and law enforcement trained for these situations. 1/
2/ They’re WAITING for someone to strike ineffectively so they can declare martial law and start enslaving U.S. Citizens instead of just kidnapping and trafficking immigrants as they are now. You can’t win this war without leadership and allies. We need hackers exposing their crimes, and finding
3/ the trillions they are siphoning from our treasury to fund this SLAVE TRADE and other illegal actions. We need a coordinated response to this domestic attack on our people. It was easy to “vote” Hitler in, it took a world war and a nuclear bomb to get him out.
Fascism was removed from Germany and Japan from external forces, it was not removed internally by the population. Italy did it internally with external help beforehand from Allied forces, credit to the citizenry at that time. MUCH more difficult to get rid of fascists inside out.
You're right. I don't know how to go hand to hand with the largest military in the world. Tell me. Offer suggestions. What are these sacrifices I need to make? I'm not especially scared, but I don't want to die for nothing.
One thing. Tell me one thing you think I should be doing that I'm not.
I don’t think our military will fight us-hopefully they would put their guns down just like they did South Korea. It didn’t happen there until Martial Law was declared. And The military may be scared or ticked off-because of Signal
We are doing that. It's why they have asked the NY rep to not take the position in the UN & are trying to block dems from town halls. We are also contacting, protesting, organizing, suing, & boycotting. We just aren't rioting yet because we don't want to give them a reason to declare martial law.
NO, you are right they are not. There are sadistic psychopaths in charge and they want to terrorize just like Putin does but the longer they are in charge the worse it will get, that is a certainty.
Did you see this? They want everyone terrorized https://bsky.app/profile/kaylan.bsky.social/post/3llhay4t6wc2s
She also said that she is doing those things. Republicans don't care about saving their jobs because historically registered Republicans vote party lines no matter what. Plus Republicans will strip officials of power and election campaign funds anyway if they go against the party too much.
What can I do? That's the question you're asking really and if you're asking that you're probably doing what you can. Organise: get people involved locally and nationally in campaigns. Educate others, too many people are drifting into fascism because they don't know any better\don't know what to do.
And that is my point. I vote. I protest. I harass--ahem--contact my representatives. I boycott a whole long list of businesses and locations in an effort to starve the right wing of revenue.
I believe the Tesla boycotts and rallies are really getting to Musk who in turn gets to Trump. Other econmomic boycotts are also helping...Target is down, Costco is up. More of all of this is needed. Go to rallies/town halls in your area, esp if they are Rs and if Dems are sitting in. Voices!
See if your neighboring R districts are having town halls. If they aren't, organize one for them and invite their R. When they decline, invite your Ds instead. Make sure your neighbors get informed.
This will be a long, probably ugly fight with Trump and his ilk. But we are not helpless there are many ways to fight back. There are mayoral, city council elections in 2025 either run or support the democratic candidates.
I don’t own a firearm, didn’t serve in the military, and I do not have any formal training in hand-to-hand combat. Am I suppose to troll them until they jump off a bridge?
So I ask again, what dafuq you want people like me to do?
Be prepared to join the mass protests. If they happen.
The problem is that the only org with the ability to organize mass protests is the Democratic party, and well... AOC is trying. But the civil rights era leaders are dead or too old. She is alone and relearning how to do it.
Bernie has her back and Walz is out there as well. I’ve been watching and paying attention. The counter to oligarchs is happening, it’s just most Americans aren’t aware of if with all the media censoring that’s taking place.
This is the most censored and/or spun our news has been in my lifetime!
Who has authority to do something? Fear of retaliation is real. All avenues to do anything impactful are being shut down. Rallies, posting on social media, complaining, calling our congress people etc.. seem to fall flat. I am feeling hopeless.
From the WW2 Era Germans I spoke to in the 80's when I worked in former East Germany after the wall fell: they did f**k all too - as they were threatened with losing jobs, families threatened and zero opposition in government to help them
I think there is s similar proportion of people who like what's happening now as in 1933, so, without actual guns, wishful thinking is just wishful thinking.
I don't mean to sound pessimistic but when Democrats vote people in that just help perpetually give the Orange guy exactly what he wants, WHAT SHOULD WE DO. We voted people into power to counter this movement and so many have just rolled over and helped it. What can we do?
I think as long as most of them do not see a problem, they won't do anything. The majority of them see nothing going on that concerns them.
There was an interesting "human rights violations" point I brought up, and was argued on, mostly because it wasn't happening to them.
It has to hurt ALL of them
I know SO many people who work all day 7-6:30 or 6, come home to do dinner, deal with kids/sports/pets, hang with friends, prep for work, go to bed. They don't listen to radio or tv. Or minimum news. They have NO idea what happens on a daily basis.
Absolutely. But also we're beholden to work so we can have health insurance that people (not all) feel they don't do enough for their kids. Then college is SO expensive you have to bulk up your kids "resume" to get into a "good" college and get scholarships. Kids start obsessively playing sports in
The common good hasn’t been considered for a long time. It’s not socialism as I find is often mistaken for « let’s give people opportunity. » Most will take care of the rest. USA is a large country. Canada’s pop. is the size of Calif. Nothing is perfect but I’ll take Canada any day.
2nd grade. Play at freakishly high levels so they can be "scouted." These sports events costs many thousands and there are camps, trainers, and ever better equipment.
Parents may feel ground into dust and want to not think for a night. We're a VERY f-ed country with priorities based on capitalism.
I keep hearing that people are so concerned about prices that the real nightmare is slipping past them. I don't know how we would be reacting if this was happening in Canada, but most people I know are fired up!!!!
I'm really unsure that '33 German citizens are the example we need to follow.
If they had done ANYTHING to deter a certain leader, they now would be in an enormous financial & political leadership role to rival that of the USA or UK.
But when you got a leader now who openly admires a dictator, well
The Confederacy & Segregation came before Fascism & Nazism. In fact, Nazis rejected incorporating a few Jim Crow laws because they thought it was harsh.
Quick, teach me how to shoot a gun and build a bomb. All the tax money I paid for the people who know how to do these things to PROTECT ME against domestic terrorists have either signed on to be terrorists themselves, or are twiddling their thumbs while our democracy and rights burn to the ground.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
He’s also threatening to impose larger tariffs on the EU if they help Canada. Also called the EU a country… until allies arm themselves with non American weapons not much they can do. But we won’t forget
With as desperately poor and powerless as German citizens and everyone else was in 1933 I don't know what they could have done. Remember it was the Great Depression. What could they have done?
They didn’t have to buy what he was selling. They could’ve voted differently. Those women who were making eyes at him like he was Elvis didn’t have to do that.
I know that my husband would never because he wouldn't risk losing his job. I, on the other hand I have zero to lose so I will be doing whatever I can.
YES! Especially corporations & business leaders & big law firms! They have resources that citizens don’t! If only they’d get together & act as a group, becuz there is strength in numbers! The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him, so why aren’t they⁉️🤨
It's definitely act more and talk less about it which social media makes too easy. My wish would be that people refused to take Nazi orders from the start and same here. I also wish that an opposition leader had risen up and that more people spoke out about how evil the new regime's goals were/are.
1. Attend protests, town halls
2. Fund opposition in races even outside your area
3. Weekly emails, calls to local reps to complain
4. Personal finance and spending away from corp collaborators
5. Amplification free press to friends and acquaintences
6. Vote for change, not incumbent R's AND D's.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Protest, call your representatives, write letters to the editor, join Indivisible or a similar group advocating for democracy, donate to orgs fighting for democracy. You can research how to fight.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Great sentiment...but we are surveilled to the point of not even being able to leave our homes without leaving a footprint, much less a lasting impression
Because at this point? Anarchy seems to be the only answer to this country's situation. Not peaceful protests.
Just my opinion on what I think needs to be done.
Some people have bigger social networks, and have people that will step in to help if they're incarcerated. Not everyone is in the same position to be taken away from someone else at home that may need care. I've been a warm body at protests, but to do what someone really needs to do? No
it's a bit difficult when you were expecting a pot that was slowly building up temperature and slowly stripping away freedoms. Instead it's a deep fat fryer that everyone is getting chucked in all at once.
Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your thing, Logiclust or whatever you call yourself. Resistance to a fascist regime is not done by shooting some random CEO. It's civil resistence employing legitimate civil action in a democracy to target the criminal administration.
Once I'm done with following through on my commitments and familial responsibilities, I'm all in. Prison or worse is no threat to me. Just make sure that a tsunami of millions take up the mantle after me to stamp out any fascists that remain.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
If i did what i WISH more German citizens did back in the 1930s, i'd be like the German citizens in the 1930s that didn't make it to the history books because they were "disappeared." We have no evidence that they existed.
It's not what I 'wish.' It's what needs to get done.
We are fucking trying! The previous administration had their chance to prevent Trump from running for office and they fucked it up! Instead of criticizing Americans who DID NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP encourage those who did to stop supporting Trump! That won’t happen through animosity!
Merrick Garland could have done so much more to make sure trump couldn't run again. Then when it became obvious that Garland wasn't really doing anything, Biden should have replaced him.
How is that possible? In NC Allison Riggs won for state Supreme Court but the Republican Griffin keeps taking the results to court. Two recounts have declared Allison the winner.
I agree. He was so weak. I blame them for letting him ever run again. We are supposed to have protections against someone like him running and they weren't acted on quickly.
You are right but now it seems like everyone knows the government is FUBAR except for the politicians. There has got to be checks on a president with majority support in congress.
Well, look what happened when Colorado tried, instant response from SCOTUS to clear the way. When people in power (Biden for one) are too invested in norms things like Garland totally forking up get brushed aside. Can’t interfere with DOJ!!! 🤬
I disagree. Mitch McConnel could have ended his second term abilities by impeaching him, not leaving it to the DOJ to do it. (I'm Canadian, BTW, and I watch American news, b/c what happens with you guys affects us as well.)
I agree about McConnell, but I'm talking about what the Biden administration should have done as well. Many people are complicit in keeping trump around.
Germany was in Great Depression, one of the worst hit. None of Hitler's early actions ruined "regular" peoples 401k's, Social Security, ability to travel, economy could only go up.
Musk/Trump started with economic success and voter ignorance driven by complacency.
#OnlyDown & people will rise up.
Yes, some. However, the protests and court hearings in this case (about 7 other cases today) Trump lost and was ordered he cannot do this. This court case at Tufts was one of those won …
A swing state recount is among the things that are least likely to happen in the next few years. I think we may have to leave that one to the historians, and direct our energy toward more immediate threats.
You can do a recount. You can even prove that she won! Then what? You think Assolini and President Musk are going to pack up their marbles and go home?
Shocking stuff, the very first page has a giant 'Donate' button and the website has an obnoxious name that tells you what you want to hear. Wonder what the intention here is.
Okay but there's like one singular Thing™ people wish someone would have done (although to be fair several tried) and so far only one person has taken the shot in our situation
The time to act was Jan 20 2021 at 12:01p. Trump’s 2nd impeachment was ongoing on that date. The new POTUS could have expedited new DoJ to investigate criminal charges in case the Senate voted to acquit (thanks, Mitch).
GOP would have howled Dems were “weaponizing” DoJ.
Biden was fair to a fault.
Biden’s DOJ and AG Merrick Garland were unfair to the US people by allowing DJT to delay again and again.
A few of us were planning on what to do just after election day 2024. A lot of people still don’t think there’s any urgency now. Lotta inertia due to not calling a coup, a coup, on any day.
Hmmm. Nope. DJT got a plurality of the popular vote where 90 million voters sat out. A plurality is when a candidate doesn’t get more than 50% of the vote, btw. Harris 48.2%, DJT’s 49.8%.
It is misogynists, racist bigots who did this to our country. Where do you fall on the bigot-o-meter?
Harris and Walz did a phenomenal job in the 100-day sprint they did. But, 90 million people stayed home/didn’t vote. Blame them, once we are done overcoming the ongoing coup.
Focus on ending this coup, then get mad at nonvoting portions of the population.
Reading Timothy Snyder on tyranny offer some great insights how we can learn from Europeans and others. His 20 lessons are simple to understand and very impactful.
Welcome 🙏🏼 please share. I think the information he’s providing will help save lives and help lead us out of this mess. Maybe if we join hands across the globe, perhaps tyranny will no longer get traction.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Absolutely! April 5 mass demonstrations planned across the country. Find one near you and register to attend. Bring friends and family members. We need to show their authoritarians we won’t go down without a fight.
The majority of Americans didn’t vote for these bullies in the service of billionaires. We are the majority, and even if we weren’t, we don’t need to wait until everyone agrees w/ us to act for justice and the rule of law.
48% Harris voters + 3% voters for “Other” = >49% of tRump voters. Factor in those whose votes were repressed (a considerable number due 2 decades of well-funded efforts by Republicans) & those too exhausted by poverty 2 vote means most Americans didn’t vote for these bullies backed by billionaires.
Nit: In 2024, Trump got just under 50% of the popular vote. But your underlying point is correct: When people stayed home ("because reasons"), they voted for Trump.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is better than either of the alternatives, so hold your nose and JFDI.
no, I respectfully disagree. when you have a candidate like Trump, and you decide not to vote, that is even worse, than voting directly for him. also, the women (all, not only the “natural ones” with uterus) who voted for him, sadly, they are incomprehensible.
I've always voted & think everyone should, but ppl have reasons for not voting in our current system & I'm not prepared to judge them. Some reasons ppl don't vote- they haven't seen enuf promises kept by Dems; they R literally trying 2 put food on the table & keep the heat on; tuned out in despair.
If you believe every non voter was going to be a Democratic vote, but every R voter has voted then not voting is complacency. If you understand Republicans avoid voting too, you may consider he won by thinner margins than he otherwise would have.
# try to think about what they wanted/thought they’d get , how they may have changed their minds, or how you might help them move beyond a simplistic view of “gee-he’ll be good for the economy”. We are a split nation. We need to move as many as we can to see how bad this is.
#3 We don’t really want to become self righteous and punitive ( though the thought feels good…) . It doesn’t help us or them. We got as punished as the Trump voters. We got as punished as those who didn’t vote. We need to fight for democracy, for justice. We need as many as we can get in this fight.
rogue elements are now running the country, with no one to stop them.
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment
It’s less than the people who DON’T want it. Don’t underestimate what they would do but don’t overestimate their numbers or resolve in the face of opposition. See how fast these fuckers back down when confronted by resistance. Their armor is weak at the neck and under the arms.
WE THE PEOPLE
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Where were those hundreds of millions on November 5, 2024?
Never underestimate the apathy of Americans. The country could descend into chaos and those hundreds of millions have proved they do not care enough to get off the couch.
The same thing happened in Germany. Most people simply did not care.
I agree with you, but look at how much Trump's apparatus has accomplished; not sure what the opposition is doing RN other than those with means and access are filing lawsuits and having mild ruling success that isn't yet translating to change on the ground. Everyone is scared of inevitable violence.
There was a poll today that had an average of about 45%, who believe trump is doing a good job. So, if it is anywhere near accurate, the population is slowly moving away from the regime, but I have to wonder about that 45%. Like… bro!
Yeah… I think so too. Like really, THAT many? Come ON. Ugh. But even if it’s a slow awakening, I’ll be glad for it. I’m hopeful that number will continue to decline as long as we don’t just stand by and keep holding fascists to account however we can. Don’t let them rest for a minute! ✊
Germans can attest that this is not in their own self-interest: The "party" lasted 12 years, many Germans lost their lives or homes, there was hunger and crisis after the end of the 3rd Reich, and we are still living with the guilt of having systematically murdered millions of fellow humans.
Like 30% of people who are gun enthusiasts are bc they can't wait to kill someone. They open carry & have one on the hip at all times. When they talk 2nd Amendment rights it's in the context of Rittenhouse.
Those folks are the ones who think they are ushering some new age of white Xtian perfection.
Liberals carry too, but many did work that required a background check and being armed. When you give up the job you don't normally lose your license to carry or any clearance, You lose the need to know. I don't want to shoot anything, but will if forced. I carry blanks 2 at camp to scare off moose.
2A 🔫 hoarders & aggro Tate-bros want Trump OK 4 violence. Tech oligarchs want supra-constitutional powers 4 feudal states. Old guard capitalism billionaires want to concentrate 💵. MAGA 💁♀️ want "protect me!" & racists/xenos want white Bald Eagle 🇺🇸 "purity". Christians want to usher in THE END TIMES.
Yeah he collected all the woe-is-me populations and somehow they have stuck for a bit. To shut down a majority that hope to allow people to be what people want to be. Maybe there’s a way to stir their pot and disrupt them from the unholy alliance
They exist in every country. Even here in Germany. 20% of the population votes for idiots who propagate such things. But only a fraction of them would risk their own lives for our country. These crazy people are an absolute minority. Everywhere in the world. They're just loud!
You got it right. They will not risk their own lives or even their own comfort for the country or their version of it. They claimed Biden stole election. Supposedly they believe it. But yet not a protest we can remember after Jan 6th. 4 years of nothing. After just 9 wks or even 5 wks we're fed up.
Here they are loud and with guns. That won’t stop us, but many are ignorant, placated with by accumulation of things, distracted by social media and think politics don’t affect them… if they think at all.
Exactly ! Your predecessors/ relatives once fought for our freedoms against what is happening now and the destruction it caused . If you believe in our constitution, your own freedom and your rights - wake up! Many Germans thought they were safe too - they were not, most lost everything,most died.
I noticed the other day that when the Nazis took over Germany, it's population was 80 mil or less? I wonder how our larger population w its knowledge of the prior Nazi takeover, might be less susceptible to such a thing? Plus having instant access to info & ability to mobilize at the drop of a hat
Except in our dystopian era Musk 🐀 has access to ALL OUR PRIVATE INFO!
What if he decides to close our access to our finances, no ATM, no Credit cards, everything online controlled by his minions— then travel restrictions… Yes, it’s POSSIBLE!
You’re 100% right. This is where people who feel helpless go to moan and try to feel better because they don’t know what to do. It doesn’t help and it just makes you suicidal.
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Actually, I take that back. Some threw lynching parties and mailed postcards of Black bodies hanging from trees.
America isn’t new to this, it’s true to this.
All reps and senators should be hammering the same message on all media 24/7.
Sadly, all the civil right s era organizers are dead or too old.
slava ukraini.
We could all decend on Washington before the barricades and barbed wire go up, and camp there, but we need money and food.
What else can we do?
When your Army, institutions turn against you, what can you do?
🚬😎
getting a Ham radio for when they shut down the News,
which they already are.
If you eat eggs, find a neighbor who can keep chickens.
Form a local co op for the various things we can do to support on another.
I do keep calling my reps too!
E.g. NY alone has >8 mio people and 20mio in the whole region!
Serbia has only 6,6 mio people in the whole(!) country. Nevertheless 350 000+ marched in Beograd.
New York is 783km^2.
Or the whole state of New Jersey e.g. has 22 591 km^2 and 9mio people.
And the US had its big marches in the past. Think of e.g. the march on Washington with 250 000+ people even in the 1960s!
or The Women's
I'm not American, but I've found myself falling into this trap myself. You have to consciously push yourself to break out of it.
The priority of unity is the poison baked into the constitution from day one.
Russia and China are cancers on the planet for the same reason.
https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Knew-Everyday-Germany/dp/0465085725
The difference between me and my ancestors is I have the internet and know exactly what’s going on whether the papers publish it or not
but that is not the answer to what you had hoped from Germans, is it? and, yeah, I would flee in such a situation if I had the chance.
Fighting for an armed guerrilla force from the woods isn’t something I’ll volunteer to do while I still have comfortable stability and the ability to leave.
Survival is not complicity
armed guerilla is noting one can demand right, but that's also rather 1939 onwards.
Now, there is still >
I don’t have to prove myself to you.
but 2020 is a long time ago. I wonder why there was nothing in January.
obviously those who can should consider if flight is an option.
THIS is what put me in surgery from the beating and on permanent disability from the PTSD and agoraphobia.
Not looking for sympathy, for 10 years I've been trying to warn this country of the danger. @maddow.msnbc.com
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
1. do something to resist every day or
2. Leave the country and support the cause from abroad
I went shopping and bought nothing made in the US. I've been working on some information materials. I've been trying to spread info both face to face and online.
So only three things - which is still better than nothing.
You watched #Gaza children dlaughtered for almost 2 year s and you did nothng
Spare us this fake outrage
Never ever ever ever post a photo of you, your surroundings, or make mention of anyone you know. New socials with not-your-name using new email addie. And LEARN HOW TO TURN OFF LOCATIONS AND TRACKERS ON YOUR PHONES ffs. Biggest mystery of my life is why ppl leave meta data on their pix.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-smithsonian-executive-order?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKo3CKmN9YDUxpH0wyiLIFVUf_Ft5tNeStGOoot14OA/edit?usp=sharing
If you’re now wondering, yes, I’m “that guy!”
the same people swore all the things they would do if they had a time machine and could travel back to Hitler.
Please note in Canada, we also have high firearms ownership. We just don't have the gun fantasy. That's what I'm taking a shot at. The gun fantasy.
I know that
They pretend they didn't know that.
We have to assume that they're quietly readying themselves, for the unimaginable.
That kind of patriotism
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Second, they have weapons and guns and military helicopters, and would have already evacuated the people you’re trying to remove and would then proceed to mow down the protestors in a bloodbath. 1/
We need our allies to declare war on this administration. We need NATO to acknowledge this admin as criminals and to aid us in removing them from power.
They’ve all disappeared into the ether, probably transferred their money and all flew somewhere overseas. We were betrayed and bamboozled by the biggest PONZI scheme in history.
1) Storming, and physically removing would require a certain level of force, which is arguably “violence”.
2) Political neutral? I’m not sure that even exists any more.
I am down for a tourist visit to the Capitol though.
Tried it multiple times.
"The events from 1933 to 1945 should have been fought in 1928. Later it was too late. One must not wait until the fight for freedom is called treason. One must not wait until the snow ball has turned into an avalanche. ...
The US and Germany in the late 20s and early 30s differ in a lot of ways, I think the takeaway here should be that there will be a point at which it will be nearly impossible to do anything if this development isn't stopped.
Is not the most powerful asshole.
Cry harder Pus.
One thing. Tell me one thing you think I should be doing that I'm not.
That's the one. Under ordinary circumstances, a president who attempted to declare martial law during peacetime would be shut down by the courts.
These are not ordinary circumstances.
Did you see this? They want everyone terrorized
https://bsky.app/profile/kaylan.bsky.social/post/3llhay4t6wc2s
Everyone says we should be doing something, but when we ask specifically ‘what?’ nobody has any answers. Protests will not fix this.
We need to organize en masse, economically, materially, and agriculturally. People preoccupied with threats to food and shelter will remain divided.
Tell me what else I'm supposed to do.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
And I'm almost disappointed there are no Rs in my 85% D area. But they know better. 🤣 They wouldn't like it here.
Dafuq else you want me to do? Face off against a Tank with an aluminum baseball bat?
I’m open for suggestions…
-George S. Patton
I don’t own a firearm, didn’t serve in the military, and I do not have any formal training in hand-to-hand combat. Am I suppose to troll them until they jump off a bridge?
So I ask again, what dafuq you want people like me to do?
The problem is that the only org with the ability to organize mass protests is the Democratic party, and well... AOC is trying. But the civil rights era leaders are dead or too old. She is alone and relearning how to do it.
This is the most censored and/or spun our news has been in my lifetime!
and yes, fear I understand. the authority thing I do not.
Democrats need to STEP IT UP - YESTERDAY
I Love America and will not let it go down without me.
Diplomacy still has a chance.
The crazy uncle you blocked on Facebook, the conspiracy nut at work, or the old bigot at church, they aren’t pure evil, and they can change.
There was an interesting "human rights violations" point I brought up, and was argued on, mostly because it wasn't happening to them.
It has to hurt ALL of them
The world wars are glazed over.
None of the people you are speaking to, have any idea WHAT you are actually referring to.
You're going to need to be more specific. With pictures.
Parents may feel ground into dust and want to not think for a night. We're a VERY f-ed country with priorities based on capitalism.
https://bsky.app/profile/henleyparker.bsky.social/post/3ljsltohtuk2g
If they had done ANYTHING to deter a certain leader, they now would be in an enormous financial & political leadership role to rival that of the USA or UK.
But when you got a leader now who openly admires a dictator, well
Hindsight is 20/20
>How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany<
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model?srsltid=AfmBOooiypG5R8sL60rHIxuJL0238VuiVV-6KX3oKRI_wRtklnaXxspZ
Imagine if EVERY ONE of the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2016 had attacked Trump en masse, and drove him out of politics...
Bunch of clowns.
places. 😃
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
If POS Pussy Grabber actually attempts to seize control of Greenland, this American hopes you won't hesitate to employ Article 5.
Psst:
A first strike on Mar-A-Lardo wouldn't go amiss.
(Pass it on....)
shutting down Social Security payments. When they do, the working class will revolt.
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
https://ground.news/article/75-of-us-scientists-who-answered-nature-poll-consider-leaving?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2fyXi_rCkOMCIt09KTHl275NCtGMO29WVpmHI7trrYuTarPN_kiEwWg50_aem_ovkypvInkRwPBjAHRcPHkQ
https://Generalstrikeus.com
We need to build up this møvement with more urgency. Please spread the word.
2. Fund opposition in races even outside your area
3. Weekly emails, calls to local reps to complain
4. Personal finance and spending away from corp collaborators
5. Amplification free press to friends and acquaintences
6. Vote for change, not incumbent R's AND D's.
Don't give up, don't cave in.
Fight Fascism with everything you have.
Freedom, Liberty,
and Democracy will Prevail.
#Fight #Fascism
#Freedom #Liberty #Democracy
Welcome to Xtian Nationalism, American Style.
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Just my opinion on what I think needs to be done.
https://bsky.app/profile/cherfan75.bsky.social/post/3llfgxiveks2k
"whatever you wish more German citizens would have done"
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
If i did what i WISH more German citizens did back in the 1930s, i'd be like the German citizens in the 1930s that didn't make it to the history books because they were "disappeared." We have no evidence that they existed.
It's not what I 'wish.' It's what needs to get done.
Musk/Trump started with economic success and voter ignorance driven by complacency.
#OnlyDown & people will rise up.
Nah, it's just more internet shite.
Let's see your source.
Like Chuck Schumer syndrome.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/tufts-university-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-protest/
They're petitioning Pennsylvania for hand recounts, and suing them if Pennsylvania doesn't let them.
These guys have mathematically proven there was cheating going on!
https://electiontruthalliance.org/
Get active in groups, go to protests, speak up, even when your voice shakes.
GOP would have howled Dems were “weaponizing” DoJ.
Biden was fair to a fault.
A few of us were planning on what to do just after election day 2024. A lot of people still don’t think there’s any urgency now. Lotta inertia due to not calling a coup, a coup, on any day.
AND he told everyone what he was going to do, verbally and written: Project 2025
There's a saying. If you want to hide something put it in a book.
Soooo yeah🍿🍿
It is misogynists, racist bigots who did this to our country. Where do you fall on the bigot-o-meter?
Have a good day!
It was all documented in Project 2025 long before the election.
Once the election happened, the voters and also SCOTUS had given them free rein to enact their fascism.
Harris and Walz did a phenomenal job in the 100-day sprint they did. But, 90 million people stayed home/didn’t vote. Blame them, once we are done overcoming the ongoing coup.
Focus on ending this coup, then get mad at nonvoting portions of the population.
And he just took a job in Toronto, citing the political situation in the U.S.
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Over 500 pages of what is now happening, written over 70 years ago.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is better than either of the alternatives, so hold your nose and JFDI.
Ignoring dead third party votes.
it’s only a matter of time before a colossal failure or a major act of terrorism exposes the incompetence of this so-called government. Whatever happens, it will undoubtedly go down in history as a catastrophic moment
WE DEMAND THE ARRESTS OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ELON MUSK, JD VANCE, PETE HEGSETH, MIKE JOHNSON, PAM BONDI, MARCO RUBIO FOR HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES BY AIDING
RUSSIAN LEADER VLADAMIR PUTIN IN HIS ATTACK UPON UKRAINE
THERE IS NO IMMUNITY FOR TREASON,
Never underestimate the apathy of Americans. The country could descend into chaos and those hundreds of millions have proved they do not care enough to get off the couch.
The same thing happened in Germany. Most people simply did not care.
Inspire, motivate.
Think of how you want it to be and do what you can to make it happen.
If people need motivation to resist, it is because they have privilege.
Those who want to take action can do so April 5.
https://handsoff2025.com/
Democrats alone won't save us.
We the people must show that we will not allow this to happen
We need massive peaceful protests leading to a general strike.
Start here:
Sat. April 5th, every state and dc
https://Handsoff2025.com
Those folks are the ones who think they are ushering some new age of white Xtian perfection.
I don't think so.
One tried to kill Trump. He was too far away.
That doesn't really change what I texted.
What if he decides to close our access to our finances, no ATM, no Credit cards, everything online controlled by his minions— then travel restrictions… Yes, it’s POSSIBLE!