Consider having empty chair town halls if your congress-critter is ducking their responsibility. We did it in my region in 2017. #Resist #Don'tComply https://www.thestranger.com/politics/201...
I've had the thought over the past month that I should apologize to some of the German's I've condemned in my head. Not all of them, of course, but some who just tried to avoid politics and keep their jobs -- I get that more now.
Kinda like the Nazi in "Private Ryan" slipping a knife into the interpreter's vitals while saying, "It's going to be OK; this is only going to hurt a little bit."
I absolutely do. I went out for dinner on Election night with a dear friend, both of us confident that Kamala would win. In retrospect, that dinner feels like the last formal dinner while heading straight for the iceberg.
I was passing out voting democratic ballots that night chatting to another volunteer (passing out apple teacher ballots) saying remember last time (2016) waking up to the horror?! I hope it never happens again.😭😭😭
The first time I read "One the Beach" by Nevil Shute I didn't believe people would just keep doing normal, daily life things while the world ended. I hated it. I've changed my mind.
The world is not ending. Only the USAID funded groups causing MSM propaganda SM censorship and Big Tech memory holing data to create what can only be described as the Totalitarian Technocracy.
It's all over.
Use the trash can...
They were so brave. They embodied Keep Calm and Carry On. They kney it would help calm people as they all went down.
All those who help us through what looks more and more like the end of the great American Experiment. We help each other, knowing so many of us are still sane.
Right there with you. I cry daily—and when the monsoon passes, I get angrier. It’s an endless roller coaster ride, but it’s that righteous outrage that keeps me going.
Follow the 50501 movement. Nothing has made me more hopeful in the last several months than reading through the /r/50501 subreddit and seeing the energy in there. People from other countries are behind us. We need to wake each other up, and march!
Yesterday a MAGA was boasting about “US AID being the tip of the iceberg,” & it dawned on me that these guys thought Titanic was a story about an evil iceberg, not a tragedy about the dangers of hubris & carelessness. We are the Titanic, & we’re shuffling chairs while going down.
I don't want to tamp anyone's ardor, but in practical terms, it was to help calm panicky passengers and to give some comfort to those already dying. There's a similar story about the Four Chaplains who sang hymns on a sinking troop transport during WWII.
Trump now fully controls all 3 branches, military, cia, fbi, nsa and doge will steal everything from everyone. Barron will inherit the throne. No more elections. MAGA killed democracy. We’re all under surveillance. We live in Russia. Boycott everything
Somebody said that the musicians on the Titanic had to keep playing contractually. They were playing out bouncy music in 2/4 time. When the water got up to the knees of the drummer, he said “fuck it! Let’s play it in four”
Funny but today I just decided to listen to my Spotify Playlist It actually made me feel better than I have in weeks Bringing back memories of happier times
Remembering the Sex Pistols during the 70s “God Save the Queen and Anarchy in the UK”. Their lyrics were never so real! We need musicians to bring this nightmare to the forefront! We need more Green Day “American Idiot”.
At this stage, music and art are sustaining my last shred of morale. If we're going down, I'd like to partake in moments of human beauty before we all sink.
The musicians were stuck on a sinking ship with panicked passengers who had no chance of getting on a lifeboat. Rather than add to the chaos, they chose to use their talent to soothe those around them as they all faced death. Is that what you mean?
It did strike me as odd but now I sorta get it, what’s on yalls end of America playlists? Mines a lot of Kurt vile and father John misty. 10/10 artists if yah haven’t heard of them you are in fact missing out!
Facing certain death in minutes, they chose to do what they dreamed all their life to do, One last time. The significance of the song they played is very important. Nearer my God to thee, was sung by many people right before their death. Some famous some not. President William McKinley sang it.
Peace be upon you all, I am now at the top of my destroyed house now, we have no shelter to live in, there are no necessities for life in the area, no drinking, no food, nothing, everything is ruins, I want to help you for me and my family, may God reward you all the best https://gofund.me/06bdaaee
Trump and Putin are going to fail. Europe does not need the US to mine "rare earths" in their own backyard; Valuable metals that somehow the Soviets and oligarchs previously missed? Europe is sitting on $300B of Putin's money that could be used for defense.
First hand experience, live in Texas and watch your senators and house of representatives roll out the red carpet for Trump. Sacrificing our values for Trump. Makes one sick, just sick and they think it's great. They are bought and sold. What's the extent of their compensation beyond base salaries
..Also, the rise of Hitler seemed like it should have been unlikely. And the beheading of King Louis and Marie Antoinette, how did those things happen? I get it now.
Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love” is actually about musicians being forced to play in the death camps as people were led into the gas chambers.
You know, I'm alright if anyone wants to grab a quick martini, smoke, and have a quick swing around the dancefloor. But put on your life preserver first, and remember the lifeboats are at the exits of the ship.
I had a bad car accident. In the 1.5 sec between realizing I was going to get hit and impact, I thought, “Oh. So THIS is how I go? Okay. Relax. Accept. Make the most of it. Inhale. Exhale. Don’t die stressed out.” Then I got T-boned at 50mph.
But I cant feel ready for whatever THIS is. Not at all.
I just had this chat with my boss. I said how strange to keep what we are doing while the barbarians are the gates. He said it was important to keep doing it, because if you stop, the barbarians already won.
I appreciate your boss’s words on this. We went to a college basketball game last night and throughout the evening I was thinking how strange it was that we were watching a basketball game as the Republicans burn down our federal government.
What we're facing mirrors how a glacier enticed the Titanic with assurances of tranquil waters and reduced egg prices. Just as the Titanic fell for this misleading story, the iceberg abruptly collided, severing all support and delighting in the spectacle of those struggling in the water.
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Remember this; courage is contagious.
https://www.thestranger.com/politics/201...
I’ve to maintain income, even while it economically diminishes purchasing power.
Have to handle conversations in a similar manner as the song: The Gambler
https://youtu.be/ImAO-I1cJnE?si=deWMa_js-YYircx7
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Sometimes all you can do is bring peace to yourself and others and hope a better path emerges.
It's all over.
Use the trash can...
No minuets before we give our all to fight back against the carnage and the coming economic disaster.
I live overseas and the exchange rate has risen exponentially in the past 5 weeks due to the new global economic uncertainty.
I also find The Clash and Green Day speak to the times
People we thought we knew appear thru very different lenses now. 😣
Fucking nightmare.
All those who help us through what looks more and more like the end of the great American Experiment. We help each other, knowing so many of us are still sane.
Jon Stewart made people laugh while America illegaly invaded a country.
It is all the same analogy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDrvJM4ZfGQ
IDK .
Such horrors.
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne
Grieve, but don't let that be your default.
The outcome of all of this is not preordained and we have the agency and the power of numbers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-reeling-from-stunning-ticket-sales-collapse-after-trump-takeover-report/ar-AA1zzYd1?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=429aed13677f4a85c633f0bf145c7e5b&ei=7
The rest would try to explain, to no avail, about context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Chaplains
If they get to the second Holocaust, no one will forgive you for a few generations.
Ticket to paradise.
I listen to this one a lot now.
https://youtu.be/zDOHhx_dk1g?si=SQFfvv0BcW2ZDIq_
https://gofund.me/06bdaaee
Sic Semper Tyrannis
https://bsky.app/profile/tippedbeaker.bsky.social/post/3lip45jl6wc2t
Frederick Douglass
US Marshal
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TawO2FICUJ7q9m1wok62L?si=JZQLFa7bQbqWOEayEb_rRA
Women and children first.
So they played on, finding joy while they could.
Courage in the face of adversity.
I lesson I fear we may all need.
The dumbest story points would enrage me.
I hated the stupidity around the guy in 28 weeks later who snuck in quarantine to kiss his wife.
But witnessing everything since COVID made me realize the writer(s?) knew.
Same with Carlin.
I want to go down fighting, spitting at those trying to kill me.
Trump and his Nazis want us to panic and cry. Don't give in.
💯
Now is the time to self-rescue.
But I cant feel ready for whatever THIS is. Not at all.
And here we are.
We now have two choices. Live free or kneel to your MAGA king like a slave.
Color? Gender? Race? Immigrant? Rural? Urban? Worker? Boss? Poor? Rich? Red? Blue? Your flag is one of these.
I know which one is mine.
Why it was only Jack, Rose and Chef on the other side of those rails is a question for the (cinematic) ages.