i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
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By shutting off funding -- loans, grants, etc -- they are destroying nonprofits, businesses. They are destroying industries. Even if they pause for 90 days...that's too much strain on small orgs.
Also...Pell grants? Research grants? Destroying lives.
Coup experts say it is.
There is simply no organised effort beyond pounding the table, and even then they’re too concerned about breaking the table.
obviously they're not gonna do that but it's not like we have NO idea what ANY form of resistance would look like
Like, even on the confirmation votes… 74-25 for Ratcliffe? 68-29 for Bessent? 99-0 for Rubio‽
And they’re doing it because they aren’t feeling the heat from anywhere that seems to matter to them.
every leaders would have organized massive protests
--
(Government) : [does something awful]
(US citizen) : Crivens! I shall write a strongly-worded letter!
(French citizen) : I shall FIRE THE ROCKET LAUNCHER into the POLICE STATION
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...and I think about that a lot.
So far all it seems they’ve been prepared to do is ask for more money.
Corporate media and press are to blame starting in 2008 and crowning themselves with bonuses for demonizing Hillary in 2016. Consequences.
The DNC does not have a partisan media network: the GOP does.
The DNC has big donors to slow down what Dem voters want: the GOP has many billionaires to pay for whatever THEY want.
Learn the critical differences.
The fact that it’s still biting Democrats in the ass two decades later just affirms that the Party leaders remain delusional about the scale of the threats to American democracy and have organised accordingly.
There are a multitude of billionaires that invest 100s of millions into right wing propaganda because they are ideologically and financially motivated.
There are no billionaires (other than Soros) interested in doing the same from the left.
Instead we’ve got Chuck talking bipartisanship and Hakeem saying, “It’s okay, God’s still on the throne.” Fucking joke.
Emphasis on willfully.
Dem leadership truly is willfully incompetent when they have the power.
But when they lose power, it's time to write a letter to the editor!!!
They had no game plan for how to respond to Trump once he started doing literally everything he said he would, and that’s why they and virtually every other elected Dem are flailing in the present chaos.
Tell us what the party currently in the minority in all 3 branches of government should do.
And no one is talking about "sacrificing" anyone. The point is the govt SHUTTING DOWN is going to affect, and maybe wake up, the boneheads who voted for this.
I'm not holding my breath though.
I know a lot of Americans are afraid to get march or protest or be visible online
The Dems work w people under an admin that wants to put them in Prison
Both parties are behaving like it’s Business as usual
Luckily they do the work not Trump
So make sure it’s handled professionally
We call our Reps Rs & Ds to put pressure on Rs to vote with Dems & to get any Dems who will vote for the person for who knows why to vote No
This makes them think we are in support of the winning parties agenda
Plus R voters are calling let’s make our voices louder
#Traitors
(As an aside, https://theauthoritarians.org is a wonderful resource written by an academic who had studied this phenomenon for decades.)
I doubt he knows how to work a smartphone.
https://bsky.app/profile/schumer.senate.gov/post/3lgr3kjuht225
Russia, India and China will eclipse as a superpower us by next month.
Start your own local movement.
The sowing was before the election - we're in reaping season now.
Just you hide and watch as they say in the South. Which is the only real place.
It’s been 8 days.
Unless you’re suggesting physical confrontation, the only way anyone can legally fight is through the courts, and that always takes time.
Stop yelling at the firemen because they’re not putting out the fire fast enough.
This is 2025
But more pessimisticly, there's no one coming to stop him
After a few billionaire led decisions, her support deflated
Time will tell.
Your current attitude is gross.
Yet they chose Billionaire donors over you, ever more with time.
Face it, or repeat the mistake
But every Dem that is talking about AI this week, they should fear being primaried.
#Project2025
Trump & cronies — destroy & sell for parts
Putin et al — destroy capacity to oppose his agenda
Extreme right/Christian nationalism — destroy in order to rebuild as a super-patriarchal neo-confederacy
Why? Cruelty. Simply that. Do not believe it? Keep watching.
He has a long list of enemies all over the world, but mostly in the US.
1. Tear it all down (or burn it down, fires are FUN)
2. Swoop in , declare Victory, PROFIT
All the rest is details
Is it legal action? Who’s going to town to support science & health NIH, NSF? Is there a legal front that’s not dependent on Congress?
How to best support USAID recipients in the next 90 days?
- transgender inmate suing about being misgendered and put in a the wrong gender prison
- Quaker Church suing about ICE arrests in churches
- and I thoughts I saw that North Carolina rejected the GOP challenge to votes
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https://bsky.app/profile/karlykingsley.bsky.social/post/3lgsch6wfn72b
Not before then, though. People aren't going to see it until it affects them personally.
Cults are notoriously difficult to leave.
Now, the price of eggs is another story.
It doesn't matter what Trump says- beyond his cult everyone knows it's a lie.
NYT
Feckless/sadly let us down.
As a 🇨🇦 it's been, and continues to be, painful to watch, but it's been pretty obvious to most of the world it was coming to this.
/2
But I will fight til my last breath to keep 🇨🇦 true north strong & free & I'm def not alone.
Jamelle's post about 🇺🇸s getting bogged down in Quebec in 2 years...not funny. You'll be lucky if there's not a civil war instead.
Good luck. 🇺🇸 needs it. Shame you're shitting 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽, your closest allies.
After hours is ugly, too.
It’s unclear why they’ve rolled over so easily.
He didn’t get 50% of the vote. That’s a fact. He’s coming out of the gate with policies and actions that 1/ haven’t been made law in Congress, 2/ aren’t popular.
Ppl voted for him for grocery prices —much of it RW disinfo
It looks like it was Mass Voter suppression
2.Gerrymandering
154M votes were cast
168M voters were registered 2024
How many of 14M votes were either not cast or not counted?
How many of 44M eligible voters had their registrations tossed, lost, or delayed?
The article has some answers.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...
Remove them as a way to make stuff happen, and they absolutely will not care.
This is the great trump theft and transfer of wealth.
Imagine if Biden or Harris had called for the elimination of the debt ceiling?
They could not be more wrong.
We're already barking about taking military action against Mexico (not having it) and Panama (also not having it.) Canada? The EU?
😆
The EO is disgusting, bigoted, and anti-basic human rights.
#FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckDonaldTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckElonMusk #FuckTrump #FuckMusk #Refuse #Resist
2. I worry they're trying to provoke a response in order to justify cracking down for the usual "law and order" excuses.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
If we take these MAGA terrorists out by force, we'd simply be taking our country back.
It sucks that the people with the microphone are silent
Remember: The oligarchs own our media. We are behind the "Golden Curtain" so don't trust anything on MSM. Even independent media are bought off. Use https://ground.news to see the spin.
Vote in every goddamn motherfvcking election, no matter how big or small - regardless of where you live. Stop these idiots locally, statewide & nationally. That includes any 2025 & 2026 elections. That’s your job. Now go out & do it.
That kind of destroyes the foundation for conversation, doesn't it?
I there were illegal actions done, I am curious of what they are. I'm following US from Europe, so I don't know every detail.
Remind them and vote, vote until it's completely taken, and THEN pick up arms.
Still have a very dark outlook. Still time for martial law.
Guantanamo interned is a living example.
Join them. Together, we are strong.
"Have we tried burning sage?"
*The tarot cards say a hero will arise from an unlikely place on the third half moon of the spring equinox"
Please read/watch thread at https://bsky.app/profile/af68.bsky.social/post/3lg6u4ixcns22
Realistically I wonder if the military leadership will do something before either of those groups.
. If enough people say no, he can't literally Force all of this executive order stuff even if he wanted to.
Please read/watch thread at https://bsky.app/profile/af68.bsky.social/post/3lg6u4ixcns22
None of that invalidated my sincerity. But the reality is, I 𝑤𝑎𝑠 sincere, and Trump is not. The words mean nothing to him.
The democrats could've fucking learned that when they had power and done good even without authorization, but they're cowards.
They? Who are "they"?
I have seen this before, unfortunately, in my native country. It became an unfeasible land.
I would not be surprised if things turn violent against these guys very quickly. Like Luigi x 1,000.
Hungry people are dangerous people.
I imagine also that they'll use the inevitable protests as a trigger for the Insurrection Act.
A minority capturing an entire state
Look how that’s ended up
Both barrels baby! Of a water gun.
Probably no balls either.
Heck, I can't even keep my car inspected here in PA. A lot of us are at our wit's end.
America, for us in Germany a role model for freedom and the rule of law,
is loosing its values and reputation.
But NOW, they're currently testing if playing nice a bit more while covering their eyes and ears will work better.
In my lifetime though never to this extent. Reagan though, who was also demented, but w/better hair, opened the door to Project 2025.🤯
AOC and Bernie and jasmine Crocket are who I’ve been following for actual words and actions
Metaphorically, or otherwise, they'll end up with their heads on pikes.
Question is will we just watch?
#fucktrump
I'm disappointed in LL Bean, although they are not that bad, compared to other companies.
Taking control of fbi, cia, etc
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/civil-resource-manual-209-estoppel
Actually, what they need to learn about is the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (which Trump’s would-be authoritarian power grab is flagrantly violating).
*based on the reserve list. This should absolutely not happen.
Jeffries? Pelosi 84, who has her 2028 paperwork already to file for her seat? Broken hip and all..
Gear up. It’s time to brawl. -AOC
Democrats seem totally uninterested, so that's not great.
Why react to fake crises when you can create real ones?
Bernie Sanders was our last chance of a peaceful transition to socialism.
We have to build local communities of resistance outside the parties, and we are decades away from even becoming a tiny bit of a threat.
Mutual aid network with your friends
Keep in contact with your representatives
We don't have to have super powers; just normal ones.
I feel like we have been abandoned by our representatives?
Why aren't they doing anything?
🤦♀️🤔🤷♀️🤔
And see their “Peoject 2025 Traing” videos on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/gYwqpx6lp_s?si=arfV0zl6NllvPloM
Disrupt
Sabotage
It seems like there has to be some organized groups out there that have covert projects in the works. That's what we need... a real insurgency.
would I like to see more and louder? Sure, and I'm about to go tell my congressman that at a Townhall tonight
Please read/watch thread at https://bsky.app/profile/af68.bsky.social/post/3lg6u4ixcns22
I haven’t looked at the news today… Just hopped on and saw 5 disturbing things that I now need to research to see what happened.
Senate democrats: whispering
Starting with cutting your spending back to only what is necessary for your survival. Don't need it? Don't buy it. Your wallet is your power.
You cannot individually make everything you want happen instantly, but that does not mean you do not have power.
You have time, money, purchasing power, attention, connections, knowledge.
Choosing to put them to work towards what you want WILL make a difference.
(Falls under: time and connections 🙂)
Listen to Professor Richardson:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BPWL5PmGB/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Please read/watch thread at https://bsky.app/profile/af68.bsky.social/post/3lg6u4ixcns22
This is what dictators do they destroy everything and then say that day and they are alone and are capable of fixing the damage that they did .
There are two and only two paths. One requires accepting slavery. The other means going to the fourth box
SCOTUS decision that he is immune from prosecution make legal action impossible. He can simply ignore court decisions. So there is no LEGAL remedy.