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Thomas D’Andrea's avatar

muck furdoch

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Oaktown's avatar

lol

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Ashleyboop(She/her)'s avatar

Love this! I’m ready to fight! Let’s go! Thank you for everything you do!

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Deb Huffman's avatar

Me too!!

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Democracy4All's avatar

Keep up the great work, we the people are with you!👊

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Alissa Resch's avatar

Sorry Fox News, we’re not going anywhere. We’re just getting started so move over. ✊✊✊

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Steve's avatar

The truth keeps marching on!

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WJB Motown's avatar

OCTOBER 18

TRUTH KEEPS MARCHING ON!!!!

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DEANN MARIN's avatar

Bring it on. We’re not backing down. We’re with you 100%.

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Deb Huffman's avatar

💯

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Shary's avatar

Congratulations. More power to you 💪.

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Laurene Davy's avatar

And power to the people.

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Donna R.'s avatar

I'm with Meidas forever! 💙

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Richard Waddell's avatar

The Maple Leaf Forever:

A superbly beautiful song with the sentiment that is suited to a patriotic song,

including a surprising amount of inclusive phrases for a national song.

This link includes a beautiful 1928 recording:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maple_Leaf_Forever

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A creative writer might be able to fashion 'Meidas Touch' into

some custom lyrics for MTN!

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JoyD's avatar

I want Fox Entertainment News eliminated.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Cancel your cable TV.

Invest in Substack!!!!!

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JoyD's avatar

So glad you ‘think’ you know me…. No cable…. I get enough of it watching replays provided by reports on other various news channels.

As i tell my brother do not be a dick.

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Greg Halk's avatar

Beat ya to it!

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Hanford R Wright's avatar

ARE THEY THROWING TANTRUM PASTE LIKE POTUS (PEDOPHILE OF THE UNITED STATES)?????

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Connie Larsen's avatar

202 225 3121 or 202 224 3121

Call any trump asskissing Senator or representative and ask WTH they are doing to their constituents that they work for n collect their to damn much salary n benefits. And why do they want to keep kissing the orange🍊💩🫏??

Felons, rapists alleged pedophiles are not worthy of a Nobel!

So use the link n tell the Nobel committee, no damn trump!

Easy form

https://www.nobelprize.org/contact

Pass the info on!

🇺🇸🔷💪

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Catherine Valencia's avatar

I filled in the form. It was very satisfying asking the committee not to consider trump. I suggested Greta Thunberg for her efforts to help war-torn Gaza. I said that her cause was truly noble, and asked them to please excuse my attempt at pun, as it was unintentional.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

Great thank you! I’ve encouraged my friends to do the same.

Easy to do!

Spread the word!

🇺🇸💪🔷👍

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GramaJ Catherder's avatar

Please excuse if duplicated as 1st time on substack...but I sent a message to the Nobel Com asking then NOT to consider trump. Thanks for the link and yes, the form is super easy. Awesome!

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Connie Larsen's avatar

Announcement tomorrow. Heard they knew since January! Hope he blows his gasket!

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GramaJ Catherder's avatar

Message sent to the Nobel Committee and thanks for your post and link!

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Connie Larsen's avatar

👍🤸🏻🤸🏻👍Thanks

Pass it on!

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Oaktown's avatar

Thank you for this!! I added my name opposing indulging his ridiculous fantasy of winning a peace prize and apologized for our president's disgraceful conduct.

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SeekingReason's avatar

It IS a badge of honor. It is OVER for them. They cannot undo the lost farms, the damage to medicare recipients, the vengeful theatrics that the entire world sees as utter incompetence and delusion for the U.S. republiCon Fascist Cult. The world sees the-military in U.S. cities violating citizen’s Constitutional Rights!

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

How to Save a Democracy

By Laura Gamboa, Assistant Professor at Norte Dame University

Published in Foreign Affairs

The following is an excerpt.

“For democracy to survive, it must be protected. In the past few decades, in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Poland, opposition groups pushed back successfully against leaders with authoritarian tendencies early in the process of democratic backsliding, when they still had institutional levers to pull. But in other cases, such as Bolivia, El Salvador, Turkey, and Venezuela, oppositions either failed to act with sufficient urgency or used tactics that lost them their institutional levers, gradually hindering their ability to resist.

In the United States, the opposition’s response to the threat so far has been underwhelming. Reeling from electoral defeat and shocked by the blitz of the Trump administration’s power grabs, politicians and civil society groups are uncertain about the path forward and hesitant to take bold steps.

This delay is costly. If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries. They should coordinate to defend and expand their institutional powers while they have them, wield them to obstruct Trump’s authoritarian agenda, strengthen grassroots resistance efforts, and protect the activists, officeholders, and other individuals exposed to retribution from the administration. The alternative may be that democracy slips away while they wait.”

From The Peaceful Solution:

A Bold Step

We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. The other peaceful options are failing. Time is of the essence. We must go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting His Royal Heinous and the politicians who enable him.

Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. You and me. Hobble the economy and the stock market.

Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports HRH.

This is how we can stop the fascist takeover.

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Black Raven's avatar

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Businesses such as Walmart, Amazon, Target, The Home Depot, and so many more capitulated to the republican fascist regime because they are fascist themselves. We need to definitely continue strikes every single month. If 70% commit to it. Then we dry up their coffers. Elonia the musky rat lost half his wealth in the first half of the year due to his evilness in eliminating jobs. Tesla almost went completely under. So, yes, we need to do strikes very frequently.

And don't forget this too: ⬇️

Right of Revolution: The Declaration of Independence states that when a government becomes destructive of the people's rights and aims to reduce them under "absolute despotism," the people have the right and duty to throw off such a government and institute a new one.

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Jax's avatar

The government was asleep at the helm and allowed the beast to take over. The side that should be fighting for us is still acting like civility works.

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Black Raven's avatar

I may add the companies I mentioned have created monopolies. This needs to end too.

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Heather Lemur's avatar

Yes! Competitive markets are essential, but we have not had a real free market for a long time, if ever. Too big to fail is too big to exist! We need market reform and justice reform if we are going to keep our democracy! There’s no reason, in this day and age of lifespans passing 100 years, to have lifetime appointments to any court, but especially the top court of the land. If we can enact those two reforms, maybe we can stave off authoritarianism for another hundred years.

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kevin oldham's avatar

If Fox goes nuclear, Meidas goes Star Wars!

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James Wilson's avatar

We all stand with you Ben and company. We are the Mighty for a reason.

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Lora Silvester's avatar

This is the best news I’ve heard in a while! Goooo Meidas Touch!!!

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Lucille Tamm's avatar

Stand strong. Karma come quickly, justice be done. The highest good for everyone. Be this a prayer, an affirmation or a spell.

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Mary Ross's avatar

Every morning while stirring my tea.

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tyler krieter's avatar

We just got to keep putting out the accurate information. When they lie, we research, we document our sources and make sure it is factual information

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