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Laurie Ferri's avatar

What can we do?? Are we just doomed to become a dictatorship police state?? I’ve written my elected officials, signed petitions, protested, but it sounds like this is pointless!

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Not pointless at all. Can’t you see that all the protest and speaking out is getting to them. They are afraid and should be that’s why they are trying to silence you. Keep fighting hold the line. We the people have power. Stand against this we have power too. Stay strong.

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Laurie Ferri's avatar

I see the protests but for each protest it seems Trump throws double the crap. I’m still writing and protesting, but when I keep hearing the bad news it sometimes seems insurmountable

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Adam Stoler's avatar

keep at it

they want us to be afraid

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

I understand what you’re feeling but that’s when you have to get up and fight harder. Don’t let them win. They have to see we are serious and are not going away. You got this. You can do it.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I guess you haven't been following the Jerry Weiss scenario -- shared government. Only takes a few Congressional Rerpublicans. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/

Many Congressional Repubicans are mutining over budget reconciliation. Nobody is reporting on it....

"... a bloc of moderate Republicans is demanding no reductions in Medicaid benefits – a requirement experts say would be impossible to meet while achieving Republicans' spending-cut goals and other GOP priorities.

"Then there’s the blue-state Republicans who will go to the mat for lifting tax deduction limits that would benefit their constituents, but would increase the bill’s price tag, further complicating the fiscal math.

"Each group has outsized influence because of Republicans' narrow majorities in both chambers. As few as four lawmakers rebelling in the House or Senate could derail the final package, as no Democrats are expected to support the legislation.

"Their demands may be irreconcilable. But Republican leaders say failure is not an option: If they don't pass something by the end of the year, Trump's 2017 tax cuts will expire, and renewing them is a major priority for the president. There's an additional incentive to get it done, as the bill would raise the debt ceiling and avoid default without requiring negotiations with Democrats – another top goal for the party."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/09/trump-bill-medicaid-spending-congress/83196723007/

USA today is not putting it all together. 7 senate republicans are cosponsors to gut Trump tariff authority.

Even more object to Trump re national security, SIGNALgate....

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Pamela Sousa's avatar

Maga-Republicans r anti American Government & they have a very long history of saying anything that might save their treasonous butt - so as not to loose their seat & all their control..They won't even stand up for their own words infront of their constitutes because they know it would be lying & they know we know their lying & they simply can not defend themselves anymore..Maga-Republicans r against all that the Constitution was based on..& they have their own religion - Christian Nationalism - which if u look it up - LOLOL - AIN'T NO BAPTIST CHURCH -.LOLOL - INFACT PEOPLE IT'S AS FAR FROM GOD'S TEACHINGS AS THEY COME -

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Oh I believe you. Nothing Christian about maga they are a cult huge difference. Their time is coming when they will have to face the music just like trump and his regime. Soon people soon

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Laurie Ferri's avatar

Thank you for sharing Weiss’s Substack link

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Cindy's avatar

I'm starting to feel the same way!😔 I guess we keep fighting until the very end.

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Judy Cross's avatar

Not guess, but do fight until we win.

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Laurie Ferri's avatar

I’m still fighting

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Adam Stoler's avatar

mlk: the arc of justice bends ….

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Kris Lovaas's avatar

We MUST keep fighting! Deporting immigrants is their test run. They WILL come for Democrats & anyone who speaks out against the regime.

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Adam Stoler's avatar

IF we ate silent

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JenFrenChaCha's avatar

Not pointless! Keep it up!

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

Good work to date, you're a Patriot, don't stop. They're counting on that. Keep on keeping on, but expect it to get worse before it gets better. Par for the course when rebellion and a revolution is required. Fascism never sleeps. Stay strong, my American friend. 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️

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Deena Sheffield's avatar

No Congress cam stop this dictator want to be he needs to go to Russia or North Vietnam I watch Armstrong Willians today Congress can stop this 🤔

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Me too

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John Laughlin's avatar

I’m a Democrat, and I voted on Election Day for Democrat for all positions. So you can understand my feeling when I somehow got on a mailing list from the GOP! Yea, sometimes it’s just not worth it anymore. This is the first time anything like that gas EVER happened.

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Sandra Nicht's avatar

giving up is not an option. I've been on GOP mailing lists, I use them as an opportunity to let them know exactly how I feel. I currently troll the White House official Facebook page too (as are many others). I went to the big April march in DC and there were so many more people than had been expected. the administration is losing in court over and over and elected Dems are speaking out and getting media coverage, more low info Republican voters are finding out the hard way what they voted for. Meanwhile, Canada and Australia soundly repudiated their right wing and even in Ohio a Democrat trounced JD Vance's brother in a recent election. Giving up right as we are starting to win is a really bad idea...

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

I agree well said

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

Keep fighting it matters

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Bill Riley's avatar

So Nosferatu Miller emerges from his crypt somewhere in the bowels of the White House and in broad daylight says he wants to cancel habeas corpus. Hey, Drac, hate to tell ya, but wishing doesn’t make it so. Americans are on the verge of removing your crowd from power. Stand by, or better yet, slink back to your crypt, lie down, and wait for 1-800-GOT-JUNK to haul your sorry ass to the trash heap of history.

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RageAgainstTheMachine247's avatar

Too late, we are a fascist country now

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Joye Cantrell's avatar

And we must keep doing all of those things!

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bblaK's avatar

Reminder, be the keepers of the flame.

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Keith Olson's avatar

HOLD THE LINE and never give up your freedoms.

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