Good morning Ben and Meidas Mighty, you’re right Ben these 17 months are going to move faster than we think. We need to stay strong and united as we battle back against the death cult that is MAGA. We all remember the normalcy we felt just a few short months ago when President Biden was leading our nation with compassion and decency. We will get back to that and rebuild our government and our alliances, our first steps will be rebuilding trust with voters and then retaking Congress. Trumps flood the zone has not been as successful as he expected thanks to the one group doing its job the courts. We are two weeks away from sending the loudest message to Trump on No Kings Day, that we are stronger than him and his death cult. The Meidas Mighty, the independence, and the traditional republicans will send the message that we will not be silenced by Trump and his billionaire friends.
My friends and I are all going to peaceful protests for the first time in our lives on June 14. We all between 75-82. Care enough to show up. I am afraid of kick back but I am going. We are in a reddish county. Mighty Meidas unite!
Yay! It feels really good to go out and stand up for what you believe. I am in the same age group and we all go to local protests. You will find many like-minded people.
Glad to hear you're getting involved. I was a rabble rouser in the 70s...against Vietnam and for abortion rights...when Roe v Wade was passed I was graduating college...and emerged into a world that had no need for a new college grad... I lost interest in attending grad school on my summer drive from. Illinois to the west coast... I ended up in Oregon and mispent the rest of the 70s and early 80s trying to find myself... I never seemed to get excited about politics until now...it's just so screwed up that it's impossible to "ostrich". So maybe I'll see you at a protest...hope they don't come at us with Billy clubs. I know I won't be able to endure that this time. I'm pist enuf to not care tho. I've been taunting ICE to come "dissappear me", but so far...they're ignoring my requests.
Stay safe.. don't engage..sit down. Sit ins were very successful in the 70s! If they attack someone who is peacefully sitting, that reflects horribly on them!
I said this because it has been warned that disrupters are going to infiltrate peaceful protests & cause damage & possible injury & the only way to separate the good from the bad, for the cops to see who to arrest.
We must, must be careful in what we say. I will always check a source. There are also provocateurs writing things. Please check with the organizers, such Indivisible, on protest rules.
Never too late. I'm a tad older, come from a very activist family. My mom was marching to ban the bomb in the 1950s. 1968 destroyed politics for me. While my sister was hanging with the SDS and talking revolution, I looked at the Eugene McCarthy campaign and the sexist white Gene Bros and opted out. (People forget that he was the Bernie Sanders of 1968 and Robert F. Kennedy was their reviled Hillary, the "corporate" "establishment" candidate.) What brought me back — three decades later — was Florida 2000. The first demonstration I ever went to was a "count all the votes in Florida" protest.
OMG. Maybe you passed by my sister. She dropped out of college (Barnard) for a semester in the late 60 (1968? 69?) to travel with her SDS Weatherman boyfriend to Madison to set up Revolutionary Headquarters for the Midwest. The goal was to travel to colleges in places like Iowa and Nebraska to set up revolutionary cells there. My sister came home for Christmas and told our parents she thought she wanted to go back to school the next semester. My parents asked what happened with the revolution. She said she didn't understand what was wrong with those kids in the midwest — it was all a bunch of agriculture majors and sorority girls who scratched their heads when you talked about the revolution. Probably a vulture shock — two upper-middle class Jewish kids from the big city talking to some kids fresh off the farm in Boone, Iowa!
OMG yes this was exactly the time I was there. We were passionate but also politically naive. I remember the weather underground and SDS activities, and later in 1970 the bombing of Sterling Hall. I probably did pass her by. We were teargassed, I remember the strong police presence.
On 4/5, my (honorary) grandson & I drove to a nearby & slightly larger city to join in the HANDS OFF demonstration. His first experience. He was deeply affected. Surprised at how many "older" people were there.
Signs & posters supporting everything from saving Social Security, Medicaid, Veteran's rights, to BRING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA HOME.
My grandson's first protest.
Not my first.
But it had been many decades.
We will join the peaceful civil action in our own city on 6/14.
We didn't have a sign made for the April event.
Last week, when Mark came over (he has had his own key to our house for a couple of years), he brought a giant poster board & a new thick black marker!
We, the people, fight peacefully, LOUDLY, and continuously.
Dear Pam, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your grandson’s reaction, and your commitment to exposing him and inspiring him to the importance of public involvement and community we all especially need now. I think there is alot of criticism of this z generation but I think they are starving for inspiration and encouragement. I’m hopeful and appreciative of people like you. Thank you again.
Be strong! I am 82 , use a walker and am going to all the protests! Once you get there you will find “your people” who are very solicitous about how you are doing, clear paths for you and are just an overall great bunch of people to be among! Very telling that they care a lot for our country and what it has stood for the last 245 years!
I encourage you to join as many of us "old folks" have already done. I protested as a young one about Vietnam but was never involved in any violence or felt threatened. I then protested in some animal rights issues in the late 80s and early 90s. Now I do every protest I can to call attention to 47s death agenda. It is so good to be around so many people with the same concerns.
Thank you Gadget! 76 here and yes we are! I hope you will be safe in numbers!! Thank you for showing up. I'm in blue CA, but my neighbors are maga. I wish I had a group of us older women to go with, but we will be there in force!
I really don't think Trump sees the rallies at all. He does not recognize or see the constant rallies happening throughout the country. That is not to say we should not rally but I do not think it registers in that tiny brain.
We are not rallying so he sees them. We are not rallying to change MAGA.
We are rallying, writing, and voting in opposition. We are opposing the hostile takeover of our Country by fascists. The more we oppose the stronger we get. Remember this. There are more of us than them. And we will win.
The people we need to impress are the Congressional Republicans. The insane Big Beautiful bill is toxic.
Today on Heather Cox Richardson. "Last night, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) told host Jimmy Kimmel that Republican senators are indeed unnerved by Trump’s behavior and the actions of the administration. The problem, Booker said, is what Thomas Jefferson said: “‘When the public fears their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears its people, there is liberty.’”
"Republicans in office “are so afraid of Donald Trump that they are letting things go,” Booker said “We the people have to make our politicians fear the consequences of…doing wrong more than the fear that Donald Trump will run a primary against them, or put $100 million, or troll them on the internet. This is…one of those moments when we are not going to see change in Washington unless more of us have said enough.”
All I know is when we take the house back BOYYYY, if the Democratic senators don't have a backbone - they better fucking grow one overnight and bring charges against all those who have done wrong. LOCK THE BASTARDS UP!
Do not provoke. The President, Hollman, Stephen Miller, Noem and the rest of them are just itching to shoot some Americans and invoke the Insurrection Act.
We keep our heads. We maintain a peaceful approach. We practice non-violence.
Anything else is sabotaging ourselves. Violence gets us nowhere. Beware using the sit-in approach historically it is a provocation. We stay standing, shouting and marching. It is impossible to corral a million protesters. We need to raise huge numbers of people in the streets.
It is not our job to strike fear. It is our job to raise our voices in strong opposition. It is our job to take back our Country.
These things need to be talked about ahead of time. It is important to educate protesters; possibly many of whom have never been in the streets.
The organizers of major protests such as Indivisible talk about these things.
Sit-ins turned bloody in the 1960's. I see people in these comments talking about doing that. This is called civil disobedience action and takes things up significantly.
Fear of being primaried holds them in check, also fear of violence(which is more likely), but at some point it's not worth keeping your job & with all the money they get paid for doing nothing, they can afford private security! Grow a spine, Republican Congress!
I'd like to believe Booker maybe in that some or even many Republicans are unnerved by trump's behaviors but are just too cowardly to do anything, but I sometimes think that is worse that genuinely worshiping him and feeling he can do no wrong. The folks that may be unnerved by him yet stand by and do nothing are just as bad or worse for their constituents that the true believers..they are not serving their constituents, will gladly see them hurt greatly just to get that paycheck every month...what horrible cowards. If they only had the integrity to stand up to trump the worst that can happen is he "primaries" them out of a job that is causing them to go against everything they claim to believe in, and how bad of an outcome is that? For goodness sake, they need to stand up for what is right and if they get primaried out then find a real job where they can honestly work towards outcomes they believe in....again what a bunch of cowards. I hope that the Congressman who recently said at a town hall meeting that he didn't know the budget bill included unlimited immunity for trump and whomever he likes at the moment at least feels a little bit like a real jerk. For some even those with next to no integrity, admitting you voted for something you had no idea about has got to be just a tiny bit unnerving deep down inside. I know many of these folks do in fact have parents who would be proud of their incompetency and deception, but I'd like to think there are a few whose parents would cringe and that they know this and again, deep down inside feel like crap for being such a disappointment to their parents.
IMHO we wuz robbed. “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”― Joseph Stalin. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania for him?
We have a window of opporunity because the toxicity of the Big Beautiful budget casts REPUBLICANS as codependants of an insane, malicious demagogue.
Why? What is there of any substance to talk about?
This reads exactly like a summary of the mainstream news junk over the past few months with more than a little of make-believe thrown in. Lots of words saying little to nothing. (and yes-I read it)
I don’t follow mainstream news, so I don’t know what they are saying. I do know, however, that Biden should not have run (surely you noticed the physical decline?), that the old Dems need to play a different games with different rules or move aside, and that we cannot continue to lose local and national elections to the kinds of Repubs who have been taking over state and national legislatures for the past 25+ years.
Sylvia, he may notice but he does not care. What the protests accomplish is showing the voters what is happening (your country is losing its democracy) and that change is possible. Getting the vote out for the midterms is essential and Congress needs to be in the hands of Democrats to keep the country safe.
I'll go you one better. On some subconscious level, he LIKES the protests...even if all the signs say "Screw Trump!" That's because the malignant narcissist craves attention of absolutely ANY kind. We don't protest for Trump; we protest to inspire couch sitters who see us on the news to get up and get in the game!
Assuming his tiny brain hasn't atrophied to the point of complete dementia!! I'm hoping the DC protest is huge and in his disgusting taco face!!! IMPEACHMENT IMMEDIATELY!!
How can we "rebuild trust' with voters when that so-called "trust' was deliberately savaged by the GOP feeding voters lies? We did nothing to damage that "trust." When the media is dominated by stories about the former president's health, not his accomplishments, how do we break through?
Stop listening to legacy media. They are owned by oligarchs who oppose Democracy. Support the building of our own megaphone. We don't rebuild trust. That is the problem of politicians. We rebuild our voting laws. We rebuild voter participation.
We take over the information machine in this Country. Most everything follows that.
100%! June 14th is going to be clear how we all feel about the Government Regime, Weak Ass Congress, Unqualified Baffoons in the Cabinet & MAGA Knuckle Draggers!
Governor Walz is 100% correct. Listen to the people and bypass corporate media. Jimmy Page knew this. Led Zeppelin was not popular with the press and got trashed by mainstream media. The biggest band of the 70s were the peoples band and tour after tour was sold out. Power to the People
It depends on what you mean by "press." Remember it was a very different media time and they got lots of coverage, most of it favorable. What they did NOT get was the stamp of approval from the self-appointed creators of the "canon," the first generation of Rolling Stone writers and other white-boy intellectual navel-gazers — the Jon Landaus and Dave Marshes who set themselves up as the arbiters of "what mattered." That's probably what he meant. (Note: their presence on the Rock Hall nominating committee is why hugely influential metal and prog rock bands have been snubbed for so long. This group considers that music to be the province of provincial blue-collar kids who don't have lofty, opaque vocabularies to describe music.)
This is before social media...intenet and all that. So what Rolling Stone said was huge. I lived through those days. Was on the high school music commitee We had RUSH........founding members of Loverboy....etc
All I am saying is that the power of the people can overide what the media says. This is not meant to be some musical debate.
The part about death is so personal for me. I feel like they want my remaining family to die because we are a burden. I work full time in special education and I think they wish those kids would die too If they can’t become tax payers why let the exist? Once you retire, if you are not rich or have a kid supporting you that is rich you are a burden. Stay home and have a baby lots of babies because we need more tax payers and device workers. There is nothing wrong with a service job especially if you like hands on work, but the attack on education is so that they, the overlord class and there cronies are the only ones being groomed to use their minds. Health care is a burden to them. If you don’t have a job that pays your health care you are not worthy. If you are to disabled to work, they would rather you just suffer and stay out of site. It takes our hope away. What is humanity without hope.
1/ Adolf sent the German people to die in the last days of WW2. Old men and young boys were sent to the front lines with rocket launchers on a suicide mission. He blamed the German people for his defeat........note how Taco Judas is now attacking the Federalist Society!!! They helped put him in power!!!........Tacos brainwashed cult memebers now say "your going to die anyway."
2/ The GOP White Power Cult party wants white babies to create "White America." " WhiteDate.net was created for white racist religous right men looking for their perfect kitchen based blonde...non working stay at home baby factroy the lives in bed waiting to get fucked........Hitler had homes for women to have white babies for high status SS and Gestapo members......Secret numbers on the web site are 14....words from convicted white nationalist terrorist David Lane.."We must secure the existance of our people and a future for white children. 88 is also used........#8 alphabet letters of Heil Hitler.
The part about the babies not being white (true) is interesting to me because of this widespread idea (myth?) that the anti-choice movement is about increasing the white birthrate. Here in Ohio half the abortions are Black women, very likely due to their economic situation. Abolish abortion and we'll be overrun with babies of color born to women who can't afford reproductive care including contraception if they ban it or make it expensive or difficult to access. More affluent white women will just go abroad, or to Canada.
Of course there are poor white women, but those middle class white women they think should be popping out babies are outnumbered by poor women of color. Like I said, here in Ohio 50% of abortions are black women.
We don’t need Democrats to “present” themselves as authentic - we need Democrats who ARE AUTHENTIC. If you need a study to tell you how to be authentic, you are not the right people to lead at this time.
Your point of view is spot on .. democrats need to stop wringing their hands, get out and talk, listen to the people. We are all damn mad, doesn’t make a difference if we are red or blue .. it is time that people wake up and realize that the uber wealthy have got us fighting with each other, the true war is between the ultra wealthy and the working people. stop listening to the pundints and bobble heads. Watch and listen to the Meidas!
But Democrats ARE getting out and talking to people, and if you don't know this, others aren't noticing either. My congresswoman has not only held town hall after town hall (at one on a snowy night in February she asked people who'd never been to one to raise their hands and it was more than half the huge room) and also specialized meetings on topics like housing and small business assistance. I'm in Ohio 11; Shontel Brown is my congresswoman. How many town halls do you think Dave Joyce (R) in adjacent Ohio 14 has held? A big fat zero (although the Geauga County Democratic Party did hold an empty chair town hall for him). Republicans don't feel they have to talk to constituents, just scare them.
It's a combination of the idea that anyone who isn't a "traditional" wealthy white man has no value to the country.
There's also the idea through their faith that this life is basic training for the next, and that is the life that matters most. So, they think this life should be short and miserable to get to eternity faster.
And they have no respect for the people who vote for them.
That explains the white Republicans here in Texas. I’m a recovering Republican. Conald pushed me over the edge to become a Democrat. I’m so glad I did.
As long as people are willing to sell their souls it will be hard to get change. Limits need to be made on political contributions and the rich need to pay their fair share. Greed is always the word of the day. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. 💪🍊🐖💩
Democrats have always taken the high road and presented their agenda. These MAGAs have used that image to detour voters to their supposed tough and righteous lies. It's time to call MAGAs and their Republican cohorts out on each and every lie at each and every avenue. Show the coward flinching and cowering at every little noise that causes him to look in terror. It's time for gloves off. It's time to make his military parade the farce it is. How wonderful it would be to have blaring megaphones playing the chicken dance during his self-aggrandizing ceremony.
I understand No Kings' argument for their decision not to lead a counterprotest in DC. I also disagree profoundly. This is no time for Nervous Nellies. Did all y'all know the parade organizers are controlling access to prime viewing areas by ticket? I've got mine. Too legit to quit!
I believe that what Guv Walz and others are doing is completely necessary and will help redirect people back to reality. It can no longer be repubs and demos. It must be about saving America.
We are in an existential crisis now. Something needs to be done now or it may be too late. Maga-ites follow their leader. Remember that. Remember the criminals he has pardoned. Is he building a new private militia? Also remember this quote: An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over its ashes. Sun Tzu. He doesn't care. Neither do his followers. Grift and graft. No sense of loyalty to the country, the courts or the Constitution. Only to his greed and needyness which can never be satisfied. No moral compass. That is the reality of what we're dealing with.
Do you think your country can survive another seventeen months with the damage and destruction Trumpolini Taco is doing. Just like with a malignant cancer the patient has more chance of surviving if it is surgically removed. There has to be a way of getting rid of him sooner than later.
One piece of essential legislation once adults are back in the White House is a method of removing a president from office if he breaches the law or the Constitution.
Good morning Ben. Please educate the people on who Curtis Yarvin is as he is inspiring the younger generation of MAGA. He's a firm believer of destroying our democracy and we should have a monarch. It's not just fighting Trump, but The Heritage Foundation and Yarvin.
Good morning Ben and Meidas Mighty, you’re right Ben these 17 months are going to move faster than we think. We need to stay strong and united as we battle back against the death cult that is MAGA. We all remember the normalcy we felt just a few short months ago when President Biden was leading our nation with compassion and decency. We will get back to that and rebuild our government and our alliances, our first steps will be rebuilding trust with voters and then retaking Congress. Trumps flood the zone has not been as successful as he expected thanks to the one group doing its job the courts. We are two weeks away from sending the loudest message to Trump on No Kings Day, that we are stronger than him and his death cult. The Meidas Mighty, the independence, and the traditional republicans will send the message that we will not be silenced by Trump and his billionaire friends.
My friends and I are all going to peaceful protests for the first time in our lives on June 14. We all between 75-82. Care enough to show up. I am afraid of kick back but I am going. We are in a reddish county. Mighty Meidas unite!
Yay! It feels really good to go out and stand up for what you believe. I am in the same age group and we all go to local protests. You will find many like-minded people.
Yes Gayle me too!
Glad to hear you're getting involved. I was a rabble rouser in the 70s...against Vietnam and for abortion rights...when Roe v Wade was passed I was graduating college...and emerged into a world that had no need for a new college grad... I lost interest in attending grad school on my summer drive from. Illinois to the west coast... I ended up in Oregon and mispent the rest of the 70s and early 80s trying to find myself... I never seemed to get excited about politics until now...it's just so screwed up that it's impossible to "ostrich". So maybe I'll see you at a protest...hope they don't come at us with Billy clubs. I know I won't be able to endure that this time. I'm pist enuf to not care tho. I've been taunting ICE to come "dissappear me", but so far...they're ignoring my requests.
Stay safe.. don't engage..sit down. Sit ins were very successful in the 70s! If they attack someone who is peacefully sitting, that reflects horribly on them!
Excellent advice, and these days we can make sure someone is videoing everything so there are very clear accounts of what happens.
https://indivisiblesf.org/blog/2025/2/4/protest-safety-tips#:~:text=GAZA-,Protest%20safety%20tips,-As%20we%20resist
It is bad bad bad advice. This is escalating. We do not escalate to civil disobedience. March, sing, carry signs. Do not provoke violence from them
Do not sit down! This is escalating up to civil disobedience. You will be dragged off. Sit ins were bloody in the 70's.
This is the absolute wrong advice. They are just itching for a reason to start shooting. They are just waiting to declare the Insurrection Act.
Do. Not. sit. Down.
March, Sing, Carry signs.
Be smart.
I said this because it has been warned that disrupters are going to infiltrate peaceful protests & cause damage & possible injury & the only way to separate the good from the bad, for the cops to see who to arrest.
We must, must be careful in what we say. I will always check a source. There are also provocateurs writing things. Please check with the organizers, such Indivisible, on protest rules.
Never too late. I'm a tad older, come from a very activist family. My mom was marching to ban the bomb in the 1950s. 1968 destroyed politics for me. While my sister was hanging with the SDS and talking revolution, I looked at the Eugene McCarthy campaign and the sexist white Gene Bros and opted out. (People forget that he was the Bernie Sanders of 1968 and Robert F. Kennedy was their reviled Hillary, the "corporate" "establishment" candidate.) What brought me back — three decades later — was Florida 2000. The first demonstration I ever went to was a "count all the votes in Florida" protest.
we had SDS at UW Madison in the late 60s, almost shut down the campus & graduation. Thank you for staying engaged. We must!
OMG. Maybe you passed by my sister. She dropped out of college (Barnard) for a semester in the late 60 (1968? 69?) to travel with her SDS Weatherman boyfriend to Madison to set up Revolutionary Headquarters for the Midwest. The goal was to travel to colleges in places like Iowa and Nebraska to set up revolutionary cells there. My sister came home for Christmas and told our parents she thought she wanted to go back to school the next semester. My parents asked what happened with the revolution. She said she didn't understand what was wrong with those kids in the midwest — it was all a bunch of agriculture majors and sorority girls who scratched their heads when you talked about the revolution. Probably a vulture shock — two upper-middle class Jewish kids from the big city talking to some kids fresh off the farm in Boone, Iowa!
OMG yes this was exactly the time I was there. We were passionate but also politically naive. I remember the weather underground and SDS activities, and later in 1970 the bombing of Sterling Hall. I probably did pass her by. We were teargassed, I remember the strong police presence.
And here we go again.
Keep up the rabble rousing!
Likewise here -- VN, Kent State, Cambodia, MLK ... I was in Madison. Strength in numbers! Wish Mighty Meidas could form groups to attend in.
Beautiful!
I will turn 70 next year & I am disabled.
On 4/5, my (honorary) grandson & I drove to a nearby & slightly larger city to join in the HANDS OFF demonstration. His first experience. He was deeply affected. Surprised at how many "older" people were there.
Signs & posters supporting everything from saving Social Security, Medicaid, Veteran's rights, to BRING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA HOME.
My grandson's first protest.
Not my first.
But it had been many decades.
We will join the peaceful civil action in our own city on 6/14.
We didn't have a sign made for the April event.
Last week, when Mark came over (he has had his own key to our house for a couple of years), he brought a giant poster board & a new thick black marker!
We, the people, fight peacefully, LOUDLY, and continuously.
We shall prevail.
There is no other option.
The Fourth Reich must be stopped.
We are the majority.
Keep your courage, friends.
Blessings.
Dear Pam, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your grandson’s reaction, and your commitment to exposing him and inspiring him to the importance of public involvement and community we all especially need now. I think there is alot of criticism of this z generation but I think they are starving for inspiration and encouragement. I’m hopeful and appreciative of people like you. Thank you again.
Bless you Pam! Wish I could go with you! Stay safe.
I think it's going to be epic!
Be strong! I am 82 , use a walker and am going to all the protests! Once you get there you will find “your people” who are very solicitous about how you are doing, clear paths for you and are just an overall great bunch of people to be among! Very telling that they care a lot for our country and what it has stood for the last 245 years!
I encourage you to join as many of us "old folks" have already done. I protested as a young one about Vietnam but was never involved in any violence or felt threatened. I then protested in some animal rights issues in the late 80s and early 90s. Now I do every protest I can to call attention to 47s death agenda. It is so good to be around so many people with the same concerns.
Post like yours and the responses give me more hope than just about anything else. Stay strong and let us know how it goes on the 14th!
Please stay safe! If trouble makers show up. . sit down, so the bad can be seen & removed!
And video everything.
Do not sit down. Stop saying this!
Leave quietly and quickly.
The organizers of these protests know what they are doing. Follow their rules.
Look up Indivisible.
"Kick back" What the fuck do you think you are doing... You assoles act like this is Turkey!!!
Your hate has shriveled your soul into a dry husk.
The best thing you can do with peter tucker is report him. And do not engage with him.
I blocked you, collapsed your comment and will delete any future comments without reading. You have no voice.
Given that your democracy is being throttled, why be so insulting?
I don't think he knows what that means.
Thank you Gadget! 76 here and yes we are! I hope you will be safe in numbers!! Thank you for showing up. I'm in blue CA, but my neighbors are maga. I wish I had a group of us older women to go with, but we will be there in force!
I really don't think Trump sees the rallies at all. He does not recognize or see the constant rallies happening throughout the country. That is not to say we should not rally but I do not think it registers in that tiny brain.
We are not rallying so he sees them. We are not rallying to change MAGA.
We are rallying, writing, and voting in opposition. We are opposing the hostile takeover of our Country by fascists. The more we oppose the stronger we get. Remember this. There are more of us than them. And we will win.
So very true!
We are rallying for US!! We the people! This is for the rest of the American Democracy believers who are joining the momentum as we pick up speed.
Thank you, Ben! This is the only news I trust—other outlets are too busy catering to TACO Trump's nonsense. I appreciate you being here for us! 💙💙
As long as his name is mentioned, he notices.
I have not listened to him or read his rantings in many years. He is a narcissistic madman. Don't let his manipulations distract you.
Bingo
The people we need to impress are the Congressional Republicans. The insane Big Beautiful bill is toxic.
Today on Heather Cox Richardson. "Last night, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) told host Jimmy Kimmel that Republican senators are indeed unnerved by Trump’s behavior and the actions of the administration. The problem, Booker said, is what Thomas Jefferson said: “‘When the public fears their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears its people, there is liberty.’”
"Republicans in office “are so afraid of Donald Trump that they are letting things go,” Booker said “We the people have to make our politicians fear the consequences of…doing wrong more than the fear that Donald Trump will run a primary against them, or put $100 million, or troll them on the internet. This is…one of those moments when we are not going to see change in Washington unless more of us have said enough.”
We need to make them more afraid than unnerved.
Picket. Sit in. Call. Write.
All I know is when we take the house back BOYYYY, if the Democratic senators don't have a backbone - they better fucking grow one overnight and bring charges against all those who have done wrong. LOCK THE BASTARDS UP!
Another moron You sound like Trump
You spelled your name wrong—Fucker…..
Pete, Isn't it a bit early to be drunk?
Get that tree trunk out of your ass!
I don't buy the "we are afraid" excuse. If you are afraid to defend the Constitution, step down in favour of someone who is prepared to do that job.
Republicans in Congress should be more afraid of the midterms...unless they plan to collude in making sure there aren't any.
We're at the point where push comes to shove. Either they take on Trump or lose their next election.
Yes… I want to see impeachments, I want to see investigations and I want to see my representatives show up and act like they give a shit.
Perfect!
Totally agree with you. And we also need to email our Democratic representatives to let them know what we are thinking.
Just keep doing it. I am.
Do not provoke. The President, Hollman, Stephen Miller, Noem and the rest of them are just itching to shoot some Americans and invoke the Insurrection Act.
We keep our heads. We maintain a peaceful approach. We practice non-violence.
Anything else is sabotaging ourselves. Violence gets us nowhere. Beware using the sit-in approach historically it is a provocation. We stay standing, shouting and marching. It is impossible to corral a million protesters. We need to raise huge numbers of people in the streets.
It is not our job to strike fear. It is our job to raise our voices in strong opposition. It is our job to take back our Country.
Nobody (except maybe Trump agent prevacateurs) is advocating violence.
I did not say they were.
These things need to be talked about ahead of time. It is important to educate protesters; possibly many of whom have never been in the streets.
The organizers of major protests such as Indivisible talk about these things.
Sit-ins turned bloody in the 1960's. I see people in these comments talking about doing that. This is called civil disobedience action and takes things up significantly.
Educating protesters is the best play.
Fear of being primaried holds them in check, also fear of violence(which is more likely), but at some point it's not worth keeping your job & with all the money they get paid for doing nothing, they can afford private security! Grow a spine, Republican Congress!
I'd like to believe Booker maybe in that some or even many Republicans are unnerved by trump's behaviors but are just too cowardly to do anything, but I sometimes think that is worse that genuinely worshiping him and feeling he can do no wrong. The folks that may be unnerved by him yet stand by and do nothing are just as bad or worse for their constituents that the true believers..they are not serving their constituents, will gladly see them hurt greatly just to get that paycheck every month...what horrible cowards. If they only had the integrity to stand up to trump the worst that can happen is he "primaries" them out of a job that is causing them to go against everything they claim to believe in, and how bad of an outcome is that? For goodness sake, they need to stand up for what is right and if they get primaried out then find a real job where they can honestly work towards outcomes they believe in....again what a bunch of cowards. I hope that the Congressman who recently said at a town hall meeting that he didn't know the budget bill included unlimited immunity for trump and whomever he likes at the moment at least feels a little bit like a real jerk. For some even those with next to no integrity, admitting you voted for something you had no idea about has got to be just a tiny bit unnerving deep down inside. I know many of these folks do in fact have parents who would be proud of their incompetency and deception, but I'd like to think there are a few whose parents would cringe and that they know this and again, deep down inside feel like crap for being such a disappointment to their parents.
I’d love to know how to get the MeidasTouch folks talking about this: https://open.substack.com/pub/dashkaslater/p/the-democrats-dont-love-democracy
I'm sorry but It looks like Russian Trump/Musk psy ops has you on the wrong track. It's not us - it's REPUBLICANS who let us get into this position.
My regret about Biden is that he didn't go after Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections
IMHO we wuz robbed. “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”― Joseph Stalin. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania for him?
We have a window of opporunity because the toxicity of the Big Beautiful budget casts REPUBLICANS as codependants of an insane, malicious demagogue.
Why? What is there of any substance to talk about?
This reads exactly like a summary of the mainstream news junk over the past few months with more than a little of make-believe thrown in. Lots of words saying little to nothing. (and yes-I read it)
I don’t follow mainstream news, so I don’t know what they are saying. I do know, however, that Biden should not have run (surely you noticed the physical decline?), that the old Dems need to play a different games with different rules or move aside, and that we cannot continue to lose local and national elections to the kinds of Repubs who have been taking over state and national legislatures for the past 25+ years.
I do not play hindsight what if scenarios. We are here right now. How we got here is a moot point; one for the historians to chew over.
I don't get stuck in the weeds of how the Democratic Party should function at this time. We are not holding elections. We are in a coup.
No one is coming to save us. Endless critiques are useless at this point.
Let's organize and fight back. There are more of us than them. And we will win.
Sylvia, he may notice but he does not care. What the protests accomplish is showing the voters what is happening (your country is losing its democracy) and that change is possible. Getting the vote out for the midterms is essential and Congress needs to be in the hands of Democrats to keep the country safe.
RIGHT!! It's to show the voters! US! the people! Americans! For goodness sake!
But the Senators and Representatives do see the protests and town halls, and they’re scared as hell of what’s going to happen to them at the midterms!
I'll go you one better. On some subconscious level, he LIKES the protests...even if all the signs say "Screw Trump!" That's because the malignant narcissist craves attention of absolutely ANY kind. We don't protest for Trump; we protest to inspire couch sitters who see us on the news to get up and get in the game!
You are probably right. Any publicity is good for him. He will spin it in his favor for his cult followers.
If he doesn't see them it's because his handlers don't want him to see how much the public hates him.
Assuming his tiny brain hasn't atrophied to the point of complete dementia!! I'm hoping the DC protest is huge and in his disgusting taco face!!! IMPEACHMENT IMMEDIATELY!!
His nazi flunkies do their best to keep bad news from him! He only gets fed good news & patted on the head!
How can we "rebuild trust' with voters when that so-called "trust' was deliberately savaged by the GOP feeding voters lies? We did nothing to damage that "trust." When the media is dominated by stories about the former president's health, not his accomplishments, how do we break through?
Stop listening to legacy media. They are owned by oligarchs who oppose Democracy. Support the building of our own megaphone. We don't rebuild trust. That is the problem of politicians. We rebuild our voting laws. We rebuild voter participation.
We take over the information machine in this Country. Most everything follows that.
100%! June 14th is going to be clear how we all feel about the Government Regime, Weak Ass Congress, Unqualified Baffoons in the Cabinet & MAGA Knuckle Draggers!
My fucking God,,, you are fucking lost
Peter peter Trump's d--k eater, find another place to play.
Report him. Click on the bottom right to his comment. ( the three horizontal dots) and report him.
Good idea. But also good is that he stands out as so imbalanced on this forum, like a lost, miserable soul.
Lol, that's true.
😂😂😂 he is! Is brain is fried.
Pete, are you drunk again? Get back on the wagon!
You're the one who's lost. Go crawl back under your rock.
Governor Walz is 100% correct. Listen to the people and bypass corporate media. Jimmy Page knew this. Led Zeppelin was not popular with the press and got trashed by mainstream media. The biggest band of the 70s were the peoples band and tour after tour was sold out. Power to the People
Actually, that's not quite true. It was complicated. (I was a music writer in the 70s and 80s, still cover our local music scene.)
John Paul Jones even says in the new movie that the press was not good..
It depends on what you mean by "press." Remember it was a very different media time and they got lots of coverage, most of it favorable. What they did NOT get was the stamp of approval from the self-appointed creators of the "canon," the first generation of Rolling Stone writers and other white-boy intellectual navel-gazers — the Jon Landaus and Dave Marshes who set themselves up as the arbiters of "what mattered." That's probably what he meant. (Note: their presence on the Rock Hall nominating committee is why hugely influential metal and prog rock bands have been snubbed for so long. This group considers that music to be the province of provincial blue-collar kids who don't have lofty, opaque vocabularies to describe music.)
This is before social media...intenet and all that. So what Rolling Stone said was huge. I lived through those days. Was on the high school music commitee We had RUSH........founding members of Loverboy....etc
All I am saying is that the power of the people can overide what the media says. This is not meant to be some musical debate.
Please do tell
The part about death is so personal for me. I feel like they want my remaining family to die because we are a burden. I work full time in special education and I think they wish those kids would die too If they can’t become tax payers why let the exist? Once you retire, if you are not rich or have a kid supporting you that is rich you are a burden. Stay home and have a baby lots of babies because we need more tax payers and device workers. There is nothing wrong with a service job especially if you like hands on work, but the attack on education is so that they, the overlord class and there cronies are the only ones being groomed to use their minds. Health care is a burden to them. If you don’t have a job that pays your health care you are not worthy. If you are to disabled to work, they would rather you just suffer and stay out of site. It takes our hope away. What is humanity without hope.
Hang in there. I've been in your position. Things will eventually get better.
Taco Hitler is following the Nazi playbook.
1/ Adolf sent the German people to die in the last days of WW2. Old men and young boys were sent to the front lines with rocket launchers on a suicide mission. He blamed the German people for his defeat........note how Taco Judas is now attacking the Federalist Society!!! They helped put him in power!!!........Tacos brainwashed cult memebers now say "your going to die anyway."
2/ The GOP White Power Cult party wants white babies to create "White America." " WhiteDate.net was created for white racist religous right men looking for their perfect kitchen based blonde...non working stay at home baby factroy the lives in bed waiting to get fucked........Hitler had homes for women to have white babies for high status SS and Gestapo members......Secret numbers on the web site are 14....words from convicted white nationalist terrorist David Lane.."We must secure the existance of our people and a future for white children. 88 is also used........#8 alphabet letters of Heil Hitler.
Yes and if we do not start doing something about climate change there won't be an earth for all the white babies to live in!!
Exactly. Women are not going to start staying home and having lots of babies because it's not affordable and frankly, they don't want to.
The part about the babies not being white (true) is interesting to me because of this widespread idea (myth?) that the anti-choice movement is about increasing the white birthrate. Here in Ohio half the abortions are Black women, very likely due to their economic situation. Abolish abortion and we'll be overrun with babies of color born to women who can't afford reproductive care including contraception if they ban it or make it expensive or difficult to access. More affluent white women will just go abroad, or to Canada.
Of course there are poor white women, but those middle class white women they think should be popping out babies are outnumbered by poor women of color. Like I said, here in Ohio 50% of abortions are black women.
We don’t need Democrats to “present” themselves as authentic - we need Democrats who ARE AUTHENTIC. If you need a study to tell you how to be authentic, you are not the right people to lead at this time.
Love this distinction! Well said. I was thinking this and hadn't put it into words.
We must not give up fighting against the MAGA White Christian Nationalist Fascist Movement
The GOP deserves to lose big and watch a sudden Democratic surge in popularity that would shock the lamestream media by next year!
Taco Judas........."We are all going to die"......Taco Satan
Your point of view is spot on .. democrats need to stop wringing their hands, get out and talk, listen to the people. We are all damn mad, doesn’t make a difference if we are red or blue .. it is time that people wake up and realize that the uber wealthy have got us fighting with each other, the true war is between the ultra wealthy and the working people. stop listening to the pundints and bobble heads. Watch and listen to the Meidas!
But Democrats ARE getting out and talking to people, and if you don't know this, others aren't noticing either. My congresswoman has not only held town hall after town hall (at one on a snowy night in February she asked people who'd never been to one to raise their hands and it was more than half the huge room) and also specialized meetings on topics like housing and small business assistance. I'm in Ohio 11; Shontel Brown is my congresswoman. How many town halls do you think Dave Joyce (R) in adjacent Ohio 14 has held? A big fat zero (although the Geauga County Democratic Party did hold an empty chair town hall for him). Republicans don't feel they have to talk to constituents, just scare them.
Important article. Hear people,Dems! That’s what we’re known for: Republicans love the rich & corporations. democrats are for the PEOPLE!
How sick that the best positive thing the Republicans can say is “we’re all gonna die?” How sick is that, Joni Ernst?!
That remark was despicable to me. What kind of brain could even think that?
It's a combination of the idea that anyone who isn't a "traditional" wealthy white man has no value to the country.
There's also the idea through their faith that this life is basic training for the next, and that is the life that matters most. So, they think this life should be short and miserable to get to eternity faster.
And they have no respect for the people who vote for them.
That explains the white Republicans here in Texas. I’m a recovering Republican. Conald pushed me over the edge to become a Democrat. I’m so glad I did.
Sounds like a cult to me.
Me too ☮️
As long as people are willing to sell their souls it will be hard to get change. Limits need to be made on political contributions and the rich need to pay their fair share. Greed is always the word of the day. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. 💪🍊🐖💩
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I keep all my ten fingers crossed for your success :-)
Democrats have always taken the high road and presented their agenda. These MAGAs have used that image to detour voters to their supposed tough and righteous lies. It's time to call MAGAs and their Republican cohorts out on each and every lie at each and every avenue. Show the coward flinching and cowering at every little noise that causes him to look in terror. It's time for gloves off. It's time to make his military parade the farce it is. How wonderful it would be to have blaring megaphones playing the chicken dance during his self-aggrandizing ceremony.
I understand No Kings' argument for their decision not to lead a counterprotest in DC. I also disagree profoundly. This is no time for Nervous Nellies. Did all y'all know the parade organizers are controlling access to prime viewing areas by ticket? I've got mine. Too legit to quit!
I agree. It's not violent to hold up a poster with a picture of our founding document and the reminder "Our Oath is to the CONSTITUTION!"
And singing TACO TACO MAN, I want to be a TACO MAN. That is Conald’s favorite song, ya know.
I believe that what Guv Walz and others are doing is completely necessary and will help redirect people back to reality. It can no longer be repubs and demos. It must be about saving America.
We are in an existential crisis now. Something needs to be done now or it may be too late. Maga-ites follow their leader. Remember that. Remember the criminals he has pardoned. Is he building a new private militia? Also remember this quote: An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over its ashes. Sun Tzu. He doesn't care. Neither do his followers. Grift and graft. No sense of loyalty to the country, the courts or the Constitution. Only to his greed and needyness which can never be satisfied. No moral compass. That is the reality of what we're dealing with.
Do you think your country can survive another seventeen months with the damage and destruction Trumpolini Taco is doing. Just like with a malignant cancer the patient has more chance of surviving if it is surgically removed. There has to be a way of getting rid of him sooner than later.
One piece of essential legislation once adults are back in the White House is a method of removing a president from office if he breaches the law or the Constitution.
There is a method; Republicans just won't acknowledge to use it.
All we need are 3 House Republicans. Don't need them to convert -- just acquiesce. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
I’m sorry I just realized that my first comment was sent as a reply to your comment. I’m sorry it was meant to be in my own comment. 😬🙊
Yes. Tax the rich snd the companies. Corporations. They need to pay their fair share. That goes for world wide too.
Good morning Ben. Please educate the people on who Curtis Yarvin is as he is inspiring the younger generation of MAGA. He's a firm believer of destroying our democracy and we should have a monarch. It's not just fighting Trump, but The Heritage Foundation and Yarvin.
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=x5WCAt6WLcFow8ZY - this video is shocking & is pretty accurate- it’s what’s happening now - we need to stop this immediately! All the players are present.
Priceless…Hope that lady fully understands that this existence called life has MANY choices but in the end, eternity has only TWO…