I am admittedly a Star Wars geek but the story of the Jedi was based on very real religions and that is FEAR does in fact lead to Anger and then Hate. Time to leave Fear behind and keep the strength of Love with in us all. We Are all Angry, believe me I am myself way past angry. My fear is for what happens to you, the pain and suffering already endured by those that cannot defend themselves from this Regime. The ones taken from there homes, CHILDREN here in the U.S. What is in OUR White House is HATE and it is Fascism. Stand up and make yourselves heard. Support each other in every state even if you don't live in that state. Right now there are no boarders between states.
The Nazi Republicans Should Not Be Allowed To Govern For At Least 10y
The current Nazi Republican political movement guided by Project 2025’s white supremacist agenda has shown who they are This Christian Nationalist movement that the Nazi Republicans has fully supported really started in the Reagan years and finally has evolved to show its true racist, homophobic, xenophobic, fraudulent, dishonest, anti social safety net and pro wealth So greed is the Nazi Republican policy, pure and simple, NOT governing Americans are showing that they are completely against money in politics and they’re voting against politicians and AIPAC’s who are pushing their dollars to buy elections
By polling the American electorate is overwhelmingly opposed to such a government power grab by the greedy wealthy, aka oligarchs, and the only thing left for the Nazi propaganda machine led by right wing media channels such as Fox is to throw as much money as they can to try to influence the electorate But over and over again this “bribery” will not work as Musk found out in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Cheeto and his Nazi Republican allies figured they could buy their way to dictatorship with the help of oligarches but WE the People have different ideas about resisting big money in politics
I think the Republican Party should wither away. That political space could be filled by the Blue Dog Democrats splitting from the progressives. As for the greedy fools who thought hate and fear were the tools of power, let them sell Amway products, or pick up cans and bottles for recycling, once they get out of prison.
Brava Dina - "Joy is resistance. Love is more powerful than hate. And together, from Puerto Rico to the Pacific, from our immigrant stories to our shared voices, we are America." Brava Dina!!!!!!
One of our traditions is to sing happy birthday three times, in English, Spanish and Mandarin. We celebrate the Fourth of July but also Chinese New Year and Puerto Rican Day. I think we’re a very American family and I’m proud of each and every member.
Trump, Miller and Noem are a cancer on the body politic.
This paragraph says it all, "Together, We Are America is at the very heart of what our country means. It includes everyone who lives here in the United States of America: immigrants and descendants, citizens by birth and by choice, people who carry their own cultures with them rather than leaving them behind. It is a living tapestry of languages, traditions, and stories that make this nation whole." THANK YOU DINA!
Well stated, beautifully phrased. I understood not 1 word of bad bunny performance but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Something about the music, dancing, joy and happiness struck a chord in me amd made me feel happy and contented Bravo on the superbolw half time show and everyone who worked so hard to make it so memorable!
We all need to have that joy is resistance. The more of us that keep protesting peacefully the closer we will be to victory against this menace to our country. March 28 be peaceful
One of the best parts of America is its diversity and the opportunity for people to come here and have a fresh start in life where there are rights that protect them from oppression! We can’t let that be erased from our values. Bravo Big Bunny!
That's why France gave this country the Statue of Liberty in the first place! This MAGA REGIME has disgraced her as well! Bad Bunny gave her some dignity with his half time show, it was truly amazing!!
I LOVE your essay, Ms. Doll!! You said exactly the truth. Bad Bunny’s concert was pure joyousness, and I loved everything about it. I think it was the best halftime show ever, with the sets, the dancing, the music, and the guests. You are exactly right! Thank you for making me smile and choke up all over again.
Yeah! And the Seattle Seahawks mopped up the field with the aptly-named Patriots. That has to be some kind of omen. WE are the patriots, not those miserable gun-toting, fat, out-of-shape "gravy seals" who claim to be patriotic.
‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democratic Senator urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms.
From The Guardian
“The Democratic senator from Arizona ,Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
All praise to the Senator for proposing a meaningful method to oppose the fascist takeover of the country. We need people of his stature to lead this effort.
It is past time to escalate the resistance, and this proposal would certainly do that. But for many people, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. And for how long could most people keep it up? And with AI coming for a lot of people’s jobs, this would be the perfect opportunity for businesses to fire a lot of people.
Here’s another proposal that will work as well, without the collateral damage:
The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
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 the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Roughly half the population doesn't have a passport, and while it's likely not the same half, half the population is still living in the state where they were born. The level of cultural ignorance in the US, when compared to most other countries, explains a lot.
Not everyone can afford to travel or have the leisure to indulge in it, but putting that aside, I suspect those two sets of people actually do largely overlap. It seems logical to me. Thanks for the info.
Among the most powerful words ever spoken, by among the greatest man who ever lived:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am admittedly a Star Wars geek but the story of the Jedi was based on very real religions and that is FEAR does in fact lead to Anger and then Hate. Time to leave Fear behind and keep the strength of Love with in us all. We Are all Angry, believe me I am myself way past angry. My fear is for what happens to you, the pain and suffering already endured by those that cannot defend themselves from this Regime. The ones taken from there homes, CHILDREN here in the U.S. What is in OUR White House is HATE and it is Fascism. Stand up and make yourselves heard. Support each other in every state even if you don't live in that state. Right now there are no boarders between states.
The Nazi Republicans Should Not Be Allowed To Govern For At Least 10y
The current Nazi Republican political movement guided by Project 2025’s white supremacist agenda has shown who they are This Christian Nationalist movement that the Nazi Republicans has fully supported really started in the Reagan years and finally has evolved to show its true racist, homophobic, xenophobic, fraudulent, dishonest, anti social safety net and pro wealth So greed is the Nazi Republican policy, pure and simple, NOT governing Americans are showing that they are completely against money in politics and they’re voting against politicians and AIPAC’s who are pushing their dollars to buy elections
By polling the American electorate is overwhelmingly opposed to such a government power grab by the greedy wealthy, aka oligarchs, and the only thing left for the Nazi propaganda machine led by right wing media channels such as Fox is to throw as much money as they can to try to influence the electorate But over and over again this “bribery” will not work as Musk found out in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Cheeto and his Nazi Republican allies figured they could buy their way to dictatorship with the help of oligarches but WE the People have different ideas about resisting big money in politics
I think the Republican Party should wither away. That political space could be filled by the Blue Dog Democrats splitting from the progressives. As for the greedy fools who thought hate and fear were the tools of power, let them sell Amway products, or pick up cans and bottles for recycling, once they get out of prison.
Agree
I think they have already withered away. You can't really call an association of cowards a "party" of any stripe, other than perhaps the KKK.
The party of pedophiles.
I think the name is "Guardians Of Pedophiles"
If they get out of prison. Inmates do not like pedophiles.
The rest of us must make the term "Republican" as toxic and despised as the term "Nazi."
Amen bro
Not to govern EVER again... NEVER.
Brava Dina - "Joy is resistance. Love is more powerful than hate. And together, from Puerto Rico to the Pacific, from our immigrant stories to our shared voices, we are America." Brava Dina!!!!!!
One of our traditions is to sing happy birthday three times, in English, Spanish and Mandarin. We celebrate the Fourth of July but also Chinese New Year and Puerto Rican Day. I think we’re a very American family and I’m proud of each and every member.
Trump, Miller and Noem are a cancer on the body politic.
His entire kkkabinet! loser lutnick
This paragraph says it all, "Together, We Are America is at the very heart of what our country means. It includes everyone who lives here in the United States of America: immigrants and descendants, citizens by birth and by choice, people who carry their own cultures with them rather than leaving them behind. It is a living tapestry of languages, traditions, and stories that make this nation whole." THANK YOU DINA!
Well stated, beautifully phrased. I understood not 1 word of bad bunny performance but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Something about the music, dancing, joy and happiness struck a chord in me amd made me feel happy and contented Bravo on the superbolw half time show and everyone who worked so hard to make it so memorable!
We all need to have that joy is resistance. The more of us that keep protesting peacefully the closer we will be to victory against this menace to our country. March 28 be peaceful
One of the best parts of America is its diversity and the opportunity for people to come here and have a fresh start in life where there are rights that protect them from oppression! We can’t let that be erased from our values. Bravo Big Bunny!
That's why France gave this country the Statue of Liberty in the first place! This MAGA REGIME has disgraced her as well! Bad Bunny gave her some dignity with his half time show, it was truly amazing!!
I LOVE your essay, Ms. Doll!! You said exactly the truth. Bad Bunny’s concert was pure joyousness, and I loved everything about it. I think it was the best halftime show ever, with the sets, the dancing, the music, and the guests. You are exactly right! Thank you for making me smile and choke up all over again.
Good Bad Bunny…
Really GOOD 💕
Where can you get the t shirt? Together We Are America!
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I like this too!
Yeah! And the Seattle Seahawks mopped up the field with the aptly-named Patriots. That has to be some kind of omen. WE are the patriots, not those miserable gun-toting, fat, out-of-shape "gravy seals" who claim to be patriotic.
Brandi Carlisle’s rendition of America the Beautiful was also outstanding; in a way haunting
‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democratic Senator urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms.
From The Guardian
“The Democratic senator from Arizona ,Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
All praise to the Senator for proposing a meaningful method to oppose the fascist takeover of the country. We need people of his stature to lead this effort.
It is past time to escalate the resistance, and this proposal would certainly do that. But for many people, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. And for how long could most people keep it up? And with AI coming for a lot of people’s jobs, this would be the perfect opportunity for businesses to fire a lot of people.
Here’s another proposal that will work as well, without the collateral damage:
The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
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 the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Now is the time for this Peaceful Solution.
Of course this could work, but only if we ALL participated in concert.
I am willing.
Excellent. Spread the Word!
That is it! We, The People, must act in unison.
Yes. Spread the Word!
100%!
Roughly half the population doesn't have a passport, and while it's likely not the same half, half the population is still living in the state where they were born. The level of cultural ignorance in the US, when compared to most other countries, explains a lot.
Not everyone can afford to travel or have the leisure to indulge in it, but putting that aside, I suspect those two sets of people actually do largely overlap. It seems logical to me. Thanks for the info.