If our country ever gets out of the mess we are in, I would like to see those running for office (President, Vice President, all cabinet members, members of congress and senate) to have to pass some type of test to see if they really understand our constitution before they are permitted to even run or be chosen. It seems to me that a lot of those in power are extremely lacking in knowledge as to how to even run our country. From our current dictator on down the line, it seems as if they are flying by the seat of their pants. They have no character, moral standards nor concern for those they represent. As an 80 year old senior, I am totally disgusted over how we got into this mess and if we will ever be able to get out of it.
I think anyone running for political office should show proof of an education of some sort, at least HS Diploma for city offices. State and federal , congress, president, vp, cabinet members should have college degrees. The pentagon should have people that were officers in the top jobs. There should be a requirement for all elected officials to have a clean record, no felonies or DUI's etc. Intelligence is necessary to be able to do your job properly. Teachers have to pass tests to teach others, medical people have to take exams before they can work, lawyers have to take exams And in medicine you can not have a criminal record even if it is a misdemeanor. If you have anything you have togo before the professional board of the state to prove you have rehabilitated or taken courses to correct what you did. to show you are safe to work with patients in a medical setting.
I’m just praying we have the mid-terms, and t doesn’t run for an unconstitutional third time. But so far it seems he, and MAGA and even others, are all in. WTF? I want to wake up from this nightmare so badly.
And a grounding in politics at the level where you have to do the REALLY HARD yards to make any progress should be a standard requirement. Just waltzing in from out of the blue with a foghorn and a large bag of money isn't the kind of politics America ever needed! But for some, it's the easiest way to make their wealth work for THEM!
Extreme wealth, in the wrong hands, has become the biggest danger to American democracy!
I agree but I would slightly re-word one sentence. To say intelligence is necessary to do your job properly, is a little insulting to other non-governmental workers. People can be practically skilled, without necessarily having a high IQ level. I think it should say, intelligence in your chosen area of expertise, is necessary for effective employment in the field of governmental or local politics; whether it be political, economical, scientific, diplomatic, judicial etc. Some kind of experience or education in that area must be without question. They should in my opinion be vetted on extreme views, their willingless to represent EVERY sector of society and business, without prejudice of any kind, and undergo a training period, even for the role of president, so they know the professional code of conduct expected, understand the constitution, scope and limitations of their permitted job capabilities. Without question, have a clear criminal record, and have lived a clean, wholesome, non-contraversial life, and be blessed with morals and public decency at the very least :)
I agree and have been saying that for years! Especially on the State Level. Especially when people vote not based on the person and experience but based on party alone.
I wish I could do more but I can only stretch $1200/month so far. With what little is left I give to the people that are homeless. Another reason I want to get back to work. I used to donate to a food pantry and that felt good. I need y feel that. It fuels me. So if I can get hired somewhere I'll be a subscriber.
I know exactly how you feel I feel guilty belonging to this wonderful organization that keeps us informed of the real news and what's going on in the world. I am a shut-in and never get out in the real world I live alone and hardly ever see any people. I'm on a small fixed income as well and I know what it's like to try to budget your money so you can have food and I can feed my little dog. I have asked before about how much the paid subscription is but can't find anywhere to find out. If I'm not able to contribute I should not be enjoying the privileges of the other members.
We do what we can Bella. I can't right now,but I sure as hell am not staying quiet. I repost to Bluesky to help reach more people. I make those calls to senators and reps. I participate in zoom meetings with senators and 50501 protest. I find other ways to help meanwhile. Don't feel bad though. I have a cat. And well he comes first before paying for a subscription. But I'll get there out of pure anger and determination.
This morning June 20, around 9am Pacific Time, the 9th Circuit has given its decision to leave Trump's Troops in LA under the control of the presidency while California's case winds its way through the courts.
In the meantime, they deferred to Trumps "judgement" of national security issues, erring on the side of caution, until it’s more clearly determined whether what Trump believes is actually grounded in reality.
They rejected Trumps argument that he could do anything. The court emphasized that while it is deferring to the president’s judgment at this stage, it does not consider that judgment immune from legal challenge.
No matter what had happened in the 9th Circuit ruling, both sides were prepared to take the fight all the way. Eventually, the Supreme Court will have the final say.
Historically, SCOTUS has ruled against unchecked presidential power in similar cases. Even though Trump won the 9th Circuit appeal, the Supreme Court is likely to overturn it later just on precedent alone.
“This case is far from over,” California's Attorney General Rob Bonta said in response to the [9th Circuit] ruling. “While the court did not provide immediate relief for [LA] today, we remain confident in our arguments and will continue the fight.”
“The court rightly rejected Trump’s claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court,” Newsom said. “The President is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens.”
Newsom and California are already appealing the 9th Circuit's decision.
The ruling Thursday morning largely returns the case back to Judge Breyer.
Unlike Breyer, whose order returned control of the National Guard to California, the 9th Circuit largely ignored the question of whether Los Angeles protests constituted a “rebellion.”
Judge Breyer will later hear on the same day of the 9th Circuit ruling, an injunction request from California that expands the original issues to include Trump’s misuse of the Marines and the Posse Comitatus Act.
Along the way, these arguments will be further refined and the interpretation of the law and constitution will become more obvious to everybody. It's how the judiciary process works to get to the bottom of things.
It's important to continue peaceful protests using signage and speeches, while still showing our visibly growing numbers.
Do not give Trump a chance to legitimize his deployment of the national guard, or the use of his paramilitary version of the gestapo he calls ICE.
Trump can command National Guard as California’s legal challenge moves forward, appeals court says
The courts seem to bend over backwards for Trump. He is a convicted felon, liar, a bully, is now terrorizing people with ice(as you astutely point out gestapo) raids all over, sent Elon Musk (and Peter Thiel) to steal or private information and destroy our government, constantly breaks the law and violates the constitution. Why do they treat him under our laws like he is not a criminal. Oh, maybe because the Supremes have given him a license to do whatever the hell he wants. I wish I understood this madness that we are living in. Peaceful protesting, calling our elected representatives--must dos.
The courts know Trump is a thug and a bully! If they don't treat him with kid (no exaggeration there!) gloves, he will hurl into a tantrum and send his baying mob after anyone who stands in his way. That's what Trump thinks citizens want from the President - "toughness"! Since his version is paranoid derangement, they reckon it's safer to err on the side of caution. After all, there have already been two deaths recently, apparently due simply to being on the "wrong" side of the dictatorship!
What a well-written commentary. Such a righteous call out to patriots. I wish the people who need to read this and consider their stance in this fraught time would actually read it and maybe allow true concern for their country to override their blind allegiance to a totally addled and unpatriotic politician who has no love of country-. His only ambition is for personal power and to line his own pockets.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, as well as those in others. Use your voice and make some “good trouble” ❤️🩹🤍💙
5 Calls app. Provides you with issues and talking points if you want, and direct lines to call your Senators and Congresspersons. Even reminds you to do so! I use it on a regular basis.
Yup, 5Calls is awesome. It’s at the top of my sheet along with other great resources - Card Campaign, ActionNetwork, ResistBot, Indivisible, and some others for “how to take action right now.” But I didn’t want to keep changing my state when I was making my calls so listed them out, and wanted to be able to email after my kids went to bed (especially if voicemails were full). I still use the scripts though and highly recommend 5calls.
One thing in the Budget Bill that should get every hunter, fisher, hiker, backpacker and Taylor Act grazing leaseholder riled up is its provision to sell off over 3 million acres of public lands immediately and authorization to sell off another 250 million + acres without a plan, EIS, public notice or opportunity for public comment.
Backcountry Hunters Assn, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and a number f other conservation & outdoor organizations are calling for June 25 as a day to flood the Senate with calls opposing the Budget Bill in its current form. You can call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to connect with your Senators in Washington D.C. Let them hear what you think.
Their idea seems to be they would build housing on that land. How stupid! Most of it is located in isolated areas, far from jobs and infrastructure. Really, it's a land grab for rich people who are the only ones who can afford to live in isolation. Or, extract resources from it for huge profits.
Sounds like what happened several years ago in Tennessee where I live. We had some of the most beautiful Farms out in this area that had been in families for Generations and the Republicans got together and declared imminent domain on all of the land even more than what they supposedly needed to bring industry and lots of jobs to the county as far as I know the only things that were built were a couple of boat manufacturing places that only build boats that rich people can afford and the farmers were forced off of their land and arrested before they flooded the whole valley to make beautiful lakefront property for the wealthy. They can do whatever they want to to the little people and get away with it and they know it.
I've lived most of my life in the mountain west and have seen the green-roof trophy homes, with their animal-proof fences, septic tanks and no trespassing signs, go up in prime sites all over the best places: in winter range for elk, along the best streams, even blocking access to public lands. "They" just want it all now.
These political people say empathy is a weakness and support this bill show little regard for the hurting American people who can not meet the expectations of tRUMP and republicans because it is a time when empathy is a Weakness as sold by Steven Miller etc..
If only the upper-level congressional Democrats had caught on earlier. They had literally *decades* -- back at least to the Gingri(n)ch years -- but they couldn't or wouldn't believe their eyes and ears. *Some* of them caught on, mostly people of color and a few white women, but the so-called "moderate" Dems kept calling them "left" or "far left" and even partying with Republicans in the "Problem-Solvers Caucus." I give President Biden credit for catching on, old school as he is. I wonder how many of the anonymous insiders trying to undermine him thought his economic initiatives were a sign of mental decline.
We , the People need to put major pressure on the Republican representatives to RESIST, to counter the CHAOS, CONFUSION, CORRUPTION, CONSPIRACIES & CRUELTY!!
History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes Herbert Hoover presided over the calamitous equity market collapse of 1929 and then ushered in the Smoot Hawley tariffs in 1931 A year later the American electorate had enough and FDR was elected into office In that same decade the growing influential Nazi party in the US began using the political slogan “Make America First”
Now the US electorate has chosen a Nazi solution after being lied to by Cheeto and his Nazi sychophants using the banner “Make America Great Again” And like Hoover Cheeto believes that the path to greater prosperity and solving inflation is the imposition of tariffs recognizing that the “golden era of tariffs” in the late 1890’s brought about increased wealth for the already wealthy while stiffing the middle class It’s a classic Reagan “trickle down economics” ploy and has proven in studies over decades not to work
But there’s a gathering storm for Cheeto Not only are his polling numbers under water he’s hard at work to push the dollar into oblivion and throw the country’s economy into default by alienating foreign investors to not only stop supporting US debt but reducing equity investment as well(sharp drop in the stock market)
It will take time but during Cheeto’s term it will become clear that Cheeto will be “Hoovered” by the American electorate
Trump is like the arrogant airline pilot of the old days. Flying into a mountain, his crew dare not correct him. The GOP, like many other governing set-ups, badly needs a culture change. For its own safety and of course ours.
I do not understand how the rethuglican members sleep at night and look at themselves in the mirror knowing they are nothing but greedy hypocrites and sycophants without a speck of morals, ethics, or integrity. Thanks a whole bunch, Mitch McConnell.
Michael, again I must say, You write very well...!
My thought on what to do, is to start a VIGIL in front of the Capitol Building. This would be a VIGIL-Around-The-Clock. A peaceful VIGIL, an ENDLESS VIGIL, until the Senate CORRECTS THE INJUSTICES INCLUDED in the "LESS THAN BEAUTIFUL BILL" Repulsive Republikkkans have KONKOCTED!!!!
Working people could join he VIGIL when they can give a few hours, day or night. They can leave when they have to, but other concerned citizens will join as their schedule permits. People can hold candles at night. We can have speakers, chant songs or relevant poems, or just BE THERE, SILENT, BUT DETERMINED TO STAND FOR JUSTICE TO THE FAMILIES THAT NEED FOOD AND HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE. We could have signs stating our needs and demands...
If our country ever gets out of the mess we are in, I would like to see those running for office (President, Vice President, all cabinet members, members of congress and senate) to have to pass some type of test to see if they really understand our constitution before they are permitted to even run or be chosen. It seems to me that a lot of those in power are extremely lacking in knowledge as to how to even run our country. From our current dictator on down the line, it seems as if they are flying by the seat of their pants. They have no character, moral standards nor concern for those they represent. As an 80 year old senior, I am totally disgusted over how we got into this mess and if we will ever be able to get out of it.
I think anyone running for political office should show proof of an education of some sort, at least HS Diploma for city offices. State and federal , congress, president, vp, cabinet members should have college degrees. The pentagon should have people that were officers in the top jobs. There should be a requirement for all elected officials to have a clean record, no felonies or DUI's etc. Intelligence is necessary to be able to do your job properly. Teachers have to pass tests to teach others, medical people have to take exams before they can work, lawyers have to take exams And in medicine you can not have a criminal record even if it is a misdemeanor. If you have anything you have togo before the professional board of the state to prove you have rehabilitated or taken courses to correct what you did. to show you are safe to work with patients in a medical setting.
I’m just praying we have the mid-terms, and t doesn’t run for an unconstitutional third time. But so far it seems he, and MAGA and even others, are all in. WTF? I want to wake up from this nightmare so badly.
Right there with you!!!
So do I!!!!
Same here!
And a grounding in politics at the level where you have to do the REALLY HARD yards to make any progress should be a standard requirement. Just waltzing in from out of the blue with a foghorn and a large bag of money isn't the kind of politics America ever needed! But for some, it's the easiest way to make their wealth work for THEM!
Extreme wealth, in the wrong hands, has become the biggest danger to American democracy!
I agree but I would slightly re-word one sentence. To say intelligence is necessary to do your job properly, is a little insulting to other non-governmental workers. People can be practically skilled, without necessarily having a high IQ level. I think it should say, intelligence in your chosen area of expertise, is necessary for effective employment in the field of governmental or local politics; whether it be political, economical, scientific, diplomatic, judicial etc. Some kind of experience or education in that area must be without question. They should in my opinion be vetted on extreme views, their willingless to represent EVERY sector of society and business, without prejudice of any kind, and undergo a training period, even for the role of president, so they know the professional code of conduct expected, understand the constitution, scope and limitations of their permitted job capabilities. Without question, have a clear criminal record, and have lived a clean, wholesome, non-contraversial life, and be blessed with morals and public decency at the very least :)
Gotta be intelligent even to bag groceries; you can’t put the butter on top of the hot roasted chicken in the same bag.
Agree. Knowledge of your area of specific work
No damn felon’s!
Amen to this Teri. Maybe things will turn around. I hope and pray it does.
202 225 3121 call any member of congress. So many problems to worry n work on!
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I agree and have been saying that for years! Especially on the State Level. Especially when people vote not based on the person and experience but based on party alone.
HEAR, HEAR!!!!
(How do they spell that?)
You have used a valuable word today. Adult. Same as grown up. Or evolved. Or aware. Or taking no more bullshit.
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I'm doing everything I can.
I wish I could do more but I can only stretch $1200/month so far. With what little is left I give to the people that are homeless. Another reason I want to get back to work. I used to donate to a food pantry and that felt good. I need y feel that. It fuels me. So if I can get hired somewhere I'll be a subscriber.
Same here!
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I know exactly how you feel I feel guilty belonging to this wonderful organization that keeps us informed of the real news and what's going on in the world. I am a shut-in and never get out in the real world I live alone and hardly ever see any people. I'm on a small fixed income as well and I know what it's like to try to budget your money so you can have food and I can feed my little dog. I have asked before about how much the paid subscription is but can't find anywhere to find out. If I'm not able to contribute I should not be enjoying the privileges of the other members.
We do what we can Bella. I can't right now,but I sure as hell am not staying quiet. I repost to Bluesky to help reach more people. I make those calls to senators and reps. I participate in zoom meetings with senators and 50501 protest. I find other ways to help meanwhile. Don't feel bad though. I have a cat. And well he comes first before paying for a subscription. But I'll get there out of pure anger and determination.
This morning June 20, around 9am Pacific Time, the 9th Circuit has given its decision to leave Trump's Troops in LA under the control of the presidency while California's case winds its way through the courts.
In the meantime, they deferred to Trumps "judgement" of national security issues, erring on the side of caution, until it’s more clearly determined whether what Trump believes is actually grounded in reality.
They rejected Trumps argument that he could do anything. The court emphasized that while it is deferring to the president’s judgment at this stage, it does not consider that judgment immune from legal challenge.
No matter what had happened in the 9th Circuit ruling, both sides were prepared to take the fight all the way. Eventually, the Supreme Court will have the final say.
Historically, SCOTUS has ruled against unchecked presidential power in similar cases. Even though Trump won the 9th Circuit appeal, the Supreme Court is likely to overturn it later just on precedent alone.
“This case is far from over,” California's Attorney General Rob Bonta said in response to the [9th Circuit] ruling. “While the court did not provide immediate relief for [LA] today, we remain confident in our arguments and will continue the fight.”
“The court rightly rejected Trump’s claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court,” Newsom said. “The President is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens.”
Newsom and California are already appealing the 9th Circuit's decision.
The ruling Thursday morning largely returns the case back to Judge Breyer.
Unlike Breyer, whose order returned control of the National Guard to California, the 9th Circuit largely ignored the question of whether Los Angeles protests constituted a “rebellion.”
Judge Breyer will later hear on the same day of the 9th Circuit ruling, an injunction request from California that expands the original issues to include Trump’s misuse of the Marines and the Posse Comitatus Act.
Along the way, these arguments will be further refined and the interpretation of the law and constitution will become more obvious to everybody. It's how the judiciary process works to get to the bottom of things.
It's important to continue peaceful protests using signage and speeches, while still showing our visibly growing numbers.
Do not give Trump a chance to legitimize his deployment of the national guard, or the use of his paramilitary version of the gestapo he calls ICE.
Trump can command National Guard as California’s legal challenge moves forward, appeals court says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-19/9th-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-on-los-angeles-military-deployment
Trump allowed to keep control of National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles by appeals court
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-allowed-to-keep-control-of-national-guard-troops-deployed-to-los-angeles-by-appeals-court
Keep those...
🍁 Elbows UP! 🏒
The courts seem to bend over backwards for Trump. He is a convicted felon, liar, a bully, is now terrorizing people with ice(as you astutely point out gestapo) raids all over, sent Elon Musk (and Peter Thiel) to steal or private information and destroy our government, constantly breaks the law and violates the constitution. Why do they treat him under our laws like he is not a criminal. Oh, maybe because the Supremes have given him a license to do whatever the hell he wants. I wish I understood this madness that we are living in. Peaceful protesting, calling our elected representatives--must dos.
The courts know Trump is a thug and a bully! If they don't treat him with kid (no exaggeration there!) gloves, he will hurl into a tantrum and send his baying mob after anyone who stands in his way. That's what Trump thinks citizens want from the President - "toughness"! Since his version is paranoid derangement, they reckon it's safer to err on the side of caution. After all, there have already been two deaths recently, apparently due simply to being on the "wrong" side of the dictatorship!
And when they don’t bend over backwards, and rule correctly, the orders are ignored. So what good are they in the real world?
202 225 3121 gets any member of congress! Call them! Daily!
Big bad bummer bill. Hell NO
No sale or drilling on public lands . Mike Lee can fo!
No damn war!
No damn Nobel Prize!
Get every rethuglikkkrussian out of office! To damn many trump ass kissers.
CALL 202 225 3121 CALL DAILY
We are the voice of reason and logic repukelicans refuse to listen to.
The republikkkans are out of control
What a well-written commentary. Such a righteous call out to patriots. I wish the people who need to read this and consider their stance in this fraught time would actually read it and maybe allow true concern for their country to override their blind allegiance to a totally addled and unpatriotic politician who has no love of country-. His only ambition is for personal power and to line his own pockets.
Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, as well as those in others. Use your voice and make some “good trouble” ❤️🩹🤍💙
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
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You’re welcome! Thanks for speaking up right now!
5 Calls app. Provides you with issues and talking points if you want, and direct lines to call your Senators and Congresspersons. Even reminds you to do so! I use it on a regular basis.
Yup, 5Calls is awesome. It’s at the top of my sheet along with other great resources - Card Campaign, ActionNetwork, ResistBot, Indivisible, and some others for “how to take action right now.” But I didn’t want to keep changing my state when I was making my calls so listed them out, and wanted to be able to email after my kids went to bed (especially if voicemails were full). I still use the scripts though and highly recommend 5calls.
One thing in the Budget Bill that should get every hunter, fisher, hiker, backpacker and Taylor Act grazing leaseholder riled up is its provision to sell off over 3 million acres of public lands immediately and authorization to sell off another 250 million + acres without a plan, EIS, public notice or opportunity for public comment.
Backcountry Hunters Assn, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and a number f other conservation & outdoor organizations are calling for June 25 as a day to flood the Senate with calls opposing the Budget Bill in its current form. You can call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to connect with your Senators in Washington D.C. Let them hear what you think.
This public lands sell out, and getting rid of National Monuments, make my blood boil.
Mine too. And if the MSM were doing their job, a lot of red-state residents would realize they've been had and become ex-MAGA supporters.
The red states will realize it if the damn big bad bummer bill is passed in its current state!
202 225 3121. Call any member of congress! Daily.
Their idea seems to be they would build housing on that land. How stupid! Most of it is located in isolated areas, far from jobs and infrastructure. Really, it's a land grab for rich people who are the only ones who can afford to live in isolation. Or, extract resources from it for huge profits.
Sounds like what happened several years ago in Tennessee where I live. We had some of the most beautiful Farms out in this area that had been in families for Generations and the Republicans got together and declared imminent domain on all of the land even more than what they supposedly needed to bring industry and lots of jobs to the county as far as I know the only things that were built were a couple of boat manufacturing places that only build boats that rich people can afford and the farmers were forced off of their land and arrested before they flooded the whole valley to make beautiful lakefront property for the wealthy. They can do whatever they want to to the little people and get away with it and they know it.
💪we must rise up. Protest.
202 225 3121
I know I post it a lot. But we need to inundate the trump asskissing po💩. They need to know the big bad bill is a nonstarter. Needs MAJOR overhaul .
I've lived most of my life in the mountain west and have seen the green-roof trophy homes, with their animal-proof fences, septic tanks and no trespassing signs, go up in prime sites all over the best places: in winter range for elk, along the best streams, even blocking access to public lands. "They" just want it all now.
These political people say empathy is a weakness and support this bill show little regard for the hurting American people who can not meet the expectations of tRUMP and republicans because it is a time when empathy is a Weakness as sold by Steven Miller etc..
If only the upper-level congressional Democrats had caught on earlier. They had literally *decades* -- back at least to the Gingri(n)ch years -- but they couldn't or wouldn't believe their eyes and ears. *Some* of them caught on, mostly people of color and a few white women, but the so-called "moderate" Dems kept calling them "left" or "far left" and even partying with Republicans in the "Problem-Solvers Caucus." I give President Biden credit for catching on, old school as he is. I wonder how many of the anonymous insiders trying to undermine him thought his economic initiatives were a sign of mental decline.
Everything that trump is doing and Congress s/b doing! And crazy comer n the senate are investigating President Biden!🤬🤬🤬
The GOPers in Congress have drank a ton of kool-aid. Getting out of the cult would take a miracle.
Too bad it doesn’t make them sick! Really sick!
If Trump succeeds and becomes a true dictator, wouldn't Congress become even more irrelevant? Aren't they "yessing" themselves out of a job?
Congress is irrelevant already!
they don’t do anything now!
We , the People need to put major pressure on the Republican representatives to RESIST, to counter the CHAOS, CONFUSION, CORRUPTION, CONSPIRACIES & CRUELTY!!
CALL 202 225 3121 gets any member of congress! Call the trump asskkssers. Give them hell.
The aide that answers or leave a message! I like to tell them the rethuglikkkrussians party will be extinct!
202 225 3121
Orange Cheeto and Herbert Hoover
History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes Herbert Hoover presided over the calamitous equity market collapse of 1929 and then ushered in the Smoot Hawley tariffs in 1931 A year later the American electorate had enough and FDR was elected into office In that same decade the growing influential Nazi party in the US began using the political slogan “Make America First”
Now the US electorate has chosen a Nazi solution after being lied to by Cheeto and his Nazi sychophants using the banner “Make America Great Again” And like Hoover Cheeto believes that the path to greater prosperity and solving inflation is the imposition of tariffs recognizing that the “golden era of tariffs” in the late 1890’s brought about increased wealth for the already wealthy while stiffing the middle class It’s a classic Reagan “trickle down economics” ploy and has proven in studies over decades not to work
But there’s a gathering storm for Cheeto Not only are his polling numbers under water he’s hard at work to push the dollar into oblivion and throw the country’s economy into default by alienating foreign investors to not only stop supporting US debt but reducing equity investment as well(sharp drop in the stock market)
It will take time but during Cheeto’s term it will become clear that Cheeto will be “Hoovered” by the American electorate
Trump is like the arrogant airline pilot of the old days. Flying into a mountain, his crew dare not correct him. The GOP, like many other governing set-ups, badly needs a culture change. For its own safety and of course ours.
I do not understand how the rethuglican members sleep at night and look at themselves in the mirror knowing they are nothing but greedy hypocrites and sycophants without a speck of morals, ethics, or integrity. Thanks a whole bunch, Mitch McConnell.
Michael, again I must say, You write very well...!
My thought on what to do, is to start a VIGIL in front of the Capitol Building. This would be a VIGIL-Around-The-Clock. A peaceful VIGIL, an ENDLESS VIGIL, until the Senate CORRECTS THE INJUSTICES INCLUDED in the "LESS THAN BEAUTIFUL BILL" Repulsive Republikkkans have KONKOCTED!!!!
Working people could join he VIGIL when they can give a few hours, day or night. They can leave when they have to, but other concerned citizens will join as their schedule permits. People can hold candles at night. We can have speakers, chant songs or relevant poems, or just BE THERE, SILENT, BUT DETERMINED TO STAND FOR JUSTICE TO THE FAMILIES THAT NEED FOOD AND HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE. We could have signs stating our needs and demands...
Daphne Kontanis
Great idea! I would if I could!
202 225 3121 call any member of Congress! Daily!
Live in a red state?