While Trump saluted empty grandstands and cut birthday cake with generals, millions of Americans hit the streets to remind him this isn’t a monarchy—yet.
Sorry Michael but I have to say it....we were shocked when the 2024 results came in. Nothing made sense. Too many oddities. 2 + 2 did not equal 4. I will never be convinced there was not improprieties going on. Nobody said anything because we didn't want to look like the other party did in the 2020 election. "The polls say we were winning" because We Were Winning. You will never convince me and millions more that DT won all 7 swing states!!
I too agree with you Audrey .. it just does not make any sense .. especially given that musk did a visit just a couple of weeks before the election .. to each of the swing states 😤
So did Trump ,they aren't sneaking in their Racist Agenda(project Hitler) they're as Out and Proud as the PrOud Boi's.. no fear of anything but the Orange Turd 🤯
Only way Rep have won ,why they put it in play.. was too fair to have 1 Vote count as 1 Vote... Who allowed the electoral College Anyways? 🤔 Don't even need to look it up ...
Electoral college made sense before modern transportation and communication. Colonists could not get to polling places so sent an "elector" with their proxies. Electoral college representatives are not allowed to make any decisions. That's the original rules. I believe it was the electors that changed their mandate to tRumpass against the law and for no APPARENT reason. Money? Positions in government? Threats to them, their families or livelihoods? Just a theory but, it fits the scenario perfectly. tRump rewards those who "love him" and believes they actually admire him. Amazing how delusional he can be. THERE IS NO LONGER ANY LEGITIMATE REASON FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. True Democracy by definition is ONE CITIZEN, ONE VOTE. Directly without detours.
The tRump and his Musk Rat have the money and technology to rig an election. I will never believe that he won fairly! I hear they are recounting. In a perfect world they will prove that they cheated and Harris will take her rightful position and undo all the evil deeds that the tRump and his administration from hell has committed!
You idiot You sound like Trump 10 years ago,,, there never ever was a mention of an unfair election,,, Now,,, you assoles are drinking the Kool Aid....fucking dumb hopeless shit balls
hey...IDIOT...at least we didn't storm the Capital Building, injuring over 140 Capital Police in trying to overthrow the 2020 election results!!!!! Hold my beer...you IDIOT!!!
What I need to know Why Dems didn't do any Recounts and Or Find out Exactly WTH happened???? No Way He Won but nothing was said or done because????? DEMS dropped the Ball and still so many Doing Nothing but be Complacent 😡🤬🤯
Absolutely Stinky election! So many things the Felon spouted like: you’ll never have to vote again, Musk: without me he would have lost the election …Mr XStarlinkDOGESpaceX,(what is it about this infatuation with X’s?) There are smart, technologically wise people looking at the data and scratching their heads, and the surface, of all of this malarkey!
I'm very impressed with your thoughtful and insightful response, as well as your expansive vocabulary. I'm sure it will bring many people around to your way of thinking.
I went to my first protest in Arlington, TX. It was such a a blast. I took my son with me, now he wants to go to the next and take his snare drum. I thought 'hell yeah, Mark. I'll take a cowbell or some other instrument. I told him let's get fucking loud. Let's have a blast. Let's get people to want to move to the beat. Let's do this. Working on a clever poster message too. Saw a lot of nice ones.
Those are awesome ideas especially the getting loud part! June 14 - The Biggest Most Beautiful Day since Election Day!
We had two back to back No Kings protests in Grand Rapids, Michigan! The morning started with perfect weather. Not too hot or cold and plenty of sunshine. As far as I could see, multi-generational people of many complexion were standing in solidarity to let the whole world know that we want the tRump out of our White House! Just like our April 5th (but on a much larger scale) people were of course angry about our administration from hell but the celebratory feeling that comes from uniting together brought a joy to our community. Our city was filled with flag waving children even babies to proud veterans and seniors. Not a hint of racism, no MAGAt instigators and I am sure they were there but I never noticed a single police officer.
Indivisible's event was held at Ah-Nab-Awen Park along side the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and when it was over we marched to the 50-50-1 protest at Rosa Parks Circle. That event ended with a second march that lead many of us to Calder Plaza for lunch at the Asian Pacific Festival. From there some of us attended the Three Fires Pow Wow at Riverside Park. After dark, my family also attended the Asian Lantern Festival at John Ball Zoo.
How is that for diversity Grand Rapids!? Don't let the tRump know he may arrest us all - lol!
For me, the day ended with news that there were successful No Kings Events around the world! The icing on the cake was hearing that hardly anyone showed up in DC for the tRump's military/birthday parade. That made June 14, 2025 the Bigger Most Beautiful Day since the election! Good job American for ruining the tRump's birthday! Here's the story with pictures if you want some poster ideas - https://onemommy.substack.com/p/june-14-the-biggest-most-beautiful?r=113nff
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing.
Me too. I live in OK, a red state of white supremest “dumb Okies”, and our representatives/senators just send the same email back to everything - never respond appropriately to the exact matter. But they believe all the lies and think they’re Christians, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
I get that. I don’t think we’ll see many big waves (like a major MAGA Congress member changing their opinions), however I think we can cause little ripples. I’m thinking staff members who hear the same thing over and over via voicemail, phone calls, letter after letter, email after email - maybe they’ll be a little more receptive each time they hear from us. Maybe they’ll talk more about our talking points to friends and family, maybeeee they’ll vote differently (if we get to vote again). I think we can cause ripples to push news organizations to be more honest and maybe even a bit accusatory about what’s happening. As a collective, our volume matters. And, at the end of the day, if we just annoy and overwhelm some staffers working for people hurting the average American, I’m ok with that too 🙃
I still question the legitimacy of the vote especially since Musk bragged about his Skylink interfering with PA voting machines. If he did it there how many others did he do it to?
Trump’s Grande Parade! What a bore. Trump saluting. Mr. Bone Spurs, really? A draft dodger saluting. It always makes my heart go to thumping as I puke. Empty bleachers. How embarrassing. Melania falling asleep. Donald morose. Now, can we have something for which to vote? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/a-just-movement?r=3m1bs
It was insulting to our brave military. Especially that Hegseth was not saluting, even when dump was. I will admit I only saw a couple of clips, so maybe he did at other times, but still a nauseating display.
The people got the message through that the nation has had enough of the most evil and disliked president ever. Keep the pressure up and force this degenerate creature who puts $ above baby cancer research to resign in disgust when his peers realize the time bomb will cause with a generation loss of both house and senate. Before rats flee the sinking ship may not hesitate to betray there corrupt leader.
Yes. Typical Dump. Couldn't help but laugh at the part of your comment there where you stated "......Spurs tried to blame the bad weather reports......." Thanks!
I usually love your columns and agree with a lot of this but you missed a huge part of why we lost - racism and misogyny. The more y’all ignore that, the more entrenched it will become. This country ignores misogyny because it’s still a country that prides itself on its male POV. This is a country that was lucky to have a black president and will never, ever, ever have a female president as long as the blinders stay on.
I say it all the time that 77 million plus Americans couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black woman. I was identifying a different part of the root cause.
TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE MEIDAS MIGHTY. I GOT A BIRTHDAY SONG 4 TACO CRY BABY TRUMP. ITS MY PARTY I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO. CRY IF I WANT TO CRY IF I WANT TO. U WOULD OF TO IF IT HAPPEN TO U.! U FOOL TRUMP.
Captain CatheterDepends Donnie drags turn's everything he touches to sh%t!....Even the legacy of the iconic M1 Sherman the WW2 iconic tank clanking down the street.........has been defiled by being part of a nazi/fascist military parade!!!! Shame Shame Shame on the Orange low life parasitic fool.
Sorry, but I am tired of hearing how the Democrats need to "listen better to people" and "Use simple terms". blah, blah, blah! This self-flagellation has to stop! You should listen again to Harris's, Waltz's and Biden's and speeches. It wasn't all some esoteric BS. They talked plans. They were in town halls, union meetings, etc. People wanted to believe that they did.
If people forgot about the insurrection on Jan 6 and voted for that man, what hope is there? If paying more for gas and groceries, watching T______p make cuts to medical benefits, decimate programs that will affect their health and their kids, ruin their businesses, etc. doesn't light a fire of change under people, what hope is there?
Maybe it s time for tough parenting. They are not toddlers. They are grown-ass adults. So maybe we should have the expectation that they act like one. Maybe stop expecting someone to spoon feed them clever slogans to make the right choice. If that is what it takes, what hope is there? T_____p and his cronies could simply come up with a better slogan. That's the point!
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I truly believe there was something amiss about the election. I cannot believe that a majority of voters put this monster into office. Something stinks and no one can make me believe otherwise! There were too many times during his campaign that he alluded to the fact that there was going to be a big surprise coming. I especially remember when he looked at Mike Johnson with a wink, wink, and a nod that they had a surprise coming!
Trash talking media attention is fine for awhile (mainstream & independent to grap headlines), but when are we going to direct attention to DEMOCRATIC leaders who are failing to initiate counter operations much less plan for 2026 or 2028? DNC is a mess with infighting. Center Independents and DEMS are the majority in this country and should act like it. Make sure we show up for these parades and republican town halls. They're time is limited. We need to remind them now and as we near 2026 they are turncoats whose time has come and gone.
Sorry Michael but I have to say it....we were shocked when the 2024 results came in. Nothing made sense. Too many oddities. 2 + 2 did not equal 4. I will never be convinced there was not improprieties going on. Nobody said anything because we didn't want to look like the other party did in the 2020 election. "The polls say we were winning" because We Were Winning. You will never convince me and millions more that DT won all 7 swing states!!
I too agree with you Audrey .. it just does not make any sense .. especially given that musk did a visit just a couple of weeks before the election .. to each of the swing states 😤
Must admitted that he bought the election!
So did Trump ,they aren't sneaking in their Racist Agenda(project Hitler) they're as Out and Proud as the PrOud Boi's.. no fear of anything but the Orange Turd 🤯
https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-lawsuit-advances-2083391
WE NEED TO GET RID OF THAT ANTIQUATED ELECTORAL COLLEGE!!! WE'VE LOST TWO ELECTIONS BECAUSE OF IT!!!!
Daphne, I agree 💯👍
Totally agree!
Only way Rep have won ,why they put it in play.. was too fair to have 1 Vote count as 1 Vote... Who allowed the electoral College Anyways? 🤔 Don't even need to look it up ...
Electoral college made sense before modern transportation and communication. Colonists could not get to polling places so sent an "elector" with their proxies. Electoral college representatives are not allowed to make any decisions. That's the original rules. I believe it was the electors that changed their mandate to tRumpass against the law and for no APPARENT reason. Money? Positions in government? Threats to them, their families or livelihoods? Just a theory but, it fits the scenario perfectly. tRump rewards those who "love him" and believes they actually admire him. Amazing how delusional he can be. THERE IS NO LONGER ANY LEGITIMATE REASON FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. True Democracy by definition is ONE CITIZEN, ONE VOTE. Directly without detours.
The tRump and his Musk Rat have the money and technology to rig an election. I will never believe that he won fairly! I hear they are recounting. In a perfect world they will prove that they cheated and Harris will take her rightful position and undo all the evil deeds that the tRump and his administration from hell has committed!
You idiot You sound like Trump 10 years ago,,, there never ever was a mention of an unfair election,,, Now,,, you assoles are drinking the Kool Aid....fucking dumb hopeless shit balls
hey...IDIOT...at least we didn't storm the Capital Building, injuring over 140 Capital Police in trying to overthrow the 2020 election results!!!!! Hold my beer...you IDIOT!!!
Give them hell Brad!
Yep that's Maga , speaking out Your ass again, go back to sleep 💤
He certainly didn't win all those swing states!
What I need to know Why Dems didn't do any Recounts and Or Find out Exactly WTH happened???? No Way He Won but nothing was said or done because????? DEMS dropped the Ball and still so many Doing Nothing but be Complacent 😡🤬🤯
Absolutely Stinky election! So many things the Felon spouted like: you’ll never have to vote again, Musk: without me he would have lost the election …Mr XStarlinkDOGESpaceX,(what is it about this infatuation with X’s?) There are smart, technologically wise people looking at the data and scratching their heads, and the surface, of all of this malarkey!
Fuck Cohen Fuck Israel Fuck little Benny and his band of bozo brothers
wow...you sound like a horny mf who needs to rage at a tree nearby. good luck.
😂PERFECT
I'm very impressed with your thoughtful and insightful response, as well as your expansive vocabulary. I'm sure it will bring many people around to your way of thinking.
I agree with you. And now Trump and Musk are admitting to election interference. I kept emailing everyone and no one listened.
You can not form a sentence,,, you dumb cunt. You think the election was rigged? You fucking sound like Trump. You people are fucking idiot morons
Seek therapy immediately Peter
Please look in a Thesaurus to find more interesting vocabulary, Peter !!!
I went to my first protest in Arlington, TX. It was such a a blast. I took my son with me, now he wants to go to the next and take his snare drum. I thought 'hell yeah, Mark. I'll take a cowbell or some other instrument. I told him let's get fucking loud. Let's have a blast. Let's get people to want to move to the beat. Let's do this. Working on a clever poster message too. Saw a lot of nice ones.
Oh and guess what: NO violence. Imagine that.
Great idea🥁☺️
Those are awesome ideas especially the getting loud part! June 14 - The Biggest Most Beautiful Day since Election Day!
We had two back to back No Kings protests in Grand Rapids, Michigan! The morning started with perfect weather. Not too hot or cold and plenty of sunshine. As far as I could see, multi-generational people of many complexion were standing in solidarity to let the whole world know that we want the tRump out of our White House! Just like our April 5th (but on a much larger scale) people were of course angry about our administration from hell but the celebratory feeling that comes from uniting together brought a joy to our community. Our city was filled with flag waving children even babies to proud veterans and seniors. Not a hint of racism, no MAGAt instigators and I am sure they were there but I never noticed a single police officer.
Indivisible's event was held at Ah-Nab-Awen Park along side the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and when it was over we marched to the 50-50-1 protest at Rosa Parks Circle. That event ended with a second march that lead many of us to Calder Plaza for lunch at the Asian Pacific Festival. From there some of us attended the Three Fires Pow Wow at Riverside Park. After dark, my family also attended the Asian Lantern Festival at John Ball Zoo.
How is that for diversity Grand Rapids!? Don't let the tRump know he may arrest us all - lol!
For me, the day ended with news that there were successful No Kings Events around the world! The icing on the cake was hearing that hardly anyone showed up in DC for the tRump's military/birthday parade. That made June 14, 2025 the Bigger Most Beautiful Day since the election! Good job American for ruining the tRump's birthday! Here's the story with pictures if you want some poster ideas - https://onemommy.substack.com/p/june-14-the-biggest-most-beautiful?r=113nff
Millions of Americans are defending democracy. NO KINGS! Let's keep singing this battle hymn in the streets every day to fight fascism: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-song-june-14
There’s some comfort seeing the number of people participating in “No Kings”!
Amazing! Keep the pressure on!
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 your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
I have e-mailed every congressman and senator in my state, and all I get back are form letters full of lies and platitudes.
Me too. I live in OK, a red state of white supremest “dumb Okies”, and our representatives/senators just send the same email back to everything - never respond appropriately to the exact matter. But they believe all the lies and think they’re Christians, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
I get that. I don’t think we’ll see many big waves (like a major MAGA Congress member changing their opinions), however I think we can cause little ripples. I’m thinking staff members who hear the same thing over and over via voicemail, phone calls, letter after letter, email after email - maybe they’ll be a little more receptive each time they hear from us. Maybe they’ll talk more about our talking points to friends and family, maybeeee they’ll vote differently (if we get to vote again). I think we can cause ripples to push news organizations to be more honest and maybe even a bit accusatory about what’s happening. As a collective, our volume matters. And, at the end of the day, if we just annoy and overwhelm some staffers working for people hurting the average American, I’m ok with that too 🙃
THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION IN SUCH A CLEAR FORMAT. GREATLY APPRECIATED.
You’re welcome! Thanks for speaking up right now!
I’m glad the organization makes sense! It made sense in my head 🤣
I still question the legitimacy of the vote especially since Musk bragged about his Skylink interfering with PA voting machines. If he did it there how many others did he do it to?
I’m with you Diane .. I still think there’s something there .. they are so stupid, if we listen they are so brazen they say what they have done
Trump’s Grande Parade! What a bore. Trump saluting. Mr. Bone Spurs, really? A draft dodger saluting. It always makes my heart go to thumping as I puke. Empty bleachers. How embarrassing. Melania falling asleep. Donald morose. Now, can we have something for which to vote? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/a-just-movement?r=3m1bs
It was insulting to our brave military. Especially that Hegseth was not saluting, even when dump was. I will admit I only saw a couple of clips, so maybe he did at other times, but still a nauseating display.
The people got the message through that the nation has had enough of the most evil and disliked president ever. Keep the pressure up and force this degenerate creature who puts $ above baby cancer research to resign in disgust when his peers realize the time bomb will cause with a generation loss of both house and senate. Before rats flee the sinking ship may not hesitate to betray there corrupt leader.
Then Capt. Bone Spurs tried to blame bad weather reports that turned out to be wrong for the reason his crowds did not show up his parade.
Yes. Typical Dump. Couldn't help but laugh at the part of your comment there where you stated "......Spurs tried to blame the bad weather reports......." Thanks!
I usually love your columns and agree with a lot of this but you missed a huge part of why we lost - racism and misogyny. The more y’all ignore that, the more entrenched it will become. This country ignores misogyny because it’s still a country that prides itself on its male POV. This is a country that was lucky to have a black president and will never, ever, ever have a female president as long as the blinders stay on.
I say it all the time that 77 million plus Americans couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black woman. I was identifying a different part of the root cause.
Michael, as you write, together we shall overcome.
We must not loose our focus.
Kerry Gruson
Your undeterrable optimist / determined activist.
Cofounder,ThumbsUp International
I appreciate the reply and the work you’re doing. I just always say it <g>.
TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE MEIDAS MIGHTY. I GOT A BIRTHDAY SONG 4 TACO CRY BABY TRUMP. ITS MY PARTY I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO. CRY IF I WANT TO CRY IF I WANT TO. U WOULD OF TO IF IT HAPPEN TO U.! U FOOL TRUMP.
Elon and his Starlink helped Trump win/chest.
Thank you for being a source of comfort and truth amid the madness of King Donny.
Captain CatheterDepends Donnie drags turn's everything he touches to sh%t!....Even the legacy of the iconic M1 Sherman the WW2 iconic tank clanking down the street.........has been defiled by being part of a nazi/fascist military parade!!!! Shame Shame Shame on the Orange low life parasitic fool.
Sorry, but I am tired of hearing how the Democrats need to "listen better to people" and "Use simple terms". blah, blah, blah! This self-flagellation has to stop! You should listen again to Harris's, Waltz's and Biden's and speeches. It wasn't all some esoteric BS. They talked plans. They were in town halls, union meetings, etc. People wanted to believe that they did.
If people forgot about the insurrection on Jan 6 and voted for that man, what hope is there? If paying more for gas and groceries, watching T______p make cuts to medical benefits, decimate programs that will affect their health and their kids, ruin their businesses, etc. doesn't light a fire of change under people, what hope is there?
Maybe it s time for tough parenting. They are not toddlers. They are grown-ass adults. So maybe we should have the expectation that they act like one. Maybe stop expecting someone to spoon feed them clever slogans to make the right choice. If that is what it takes, what hope is there? T_____p and his cronies could simply come up with a better slogan. That's the point!
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I truly believe there was something amiss about the election. I cannot believe that a majority of voters put this monster into office. Something stinks and no one can make me believe otherwise! There were too many times during his campaign that he alluded to the fact that there was going to be a big surprise coming. I especially remember when he looked at Mike Johnson with a wink, wink, and a nod that they had a surprise coming!
I agree
Trash talking media attention is fine for awhile (mainstream & independent to grap headlines), but when are we going to direct attention to DEMOCRATIC leaders who are failing to initiate counter operations much less plan for 2026 or 2028? DNC is a mess with infighting. Center Independents and DEMS are the majority in this country and should act like it. Make sure we show up for these parades and republican town halls. They're time is limited. We need to remind them now and as we near 2026 they are turncoats whose time has come and gone.