MLK would be the first to applaud a massive protest against DJT & his goons including the GOP & the halfwits that voted for the Trump asshole. How the Dems let this scumbag back into the Whitehouse is beyond comprehension. I want to wake up from this hideous repeat nightmare.
Martin Luther King would not advocate returning hate for hate and vitriol.
His movement pushing back against a culture across the land of lynchings and abuse of power lead to the miracle of peaceful protest. He led the oppressed to follow him in strong not hateful words where he opened a vision of how things will be "I have a dream." And that lead to people embracing reaching the place of their dreams thru peaceful protest.
It is not peaceful protest if we restack hate and repost hate and respond to hate. Just like the abusive authority of old that would skin and hang a black person for no cause and set fire to their home where their families were driven out -- it made things worse to protest violently and present as a threat to authority.
Trump is an authoritarian, and he is limited today as to what he can do to all of us; that includes the MAGAs. He needs MARTIAL LAW. Are you going to throw a tiny stone and be part of it or resist hating back and spreading it? Your call.
Do not respond to the MAGAs set upon us today. They are just as much a victim to Trump's insidious reaching for a reason to declare martial law. Take a pass on all of it. I've gone to other sites where we are represented thru posts made as vile and obscene and full of hate for the MAGAs. I don't align with that at all.
We are all being set up to clash and provide a basis for Trump declaring MARTIAL LAW.
Forewarned is forearmed. Now I'm heading out for a long walk on a beach where I will greet everyone with a smile and a good word MAGA or not. We have more in common than we do not. The last bastion that will fall is our unity any shred of unity that today does remain or can be revived.
MLK ardently believed in protest. As someone else posted, MLK would most definitely be leading the protest. I suggest you educate yourself before posting again. You are unfortunately embarrassing yourself.
I will DEFINITELY be watching "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Historical Perspective" on Prime Video and "Boycott" on Max. Anyone have recommendations for anything else on the tube?
Prime Video is Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos., who is owner of The Washington Post, and is now kissing the ring of King Don. Bezos will reportedly be on the dais tomorrow with King Don, along with his pals Zuckerbeg and Musk.
A boycott of all things Amazon might give Bezos pause. Probably not, but you never know till you try....
I've been thinking about my Amazon reliance. I'm going to start weaning off. Anybody know of places to order that will deliver? I'm thinking maybe Costco? Walmart may just be another wolf in disguise. I'm hoping to find some place.
An alternative method: Use the Amazon online catalog to locate what you are looking for. Then locate the website of company that makes/provides the article you are looking for. Order directly from them.
I do not have a prime membership. But I do order from Amazon but not often. Prime costs $139 per year plus tax and shipping is free. Otherwise the shipping fee is $7 per order. Then it is cheaper to pay the $7 per order if you do less than 20 orders per year. But with none of the prime extras.
Costco and Twitter are both good or go directly to the source of the item you want to order. I closed my Amazon account and anything to do with Amazon. I let them know why I was closing the account.
If I want something I go directly to the source or just find another source. It takes longer but that is how it was before Amazon. I can remember that period of time and even before that time when I had to go outside and shop in person. I go online for lots of stuff but from the beginning never got roped into Amazon. Even at Whole Foods where all your data is being collected and your shopping list is downloaded and on tap forever; it may be convenient but at what cost. I want to return back to the analog days. It is still there just untapped. It was lovely though. People were more engaged with each other which builds a visual memory of your life not a virtual one.
But it is a good place to shop -- Walmart and employs people like me actually, like you in fact, regular folks working hard to provide for their families -- retirees who need a few bucks to get by -- we need to stop hating our fellow man -- are you afraid of them? What have they done? They dress up in costumes and we make fun of them online. I've seen the extent of some of it and do not align with any of it at all. Trump is going to use hate to divide and incite violence for an excuse to declare Martial Law. It can be avoided by getting out there and looking your neighbors in the eye offering a smile and a kind greeting then moving on -- they are in just as much pain as we are today -- don't you see it?
I don't give my money to places that give it to the Convicted Felon, that's all. I don't do Hone Depot or Chick-Fil-A either. I never said I HATE them. You did.
I'm going to an MLK Celebration today. I volunteer in my community, I work the election polls. I see what MAGA has done to people: 1) you can't fight brainwashing and 2) you can't fix stupid. They aren't in pain, they are gloating over "owning the libs". I just ignore them and choose not to shop at their stores. But hey, you do whatever you want. It's still a sort of free country.
I am not giving up Amazon. There's plenty of other places to shop online but they don't have the supply and delivery service of Amazon. I shop other places online but I would never give up Amazon. It is too convient. That is a boycott you will never win. He is global.
I’m also holding out for some of the currently perceived “villains” to end up being insider double agents. I think there’s hope for Zuckerberg and Bezos. Zuckerberg and his wife were visibly uneasy at the inauguration…then later trump stated how he hated FB. LOTs of people are holding their noses and pretending to be trumpers.
I am aware, believe me. I checked on everything the tRUMP Oligarchs own and go with whatever alternatives I can. In this case, I only found one movie about MLK's life that was streaming (I was shocked actuality), so I looked into ownership of Prime Video and he owns a "small portion". So excuse me, just sharing the info I found.
There is something local in your community giving a nod to MLK. I'm heading out right now. Leaving my blue screens at home! I don't want to join in any group events, but that is my personality. Just reading his final speech or any of his speeches can be the wind beneath our wings today.
BTW, Sundar Pichcai, the CEO of Alphabet Inc owns Google who owns YouTube and is number 3 of the richest CEOs in the USA and is attending the inauguration tomorrow...
What a small group constitutes this ruling class! If we all share the advice above on how to obtain materials other than Amazon, and keep going to the sources, we might have some effect on them.
My prime renews in March, I'm NOT renewing, I've already removed my credit card after my last order was on cyber Monday - their 1 day delivery is is now a week & I've only watched a hand full of movies on prime - he can pound salt!
Today I watched Roku’s live TV focused on several episodes of Midsomer Murders and this evening decided to see what RuPaul Drag Queen Race is about. It’s rather funny. Might watch it again at noon tomorrow to keep myself from crying!
Look oi YouTube for MLK documentaries , there's many & there may be 1 that you have never seen.
Here in 🍁 we don't have Martin Luther King Day unfortunately :( & we should , we weren't taught black history in school we had to learn about ourselves. Born in 1975, I didn't see colour, almost ½ of my family married black many from Detroit Michigan & I have a lot of 1st & 2nd cousins 181 on my father's side alone, not including the 3rd+ (my father the youngest of 13). The uptick in white nationalism, racism, religion that we're seeing today is unpresented that we didn't see back then, it was probably there but not in our faces like it is now 🌎 wide especially for my whole family & my young grand children being called racist names😢 by kids learning hate from their parents 🤬
My late parents taught us so much, brought us to the underground railroad museums, shared our family history involvement. We're a Secular nation, some families went to church & I've got nothing against them. Our Sundays were big family dinners once the nice weather came after Shirley Temple, NO house could hold us all. Cold months were "ON" & "IT", documentaries, Nature of things, National Geographics. Now we have YouTube , Prime ++++
Boycott Amazon. I closed my Amazon and Prime Video account. There are enough other sources to watch that show on. I am also thinking of closing my Bank of America account since they donated to the orange clown. Also thinking of trading in my iPhone and all apple related products since they donated millions to the orange clown.
Good for you. How about TikTok , did you do the same with that? Your battle with these businesses is not going to hurt them. They are all global businesses. What you don't buy is replaced by 10 that will.
I have a feeling Dr. King would be supportive of that? Jim Carter also, he wouldn't have had the same vane of recognizing a past president vs how he will look inside the Capital Building now?? Of course they won't reverse or admit they made a mitake! Its migrants and Dems fault? Eisenhower who started the tradition was a.Republican I think anyways!! So glad to see Bush snub the slime orange jesus!!
While you listen to KLove, you could turn your TV on to something other than the inauguration and turn the sound off. Every TV not tuned to the inauguration makes a statement.
That was my take on it. Or volunteer somewhere anywhere. Or donate -- maybe to homeless puppies and kittens -- give to an animal shelter in your town -- better yet give to a human being shelter -- personally I'm going into a state of torpor. With a short break for a walk on my favorite beach then a hot coffee and mingling as I go shop to shop in a little town nearby where the people are friendly and everyone knows my name.
Easy Daphne.... He's on OUR SIDE! Ben is also an admirer of MLK as all of us with a soul are! His job here is to warn us of the Magat attacks on a free press.... something Dr. King would have approved of! If you haven't donated to Ben's Substack.... DO IT! He's doing us a huge service committing to this media!
My understanding is that a lot of MLK footage has been appropriated by the family to protect his legacy. Just thinking this might make it difficult for MTN to cover. Also they could be accused of misappropriation if they did this. There must be so many channels covering MLK. It might be helpful to point people to them here?
It’s Martin Luther King day tommorrow!!! You should be honoring Martin!!!!
We are with you and Martin wherever we are able to be. Exclamation points and all!!!
MLK would be the first to applaud a massive protest against DJT & his goons including the GOP & the halfwits that voted for the Trump asshole. How the Dems let this scumbag back into the Whitehouse is beyond comprehension. I want to wake up from this hideous repeat nightmare.
Martin Luther King would not advocate returning hate for hate and vitriol.
His movement pushing back against a culture across the land of lynchings and abuse of power lead to the miracle of peaceful protest. He led the oppressed to follow him in strong not hateful words where he opened a vision of how things will be "I have a dream." And that lead to people embracing reaching the place of their dreams thru peaceful protest.
It is not peaceful protest if we restack hate and repost hate and respond to hate. Just like the abusive authority of old that would skin and hang a black person for no cause and set fire to their home where their families were driven out -- it made things worse to protest violently and present as a threat to authority.
Trump is an authoritarian, and he is limited today as to what he can do to all of us; that includes the MAGAs. He needs MARTIAL LAW. Are you going to throw a tiny stone and be part of it or resist hating back and spreading it? Your call.
Do not respond to the MAGAs set upon us today. They are just as much a victim to Trump's insidious reaching for a reason to declare martial law. Take a pass on all of it. I've gone to other sites where we are represented thru posts made as vile and obscene and full of hate for the MAGAs. I don't align with that at all.
We are all being set up to clash and provide a basis for Trump declaring MARTIAL LAW.
Forewarned is forearmed. Now I'm heading out for a long walk on a beach where I will greet everyone with a smile and a good word MAGA or not. We have more in common than we do not. The last bastion that will fall is our unity any shred of unity that today does remain or can be revived.
MLK ardently believed in protest. As someone else posted, MLK would most definitely be leading the protest. I suggest you educate yourself before posting again. You are unfortunately embarrassing yourself.
Because no one listened to us
I will DEFINITELY be watching "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Historical Perspective" on Prime Video and "Boycott" on Max. Anyone have recommendations for anything else on the tube?
Prime Video is Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos., who is owner of The Washington Post, and is now kissing the ring of King Don. Bezos will reportedly be on the dais tomorrow with King Don, along with his pals Zuckerbeg and Musk.
A boycott of all things Amazon might give Bezos pause. Probably not, but you never know till you try....
I've been thinking about my Amazon reliance. I'm going to start weaning off. Anybody know of places to order that will deliver? I'm thinking maybe Costco? Walmart may just be another wolf in disguise. I'm hoping to find some place.
Costco is good. Not as much stuff, but a good company.
An alternative method: Use the Amazon online catalog to locate what you are looking for. Then locate the website of company that makes/provides the article you are looking for. Order directly from them.
I do not have a prime membership. But I do order from Amazon but not often. Prime costs $139 per year plus tax and shipping is free. Otherwise the shipping fee is $7 per order. Then it is cheaper to pay the $7 per order if you do less than 20 orders per year. But with none of the prime extras.
Amazon is a great database, then I buy from the source.
I searched for Amazon alternatives and got a hit with 20 of them.
Go for it.
Costco and Twitter are both good or go directly to the source of the item you want to order. I closed my Amazon account and anything to do with Amazon. I let them know why I was closing the account.
Absolutely, just did the same thing!
👏👏👏👏
If I want something I go directly to the source or just find another source. It takes longer but that is how it was before Amazon. I can remember that period of time and even before that time when I had to go outside and shop in person. I go online for lots of stuff but from the beginning never got roped into Amazon. Even at Whole Foods where all your data is being collected and your shopping list is downloaded and on tap forever; it may be convenient but at what cost. I want to return back to the analog days. It is still there just untapped. It was lovely though. People were more engaged with each other which builds a visual memory of your life not a virtual one.
Walmart is MAGA.
But it is a good place to shop -- Walmart and employs people like me actually, like you in fact, regular folks working hard to provide for their families -- retirees who need a few bucks to get by -- we need to stop hating our fellow man -- are you afraid of them? What have they done? They dress up in costumes and we make fun of them online. I've seen the extent of some of it and do not align with any of it at all. Trump is going to use hate to divide and incite violence for an excuse to declare Martial Law. It can be avoided by getting out there and looking your neighbors in the eye offering a smile and a kind greeting then moving on -- they are in just as much pain as we are today -- don't you see it?
I don't give my money to places that give it to the Convicted Felon, that's all. I don't do Hone Depot or Chick-Fil-A either. I never said I HATE them. You did.
I'm going to an MLK Celebration today. I volunteer in my community, I work the election polls. I see what MAGA has done to people: 1) you can't fight brainwashing and 2) you can't fix stupid. They aren't in pain, they are gloating over "owning the libs". I just ignore them and choose not to shop at their stores. But hey, you do whatever you want. It's still a sort of free country.
Have a nice day.
Did not mean to offend you and think you are heroic. Gives me much to contemplate on. Thank you. Have a nice day.
I am not giving up Amazon. There's plenty of other places to shop online but they don't have the supply and delivery service of Amazon. I shop other places online but I would never give up Amazon. It is too convient. That is a boycott you will never win. He is global.
I’m also holding out for some of the currently perceived “villains” to end up being insider double agents. I think there’s hope for Zuckerberg and Bezos. Zuckerberg and his wife were visibly uneasy at the inauguration…then later trump stated how he hated FB. LOTs of people are holding their noses and pretending to be trumpers.
You make a good point. I don't use Amazon, but I can understand where some do not have a choice, absolutely.
I am aware, believe me. I checked on everything the tRUMP Oligarchs own and go with whatever alternatives I can. In this case, I only found one movie about MLK's life that was streaming (I was shocked actuality), so I looked into ownership of Prime Video and he owns a "small portion". So excuse me, just sharing the info I found.
Hope you post your list. I am sure others beside myself would like to check their list with yours to make sure we have everything covered.
There is something local in your community giving a nod to MLK. I'm heading out right now. Leaving my blue screens at home! I don't want to join in any group events, but that is my personality. Just reading his final speech or any of his speeches can be the wind beneath our wings today.
BTW, Sundar Pichcai, the CEO of Alphabet Inc owns Google who owns YouTube and is number 3 of the richest CEOs in the USA and is attending the inauguration tomorrow...
What a small group constitutes this ruling class! If we all share the advice above on how to obtain materials other than Amazon, and keep going to the sources, we might have some effect on them.
I have signed out of Facebook and messenger….NOT spending ANY money on tangible items….
Making donations to The Carter Foundation, Suicide Prevention, MA Vest-a-Dog, and a couple of shelters!
Then checking out a few opposition organizations to see what they have planned.
Oppose, Resist, Insist!
That's the 💪 energy that we all need to hear & to have! Never give up & NEVER give in,
We're all in this together!
My prime renews in March, I'm NOT renewing, I've already removed my credit card after my last order was on cyber Monday - their 1 day delivery is is now a week & I've only watched a hand full of movies on prime - he can pound salt!
Watch “Idiocracy” the prescient movie about “our” WWF president — then watch and/or read Orwell’s latest “1984” ….
Fatenheit 9/11 makes some prescient points about an unpopular president that were not in regular news coverage.
Oops, spelling error: Fahrenheit 9/11, it should read.
Today I watched Roku’s live TV focused on several episodes of Midsomer Murders and this evening decided to see what RuPaul Drag Queen Race is about. It’s rather funny. Might watch it again at noon tomorrow to keep myself from crying!
If you have TV One in your cable package, I would highly recommend watching it. It's a channel that airs African-American programming.
PBS might have MLK programming today. It would be a better choice than knee bender Bezos’ Prime.
Look oi YouTube for MLK documentaries , there's many & there may be 1 that you have never seen.
Here in 🍁 we don't have Martin Luther King Day unfortunately :( & we should , we weren't taught black history in school we had to learn about ourselves. Born in 1975, I didn't see colour, almost ½ of my family married black many from Detroit Michigan & I have a lot of 1st & 2nd cousins 181 on my father's side alone, not including the 3rd+ (my father the youngest of 13). The uptick in white nationalism, racism, religion that we're seeing today is unpresented that we didn't see back then, it was probably there but not in our faces like it is now 🌎 wide especially for my whole family & my young grand children being called racist names😢 by kids learning hate from their parents 🤬
My late parents taught us so much, brought us to the underground railroad museums, shared our family history involvement. We're a Secular nation, some families went to church & I've got nothing against them. Our Sundays were big family dinners once the nice weather came after Shirley Temple, NO house could hold us all. Cold months were "ON" & "IT", documentaries, Nature of things, National Geographics. Now we have YouTube , Prime ++++
Sorry for my long reply!
I'm going for the Marx Brothers myself....
I ws thinking Shakespare, maybe Richard III?
I am watching the puppy and kitten stream.
Boycott Amazon. I closed my Amazon and Prime Video account. There are enough other sources to watch that show on. I am also thinking of closing my Bank of America account since they donated to the orange clown. Also thinking of trading in my iPhone and all apple related products since they donated millions to the orange clown.
Good for you. How about TikTok , did you do the same with that? Your battle with these businesses is not going to hurt them. They are all global businesses. What you don't buy is replaced by 10 that will.
MAX has many suggestions in the "you may like" section below the Boycott movie info. I found some great ones!
Selma
I have a feeling Dr. King would be supportive of that? Jim Carter also, he wouldn't have had the same vane of recognizing a past president vs how he will look inside the Capital Building now?? Of course they won't reverse or admit they made a mitake! Its migrants and Dems fault? Eisenhower who started the tradition was a.Republican I think anyways!! So glad to see Bush snub the slime orange jesus!!
Yes.
I am listening to KLove radio and they are honoring Martin Luther King. A truly honorable man.
While you listen to KLove, you could turn your TV on to something other than the inauguration and turn the sound off. Every TV not tuned to the inauguration makes a statement.
That was my take on it. Or volunteer somewhere anywhere. Or donate -- maybe to homeless puppies and kittens -- give to an animal shelter in your town -- better yet give to a human being shelter -- personally I'm going into a state of torpor. With a short break for a walk on my favorite beach then a hot coffee and mingling as I go shop to shop in a little town nearby where the people are friendly and everyone knows my name.
Or maybe I’ll do exactly what I did and you can just scroll on by.
Easy Daphne.... He's on OUR SIDE! Ben is also an admirer of MLK as all of us with a soul are! His job here is to warn us of the Magat attacks on a free press.... something Dr. King would have approved of! If you haven't donated to Ben's Substack.... DO IT! He's doing us a huge service committing to this media!
That is a honor to MLK. I am so sure he loved puppies and kittens.
My understanding is that a lot of MLK footage has been appropriated by the family to protect his legacy. Just thinking this might make it difficult for MTN to cover. Also they could be accused of misappropriation if they did this. There must be so many channels covering MLK. It might be helpful to point people to them here?