I've given up. I'm sick of feeling. Is there nothing you can say? Take this all away. I'm suffocating. Tell me, what the fuck is wrong with me? - Linkin Park
Trump is a living breathing human ponzi scheme. He is a grifter, a con man, a liar, a felon, a crook, ..... It is always all about him and no one and nothing else. He is a bully and a baby who is afraid of anyone who does not bow down to him and who he is. Just watch the pathetic show as his boot lickers in his dictatorial regime, kiss his rear end every time they open their mouths. They are Incompetent and Corrupt from top to bottom. They have no interest in helping or serving America or Americans. Their only care is to stuff their pockets with as much of our money as they can, destroy all that is America and leave it a smoldering Project 2025 ruin, and give their owners, the billionaires, even more of our money than they already have.
This is all part of the Trump/Orban/Erodagen/Putin playbook. Minimalizing/marginalizing your political opposition to consolidate your own power. This, tRump understands. This is all part of the Project 2025 playbook. tRump may not know the book (or read it for that matter), but when his cronies come and say we want to do this, he can grasp the concept. That's the reason why they have acted so quickly; they're not giving anyone time to get their feet settled under them!
This was part of a comment from another newsletter, re act blue:
“They have never accepted donations from non-citizens living abroad or elsewhere. In the past if you were making a donation from abroad you had to provide them with your passport number so they could confirm the donation was being made by a citizen. Now, they do not accept donations if on-line payment is made from an IP address outside the U.S. Or, if your billing address is outside the U.S. Even if proof of citizenship is provided.”
Was this policy change done quietly as part of capitulating?l I hope there’s another interpretation.
David Brooks commented this assault on our country is “not a normal one” and that our response also needs to be “not normal.” I think he means not predictable.
The last rally I attended in Cleveland, Ohio, my hometown was well attended. But the third speaker was strongly promoting socialism as the only choice for a solution. Wrong message.
The rally at Oberlin in Ohio was much better. A pastor spoke very well and the crowd sang a couple songs which were led by the pastor. The director of the ACLU also. I know there are many songs that can be sung at these rallies, lots of spirituals, “Oh Freedom,” We Shall Overcome”, Beatles songs, “Let It Be, Give Peace. Chance” Peter Paul and Mary songs, “If I had a Hammer” etc. singing as a body of people lifts the spirit above the talk. Its infectious. People don’t need to be entertained, they need to be engaged, involved.
I see this payment which Trump made (of $15 million to El Salvador to jail 200 of our people without cause) as selling those Venezuelans and Kilmer Garcia, into slavery. Trump asked for 5 more prisons to be built for our “homegrowns.” So I think singing “We Shall Overcome,” and freedom songs is totally in order. I’ve sung and played “Let It Be” at church and people always sing along. It’s easy. We need to move the spirit of these rallies to higher ground, own the message in all the states. There should be singing at these rallies, and no more slave trade!!
Our Ohio generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman already fought and won the Civil War. And Grant facilitated a peaceful transfer of power, with Confederate soldiers going back home to their farms. We are not restarting slavery to drag Trump out of bankruptcy.
And where did he get that $15 million to give to El Salvador anyhow?
When the Constitution is revised, no traitors allowed at the table.
Make no mistake with all the actions they take. These criminals know they can’t win fair and square. Why? They know the people will finally realize their wallets, purses, and pockets are empty. They have to try to eliminate any possible counter to retaining power. Cheating, lying, stealing, anything goes! Do not underestimate their capability or level of corruption. They WILL try or do ANYTHING to steal money. ANYTHING!!!
Yes, 30 years of underhanded, outrageous, and morally indefensible Republican tactics set the stage for the hellscape we are now living in. Once they took control of Congress in 1994 for the first time since 1955, it was pretty much game over. They were laser-focused on transforming our society into some twisted, conservative utopia, hell-bent on screwing minorities, women, the poor, and anyone who wanted no part of their Christian, right-wing wet dream.
Let’s face it - they saw the demographic writing on the wall 30 years ago and played the long-game. Something the Dems have never been able to do.
To your thoughtful enumeration of all the ways the R’s have worked to dismantle our democracy, one beam at a time, you might well add gerrymandering. Without it, they would not have been able to maintain their vice grip on state courts, legislatures, SCOTUS and Republican majorities in Congress. And without it, the R’s could not have crowned this feckless clown AND kept him in power as he and his Goring sidekick, Stephen Miller, clumsily and illegally execute their blueprint for the conservative remaking of America.
I think he also might want the Act Blue donors list. It was merely a day or 2 ago that his stooge at DOJ said opposing his policies is a serious crime. Harassing us in the name of investigating crimes would scare people away from not only donating but also voting and expressing opinions elsewhere.
Trump is a living breathing human ponzi scheme. He is a grifter, a con man, a liar, a felon, a crook, ..... It is always all about him and no one and nothing else. He is a bully and a baby who is afraid of anyone who does not bow down to him and who he is. Just watch the pathetic show as his boot lickers in his dictatorial regime, kiss his rear end every time they open their mouths. They are Incompetent and Corrupt from top to bottom. They have no interest in helping or serving America or Americans. Their only care is to stuff their pockets with as much of our money as they can, destroy all that is America and leave it a smoldering Project 2025 ruin, and give their owners, the billionaires, even more of our money than they already have.
This is all part of the Trump/Orban/Erodagen/Putin playbook. Minimalizing/marginalizing your political opposition to consolidate your own power. This, tRump understands. This is all part of the Project 2025 playbook. tRump may not know the book (or read it for that matter), but when his cronies come and say we want to do this, he can grasp the concept. That's the reason why they have acted so quickly; they're not giving anyone time to get their feet settled under them!
This was part of a comment from another newsletter, re act blue:
“They have never accepted donations from non-citizens living abroad or elsewhere. In the past if you were making a donation from abroad you had to provide them with your passport number so they could confirm the donation was being made by a citizen. Now, they do not accept donations if on-line payment is made from an IP address outside the U.S. Or, if your billing address is outside the U.S. Even if proof of citizenship is provided.”
Was this policy change done quietly as part of capitulating?l I hope there’s another interpretation.
David Brooks commented this assault on our country is “not a normal one” and that our response also needs to be “not normal.” I think he means not predictable.
The last rally I attended in Cleveland, Ohio, my hometown was well attended. But the third speaker was strongly promoting socialism as the only choice for a solution. Wrong message.
The rally at Oberlin in Ohio was much better. A pastor spoke very well and the crowd sang a couple songs which were led by the pastor. The director of the ACLU also. I know there are many songs that can be sung at these rallies, lots of spirituals, “Oh Freedom,” We Shall Overcome”, Beatles songs, “Let It Be, Give Peace. Chance” Peter Paul and Mary songs, “If I had a Hammer” etc. singing as a body of people lifts the spirit above the talk. Its infectious. People don’t need to be entertained, they need to be engaged, involved.
I see this payment which Trump made (of $15 million to El Salvador to jail 200 of our people without cause) as selling those Venezuelans and Kilmer Garcia, into slavery. Trump asked for 5 more prisons to be built for our “homegrowns.” So I think singing “We Shall Overcome,” and freedom songs is totally in order. I’ve sung and played “Let It Be” at church and people always sing along. It’s easy. We need to move the spirit of these rallies to higher ground, own the message in all the states. There should be singing at these rallies, and no more slave trade!!
Our Ohio generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman already fought and won the Civil War. And Grant facilitated a peaceful transfer of power, with Confederate soldiers going back home to their farms. We are not restarting slavery to drag Trump out of bankruptcy.
And where did he get that $15 million to give to El Salvador anyhow?
When the Constitution is revised, no traitors allowed at the table.
Make no mistake with all the actions they take. These criminals know they can’t win fair and square. Why? They know the people will finally realize their wallets, purses, and pockets are empty. They have to try to eliminate any possible counter to retaining power. Cheating, lying, stealing, anything goes! Do not underestimate their capability or level of corruption. They WILL try or do ANYTHING to steal money. ANYTHING!!!
Yes, 30 years of underhanded, outrageous, and morally indefensible Republican tactics set the stage for the hellscape we are now living in. Once they took control of Congress in 1994 for the first time since 1955, it was pretty much game over. They were laser-focused on transforming our society into some twisted, conservative utopia, hell-bent on screwing minorities, women, the poor, and anyone who wanted no part of their Christian, right-wing wet dream.
Let’s face it - they saw the demographic writing on the wall 30 years ago and played the long-game. Something the Dems have never been able to do.
To your thoughtful enumeration of all the ways the R’s have worked to dismantle our democracy, one beam at a time, you might well add gerrymandering. Without it, they would not have been able to maintain their vice grip on state courts, legislatures, SCOTUS and Republican majorities in Congress. And without it, the R’s could not have crowned this feckless clown AND kept him in power as he and his Goring sidekick, Stephen Miller, clumsily and illegally execute their blueprint for the conservative remaking of America.
I think he also might want the Act Blue donors list. It was merely a day or 2 ago that his stooge at DOJ said opposing his policies is a serious crime. Harassing us in the name of investigating crimes would scare people away from not only donating but also voting and expressing opinions elsewhere.
Cruel, corrupt, incompetent = GOP Congress (absent a few who are just plain scared.)
No worry, LP. You'e in good company