Good suggestions, all. Though I will also suggest we need to be fighting back - legally and non-violently - in ways other than elections, protests, and so forth. Donate money not just to campaigns, but to legal advocacy groups that will take on Trump in the courts. Be the Dodgers: don't let ICE agents or any other Trumpers without warrants into your private property. Name and shame the low level Trump appointees - DOGE kids, angry men in cubicles, whoever - who are executing Trump's orders, turning his rants into policy and action. Elections will get MAGA out of office, but in the meantime, we need to RESIST the power Trump has.
Time to fight back hard and dirty. No more courtesy, no more civility, no more polite noises, no more bipartisanship bullshit. The leadership of the Democratic Party has to either wise up or get the hell out of the way, starting with Schumer and that bleating fool Ken Martin. And I don't give a damn about Hakim Jeffries orating on the House floor - performative theatre to pretend that the party is actually going to fight.
That was not performative theatre's. Republicans wanted to vote early in the morning so nobody was watching. Jeffries kept talking until all citizens good watch.
Everyone is is pissed off-so am I, I get it! Look, “they” have a plan… P2025 and it’s being implemented with precision while we are flapping in the breeze. Point-we need a strategic plan covering all bases-in every county, and every state. We better get busy now making sure we win back the house and the senate. Assume the election will be rigged and work to put systems in place to prevent it. Work for consensus, stopp quibbling over details. The goal, the mission is win 2026. We have to be united in this goal!!
Heads up: your town hall link is stale. Only shows through June 6.
That said, there's lots of complacency in blue states. We're not mobilizing the way we should be. I was sort of shocked at the relatively low turnout on June 14. I am not surprised to see the complacency, as we all have so many trinkets and baubles to distract us and mollies us, but what I am shocked to see is this lazy handwringing couched as "too busy" and "it won't make a difference". It's the same sort of inaction I get EVERY time I talk about climate change...and yet just as climate change is coming for all of us, especially the poorest and brownest of us all, us white folks can't sit back and wring our hands any more.
The Republicans and the Neonazi fuck wads are coming for us. The Christian Right is on the march. And they're not stopping now that they have racist, sexist, white supremacist pig in the white house. Who was is that said, "when facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross"?
They couldn't be more right.
So it's time for us white folks to trade in some of our white privilege. To give up some of our own identity politics in order that others may simply survive.
Get in the way of ICE. Slow down the machinations of anything you see that doesn't seem kosher. Go to town halls. Disrupt how you see fit. Don't let others tell you to calm down or quiet down or be nice.
I have been told to settle down for mt entire life. Settling down never got me anywhere. I get my way when I'm raucous and irritating and a little over the top. All of us who don't buy into this administration's illegal actions...or any of their actions at all...should be a thorn in their side however they see fit. Fight back and be willing to go to jail if that's cool with you. It's fine with me.
I'm willing to lay my life down for this country...not in some illegal war killing civilians in Asia, but in the street of my home town, fighting for the soul of it, on my own turf, on American soil. The tree of liberty ought be watered with the blood of patriots. The Right thinks that means us. Just to be clear. Those aren't civil words. Those are words meant to intimidate us and cow us into submission.
Honey, I am way past civil. I am a kid from the 60s, and we didn't stand still and let a rogue government or leadership destroy us. AMERICA, where is your fight? Where is your audacity? Where the hell are you? Show Trump who we are. Show your disdain for elected officials who lack balls. The Fourth of July is now our day of resistance. If we don't get in the fight, to win the fight, there is no Independence Day! If you protes do it with a national strike......stand the fuck up.
Every reporter and people at town halls should ask the GOP Reps, is the country great and booming yet…you’ve about all you want, when do the good times come?
Also, hold the lawmakers accountable for every terrible consequence.
Watch for the so called job creators to have another round of stock buybacks.
Demand employers pay and provide adequate wages and healthcare, so fewer people need Medicaid, SNAP, etc. And frame the story as corporate welfare. If only the poor could incorporate. Red tape is only bad apparently for corporations, but extra necessary for the most in need, who get the smallest dollar benefits.
Your plans have merit, if you were facing an honourable foe. However, that is not the case. If you believe there will be fair and untainted elections in 2026, you may as well stop reading this comment now.
Trump and his Republican regime are all outright traitors to America. You do not defeat traitors with a "we'll get you next time" mantra. This is a break the glass, red alert, five alarm fire that is consuming democratic norms like tumbleweed in a bonfire.
Protests are great. Kudos to all that have participated thus far. They need to continue and intensify massively. But protests alone will continue to fall on the deaf ears of those who have betrayed you.
Now is not the time to send cheques to Dem politicians and think you have done your part. Many of those representatives have also aided the takeover of the US, with their votes on confirming Trump's circus of cabinet appointments. Unless Democratic Senate and Congress members are in the streets with you, they need to be starved of donations and replaced with fresh dedicated candidates.
Independence Day should now be renamed Revolution Day for those of you lamenting freedom. Nationwide strikes need to begin immediately to capture the true anger and despair of the people at being abandoned by their government. Stop being the ATM machine for the Billionaires pulling the strings of their tyrant puppet in the White House.
Strikes are your second last tangible option. If they don't succeed, the final option will be brutal and bloody.
I never thought too much of the radical left. Especially when they accused the Democratic Party Committee. Of giving the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination to Hillary Clinton. Thence not voting for her. Socialist has to grow up. Accept the responsibility for letting Trump win. I really believe strongly. I do believe that a young MAGA. May have infiltrated the Socialist Party. I wouldn’t put it past Trump and MAGA doing that. Is just that the socialist party says similar things about Hillary Clinton.
What Socialist Party? There isn’t one in the US. The Democratic Party has suppressed popular candidates in favor of “safe” centrists who go on to lose their election. Socialists didn’t “let Trump win”, that’s utter nonsense. HRC bears the most responsibility for not beating Trump, just as the Democratic Party leadership bears much responsibility for the state of things today.
Stop paying taxes that support the tax benefits to the wealthy. Call out MAGATS both collectively and individually everywhere, every day, all the time. Think of ways to punish MAGATS for their destructive support of the thug cult trump is running. Pray for trump's demise by whatever means nature chooses. Constantly question MAGAT motives while accusing them of having toxic ill will toward the republic. If you are thinking these are crazy ideas know that I think noise is not going to fix anything. The opposition has nothing to fight back with besides noise. It will never be enough for what is being broken and destroyed right now. That is just reality.
Trump needs to die, and Americans need to stop playing nice. Its got you nowhere. Trump is a scum bag, felong traitor.....we need to play the game and beat him at his own ignorance.
Please don’t wish that Donald goes away permanently…yet. That wish needs to wait until January 2027 when we hopefully will have the House and the Senate back in our rationale hands. Otherwise, we’ll have a worse “it” in the W.H. to contend.
I typed “rational” incorrectly above. Today is not a very rational day for many of us as we process the disastrous GOP budget vote. We need to explain to all Americans our rationale in opposing this vote and our plans to combat its effects so that we can once again make freedom ring.
Good suggestions, all. Though I will also suggest we need to be fighting back - legally and non-violently - in ways other than elections, protests, and so forth. Donate money not just to campaigns, but to legal advocacy groups that will take on Trump in the courts. Be the Dodgers: don't let ICE agents or any other Trumpers without warrants into your private property. Name and shame the low level Trump appointees - DOGE kids, angry men in cubicles, whoever - who are executing Trump's orders, turning his rants into policy and action. Elections will get MAGA out of office, but in the meantime, we need to RESIST the power Trump has.
Send your $$ to the ACLU.
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WRITE OP EDS IN YOUR LOCAL NEWS PAPERS!!
How does one do this?
Time to fight back hard and dirty. No more courtesy, no more civility, no more polite noises, no more bipartisanship bullshit. The leadership of the Democratic Party has to either wise up or get the hell out of the way, starting with Schumer and that bleating fool Ken Martin. And I don't give a damn about Hakim Jeffries orating on the House floor - performative theatre to pretend that the party is actually going to fight.
That was not performative theatre's. Republicans wanted to vote early in the morning so nobody was watching. Jeffries kept talking until all citizens good watch.
And how many people paid attention, or was it just preaching to the choir?
Everyone is is pissed off-so am I, I get it! Look, “they” have a plan… P2025 and it’s being implemented with precision while we are flapping in the breeze. Point-we need a strategic plan covering all bases-in every county, and every state. We better get busy now making sure we win back the house and the senate. Assume the election will be rigged and work to put systems in place to prevent it. Work for consensus, stopp quibbling over details. The goal, the mission is win 2026. We have to be united in this goal!!
Heads up: your town hall link is stale. Only shows through June 6.
That said, there's lots of complacency in blue states. We're not mobilizing the way we should be. I was sort of shocked at the relatively low turnout on June 14. I am not surprised to see the complacency, as we all have so many trinkets and baubles to distract us and mollies us, but what I am shocked to see is this lazy handwringing couched as "too busy" and "it won't make a difference". It's the same sort of inaction I get EVERY time I talk about climate change...and yet just as climate change is coming for all of us, especially the poorest and brownest of us all, us white folks can't sit back and wring our hands any more.
The Republicans and the Neonazi fuck wads are coming for us. The Christian Right is on the march. And they're not stopping now that they have racist, sexist, white supremacist pig in the white house. Who was is that said, "when facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross"?
They couldn't be more right.
So it's time for us white folks to trade in some of our white privilege. To give up some of our own identity politics in order that others may simply survive.
Get in the way of ICE. Slow down the machinations of anything you see that doesn't seem kosher. Go to town halls. Disrupt how you see fit. Don't let others tell you to calm down or quiet down or be nice.
I have been told to settle down for mt entire life. Settling down never got me anywhere. I get my way when I'm raucous and irritating and a little over the top. All of us who don't buy into this administration's illegal actions...or any of their actions at all...should be a thorn in their side however they see fit. Fight back and be willing to go to jail if that's cool with you. It's fine with me.
I'm willing to lay my life down for this country...not in some illegal war killing civilians in Asia, but in the street of my home town, fighting for the soul of it, on my own turf, on American soil. The tree of liberty ought be watered with the blood of patriots. The Right thinks that means us. Just to be clear. Those aren't civil words. Those are words meant to intimidate us and cow us into submission.
I will not submit.
Most of the country watches FOX. Gotta be a way to convince the public directly or indirectly about propaganda that they watch 24/7.
How?
Honey, I am way past civil. I am a kid from the 60s, and we didn't stand still and let a rogue government or leadership destroy us. AMERICA, where is your fight? Where is your audacity? Where the hell are you? Show Trump who we are. Show your disdain for elected officials who lack balls. The Fourth of July is now our day of resistance. If we don't get in the fight, to win the fight, there is no Independence Day! If you protes do it with a national strike......stand the fuck up.
Every reporter and people at town halls should ask the GOP Reps, is the country great and booming yet…you’ve about all you want, when do the good times come?
Also, hold the lawmakers accountable for every terrible consequence.
Watch for the so called job creators to have another round of stock buybacks.
Demand employers pay and provide adequate wages and healthcare, so fewer people need Medicaid, SNAP, etc. And frame the story as corporate welfare. If only the poor could incorporate. Red tape is only bad apparently for corporations, but extra necessary for the most in need, who get the smallest dollar benefits.
Your plans have merit, if you were facing an honourable foe. However, that is not the case. If you believe there will be fair and untainted elections in 2026, you may as well stop reading this comment now.
Trump and his Republican regime are all outright traitors to America. You do not defeat traitors with a "we'll get you next time" mantra. This is a break the glass, red alert, five alarm fire that is consuming democratic norms like tumbleweed in a bonfire.
Protests are great. Kudos to all that have participated thus far. They need to continue and intensify massively. But protests alone will continue to fall on the deaf ears of those who have betrayed you.
Now is not the time to send cheques to Dem politicians and think you have done your part. Many of those representatives have also aided the takeover of the US, with their votes on confirming Trump's circus of cabinet appointments. Unless Democratic Senate and Congress members are in the streets with you, they need to be starved of donations and replaced with fresh dedicated candidates.
Independence Day should now be renamed Revolution Day for those of you lamenting freedom. Nationwide strikes need to begin immediately to capture the true anger and despair of the people at being abandoned by their government. Stop being the ATM machine for the Billionaires pulling the strings of their tyrant puppet in the White House.
Strikes are your second last tangible option. If they don't succeed, the final option will be brutal and bloody.
I never thought too much of the radical left. Especially when they accused the Democratic Party Committee. Of giving the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination to Hillary Clinton. Thence not voting for her. Socialist has to grow up. Accept the responsibility for letting Trump win. I really believe strongly. I do believe that a young MAGA. May have infiltrated the Socialist Party. I wouldn’t put it past Trump and MAGA doing that. Is just that the socialist party says similar things about Hillary Clinton.
What Socialist Party? There isn’t one in the US. The Democratic Party has suppressed popular candidates in favor of “safe” centrists who go on to lose their election. Socialists didn’t “let Trump win”, that’s utter nonsense. HRC bears the most responsibility for not beating Trump, just as the Democratic Party leadership bears much responsibility for the state of things today.
Stop paying taxes that support the tax benefits to the wealthy. Call out MAGATS both collectively and individually everywhere, every day, all the time. Think of ways to punish MAGATS for their destructive support of the thug cult trump is running. Pray for trump's demise by whatever means nature chooses. Constantly question MAGAT motives while accusing them of having toxic ill will toward the republic. If you are thinking these are crazy ideas know that I think noise is not going to fix anything. The opposition has nothing to fight back with besides noise. It will never be enough for what is being broken and destroyed right now. That is just reality.
Trump needs to die, and Americans need to stop playing nice. Its got you nowhere. Trump is a scum bag, felong traitor.....we need to play the game and beat him at his own ignorance.
Please don’t wish that Donald goes away permanently…yet. That wish needs to wait until January 2027 when we hopefully will have the House and the Senate back in our rationale hands. Otherwise, we’ll have a worse “it” in the W.H. to contend.
Sorry I don’t agree. The longer he stays in place and gets his way the more likely there won’t be an election. No more Pollyana, we need to get real.
I agree .....tired of the fucking blah, blah, blah. Get down and dirty.
Writing postcards
I typed “rational” incorrectly above. Today is not a very rational day for many of us as we process the disastrous GOP budget vote. We need to explain to all Americans our rationale in opposing this vote and our plans to combat its effects so that we can once again make freedom ring.
Those "Don’t Tread on Me" signs are relevant now. Where are those called patriots?
https://open.substack.com/pub/thepantheonofficial/p/on-leftism?r=2bu3bo&utm_medium=ios
Long winded crap
Illiterate peasant
Great post.