The masks are off, the excuses are gone, and the regime is testing how much terror the public will tolerate. What happens when the public finally refuses to be afraid?
I don’t understand the fact that the only action being taken is suing. This is an emergency. Why isn’t the DA issuing arrest warrants for murder assault property damage etc. since the insurrection act has not been invoked warrantless searches and raids are illegal. Why doesn’t the governor have the National Guard engage in non-violent protection of citizens by becoming official observers and following ICE activities. Or perhaps make an executive order against masks. Or emergency legislation against masks and lack of ID so that they are violating state law?
Daniel, an American mother is dead at the hands of ICE – and a government that’s supposed to keep us safe is sending masked gunmen to terrorize millions of our neighbors.
But the people in charge of it all, like Trump, Noem, and Miller, keep contradicting themselves, smearing, and trying to move on without giving us the answers we deserve.
Renee Nicole Good was just 37 years old and was a U.S. citizen. She had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school when an ICE agent fired into her car in Minneapolis and took her life.
But instead of honoring her legacy and demanding accountability, federal officials like Secretary Kristi Noem went on TV to justify the shooting, accuse Good of “domestic terrorism,” and contradict the video. [1]
Our government is supposed to keep us safe – not kill one of its own citizens. Full transparency and accountability are the bare minimum when a preventable tragedy like this takes place.
Congress has the power and responsibility to investigate ICE’s use of deadly force and hold this administration accountable – and we’re demanding they use it.
That’s why Common Cause is partnering with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the League of Women Voters (LWV) [2] – so we can create an unstoppable wave of public outcry to force lawmakers into action. You can be a part of it by taking action today.
Sorry if I repeat. All Trump moves are designed to distract our attention.
Take advantage of the situation. Trump is vulnerable.
Yesterday, Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would oppose the confirmation of all picks for the Fed, including the forthcoming chair nomination, until the legal matter is resolved. Feasible to get several House members to flip, issue by issue.
IMHO Epstein is primary.
The Obamacare issue brought several more Repubicans to support a Dem initiative.
On Thursday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would stop the Trump administration from additional attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote was 52–47 with five Republicans joining all the Democrats to move the measure forward. Republicans killed a similar measure in November, but Trump’s enormously unpopular incursion into Venezuela and threats against Greenland prompted five Republicans to reassert congressional authority over military action. CNN called it “a notable rebuke of the president.”
The five Republicans voting for the bill were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Immediately, Trump posted on social media that the five “should never be elected to office again.” By reasserting the power of Congress, he wrote, they were “attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America.”
Trump is in a pickle. Here is Baghdad By the Sea, at least one House MAGAT, my rep, opposes him on immigration. Many other House Republicans oppose him on the Epstein coverup. Others on the Obamacare issue. It's up to us to convince more to join them.
In Minnesota Congressional Republicans need to be pressured. We need to contact their donors. Local businesses. Local Holy Joes. Picket. Sit in.
The current Republican U.S. representatives for Minnesota are:
District 1: Brad Finstad (since August 12, 2022)
District 6: Tom Emmer (since January 3, 2015)
District 7: Michelle Fischbach (since January 3, 2021)
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.
On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.
Impeach Trump? He was impeached twice, yet there he sits. Impeachment does not do jack shit, he has to be removed by the senate and to do that 60 votes are needed.
So the Senate advances a bill, well it has to pass the House, and then be signed by Trump.
Do you think Trump will sign a bill that limits him?
I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
What is needed is more than empty gestures, and putting bills that Trump will veto, or ignore like he does HR 4505, the Epstein files, are empty gestures.
We don't deposa tyrant by staanding up and blowing raspberries. -
Some want to dismiss the role that the Tech Bros are playing in all of this. They hold the method and means to the end that these Nazis want. The propaganda and push they give disinformation on the internet is exactly what we are seeing.
This movement to dominate the Western Hemisphere was real in the 1930's and long past WWII. It's back with a vengeance. Putin is doing it. XI is doing it. Worst of all, TRump and the Tech Bros have started THEIR domination movement. This beautiful Western Hemisphere has at least a billion people in it. For ANY of their plot to work, they have to control us. Enter the tech that they will claim is our savior.
They giveth and they taketh away---when you don't obey. It even f-ing rhymes. First thing Iran did was shut down the internet. A piece of my heart is with the women in Iran. I am humbled by the bravery we are seeing there and in our own USA. WE ARE THE THE PEOPLE AND THIS IS OUR HOMELAND. See you in the streets.
Great suggestion from Gloria. I just read notes and they said the focus is on Musk. He is the dark heart of the US's part of this.
It's naive to witness what he paid for the election and did with DOGE and then to think he didn't school TRump and his psychos. You know, he never met his grandpa, Joshua N. Haldeman (WIKI), but you can bet the whole Technate of America crap came from his mother Maye. White Power Pukes from South Africa. Nazis that found their tribe right here in the USA. Now he is building it out within his Tech Bro circle.
WE really got our initial message right about fascism and the end of democracy being their real agenda. Thanks for all you are doing, Gloria.
Thanks Gloria,love to read it. They are very open ,Peter Thiel,Musk,Andresson,Jensen Huang,Satya Nadella and so many others. Compile a list,go after them. They are not invulnerable.
, This is the real reason that Trump wants Greenland, it goes back to Musks Grandfather, run out of Canada, because of this: The Technocracy Movement
It goes back to the Democracy Movement, founded by Musks grandfather Joshua Norman Halderman .Joshua Norman Haldeman was a prominent Canadian leader and organizer for the Technocracy movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, advocating for rule by scientists and engineers, but grew disillusioned, eventually moving to South Africa where he promoted similar ideas alongside racist views, becoming the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk and influencing some of his technological ambitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
When a tyranny is on the rocks, it becomes frantic, and thus increasingly violent and reckless, the only way to save itself is a total crack down, a full fledged police state. Expect repressive measures and violence to escalate.
It isn't just Trump that is at risk it is every member of his cabinet, advisors, down to the ICE, CBP, HSI, DEA, FBI agents any and all who carry out his commands, and that includes members of the Armed Forces, those involved in blowing up boats, even those involved in the kidnapping of Maduro.
If by miracle, the Democrats retook the government, do you think there will be a housecleaning, especially at DoJ, and every Trump appointed employee fired, especially the DOGE kids.
Don't bank on it. The Democrats just don't have the backbone, Biden didn't, He revoked Trump's schedule F with his first Executive order, thus depriving him the ability to clean house, especially DOJ, NSA and Homeland Security of Trump embedded employees, and he paid for his fecklessness.
Thank you for mentioning the brilliant Mike Brock, Thom. Combining philosophy with politics and sometimes intertwined with poetry or poetic prose. If people haven’t read him on Substack check him out.
How else do you: blow an inheritance of 413,000,000; run several casinos into the ground; rape and/or abuse at least 26 women [including terrorizing/raping your 1st wife]; lust after your own offspring; rape enough kiddies in your off hours to fill a 7th-grade classroom; and go bankrupt multiple times?
KGB-tool Putin has extracted a cool 60 IQ points [30 of 'em in Alaska], leaving a paltry 39.
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present "The Chosen One" aka "Sleep 'n Eat" aka "Stinky."
Don't wait for the Zyklon-B showers: Vote. VOTE !!!
It's starting to look like Trump will attempt to invoke the insurrection clause soon. Minnesota is standing up hard, and other states are taking notice. If DOJ comes after them, they will do the same. Trump doesn't have enough boots on the ground to lock down the country. Especially with leaders starting to defect.
I agree with the one commentator here, why aren't Walz and Ellison breaking out the national guard to protect the citizens? Is there some sort of state or federal law preventing this? Or are they chicken? As a retired Army command sergeant major and governor, cowardice doesn't seem likely, so why aren't we seeing more? Are they worried about civilian casualties? With the murder of Ms. Good, I think we're past that now. Minneapolis is very close to being a war zone as it is right now.
Something's going to break soon and I don't think it will be a peaceful solution. Don't think this can't happen in your city because it can. Multiple cities have seen this so far but not on the scale of Minneapolis. But Minnesota is just the beginning. They are the proving ground for either side. If Minnesota lays down because their leadership is afraid of another BLM protest, that ship has sailed. Those types of protests are already happening. The only thing left out is the wanton destruction of businesses. That's only because they have a common enemy and they're wearing combat clothing and equipment. They're easy targets. Easy to focus the anger on.
So I ask again, what is the state leadership waiting for? Why do they seem to be so hesitant to stand up for their people? If ICE wins this battle in Minnesota, they will take that battle to other states and deploy the same tactics over and over again. They started in LA, took it to Chicago, where they used Chicago as a training ground. Memphis was a cake walk, as was New Orleans. Minneapolis is ramping up to be the beginnings of the true resistance. Whether they're going to be a Bunker Hill or a Lexington-Concord will be up to the state leadership. Lawsuits won't stop bullets.
Terrance,excellent piece and observation.We are so concerned about Non Violence being the answer,the " Nazis" know the DEms are weak,have a reputation for not fighting back.Why are the people in Minneapolis not forming groups,that will get armed,trained and go on the offense.The idea of suing to stop this brutual assault on individual rights may not work.
So true,that's why the court's don't make a big difference for important cases.Even when they go against him,he just brushes it off and continues to break the law. Non Violence is barely working.
To Mr. Farrar's point, which I keep making everywhere lately, the time for lawsuits, strongly worded official letters, emails and fiery speeches is gone now. Not that they should stop altogether, but force needs to be met with force, and the American people will have to get over the fact that people are going to die, just like the first colonists who dared to stand up to the Red Coats and King George. The Red coats of the 1700's are not much different than how ICE is behaving right now.
Trump is itching to invoke the insurrection clause so we the people should be preparing for that, rather that posting TikTok and Instagram videos. Will Minneapolis become the next Lexington-Concord in the new revolutionary war against the tyrannical government? Watch or listen to this week's episode of The Village Oak Tree podcast to find out.
Terrance,I agree with you 100%. The "nazis" realize the Dems are weak,will not fight back with anything other than demonstrations,which give people a chance to get out some frustration,but have not stopped this "Brown Shirt"behavior.People in Minnesota should get armed,get trained and start inflicting some damage on the "BrownShirts"
We are living in a "Neo Nazi" state and it is time to go on the offense.
I'm 70 years young now and someone a few years ago was complaining about people volunteering to go fight a war somewhere. I replied that my oath of allegiance to the constitution and the country never expired just because I retired from active duty and if I got called up to serve again, I'd be at the head of the line.
This beginning of a revolution to fight against a tyrannical government is no different than if I were called up to go fight a against one overseas. If I got called up to join a militia to fight against ICE, I would be at the front of the que to go.
Now, I do prefer to see them handle this in a more peaceful manner and I hope the leadership and people of Minnesota can figure something out before too many more people get hurt but the they're fast approaching the point of no return. It's starting to look more like the violent riots of the late 1960's and '70's. A lot of people got hurt, arrested and a handful were killed. It's starting to look like we're repeating history again.
Well said. It is foolish to celebrate law suits, they are only a minor victory, Trump ignores them anyway, and who has the muscle to enforce them? Pam Bondi? Don't make me laugh. If a suit goes against him, he appeals to one of every increasingly corrupt district appellate courts, and if that court rules against him, he appeals to the Supreme Court which will and has ruled in his favor, and when it doesn'the ignores the ruling and who is going to enforce it?PamBondi?
He, the Republicans, MAGAts have corrupted politics and the institutions, and our vaunted governors and mayors are big on talk and suits, but short on courage because they could and should direct their own local and state police to arrest masked men when they are violating state and local laws.
Jonathan Ross should have been arrested the moment he shot Ms Good, and Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, not to mention Mayor Frey are letting Bondi stifle and interfere with the reckoning.
She and the Federal government have no jurisdiction over a federal employee that breaks state and local law.
And the reason they don't is because they are actually afraid of Trump.
Federal agents in pursuit of Federal criminals must abide by local laws, and Ms Good and Migrants are not criminals.
Wearing a badge is a license to kill, only by default, because of lack of spine by local officials.
William,good post and you are 100% right. It is amusing when we talk about really going on offense,when so many able bodied don't even show up @ demonstrations.We Dems are just a pushovers and the killers know that. Is anyone willing to become a martyr?
Compare us to Iran. Millions are on the streets, so far the IRGC has killed thousands, some say 2,000 others 10,000. I saw a surreptitious, cell phone video on BBC smuggled in from Iran, of a school gymnasium cluttered with body bags and families frantically searching. And the mulllahcracy has hung tens maybe hundreds of young folk, and the problem in Iran is mostly economic though there is an element of patriarchal misogyny, but mostly economic and the young folk are fed u with the corruption of the ayatollahs and IRGC, meanwhile in America, all we have is some feckless political leaders making bold pronouncements and writing strongly worded letters to Trump , and peaceful demonstrations as ICE, and later even the military, swooping up people, beating them and killing them.
The ruling elites have been very successful in convincing the dolts, that non violent peaceful resistance is the way to go, using as an example Ghandi and MLK.
Well Ghandi is not the reason the Brits pulled up stakes in India, it was millions of armed Indians, and the "ghosts" of Subras Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army (INA), and MILK achieved nothing until he was assassinated, the reaction saw cities go up in flames.
For the ruling elite, lives are cheap, as they are in Putin's Russia, unless they are the lives of the favored ruling class.
What gets their attention is destruction of property.. money.
Humans are a resource, a resource is something that is consumed, used up, in production.. that gives real meaning to the term HR (Human Resource)
I am 86, diabetic, and in remission from brain and lung cancer, with disabilities and deficits, who would have thunk that I am fortunate, and I am because I am not going to have to live in Oceania or the Technate of America.
Sadly, the likelihood of a police riot in a city with a history of police riots is likely higher than zero.
Even though Trump's clowncar cabinet members are, like ICE Barbie, not the brightest bulbs in Trump's chandelier, the alt-right media will blame any and all violence on radical socialist democrats - as they are paid to do. MAGA lies are validated by only one criterion today: "Everybody knows." Shaking this baseless worldview seems nearly impossible thanks to the MSM cozying up to the monied liars.
While MAGAs too are in economic pain, they continue to cling to Trump's promise of delivering "The Rapture" just as soon as he can rid America of its libtard sinners - or whatever.
Tomonthebeach, the alt right media should be identified,and gone after.Bringing up the rapture,how religion elected Donald Trump,happy he got rid of abortion in 16 states.As stated previously "abortion is gone,we have a " nazi" state" Talk to all the religious fanatics,Catholics,Jews,White Christian Nationalists,ask them if they think it is worth it. Unfortunately they would probably agree,democracy is over and we're glad,at least we don't have abortion.
I hope and pray that we the people will not succumb to the pressure of this administration and give them the excuse they desperately want and need to impose martial law. Dump will not survive his many ailments to face any prison time but his sniveling underlings will certainly face charges at least at the state level and some of them can be sent to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity. I am talking to Hegseth, Caine, and the admirals and generals who ordered all the boat strikes and the invasion of Venezuela!
I love the way Thom looks at the events and circumstances underway in OUR AMERICA. It helps me to know the positives and negatives of the various points of view and actions. It's good to have a guide and Thom is one of the best. I said long ago to keep the pressure on Trump as he is the weakest link. The rest of his "cabinet of fools" simply mimics schoolyard bullies. Their mouths run incessantly only to show me their ignorance. Bye-bye, Pam Bondi. Bye-bye, Karoline Leavett. Thank you, Thom Hartmann, for your guidance! And keep the pressure on Trump, I want to watch him implode!
This administration cannot get better in implementing the art of projection. They promote the narrative that they want to deport the worst of the worst when there they are--the very worst. It is hard to fathom that it is comprised of a convicted felon for president, a Secretary of Homeland Security who shot her puppy with a rifle, and a frat boy date rapist for Secretary of Defense....
Trump crossed a line when he targeted Powell. That was truly going too far. You can't attack the financial system that governs the world. Regardless of what the Fed does, we might find ourselves facing an economy similar to that of the Weimar Republic. However, I trust Powell and the Fed more than I trust Trump's plan, which consistently prioritizes his own interests over those of everyone else.
Hope is absolutely our imperative, as dark as it seems when we see what ICE is doing and as boats are being bombed and the Epstein cover-up continues unabated. If you saw Rachel last night, you know that Trump is on the ropes at this point and losing many more major cases than he is winning. My dad used to warn me and my three siblings about getting "too big for our britches". These people have clearly gotten too big for their britches, and the people are not going to remain quiet any longer. However, rats in a corner do not stop being vicious rats and there can be no compromising or retreat for us. Trump called Sen. Elizabeth Warren hoping to appease her and looking for a way to salvage his economic debacle from total ruin. But she is not going to cave in the least, and we cannot slow down either. Every day is a new battle, and a different war, and eternal vigilance is our only option. Many more people will get hurt before these fascists and kleptocrats are defeated. If we do not enlist the latest generation in the fight and if they are not steeled and prepared for what is still coming, we may still be embattled for years.
Sadly, as we are all perfectly aware and reminded at least dozens of times per day, it is easier to accept personal fear. Once I'm dead, I don't expect to feel remorse or pain (no matter what after-life beliefs I had). But when you're dealing with organized crime or political terrorism, it is very difficult not to fear the kind of multi-generational punishment being applied against our loved ones, even if we are ourselves no longer going to ever personally experience it again.
I don’t understand the fact that the only action being taken is suing. This is an emergency. Why isn’t the DA issuing arrest warrants for murder assault property damage etc. since the insurrection act has not been invoked warrantless searches and raids are illegal. Why doesn’t the governor have the National Guard engage in non-violent protection of citizens by becoming official observers and following ICE activities. Or perhaps make an executive order against masks. Or emergency legislation against masks and lack of ID so that they are violating state law?
It’s all too extraordinary.
Congress is another solution.
Just got this from Common Cause:
Daniel, an American mother is dead at the hands of ICE – and a government that’s supposed to keep us safe is sending masked gunmen to terrorize millions of our neighbors.
But the people in charge of it all, like Trump, Noem, and Miller, keep contradicting themselves, smearing, and trying to move on without giving us the answers we deserve.
Renee Nicole Good was just 37 years old and was a U.S. citizen. She had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school when an ICE agent fired into her car in Minneapolis and took her life.
But instead of honoring her legacy and demanding accountability, federal officials like Secretary Kristi Noem went on TV to justify the shooting, accuse Good of “domestic terrorism,” and contradict the video. [1]
Our government is supposed to keep us safe – not kill one of its own citizens. Full transparency and accountability are the bare minimum when a preventable tragedy like this takes place.
Congress has the power and responsibility to investigate ICE’s use of deadly force and hold this administration accountable – and we’re demanding they use it.
That’s why Common Cause is partnering with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the League of Women Voters (LWV) [2] – so we can create an unstoppable wave of public outcry to force lawmakers into action. You can be a part of it by taking action today.
https://act.commoncause.org/call_campaigns/hold-ice-accountable/?source=20260113_Investigate-DHS-Calls_FS&link_id=2&can_id=c21edc35afceb939e29222ede000e0fb&email_referrer=email_3050252&email_subject=hold-ice-accountable&
Both houses and with a 60 vote majority in the Senate.
Sorry if I repeat. All Trump moves are designed to distract our attention.
Take advantage of the situation. Trump is vulnerable.
Yesterday, Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he would oppose the confirmation of all picks for the Fed, including the forthcoming chair nomination, until the legal matter is resolved. Feasible to get several House members to flip, issue by issue.
IMHO Epstein is primary.
The Obamacare issue brought several more Repubicans to support a Dem initiative.
Tatiffs? Ukraine? Russian Sanctions.
Impeachment! https://www.removetheregime.com/
Removal coalition
We have an open window of opportunity.
If we can get three (3) Republicans, we can issue subpoenas, hold hearings.
Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
On Thursday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would stop the Trump administration from additional attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote was 52–47 with five Republicans joining all the Democrats to move the measure forward. Republicans killed a similar measure in November, but Trump’s enormously unpopular incursion into Venezuela and threats against Greenland prompted five Republicans to reassert congressional authority over military action. CNN called it “a notable rebuke of the president.”
The five Republicans voting for the bill were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Immediately, Trump posted on social media that the five “should never be elected to office again.” By reasserting the power of Congress, he wrote, they were “attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America.”
Trump is in a pickle. Here is Baghdad By the Sea, at least one House MAGAT, my rep, opposes him on immigration. Many other House Republicans oppose him on the Epstein coverup. Others on the Obamacare issue. It's up to us to convince more to join them.
In Minnesota Congressional Republicans need to be pressured. We need to contact their donors. Local businesses. Local Holy Joes. Picket. Sit in.
The current Republican U.S. representatives for Minnesota are:
District 1: Brad Finstad (since August 12, 2022)
District 6: Tom Emmer (since January 3, 2015)
District 7: Michelle Fischbach (since January 3, 2021)
District 8: Pete Stauber (since January 3, 2019)
Local Fox outlet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMSP-TV
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Here's stuff that Thom should post. I am not a member but....
Got this fronm Kathleen Weber, who writes the As Time Goes By substack.
Please join the first step toward a general strike. The Women's March is calling on everyone to leave work at 2:00 PM on January 20.
SIGN UP or CREATE AN EVENT !!!
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FREE AMERICA WALKOUT
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.
On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.
★ We walk away from fascism. ★
★ We walk towards a Free America. ★
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all. ★
★ Everybody in, nobody out. ★
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout ★
Impeach Trump? He was impeached twice, yet there he sits. Impeachment does not do jack shit, he has to be removed by the senate and to do that 60 votes are needed.
So the Senate advances a bill, well it has to pass the House, and then be signed by Trump.
Do you think Trump will sign a bill that limits him?
I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
What is needed is more than empty gestures, and putting bills that Trump will veto, or ignore like he does HR 4505, the Epstein files, are empty gestures.
We don't deposa tyrant by staanding up and blowing raspberries. -
1789
Their vision is real.....
Some want to dismiss the role that the Tech Bros are playing in all of this. They hold the method and means to the end that these Nazis want. The propaganda and push they give disinformation on the internet is exactly what we are seeing.
This movement to dominate the Western Hemisphere was real in the 1930's and long past WWII. It's back with a vengeance. Putin is doing it. XI is doing it. Worst of all, TRump and the Tech Bros have started THEIR domination movement. This beautiful Western Hemisphere has at least a billion people in it. For ANY of their plot to work, they have to control us. Enter the tech that they will claim is our savior.
They giveth and they taketh away---when you don't obey. It even f-ing rhymes. First thing Iran did was shut down the internet. A piece of my heart is with the women in Iran. I am humbled by the bravery we are seeing there and in our own USA. WE ARE THE THE PEOPLE AND THIS IS OUR HOMELAND. See you in the streets.
Keep your eye on the ball: pressure CONGRESS.
But Congress is cowardly, complicit and corrupt, so what then?
My new audio book is, Gilded Rage." It's about the tech bros that want to end democracy.
Great suggestion from Gloria. I just read notes and they said the focus is on Musk. He is the dark heart of the US's part of this.
It's naive to witness what he paid for the election and did with DOGE and then to think he didn't school TRump and his psychos. You know, he never met his grandpa, Joshua N. Haldeman (WIKI), but you can bet the whole Technate of America crap came from his mother Maye. White Power Pukes from South Africa. Nazis that found their tribe right here in the USA. Now he is building it out within his Tech Bro circle.
WE really got our initial message right about fascism and the end of democracy being their real agenda. Thanks for all you are doing, Gloria.
Thanks Gloria,love to read it. They are very open ,Peter Thiel,Musk,Andresson,Jensen Huang,Satya Nadella and so many others. Compile a list,go after them. They are not invulnerable.
, This is the real reason that Trump wants Greenland, it goes back to Musks Grandfather, run out of Canada, because of this: The Technocracy Movement
It goes back to the Democracy Movement, founded by Musks grandfather Joshua Norman Halderman .Joshua Norman Haldeman was a prominent Canadian leader and organizer for the Technocracy movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, advocating for rule by scientists and engineers, but grew disillusioned, eventually moving to South Africa where he promoted similar ideas alongside racist views, becoming the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk and influencing some of his technological ambitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The goal is a Technate of America Map https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
Greenland and Canada as well as Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador (familiar?).
Greenland is of interest because it is where Praxis City is to be located: https://www.insidehook.com/internet/peter-thiel-praxis-next-great-city-greenland
Thanks for the info. I hadn't heard of Praxis City. Just started the audio book today.
When a tyranny is on the rocks, it becomes frantic, and thus increasingly violent and reckless, the only way to save itself is a total crack down, a full fledged police state. Expect repressive measures and violence to escalate.
It isn't just Trump that is at risk it is every member of his cabinet, advisors, down to the ICE, CBP, HSI, DEA, FBI agents any and all who carry out his commands, and that includes members of the Armed Forces, those involved in blowing up boats, even those involved in the kidnapping of Maduro.
If by miracle, the Democrats retook the government, do you think there will be a housecleaning, especially at DoJ, and every Trump appointed employee fired, especially the DOGE kids.
Don't bank on it. The Democrats just don't have the backbone, Biden didn't, He revoked Trump's schedule F with his first Executive order, thus depriving him the ability to clean house, especially DOJ, NSA and Homeland Security of Trump embedded employees, and he paid for his fecklessness.
First order of business is to get rid of them.
Obviously. needs not be stated.
You inserted your pessimism.
My comment was pessimistic? Really, You said "First order of business is to get rid of them", My response is "obviously, needs not to be stated".
That isn't pessimistic, that is stating the obvious
Thank you for mentioning the brilliant Mike Brock, Thom. Combining philosophy with politics and sometimes intertwined with poetry or poetic prose. If people haven’t read him on Substack check him out.
Donald had [HAD] an IQ of, generously, 99.
How else do you: blow an inheritance of 413,000,000; run several casinos into the ground; rape and/or abuse at least 26 women [including terrorizing/raping your 1st wife]; lust after your own offspring; rape enough kiddies in your off hours to fill a 7th-grade classroom; and go bankrupt multiple times?
KGB-tool Putin has extracted a cool 60 IQ points [30 of 'em in Alaska], leaving a paltry 39.
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present "The Chosen One" aka "Sleep 'n Eat" aka "Stinky."
Don't wait for the Zyklon-B showers: Vote. VOTE !!!
It's starting to look like Trump will attempt to invoke the insurrection clause soon. Minnesota is standing up hard, and other states are taking notice. If DOJ comes after them, they will do the same. Trump doesn't have enough boots on the ground to lock down the country. Especially with leaders starting to defect.
I agree with the one commentator here, why aren't Walz and Ellison breaking out the national guard to protect the citizens? Is there some sort of state or federal law preventing this? Or are they chicken? As a retired Army command sergeant major and governor, cowardice doesn't seem likely, so why aren't we seeing more? Are they worried about civilian casualties? With the murder of Ms. Good, I think we're past that now. Minneapolis is very close to being a war zone as it is right now.
Something's going to break soon and I don't think it will be a peaceful solution. Don't think this can't happen in your city because it can. Multiple cities have seen this so far but not on the scale of Minneapolis. But Minnesota is just the beginning. They are the proving ground for either side. If Minnesota lays down because their leadership is afraid of another BLM protest, that ship has sailed. Those types of protests are already happening. The only thing left out is the wanton destruction of businesses. That's only because they have a common enemy and they're wearing combat clothing and equipment. They're easy targets. Easy to focus the anger on.
So I ask again, what is the state leadership waiting for? Why do they seem to be so hesitant to stand up for their people? If ICE wins this battle in Minnesota, they will take that battle to other states and deploy the same tactics over and over again. They started in LA, took it to Chicago, where they used Chicago as a training ground. Memphis was a cake walk, as was New Orleans. Minneapolis is ramping up to be the beginnings of the true resistance. Whether they're going to be a Bunker Hill or a Lexington-Concord will be up to the state leadership. Lawsuits won't stop bullets.
Terrance,excellent piece and observation.We are so concerned about Non Violence being the answer,the " Nazis" know the DEms are weak,have a reputation for not fighting back.Why are the people in Minneapolis not forming groups,that will get armed,trained and go on the offense.The idea of suing to stop this brutual assault on individual rights may not work.
Law suits and law are not an impediment to Trump, he brushes them aside like they are flies.
So true,that's why the court's don't make a big difference for important cases.Even when they go against him,he just brushes it off and continues to break the law. Non Violence is barely working.
To Mr. Farrar's point, which I keep making everywhere lately, the time for lawsuits, strongly worded official letters, emails and fiery speeches is gone now. Not that they should stop altogether, but force needs to be met with force, and the American people will have to get over the fact that people are going to die, just like the first colonists who dared to stand up to the Red Coats and King George. The Red coats of the 1700's are not much different than how ICE is behaving right now.
Trump is itching to invoke the insurrection clause so we the people should be preparing for that, rather that posting TikTok and Instagram videos. Will Minneapolis become the next Lexington-Concord in the new revolutionary war against the tyrannical government? Watch or listen to this week's episode of The Village Oak Tree podcast to find out.
Terrance,I agree with you 100%. The "nazis" realize the Dems are weak,will not fight back with anything other than demonstrations,which give people a chance to get out some frustration,but have not stopped this "Brown Shirt"behavior.People in Minnesota should get armed,get trained and start inflicting some damage on the "BrownShirts"
We are living in a "Neo Nazi" state and it is time to go on the offense.
I'm 70 years young now and someone a few years ago was complaining about people volunteering to go fight a war somewhere. I replied that my oath of allegiance to the constitution and the country never expired just because I retired from active duty and if I got called up to serve again, I'd be at the head of the line.
This beginning of a revolution to fight against a tyrannical government is no different than if I were called up to go fight a against one overseas. If I got called up to join a militia to fight against ICE, I would be at the front of the que to go.
Now, I do prefer to see them handle this in a more peaceful manner and I hope the leadership and people of Minnesota can figure something out before too many more people get hurt but the they're fast approaching the point of no return. It's starting to look more like the violent riots of the late 1960's and '70's. A lot of people got hurt, arrested and a handful were killed. It's starting to look like we're repeating history again.
Neither lawsuits nor whistles will stop bullets.
Well said. It is foolish to celebrate law suits, they are only a minor victory, Trump ignores them anyway, and who has the muscle to enforce them? Pam Bondi? Don't make me laugh. If a suit goes against him, he appeals to one of every increasingly corrupt district appellate courts, and if that court rules against him, he appeals to the Supreme Court which will and has ruled in his favor, and when it doesn'the ignores the ruling and who is going to enforce it?PamBondi?
He, the Republicans, MAGAts have corrupted politics and the institutions, and our vaunted governors and mayors are big on talk and suits, but short on courage because they could and should direct their own local and state police to arrest masked men when they are violating state and local laws.
Jonathan Ross should have been arrested the moment he shot Ms Good, and Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, not to mention Mayor Frey are letting Bondi stifle and interfere with the reckoning.
She and the Federal government have no jurisdiction over a federal employee that breaks state and local law.
And the reason they don't is because they are actually afraid of Trump.
Federal agents in pursuit of Federal criminals must abide by local laws, and Ms Good and Migrants are not criminals.
Wearing a badge is a license to kill, only by default, because of lack of spine by local officials.
William,good post and you are 100% right. It is amusing when we talk about really going on offense,when so many able bodied don't even show up @ demonstrations.We Dems are just a pushovers and the killers know that. Is anyone willing to become a martyr?
Compare us to Iran. Millions are on the streets, so far the IRGC has killed thousands, some say 2,000 others 10,000. I saw a surreptitious, cell phone video on BBC smuggled in from Iran, of a school gymnasium cluttered with body bags and families frantically searching. And the mulllahcracy has hung tens maybe hundreds of young folk, and the problem in Iran is mostly economic though there is an element of patriarchal misogyny, but mostly economic and the young folk are fed u with the corruption of the ayatollahs and IRGC, meanwhile in America, all we have is some feckless political leaders making bold pronouncements and writing strongly worded letters to Trump , and peaceful demonstrations as ICE, and later even the military, swooping up people, beating them and killing them.
The ruling elites have been very successful in convincing the dolts, that non violent peaceful resistance is the way to go, using as an example Ghandi and MLK.
Well Ghandi is not the reason the Brits pulled up stakes in India, it was millions of armed Indians, and the "ghosts" of Subras Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army (INA), and MILK achieved nothing until he was assassinated, the reaction saw cities go up in flames.
For the ruling elite, lives are cheap, as they are in Putin's Russia, unless they are the lives of the favored ruling class.
What gets their attention is destruction of property.. money.
Humans are a resource, a resource is something that is consumed, used up, in production.. that gives real meaning to the term HR (Human Resource)
I am 86, diabetic, and in remission from brain and lung cancer, with disabilities and deficits, who would have thunk that I am fortunate, and I am because I am not going to have to live in Oceania or the Technate of America.
Sadly, the likelihood of a police riot in a city with a history of police riots is likely higher than zero.
Even though Trump's clowncar cabinet members are, like ICE Barbie, not the brightest bulbs in Trump's chandelier, the alt-right media will blame any and all violence on radical socialist democrats - as they are paid to do. MAGA lies are validated by only one criterion today: "Everybody knows." Shaking this baseless worldview seems nearly impossible thanks to the MSM cozying up to the monied liars.
While MAGAs too are in economic pain, they continue to cling to Trump's promise of delivering "The Rapture" just as soon as he can rid America of its libtard sinners - or whatever.
Tomonthebeach, the alt right media should be identified,and gone after.Bringing up the rapture,how religion elected Donald Trump,happy he got rid of abortion in 16 states.As stated previously "abortion is gone,we have a " nazi" state" Talk to all the religious fanatics,Catholics,Jews,White Christian Nationalists,ask them if they think it is worth it. Unfortunately they would probably agree,democracy is over and we're glad,at least we don't have abortion.
Best way to think of religion as Shepherds and Sheep. The job of the Shepherd is to tend the flock until time for the fleecing and slaughter
William,well done.Have to remember that.
I hope and pray that we the people will not succumb to the pressure of this administration and give them the excuse they desperately want and need to impose martial law. Dump will not survive his many ailments to face any prison time but his sniveling underlings will certainly face charges at least at the state level and some of them can be sent to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity. I am talking to Hegseth, Caine, and the admirals and generals who ordered all the boat strikes and the invasion of Venezuela!
I love the way Thom looks at the events and circumstances underway in OUR AMERICA. It helps me to know the positives and negatives of the various points of view and actions. It's good to have a guide and Thom is one of the best. I said long ago to keep the pressure on Trump as he is the weakest link. The rest of his "cabinet of fools" simply mimics schoolyard bullies. Their mouths run incessantly only to show me their ignorance. Bye-bye, Pam Bondi. Bye-bye, Karoline Leavett. Thank you, Thom Hartmann, for your guidance! And keep the pressure on Trump, I want to watch him implode!
This administration cannot get better in implementing the art of projection. They promote the narrative that they want to deport the worst of the worst when there they are--the very worst. It is hard to fathom that it is comprised of a convicted felon for president, a Secretary of Homeland Security who shot her puppy with a rifle, and a frat boy date rapist for Secretary of Defense....
Trump crossed a line when he targeted Powell. That was truly going too far. You can't attack the financial system that governs the world. Regardless of what the Fed does, we might find ourselves facing an economy similar to that of the Weimar Republic. However, I trust Powell and the Fed more than I trust Trump's plan, which consistently prioritizes his own interests over those of everyone else.
He crossed a line as #45.
Hope is absolutely our imperative, as dark as it seems when we see what ICE is doing and as boats are being bombed and the Epstein cover-up continues unabated. If you saw Rachel last night, you know that Trump is on the ropes at this point and losing many more major cases than he is winning. My dad used to warn me and my three siblings about getting "too big for our britches". These people have clearly gotten too big for their britches, and the people are not going to remain quiet any longer. However, rats in a corner do not stop being vicious rats and there can be no compromising or retreat for us. Trump called Sen. Elizabeth Warren hoping to appease her and looking for a way to salvage his economic debacle from total ruin. But she is not going to cave in the least, and we cannot slow down either. Every day is a new battle, and a different war, and eternal vigilance is our only option. Many more people will get hurt before these fascists and kleptocrats are defeated. If we do not enlist the latest generation in the fight and if they are not steeled and prepared for what is still coming, we may still be embattled for years.
Sadly, as we are all perfectly aware and reminded at least dozens of times per day, it is easier to accept personal fear. Once I'm dead, I don't expect to feel remorse or pain (no matter what after-life beliefs I had). But when you're dealing with organized crime or political terrorism, it is very difficult not to fear the kind of multi-generational punishment being applied against our loved ones, even if we are ourselves no longer going to ever personally experience it again.
FIRE ICE.
Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Given the extent of judiciary corruption and its penchant for delay and “creative” interpretation, isn’t AG Ellison’s lawsuit a waste of time?