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Becky O A's avatar

maybe you should have a code to let people know if you are really in trouble, like what parents give kids to signal they need help? Stay safe, looking forward to your next book.

Larry Bushard's avatar

If we have elections this year, we can start to dismantle the autocracy we are living inder right now. The yamster in the White House has been deemed a very special boy the most corrupt SCOTUS in history and he believes he has no limits on his,power. Thiel and his fellow fascist oligarchs are manipulating him to do their will but it is possible, like the German oligarchs of the 1930s, that they have lost control of their monster. Next No Kings day is March 28th!

William Farrar's avatar

Being realistic we all are going to have to work hard, to get as many fellow minded people to turn out and vote, because the Republican party has already put in place laws that

1. Restrict voting.

2. Scrub voter rolls

3. Intimidate persons, especially with Hispanic names

4. Replaced independent voter commissions with MAGA

5. Armed poll watchers, at least 10,000 of them trained by the RNC, maybe ICE as well, in violation of the Constitution, which never stopped them.

6. Restricted mail in voting and moved or reduced voting locations and ballot boxes at the last moment

7. Voting machine companies like Dominion have been bought by Republican operatives.

I don't mean to discourage, but those are facts which the DNC and we face and must be pre[ared to confront.

William Farrar's avatar

How do we fix it?

How do we enforce a subpoena or an inherent contempt charge against the Attorney General?

How do we arrest, how do we indict, how do we try, and who prosecutes her for inherent contempt"

How do we evict a dictator that won't leave office?

It is one thing to say this should be done, this needs to be done, but another to actually be able to do it.

Lalita Janke's avatar

Can’t wait for the release of the book. Anyway I could place a pre published order? 😁

David Polson's avatar

Thank you for your hard work, enjoy a little break!

alis's avatar

Woo-hoo! This book sounds great.

Did you ever read the "Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry? I would expect no less from Thom if they ever came to get him. He would educate everyone in the detention center, including the guards.

Leonardo DiCaprio would come to bust him out. A horde of ACLU lawyers would be breathing fire in court. 

Make them sorry, Thom, if it EVER happens. We will find you. Just like in the Last of the Mohicans film: "You, stay alive!" See you in the streets.

Michael Tanksley's avatar

Is something missing here? There was a Supreme Court ruling sometime in the 1880s that allowed for the creation of corporations, which had been disallowed by the penners of the Constitution for the reason mentioned by Thom. This would seem to me to be closer to the root of what led to this article.

While it is hard to imagine dissolving corporations, our elected representatives in congress could certainly pass an amendment that closes the corporate citizenship barn door.

Elections first, of course.

Sophia Demas's avatar

Thom, what you've uncovered is hugely important and this book cannot emerge on the scene at a better time. I hope that it propels lawmakers to take action and bring this to light....

Phil Clark's avatar

How does Citizens United fit into this? We are focusing on that case.