Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa has been out there doing interviews. I hope you can get her opinion on this development.
She is an expert that has already warned us about Trump the dictator. BUT, in her recent appearances she makes it clear that she is shocked about how quickly the Administration has moved to silence people.
That last televised Cabinet meeting made folks nauseous, especially Bondi's sycophancy. Not one person at that table believes in the Constitution. They want us to know that they only believe in Trump.
Bless you Thom, Louise, and Staff for all the brave things you do. Remember pirate radio? Maybe we should keep it in mind.
Here, our governor and state legislature tried to criminalize protest after the George Floyd protests. Bondi had moved on and our current senator, Ashley Moody, was state AG.
After the case was appealed through federal courts and after a remand by the 11th circuit, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the anti-protest law, HB 1, cannot be used to prosecute non-violent protesters or bystanders.
This ruling, which returned the case to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, clarifies that the state's riot definition cannot be applied to those who are not actively engaging in violence.
Bondi needs to have her law license stripped away as she is as corrupt as trump. I feel this is just the beginning as I fear that Bondi will do something about the remarks, opposing trump & his administration, on social media
It's them or us. To quote The Doors "They've got the guns but we have the numbers". I'm not suggesting armed revolution, though "our" regime is rapidly becoming more onerous than the British in 1775. Rather, civil disobedience, a general and ongoing national strike, and people taking to the streets and staying there. Bondi's vision of dead journalists, Trump insisting that Congress defund NPR and PBS — if he is able to gather momentum the Internet itself becomes the next target. We need to start taking this seriously: The thought police are coming.
We are going to need an ongoing national strike. These one day protests are not being covered by the mainstream media and their impact is quickly forgotten. All krasnov has to say is that the crowds were very tiny and that will make it ok with maggots.
We can initiate a targeted strike, aimed at those companies that are part of the problem- Amazon, Target, WP. Let's make a list.
Making a list and checking it twice... Concerted effort is essential; anything less is virtue signaling. If we're not getting clubbed and peppers prayed we're not doing it right.
So Chris, were do we go from here? It seems self-evident that mass, sustained protests are necessary — though they can be little more than dilettantism if, for instance, May 1st and protests leads to May 2nd and a pleasant Saturday at home. Targeted strikes are a path but at this point people, at least those in the middle classes, are addicted to consumerism. I think a general strike would carry more weight and that workers, especially those whose livelihoods are threatened by automation and AI, might be more likely to participate. Regardless, we need to go from here to there more or less immediately.
We might rally around an ideology but there aren't any. Calvanizing figures, other than Bernie, not in it for the ego are difficult to find. There's AOC, but I don't know that she is ready. Pritzker? I'm not ready to get behind someone worth 3.6 billion.
Anyway, I'm interested in your — or anyone else's — thoughts.
I don’t think that extended protests will happen until the pain becomes severe. Boycotts can happen at anytime though even from the comfort of your home.
If they get the reconciliation bill, immediately. And yes, people are addicted to consumerism and that’s a whole other issue that needs to be dealt with. Bursting the Bubble is my Substack.
Thank you for your thoroughly alarming missive...I feel like crawling back under the covers, so thank you for the kick-in-the-butt to take action! What is most terrifying is that trump and blondi feel that they have so much power that they can do this in broad daylight. Can we put any hope in the justices?
The blue states joining Canada would add 160 million to Canada's 40 million making a country of 200 million leaving 180 million left. Trump is a coward and would not risk invading a country that has an equal size and perhaps slightly larger resources. This is a valid deterrent discouraging Trump from invading Canada in the first place and hopefully preventing a civil war. It's worth the effort to try. But he willl invade with an 8 to 1 population ratio that exists now. These are extraordinary times and we must have extraordinary solutions. I think this actually is the evolution that our country must do in order to have good gun control laws and other issues and continue as a democratic society. Otherwise all is lost.
There is no way we can negotiate with those confederates. They do not compromise. They will never change. You cannot mix a confederate government with a federal government. Just no way. They will consider a federal government acting in social areas as communist. There is no way trying to reason with them. Have you ever tried to argue with a Trumpster. Good luck on that. It would be more productive banging your head against a brick wall for a few hours. I've never seen people that have so many defense mechanisms. YOU CANNOT REASON WITH THEM. I JUST WANT TO GET TOTALLY AWAY FROM THEM AND SECEEDING FROM THE UNION IS THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT. This country is like being in an abusive marriage and divorce is the only answer.
More Canadian Americans in Baghdad By the Sea, in a red state, than in some provinces. Pay US and Florida taxes. Canadian businesses employ 54,000 Floridians. We miss the billions brought by 3 million toursts boycotting this year.
Many with diual citizenship, their kids are Americans, don't necessarily count as "Canadian" but stand and salute for Oh Canada at the hockey games or when the Blue Jays and Raptors play here.
I wrote about the mentality of Congressional Republicans the other day. They're politicxians. Only a few are MAGATs. I am heartened by Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell supporting Bourbon whiskey over Trump. 7 Republican cosponsors of a bill that would revoke Trump's authority over Tariffs.
IMHO many of them privagtely recognize that Trump is 1. a traitor and 2. nutsy koo koo.
Jerry Weiss has been all over this for a long time. IMHO Canadians and their allies and their customers have the capacity to pressure shared government.
Good question. So far I've had positive feedback from Canadians. Don't have any idea on total stats though. One Canadian physician worried about the conservatives in a blue state. However, the blue state has a majority which would nullify them from taking over. If the blue states successfully joined Canada, the new laws would be implemented such as gun control laws which are not possible now because the red states prevent any decent gun control laws from bring passed on a national level now. So as the laws are already present in Canada, the blue states would already be implementing them. After several years of these implemented laws, the gun nut conservatives would move out in droves. They wouldn't be able to handle it. So not to worry. It would be a gradual evolution. So we can tell our Canadian friends that every thing would balance out in the wash. We can work things out.
Oh, we really do need to find a way to work things out because we are dealing with a calamity like Trump. Blue states and Canadians need each other. For sure For sure.
It is over folks, the grand experiment is over, from 1775 to 2025 250 years. Trusk has thoroughly deconstructed something that took 250 years to build, he knocked Humpty Dumpty off the wall, he has shattered into 1,000 pieces and can't be put back together again, and here we are reduced to impotent kvetching.
Worse yet any opposition is fragmented, we still have special interests demanding priority, money, attention., with each believing their cause is more important than others.
David Brooks of the NYT, a conservative, was correct we need a national uprising, total resistance.
Truth is, at this stage, the only way to save the house is to burn it down. So long as the Trump administration and America can limp along, nothing will change, and the changes Trusk has made will be solidified and institutionalized, and what we knew as America will disappear as a shit hole country,.
The difference between the body human and the body politic, is that the central nervous system in the body human is compact, and the pain is felt almost immediately.
But the body politic, especially in America, is so large, and there is so much fat accumulated, that it takes time for pain to be felt. But because it isn't being felt immediately, there are those that don't really believe that pain is coming.
Take so called Signalgate. Oh how, oh how, the denizens in the media and on the left, want somuch to believe that this was a fuck up and hazardous national security and is a cause celebre to "impeach" Trump and Hegseth.
What's the consequence? Waltz is the fall guy, but instead of being fired, he is promoted. The real perp, Hegseth, is not being disciplined at all. Conclusion: Proof of theater.
Was Signal gate actually a fuck up? I doubt it, because they invited Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, a hostile publication, into the chat. why would they do that? To send a message to Iran, the Houthi's and allies that Trump meant business, we had been taking actions against the Houthi's, but quietly without fanfare, now it is out in the open, we have basically declaredw ar on the Houthi's, and Iran has gotten the message, especially since in Yemen, both Israeli and US airstrikes have targeted fuel depots and ports, causing significant damage and casualties. Specifically, Israel struck fuel storage depots and cranes at the Hudaydah port. The US struck the Ras Isa portHuadayah
Instead of thinking and proclaiming that the regime is incompetent and fucking up, consider the possibility that they are fucking up on purpose,for that is the best and fastest way of deconstructing the United States and replacing it with an authoritarian and theocratic regime.
Trusk and Co. are not here to run or to administer the mechanisms of governance, but to destroy, disrupt and replace them with an authoritarian and theocratic state.
Hope you keep an eye on G2. Message is: democracy is dead, just give-up. Think it is classic psy-ops. Profile says gal---today's post says guy. Also, they are denigrating young people and protests.
It, "wounds my heart with monotonous languor". Two Hundred and forty five million Americans were eligible to vote. Seventy seven million voted for Trump. Eight nine million did not vote, 77M plus 89M equals 166M. That's roughly two thirds of eligible voters that either voted for Trump or didn't care enough to vote. Is it giving up to recognize that this huge body of people is not concerned with what the regime does or is supporting it? Is it giving up to see that the courts are so far powerless to stop Trump. All those people not given due process are still in prison in El Salvador.
There is a segment of the population, raised on Fox and social media, that either is unaware or don't care of the sacrifices their parents and grandparents made, or like the Muslims just had to flip Biden and the Dems the bird.by either not voting or following the leads of their Imam's and voted for Trump.
There were enough Muslim votes in the critical swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennyslvania that if were cast for Kamala, we would not have Trump
But no, they just had to flip the bird to Kamala, and now the feckless idiots have a serious case of buyers remorse, just like farmers, small business owners, and even government employees who voted for Trump. Schadenfreude. Karma.
Yes I agree, the grand experiment of representative democracy is coming to an end. The lawless control the law. The MAGA's have the power and energy. Campuses are not erupting in protest ... young people are not in the game. We the people seem content to bet on sports versus rising up. Hope the gulag has a TV so I can watch the World Series.
There comes a time when one just can't take it anymore, and the resistance comes out of the closet and solidifies, but then it is too late.
An example: The French Maquis The French Maquis, a part of the broader French Resistance, experienced significant casualties during World War II, with estimates ranging from 90,000 to over 600,000 deaths across all resistance movements, including those within the Maquis. The Maquis, primarily operating in rural areas, faced harsh conditions and direct confrontations with German forces, leading to high death tolls.
And yet they didn't expel the NAZI's, it took Allied forces landing in Normandy to do that.
Is there that kind of backbone in America.
Can you imagine liberals and leftists surging the Capitol like the MAGAts did on Jan 6th.?
This old man has had enough. Enough of, pumping anti Trump signs at demonstrations, letters to the editor, writing and calling politicians offices. If politicians don't know the score at this point they never will. Half of them are complicit in the authoritarian grift, the other half are out of power. The MAGA's just keep rolling along crushing the rule of law and just about anything decent in our country. We the people are not rising up in numbers sufficient to give them pause. Campuses are mostly quiet. If young people with the most to lose don't care why should I?
Alis, I am frustrated that so many people in our country don't care about what is happening. Incidentally, I'm in my mid seventies and am an old hetero white guy amazed that the MAGA's were voted in an are doing so much damage. Maybe a recession will capture the attention of the masses.
"it sure feels like that's exactly what Bondi and Trump are now up to." I don't give a damn about your "feelings!" Can't you do better that that? 77,000,000 Americans voted for Trump to go what he is doing. And you are resisting HIM and us!
If he deceives us and does anything illegal, he should be held accountable. But if Congress was doing their job, Trump wouldn't have to go around them. NOTHING SHOULD BE HIDDEN.
You say, "I've been covering American politics for five decades." I have lived through all of this: Most of what you are accusing Trump of, has been done by his Predecessors -- Democrat and Republican -- which has brought us to this point. The American People have said, "ENOUGH!"
Enough of the "Big Lies" -- from politicians AND The Press!
It's gonna be a while before we can begin to turn things around, and things will get much worse before that happens. The structure of our government is being systematically dismantled—how much will be left upon which to rebuild remains an open question.
When we manage to throw them out, Botox, blonde, bimbo, Bondi needs to be one of the first ones arrested.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa has been out there doing interviews. I hope you can get her opinion on this development.
She is an expert that has already warned us about Trump the dictator. BUT, in her recent appearances she makes it clear that she is shocked about how quickly the Administration has moved to silence people.
That last televised Cabinet meeting made folks nauseous, especially Bondi's sycophancy. Not one person at that table believes in the Constitution. They want us to know that they only believe in Trump.
Bless you Thom, Louise, and Staff for all the brave things you do. Remember pirate radio? Maybe we should keep it in mind.
This alarms me. Stephen Miller threatened Governor Pritzker because he encouraged peaceful protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=AQpm0czw5-k
Here, our governor and state legislature tried to criminalize protest after the George Floyd protests. Bondi had moved on and our current senator, Ashley Moody, was state AG.
After the case was appealed through federal courts and after a remand by the 11th circuit, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the anti-protest law, HB 1, cannot be used to prosecute non-violent protesters or bystanders.
This ruling, which returned the case to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, clarifies that the state's riot definition cannot be applied to those who are not actively engaging in violence.
The press needs to sue Bondi for taking away their Rights!
Bondi needs to have her law license stripped away as she is as corrupt as trump. I feel this is just the beginning as I fear that Bondi will do something about the remarks, opposing trump & his administration, on social media
Well, except the legacy media is gutless and wants to pretend everything is “normal “, sane washing a thoroughly corrupt potus and cabinet.
It's them or us. To quote The Doors "They've got the guns but we have the numbers". I'm not suggesting armed revolution, though "our" regime is rapidly becoming more onerous than the British in 1775. Rather, civil disobedience, a general and ongoing national strike, and people taking to the streets and staying there. Bondi's vision of dead journalists, Trump insisting that Congress defund NPR and PBS — if he is able to gather momentum the Internet itself becomes the next target. We need to start taking this seriously: The thought police are coming.
We are going to need an ongoing national strike. These one day protests are not being covered by the mainstream media and their impact is quickly forgotten. All krasnov has to say is that the crowds were very tiny and that will make it ok with maggots.
We can initiate a targeted strike, aimed at those companies that are part of the problem- Amazon, Target, WP. Let's make a list.
Making a list and checking it twice... Concerted effort is essential; anything less is virtue signaling. If we're not getting clubbed and peppers prayed we're not doing it right.
So Chris, were do we go from here? It seems self-evident that mass, sustained protests are necessary — though they can be little more than dilettantism if, for instance, May 1st and protests leads to May 2nd and a pleasant Saturday at home. Targeted strikes are a path but at this point people, at least those in the middle classes, are addicted to consumerism. I think a general strike would carry more weight and that workers, especially those whose livelihoods are threatened by automation and AI, might be more likely to participate. Regardless, we need to go from here to there more or less immediately.
We might rally around an ideology but there aren't any. Calvanizing figures, other than Bernie, not in it for the ego are difficult to find. There's AOC, but I don't know that she is ready. Pritzker? I'm not ready to get behind someone worth 3.6 billion.
Anyway, I'm interested in your — or anyone else's — thoughts.
I don’t think that extended protests will happen until the pain becomes severe. Boycotts can happen at anytime though even from the comfort of your home.
The pain becomes severe? So next month?
If they get the reconciliation bill, immediately. And yes, people are addicted to consumerism and that’s a whole other issue that needs to be dealt with. Bursting the Bubble is my Substack.
I'll take a peek — I'm somewhat new top the environment
"This wasn’t just any memo; it was a declaration of war against the very foundation of press freedom in America."
Mightn't the whole leak affair last week have been planted to enable this "removal of protections for journalists"?
Ok, it's a stretch. (I love stretches.)
Thank you for your thoroughly alarming missive...I feel like crawling back under the covers, so thank you for the kick-in-the-butt to take action! What is most terrifying is that trump and blondi feel that they have so much power that they can do this in broad daylight. Can we put any hope in the justices?
The blue states joining Canada would add 160 million to Canada's 40 million making a country of 200 million leaving 180 million left. Trump is a coward and would not risk invading a country that has an equal size and perhaps slightly larger resources. This is a valid deterrent discouraging Trump from invading Canada in the first place and hopefully preventing a civil war. It's worth the effort to try. But he willl invade with an 8 to 1 population ratio that exists now. These are extraordinary times and we must have extraordinary solutions. I think this actually is the evolution that our country must do in order to have good gun control laws and other issues and continue as a democratic society. Otherwise all is lost.
There is no way we can negotiate with those confederates. They do not compromise. They will never change. You cannot mix a confederate government with a federal government. Just no way. They will consider a federal government acting in social areas as communist. There is no way trying to reason with them. Have you ever tried to argue with a Trumpster. Good luck on that. It would be more productive banging your head against a brick wall for a few hours. I've never seen people that have so many defense mechanisms. YOU CANNOT REASON WITH THEM. I JUST WANT TO GET TOTALLY AWAY FROM THEM AND SECEEDING FROM THE UNION IS THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT. This country is like being in an abusive marriage and divorce is the only answer.
More Canadian Americans in Baghdad By the Sea, in a red state, than in some provinces. Pay US and Florida taxes. Canadian businesses employ 54,000 Floridians. We miss the billions brought by 3 million toursts boycotting this year.
Many with diual citizenship, their kids are Americans, don't necessarily count as "Canadian" but stand and salute for Oh Canada at the hockey games or when the Blue Jays and Raptors play here.
I wrote about the mentality of Congressional Republicans the other day. They're politicxians. Only a few are MAGATs. I am heartened by Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell supporting Bourbon whiskey over Trump. 7 Republican cosponsors of a bill that would revoke Trump's authority over Tariffs.
IMHO many of them privagtely recognize that Trump is 1. a traitor and 2. nutsy koo koo.
Jerry Weiss has been all over this for a long time. IMHO Canadians and their allies and their customers have the capacity to pressure shared government.
Do the Canadians want us?
Good question. So far I've had positive feedback from Canadians. Don't have any idea on total stats though. One Canadian physician worried about the conservatives in a blue state. However, the blue state has a majority which would nullify them from taking over. If the blue states successfully joined Canada, the new laws would be implemented such as gun control laws which are not possible now because the red states prevent any decent gun control laws from bring passed on a national level now. So as the laws are already present in Canada, the blue states would already be implementing them. After several years of these implemented laws, the gun nut conservatives would move out in droves. They wouldn't be able to handle it. So not to worry. It would be a gradual evolution. So we can tell our Canadian friends that every thing would balance out in the wash. We can work things out.
Oh, we really do need to find a way to work things out because we are dealing with a calamity like Trump. Blue states and Canadians need each other. For sure For sure.
It is over folks, the grand experiment is over, from 1775 to 2025 250 years. Trusk has thoroughly deconstructed something that took 250 years to build, he knocked Humpty Dumpty off the wall, he has shattered into 1,000 pieces and can't be put back together again, and here we are reduced to impotent kvetching.
Worse yet any opposition is fragmented, we still have special interests demanding priority, money, attention., with each believing their cause is more important than others.
David Brooks of the NYT, a conservative, was correct we need a national uprising, total resistance.
Truth is, at this stage, the only way to save the house is to burn it down. So long as the Trump administration and America can limp along, nothing will change, and the changes Trusk has made will be solidified and institutionalized, and what we knew as America will disappear as a shit hole country,.
The difference between the body human and the body politic, is that the central nervous system in the body human is compact, and the pain is felt almost immediately.
But the body politic, especially in America, is so large, and there is so much fat accumulated, that it takes time for pain to be felt. But because it isn't being felt immediately, there are those that don't really believe that pain is coming.
Take so called Signalgate. Oh how, oh how, the denizens in the media and on the left, want somuch to believe that this was a fuck up and hazardous national security and is a cause celebre to "impeach" Trump and Hegseth.
What's the consequence? Waltz is the fall guy, but instead of being fired, he is promoted. The real perp, Hegseth, is not being disciplined at all. Conclusion: Proof of theater.
Was Signal gate actually a fuck up? I doubt it, because they invited Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, a hostile publication, into the chat. why would they do that? To send a message to Iran, the Houthi's and allies that Trump meant business, we had been taking actions against the Houthi's, but quietly without fanfare, now it is out in the open, we have basically declaredw ar on the Houthi's, and Iran has gotten the message, especially since in Yemen, both Israeli and US airstrikes have targeted fuel depots and ports, causing significant damage and casualties. Specifically, Israel struck fuel storage depots and cranes at the Hudaydah port. The US struck the Ras Isa portHuadayah
Instead of thinking and proclaiming that the regime is incompetent and fucking up, consider the possibility that they are fucking up on purpose,for that is the best and fastest way of deconstructing the United States and replacing it with an authoritarian and theocratic regime.
Trusk and Co. are not here to run or to administer the mechanisms of governance, but to destroy, disrupt and replace them with an authoritarian and theocratic state.
We ain't surrendering to nobody.
Hope you keep an eye on G2. Message is: democracy is dead, just give-up. Think it is classic psy-ops. Profile says gal---today's post says guy. Also, they are denigrating young people and protests.
Quite possible.
One does not have to surrender to be overrun.
I've been there (literally) and am living to talk about it.
Yo tambien. More than once as well.
It, "wounds my heart with monotonous languor". Two Hundred and forty five million Americans were eligible to vote. Seventy seven million voted for Trump. Eight nine million did not vote, 77M plus 89M equals 166M. That's roughly two thirds of eligible voters that either voted for Trump or didn't care enough to vote. Is it giving up to recognize that this huge body of people is not concerned with what the regime does or is supporting it? Is it giving up to see that the courts are so far powerless to stop Trump. All those people not given due process are still in prison in El Salvador.
There is a segment of the population, raised on Fox and social media, that either is unaware or don't care of the sacrifices their parents and grandparents made, or like the Muslims just had to flip Biden and the Dems the bird.by either not voting or following the leads of their Imam's and voted for Trump.
There were enough Muslim votes in the critical swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennyslvania that if were cast for Kamala, we would not have Trump
But no, they just had to flip the bird to Kamala, and now the feckless idiots have a serious case of buyers remorse, just like farmers, small business owners, and even government employees who voted for Trump. Schadenfreude. Karma.
Yes I agree, the grand experiment of representative democracy is coming to an end. The lawless control the law. The MAGA's have the power and energy. Campuses are not erupting in protest ... young people are not in the game. We the people seem content to bet on sports versus rising up. Hope the gulag has a TV so I can watch the World Series.
There comes a time when one just can't take it anymore, and the resistance comes out of the closet and solidifies, but then it is too late.
An example: The French Maquis The French Maquis, a part of the broader French Resistance, experienced significant casualties during World War II, with estimates ranging from 90,000 to over 600,000 deaths across all resistance movements, including those within the Maquis. The Maquis, primarily operating in rural areas, faced harsh conditions and direct confrontations with German forces, leading to high death tolls.
And yet they didn't expel the NAZI's, it took Allied forces landing in Normandy to do that.
Is there that kind of backbone in America.
Can you imagine liberals and leftists surging the Capitol like the MAGAts did on Jan 6th.?
I'm seventy seven years old TRUE BLUE and will fight to my last truth-telling breath!
It's simple. The blue states and any other state that wants to live in a free democratic society should seceed from the union and join Canada. PERIOD
See AG Pan Bondi in her new feature, ANAL PROSECUTORS! It'll make you laugh! It will make you cry!
It will make you think.
This old man has had enough. Enough of, pumping anti Trump signs at demonstrations, letters to the editor, writing and calling politicians offices. If politicians don't know the score at this point they never will. Half of them are complicit in the authoritarian grift, the other half are out of power. The MAGA's just keep rolling along crushing the rule of law and just about anything decent in our country. We the people are not rising up in numbers sufficient to give them pause. Campuses are mostly quiet. If young people with the most to lose don't care why should I?
Huh, your profile says gal---not that I don't love all genders.
Kinda wonder if you want everyone to give-up, G2. Sure hope not.
Alis, I am frustrated that so many people in our country don't care about what is happening. Incidentally, I'm in my mid seventies and am an old hetero white guy amazed that the MAGA's were voted in an are doing so much damage. Maybe a recession will capture the attention of the masses.
Because it sounds like you really do care.
"it sure feels like that's exactly what Bondi and Trump are now up to." I don't give a damn about your "feelings!" Can't you do better that that? 77,000,000 Americans voted for Trump to go what he is doing. And you are resisting HIM and us!
If he deceives us and does anything illegal, he should be held accountable. But if Congress was doing their job, Trump wouldn't have to go around them. NOTHING SHOULD BE HIDDEN.
You say, "I've been covering American politics for five decades." I have lived through all of this: Most of what you are accusing Trump of, has been done by his Predecessors -- Democrat and Republican -- which has brought us to this point. The American People have said, "ENOUGH!"
Enough of the "Big Lies" -- from politicians AND The Press!
It's gonna be a while before we can begin to turn things around, and things will get much worse before that happens. The structure of our government is being systematically dismantled—how much will be left upon which to rebuild remains an open question.
SPOILER ALERT VOMIT INDUCING
Oklahoma to teach high school students that too many people voted in the 2020 election.
New Oklahoma School Curriculum Requires Students to Learn “The Big Lie”
The new standards were inserted into the curriculum
by State Superintendent Ryan Walters,
The new standards would require students to “identify
discrepancies in 2020 elections results.”
The curriculum now requires schools to have high school students
“identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results
by looking at graphs and other information,” telling educators
that students should examine the supposed
“security risks of mail-in balloting”;
dumps of ballots;
and the “halting of ballot-counting in select cities.”
The curriculum also states that educators should point to the election’s
“unforeseen record number of voters” as a sign that something was amiss.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-oklahoma-school-curriculum-requires-students-to-learn-the-big-lie/
AND
Border czar Tom Homan says he's willing to jail Denver mayor over mass deportation protest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver
Homan has threatened to put mayors and governors in jail
if they try to interfere with their plan of mass deportations of undocumented migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgXKkK5pseU
You cannot even catch your breath when they come out with another
firehose of caustic despotic Fascist, Patrimonialistic, Kleptocratic
Democratic obliterating power grab
It takes a village.
The hounds have been released
"We have come to live in a society based on insults,
on lies and on things that just aren’t true.
It creates an environment
where deranged people feel empowered,”
Colin Powell