Exactly my sentiments. I also never thought that I would kill to have Dubyah back once Trump seized the golden throne (that one too) and showed us that there were levels of surreality not yet mined. Who knew? The most bizarre of the Greater Maggatlandia demands was that Trump (who has accidents in his diapers) be named the Sexiest Man Alive...yes, really. I almost hurled on that one.
Thune was likely selected because he was thought to be able to hold out longer than other Senators against upheaval to our Constitution and way of life that is coming.
The Fox is in charge of the hen house. Figures he would pick the pedophile for AG. And who isn't excited about a Fox Commentator as head of the Pentagon? Or the evangelist heading off to Israel to make sure that the appropriate pieces are in place for the rapture. Neil Simon couldn't write this comedy. Except I'm fairly sure we won't be laughing any time soon.
Actually, this makes Stephen King look like he writes non-fiction. Boy, are the Latino males going to have a shock when Stephen Miller and Dumpsterfire start deporting their relatives. One said we don't break laws. The person did not have legal immigration status.
Trump loves the chaos. Expect four more years of this. Maybe more. I feel Trump is throwing Gaetz out there to lessen the pain of his actual horrible nomination. As far as Gabbard she is soft on Russia and we all know Trump is Putins dream President... but America's Nightmare!
You've done an excellent job keeping us informed about each new passenger in the Trump Clown Car Cabinet.
But the question remains, what on earth can we do to stop them? Because I'm not seeing it.
They have ALL the branches of government now. All the levers of power. And moving to fill the military with loyalists willing to act against American citizens.
What do we have? Letter writing? Phone banking? That shit isn't going to stop him.
The people who voted for him will be hurt by his policies, but so will everybody else. And not just domestically.
I just don't know how to even begin to claw back our democracy from the team hell-bent on dismantling it.
When you find out what we can actually do, please let me know. I am at a total loss and in total shock. Which I think is exactly why he picked Gaetz, for the shock value.
The first action everyone should take is be with the Womens Marches coming up. Men need to wake up......get there asses out there and support their women. Women could be mobilizing to do the 4b movement coast to coast..........stockpile supplies......it is going to get nasty so prepare to defend yourselves with everything possible..........picket and protest the Heritage...Federalist bases......harrass them......\
Men need to understand the abortion bans will effect them too in many ways. They need to understand it contributes to infant mortality and how women are dying or losing their uteruses. They will be forced to commit to women they want to casually sleep with. The govt is controlling THEM too and a woman could “threaten” them with child support the moment she conceives and threaten him with jail time if he does not pay
In a southern state?? the suggested that young girls in half way homes...etc be used as surrogat mothers!! This is straight out of Nazi Germany, where a few "breeding farms" existed.
Heritage and Project 2025 have roots in Opus Die...the religious cult that scammed Spanish dictator Franco for billions that has lead to the overturn of Roe and this unfolding catastrophy.
It is mind boggling how they pulled this off......not hiding any of it!!!!
The lies...day after day............yea. Canadian authorities are bracing for a mass exodos to the border in January...
How the resistance prepares in the next 2 months is critical........we have had our Dunkirk and foreced to withdraw and lick the wounds........will we find a Churchill to fight on the stteets, beaches etc???
Millions of people need to turn out for marches.......and turn off their fucking computers!!!
I feel the exact same way what can we do they won everything. And all the good hard working Americans are going to suffer. We the American people don’t deserve this 4 years of hell from these sick disgusting traitors. And the traitors that voted for him they disgust me because they sold out their own country for what a devil and his people who don’t give a damn about there dumb asses.
If it wasn’t clear before, we now know why Trump is demanding Recess Appointments. These people would never get through the Senate’s confirmation process!
This. This is what I’d like to know. I’m ready. I just haven’t a clue how to proceed. I think he’s also going for shock and awe so that we end up tuning out/giving up. No matter how bizarre it gets, I won’t do that.
Absolutely agree! I hate getting mildly outraged about this stuff and having people roll their eyes and say “Oh that’s just rump”. No! We cannot normalize any of it. (Any more than it’s already been done)
1. Get involved with the aclu...many are already signing up to volunteer. They know the laws and I keep trying to tell people this.
The federal government actually got weakned over the past administrations and we need to use that to our advantage.
Annnd yes I know there are a bunch of people that will say he will just ignore that blah blah blah.... we all know how he's going to try to work. But fight anyways. Exectutive orders are extremely weak right now. Biden couldn't get shit done through exexecutive orders. Not even with some executive orders involving executive responsibilities. Schedule f should be immediately changed he if he tries it.
2. pressure campaigns for vulnerable Republicans. The House is extremely thin and they rarely get anything done without democrats help.
3. Fundraise ! we need to be fundraising now!!! for everything they are probably going to successfully cut. We have celebrities, actual liberal bllionaires, a blue states. We can work together create funds and save the Things he's going to try to cut.
Side note...We do need to remember that most things he claims he wants to do and /or the stuff in project 2025. Simply isn't a presidential or executive ability. 99% of that stuff requires changing the constitution or passing the senate which they don't have the filibuster breaking votes. And again Republicans got executive orders weakened.
4. Support independent journalism that are telling the truth and creating networks that will spread the truth.
5. Expose everything ... things will eventually break through. Not all the time but with midterms. It matters. Every broken promise we need to bombarded to the people he will hurt the most. Especially with the middle east community. He's going to fully kill the Palestinians and they need to fully get this information. This will happen alot. We need to work hard everytime to get this out.
6. Still support the fucking queer community. I know most of yall will. But just want to say I'm getting very tired of the rhetoric that tratrans people had something to do with these losses. That shit was nowhere near voters minds as their top topics. The whole world has incumbents getting hit. No matter where they are on the political spectrum. And down ballot candidates did better. If certain people can't defend the queer community they need to move out the way for candidates who definitely know how in a way that connects. I have no idea why the democrats couldn't just come out and say the republicans care more about children's genitals than funding schools.
7. Call, email, and spam as hard as possible dem senators and put pressure on them to vote on as many judges as possible. especially the circuit Court judges. Mcconnell would never let this many judges sit and go unvoted on. O e judge per day since the election and they came back from recess...that's insane !!! We have time. They need to change the rules, extend working hours and fucking vote. We also should pressure them to codify in the senate rules the blue slip and filibuster. With more votes than the Republicans have to reverse it.
Id rather deal with a filibuster and moderate judges than it be a tradition and they get rid of it and all helll breaks lose. Plus moderate judges even Republican ones Often but not always stand up to trump's more insane policies. Go by McConnell rules and get it done.
8. Lastly but not the last option. This is just the things that popped in my head. Support good candidates!!!!. The boring have to go and we need as many Gallegos, Shapiros, and Whitmires as possible. The dems have the most insane strategy for picking candidates that makes no sense. But the last time Trump was in office we created absolute stars. Beshear, Whitmire, Sinema (good for a bit), kelly in Kansas, etc. And we have to do it again.
Elections in Virginia and New Jersey and a bunch of city mayors are just next year.
And if some want to circle jerk in sadness go ahead yall do that. I want to do something and get to work. We fought this mother fucker before and we will this time. I'm not trying to embarrass my ancestors and give up because I'm sad. Get creative, spspread the word, and fucking fight !!!!!
Sorry for any mistakes. I'm getting fired up just typing.
Start with misinformation/disinformation and conspiracies online. Im going to write my governor to push banning Truth Social, X, 4chan, 8chan and Rumble. These sites are proven dangerous bc they started an insurrection that killed 4 ppl and it hosted conspiracies ab the Haitian community in springfield which led to bomb threats and violence against the legal immigrants. Pizza gate caused harm to the pizza shop owners. A man stormed in with a rifle and a mass shooting was streamed live on 8chan. This is DANGEROUS and is supported by the FBI who declared conspiracy theories as domestic terrorism. My state banned pornography to protect kids so they have the actual power to ban these sites as well. Im drafting my letter and then starting a petition. Analyzers stated the Reich Wing won bc of influencers and misinformation. If you look at Russia and the communist party of china they did the same thing—divided their nations using propaganda and misinformation and causing chaos. Trump is operating the very same way. Why, I dont even know. But they must be flagged. Another place to start is tougher but its the church. Young men are being radicalized there and young women are being influenced by “soft girl/tradwife” influencers online and theres a ton of misinformation ab healthcare in church. Megachurches are now telling their congregation how to vote.
Misinformation. Youth. Influencers. Religion. Its these areas that are key
There should be no suprise to all of this. People like Malcolm Nance...Jane Meyer.....Thom Hartman....Ruth Ben-Ghiat have been yelling from the rooftops for years with warnings. If people had been listening......Trump would not have won the election.
It may be that his voters never cared about all of this. In fact, Dems probably seemed like scolds and schoolmarms (the kind who urge you to go to college and make something of yourself). Speaking as a former schoolmarm…Also, the Trump show is entertaining, just the thing for a fundamentally unserious country. I do have hope, however. The worm always turns
A good place to start is the Womens Marches coming up........get away from the computer screen and meet real people .......make contacts.....ditch the stress and put the energy into action!!!! Stop sitting around feeling sorry for yourselves.........many people have been chained and arrested to save democracy.....It is your turn to get off your ass!!!
In theory there's a lot he could do, but he won't. Part of the reason we've gotten to this point is because Democrats haven't been willing to play by the new rules. We have to realize tradition and decorum are out the window.
Biden could still honor his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic - while he is still President or step aside and let his Vice President assume the Presidency and handle the task.
That’s where Mitch McConnell’s last maneuver may save our country.
The shit show just took off on one of evil Elon's Rockets and is coming to a town near you 🤦 God help us all 🙏
Trump was blocked in his pick for Senate Majority Leader and this was Donald’s payback. He went to the vengeance list
One bit of good news. John Thune. Never thought I'd see the day when I'm happy Thune won anything.
Exactly my sentiments. I also never thought that I would kill to have Dubyah back once Trump seized the golden throne (that one too) and showed us that there were levels of surreality not yet mined. Who knew? The most bizarre of the Greater Maggatlandia demands was that Trump (who has accidents in his diapers) be named the Sexiest Man Alive...yes, really. I almost hurled on that one.
What else would that nazi do not surprised
Until recently Thune wasn't nutz. But when you have to please rabid Maggats who knows what he will do.
Thune was likely selected because he was thought to be able to hold out longer than other Senators against upheaval to our Constitution and way of life that is coming.
The Fox is in charge of the hen house. Figures he would pick the pedophile for AG. And who isn't excited about a Fox Commentator as head of the Pentagon? Or the evangelist heading off to Israel to make sure that the appropriate pieces are in place for the rapture. Neil Simon couldn't write this comedy. Except I'm fairly sure we won't be laughing any time soon.
Actually, this makes Stephen King look like he writes non-fiction. Boy, are the Latino males going to have a shock when Stephen Miller and Dumpsterfire start deporting their relatives. One said we don't break laws. The person did not have legal immigration status.
Trump loves the chaos. Expect four more years of this. Maybe more. I feel Trump is throwing Gaetz out there to lessen the pain of his actual horrible nomination. As far as Gabbard she is soft on Russia and we all know Trump is Putins dream President... but America's Nightmare!
I honestly think his own supporters will attempt what Adolf Hitlers own supporters attempted if u get my drift
You've done an excellent job keeping us informed about each new passenger in the Trump Clown Car Cabinet.
But the question remains, what on earth can we do to stop them? Because I'm not seeing it.
They have ALL the branches of government now. All the levers of power. And moving to fill the military with loyalists willing to act against American citizens.
What do we have? Letter writing? Phone banking? That shit isn't going to stop him.
The people who voted for him will be hurt by his policies, but so will everybody else. And not just domestically.
I just don't know how to even begin to claw back our democracy from the team hell-bent on dismantling it.
When you find out what we can actually do, please let me know. I am at a total loss and in total shock. Which I think is exactly why he picked Gaetz, for the shock value.
The first action everyone should take is be with the Womens Marches coming up. Men need to wake up......get there asses out there and support their women. Women could be mobilizing to do the 4b movement coast to coast..........stockpile supplies......it is going to get nasty so prepare to defend yourselves with everything possible..........picket and protest the Heritage...Federalist bases......harrass them......\
People...get creative!!!!
Men need to understand the abortion bans will effect them too in many ways. They need to understand it contributes to infant mortality and how women are dying or losing their uteruses. They will be forced to commit to women they want to casually sleep with. The govt is controlling THEM too and a woman could “threaten” them with child support the moment she conceives and threaten him with jail time if he does not pay
In a southern state?? the suggested that young girls in half way homes...etc be used as surrogat mothers!! This is straight out of Nazi Germany, where a few "breeding farms" existed.
Heritage and Project 2025 have roots in Opus Die...the religious cult that scammed Spanish dictator Franco for billions that has lead to the overturn of Roe and this unfolding catastrophy.
I am so leaving this country
It is mind boggling how they pulled this off......not hiding any of it!!!!
The lies...day after day............yea. Canadian authorities are bracing for a mass exodos to the border in January...
How the resistance prepares in the next 2 months is critical........we have had our Dunkirk and foreced to withdraw and lick the wounds........will we find a Churchill to fight on the stteets, beaches etc???
Millions of people need to turn out for marches.......and turn off their fucking computers!!!
I called my Senators.
I feel the exact same way what can we do they won everything. And all the good hard working Americans are going to suffer. We the American people don’t deserve this 4 years of hell from these sick disgusting traitors. And the traitors that voted for him they disgust me because they sold out their own country for what a devil and his people who don’t give a damn about there dumb asses.
The worse it gets the better. The clown show has only one end.
And his kids are just MUTE this whole time
Thank the Lord. Ouday and Qusay are Thing 1 and Thing 2 intellectually.
If it wasn’t clear before, we now know why Trump is demanding Recess Appointments. These people would never get through the Senate’s confirmation process!
They should avoid a recess to avoid him slamming these appointments through
How, exactly, do we "fight?"
This. This is what I’d like to know. I’m ready. I just haven’t a clue how to proceed. I think he’s also going for shock and awe so that we end up tuning out/giving up. No matter how bizarre it gets, I won’t do that.
Part of the autocratic playbook is to wear the people down so as they want to give up. We should never give in to this anti America Cancer.
Absolutely agree! I hate getting mildly outraged about this stuff and having people roll their eyes and say “Oh that’s just rump”. No! We cannot normalize any of it. (Any more than it’s already been done)
1. Get involved with the aclu...many are already signing up to volunteer. They know the laws and I keep trying to tell people this.
The federal government actually got weakned over the past administrations and we need to use that to our advantage.
Annnd yes I know there are a bunch of people that will say he will just ignore that blah blah blah.... we all know how he's going to try to work. But fight anyways. Exectutive orders are extremely weak right now. Biden couldn't get shit done through exexecutive orders. Not even with some executive orders involving executive responsibilities. Schedule f should be immediately changed he if he tries it.
2. pressure campaigns for vulnerable Republicans. The House is extremely thin and they rarely get anything done without democrats help.
3. Fundraise ! we need to be fundraising now!!! for everything they are probably going to successfully cut. We have celebrities, actual liberal bllionaires, a blue states. We can work together create funds and save the Things he's going to try to cut.
Side note...We do need to remember that most things he claims he wants to do and /or the stuff in project 2025. Simply isn't a presidential or executive ability. 99% of that stuff requires changing the constitution or passing the senate which they don't have the filibuster breaking votes. And again Republicans got executive orders weakened.
4. Support independent journalism that are telling the truth and creating networks that will spread the truth.
5. Expose everything ... things will eventually break through. Not all the time but with midterms. It matters. Every broken promise we need to bombarded to the people he will hurt the most. Especially with the middle east community. He's going to fully kill the Palestinians and they need to fully get this information. This will happen alot. We need to work hard everytime to get this out.
6. Still support the fucking queer community. I know most of yall will. But just want to say I'm getting very tired of the rhetoric that tratrans people had something to do with these losses. That shit was nowhere near voters minds as their top topics. The whole world has incumbents getting hit. No matter where they are on the political spectrum. And down ballot candidates did better. If certain people can't defend the queer community they need to move out the way for candidates who definitely know how in a way that connects. I have no idea why the democrats couldn't just come out and say the republicans care more about children's genitals than funding schools.
7. Call, email, and spam as hard as possible dem senators and put pressure on them to vote on as many judges as possible. especially the circuit Court judges. Mcconnell would never let this many judges sit and go unvoted on. O e judge per day since the election and they came back from recess...that's insane !!! We have time. They need to change the rules, extend working hours and fucking vote. We also should pressure them to codify in the senate rules the blue slip and filibuster. With more votes than the Republicans have to reverse it.
Id rather deal with a filibuster and moderate judges than it be a tradition and they get rid of it and all helll breaks lose. Plus moderate judges even Republican ones Often but not always stand up to trump's more insane policies. Go by McConnell rules and get it done.
8. Lastly but not the last option. This is just the things that popped in my head. Support good candidates!!!!. The boring have to go and we need as many Gallegos, Shapiros, and Whitmires as possible. The dems have the most insane strategy for picking candidates that makes no sense. But the last time Trump was in office we created absolute stars. Beshear, Whitmire, Sinema (good for a bit), kelly in Kansas, etc. And we have to do it again.
Elections in Virginia and New Jersey and a bunch of city mayors are just next year.
And if some want to circle jerk in sadness go ahead yall do that. I want to do something and get to work. We fought this mother fucker before and we will this time. I'm not trying to embarrass my ancestors and give up because I'm sad. Get creative, spspread the word, and fucking fight !!!!!
Sorry for any mistakes. I'm getting fired up just typing.
I appreciate the notes!
Start with misinformation/disinformation and conspiracies online. Im going to write my governor to push banning Truth Social, X, 4chan, 8chan and Rumble. These sites are proven dangerous bc they started an insurrection that killed 4 ppl and it hosted conspiracies ab the Haitian community in springfield which led to bomb threats and violence against the legal immigrants. Pizza gate caused harm to the pizza shop owners. A man stormed in with a rifle and a mass shooting was streamed live on 8chan. This is DANGEROUS and is supported by the FBI who declared conspiracy theories as domestic terrorism. My state banned pornography to protect kids so they have the actual power to ban these sites as well. Im drafting my letter and then starting a petition. Analyzers stated the Reich Wing won bc of influencers and misinformation. If you look at Russia and the communist party of china they did the same thing—divided their nations using propaganda and misinformation and causing chaos. Trump is operating the very same way. Why, I dont even know. But they must be flagged. Another place to start is tougher but its the church. Young men are being radicalized there and young women are being influenced by “soft girl/tradwife” influencers online and theres a ton of misinformation ab healthcare in church. Megachurches are now telling their congregation how to vote.
Misinformation. Youth. Influencers. Religion. Its these areas that are key
Yes, how? Exhortations to fight, without any actual steps to take, seem unhelpful
There should be no suprise to all of this. People like Malcolm Nance...Jane Meyer.....Thom Hartman....Ruth Ben-Ghiat have been yelling from the rooftops for years with warnings. If people had been listening......Trump would not have won the election.
It may be that his voters never cared about all of this. In fact, Dems probably seemed like scolds and schoolmarms (the kind who urge you to go to college and make something of yourself). Speaking as a former schoolmarm…Also, the Trump show is entertaining, just the thing for a fundamentally unserious country. I do have hope, however. The worm always turns
I have been re-reading Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." There are very basic and important guidelines there.
Good question. I'm waiting for suggested actions we can take.
I responded with some ideas
A good place to start is the Womens Marches coming up........get away from the computer screen and meet real people .......make contacts.....ditch the stress and put the energy into action!!!! Stop sitting around feeling sorry for yourselves.........many people have been chained and arrested to save democracy.....It is your turn to get off your ass!!!
Does the Congress think they are going to control Donald Trump????
They don’t understand his Personality Profile!!!
Believe it or not Mitch McConnell may save the day. He's wily and smart so I'd say contact Mitch.
Biden has presidential immunity. Is there anything he can do?
In theory there's a lot he could do, but he won't. Part of the reason we've gotten to this point is because Democrats haven't been willing to play by the new rules. We have to realize tradition and decorum are out the window.
Biden could still honor his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic - while he is still President or step aside and let his Vice President assume the Presidency and handle the task.
That’s where Mitch McConnell’s last maneuver may save our country.
He won’t do anything. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Does the DNI have access to all our classified info? Gabbard would be catastrophic. Our intelligence officials overseas would be in danger.
Beyond the pale.
Another in this edition of FAFO.
Why are they gasping? They help elect a clown
They elected a dictator
The actual DEI hires cause they certainly Didn’t Earn It…
That no surprise. Trump will only hire repulsive maga idiots sleaze is the word for all of them
I should really know by now never to think, “Can it get any worse?”