The only smart voters were Democrats. And it's extremely disturbing that so many didn't vote!
But his voters are still singing the same song. I just blocked a magat after a more than 50 year friendship because all he had in his toolbox was "woke libs" and so much more bullshit. I finally had enough stupid and blocked his stupid ass everywhere.
It's too bad that people let politics end friendships and destroy families. I am a Dem. and have several Rep. friends. We just do NOT discuss politics because it won't change anybody's mind. I had a good friend who was a Republican and made some disparaging remarks about Dems Iold him I was a Dem and from that time on he wouldn't answer any of my emails. After 3 I quit sending. We had been friends for many, many years and to let politics end that friendship was very disappointing.
For me it's not about politics. For some reason Trump supporters, generally, at least in my life, won't shut up about him. Then, they get upset with me bc I am letting "politics" ruin our friendship or family ties. So be it - yeah, it's me not them. Whatever. I am sorry your friend picked Trump over you. Says a lot about your friend.
frankly, I don't understand. These repugnants have different values, morals, and lack of empathy for far too many of our fellow citizens. I do not have friends that are against everything I believe and stand for. Democrats fail to stand for anything, and that is why we lost across the board. Too many corporate Dems, whom I hope will be voted out and dedicated public servants elected, if we ever get a chance to have a legitimate election.
Same here - it's just not worth it - feels as if I am compromising my integrity and moral fiber if I continue in a relationship with them. Everyone has to do what is right for them. For me, it's - I just can't.
How so? Their heads are buried in the propaganda machine. Everything they hear and are told will confirm to them that their hardship was put upon them by Democrats, Biden and Democrat policies of the last four years. They will be told as they are now that it may take years to free their country of Democrat polices and the destruction caused by the Biden crime family. In the meantime 2025 will be executed and the oligarchs will become more and more prominent. The coming inflation and job losses will all be blamed on the same Democrat polices and Biden. That narrative will continue for years. They will never hear it. Their empty skulls are a reverberation chamber for fascists, dictators, oligarchs and authoritarians. I'm sorry but they will not respond to the fascist overlords for years to come as you suggest.
We need to stand firm and tell these people that Trump is in charge - or soon will be, officially - and it's his sandbox now. Prices stabilized under Biden. Inflation came down from 9.2 to 2.3 percent under Biden. Unemployment was at a 50 year low under Biden. The stock market boomed under Biden. There was no recession under Biden. Bridges and roads and internet were built under Biden. Now Trump has taken over and it's gone to hell. Just keep repeating that.
The comfort and hope I am getting is from the world outside USA. We did not expect the events in South Korea or Syria. More and more of this sort of events will happen. We do not live in vacuum and as Josh Marshall of TPM said, Presidential power is unitary. Weaken him here, he will be weak everywhere. His buddy Putin will soon see the window and feel the "g", I think.
A lot of his voters are not dumb people. But they have the means to get everything Trump and Co block and prevent general US public from, from outside the US. We have EU residency, properties in two EU nations. This morning my husband I talked about we can get our routine vaccines here in Rome or in Lisbon. They are not dumb but simply selfish evil.
You are talking about a minority of citizens. Most of us have never traveled outside the USA. Certainly, even those of average means who do a cruise, do not actually learn anything about other places. Good for you; residency, properties. That tells me you are far above my economic status in life. I was exactly the type of person who is currently repuglican; evangelical, working class, high school grad. After getting my degrees, and a period of 10 years of deconstruction of the religion, I am now socialist knowing capitalism does not deliver for the average worker. So no, most are just dumb. the ones with money who support this nazi-like movement are the evil persons.
Loved the video of Macron and Tusk making humor of trump and his pathetic macho handshake. Is it possible to hope that world leaders will freeze him out - give him no platforms or credibility. Reading that NATO members are discussing increasing the %GDP required for military support to NATO. And reading that NATO is discussing (recognizing publicly) the need to be better prepared for threats from Russia. Are these indications that trump's ability to threaten NATO is much reduced. If only there were some leaders in the U.S. who would stand up to him.
Remember when info from certain nations that wrote us of barriers to tha Felon’s not being able to enter their countries because of the felonious crime committed?
The money saved in Medicare and Medicaid is supposed to go back to them so they’re not a drain on the programs. I liked the real Bidenomics, it got us back to economic #1 in the world, created jobs, and was on the way to lowering deficit. All good in my book.
Do people in the disaster areas know that their relief is being held back by MAGA? If not, that message must get to them ASAP before MAGA lies and re-writes history!
I live in Florida, MAGA country, where people are still waiting for help from FEMA and are threatening FEMA workers. They don't understand, nor do I think they care, how FEMA gets their money. They just want someone to help them rebuild their house. I don't think they'd believe that the people they voted for are the ones screwing them. I'm pretty sure they just blame Biden.
That's where we come in. We should inform them of the truth. If they ignore it, I say shake the dust off my sandals and move on. I won't help a one of them. they deserve their misery. After all, they don't care about the rest of our misery.
Only space cadets would really believe that DT could lower grocery prices, or gas prices. Also, I'm wondering what the hell? President Biden is STILL our president at this time, and yet DT is out there acting like he's President and is destroying our standing in the World, creating a security risk that wasn't there a month ago, and is trying to instill fear in the hearts and minds of all Americans, while telling us that he and Project 2025 are going to take everything else from us.
I’ve wondered that many times. How in any world are they sooo gullible as to believe anything that comes out of his mouth? I do believe though that a reckoning is coming to them. Maybe when their children are starving or they can’t afford to pay for their home, car or more importantly food! Surely even they suffer as we do, when it comes to affording anything, any more. I’m so sinful though that I constantly pray for an end to him, one way or another! I don’t specify, I just want him gone.
I just wish he were dead along with his minions. Maybe someday right? I'm not afraid to say it either. Better to die a freeman than to suffer the boot of a dictator.
As I said, many of us do as well. So much so that it probably isn't healthy. That is why I am limiting my exposure to him. I cannot stand his face, his voice, his hair, his stupid ties, his family, his Mar-a-Lago crowd. I could go on.
Ha. that's not sinful (I reject the idea of god anyway, what a mass of contradictions and inconsistencies the entire mythical entity is) it's rational. I hate trump. I wish termination of him and all these entire billionaire nazis, including the scum repugnants in congress, and let's throw in the liars in the media as well.
Like many of us out here, you must have Trump voters in your life that are oblivious to reality. No matter what you say, it doesn't compute to them. Cultlike for sure.
Personally, I think Trump voters are mostly racist and misogynistic. Not a popular reason but I think it's true - at least in my experience. Oh they say the economy but can't really say anything but gas, eggs, drugs, immigrants! They make no sense but they will say I am not a racist - race has nothing to do with it - yeah sure Jan. Democrats in Congress are not much help here. They start with we know prices are high .... Democrats need to be on offensive and are always trying to gain traction with the media - never happens.
House MAGAs are taking a cue from NC MAGAs who also passed a 'hurricane relief' bill with no hurricane relief but plenty of power grabs that strip authority away from Democratic Governor-Elect Josh Stein, Democratic AG-Elect Jeff Jackson, and Democratic Supervisor of Public Instruction Mo Green.
Remember, the power grabs and cruelty are the point with these low-lifes.
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I also want to thank you … as a paid subscriber I love that you also open your network to those that can’t financially support you at this time. Kinda the opposite of the Democratic Party who wants me to constantly pay for my opinion
The red voters in my rural virginia county have a fb group - they are clearly not getting the same news. They are fully in on trump and everthing he says and does. Remorse is not happening. Every time I try to tell them anything, they go for my jugular and call me a liar.
They have free access to the postal service. They have email they could use to call to action and inform instead of the idiotic emails they send out asking for money. I am sick of that. One way conversation. I unsub to each as they come in.
Yesterday's ringing the bell at the Stock Exchange, was priceless! An omen of things to come! DJT, BEG, BEG, President Biden for an absolute pardon, and step away from the presidency. Live out your remaining days, months, years, golfing, eating, traveling, and drinking whatever you want, and give the country back to those who had no trouble turning the economy around, bolstering the Stock Exchange, and stabilizing world affairs. After all, that is why you ran, to stay OUT OF JAIL. You know it. We know it, and you know you want it. Be smart for once in your life. You know you're inadequate for running our great country. Negotiate and structure a for a full pardon for yourself. Live your last days, months years on earth a free and blissfully happy man. Do yourself a favor....!
I can assure you, if you proceed, we, United State Citizens, will make every day your in the Whitehouse a dramatic challenge and your sleeping hours will be spent deprivation. Who's with me?
Love the Meidas Touch. You guys are doing so much. This is probably too big of an ask, but here it goes. Please have links below your videos/podcasts so that I have the info to write to my congressmen and senators. In theory I could watch/listen and then retrace your research, and then look up if my congressmen/senator was involved in whatever crazy thing they are doing, and then write to them/share on social to my neighbors. But, in reality, I work full time, I commute, I’m raising my kids, and trying to start my own business, so I end up listening while driving/watching at work and then clicking on the next podcast/video and not letting my representatives or neighbors know what is going on. I’m in MAGA-land so I need to be armed with facts, because I’m surrounded by people steeped in the right-wing swamp brain rot propaganda. Last weekend I had to endure a parade of pickups waving flags equating Chump with Jesus. A local hair dresser is being slandered on Facebook for making a video saying she was sad that Harris lost. Please have links to: articles of news that you mention, the actual bills if possible or bill numbers in Congress being proposed so that I can reference them in letters. Then I could write a letter that says “Dear Congressmen/Senator Shameful, I am disappointed in your vote on bill #4547 to end a basic human right. Or for your participation to aid, abet and harbor child sex traffickers by voting to not release the Matt Snakes ethics report.”
You are so much stronger than I fear I could be in the face of what you encounter! Bravo! I know there are many pockets of tRump followers in my area however it's mostly flags on homes, a few on p/u trucks, nothing as "in the face" as you describe. Of course I'm in a blue state and sure hope it stays this way. Stay strong.
I had a little bit of time today because it's the weekend. I looked up the Direct File letter and saw that my congressman from Idaho wasn't one of the 27. Next, I went to his page on the house.gov website and wrote to him anyway: "Please tell your colleagues, the 27 House Republicans who wrote the letter urging Direct File to be ended on day one by Executive Action, that it would harm the American people. I like the free tax filing services from the IRS known as Direct File. Most Americans like not having to go through a for-profit company to do a government task."
Is anyone all that surprised that there is a big "FOR SALE" sign on the USA? We have to let the world know that DT might be for sale, but the USA is not for sale... the people in the USA are NOT. FOR. SALE!!!!
Sadly, not true. We simply have no power. If we did, none of this would be happening, and of course, we'd have nice things in America, too. We don't. Remember what corporations have done when they outsourced our good jobs to unregulated countries with no labor laws and no environmental laws. We are the new 3rd world. Mired in poverty, sickness, early death and child early death. Fathers will have to pimp out their children and their wives to their masters in order to survive. Just like the days of Dickens and the early days represented in the books The Iron Heel (Jack London), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and of course, Charles Dickens himself. (BTW, those books are free as ebooks from Gutenberg.org. We, the people, have already been sold into slavery.
I'm truly sorry that this is your truth; however, it is not my truth, and from I've read and seen this is not the truth of others who follow this network. We are not powerless, we have not already been sold into slavery. I respect your reading and interpretation of the books you've chosen, but you need to read other books on topics of power, individual power, power in unity, power in one voice, power of the people, resistance.
You have only to look to Tblisi and Syria and South Korea and Ukraine, as well as Taiwan who has been standing up against the threats and tyranny of China for decades. In Syria, after 10 years of oppression and Assad feeling nothing when he gassed his own people was run out of the country on a rail. Ukraine who has held the line for Democracy on people alone and willingness to unite and stand up to tyranny for over 2 years (yes, with help) and help is what you get when you stand up to tyranny. Tblisi made their opposition know in the 10's of 1000s of people who resisted. South Korea is resisting in huge numbers and it's working. And then there was the Arab Spring where the people threw out the tyranny and formed a new government for the people - "The Egyptian constitution proclaims the Arab Republic of Egypt to be a democratic state." (via Britannica 2024). I could go on and on. We are not powerless unless we give our power over.
We are not powerless - being able to speak truth to power and fear not is our power. Being able to unite as like minded people and say "We're not going to take it!" and then we don't.
There are things we can do besides follow Meidas Touch. I pointed them out in a couple of other posts in Substack. We, as individuals and a group "CAN DO" - and like it or not, the people in this country are NOT. FOR. SALE!!!!
I admire your optimism. However, the American people as a whole are apparently either too lazy, too stupid, or too comfortable. Otherwise, where the hell are they? Our brothers and sisters in other countries have more courage. THEY are out in the streets, by the droves. Where are we? Well, like me, letting their fingers do the walking and the protesting. I am too old to get out into the streets. At 73, falling down can be fatal. Good luck to all you younger folk. It is your world, and your children's future that is now at stake. I don't have much faith in our country's people, and even less faith in our ability to overcome the now overwhelming influence and power of the extremist right wing. I grew up in an entirely different country than we now live in.
I continue to support MTN, continue to spread the word, pass out 'business cards' with the network name and pro-democracy advocacy, as well as try to tell as many Democrats who may not yet know about this wonderful Meidas Mighty group, but I don't really have too much faith in a rising up of people. Otherwise, Marx would have been right over 150 years ago. Sadly, the working class won't rise up and help themselves. And no one else has stepped up either.
How well WILL we react when they come for our neighbors or ourselves, marching us off in the middle of the night in black SUVs? Not easy when you are arrested and stripped of your rights and your property.
Again, it saddens me that you have this outlook. I'm a boomer, I'm retired, I'm old as well and not in the shape to physically protest either - but that's not the only way to resist.
You mistake "resolve" and "determination" for "optimism" and I will guarantee you that no one, and I mean "no one," is going to "march" me anywhere. If the outcome is to come take my rights and my property, I'm going kicking and screaming and probably horizontal. I damned sure am not going willingly.
There are more ways to resist than walk in a peaceful protest. One is to be a cheerleader. Do you think the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders march off the field in a depressed state of acceptance with their heads lowered every time their team loses? If they did, then the Dallas Cowboys would not be a team any longer just from pure lack of support.
You be You! That is your right and your choice.
For anyone else reading this message: There is hope out there. People around the globe are taking on exactly this type of attempt to take over and they are winning. Winners don't concede the match before it's even started. Be tough! Stand Strong! and know that in numbers and "resolve" and "determination" we can keep our democracy!
I understand what you are saying. I never said I would willingly go off into the sunset in passivity. I merely meant that WE HAVE NO POWER to be making the changes that the American people WANT but simply cannot get our government to do what the majority wants, and that is because of capitalism, and it's corrosive influence on the democratic process, which we currently do not have. Further, I can't see the resolution of this during our lifetimes. It is going to take more than 'some' efforts by less than 1/2 of our population to make a difference, and that, frankly,. is going to take physical action and potential arrests and potential loss of ability to rent homes, buy homes, get a job, or even get access to government programs that get tied into if you've been arrested or many other things used to control the little people ) or other government programs. I personally have told a number of folks, if they come banging on my door in the middle of the night, I'm locked and loaded, and will take one of them out before they then take me out. I also did not mean I am going to lay down and accept this crap. But mostly, I meant, if we, the people, had the POWER to do anything, we wouldn't be shouting at the TV in frustration and/or fury because the pugs are insane, and the Dems, for the most part in the higher leadership places, simply seem to be either deaf, stupid, or willfully ignoring what needs to be done. Just as we helplessly watched the Jan 6 Committee give all their great findings, and then the Senate simply refuse to convict. So. yeah How must power did we have? Why hasn't DJT been already placed in jail? Mmm, because judges either have failed us, or were corrupt (Supreme monarchs, Aileen Cannon) or others too cowardly to bring charges.
Anyone remember Vincent Bugliosi's book about someone, anyone who was an Attorney General, bringing charges of murder against George W Bush because he lied us into war and caused all our American soldier's deaths? Not one AG that had the power and the standing ever followed this up. Vincent Bugliosi, if we all remember, was the prosecutor who successfully convicted Charles Manson even though he didn't actually commit those crimes. So, as average, non-connected, non-wealthy people, we have no power except in a mass number, and frankly, the American people have also failed us. I'm still waiting to hear about how this election was not legitimate, although our side is just ever so timid to even talk about it, except Greg Palast and a few others. So maybe this explains my mindset. I don't think we are that far apart on how we feel.
Smart voters understood from the get-go that Trump was lying about everything. Now his own voters are finding out,
The only smart voters were Democrats. And it's extremely disturbing that so many didn't vote!
But his voters are still singing the same song. I just blocked a magat after a more than 50 year friendship because all he had in his toolbox was "woke libs" and so much more bullshit. I finally had enough stupid and blocked his stupid ass everywhere.
I'm too old to listen to lies from stupid people.
Well said. I hope others take your queue.
Read this
https://www.newsweek.com/moscow-already-studying-top-secret-records-trump-raid-russian-media-1733440
Congarats - I blocked an entire cousin for the same idiot assed reasons.
I too have been culling long-standing friendships and winding down and away from family members that support the orange one.
It's too bad that people let politics end friendships and destroy families. I am a Dem. and have several Rep. friends. We just do NOT discuss politics because it won't change anybody's mind. I had a good friend who was a Republican and made some disparaging remarks about Dems Iold him I was a Dem and from that time on he wouldn't answer any of my emails. After 3 I quit sending. We had been friends for many, many years and to let politics end that friendship was very disappointing.
It is not politics. It is like being friends with people with no moral or ethical values. It is a bridge too far for me.
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Same for me but everyone has to deal with the Trumpers in their lives in their own way.
For me it's not about politics. For some reason Trump supporters, generally, at least in my life, won't shut up about him. Then, they get upset with me bc I am letting "politics" ruin our friendship or family ties. So be it - yeah, it's me not them. Whatever. I am sorry your friend picked Trump over you. Says a lot about your friend.
Your friend is a clown 🤡
frankly, I don't understand. These repugnants have different values, morals, and lack of empathy for far too many of our fellow citizens. I do not have friends that are against everything I believe and stand for. Democrats fail to stand for anything, and that is why we lost across the board. Too many corporate Dems, whom I hope will be voted out and dedicated public servants elected, if we ever get a chance to have a legitimate election.
Same here - it's just not worth it - feels as if I am compromising my integrity and moral fiber if I continue in a relationship with them. Everyone has to do what is right for them. For me, it's - I just can't.
I am with you.
Completely understand.
I heard that
Good for you. Just wait! The Republicans are going to get what they did.
We Don’t know how many voted. ! 10,000,000 voters jusf decided to not vote! I seriously doubt it! Just count the votes !
You think you voted !
Did you ?
How so? Their heads are buried in the propaganda machine. Everything they hear and are told will confirm to them that their hardship was put upon them by Democrats, Biden and Democrat policies of the last four years. They will be told as they are now that it may take years to free their country of Democrat polices and the destruction caused by the Biden crime family. In the meantime 2025 will be executed and the oligarchs will become more and more prominent. The coming inflation and job losses will all be blamed on the same Democrat polices and Biden. That narrative will continue for years. They will never hear it. Their empty skulls are a reverberation chamber for fascists, dictators, oligarchs and authoritarians. I'm sorry but they will not respond to the fascist overlords for years to come as you suggest.
Sad but true. Most of us live and learn. MAGAs just live.
I'm sure you're right and it is so sad. We are so fucked.
100%
We need to stand firm and tell these people that Trump is in charge - or soon will be, officially - and it's his sandbox now. Prices stabilized under Biden. Inflation came down from 9.2 to 2.3 percent under Biden. Unemployment was at a 50 year low under Biden. The stock market boomed under Biden. There was no recession under Biden. Bridges and roads and internet were built under Biden. Now Trump has taken over and it's gone to hell. Just keep repeating that.
We must break through when Trump's negative policies hurt the voters who supported him. We must post on social media each time it happens.
The comfort and hope I am getting is from the world outside USA. We did not expect the events in South Korea or Syria. More and more of this sort of events will happen. We do not live in vacuum and as Josh Marshall of TPM said, Presidential power is unitary. Weaken him here, he will be weak everywhere. His buddy Putin will soon see the window and feel the "g", I think.
A lot of his voters are not dumb people. But they have the means to get everything Trump and Co block and prevent general US public from, from outside the US. We have EU residency, properties in two EU nations. This morning my husband I talked about we can get our routine vaccines here in Rome or in Lisbon. They are not dumb but simply selfish evil.
You are talking about a minority of citizens. Most of us have never traveled outside the USA. Certainly, even those of average means who do a cruise, do not actually learn anything about other places. Good for you; residency, properties. That tells me you are far above my economic status in life. I was exactly the type of person who is currently repuglican; evangelical, working class, high school grad. After getting my degrees, and a period of 10 years of deconstruction of the religion, I am now socialist knowing capitalism does not deliver for the average worker. So no, most are just dumb. the ones with money who support this nazi-like movement are the evil persons.
Loved the video of Macron and Tusk making humor of trump and his pathetic macho handshake. Is it possible to hope that world leaders will freeze him out - give him no platforms or credibility. Reading that NATO members are discussing increasing the %GDP required for military support to NATO. And reading that NATO is discussing (recognizing publicly) the need to be better prepared for threats from Russia. Are these indications that trump's ability to threaten NATO is much reduced. If only there were some leaders in the U.S. who would stand up to him.
Remember when info from certain nations that wrote us of barriers to tha Felon’s not being able to enter their countries because of the felonious crime committed?
Yes, his passport is supposed to be no good in certain countries.
I wondered that. Why are they letting this scumbag into their countries?
nor should it be not even HERE!
I understand they are working on it. Nato specifically.
I agree
Where are those leaders.
The silence is very scary and very concerning to me
The money saved in Medicare and Medicaid is supposed to go back to them so they’re not a drain on the programs. I liked the real Bidenomics, it got us back to economic #1 in the world, created jobs, and was on the way to lowering deficit. All good in my book.
I believe trump voters deserve to live the results of their votes. But, I resent that my rights will be ruined too.
Agree 💯.
Do people in the disaster areas know that their relief is being held back by MAGA? If not, that message must get to them ASAP before MAGA lies and re-writes history!
I live in Florida, MAGA country, where people are still waiting for help from FEMA and are threatening FEMA workers. They don't understand, nor do I think they care, how FEMA gets their money. They just want someone to help them rebuild their house. I don't think they'd believe that the people they voted for are the ones screwing them. I'm pretty sure they just blame Biden.
That's where we come in. We should inform them of the truth. If they ignore it, I say shake the dust off my sandals and move on. I won't help a one of them. they deserve their misery. After all, they don't care about the rest of our misery.
Facts not Fox
Only space cadets would really believe that DT could lower grocery prices, or gas prices. Also, I'm wondering what the hell? President Biden is STILL our president at this time, and yet DT is out there acting like he's President and is destroying our standing in the World, creating a security risk that wasn't there a month ago, and is trying to instill fear in the hearts and minds of all Americans, while telling us that he and Project 2025 are going to take everything else from us.
Yeah they’ve been acted like their in power since day after election!
Are any voters for Trump even aware of anything that goes on with him? You got to wonder how ignorant can they get!
If they are only watching Fox Propaganda channel, they are clueless!
I’ve wondered that many times. How in any world are they sooo gullible as to believe anything that comes out of his mouth? I do believe though that a reckoning is coming to them. Maybe when their children are starving or they can’t afford to pay for their home, car or more importantly food! Surely even they suffer as we do, when it comes to affording anything, any more. I’m so sinful though that I constantly pray for an end to him, one way or another! I don’t specify, I just want him gone.
I have often wished he would move to Russia. And yes it is hard to believe that they believe his BS. Unfortunately we will all pay the price.
Without Trump doing Putins dirty work here, he has no use for him.
I just wish he were dead along with his minions. Maybe someday right? I'm not afraid to say it either. Better to die a freeman than to suffer the boot of a dictator.
I completely agree with you. He is a dangerous POS. I hate Trump with every fiber of my being
So do i
As I said, many of us do as well. So much so that it probably isn't healthy. That is why I am limiting my exposure to him. I cannot stand his face, his voice, his hair, his stupid ties, his family, his Mar-a-Lago crowd. I could go on.
Me too , and as far as feeling guilty , people get what they deserve, I'll never feel guilty. It's normal 🤷🏾
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Me too!
Ha. that's not sinful (I reject the idea of god anyway, what a mass of contradictions and inconsistencies the entire mythical entity is) it's rational. I hate trump. I wish termination of him and all these entire billionaire nazis, including the scum repugnants in congress, and let's throw in the liars in the media as well.
Like many of us out here, you must have Trump voters in your life that are oblivious to reality. No matter what you say, it doesn't compute to them. Cultlike for sure.
Definitely. You can’t even explain it to them. They do not even know, and don’t seem to want to!
Personally, I think Trump voters are mostly racist and misogynistic. Not a popular reason but I think it's true - at least in my experience. Oh they say the economy but can't really say anything but gas, eggs, drugs, immigrants! They make no sense but they will say I am not a racist - race has nothing to do with it - yeah sure Jan. Democrats in Congress are not much help here. They start with we know prices are high .... Democrats need to be on offensive and are always trying to gain traction with the media - never happens.
It's about time for a hurricane to pass through Mar-A-Lago!
Ah, now I hadn’t thought of that. That would be interesting. Just as long as no one’s hurt.
Why? Anyone there at MAL is not a friend to America anyway. Let the lot of them vanish.
I know. Unfortunately, most of the recent hurricanes have hit the gulf coast where I live.
House MAGAs are taking a cue from NC MAGAs who also passed a 'hurricane relief' bill with no hurricane relief but plenty of power grabs that strip authority away from Democratic Governor-Elect Josh Stein, Democratic AG-Elect Jeff Jackson, and Democratic Supervisor of Public Instruction Mo Green.
Remember, the power grabs and cruelty are the point with these low-lifes.
You Guys Rock!! Thank You for sharing this podcast for Free, because you have a lot of people out there that can't afford to Pay for News these days. Good Job and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍😘
I also want to thank you … as a paid subscriber I love that you also open your network to those that can’t financially support you at this time. Kinda the opposite of the Democratic Party who wants me to constantly pay for my opinion
The red voters in my rural virginia county have a fb group - they are clearly not getting the same news. They are fully in on trump and everthing he says and does. Remorse is not happening. Every time I try to tell them anything, they go for my jugular and call me a liar.
Today’s podcast at the end was a bit of a downer.
I agree the Democrats need to get loud, but how do we as the people make that happen?
Both my senators are republican and we know what that means .
You think Biden and Harris could motivate the Congress to be more outspoken.
Don’t you all have anyone in the Congress to express this message to the Democrats?
The Republicans are going to follow their king and the Democrats need to defy him for the good of the people!!
Though many people put this king in place!!
Sadly it appears they are more interested in retaining their power than serving their government.
Loud where? MSM? No one will listen.
They have free access to the postal service. They have email they could use to call to action and inform instead of the idiotic emails they send out asking for money. I am sick of that. One way conversation. I unsub to each as they come in.
Yesterday's ringing the bell at the Stock Exchange, was priceless! An omen of things to come! DJT, BEG, BEG, President Biden for an absolute pardon, and step away from the presidency. Live out your remaining days, months, years, golfing, eating, traveling, and drinking whatever you want, and give the country back to those who had no trouble turning the economy around, bolstering the Stock Exchange, and stabilizing world affairs. After all, that is why you ran, to stay OUT OF JAIL. You know it. We know it, and you know you want it. Be smart for once in your life. You know you're inadequate for running our great country. Negotiate and structure a for a full pardon for yourself. Live your last days, months years on earth a free and blissfully happy man. Do yourself a favor....!
I can assure you, if you proceed, we, United State Citizens, will make every day your in the Whitehouse a dramatic challenge and your sleeping hours will be spent deprivation. Who's with me?
Agreed Janice!!
Love the Meidas Touch. You guys are doing so much. This is probably too big of an ask, but here it goes. Please have links below your videos/podcasts so that I have the info to write to my congressmen and senators. In theory I could watch/listen and then retrace your research, and then look up if my congressmen/senator was involved in whatever crazy thing they are doing, and then write to them/share on social to my neighbors. But, in reality, I work full time, I commute, I’m raising my kids, and trying to start my own business, so I end up listening while driving/watching at work and then clicking on the next podcast/video and not letting my representatives or neighbors know what is going on. I’m in MAGA-land so I need to be armed with facts, because I’m surrounded by people steeped in the right-wing swamp brain rot propaganda. Last weekend I had to endure a parade of pickups waving flags equating Chump with Jesus. A local hair dresser is being slandered on Facebook for making a video saying she was sad that Harris lost. Please have links to: articles of news that you mention, the actual bills if possible or bill numbers in Congress being proposed so that I can reference them in letters. Then I could write a letter that says “Dear Congressmen/Senator Shameful, I am disappointed in your vote on bill #4547 to end a basic human right. Or for your participation to aid, abet and harbor child sex traffickers by voting to not release the Matt Snakes ethics report.”
You are so much stronger than I fear I could be in the face of what you encounter! Bravo! I know there are many pockets of tRump followers in my area however it's mostly flags on homes, a few on p/u trucks, nothing as "in the face" as you describe. Of course I'm in a blue state and sure hope it stays this way. Stay strong.
I had a little bit of time today because it's the weekend. I looked up the Direct File letter and saw that my congressman from Idaho wasn't one of the 27. Next, I went to his page on the house.gov website and wrote to him anyway: "Please tell your colleagues, the 27 House Republicans who wrote the letter urging Direct File to be ended on day one by Executive Action, that it would harm the American people. I like the free tax filing services from the IRS known as Direct File. Most Americans like not having to go through a for-profit company to do a government task."
Is anyone all that surprised that there is a big "FOR SALE" sign on the USA? We have to let the world know that DT might be for sale, but the USA is not for sale... the people in the USA are NOT. FOR. SALE!!!!
"resistance"
Sounds good, but how?
"Stay the course , never give up you are needed "
Sadly, not true. We simply have no power. If we did, none of this would be happening, and of course, we'd have nice things in America, too. We don't. Remember what corporations have done when they outsourced our good jobs to unregulated countries with no labor laws and no environmental laws. We are the new 3rd world. Mired in poverty, sickness, early death and child early death. Fathers will have to pimp out their children and their wives to their masters in order to survive. Just like the days of Dickens and the early days represented in the books The Iron Heel (Jack London), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and of course, Charles Dickens himself. (BTW, those books are free as ebooks from Gutenberg.org. We, the people, have already been sold into slavery.
I'm truly sorry that this is your truth; however, it is not my truth, and from I've read and seen this is not the truth of others who follow this network. We are not powerless, we have not already been sold into slavery. I respect your reading and interpretation of the books you've chosen, but you need to read other books on topics of power, individual power, power in unity, power in one voice, power of the people, resistance.
You have only to look to Tblisi and Syria and South Korea and Ukraine, as well as Taiwan who has been standing up against the threats and tyranny of China for decades. In Syria, after 10 years of oppression and Assad feeling nothing when he gassed his own people was run out of the country on a rail. Ukraine who has held the line for Democracy on people alone and willingness to unite and stand up to tyranny for over 2 years (yes, with help) and help is what you get when you stand up to tyranny. Tblisi made their opposition know in the 10's of 1000s of people who resisted. South Korea is resisting in huge numbers and it's working. And then there was the Arab Spring where the people threw out the tyranny and formed a new government for the people - "The Egyptian constitution proclaims the Arab Republic of Egypt to be a democratic state." (via Britannica 2024). I could go on and on. We are not powerless unless we give our power over.
We are not powerless - being able to speak truth to power and fear not is our power. Being able to unite as like minded people and say "We're not going to take it!" and then we don't.
There are things we can do besides follow Meidas Touch. I pointed them out in a couple of other posts in Substack. We, as individuals and a group "CAN DO" - and like it or not, the people in this country are NOT. FOR. SALE!!!!
I admire your optimism. However, the American people as a whole are apparently either too lazy, too stupid, or too comfortable. Otherwise, where the hell are they? Our brothers and sisters in other countries have more courage. THEY are out in the streets, by the droves. Where are we? Well, like me, letting their fingers do the walking and the protesting. I am too old to get out into the streets. At 73, falling down can be fatal. Good luck to all you younger folk. It is your world, and your children's future that is now at stake. I don't have much faith in our country's people, and even less faith in our ability to overcome the now overwhelming influence and power of the extremist right wing. I grew up in an entirely different country than we now live in.
I continue to support MTN, continue to spread the word, pass out 'business cards' with the network name and pro-democracy advocacy, as well as try to tell as many Democrats who may not yet know about this wonderful Meidas Mighty group, but I don't really have too much faith in a rising up of people. Otherwise, Marx would have been right over 150 years ago. Sadly, the working class won't rise up and help themselves. And no one else has stepped up either.
How well WILL we react when they come for our neighbors or ourselves, marching us off in the middle of the night in black SUVs? Not easy when you are arrested and stripped of your rights and your property.
Again, it saddens me that you have this outlook. I'm a boomer, I'm retired, I'm old as well and not in the shape to physically protest either - but that's not the only way to resist.
You mistake "resolve" and "determination" for "optimism" and I will guarantee you that no one, and I mean "no one," is going to "march" me anywhere. If the outcome is to come take my rights and my property, I'm going kicking and screaming and probably horizontal. I damned sure am not going willingly.
There are more ways to resist than walk in a peaceful protest. One is to be a cheerleader. Do you think the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders march off the field in a depressed state of acceptance with their heads lowered every time their team loses? If they did, then the Dallas Cowboys would not be a team any longer just from pure lack of support.
You be You! That is your right and your choice.
For anyone else reading this message: There is hope out there. People around the globe are taking on exactly this type of attempt to take over and they are winning. Winners don't concede the match before it's even started. Be tough! Stand Strong! and know that in numbers and "resolve" and "determination" we can keep our democracy!
I understand what you are saying. I never said I would willingly go off into the sunset in passivity. I merely meant that WE HAVE NO POWER to be making the changes that the American people WANT but simply cannot get our government to do what the majority wants, and that is because of capitalism, and it's corrosive influence on the democratic process, which we currently do not have. Further, I can't see the resolution of this during our lifetimes. It is going to take more than 'some' efforts by less than 1/2 of our population to make a difference, and that, frankly,. is going to take physical action and potential arrests and potential loss of ability to rent homes, buy homes, get a job, or even get access to government programs that get tied into if you've been arrested or many other things used to control the little people ) or other government programs. I personally have told a number of folks, if they come banging on my door in the middle of the night, I'm locked and loaded, and will take one of them out before they then take me out. I also did not mean I am going to lay down and accept this crap. But mostly, I meant, if we, the people, had the POWER to do anything, we wouldn't be shouting at the TV in frustration and/or fury because the pugs are insane, and the Dems, for the most part in the higher leadership places, simply seem to be either deaf, stupid, or willfully ignoring what needs to be done. Just as we helplessly watched the Jan 6 Committee give all their great findings, and then the Senate simply refuse to convict. So. yeah How must power did we have? Why hasn't DJT been already placed in jail? Mmm, because judges either have failed us, or were corrupt (Supreme monarchs, Aileen Cannon) or others too cowardly to bring charges.
Anyone remember Vincent Bugliosi's book about someone, anyone who was an Attorney General, bringing charges of murder against George W Bush because he lied us into war and caused all our American soldier's deaths? Not one AG that had the power and the standing ever followed this up. Vincent Bugliosi, if we all remember, was the prosecutor who successfully convicted Charles Manson even though he didn't actually commit those crimes. So, as average, non-connected, non-wealthy people, we have no power except in a mass number, and frankly, the American people have also failed us. I'm still waiting to hear about how this election was not legitimate, although our side is just ever so timid to even talk about it, except Greg Palast and a few others. So maybe this explains my mindset. I don't think we are that far apart on how we feel.
Absolutely, nobody is going to bow to swine .