Our group from our Cape May Indivisible went to our congressman’s Nj office (when congress was in recesss) to meet with him & request an in person town hall meeting. He wasn’t there but his staff said he only does zoom with questions written ahead of time . We protested peacefully on thr street in front of his office afterwards.
Van Drew’s response: that we were radical leftist vicious protestors!!!! He blocked a few of us on his fb page, requesting in person town hall meeting.
We’ll persist but it’s quite obvious he’s avoiding us. Instead he posts lies about us.
We will keep trying to remind him he works for US not Trump musk.
Make certain that local and national media highlight the fact that VanDrew will not take other than preselected questions on Zoom. What a chicken, he deserves to be booted in 2026.
We sent pictures to the local newspaper & I sent a report of this to Rachel Maddow (tho I think is too small town local yokel stuff for her!)
I’ve hit the cutting room floor before - unfortunately I am in a heavy MAGA district in so Jersey - in a Democrat run state. It’s gotta hit em in their pocketbooks I think before some of these people will ever leave MAGA-the MAGA business here may not have workers @ they need them in the summer tourist season! Also Canadians who used to vacation here are cancelling summer reservations (shore resort area of Wildwood & cape May)
van drew has always been spineless, and will fall. Thank you, Cape May Indivisible, for your action! Montclair Dems are also resisting, acting, and have risen. New Jersey will NOT bend a knee toward van drew or any feckless political hack in this regime. We will vote Blue this November.
And if anybody feels defeated right now, play Governor Pritzker’s State of the State on repeat.
Yes, listening to Gov Pritzer gives us hope. We need more governors to speak out loudly about this abuse & corruption.
It’s a tough fight in very red south Jersey to beat Van Drew. They just need to be hit personally by the policies to leave the MAGA cult: when the vets here quit getting their help & checks, & the shore suffers a tough summer, maybe they will start voting for Dems.
Grass roots work is where we need to continue to work-Montclair & everywhere! And those reading this- please consider peacefully protesting. Use your voice - we need all of you!
Yes, Susan, I agree. Please, everybody, take heed to Susan’s words. Everybody in NJ, we need voices, actions, resistance, voting like never before. In parts of Northern NJ, some assume we’ll vote Blue in November. But nothing, absolutely nothing can be taken for granted. Take action. VOTE.
Same in CD7 with Tom Kean Jr. We may be able to flip CD7 in 2026 but Musk really poured in the money for CD7 in order to fund the grotesque anti- trans ads. We can and must win back the seat. Kean is a nothing. We deserve better.
CD 2 is stuck with this lying Trump Musk sycophant. We’ll keep up the protests & pressure & try & convince big biz here how bad he is for South Jersey tourism. .. our lifeblood!
This story about little 11 year old Jocelyn should, must, be the rallying cry for the people to rise up and stomp out these people who want to destroy our democracy.
What happened to Jocelynn Rojo Carranza would break anyone's heart. Obviously some people, including Trump and Musk, sociopaths to the core have no heart to break. This lack of empathy, this disregard for human suffering is also reflected in Trump's foreign policy toward Ukraine:
Three Trump quotes from an AP article in my local paper (Daily Gazette,”Trump and Putin to Meet,” p. 1) underscore how ignorant, incompetent, and cruel the man sitting at the resolute desk is:
"‘Russia attacked, but they shouldn’t have let him attack,’ he (Trump) said during a radio interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News.
Does Trump think President Zelensky “let” Putin attack Ukraine. What the hell was he thinking?
“Trump told reporters that the war ‘doesn’t affect the United States very much. It’s on the other side of the ocean.”
Does he not realize that Russian success in this war would represent a serious threat to our NATO allies and hence to us? Has he never read about WWI and WWII and the effects of those wars on the United States?
“On Saturday, Trump acknowledged that Russia did invade Ukraine. ‘Russia was never going to go in. And they went in because of a lot of reasons, and so many people are dead,’ Trump said during a Saturday afternoon speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington.”
Huh? If “Russia was never going to go in,” but then did invade, Trump should elaborate on his belief “they went in because of a lot of reasons…”
If our system were working, he would be impeached, tried in the Senate and removed from office because of the above and his continuing refusal to recognize the pre-eminence of the Constitution he swore to defend.
If Joe Biden had exhibited such a disconnect from reality as the orange menace did in that press conference, he would have been roundly criticized from both left and right. But now it's just another day in paradise.
It is fascinating to consider the intensity of Trump's "disconnect from reality." He lies about everything, no matter how unimportant or important and no matter how obvious the lie. He said this at CPAC yesterday:
“And he’d (referring to Biden) immediately fall asleep in front of the media. I could never do that. That’s the only thing. That’s the only thing. I could never do it."
Forget how clumsy it sounds to add the irrelevant phrase, "That's the only thing." EVERYONE saw him fall asleep at his own trial. A trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions in a verdict delivered by a jury of ordinary American jurors chosen by both prosecution and defense.
I’m no psychologist, but that repetitive “that’s the only thing” is a “tell.” It suggests that the only outrage-worthy aspect of the (fabricated) situation centers on a (perceived) injustice to Trump.
He sees everything through the lens of an angry, paranoid, egocentric bully with a grudge against the world.
The people Trump has chosen to work with him on justifying giving in to Russia's demands as a way to end the war in Ukraine are as ignorant, evil, and cruel as Trump himself:
"Special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russia should not necessarily be blamed for sparking the war in Ukraine..'There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn’t need to happen,' he said. 'It basically became a threat to the Russians and so we have to deal with that fact.'”
Does this idiot not know that NATO is a defensive alliance with each member considering an attack on one an attack on all? Russia was the aggressor in this unnecessary and unprovoked war. Americans must stand against these ugly lies justifying the brutal attack by a megalomaniacal Russian dictator on a much smaller neighbor. Is the Trump administration laying the groundwork to justify their possible attacks w/o cause, other than territorial expansion, on sovereign nations in our hemisphere? Answer: of course.
What makes trump so singular and lethal is his unique blend of sociopathy, cruelty, egotism, ignorance, stupidity, avarice, malevolence, megalomania, grandiosity, jealousy, and need for dominance. It was bad enough when he was a debt-welching, tax evading businessman, but now with the levers of power, he is destructive beyond all imagination.
Heartbreaking for this child and her family. Those who bullied her and their parents should be forced to look at her dead body. Regarding fighting back, don’t overlook Bernie’s fiery speeches. He is incredible.
Just watched Oklahoma’s mentally deficient Sen. Mullen on Meet the Press this morning.
He’s one of many Republican invertebrates that are unaware that they’re in fact intellectual poseurs.
No surprise, Mullen was recklessly worshiping the loudmouthed “talking turd” in the White House.
He’s an example of a “sitting down” Article I denier; an obedient authoritarian sycophant - self-serving, he’s endorsing the illegal siege upon American Oklahomans; that they should suffer under the whip of the South African usurper at large.
Proud of Governors Mills & Pritzker … they are standing up!
Worse yet, tough guy Mullin is like all the GOP (Gushing Over Putin) hypocrites who crow about family values and yet worship the adulterer sexual assaulter convicted felon talking turd and his equally malfeasant cabinet.
Let's go! No one is coming to save us. We save us. Participate with gusto in the economic boycott on Feb 28. You may ask what one day will do, but it is practice for the general strike where everyone agrees to stop working for a short time. It is to tell these jokers who has the power. WHO has the power? WE have the power! Our recent history is marked by boycotts that were very inconvenient, and people did it to change things-the Montgomery Bus Boycott-began by the hero, Rosa Parks. People walked to work for weeks to demonstrate that they would not bend the knee or spend their money on a business committed to their subservience. Surely YOU can handle one day not going to Wal-Mart.
Check out the Czechoslovak 1989 overthrowing of 40 years of communism, velvet revolution. The Good was victorious, it was peaceful and It happened intuitively and spontaneously❤️
Can’t help thinking that signing employee would be fired if she worked for the federal government as part of its anti-DEIA initiative. It makes me sick. It would make me sick even if I didn’t have severe hearing loss.
Just sickening for Jocelyn. It's hard to bear the cruelty. I wonder if the bullies will have to do community service, if not much worse. This was the third time I listened to the governor's speech. Powerful.
Geez, I hope all the parents of those kids who bullied Jocelynn carry huge guilt for inculcating hate into their kids. Sixth graders, for goodness sake. This level of hatred is directly attributable to MAGA and the politics of resentment.
I live in CA, and distributed the bilingual red/blue "Know Your Rights" cards this week. People are terrified, and this includes all races and walks of life. I have a friend from Jamaica who has been legally here in the US for 50 years, and since she looks like a combo of several races, is very concerned. She's a retired high level executive, so it's not only housecleaners, gardeners, produce pickets, and others. She has more resources and connections, of course. My heart breaks for the terror young Jocelyn felt and the grief her family is experiencing. And I despise the glee of Trump, Holman, Vance, Musk and the rest of the MAGAs feel.
One presumes that any Texas teacher caught trying to prevent the bullying that overwhelmed Jocelynn would face recrimination for their “woke” behavior in the classroom. We disgust me.
Remember Maya Angelou’s poem: “You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.” We will indeed.
I’m so proud to be from Illinois where our governor is ready to stand up to fascism!
He's pretty amazing.
Omg That is a great speech!
So we are ready to rise, Steve!
Our group from our Cape May Indivisible went to our congressman’s Nj office (when congress was in recesss) to meet with him & request an in person town hall meeting. He wasn’t there but his staff said he only does zoom with questions written ahead of time . We protested peacefully on thr street in front of his office afterwards.
Van Drew’s response: that we were radical leftist vicious protestors!!!! He blocked a few of us on his fb page, requesting in person town hall meeting.
We’ll persist but it’s quite obvious he’s avoiding us. Instead he posts lies about us.
We will keep trying to remind him he works for US not Trump musk.
Persist! Insist! Resist!!!
Make certain that local and national media highlight the fact that VanDrew will not take other than preselected questions on Zoom. What a chicken, he deserves to be booted in 2026.
We sent pictures to the local newspaper & I sent a report of this to Rachel Maddow (tho I think is too small town local yokel stuff for her!)
I’ve hit the cutting room floor before - unfortunately I am in a heavy MAGA district in so Jersey - in a Democrat run state. It’s gotta hit em in their pocketbooks I think before some of these people will ever leave MAGA-the MAGA business here may not have workers @ they need them in the summer tourist season! Also Canadians who used to vacation here are cancelling summer reservations (shore resort area of Wildwood & cape May)
We won’t stop til this over!
van drew: Unbelievable. But not really. He's scared. He ought to be. Hang in there!
Timid and afraid: he is avoiding meeting with any one questioning him or opposing him.
We ARE hanging in there!!
van drew has always been spineless, and will fall. Thank you, Cape May Indivisible, for your action! Montclair Dems are also resisting, acting, and have risen. New Jersey will NOT bend a knee toward van drew or any feckless political hack in this regime. We will vote Blue this November.
And if anybody feels defeated right now, play Governor Pritzker’s State of the State on repeat.
Yes, listening to Gov Pritzer gives us hope. We need more governors to speak out loudly about this abuse & corruption.
It’s a tough fight in very red south Jersey to beat Van Drew. They just need to be hit personally by the policies to leave the MAGA cult: when the vets here quit getting their help & checks, & the shore suffers a tough summer, maybe they will start voting for Dems.
Grass roots work is where we need to continue to work-Montclair & everywhere! And those reading this- please consider peacefully protesting. Use your voice - we need all of you!
Yes, Susan, I agree. Please, everybody, take heed to Susan’s words. Everybody in NJ, we need voices, actions, resistance, voting like never before. In parts of Northern NJ, some assume we’ll vote Blue in November. But nothing, absolutely nothing can be taken for granted. Take action. VOTE.
PLEASE MARK THESE DATES:
JUNE 10: NJ GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY
NOVEMBER 10: NJ GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION
Same in CD7 with Tom Kean Jr. We may be able to flip CD7 in 2026 but Musk really poured in the money for CD7 in order to fund the grotesque anti- trans ads. We can and must win back the seat. Kean is a nothing. We deserve better.
CD 2 is stuck with this lying Trump Musk sycophant. We’ll keep up the protests & pressure & try & convince big biz here how bad he is for South Jersey tourism. .. our lifeblood!
Congratulations for your persistence!
We are ready and already rising in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!!
This story about little 11 year old Jocelyn should, must, be the rallying cry for the people to rise up and stomp out these people who want to destroy our democracy.
What happened to Jocelynn Rojo Carranza would break anyone's heart. Obviously some people, including Trump and Musk, sociopaths to the core have no heart to break. This lack of empathy, this disregard for human suffering is also reflected in Trump's foreign policy toward Ukraine:
Three Trump quotes from an AP article in my local paper (Daily Gazette,”Trump and Putin to Meet,” p. 1) underscore how ignorant, incompetent, and cruel the man sitting at the resolute desk is:
"‘Russia attacked, but they shouldn’t have let him attack,’ he (Trump) said during a radio interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News.
Does Trump think President Zelensky “let” Putin attack Ukraine. What the hell was he thinking?
“Trump told reporters that the war ‘doesn’t affect the United States very much. It’s on the other side of the ocean.”
Does he not realize that Russian success in this war would represent a serious threat to our NATO allies and hence to us? Has he never read about WWI and WWII and the effects of those wars on the United States?
“On Saturday, Trump acknowledged that Russia did invade Ukraine. ‘Russia was never going to go in. And they went in because of a lot of reasons, and so many people are dead,’ Trump said during a Saturday afternoon speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington.”
Huh? If “Russia was never going to go in,” but then did invade, Trump should elaborate on his belief “they went in because of a lot of reasons…”
If our system were working, he would be impeached, tried in the Senate and removed from office because of the above and his continuing refusal to recognize the pre-eminence of the Constitution he swore to defend.
If Joe Biden had exhibited such a disconnect from reality as the orange menace did in that press conference, he would have been roundly criticized from both left and right. But now it's just another day in paradise.
It is fascinating to consider the intensity of Trump's "disconnect from reality." He lies about everything, no matter how unimportant or important and no matter how obvious the lie. He said this at CPAC yesterday:
“And he’d (referring to Biden) immediately fall asleep in front of the media. I could never do that. That’s the only thing. That’s the only thing. I could never do it."
Forget how clumsy it sounds to add the irrelevant phrase, "That's the only thing." EVERYONE saw him fall asleep at his own trial. A trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions in a verdict delivered by a jury of ordinary American jurors chosen by both prosecution and defense.
I’m no psychologist, but that repetitive “that’s the only thing” is a “tell.” It suggests that the only outrage-worthy aspect of the (fabricated) situation centers on a (perceived) injustice to Trump.
He sees everything through the lens of an angry, paranoid, egocentric bully with a grudge against the world.
interesting
The people Trump has chosen to work with him on justifying giving in to Russia's demands as a way to end the war in Ukraine are as ignorant, evil, and cruel as Trump himself:
"Special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russia should not necessarily be blamed for sparking the war in Ukraine..'There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn’t need to happen,' he said. 'It basically became a threat to the Russians and so we have to deal with that fact.'”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/23/witkoff-ukraine-russia-trump-war-nato-00205626
Does this idiot not know that NATO is a defensive alliance with each member considering an attack on one an attack on all? Russia was the aggressor in this unnecessary and unprovoked war. Americans must stand against these ugly lies justifying the brutal attack by a megalomaniacal Russian dictator on a much smaller neighbor. Is the Trump administration laying the groundwork to justify their possible attacks w/o cause, other than territorial expansion, on sovereign nations in our hemisphere? Answer: of course.
Absolutely, but most of the media will never call him on it.
True, we must fight.
What makes trump so singular and lethal is his unique blend of sociopathy, cruelty, egotism, ignorance, stupidity, avarice, malevolence, megalomania, grandiosity, jealousy, and need for dominance. It was bad enough when he was a debt-welching, tax evading businessman, but now with the levers of power, he is destructive beyond all imagination.
Wow! A great list of all his evil qualities.
well said, indeed!
You are right. They have no heart to break.
Heartbreaking for this child and her family. Those who bullied her and their parents should be forced to look at her dead body. Regarding fighting back, don’t overlook Bernie’s fiery speeches. He is incredible.
The parents whose children bullied should be heavily fined and need to perform community service for at least five years.
Is that Bernie speech on YouTube?
Yes. It’s a speech from the senate floor
Just watched Oklahoma’s mentally deficient Sen. Mullen on Meet the Press this morning.
He’s one of many Republican invertebrates that are unaware that they’re in fact intellectual poseurs.
No surprise, Mullen was recklessly worshiping the loudmouthed “talking turd” in the White House.
He’s an example of a “sitting down” Article I denier; an obedient authoritarian sycophant - self-serving, he’s endorsing the illegal siege upon American Oklahomans; that they should suffer under the whip of the South African usurper at large.
Proud of Governors Mills & Pritzker … they are standing up!
Worse yet, tough guy Mullin is like all the GOP (Gushing Over Putin) hypocrites who crow about family values and yet worship the adulterer sexual assaulter convicted felon talking turd and his equally malfeasant cabinet.
Let's go! No one is coming to save us. We save us. Participate with gusto in the economic boycott on Feb 28. You may ask what one day will do, but it is practice for the general strike where everyone agrees to stop working for a short time. It is to tell these jokers who has the power. WHO has the power? WE have the power! Our recent history is marked by boycotts that were very inconvenient, and people did it to change things-the Montgomery Bus Boycott-began by the hero, Rosa Parks. People walked to work for weeks to demonstrate that they would not bend the knee or spend their money on a business committed to their subservience. Surely YOU can handle one day not going to Wal-Mart.
Check out the Czechoslovak 1989 overthrowing of 40 years of communism, velvet revolution. The Good was victorious, it was peaceful and It happened intuitively and spontaneously❤️
https://youtu.be/HNZZzhX88Zg?si=oWA0KL9rmhjpQdgf
Czech velvet revolution
Can’t help thinking that signing employee would be fired if she worked for the federal government as part of its anti-DEIA initiative. It makes me sick. It would make me sick even if I didn’t have severe hearing loss.
Just sickening for Jocelyn. It's hard to bear the cruelty. I wonder if the bullies will have to do community service, if not much worse. This was the third time I listened to the governor's speech. Powerful.
Why punish the children when it's their horrible parents that taught them to be little beasts?
The bullies deserve to be punished. Eleven is goddamned old enough to know the consequence.
Geez, I hope all the parents of those kids who bullied Jocelynn carry huge guilt for inculcating hate into their kids. Sixth graders, for goodness sake. This level of hatred is directly attributable to MAGA and the politics of resentment.
Those paents will find an excuse as to why it's not there fault .. They will not accept guilt .
You’re probably right. Where has common decency gone?
thank you. The Governor's speech was uplifting when I first heard it, and continues to be. Where are the others?
I live in CA, and distributed the bilingual red/blue "Know Your Rights" cards this week. People are terrified, and this includes all races and walks of life. I have a friend from Jamaica who has been legally here in the US for 50 years, and since she looks like a combo of several races, is very concerned. She's a retired high level executive, so it's not only housecleaners, gardeners, produce pickets, and others. She has more resources and connections, of course. My heart breaks for the terror young Jocelyn felt and the grief her family is experiencing. And I despise the glee of Trump, Holman, Vance, Musk and the rest of the MAGAs feel.
One presumes that any Texas teacher caught trying to prevent the bullying that overwhelmed Jocelynn would face recrimination for their “woke” behavior in the classroom. We disgust me.