Steve - you are the most poignant, powerful, strategic voice in the American political discourse! I hope you are working with Gavin Newsome and all competent democratic leafers. The sadism must be stopped. Mid terms must be protected vigorously. Liberty Vans - brilliant. Your mind is like a laser - burning through the darkness. Thank you!!!
There's not going to be elections. Why can't people see this? And even if elections managed to occur and MAGA lost, would they respect the results? Of course not. Who or what will force them out of office? Better start a plan B and soon!
Fascist regimes have always depended on the masses of people who, incapable of handling the hard, very evident truths, will abandon the crippling fear by escaping to the fictitious delusion of hoping for hope, alternating reality to self-medicate the emotional trauma.
Fascists have always depended on this mass denial.
Thank you both for a superb discussion. Scary and informative
-I think if one thing crystallizes it should be to get blue state governors and cities to pass laws or regulations that any ICE officer detaining or arresting a US citizen is committing a felony and will face felony charges.
Part of that will be they have to declare their ID and no masks, so they can be identified and tried in court
1. Among many opportunities, Indivisible is training people for their Immigration Rapid Response teams.
2. The League of Women Voters. Check out "Red Cards". They are a valuable tool to have available for anyone who might need a quick and accessible explanation of their rights. They also have Immigration Rapid Response Team training.
Ryan’s comments at the end regarding corporate media are spot on. It’s scary and sad and I feel for the journalists who take pride in their work. Seems many are leaving corporations for independent reporting which is to our benefit. I also believe we need to support local journalism as much as possible…it can be quite effective at shedding light on where the action is.
When conservatives like Mona Charon and the Cato Institute explain the same info about an unfolding police state, you know we are in real trouble. Here’s a link to a 45ish minute free (ads) YouTube video that is worth listening to.
Like it or not Cheeto, the demented malignant narcissist, has been told by Congress and SCOTUS that he can do anything hedamn well pleases Cheeto now sets the law
Case in point TikTok Under the Biden administration Congress had passed a national ban on TikTok unless the parent Chinese company sold TikTok to a US company due to national security concerns
In Feb of this year Cheeto told the Department of Justice not to enforce the law for 75 days while his administration reviewed it. He also told Bondi to tell companies they can continue to carry the TikTok app “without incurring any legal liability,” no matter what the law says.
The letters she wrote, newly available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, suggest Trump can ignore the law because of his “unique constitutional responsibility for the national security of the United States, the conduct of foreign policy, and other vital executive functions.” The law banning TikTok— that Congress passed, President Joe Biden signed, and the Supreme Court upheld 9–0— had to give way, she wrote, to Trump’s “core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.”
I have been reading reports of large US military cargo planes with big doors (specifically requested by White House) filled with non-whites arrested by ICE agents that followed a course out to sea and reversed course to return empty. In the name of God and all that is sacred, when will people snap and face what is already here.
I assume by online you are search-engineering Google. Misguided. Waste of time. Google, a year or so back, sold out to corporate engineered mendacity. They removed all entries re alternative health messaging, now only corporate standard medicine. Try entering a search on 'n icotine' and watching carefully, you'll see responses come up that are instantaneously replaced. Very quickly. Across the board of your interests, always they produce corporate-friendly sway. If you are not aware of how thoroughly corrupt the big pharms are, the criminality they are culpable of, try duck-duck go. Here you will find for instance, coverage of my post on cargo planes coming back empty. It recounts how other regimes in past countries threw their enemies out of airplanes . US military in Vietnam used a similar technique in questioning Vietnamese--loaded 16 to twenty on helicopters, len, women and children. Once up, they usually threw out a child to capture attention, and captives were told one by one they would be thrown out for failed answers. Reading duckduckgo, you will see hard difficulties, failures to verify, and discussions on possible conspiracy theorizing. Remember here to realize the difficulty to find verification when people who commit these actions have a lot of control of any leakage. The histories of fascist regimes prove that revelations of these heinous atrocities came long after their acts of their most foul atrocities. My post was about people sitting in the midst of mounting and quite evident fascist methodology to inspire control through fear while Americans are hoping for hope with blinders on. Fascists have throughout history have relied on mass, disconnected denial.
Trump is a sinner. I still can't believe he hasn't burst into flames. :(
Steve - you are the most poignant, powerful, strategic voice in the American political discourse! I hope you are working with Gavin Newsome and all competent democratic leafers. The sadism must be stopped. Mid terms must be protected vigorously. Liberty Vans - brilliant. Your mind is like a laser - burning through the darkness. Thank you!!!
Yes!!! Steve nails it
Ice is a 5 alarm 🚨 🔥
There's not going to be elections. Why can't people see this? And even if elections managed to occur and MAGA lost, would they respect the results? Of course not. Who or what will force them out of office? Better start a plan B and soon!
Fascist regimes have always depended on the masses of people who, incapable of handling the hard, very evident truths, will abandon the crippling fear by escaping to the fictitious delusion of hoping for hope, alternating reality to self-medicate the emotional trauma.
Fascists have always depended on this mass denial.
We had a huge tragedy in the Texas Hill Country. Over 100 people died many of them little girls from Camp Mystic. Devastating to all of us.
Everything has been dismantled in America. Everyone is in danger. This is a tragedy of huge proportions. More to come with Project 2025
Thank you both for a superb discussion. Scary and informative
-I think if one thing crystallizes it should be to get blue state governors and cities to pass laws or regulations that any ICE officer detaining or arresting a US citizen is committing a felony and will face felony charges.
Part of that will be they have to declare their ID and no masks, so they can be identified and tried in court
The Save America movement gives me hope, green Liberty vans with a lawyer and videographer.
Let's go Mets! hahahahaha
Since 1976 :D
Volunteer! Two ways to fight back:
1. Among many opportunities, Indivisible is training people for their Immigration Rapid Response teams.
2. The League of Women Voters. Check out "Red Cards". They are a valuable tool to have available for anyone who might need a quick and accessible explanation of their rights. They also have Immigration Rapid Response Team training.
Stay strong like Steve!
" . . . and all of the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now." --Dylan Thomas
My audio works
Ryan’s comments at the end regarding corporate media are spot on. It’s scary and sad and I feel for the journalists who take pride in their work. Seems many are leaving corporations for independent reporting which is to our benefit. I also believe we need to support local journalism as much as possible…it can be quite effective at shedding light on where the action is.
When conservatives like Mona Charon and the Cato Institute explain the same info about an unfolding police state, you know we are in real trouble. Here’s a link to a 45ish minute free (ads) YouTube video that is worth listening to.
https://youtu.be/0AQfmQOF560
Thank you for the slap in the face about ICE. I had not made that connection. Fucking frightening!
The Orange Cheeto IS the Law Now
Like it or not Cheeto, the demented malignant narcissist, has been told by Congress and SCOTUS that he can do anything hedamn well pleases Cheeto now sets the law
Case in point TikTok Under the Biden administration Congress had passed a national ban on TikTok unless the parent Chinese company sold TikTok to a US company due to national security concerns
In Feb of this year Cheeto told the Department of Justice not to enforce the law for 75 days while his administration reviewed it. He also told Bondi to tell companies they can continue to carry the TikTok app “without incurring any legal liability,” no matter what the law says.
The letters she wrote, newly available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, suggest Trump can ignore the law because of his “unique constitutional responsibility for the national security of the United States, the conduct of foreign policy, and other vital executive functions.” The law banning TikTok— that Congress passed, President Joe Biden signed, and the Supreme Court upheld 9–0— had to give way, she wrote, to Trump’s “core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.”
I have been reading reports of large US military cargo planes with big doors (specifically requested by White House) filled with non-whites arrested by ICE agents that followed a course out to sea and reversed course to return empty. In the name of God and all that is sacred, when will people snap and face what is already here.
Omg
I can’t find anything online about this
I assume by online you are search-engineering Google. Misguided. Waste of time. Google, a year or so back, sold out to corporate engineered mendacity. They removed all entries re alternative health messaging, now only corporate standard medicine. Try entering a search on 'n icotine' and watching carefully, you'll see responses come up that are instantaneously replaced. Very quickly. Across the board of your interests, always they produce corporate-friendly sway. If you are not aware of how thoroughly corrupt the big pharms are, the criminality they are culpable of, try duck-duck go. Here you will find for instance, coverage of my post on cargo planes coming back empty. It recounts how other regimes in past countries threw their enemies out of airplanes . US military in Vietnam used a similar technique in questioning Vietnamese--loaded 16 to twenty on helicopters, len, women and children. Once up, they usually threw out a child to capture attention, and captives were told one by one they would be thrown out for failed answers. Reading duckduckgo, you will see hard difficulties, failures to verify, and discussions on possible conspiracy theorizing. Remember here to realize the difficulty to find verification when people who commit these actions have a lot of control of any leakage. The histories of fascist regimes prove that revelations of these heinous atrocities came long after their acts of their most foul atrocities. My post was about people sitting in the midst of mounting and quite evident fascist methodology to inspire control through fear while Americans are hoping for hope with blinders on. Fascists have throughout history have relied on mass, disconnected denial.