Ask not what someone else's crimped and addled mind and gaslit ideation can do for you, but rather what your own reason-based, robustly-reflective cognitive authority and independence of mind can do for your compatriots, objective reality and our shared, lived experience in freedom, harmony and peace in this darkening hour of existential peril.
These speeches were televised, and I watched them all. I can honestly say at a young age,this is when I got emotionally and patriotically, involved in Politics. Thank You, for a trip down memory lane, and just how important, One Man can be for Democracy. Thank You, Steve, and will reStack ASAP with Pride 💯👍🇺🇸
Trump and his immediate circle of dangerous misfits and fascist billionaires aren't good enough to even shine President Kennedy's shoes. I was six years old when he was assassinated andeven though I was so young, I remember well the deep grief around the country and the world, plus the sadness in my own household. President Kennedy did indeed have so much more to do, his extraordinary life cut tragically short in such a horrendous way.
Great piece Steve!! You're on a roll today. And that was a fabulous speech by JFK. It was his very own words spoken by President Obama in 2008 that led to my very own spiritual awakening and passion for politics when I switched Parties, left the GOP and became an Activist. "Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country."
Right now our Country needs every single one of us to Step UP and do everything we can to help save our Democracy!! ❤️🇺🇸💙
Thank you Steve, another great post. Perfect timing. I need to send it, and Indivisible's Procedural Warfare Handbook, to my idiotic Senator Gillibrand.... who seems to think that the coup is a skirmish.
May I suggest you contact Congressman Pat Ryan, help him start his presidential campaign.
"Here is my idea: Democrats should adopt this speech as the party platform, modernize it, and use it as the basis to resurrect the Democratic Party’s shattered reputation..."
Steve, thanks for this. Can you please hand deliver this idea to the Dems, all of it. What the fuck are they waiting for?
Judith, "Can you please hand deliver this idea...What are they waiting for?" The problem today, during an actual coup d'tot, we American people won't take responsibility for doing anything ourselves to save our constitutional representative democracy. It's surely easier to work with others than working alone, right? I challenge my fellow American citizens who want to resist Trump and all his minions to meet together in small groups and brainstorm on what we can and will do. After all, a half dozen brains are better than one.
I agree. However, as one who have been politically active and deeply involved in civic reform my entire life, I have never felt this helpless. I have been engaging in what you suggest for years. I continue to meet with and develop my own groups. I call and email all my senators and reps. I organize, mobilize, resist. I plead with others to boycott zuckerberg, bezos, musk, yet I receive answers such as: "But amazon is so convenient." My ongoing reponse: "Is fascism convenient?" "Half a dozen brains" or half a million are futile in this moment. We are watching a coup and we will soon be living under martial law. This is post-Weimar Republic, the brown shirts have all the power.
I will continue to fight, but your response seems to disregard the stark reality of Project 2025.
What Musk is doing, with Trumps backing, is illegal. Why isn't Musk getting arrested and charged with a crime? We have fallen so far, so fast, that JFK would not even recognize the US anymore. Lunatics in Congress and the WH, lying, obfuscating, and trampling all over the Founders creation, it is sickening.
just finished reading Doris Kearns Gooodwin' s book An Unfinished Love Story. Takes you through the Tumult of the 60s and 70s. with all the challenges in those days there were very smart serious leaders in charge. JFK and his Cabinet, LBJ and his team. a reminder that under serious leadership challenges will be met and progress will be made.
Excellent take and it highlights the lack of leadership we have in both sides. The right has a psychopathic neo-fascist and we have nought searching still for. A JFK heart. Half the country is in mass psychosis. Truth is a potent weapon against the mass psychosis. I too look for a way to extract the country from the mass psychosis. Few stop to think about the root cause of this dilemma, but Carl Jung understood it well. Mass psychosis is the advent of deluded people. You see those questioned at a Trump rally and you say “How can they be that deluded?” And then you forget about that delusional interview you just watched with YOUR OWN EYES. You do not do the next step: add it all up. It adds up to Mass Psychosis. You are led by a psychopathic neo-fascist that has deluded masses of people. https://open.substack.com/pub/hotbuttons/p/comes-a-time?r=3m1bs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
If it makes you feel better, it’s really only ⅓ of the country. ⅓ didn’t even vote. And the other ⅓ did vote for Kamala. The gerrymandering and voter suppression won this election. And maybe Musk’s prizes for voters and technical f**kery finished the job. Dems we’re too polite by half.
Examples of Mass Psychosis in History: Tanganyika laughter epidemic, Meowing nuns, Seattle windshield pitting epidemic, Dancing plague of 1518, June Bug epidemic, War of the Worlds, Salem witch trials, The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic, Strawberries with SugarVirus, Meissen Trembling Disease, Hollinwell Incident, Blackburn Faintings, Wurzburg Screaming Epidemic, Face-Scratcher…
Well , once again, STEVE, you have pierced the veil and gotten down to the pure matter of it all. Thank you once again for the perspective and guide posts.
Other than reading books and social media, what can I physically do to get this Albatross to stop moving? Who let this Musk into the treasury. Every appointment of Trump is past the point of comical. It is sick. The people need to see that this will not going away by itself. Give me some suggestions. My dad always said I could incite a riot. I am ready.
Ask not what someone else's crimped and addled mind and gaslit ideation can do for you, but rather what your own reason-based, robustly-reflective cognitive authority and independence of mind can do for your compatriots, objective reality and our shared, lived experience in freedom, harmony and peace in this darkening hour of existential peril.
These speeches were televised, and I watched them all. I can honestly say at a young age,this is when I got emotionally and patriotically, involved in Politics. Thank You, for a trip down memory lane, and just how important, One Man can be for Democracy. Thank You, Steve, and will reStack ASAP with Pride 💯👍🇺🇸
I am actually just writing the same…I would even watch JFK’s press conferences…he was brilliant and I’ve missed him every day since we lost him!!
Me too.
Trump and his immediate circle of dangerous misfits and fascist billionaires aren't good enough to even shine President Kennedy's shoes. I was six years old when he was assassinated andeven though I was so young, I remember well the deep grief around the country and the world, plus the sadness in my own household. President Kennedy did indeed have so much more to do, his extraordinary life cut tragically short in such a horrendous way.
Great piece Steve!! You're on a roll today. And that was a fabulous speech by JFK. It was his very own words spoken by President Obama in 2008 that led to my very own spiritual awakening and passion for politics when I switched Parties, left the GOP and became an Activist. "Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country."
Right now our Country needs every single one of us to Step UP and do everything we can to help save our Democracy!! ❤️🇺🇸💙
Thank you Steve, another great post. Perfect timing. I need to send it, and Indivisible's Procedural Warfare Handbook, to my idiotic Senator Gillibrand.... who seems to think that the coup is a skirmish.
May I suggest you contact Congressman Pat Ryan, help him start his presidential campaign.
"Here is my idea: Democrats should adopt this speech as the party platform, modernize it, and use it as the basis to resurrect the Democratic Party’s shattered reputation..."
Steve, thanks for this. Can you please hand deliver this idea to the Dems, all of it. What the fuck are they waiting for?
Judith, "Can you please hand deliver this idea...What are they waiting for?" The problem today, during an actual coup d'tot, we American people won't take responsibility for doing anything ourselves to save our constitutional representative democracy. It's surely easier to work with others than working alone, right? I challenge my fellow American citizens who want to resist Trump and all his minions to meet together in small groups and brainstorm on what we can and will do. After all, a half dozen brains are better than one.
I agree. However, as one who have been politically active and deeply involved in civic reform my entire life, I have never felt this helpless. I have been engaging in what you suggest for years. I continue to meet with and develop my own groups. I call and email all my senators and reps. I organize, mobilize, resist. I plead with others to boycott zuckerberg, bezos, musk, yet I receive answers such as: "But amazon is so convenient." My ongoing reponse: "Is fascism convenient?" "Half a dozen brains" or half a million are futile in this moment. We are watching a coup and we will soon be living under martial law. This is post-Weimar Republic, the brown shirts have all the power.
I will continue to fight, but your response seems to disregard the stark reality of Project 2025.
What Musk is doing, with Trumps backing, is illegal. Why isn't Musk getting arrested and charged with a crime? We have fallen so far, so fast, that JFK would not even recognize the US anymore. Lunatics in Congress and the WH, lying, obfuscating, and trampling all over the Founders creation, it is sickening.
just finished reading Doris Kearns Gooodwin' s book An Unfinished Love Story. Takes you through the Tumult of the 60s and 70s. with all the challenges in those days there were very smart serious leaders in charge. JFK and his Cabinet, LBJ and his team. a reminder that under serious leadership challenges will be met and progress will be made.
The Democrats need alot more than words this time.
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Agreed, but they would be a good place to start.
I sure hope the Dems stand up and fight effectively. And Kennedy’s pillars are great ones for that effort.
I also think the other party should be branded with t(R)aitor. Fucking traitors, they are.
Fucking traitors is right.
With heavy heart, I grieve for the loss of my country which I once so loved.
I tend to also think it is gone.
Make that three of us.
Excellent take and it highlights the lack of leadership we have in both sides. The right has a psychopathic neo-fascist and we have nought searching still for. A JFK heart. Half the country is in mass psychosis. Truth is a potent weapon against the mass psychosis. I too look for a way to extract the country from the mass psychosis. Few stop to think about the root cause of this dilemma, but Carl Jung understood it well. Mass psychosis is the advent of deluded people. You see those questioned at a Trump rally and you say “How can they be that deluded?” And then you forget about that delusional interview you just watched with YOUR OWN EYES. You do not do the next step: add it all up. It adds up to Mass Psychosis. You are led by a psychopathic neo-fascist that has deluded masses of people. https://open.substack.com/pub/hotbuttons/p/comes-a-time?r=3m1bs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
If it makes you feel better, it’s really only ⅓ of the country. ⅓ didn’t even vote. And the other ⅓ did vote for Kamala. The gerrymandering and voter suppression won this election. And maybe Musk’s prizes for voters and technical f**kery finished the job. Dems we’re too polite by half.
Examples of Mass Psychosis in History: Tanganyika laughter epidemic, Meowing nuns, Seattle windshield pitting epidemic, Dancing plague of 1518, June Bug epidemic, War of the Worlds, Salem witch trials, The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic, Strawberries with SugarVirus, Meissen Trembling Disease, Hollinwell Incident, Blackburn Faintings, Wurzburg Screaming Epidemic, Face-Scratcher…
Pet Rocks, Cabbage Patch Kids, Black Friday.
Do tell. What are Blackburn faintings?
Exactly right he(Trump) is totally unfit for any office and always has been. He is dangerously delusional and should be locked up without a megaphone.
Well , once again, STEVE, you have pierced the veil and gotten down to the pure matter of it all. Thank you once again for the perspective and guide posts.
If you need a picture of a doormat, just go to any of the profiles of the 53 MAGA Senators.
Other than reading books and social media, what can I physically do to get this Albatross to stop moving? Who let this Musk into the treasury. Every appointment of Trump is past the point of comical. It is sick. The people need to see that this will not going away by itself. Give me some suggestions. My dad always said I could incite a riot. I am ready.
Admiral Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Gaza