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Millicent Garcia's avatar

Wonderful work by the Somerville community. I hope and pray he is returned to his family soon.

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Julia Johnson's avatar

And that he bloody well sues

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White Rose's avatar

Order, then return. It will cost them funds. A small amount, but one less dollar used to harm America. Pass on. Imagine if 100, people, one thousand....

https://info.hillsdale.edu/free-2026-calendar

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

Me too

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Nancy L. Hoffmann's avatar

I hope NYS is listening to MA!!

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Penny Pawl's avatar

Don't click its a KETO ad.

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Keith Olson's avatar

Is this the United States of America?

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Pamela Hall's avatar

This is Trump’s not so United States.

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

Not any more

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White Rose's avatar

Ways to resist.. *Place homemade "Stop Trump" stickers every where.

*What if wage employees changed their W4 federal tax exemptions to MARRIED 10, for at least one quarter. Think if the reduced cash revenues received by the government.  

*Write on every piece currency Stop Trump or Stop maga, anything. Flood the ‘market’ 

*Invert postage stamps 

*Write on Canadian, Mexican social media pages messages of supporting them regarding trump's tariffs,

*Call FCC and complain about maga media,

*Remove maga media from supermarket newsstands,

*Get involved in fox maga media surveys, distorts the numbers,

*Order free items from mags, i.e., The Heritage Society - then return to sender. Cross out you return address. 

*Read about the White Rose

*Shopping is voting, shop morally.  

Protests deportations

    *Carry sign John 13:34-35

    * Carry sign Remember "The Sermon on the Mount"

* Call maga advertisers 

PLEASE add to the list

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Polly Armstrong's avatar

It is now under Trump, the Dictator for Life.

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MJAtlanta's avatar

There is no way on God's green earth that we the people will allow that to happen!

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

It is happening and we're not only allowing it to happen they say we voted for this. Personally, I will always believe the tRump and his Musk Rat had the money and technology to rig the election.

Professor Reich, while I have your attention can you please teach us why our current and former Governors, Generals, Judges, Physicians (capable of diagnosing his mental disorders) and our former Presidents along with the support of the people form a coalition and demand his arrest! Next week Generals meeting would be the perfect time.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Agree totally about Elon and his hackers. I'll never believe that Rump actually won the election.

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MiaEthicalHuman's avatar

Some reporter wrote an expose on how they did it. It all makes sense. A whole bunch of them rigged it and now getting huge govt contracts as a result of it.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

"She Won" A series of articles about election fraud in 2024, by Substack Publisher, This Will Hold

https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Do you have a source, Mia? I'd love to have the information. I've read pages from ETA and they're doing good work, but more sources are needed.

https://portal.electiontruthalliance.org/

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MiaEthicalHuman's avatar

I'll have to go through my folder of links I saved.. Will get back to you.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

His mental disorders were diagnosed by Dr Bandy X Lee way back in 2015, along with a few hundred of her colleagues all across the U.S.

The spoke out & tried to warn us, but people didn’t listen.

DT is a Malignant Narcissist & a Sociopath - period. He was & is dangerous.

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MiaEthicalHuman's avatar

Everything he touches dies...

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Edward R Cucurello's avatar

Rumor has it that he touches himself often!

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MiaEthicalHuman's avatar

hahaha very good :-)

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

I don't think the Limp Dick Traitor dick works anymore.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Or wishes they had

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Professor Reich, while I have your attention can you please teach us why our current and former Governors, Generals, Judges, Physicians (capable of diagnosing his mental disorders) and our former Presidents along with the support of the people form a coalition and demand his arrest! Next week Generals meeting would be the perfect time.

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Keith B Dixon's avatar

Yes it is – under Tyrant Trump. The sooner he, his acolytes and sycophants are booted into the dustbin of history the better for all humanity. This will happen – it is just a matter of time.

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Bob Tinsman's avatar

All the people looking out for each other--now THAT is the United States at its best. That they have to do this to defend themselves against their own country--that's totally messed up.

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Carol M Myers's avatar

It is under Trump and Heritage 2025. We won't stop fighting until they are consigned to history.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

And prison.

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DZK's avatar

Ronald McReagan once based the Republican platform on the proposition that the 9 most terrifying words in the English language are:

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

The MAGgots have successfully transmogrified that Republican proposition such that now, the 7 most terrifying words in the English language are:

"We're from the government and we're here."

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Bruce Ford's avatar

Yes, Saint Reagan set the stage for much of what is happening now, by discrediting democratic government and opening the floodgates to oligarchic money to buy our politics.

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DZK's avatar
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We've careened from one media whore ("The Old Ranger") to the next media whore ("The Apprentice")! Y'think people still even "get" the oblique reference to Ronald McDonald since that hamburger stand purged its pedophilic image?

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Jenny's avatar

Yep this whole thing fucking started with that fucking fuck Ronald Reagan.

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Pseudonym.TBD's avatar

Roberts is technically more responsible for the extreme right-wing White identity fascist shift that we find ourselves in today.

Without dealing with Roberts lies and crimes(He and his wife participated in human trafficking in order to procure their two children illegally from Ireland. This be key because the adoption laws of Ireland are some of the most strict on Earth. I'm not here to break familial bonds, but I'll be damned if French Fry Roberts's rulings continue on when he and his fashee bo bashee wife break international and domestic laws.), we're just going back to the status quo that resulted in Reagan, Bush, Clinton(Slick Willie was far more right-wing than most people want to think. Plus he trafficked in prisoners' blood money that resulted in the spread of various infections around the world. So much so that functioning nations banned blood products from the United States.), Bush the Lessor, the Rockefeller Republican(These are Mr Obama's words about himself.) Obama, Trump, Biden(Who failed the folk in the margins more than any other POTUS in my lifetime. And there be far more folks in the margins because of the fascist push of the Overton window by all administrations, including Carter but Jimmy was exponentially less fascist than his Democratic successors.), and finally Trump.

We need better Democrats, and Bernard Montgomery Sanders is doing the work and building coalitions of folk who want a return to the New Deal without the White identity politics/fascism. I believe that we can do it, but we have to be honest about the sick folk in the GOP like JohnBoy Roberts. 😶‍🌫️🫥🆓🌈🌈💟 ✊⚖️👨‍⚖️⚒️

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Julia Johnson's avatar

Welcome to the Facist States of America

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Todd's avatar

Not for much longer.

It’s being transformed into a-MAGA-ca.

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Citizen J's avatar

DDT ( Demented Donald Trump ) has turned our government into a Game Show.

Cash prizes are part of the ICE officers pay package bounty hunters.

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MiaEthicalHuman's avatar

Really? How much per human?

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RTN's avatar

Apparently so friend, although I believe the 'United' part of the name needs recalibrating into something more up with the times, 'Devolving' perhaps.

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Cara Lopez's avatar

Beginning to be unrecognizable!

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Trooper1023's avatar

America has always been violent. The only people whom were successfully lied to about America not being violent... are White Christian Men. And that lie is finally cracking.

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Citizen J's avatar

DDT ( Demented Donald Trump ) has turned our government into a Game Show.

Cash prizes are part of the ICE officers pay package bounty hunters.

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Marcia Power's avatar

😢

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Patrick Lovell's avatar

These incidents are pure fascist behaviour. The mostly “white” men who are happy to do this gutter work while hiding behind masks remind me of Hitler’s black shirts. The masks are a badge of their cowardliness, and when we begin to reclaim our collective sanity - things that go around come around - and our felon president is rotting in some hole where he belongs - and after escaping accountability - these masked fascist enablers will be discovered and unmasked and will pay for enabling lawlessness and fascism.

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Johnetta Johnson Nur's avatar

Yes. 👏🏽 Let It Be 🎶 Let It Be….

Thankfully, Universe Creator Source God Will will be done. 🔥💕🐉#lovehavemercy

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Robert's avatar

er…. Blackshirts are Mussolini and Moseley …..

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

How to accomplish a Spending Strike

“It’s the economy, stupid” as James Carville famously told Bill Clinton. It was then, and still is, in politics. The reelection of His Royal Heinous is largely attributed to the misperceived state of the economy. That’s what must be attacked, not individual corporations. The overall economy must suffer before the Greedy Bastards will pay attention.

HRH will not destroy the economy on his own (TACO). He will find a way to prop it up (like lower interest rates) because the economy and stock market are his report card and key to keeping power. The key to keeping power, as it is in Russia, China, Hungary, Turkey. They give the people a somewhat decent standard of living, and in exchange, the people have no political power. Only the autocrat has that. Unlimited.

Our best chance of success lies in obtaining high profile, national leadership and spokespersons. Fragmented, unknown groups leading the charge might work but would take much longer, and time is of the essence. Since the Disney boycott there have been more “bigger” names taking up the cause.

There will have to be a great amount of grassroot support before a national “leader” will take up the cause. Most of our supposed leaders are really followers of movements. They’ll get out front after it’s shown to have popular support. So, we recruit more foot soldiers, like ourselves, and spread the word on various Substacks and other social media platforms.

After mustering much grassroots support we can then approach some Substack writers who have many subscribers and appeal to them to take up the cause and spread the word. Writers like Jen Rubin, Steve Schmidt, Robert Reich, Heather Richardson, Paul Krugman. Again, a good amount of grassroots support will have to be demonstrated.

We will need an organized effort to encourage those writers to concentrate on this method of opposition. Possibly coordinated mass emails to them promoting the idea, or coordinated posts to their Substacks.

Then, hopefully, one or more national leaders will take up the cause. Possibly a steering committee composed of left, center and right individuals, but not current office holders. It should be seen as non partisan.

This will be a tough sell. Americans are addicted to buying. We are brainwashed from the cradle by advertising, popular culture, peer pressure, to consume. If you want to be happy and fulfilled, you must have this or that product. To overcome this, our fellow citizens must be convinced that this is the only viable peaceful solution to stop and reverse the fascist takeover. And it is.

Defeating the fascists in WWII did not happen without sacrifice from the citizens of the Allied countries. We will have to sacrifice to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of our country. We can sacrifice a little now or a much greater amount later. What kind of world will our children and grandchildren live in if we allow this to continue? Spending Strike, Spending Freeze, Spending Suspension, Spending Pause, Economic Disengagement, Economic Warfare, Stop Spending!, even Boycott. Choose your favorite but Do It, and Spread the Word!

If a single dollar doubles every day for 30 days, it reaches a total of over $536 million ($536,870,912) at the end of the 30th day.

So, would it follow, that a single voice that doubled everyday would become 536 million voices after 30 days? That seems doable.

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Kenneth's avatar

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Royal Heinous! Brilliant! 👍

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

It does seem to fit. Another favorite of mine is “Defenestrate the Heinous Anus”.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

Wouldn't you like to see America's Professor, Robert Reich explain why haven't our current and former Governors, Generals, Judges, Physicians (capable of diagnosing his mental disorders) and our former Presidents along with the support of the people formed a coalition and demanded his arrest? Next week Generals meeting would be the perfect time.

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

Yes I would like to see that, but I think I know why they don’t and why we can’t get high profile leaders for a spending strike: they fear His Royal Heinous. They don’t want to have the hassle of being targeted by him. Thank goodness Professor Reich does not fear that.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

“Courage can be contagious. It is easier to be courageous if others are courageous, which is why solidarity is essential. Demonstrations show us we’re not alone — that we’re part of a broad movement to take back our democracy. (Mark your calendars for the next No Kings protests, on October 18.)” ~America's Professor Robert Reich

Also:

Boycott Amazon! Boycott Amazon's owner, oligarch Jeff Bezos's and his Washington Post and Blue Origin too!

America's Professor, Robert Reich offers proof that Amazon is cheating it's customers! Plus we should not be supporting oligarch owned big corporations!

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/because-amazon-wont-police-its-offerings?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

Do you read The Truth Matters? He’s big on Spending Strikes which he sometimes calls Economic Disengagement.

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Everybody's Mamá's avatar

The Denomic Destructor of Democracy, His Royal Heinous, Lying King Limp Dick Traitor, Führer mcDonOld tRump. A much more appropriate title than president for that evil lunatic - lol!

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Brian Taylor's avatar

Canadian here. I will argue that a spending strike is the wrong approach. If it was the right thing, it would have already happened. Here in Canada, as soon as HRH started insulting our PM and talking about 51st state and annexation, Canadians spontaneously began boycotting American goods and services and travel to the US. It has had a measurable economic effect, and it is completely grass roots. There is no government involvement. We then elected a PM specifically to resist your Bully in Chief. And the boycott continues.

If you really want to have an effect on the regime, use all the organizational steps you describe to stage a general strike. No picket lines, just everyone stay home. No work. Shut everything down. Do it as long as necessary. People will have to sacrifice, so you'll need to support those that need it. Get your union leaders on board, and it will grow from there. Think Lech Wałęsa.

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

Please read this carefully. It should answer all your questions.

How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?

Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).

A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.

We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.

Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.

We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.

We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.

Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.

Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.

We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!

Now is the time for this Peaceful Solution.

Why a Spending Strike is the Best Option

TINA: There Is No Alternative. There is no peaceful alternative.

Other peaceful options:

Soft Secession

Federal funds make up 35% of California’s state budget, with $173 billion in federal grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2021 alone, making up a significant portion of state and local budgets for programs like health, education, and infrastructure.

Are they really going to pissoff HRH to the extent that he cuts off their federal funding?

Soft secession? Only to the point when HRH feels threatened.

He will move in with all his resources and stop it.

This soft secession idea is a political ploy by state officials to get their constituents to believe the officials are doing something to stop the takeover.

It’s also another distraction to the resistance in that it keeps us from organizing and uniting around what must be done and what will work. It’s another example of hoping for an easy fix, one that will not take any sacrifice.

In addition, soft secession is divisive, pitting blue states against red states, playing into the narrative of the Rat, who wants to start a civil war. MAGA not only wants to “own the libs”, they’d like to kill as many as possible, to eliminate the opposition.

Targeted boycotts

Why targeted boycotts are ineffective

Boycotts often fail because they require massive, sustained participation to create meaningful financial pressure, lack clear alternatives for consumers, generate insufficient negative media attention, and are easily weathered by companies waiting for the protest to fade. Additionally, the complex nature of modern capitalism and the proliferation of corporate conglomerates can make it difficult for boycotters to effectively target and impact a company's bottom line or reputation, especially when companies have multiple revenue streams, like real estate, that aren't affected by consumer boycotts.

In 2020, Goya Foods praised President Donald Trump on social media, which caused those in opposition to Trump to boycott their products. Trump loyalists simultaneously initated a counter-boycott, where consumers bought mass quantities of their products, in response. The boycott caused Goya profits to increase dramatically because Trump supporters started an opposing campaign. 

The midterm election

Will it be free and fair? It won’t be. Will it occur at all? HRH has already said that if we’re at war there’ll be no election. Guess what? If it’s looking bad for him, we’ll be at war to stop the election. The election is important to him because having the majority in the legislature gives the fascist regime the look of legitimacy.

People are putting too much faith in what the midterms will do. They may have a beneficial psychologic effect but in reality the outcome will have little or no practical effect, unless the Dems can get 2/3 majority in the house and senate, which they won’t. They will not be able to undo anything HRH has done or pass new legislation because of his veto power.

SCOTUS members Roberts and Barrett may have an epiphany and save the country from civil war, but it’s doubtful. It’s going to be up to us to stop this.

Time is running out for a Peaceful Solution. Please spread the word.

How to accomplish a Spending Strike

“It’s the economy, stupid” as James Carville famously told Bill Clinton. It was then, and still is, in politics. The reelection of His Royal Heinous is largely attributed to the misperceived state of the economy. That’s what must be attacked, not individual corporations. The overall economy must suffer before the Greedy Bastards will pay attention.

HRH will not destroy the economy on his own (TACO). He will find a way to prop it up (like lower interest rates) because the economy and stock market are his report card and key to keeping power. The key to keeping power, as it is in Russia, China, Hungary, Turkey. They give the people a somewhat decent standard of living, and in exchange, the people have no political power. Only the autocrat has that. Unlimited.

Our best chance of success lies in obtaining high profile, national leadership and spokespersons. Fragmented, unknown groups leading the charge might work but would take much longer, and time is of the essence. Since the Disney boycott there have been more “bigger” names taking up the cause.

There will have to be a great amount of grassroot support before a national “leader” will take up the cause. Most of our supposed leaders are really followers of movements. They’ll get out front after it’s shown to have popular support. So, we recruit more foot soldiers, like ourselves, and spread the word on various Substacks and other social media platforms.

After mustering much grassroots support we can then approach some Substack writers who have many subscribers and appeal to them to take up the cause and spread the word. Writers like Jen Rubin, Steve Schmidt, Robert Reich, Heather Richardson, Paul Krugman. Again, a good amount of grassroots support will have to be demonstrated.

We will need an organized effort to encourage those writers to concentrate on this method of opposition. Possibly coordinated mass emails to them promoting the idea, or coordinated posts to their Substacks.

Then, hopefully, one or more national leaders will take up the cause. Possibly a steering committee composed of left, center and right individuals, but not current office holders. It should be seen as non partisan.

This will be a tough sell. Americans are addicted to buying. We are brainwashed from the cradle by advertising, popular culture, peer pressure, to consume. If you want to be happy and fulfilled, you must have this or that product. To overcome this, our fellow citizens must be convinced that this is the only viable peaceful solution to stop and reverse the fascist takeover. And it is.

Defeating the fascists in WWII did not happen without sacrifice from the citizens of the Allied countries. We will have to sacrifice to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of our country. We can sacrifice a little now or a much greater amount later. What kind of world will our children and grandchildren live in if we allow this to continue? Spending Strike, Spending Freeze, Spending Suspension, Spending Pause, Economic Disengagement, Economic Warfare, Stop Spending!, even Boycott. Choose your favorite but Do It, and Spread the Word!

If a single dollar doubles every day for 30 days, it reaches a total of over $536 million ($536,870,912) at the end of the 30th day.

So, would it follow, that a single voice that doubled everyday would become 536 million voices after 30 days? That seems doable.

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David Parrish's avatar

That is the correct approach. To stop spending is mostly ludicrous for the vast majority, since most of us spend $ mainly on essentials.

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Sarah Gillian Bower's avatar

Yup. The strike. Been screaming for this for MONTHS.

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Robert's avatar

Don’t forget that Lech Wałęsa thanked Reagan for all his support in overthrowing Communism.

Oh, and “elbows up” 😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅🤣🤣

We’re surrounded by idiots up here.

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Tasha Burrell's avatar

I love how the community has stepped up to watch out for their neighbors

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Andrew's avatar

Unfortunately, the six puppet justices (you know who they are) have already ruled that racial profiling is legal in the United States.

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Michelle Jordan's avatar

They can call it legal but they can't actually make it legal. I have to believe they will eventually be shown up for what they are, and it isn't pretty.

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Ilene Winn-Lederer's avatar

May that day come soon!

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Nancie's avatar

😡 I was thinking the same-someone’s racial profiling case, like Magdaleno’s, is going to make it back to them, with everyone below saying it’s unconstitutional.

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Michelle Jordan's avatar

I looked it up, and between being unconstitutional and having federal laws against racial profiling, it would be tragic and insane if calling racial profiling legal didn't turn back on them sooner or later. Fools!

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Robert's avatar

How can you do DEI WITHOUT “racial profiling”?

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willy jackson's avatar

DEI is about systematically addressing a societal imbalance that arose from years of discrimination in its various forms. Racial profiling is an openly racist approach that targets non-whites for arrest and/or mistreatment on an everyday basis.

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Robert's avatar

But you still have to profile to see who qualifies and who doesn’t, even if the likes of Betty “Fauxcahontas” Buckskin drive a coach and horses through it.

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Robert's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBym0UZJheQ

And at what a cost, too.

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Eric Perro's avatar

It breaks my heart to witness the implosion of America, all due to one, ONE, filthy, immoral, and subhuman individual called Donald J. Trump, backed by the avaricious ultra wealthy.

There are 350,000,000 of you at hand to end the destruction of the USA, which you could do tomorrow by physically overpowering the evil forces at play, initiated by a madman who clearly didn't get a majority vote or even close to it, one who should immediately have been at the business end of an eight-foot drop on Jan 7th, 2021.

Unbelievably, all this doesn't appear to matter enough to the average American.

The world stares at Trump and sees a degenerate, soulless authoritarian egomaniac, but they also look at the American people and see a vast multitude of disengenuous, entitled, and cowardly citizens in no way deserving of such a powerful and privileged nation.

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Nicholas Jones's avatar

Sadly, he is not acting alone. He is a figurehead for those avaricious, inhumane backers. His re-election was the culmination of a project years in the making. It has emboldened many who think like him, and he has now empowered them to fulfil those plans.

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Eric Perro's avatar

I agree and see no way around a people's revolution to counter this project.

The guilty must be overrun, hunted down and prosecuted. Many countries in the past have done that for much less provocation.

The very rich will flee of course, so that'll require seizing assets domestically and internationally with the cooperation of foreign governments who, with Trump removed, will be more than happy to hand them over and return things to normal.

The Great American Treason Trials will finally cleanse America of the rot that has been building up through immeasurable avarice.

Then maybe the US can return to the clear tenets of its Declaration of Independence, afforded to all of its citizens.

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Robert's avatar

“The guilty must be overrun, hunted down and prosecuted. Many countries in the past have done that for much less provocation.”

Yeah, like illegal invaders, Antifa, etc, etc.

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Mary Kreeger's avatar

Actually…I think DJT is a puppet! There are so many insidious, horrible, nasty people behind him…we need an army!🎖️

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Yes! I agree, Mary. The handlers are far back in the shadows, and Rump is a tool. For now. His usefulness is coming to an end, I think.

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Brian Taylor's avatar

Nicholas Jones and Mary Kreeger: You're missing Eric's point entirely. Whether it's Trump alone or the entire population of DC is immaterial. The point is that Americans are just watching it happen. They march and protest, and write scathing critiques on Substack, and DC just says 'So what?' It's time to change tactics. It need not be violent.

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Eric Perro's avatar

Thanks, Brian.

Although there is room between softer protests and bloody clashes in the street, in "normal times", say by a sizeable portion of us withholding our labor and bringing corporate America to a standstill which would get rid of Trump in a NY minute, the reality now is that the dark powers we're facing are more than ready to attack the citizenry as an excuse for martial law etc, upending our democracy, even suspending elections and leaving us with no choice but to physically resist. They're already prodding us with LA, Chicago, and Portland to gauge our level of resistance, dismantling the Justice system and wiping their butts with our Constitution, not to mention Trump's personal revenge tour and a myriad of other destructive and illegal policies, are all meant to see how far they can push us and how much they can rob from us.

We want to be civilized... but they won't let us, and they'll quite happily turn their followers into cannon fodder to maintain their power and protect their enormous wealth.

At that point, sadly, we will have no other choice but to oblige them.

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JudithMontreal's avatar

MAGA voters are brain-addled, brainwashed, uninformed and perfect little sponges for the trump regime's firehose of propaganda. Every time trump opens his filthy maw he spreads hatred, fear, and grotesque lies; only "he" can save them.

We all wonder when the magats will wake up, if ever. In the meantime, the real culprits in this mess aren't the childishly naive little MAGA patsies; it's the congressional republicans who carry the weight of SHAME. These cowardly morons, culty christo-fascists and fat donor politicians are to blame. They've enabled this "creature", this sicko, to unleash his madness and cruelty across the country, unabated - and somehow they're okay with it. Endless grifting, ICE raids, concentration camps, stifling of free speech, tariffs, looming recession, jobless woes, skyrocketing prices - and shockingly, they're okay with ALL of it.

It just may be that the magats wake up before any of these fascist Republicans who seem determined to go down with the sinking ship.

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Eric Perro's avatar

Bingo.

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Sarah Gillian Bower's avatar

But it isn’t Trump. Not really. He’s not thinking this up. All his goons are.

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The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

The Last Days (of Democracy)

Second Timothy, chapter 3, 1-5

1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

Remind you of anyone?

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Hannah's avatar

Take that xitian bs to a religious site.

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Hannah's avatar

No. I don't subject others to my spiritual beliefs and sure as hell don't want to hear yours.

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Edward R Cucurello's avatar

Uh oh!

My personal info has been disclosed

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Arica L. Coleman's avatar

My daughter graduated from Harvard in 2012 and lived in Somersville during the summer so I am familiar with the area. Many thanks to the residents and politicians working to make sure their constituents receive due process.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

This makes no sense. They verified that he is here legally. They decide to take him in anyway without any real or valid reason and then they not only keep him; but, give him a court date.

He should not need a court date, he shouldn't have been arrested in the first place based on what was stated and should have been released immediately.

In my opinion it is a given that some of these ICE agents are just mean by nature. They get off on the power and control.

I also think that they may be told to be that way in the hopes that it will cause enough trouble that it will give trump the excuse he is looking for-- to claim there is an insurrection.

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Gene B's avatar

Susan, I believe ICE agents are incentivized by quotas they must fulfill, as conditions of their continued employment. It matters little to their masters who might be detained - what matters most is that agents meet their quotas. This is dehumanization at its worst and should be castigated as such.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Yes, that is a factor also. I wonder if the "bonus" for signing up might be at play , which goes along with meeting the quota. I haven't seen how that is supposed to work especially since it said a bonus up to $50,000.

I suggest that the ICE agents probably have little or no connection to the people in the area where they are working. They don't know that Mary may yell and scream and throw her arms around and not do anything harmful, while Jill who is standing still and appears calm will cut your throat given a chance.

Local law enforcement, at least those who have been around for a while, will be able to gauge better the atmosphere and act accordingly.

and the other side of the equation that don't have any particular bias about the immigrants one way or another. It's a job as opposed to those who totally buy into the rhetoric that immigrants, whether legal or not, are "bad"...

What is also scary is that no matter how many are detained, as long as there are people making money off of them. this behavior will continue.

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Gene B's avatar

Excellent further discussion, Susan, on motivation for this abuse of power; thank you for probing deeper.

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Chris David's avatar

If ICE are now performing racial profiles, perhaps everyone in the States should be going around wearing balaclavas outside on the street, especially in sanctuary cities.

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

He was legal but they still took him away.

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Armand Beede's avatar

Robert Reich: The armed, masked Stormtroopers are cowards.

Sheer, bigoted cowards.

Trump has transformed the whole Nation into Jim-Crow police force like Bull Connor (who in Birmingham had the darkly comical title of "Commissioner of Public Safety"), and Governors Lester Maddox and George Wallace.

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.

Leviticus 19 tells God's People to treat the immigrant as a friend, to remember that the People of God were held hostage to the Pharoah for 400 years.

These are the teachings of Judaism and historical Christianity.

These are values of secular persons of good will.

The ICE-COWARDS battering immigrants raises outrage, anger, but a strong feeling of love and empathy for the victim.

We need to support groups that provide services, legal services, food or shelter, to the immigrant.

The ones I know of include the Civil Rights group founded in 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the ACLU, the NAACP legal offices, the Southern Poverty Center.

We need to fight cowards who have the unfair advantage of the iron-mailed fist!

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Susan Landmann's avatar

This is no longer a democratic nation . We've become a Banana republic in a few short months!. IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH and then he can be held accountable !!!!

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Nancie's avatar

This breaks my heart…But at least the lack of humanity and decency is being met w/its equal and opposite force-deep caring and commitment to service… 💔💔💔

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Stupid Old White Hippie's avatar

Inspiring.

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