Yeah, unfortunately, I always said that if Hitler had not been born, he would have been invented. Same with Trump. When Trump is gone, the problem just changes. We do not get to rest on our laurels. Ever.
Oh, please tell me what percentage of the population were participating in all of those non-violent protests in the first years of the Holocaust in Germany?
I seriously not been able to find that information, but what I read is very few were out early - before mass murder.
You are making up facts.
No shit Sherlock.
Or, Yes, duh.
I know you believe the rest of us are as lazy as you, but some of us are old enough to not particularly care what happens to us.
If you think rural people in your state elect anti-city politicians, then you most certainly live in a city. That's hilarious.
But then I am neither suburban or rural. They call us hinterlands. (That just means we don't get rural grants.)
Thank you. The opening notes took me back to those smelly, sweaty clubs in SF. When I was young enough to join the miles long marches, pick coffee in Nicaragua and try to make the world a better place.
But I still know how, so I can organize and help others. And we keep moving forward... slowly.
I think it is funny that so many people who see us insisting on hope assume we believe in magic. (Oh no, I do believe in magic, just not the kind that thinks there is a simple solution.)
We are not going back, so we might as well fight to make the future better.
I'll be there with you!
Exactly where do you think Clinton dragged the party from? Do you think we were some hotbed of socialism before Clinton? I assume you aren't saying he started the imperialism as that has been around as long as ... well certainly as long as the US.
(I live in a place stolen from Mexico.)
Nah, just trying to stop the BS from Bronco billy there.
I spent the day in immigration watch training and will go back to making whistle kits and bracelets to hand out at No Kings.
I am excited to see I have a day this week of nothing but housework.
Then back at it.
One could argue that none of those was a single event. But your point is well taken. It is generous to say that we have always been a flawed nation.
Still, I would like to work toward becoming a nation that finally lives up to its founding documents, with no winks or nods.
OMG, nothing I do matters? How horrible. I guess I will just go back to bed and die.
STFU
Oh, I can be outraged enough if it is "only 6". Not one was necessary.
Not one Iranian needed to be murdered for this war of choice.
This time I feel we all have to do more than we have ever done before, because obviously whatever we did last time was not enough.
The one thing I do, is research before the ballots come out. I find that once the ads start, they just confuse.
When I call people to vote I can explain the candidates, but more importantly the issues and propositions. Then tell people to go ahead and vote now. It saves the campaigns money/
So if you don't get 100 %, nothing is worth doing? We don't know that no one will ever be charged arrested or impeached. I assume you are talking specifically about government workers, because others have lost their jobs, here in the US.
Nothing is perfectly stopping the regime. But everything help
Actually phone calls and emails/letters do have power. We should never discount them. Just today Rep. Kanna said that the re-release of many Epstein files including the first release of missing files was the result of public pressure. That pressure was applied mostly through phone calls and emails.
bsky.app/profile/chue...
Yes, different circumstances. Really just giving people some clarity of all the options, so that people can choose what best suits their circumstances.
There are two places to vote in my county. The "poll" inside the courthouse and the box outside the courthouse. 50 miles of windy snowy road.
Yeah, we all get different feeds.
You beat me. I keep my ballot overnight, then mail the next day. That gets me off the rolls and the candidates can quit wasting money sending me flyers that just end up in the recycle bin.
I kind of laugh that this is such a big deal. Ever since the anthrax scare in 2001 our mail is taken away untouched and cancelled when it gets somewhere far far away.
So I tell people if they haven't voted the week before they need to get it hand cancelled or drive to the poll (50 miles for me!)
Check with your secretary of State's website to see if you have vote tracking. We do. Drop your ballot in the mail the day after you get it (yeah, that means you do your research before October). Vote tracking tells me when it is picked up, arrives, is counted.
Only if it doesn't show do I drive.
I guess I don't need to repeat what has been made clear in the comments, but I will.
Building trust is not going to happen in the lifetimes of any of us who have any gray in our hair. If ever, but it just ain't coming soon.
And shouldn't. We were never trustworthy. History is clear on that.
Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran.
And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program?
This is incompetence. Plain and simple.
There's a reason for that. Voters skip elections that they believe they have no chance of winning, so it becomes reality. If all the voters turned out the elections would be much closer... and yes, possibly, flipped.
Dumb as a stump 🪵
The only people I see saying voting will save us are politicians or their employees. They have a vested interest in that belief. I assume they actually believe it, but that doesn't change my complete disregard for their shallow opinion.
One lamented that No Kings 2 took a canvassing day away! fool
I keep hearing this. But I never hear anyone saying voting is enough or that there will be free and fair elections. What I hear is that we need to fight hard enough to win despite unfair elections. And if we win everything (eventually) we can't quit.
I know we all see different feeds.
It's a very rare book that stays around my house after I have read it, and usually something so obscure that no one else will read it. The job for me is finally admitting that some books in my TBR piles need to go too.
Books piled so high they are a hazard.
Obligatory
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
