Donald Trump declared Joe Biden's pardons "null and void," a French lawmaker is demanding the United States return the Statue of Liberty, and the Project 2025 founder is rejoicing over Trump
Why aren’t the elected democrats and republicans who aren’t insane doing anything? Are we seriously going to have a civil war because our elected officials are batshit fucking crazy?
Empires fall every 250 year approximately. The way the government was running with lobbyist and pharmaceutical companies and everything else people weren’t paying as much attention to; we weren’t going to last. He’s just speeding it up. So yeah, it’s up to we the people. Everyone’s so used to being taken care of we are slow to act. Look at Siberia. Population of 7 million and 1 million showed up to protest something their government was doing. America has lost its way taking care of people and having community and has spent more effort and energy pitting us against each that we can’t even agree on how to unite. It’s our country, we need to fight for it.
We are protesting. I see it on TikTok. Our media isn’t covering it. Our main news channels aren’t covering that we bombed Yemin on Saturday. And they keep us so busy working and living paycheck to paycheck, people don’t know what’s going on. We have to communicate and build together. Share general strike share everything. There was a huge sit in at Trumps restaurant. They had a huge march on Saturday outside the white house. Chuck Schumer wasn’t able to leave because they sat in. Did Vance could barely get to his ski resort because everyone stood there and protested and told him that he was doing a terrible job. It’s happening. We just aren’t seeing it and people aren’t hearing EVERYTHING that’s going on. Bernie and AOC are attending rallies telling them what’s happening. Keep talking. Keep going ❤️
I know all of that is happening! I’m very up to date. I meant protests where hundreds of thousands and even millions of people go out. We are not doing that. Just relatively small protests in the biggest cities across the states
You don't see anything on TikTok besides anti-American propaganda literally run by our #1 foreign adversary. So if you are saying that in good faith, please shut the fuck up by saying American Media isn't covering it despite it being a dearth of news, plenty of quality (Associated Press, NY Times, NPR, Reuters) any outlet that covers geo-politics I garuntee you covered more about Yemen than some clickbait 30 second clip approved by Beijing.
You really don't see what you are doing? Western Journalism without foreign influence = BAD. Chinese owned Tik-Tok short form news =GOOD.
And that’s fair and a valid point. My points above indicate as to why that may be. We also have a higher “bystander “ effect in the states, hoping someone else will do something so we don’t get our hands dirty. We have to keep talking and breaking it down. Also, the US is significantly bigger than France and Siberia. Organizing can be harder and it it doesn’t look like as many people sometimes because it’s so large of a space.
And get creative. I dislocated my knee so walking long distances and standing is super difficult right now. BUT I watched my friends kids so they could go protest. And that day I was able to help 7 people join a protest they couldn’t do originally, because I was able to do that. We need to get back to community and talking, and away from the defeatist attitude.
Other countries are doing amazing at it, we aren’t. What’s next? What can we do to be better and get the word out etc. if they are able to, so are we. I know it can be hard, and at times irritating. I appreciate you sharing your frustration
If only we protested like the French do- especially the French farmers. The fear in the states is that we would be jailed or killed if we were to protest like they do.
That’s incredibly valid. They are arresting peaceful protesters. Just sitting there. I don’t know why or how it’s legal, that’s not my wheel house. But nothing was ever won without sacrifice. I look to my black brothers and sisters for inspiration. They’re been through it. It’s our turn.
I would also argue that the diffuse nature of the states causes less ability for protests of magnitude- for example, I live in CA, but my state capitol is 8 hours away. I can protest in LA, but I am honestly not able to find much about protests BEFORE they happen. Compare this to Hungary where Budapest is the largest city (by far) and the majority of Orban opposition is in Budapest. As a side note, given my personal experience with witnessing protests being taken down in Budapest, I am shocked that Orban allowed that protest and fear that he allowed it as a matter of letting it appear that he allows discourse.
I am not trying to say you don’t know what’s happening, I hope I didn’t come across that way! And you’re correct. We aren’t necessarily doing it as big. I think, part of it is that we are much larger. France had their protest, but France is also the same size as Texas. So when you have that perspective, we are massive. But also is really cool because we are massive and we have the numbers on our side.
I think a lot of people are trying to do spread out protest as well, to prevent martial law from being enacted. That’s some stuff that I’ve heard people are afraid of. But there is growth and there is movement and that’s what matters!
Look we are the frogs in the pot of boiling water. These things haven't effected enough of us and we are being entertained to sleep. Award shows haven't stopped, people dressing up on red carpets. New dances on TikTok. Holiday sales, shopping like prices aren't ridiculous. Nothing has stopped because we all have this "it's happening to them" mentality. We haven't paid attention to the fact that Trumps reach is long and it's coming. Why wait until you're almost dead to jump out of the pot. People let's do something!!!
We weren’t doing well in the first place. And people who thought we were were not paying attention. Were we doing better? Yes but we weren’t gonna make it. America has been very used to consumerism making things really easy in our lives that in this moment in time, I don’t think people know how to react or what to do. And they did it on purpose, they knew what they were doing, making us super reliant on them. But we can do this. Our ancestors and our blood is made for survival and we know what to do and how to do it.
Please let me share an odd psychological/sociological perspective with you: a mind is a group of individuals whose interests, options for actions, and perceived reality all align, leading to unity. In the case of an individual person, that unity is strong enough as to seem nearly complete, since all semi-independent brain areas share information and functions with each other. In society’s case, people form larger pseudo-organisms with each other, directing everyone else’s thoughts and being influenced by all others within their own communities.
So, what we have right now in America are three or four minds competing against each other for dominance and survival. The ruling class has a “body” consisting of most of our government, a small part of our military, probably all or almost all of our billionaires and millionaires, a decent chunk of our religious communities 😥 and of course the far right and all those supportive or defensive of them.
The second mind is submissive and afraid of the first. They want to resist it, but they don’t have the clout. If they did, they’d act a bit like the first mind, which I think history proves. Billionaires and millionaires have also been a part of this mind, and some might still be. I used to be. Most people are, I think.
The third mind is rebellious and is rapidly gaining new members in the lower and middle classes. It wants everyone to be ok except for the people causing all of our problems. That’s the body we’re now a part of.
So: these conversations are very, very important, because conversations don’t exist in a vacuum. Thoughts spread invisibly, get refined, and come back around to us to help us out, often when we least expect it. Every decent idea can become an amazing idea through that refinement process. Every call to action gets amplified ten thousand times over. Every expression of hope and bravery gives others hope and makes them more brave. That’s why we don’t need a leader: because much like a human mind, our unity is strong enough that we don’t really need one. We, the crew, steer the ship, and the ship is the crew.
Part of the ship, part of the crew, part of the crew, part of the ship. 🤭 Keep it up. <3
Look how millions of Hungarian came out over the weekend to protest against Orban, telling him to resign millions of them flooded the streets, and the same in Romaina as well. Like WTF America? I been on many protest in the past 2 months and we have only a few thousand of a country that is approximately 3 million. Only 36 % of the voters voted for Trump, 77 million, and 75 million for Kamala where are the 75 million plus the 90 million that didn't vote coming out and protest?. We The People are on our own. We must save ourselves and Our county. We must fight for our constitutional and civil rights, as well as our freedom and democracy. WAKE UP!!!
I am so proud of Hungary, but very cautious in my optimism. Orban has such consolidated power and the fact he is allowing protests like that makes me think he wants to give an air of legitimacy to the coming elections when he wins. By the way, I don't say this without a relatively deep knowledge of Hungarian politics and spending a decent amount of time there, as well as first hand witnessing very peaceful, small protests being crushed in Budapest by huge SWAT teams.
I agree. I’m on your side and this is a good example, American people suffer greatly from the bystander effect. Hoping someone will come do it, or it’s not that bad or being full of consumerism to complaceny. Everything here is a distraction. And they know it. Barely anyone is even talking about the dark enlightenment connection Vance and musk have. They thrive on us not being able be self sufficient and to be distracted.
Trump is speeding it up - that's for sure. MAGA thinks he's going to fix it, but he's not addressing that same lobbyist, big pharm issues or addressing any real change or efficiency like closing loopholes in wealthy tax codes, and corruption to actually save us.
Exactly. All of the problems we had before that we tried to resolved we met with great resistance. Why is that? Obvious the answer is money. Now you have somebody in office who isn’t even addressing any of the original concerns. It’s just piling on. We were on the brink of needing a reset, now we do for sure.
BELIEVE ME: THEY ARE SILENCING AMERICANS AND ALREADY BEGAN KILLING. I almost was one of the dead recently. Anyone above a certain level of wealth or influence in business or family connections has either been coerced, blackmailed, threatened or harassed into submission by this new NEONAZI RedShirt Network of Surviellance that nearly killed me recently by chasing me into highway traffic. Everyone would have thought it was a suicide by a wealthy kid with a family background similar to Luigi Mangione (republican plant) but it was me trying to speak out against Trump and flip my who family from voting Republican.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THIS: if you haven't been fully threatened to go along with MAGA yet, you aren't infuencial enough or you don't realize it's coming to you when you actually take a stand. If we wait any longer the push back will be SO much worse, just ask Europe 80 years ago how that went when they let Nazis overtake the continent and millions dead.
PLEASE READ anyone who is a subscriber of this well informed Newletter should find this disturbing just like the Professor who was destined at the Airport for speaking against Isreal this week and is still in custody. THIS IS BAD. YOU WILL BE NEXT IF WE DONT SPREAD THE WORD.
It’d be so nice if they could just go after me next. Just imagine the kind of trouble I could cause in close quarters with other malcontents. I’ve been brutalized and tortured by the cops before, they used to scare me and now they don’t.
While in principle you are correct. If you aren't in an influencial position in business or family connections you won't feel the real hard power I'm referring to because you aren't worth the return on investment.
These aren't bullies just like standing up to Organized Crime or The Cartel is not about toughness. I've spent nights in county jails and had my ass kicked. This is a different type hard power where the threat is kidnapping and what that entails. So if your serious I'll pay for your plane ticket and provide you free room and board to do some protesting outside in 2025 in parts of America where you might not say that after a few days.
Also: I kind of started getting ready for this back in March, 2023. I tried to get something started in my local homeless community and idk how that went because I was insistent on cutting contact immediately afterwards and having a leaderless form of organization with sequestered information among cells. So idk if that actually did anything, but a few weeks ago I heard a rumor that they’re up to something. That’s not much hope at all, but it’s better than nothing.
I do need to stay here and support my local community, and I was homeless twice in the last 2 years so I would like to keep the job I have. I will be joining local groups and protests, though, and I’m talking to everyone who’ll listen. I’m doing what I can with what I have to work with.
I think it’s more that I’m prepared to confront them and would rather they go after me than you. I’m not entirely sure how rational that is, but I really don’t think taking me would help them at all. That would just make more problems for them.
I do intend to be on the front lines of whatever actions I can make it to where I am. I’m also trying to get people here to organize a bit more. I’m also trans so I’m fairly positive I’ll be on their radar eventually.
Yes. But also, have hope. There is something comforting in taking your power back and having something beautiful at the end of it all. It won’t be without loss. But we need to start training ourselves to be strong and reliant on ourselves, building communities and taking care of each other to see it through the end. And every survivor of the holocaust said they survived with hope and finding beauty in every day. They were thankful for the rain, thankful for the sun, thankful when someone held their hand in the cabins.
Start learning a skill, get as healthy as we can, start gardening, learn how to in door garden and finding energy if they cut the power grid. Stocking up and canning, sowing etc. things to help us through this. Then teach someone else. We can do this.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, hate never wins in the long run. There’s going to be pain and horror along the way. There’s no denying that and sugarcoating it. But in the end, good does actually win. I know it sounds so stupid saying it, but people have hearts that ignite in times of turmoil and when that happens it’s powerful.
This tone sounds like wealth , land and bunker ownership . Guess what , the income gap is way larger than before and also our population. Speak in context please. Yes we must stay hopeful but don’t peddle something that’s completely unrealistic for majority of the world. I applaud the optimism. However looking at the series of events recently fairness does not come to mind.
I live in an apartment. In Minnesota. I do not have land, I do not have wealth, I live paycheck to paycheck. But I have hope. And in the Great Depression my great grandparents did exactly what I’m suggesting. They did not have wealth, they had little land, and no bunker. Because they couldn’t afford groceries and they had to have self reliance. The only thing I have, that I saved up for is a small batter solar pack in case of energy cut off, there’s an awful lot of assumptions you’ve made about me when I’m encouraging others.
I’ve had to take drastic steps to indoor garden because I live in an apartment, where half the season is winter. I have to find a way to stay warm and grow my own food. It was a slight investment but because of community and seed sharing it’s eased the burden. I’m telling others to do the same. We need food and water to survive, some of it will have to come at a slight cost. That’s the realism. This is my hope and optimism not a sign of wealth, land and a bunker. It’s a sign of studying history and watching what others did to survive it.
My tone, was not condescending, it was encouraging. I don’t know where you got the mix up but I assure you, I’m just trying to keep people going and be realistic.
Ma’am I didn’t make assumptions about your kind intentions. I didn’t take your tone as condescending just a bit presumptive, I guess. I appreciate your answer :)
Also, got to love Minnesota.
I am hopeful as well, I have lived across the world.
l also studied history. I am being encouraging And I am reacting to this from somewhat different lens.
I encourage you to keep going and gardening and community. The realism is understanding the true costs, crops take time, the sharing of seeds , the community building, builds trust and that takes time.
Because even if this ship adjusts its sails back to wherever 🙅🏽♀️ we will all be better off expanding our network and sharing knowledge in any way we can.
You definitely didn’t come across that way, you came across as though I was a rich white lady telling people what to do. My tone being presumptive, doesn’t quite get across because that is the act of assuming information. I actually find that you were a bit presumptive. I’m not assuming information I’m just trying to encourage people to take certain steps to take care of themselves. The first step is finding a skill, I lifted out skills that they could choose to learn from. Then they need to find action steps on making that a possibility. If they want direction or help, I’m happy to help.
I recognize things take money , time and community. I’d rather encourage them now so they have enough time to do something versus a handful months later and they are stuck with nothing. Sometimes all people need is someone to spark something in them.
Even on here, I found people in my area and we’ve reached out and connected to build our own community. We are on the same side, and something, and you felt the need to assume something about me and make a comment that is not productive for helping us move forward. So hopefully you that’ll change next time.
I appreciate your response back and all that you do to keep the communities going and fighting back.
Thank you! I can’t wrap my head around it. One thing I know is the ppl who the 🤡put in place are in higher power & out numbered! Also idk how far the granting of immunity he got from the Supreme Court goes! So I’m not sure if anything illegal he does can be prosecuted!
The democrats have no power. And the republican congressmen and senators have been paid off by elon to turn your backs on our constitution, there constituents and we the people. They are complicit in treasonand trying.to overthrow our governmentand constitution. Every single one of the should be arrested. And you know what's even scarier?Federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration this year are confronting a wave of threats, potentially compromising their personal safety and the independence of the judiciary.
The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, and lower court judges who hit pause on some of President Trump's efforts to dismantle federal agencies and programs have been singled out on social media.
Republican lawmakers close to the president even have proposed impeachment proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.
Elon, has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching judges who delay or block parts of Trump's agenda.
What he says means absolutely nothing A 2024 federal appeals court decision said a pardon doesn’t even have to be in writing. “The answer is undoubtedly no,” the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. “The plain language of the Constitution imposes no such limit.”
A 1929 Justice Department opinion held that “neither the Constitution nor statute prescribed the method by which executive clemency shall be exercised or evidenced. It is wholly for the president to decide.”
The George W. Bush administration cited that opinion in defending Bush’s use of the autopen, a robotic instrument that presidents have used for decades to keep up with the volumes of routine correspondence they have to sign.
Can he do that ? That will start a precedent. Why doesn’t he just withdraw Nixon’s while he’s at it! Won’t this go to the Supreme Court as well !!! He’s demented. 25th amendment!!!
25th ammendment? Do you honestly think Vance and 60% of trump's cabinet would vote for that? As far as I can tell they're going a long with it just fine.
Number 3: sending foreign nationals to a country that is not their origin is against international laws. That prison in El Salvador is a slave labor prison.
Thank you for that information. I was wondering why they would send them to another country. I knew they were paying them to do that. Those people won’t survive for a year.
Yeah, but I feel sad about it. America as a whole never deserved the statue, but a lot of its people did. We haven’t all given up yet, in fact I think we’re growing more determined. And that thing was given to us out of respect for our people, not just for our leaders. Our leaders are not us, they are what we fear.
So, I think it’s appropriate to take the symbol of hope America’s so proud of away. Good way to really annoy Trump, I approve. It’s still sad. It’d be nice if other countries could support our people in ways besides applying economic pressure, which I also appreciate them for doing.
A presidential pardon signed with an autopen is generally considered legally valid. The use of an autopen for official signatures, including signing legislation and executive orders, has been upheld in practice. The Obama administration, for example, used an autopen to sign bills into law while the president was traveling, and the Justice Department affirmed its legality.
While there may be debate over whether a pardon requires a more direct act by the president, there is no established legal precedent invalidating a pardon solely because it was signed with an autopen. Ultimately, the validity of such a pardon would likely depend on judicial interpretation if challenged.
When you’re filled with revenge, envy and hate, you can never rest. Proverbs 4:16 “For they cannot sleep unless they have done evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.”
I had hope until the Democratic Party laid down and played dead on the funding bill. That’s it. The US has him full steam ahead. Unfortunately so does the rest of us.
Aaron I'm so afraid called my Senators already this morning. Deporting these people is like Marshal Law NO Due Process. Who is to say they come here say I'm a terrorist and take me. We have NO leader in the Dems at all. Help I'm really afraid
They’re already doing this. The Columbia student they labeled as a “terrorist sympathizer that is is favor of the murder or women and children” and a “paid agitator” just for protesting for palestine is scary enough. They’re dehumanizing the opposition to justify any act of violence. They imprisoned him and are planning on deporting him without a legal process. “First they came for the jews, and i didn’t do anything. Then they came for me, and no one was there.”
Not just the Jews. People need to wake up . These wellness camps JFK was talking about will be concentration camps their coming after people with adhd and depression .
During the holocaust they killed people with disabilities
They killed black people (yes there was a black population in Germany )
They sent gay people and trans people to concentration camps and murdered them . Then they also killed Jews . They also killed immigrants . This is insane . People need to wake up we are in big fucking trouble .
That's exactly correct. Eventually, they will. They are going to call us all mentally unstable for protesting and throw us in jail... They are already setting the groundwork with that new gun law they are trying to pass...
Also by making the new mental health designation of TDS, (Trump Derangement Syndrome). Anti trump anything will be cause to label a person with this so called diagnosis of TDS. Thus making it easier to “place” those with this diagnosis into their “Wellness Camps”. This is truly scary stuff.
Why would Trump listen? He should have been in jail right after January 6th. Nothing happened. He wiggled himself out of everything, and he was not the president of the US. Do you think he is going to listen and obey the law? As scary as it is, this man is a criminal, a thief, a traitor. It was proven time and time again, and nothing happened. So here we are, people have elected him, and he "thinks" he can do whatever pleases him.
Why aren’t the elected democrats and republicans who aren’t insane doing anything? Are we seriously going to have a civil war because our elected officials are batshit fucking crazy?
Empires fall every 250 year approximately. The way the government was running with lobbyist and pharmaceutical companies and everything else people weren’t paying as much attention to; we weren’t going to last. He’s just speeding it up. So yeah, it’s up to we the people. Everyone’s so used to being taken care of we are slow to act. Look at Siberia. Population of 7 million and 1 million showed up to protest something their government was doing. America has lost its way taking care of people and having community and has spent more effort and energy pitting us against each that we can’t even agree on how to unite. It’s our country, we need to fight for it.
All i see is how well other countries are protesting.
We are protesting. I see it on TikTok. Our media isn’t covering it. Our main news channels aren’t covering that we bombed Yemin on Saturday. And they keep us so busy working and living paycheck to paycheck, people don’t know what’s going on. We have to communicate and build together. Share general strike share everything. There was a huge sit in at Trumps restaurant. They had a huge march on Saturday outside the white house. Chuck Schumer wasn’t able to leave because they sat in. Did Vance could barely get to his ski resort because everyone stood there and protested and told him that he was doing a terrible job. It’s happening. We just aren’t seeing it and people aren’t hearing EVERYTHING that’s going on. Bernie and AOC are attending rallies telling them what’s happening. Keep talking. Keep going ❤️
Tim Walz, too. He was in Iowa all weekend and did a big town hall in person in Des Moines.
And Nebraska! And I think Idaho…but don’t quote me on that one.
I know all of that is happening! I’m very up to date. I meant protests where hundreds of thousands and even millions of people go out. We are not doing that. Just relatively small protests in the biggest cities across the states
You don't see anything on TikTok besides anti-American propaganda literally run by our #1 foreign adversary. So if you are saying that in good faith, please shut the fuck up by saying American Media isn't covering it despite it being a dearth of news, plenty of quality (Associated Press, NY Times, NPR, Reuters) any outlet that covers geo-politics I garuntee you covered more about Yemen than some clickbait 30 second clip approved by Beijing.
You really don't see what you are doing? Western Journalism without foreign influence = BAD. Chinese owned Tik-Tok short form news =GOOD.
There are protests going on in the states- just no where near the size of the ones in other countries.
And that’s fair and a valid point. My points above indicate as to why that may be. We also have a higher “bystander “ effect in the states, hoping someone else will do something so we don’t get our hands dirty. We have to keep talking and breaking it down. Also, the US is significantly bigger than France and Siberia. Organizing can be harder and it it doesn’t look like as many people sometimes because it’s so large of a space.
And get creative. I dislocated my knee so walking long distances and standing is super difficult right now. BUT I watched my friends kids so they could go protest. And that day I was able to help 7 people join a protest they couldn’t do originally, because I was able to do that. We need to get back to community and talking, and away from the defeatist attitude.
Other countries are doing amazing at it, we aren’t. What’s next? What can we do to be better and get the word out etc. if they are able to, so are we. I know it can be hard, and at times irritating. I appreciate you sharing your frustration
If only we protested like the French do- especially the French farmers. The fear in the states is that we would be jailed or killed if we were to protest like they do.
That’s incredibly valid. They are arresting peaceful protesters. Just sitting there. I don’t know why or how it’s legal, that’s not my wheel house. But nothing was ever won without sacrifice. I look to my black brothers and sisters for inspiration. They’re been through it. It’s our turn.
I would also argue that the diffuse nature of the states causes less ability for protests of magnitude- for example, I live in CA, but my state capitol is 8 hours away. I can protest in LA, but I am honestly not able to find much about protests BEFORE they happen. Compare this to Hungary where Budapest is the largest city (by far) and the majority of Orban opposition is in Budapest. As a side note, given my personal experience with witnessing protests being taken down in Budapest, I am shocked that Orban allowed that protest and fear that he allowed it as a matter of letting it appear that he allows discourse.
I am not trying to say you don’t know what’s happening, I hope I didn’t come across that way! And you’re correct. We aren’t necessarily doing it as big. I think, part of it is that we are much larger. France had their protest, but France is also the same size as Texas. So when you have that perspective, we are massive. But also is really cool because we are massive and we have the numbers on our side.
I think a lot of people are trying to do spread out protest as well, to prevent martial law from being enacted. That’s some stuff that I’ve heard people are afraid of. But there is growth and there is movement and that’s what matters!
Look we are the frogs in the pot of boiling water. These things haven't effected enough of us and we are being entertained to sleep. Award shows haven't stopped, people dressing up on red carpets. New dances on TikTok. Holiday sales, shopping like prices aren't ridiculous. Nothing has stopped because we all have this "it's happening to them" mentality. We haven't paid attention to the fact that Trumps reach is long and it's coming. Why wait until you're almost dead to jump out of the pot. People let's do something!!!
We are. But we're being overloaded with "flood the zone" tactics to distract us and keep us divided.
Exactly 💯
This is the take I've been waiting to read. I'm totally aligned with it.
We weren’t doing well in the first place. And people who thought we were were not paying attention. Were we doing better? Yes but we weren’t gonna make it. America has been very used to consumerism making things really easy in our lives that in this moment in time, I don’t think people know how to react or what to do. And they did it on purpose, they knew what they were doing, making us super reliant on them. But we can do this. Our ancestors and our blood is made for survival and we know what to do and how to do it.
Omg you’re saying what I want to say much better than I’ve been saying it. Please don’t stop doing that, you’re very good at this.
Thank you. I appreciate that. I’ll keep speaking out, encouraging us and defending us. ❤️
Please let me share an odd psychological/sociological perspective with you: a mind is a group of individuals whose interests, options for actions, and perceived reality all align, leading to unity. In the case of an individual person, that unity is strong enough as to seem nearly complete, since all semi-independent brain areas share information and functions with each other. In society’s case, people form larger pseudo-organisms with each other, directing everyone else’s thoughts and being influenced by all others within their own communities.
So, what we have right now in America are three or four minds competing against each other for dominance and survival. The ruling class has a “body” consisting of most of our government, a small part of our military, probably all or almost all of our billionaires and millionaires, a decent chunk of our religious communities 😥 and of course the far right and all those supportive or defensive of them.
The second mind is submissive and afraid of the first. They want to resist it, but they don’t have the clout. If they did, they’d act a bit like the first mind, which I think history proves. Billionaires and millionaires have also been a part of this mind, and some might still be. I used to be. Most people are, I think.
The third mind is rebellious and is rapidly gaining new members in the lower and middle classes. It wants everyone to be ok except for the people causing all of our problems. That’s the body we’re now a part of.
So: these conversations are very, very important, because conversations don’t exist in a vacuum. Thoughts spread invisibly, get refined, and come back around to us to help us out, often when we least expect it. Every decent idea can become an amazing idea through that refinement process. Every call to action gets amplified ten thousand times over. Every expression of hope and bravery gives others hope and makes them more brave. That’s why we don’t need a leader: because much like a human mind, our unity is strong enough that we don’t really need one. We, the crew, steer the ship, and the ship is the crew.
Part of the ship, part of the crew, part of the crew, part of the ship. 🤭 Keep it up. <3
Reminder that what's going on in Serbia has been building for months, we just haven't been hearing about it in the news. These things take time.
Perfectly stated.
Ok, time to WAKE UP!
Look how millions of Hungarian came out over the weekend to protest against Orban, telling him to resign millions of them flooded the streets, and the same in Romaina as well. Like WTF America? I been on many protest in the past 2 months and we have only a few thousand of a country that is approximately 3 million. Only 36 % of the voters voted for Trump, 77 million, and 75 million for Kamala where are the 75 million plus the 90 million that didn't vote coming out and protest?. We The People are on our own. We must save ourselves and Our county. We must fight for our constitutional and civil rights, as well as our freedom and democracy. WAKE UP!!!
I am so proud of Hungary, but very cautious in my optimism. Orban has such consolidated power and the fact he is allowing protests like that makes me think he wants to give an air of legitimacy to the coming elections when he wins. By the way, I don't say this without a relatively deep knowledge of Hungarian politics and spending a decent amount of time there, as well as first hand witnessing very peaceful, small protests being crushed in Budapest by huge SWAT teams.
I agree. I’m on your side and this is a good example, American people suffer greatly from the bystander effect. Hoping someone will come do it, or it’s not that bad or being full of consumerism to complaceny. Everything here is a distraction. And they know it. Barely anyone is even talking about the dark enlightenment connection Vance and musk have. They thrive on us not being able be self sufficient and to be distracted.
Trump is speeding it up - that's for sure. MAGA thinks he's going to fix it, but he's not addressing that same lobbyist, big pharm issues or addressing any real change or efficiency like closing loopholes in wealthy tax codes, and corruption to actually save us.
Exactly. All of the problems we had before that we tried to resolved we met with great resistance. Why is that? Obvious the answer is money. Now you have somebody in office who isn’t even addressing any of the original concerns. It’s just piling on. We were on the brink of needing a reset, now we do for sure.
Put your boots on...
Definitely will need to get our feet in the ground as well. There’s multiple levels and layers to fighting and survival. This is just one part.
BELIEVE ME: THEY ARE SILENCING AMERICANS AND ALREADY BEGAN KILLING. I almost was one of the dead recently. Anyone above a certain level of wealth or influence in business or family connections has either been coerced, blackmailed, threatened or harassed into submission by this new NEONAZI RedShirt Network of Surviellance that nearly killed me recently by chasing me into highway traffic. Everyone would have thought it was a suicide by a wealthy kid with a family background similar to Luigi Mangione (republican plant) but it was me trying to speak out against Trump and flip my who family from voting Republican.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THIS: if you haven't been fully threatened to go along with MAGA yet, you aren't infuencial enough or you don't realize it's coming to you when you actually take a stand. If we wait any longer the push back will be SO much worse, just ask Europe 80 years ago how that went when they let Nazis overtake the continent and millions dead.
https://jethro25.substack.com/p/please-help-trapped-in-reno-upper
PLEASE READ anyone who is a subscriber of this well informed Newletter should find this disturbing just like the Professor who was destined at the Airport for speaking against Isreal this week and is still in custody. THIS IS BAD. YOU WILL BE NEXT IF WE DONT SPREAD THE WORD.
It’d be so nice if they could just go after me next. Just imagine the kind of trouble I could cause in close quarters with other malcontents. I’ve been brutalized and tortured by the cops before, they used to scare me and now they don’t.
Bullies run when their victims stop being afraid.
While in principle you are correct. If you aren't in an influencial position in business or family connections you won't feel the real hard power I'm referring to because you aren't worth the return on investment.
These aren't bullies just like standing up to Organized Crime or The Cartel is not about toughness. I've spent nights in county jails and had my ass kicked. This is a different type hard power where the threat is kidnapping and what that entails. So if your serious I'll pay for your plane ticket and provide you free room and board to do some protesting outside in 2025 in parts of America where you might not say that after a few days.
Also: I kind of started getting ready for this back in March, 2023. I tried to get something started in my local homeless community and idk how that went because I was insistent on cutting contact immediately afterwards and having a leaderless form of organization with sequestered information among cells. So idk if that actually did anything, but a few weeks ago I heard a rumor that they’re up to something. That’s not much hope at all, but it’s better than nothing.
I do need to stay here and support my local community, and I was homeless twice in the last 2 years so I would like to keep the job I have. I will be joining local groups and protests, though, and I’m talking to everyone who’ll listen. I’m doing what I can with what I have to work with.
I think it’s more that I’m prepared to confront them and would rather they go after me than you. I’m not entirely sure how rational that is, but I really don’t think taking me would help them at all. That would just make more problems for them.
I do intend to be on the front lines of whatever actions I can make it to where I am. I’m also trying to get people here to organize a bit more. I’m also trans so I’m fairly positive I’ll be on their radar eventually.
Probably, yeah. That’s what I’m expecting.
Scary, isn’t it?
Yes. But also, have hope. There is something comforting in taking your power back and having something beautiful at the end of it all. It won’t be without loss. But we need to start training ourselves to be strong and reliant on ourselves, building communities and taking care of each other to see it through the end. And every survivor of the holocaust said they survived with hope and finding beauty in every day. They were thankful for the rain, thankful for the sun, thankful when someone held their hand in the cabins.
Start learning a skill, get as healthy as we can, start gardening, learn how to in door garden and finding energy if they cut the power grid. Stocking up and canning, sowing etc. things to help us through this. Then teach someone else. We can do this.
Thank you. I am in total agreement.
We need to be the change and each of us is more equipped than we think.
We also can learn more so we are better equipped. Read, listen and talk to others.
And I do have hope that what emerges from this dumpster fire, that we will create a new and better version of what our founding fathers began.
It clearly was not a perfect plan. And I believe Benjamin Franklin said, It’s a democracy… if you can keep it.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, hate never wins in the long run. There’s going to be pain and horror along the way. There’s no denying that and sugarcoating it. But in the end, good does actually win. I know it sounds so stupid saying it, but people have hearts that ignite in times of turmoil and when that happens it’s powerful.
Yes !!
This tone sounds like wealth , land and bunker ownership . Guess what , the income gap is way larger than before and also our population. Speak in context please. Yes we must stay hopeful but don’t peddle something that’s completely unrealistic for majority of the world. I applaud the optimism. However looking at the series of events recently fairness does not come to mind.
I live in an apartment. In Minnesota. I do not have land, I do not have wealth, I live paycheck to paycheck. But I have hope. And in the Great Depression my great grandparents did exactly what I’m suggesting. They did not have wealth, they had little land, and no bunker. Because they couldn’t afford groceries and they had to have self reliance. The only thing I have, that I saved up for is a small batter solar pack in case of energy cut off, there’s an awful lot of assumptions you’ve made about me when I’m encouraging others.
I’ve had to take drastic steps to indoor garden because I live in an apartment, where half the season is winter. I have to find a way to stay warm and grow my own food. It was a slight investment but because of community and seed sharing it’s eased the burden. I’m telling others to do the same. We need food and water to survive, some of it will have to come at a slight cost. That’s the realism. This is my hope and optimism not a sign of wealth, land and a bunker. It’s a sign of studying history and watching what others did to survive it.
My tone, was not condescending, it was encouraging. I don’t know where you got the mix up but I assure you, I’m just trying to keep people going and be realistic.
Ma’am I didn’t make assumptions about your kind intentions. I didn’t take your tone as condescending just a bit presumptive, I guess. I appreciate your answer :)
Also, got to love Minnesota.
I am hopeful as well, I have lived across the world.
l also studied history. I am being encouraging And I am reacting to this from somewhat different lens.
I encourage you to keep going and gardening and community. The realism is understanding the true costs, crops take time, the sharing of seeds , the community building, builds trust and that takes time.
Because even if this ship adjusts its sails back to wherever 🙅🏽♀️ we will all be better off expanding our network and sharing knowledge in any way we can.
and upholding human rights for all.
You definitely didn’t come across that way, you came across as though I was a rich white lady telling people what to do. My tone being presumptive, doesn’t quite get across because that is the act of assuming information. I actually find that you were a bit presumptive. I’m not assuming information I’m just trying to encourage people to take certain steps to take care of themselves. The first step is finding a skill, I lifted out skills that they could choose to learn from. Then they need to find action steps on making that a possibility. If they want direction or help, I’m happy to help.
I recognize things take money , time and community. I’d rather encourage them now so they have enough time to do something versus a handful months later and they are stuck with nothing. Sometimes all people need is someone to spark something in them.
Even on here, I found people in my area and we’ve reached out and connected to build our own community. We are on the same side, and something, and you felt the need to assume something about me and make a comment that is not productive for helping us move forward. So hopefully you that’ll change next time.
I appreciate your response back and all that you do to keep the communities going and fighting back.
Yes yes yes yes yes 😊 very well said all around, thank you. 👏👏👏👏
Thank you! I can’t wrap my head around it. One thing I know is the ppl who the 🤡put in place are in higher power & out numbered! Also idk how far the granting of immunity he got from the Supreme Court goes! So I’m not sure if anything illegal he does can be prosecuted!
The democrats have no power. And the republican congressmen and senators have been paid off by elon to turn your backs on our constitution, there constituents and we the people. They are complicit in treasonand trying.to overthrow our governmentand constitution. Every single one of the should be arrested. And you know what's even scarier?Federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration this year are confronting a wave of threats, potentially compromising their personal safety and the independence of the judiciary.
The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, and lower court judges who hit pause on some of President Trump's efforts to dismantle federal agencies and programs have been singled out on social media.
Republican lawmakers close to the president even have proposed impeachment proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.
Elon, has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching judges who delay or block parts of Trump's agenda.
What he says means absolutely nothing A 2024 federal appeals court decision said a pardon doesn’t even have to be in writing. “The answer is undoubtedly no,” the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. “The plain language of the Constitution imposes no such limit.”
A 1929 Justice Department opinion held that “neither the Constitution nor statute prescribed the method by which executive clemency shall be exercised or evidenced. It is wholly for the president to decide.”
The George W. Bush administration cited that opinion in defending Bush’s use of the autopen, a robotic instrument that presidents have used for decades to keep up with the volumes of routine correspondence they have to sign.
nope, cuz they're batshit fucking Cowards!
nope, cuz they're batshit fucking Cowards
Yep. 😔
Darwin reaallllyyyy missed a lot of these MFs..
For real, though... Wow. 😔
Can he do that ? That will start a precedent. Why doesn’t he just withdraw Nixon’s while he’s at it! Won’t this go to the Supreme Court as well !!! He’s demented. 25th amendment!!!
It will but who still trusts the Supreme Court to do the right thing?
25th ammendment? Do you honestly think Vance and 60% of trump's cabinet would vote for that? As far as I can tell they're going a long with it just fine.
Number 3: sending foreign nationals to a country that is not their origin is against international laws. That prison in El Salvador is a slave labor prison.
Thank you for that information. I was wondering why they would send them to another country. I knew they were paying them to do that. Those people won’t survive for a year.
Good for France.
Yeah, but I feel sad about it. America as a whole never deserved the statue, but a lot of its people did. We haven’t all given up yet, in fact I think we’re growing more determined. And that thing was given to us out of respect for our people, not just for our leaders. Our leaders are not us, they are what we fear.
So, I think it’s appropriate to take the symbol of hope America’s so proud of away. Good way to really annoy Trump, I approve. It’s still sad. It’d be nice if other countries could support our people in ways besides applying economic pressure, which I also appreciate them for doing.
A presidential pardon signed with an autopen is generally considered legally valid. The use of an autopen for official signatures, including signing legislation and executive orders, has been upheld in practice. The Obama administration, for example, used an autopen to sign bills into law while the president was traveling, and the Justice Department affirmed its legality.
While there may be debate over whether a pardon requires a more direct act by the president, there is no established legal precedent invalidating a pardon solely because it was signed with an autopen. Ultimately, the validity of such a pardon would likely depend on judicial interpretation if challenged.
We Must continue growing the Movement.. WE are the Cavalry
Cavalry 🐴 not Calvary ✝️
Doesn’t this evil orange ompalumpa ever sleep? Does he lie awake at night dreaming up new nightmares to impose on America?
When you’re filled with revenge, envy and hate, you can never rest. Proverbs 4:16 “For they cannot sleep unless they have done evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.”
I had hope until the Democratic Party laid down and played dead on the funding bill. That’s it. The US has him full steam ahead. Unfortunately so does the rest of us.
Agreed.
We must continue to speak out and use our 1st amendment
Each person has to act on the principles that are important! It’s like a vote. What more people speak out on will become our “cause”
Trump needs an emergency psychiatric evaluation. I can see it that he is in a full blown grandiose delusional state, why doesn’t anyone else?
Aaron I'm so afraid called my Senators already this morning. Deporting these people is like Marshal Law NO Due Process. Who is to say they come here say I'm a terrorist and take me. We have NO leader in the Dems at all. Help I'm really afraid
They’re already doing this. The Columbia student they labeled as a “terrorist sympathizer that is is favor of the murder or women and children” and a “paid agitator” just for protesting for palestine is scary enough. They’re dehumanizing the opposition to justify any act of violence. They imprisoned him and are planning on deporting him without a legal process. “First they came for the jews, and i didn’t do anything. Then they came for me, and no one was there.”
Not just the Jews. People need to wake up . These wellness camps JFK was talking about will be concentration camps their coming after people with adhd and depression .
During the holocaust they killed people with disabilities
They killed black people (yes there was a black population in Germany )
They sent gay people and trans people to concentration camps and murdered them . Then they also killed Jews . They also killed immigrants . This is insane . People need to wake up we are in big fucking trouble .
I meant that as the famous quote. Of course they went against everyone that was a pure anglo saxon
Republicans in Minnesota trying to make a trump illness bill is insane
That's exactly correct. Eventually, they will. They are going to call us all mentally unstable for protesting and throw us in jail... They are already setting the groundwork with that new gun law they are trying to pass...
Also by making the new mental health designation of TDS, (Trump Derangement Syndrome). Anti trump anything will be cause to label a person with this so called diagnosis of TDS. Thus making it easier to “place” those with this diagnosis into their “Wellness Camps”. This is truly scary stuff.
New gun law? That will RILE UP the 2a crowd!
Oh I missed that. What new gun law?!
Right?!
Why would Trump listen? He should have been in jail right after January 6th. Nothing happened. He wiggled himself out of everything, and he was not the president of the US. Do you think he is going to listen and obey the law? As scary as it is, this man is a criminal, a thief, a traitor. It was proven time and time again, and nothing happened. So here we are, people have elected him, and he "thinks" he can do whatever pleases him.
Then so are his. Throw those J6ers back in jail where they belong.
Auto pen signature is legal. Have you never not signed documents via email you're not physically signing them you're doing them through order pen.
When will we have enough? How much more can we take?