It is beyond tragic, regrets come when it is far too late, Trump has succeeded in his takeover. He has complete control of all segments of the government power structure. Rhetoric and homemade signs and peaceful demonstrations and lots of talking heads can in no way stop what has already begun we are on an accelerated path to duplicating Russia's stranglehold.
We really are NOT Russia. They have never had a democracy and they have suffered under a true aristocracy. The Russians came from the Middle Ages intact and ended up with Stalin who was worse then Putin & tRump together. There has been no time when the Russians have been happily prosperous as the US has - with plenty of food and actual freedom. There is no need for us to go down Russia's path. Yeah this is terrible and I too am heartsick that such awful people could be in charge of our country. But I really believe we'll come out the other side - sadder and wiser hopefully.
Such a terribly sad statement about America - in the 21st Century. Just makes you want to cry. But we hold dearly onto the knowledge that the long arch of history inevitably bends toward truth, justice and progress. Americans have defeated these forces of evil before. It is our turn now.
The next protest is Thursday, July 17th. Let's make the "Good Trouble" protest not only the largest protest ever (we need even greater turn-out than the No Kings protest) but also a work stoppage to demonstrate that WE hold the power, not Donald Trump and his Republican sycophants. Get out the word to friends and family!
way too much credit, and far too much power. Over 70% of our country’s adult population didn’t vote for him. A majority of those who weren’t too confused, or intimidated and did vote, didn’t vote for him (50.2% v. 49.8%). Maga Republicans are about 15% of “us”, the U.S. adult population. That fraction represents about a third of Republicans, overall. (Many old school Republicans likely would admit regretting their vote if given a chance.) Trump is the phony “wizard” behind the curtains, the levers, the steam belching bellows, the amplified cacophony of sounds, and fury. And he’s that phony facade of a man; that mesmerizing, but ultimately hollow, fluttering image on a screen. He’s a teetering tyrant propped up only by the shaky legs of fear. He’s stupid, mean and loathed by all, respected by none. He has played all his cards and failed. There’s nothing left but his inevitable downfall. The only questions are how long before it’s over, and how many of us will he take with him? We can certainly hasten the day, and lessen the pain by uniting in powerful opposition. We are here. We are many. We are smart. We know. We remember. We’re not going away, and we’re not gonna shut up.
“Sorry”doesn’t come close to cutting it. His voters acted in the certainty and arrogance that it would be fine to hurt others. There were “others who threatened them” and nothing brings out the default extremism like having a common foe. But when it comes out that their mechanic/neighbor/childcare/farm hand/roofer/high school soccer star would be swept up in this and counted as one of those “others”, only then do they realize that the evil and hatred they voted for is not selective. When their rural hospital closes or their OB/GYN leaves the state, and when their hospital waiting rooms are filled because that becomes the primary care for those who’ve lost Medicaid, and when their kids or elderly parents fall ill, or worse die, because they didn’t get vaccinated because approval of vaccines were removed, and when the next pandemic hits and deaths skyrocket because there are no more scientists doing biomedical research, or when a hurricane forms and doesn’t follow Tяump’s sharpie path and all the weather forecasters have been cut, maybe they’ll recognize all the ways our systems worked to provide safeguards.
But, “sorry” doesn’t help. It’s too late. We’re fucked.
I hear you FfsBoise and I also wake up every day horrified, angry, and disgusted and I know staying that way won’t help me, my family, or my community find the path forward.
If anyone believes the orange one is alone in his thinking, an aberration— think again. He is a homegrown hater of those who are poor, a person of color, follow a certain faith or don’t adhere to a binary heterogeneity. He was not born yesterday. I think we are being called into a new way of being Americans with real communities that embrace everyone. I wish we weren’t being called in this way, that we’d mended our racial fences, our glass ceilings, and our fair-wage and income inequalities in a different way, but no one asked my opinion.
We’re in a reckoning and I’m not moving to another country to avoid my responsibilities in making our country and our world a better place. I hope you and everyone who reads my response will join me
My apologies if I hurt your feelings with my comment. The recession will be everywhere. He has that kind of noxious effect. I have Canadian friends who didn’t come for a visit this summer because of his behavior. Be well.
I don't think he campaigned on hurting others. He campaigned on the economy and, I agree, against woke, especially trans people. He promised to cut taxes and remove taxes on tips. That appealed to those workers. He emphasized that he would not touch social security. Democrats asked people to read Project 2025, an 800 page volume. Come on, Democrats, lets get real and clarify our appeal.
He campaigned on Himself, on “sticking it to Harris and the Liberals”, on being the solution to everything, on getting revenge against everyone who opposed him in 2020, etc.
That's why the misgoverned majority don't have the stomach for his lies, or the occasional truths baked into his campaign of distraction and destruction.
Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Never give in, never, never, never, never, never, NEVER! (Winston Churchill, 1941)
We cannot let this bastard administration suck the life out of us. We cannot get tired now. We need to keep fighting, keep laughing, and keep up the effort. Rest when we can, and never ever give up until they are defeated and gone.
The Shame will be generational...Grandpop, what is that MAGA hat you are wearing mean? Trump is the vehicle, his supporters are testimony to a highly ignorant electorate. His administration warns us of the vigilance required every single day to standup to and denounce the scourge of our society when they infest our institutions or at least to remind us not to ignore mental disease that stands before us but also not to enable it.
I just left beautiful people in Buenos Aires. We (that is my son and me and our lovely friends in BA) want them to visit us here. We all agreed as we said goodbye there that it is not wise for them to come to this country. Their skin is a bit darker than ours, and they speak Spanish.
Regrets are useless. SPEAK UP AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. The Republicans have been way too quiet! Their silence is deadly. Same with all but a few Democrats. AOC and Bernie only two to tell the truth loud and clear.
Possibly Re: Little Myrtle Vance whose death led to the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, 1893. (Negro accused of murdering 3 yr old girl … lots of false accusations of Black men back then).
PHOTOGRAPHER Mertins, John L. Created / Published 1893.
Possibly Re: Little Myrtle Vance whose death led to the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, 1893. (Negro accused of murdering 3 yr old girl … lots of false accusations of Black men back then).
PHOTOGRAPHER Mertins, John L. Created / Published 1893.
It is beyond tragic, regrets come when it is far too late, Trump has succeeded in his takeover. He has complete control of all segments of the government power structure. Rhetoric and homemade signs and peaceful demonstrations and lots of talking heads can in no way stop what has already begun we are on an accelerated path to duplicating Russia's stranglehold.
We really are NOT Russia. They have never had a democracy and they have suffered under a true aristocracy. The Russians came from the Middle Ages intact and ended up with Stalin who was worse then Putin & tRump together. There has been no time when the Russians have been happily prosperous as the US has - with plenty of food and actual freedom. There is no need for us to go down Russia's path. Yeah this is terrible and I too am heartsick that such awful people could be in charge of our country. But I really believe we'll come out the other side - sadder and wiser hopefully.
Meg, from your lips to God's ears.
Ignorance comes home to roost.
🎯
Such a terribly sad statement about America - in the 21st Century. Just makes you want to cry. But we hold dearly onto the knowledge that the long arch of history inevitably bends toward truth, justice and progress. Americans have defeated these forces of evil before. It is our turn now.
The next protest is Thursday, July 17th. Let's make the "Good Trouble" protest not only the largest protest ever (we need even greater turn-out than the No Kings protest) but also a work stoppage to demonstrate that WE hold the power, not Donald Trump and his Republican sycophants. Get out the word to friends and family!
I'm on the dark side of 75. I fear that is not going to swing fast enough for me to see better times.
Have faith - we just need to flip the House and Senate in 2026 and we can stop Trump’s runaway freight train and expand the Supreme Court.
I believe we give Trump
way too much credit, and far too much power. Over 70% of our country’s adult population didn’t vote for him. A majority of those who weren’t too confused, or intimidated and did vote, didn’t vote for him (50.2% v. 49.8%). Maga Republicans are about 15% of “us”, the U.S. adult population. That fraction represents about a third of Republicans, overall. (Many old school Republicans likely would admit regretting their vote if given a chance.) Trump is the phony “wizard” behind the curtains, the levers, the steam belching bellows, the amplified cacophony of sounds, and fury. And he’s that phony facade of a man; that mesmerizing, but ultimately hollow, fluttering image on a screen. He’s a teetering tyrant propped up only by the shaky legs of fear. He’s stupid, mean and loathed by all, respected by none. He has played all his cards and failed. There’s nothing left but his inevitable downfall. The only questions are how long before it’s over, and how many of us will he take with him? We can certainly hasten the day, and lessen the pain by uniting in powerful opposition. We are here. We are many. We are smart. We know. We remember. We’re not going away, and we’re not gonna shut up.
Regrets make thin soup.
Yikes, A! You know what I’d like to see… a bazillion billboards all across our country with just two words printed on them “I’M SORRY!”
“Sorry”doesn’t come close to cutting it. His voters acted in the certainty and arrogance that it would be fine to hurt others. There were “others who threatened them” and nothing brings out the default extremism like having a common foe. But when it comes out that their mechanic/neighbor/childcare/farm hand/roofer/high school soccer star would be swept up in this and counted as one of those “others”, only then do they realize that the evil and hatred they voted for is not selective. When their rural hospital closes or their OB/GYN leaves the state, and when their hospital waiting rooms are filled because that becomes the primary care for those who’ve lost Medicaid, and when their kids or elderly parents fall ill, or worse die, because they didn’t get vaccinated because approval of vaccines were removed, and when the next pandemic hits and deaths skyrocket because there are no more scientists doing biomedical research, or when a hurricane forms and doesn’t follow Tяump’s sharpie path and all the weather forecasters have been cut, maybe they’ll recognize all the ways our systems worked to provide safeguards.
But, “sorry” doesn’t help. It’s too late. We’re fucked.
I hear you FfsBoise and I also wake up every day horrified, angry, and disgusted and I know staying that way won’t help me, my family, or my community find the path forward.
If anyone believes the orange one is alone in his thinking, an aberration— think again. He is a homegrown hater of those who are poor, a person of color, follow a certain faith or don’t adhere to a binary heterogeneity. He was not born yesterday. I think we are being called into a new way of being Americans with real communities that embrace everyone. I wish we weren’t being called in this way, that we’d mended our racial fences, our glass ceilings, and our fair-wage and income inequalities in a different way, but no one asked my opinion.
We’re in a reckoning and I’m not moving to another country to avoid my responsibilities in making our country and our world a better place. I hope you and everyone who reads my response will join me
Congrats on having the stamina to stay & fight the good fight.
My way of fighting is to endure the oncoming recession 🇨🇦 a la Trump!
— and not to blame anyone except Trump & his adherents.
My apologies if I hurt your feelings with my comment. The recession will be everywhere. He has that kind of noxious effect. I have Canadian friends who didn’t come for a visit this summer because of his behavior. Be well.
No hurt feelings at all! We are both speaking our truth.
* and we continue to eat our Washington state Cosmic Crisp apples!
We can’t let the bastards get us down! 😎
LOL//agreed!
Estimated $12.5 BILLION loss in tourist revenue this year. . .
I’m sorry when that happens in ‘blue’ states that 🇨🇦 otherwise has good relations with & don't kowtow to the current U.S. admin.
— wish the lesson being taught only affected those needing it.
Tariffs are a very blunt instrument.
I don't think he campaigned on hurting others. He campaigned on the economy and, I agree, against woke, especially trans people. He promised to cut taxes and remove taxes on tips. That appealed to those workers. He emphasized that he would not touch social security. Democrats asked people to read Project 2025, an 800 page volume. Come on, Democrats, lets get real and clarify our appeal.
He campaigned on Himself, on “sticking it to Harris and the Liberals”, on being the solution to everything, on getting revenge against everyone who opposed him in 2020, etc.
Populist demagogue con artist.
And he’s *about to ‘touch social security’.
And he IS ‘hurting others’ — that’s *always been part of his promise & even ‘allure’ to his MAGAs, esp men.
I’m not ‘into’ the trans thing either, but ‘live & let live’ is where I stand on that.
Cutting taxes — it’s really only the rich who will see much influence there.
Pretty much. Circle the wagons.
Ouch!
That's why the misgoverned majority don't have the stomach for his lies, or the occasional truths baked into his campaign of distraction and destruction.
Ah, the allure of alliteration.
Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Never give in, never, never, never, never, never, NEVER! (Winston Churchill, 1941)
Wow. Too stunned to say anything coherent.
We cannot let this bastard administration suck the life out of us. We cannot get tired now. We need to keep fighting, keep laughing, and keep up the effort. Rest when we can, and never ever give up until they are defeated and gone.
👍👍👍
The Shame will be generational...Grandpop, what is that MAGA hat you are wearing mean? Trump is the vehicle, his supporters are testimony to a highly ignorant electorate. His administration warns us of the vigilance required every single day to standup to and denounce the scourge of our society when they infest our institutions or at least to remind us not to ignore mental disease that stands before us but also not to enable it.
Amen
I just left beautiful people in Buenos Aires. We (that is my son and me and our lovely friends in BA) want them to visit us here. We all agreed as we said goodbye there that it is not wise for them to come to this country. Their skin is a bit darker than ours, and they speak Spanish.
Regrets are useless. SPEAK UP AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. The Republicans have been way too quiet! Their silence is deadly. Same with all but a few Democrats. AOC and Bernie only two to tell the truth loud and clear.
Yes. I used to write letters, now I’m waving a “No King!” sign. Our numbers are growing.
What is this actually, not symbolically, a photo of?
I'd like to know that, too.
Possibly Re: Little Myrtle Vance whose death led to the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, 1893. (Negro accused of murdering 3 yr old girl … lots of false accusations of Black men back then).
PHOTOGRAPHER Mertins, John L. Created / Published 1893.
Thank you, Jay. I thought it might be a lynching, but I didn't think those usually involved a gallows. Just a sturdy tree branch.
Possibly Re: Little Myrtle Vance whose death led to the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, 1893. (Negro accused of murdering 3 yr old girl … lots of false accusations of Black men back then).
PHOTOGRAPHER Mertins, John L. Created / Published 1893.