Jim, this is one of your most important articles ever. Do you think that removing tRump and having Vance as president would slow down this 'governmental decompensation' or does it have a momentum of its own that can only be checked by serious resistance of a kind America has never witnessed before?
Trump is like the Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz. He has commanded the flying MAGA monkeys on broomsticks for quite some time. Remember his words "Proud Boys - Stand Back and Stand By" and his "go home, we love you" speech at the White House after the January 6 Insurrection? Obviously, we've moved into the overt phase of a paid paramilitary.
Politicians who gain national coverage now incur targeting and serious life and death consequences. Trump has been given several opportunities to renounce violence but he does not do so. He just remains silent which is complicity.
We want our remaining leaders (Democrats for example) to stand up and stand out; but, it is we who must rise to the occasion. I am inspired by fire trucks that chase ICE out of town
citizens who are witnesses to ICE kidnappings and detentions and those who help prevent kidnappings (though I worry about their safety), drivers who follow ICE vehicles and honk their horns when ICE prepares to get out and capture people; protestors who stand outside detention facilities.
The streaming video billboard in New York Times square that asks about Epstein files
Maybe we can find more creative and effective ways of expressing our discontent on a grander scale. This is still the America of invention, of possibilities.
I have often thought that the indigenous people living here in tribes before European settlement were the only free and brave people. Colonization, slavery, indentured servitude, racism, intolerance and arrogance were not improvements. Perhaps, we can do our best to live up to their example and help to reclaim this land as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Deleted my comment bc it sounded more angry than intended. We have to try more different things. The cult of personality is a strength they have firmly. Democrats are notoriously picky about supporting this one or that one. That’s the lesson Kamala taught if any I learned. Lifeboat meet certain destruction… 🤔 people felt insulted. Railroaded. That’s an impossible attitude. Maybe start there? Again, how?
Jim, this is one of your most important articles ever. Do you think that removing tRump and having Vance as president would slow down this 'governmental decompensation' or does it have a momentum of its own that can only be checked by serious resistance of a kind America has never witnessed before?
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Well said!
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Trump created a shadow presidency while Biden was in office. Democrats are doing what? I don’t know what to suggest. Not doing, seems wrong. 😑
Trump is like the Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz. He has commanded the flying MAGA monkeys on broomsticks for quite some time. Remember his words "Proud Boys - Stand Back and Stand By" and his "go home, we love you" speech at the White House after the January 6 Insurrection? Obviously, we've moved into the overt phase of a paid paramilitary.
Politicians who gain national coverage now incur targeting and serious life and death consequences. Trump has been given several opportunities to renounce violence but he does not do so. He just remains silent which is complicity.
We want our remaining leaders (Democrats for example) to stand up and stand out; but, it is we who must rise to the occasion. I am inspired by fire trucks that chase ICE out of town
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xNaWUbY6PLI
tow truck drivers who tow ICE vehicles that are illegally parked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkEugQ4ClY
citizens who are witnesses to ICE kidnappings and detentions and those who help prevent kidnappings (though I worry about their safety), drivers who follow ICE vehicles and honk their horns when ICE prepares to get out and capture people; protestors who stand outside detention facilities.
The streaming video billboard in New York Times square that asks about Epstein files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krZUTDk-nEM
Talking traffic lights in CA that mock Musk and Zuckerberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4xkz7aqMY
Maybe we can find more creative and effective ways of expressing our discontent on a grander scale. This is still the America of invention, of possibilities.
I have often thought that the indigenous people living here in tribes before European settlement were the only free and brave people. Colonization, slavery, indentured servitude, racism, intolerance and arrogance were not improvements. Perhaps, we can do our best to live up to their example and help to reclaim this land as the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Deleted my comment bc it sounded more angry than intended. We have to try more different things. The cult of personality is a strength they have firmly. Democrats are notoriously picky about supporting this one or that one. That’s the lesson Kamala taught if any I learned. Lifeboat meet certain destruction… 🤔 people felt insulted. Railroaded. That’s an impossible attitude. Maybe start there? Again, how?