Disillusion sucks. Good people want to believe the best about others and you are a find, empatheitc person. Sarah Kendzior was right. They never really gave a shit about the country. No one is coming to save us.
I am 62 and disabled and can't enjoy my grandkids and time left on this planet because I'm suddenly trying to figure out if I can move to Canada and go to grad school. I feel too old and bone-tired to do this. But every cell in my body is saying FLEE! NOW!!
Everyone around me tells me to ignore this feeling. Just lay low, I'll be fine.
Lay low, don't have any opinions, certainly don't speak them, try to fit in, and see what happens in four years.
DOES ANYONE THINK THIS IS A VIABLE PLAN TO SURVIVE AUTOCRACY AND FASCISM??
Back to trying to write my Personal Statement.... This. Fooking. Sucks.
Thank YOU, Jim Stewartson. You have been holding my hand for free for years now, speaking sanity and truth which I, a retired senior newspaper reporter, can assure you, is truth, as I was trained to distilll and seek it. Thank you, Jim. And your followers. I'm finally subscribing again because, frankly, I need you.
You know I'm a big fan. However, shutting down private businesses feeds into the narrative that the Democrats are marxists etc etc. I know it's simply national defense when you understand the machinations. So this should have been a slow roll from the beginning. Obviously the FBI CIA etc etc understood the attack on our country and should have been investigating and presenting their cases to the American people from the moment Biden got into office. There could have been independent special counsels so that there would be no direct link to the president and a more independent judicial approach. It's not up to the government to decide that a private company can't lie to the American people that's the price of freedom however attacks from Russia cannot be tolerated and the old FCC rules concerning labeling Fox a news organization could be reinstated so that they would have to be labeled entertainment. I do agree that if in those investigations organizations and websites who are sharing Russian propaganda can be fined or temporarily shut until they stop propagating essentially an attack on our country. Thanks for your contributions and community
Russia invaded the sovereign space of the United States of America and interfered with our election process, made bomb threats to voting stations and then publicly announced that Trump is beholden to them for helping him win the election. But not a peep of protest from anyone. No one. We are on our own.
Thank you, Jim! This is exactly the speech that President Biden should be giving and the actions he should be taking right now against the many traitors who are an existential threat to We the People, our democracy and the world as well!
NO MORE APPEASEMENT AND SURRENDER TO THOSE WHO ARE ATTACKING US AND OUR COUNTRY. President Biden said in his 2024 State of the Union speech with regards to Russia that "We will not bow down."
And yet, that is exactly what he is doing right now. He also promised if we voted for him in 2020 as the best person for the Presidency that it would save our democracy. Sill waiting, pleading and demanding his urgent work to fight back against our enemies as our Commander-in-Chief with necessary actions during this national and global emergency!
EXCERPT OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S MARCH 7, 2024 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS:
"I say this to Congress: We have to stand up to Putin. Send me a bipartisan national security bill. History is literally watching. History is watching.
If the United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk. Europe is at risk. The free world will be at risk, emboldening others to do what they wish to do us harm.
My message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down.
In a literal sense, history is watching. History is watching — just like history watched three years ago on January 6th — when insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy.
Many of you were here on that darkest of days. We all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. They had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power, to overturn the will of the people.
January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election posed a great — gravest threat to U.S. democracy since the Civil War.
But they failed. America stood — America stood strong and democracy prevailed. We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about January 6th. I will not do that.
This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Here’s the simple truth: You can’t love your country only when you win.
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy. Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America. Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching. They’re watching. Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
Our county election office received a bomb threat at about the time the polls were scheduled to close. The county election officials stayed close enough to accept hand-delivered absentee/mail-in ballots. The county stayed blue but it was closer this time.
I doubt that hand-counting ballots can be done effectively. Humans cannot read the marks nearly as well as machine scanners can. Even when the ballots were designed to be hand marked and counted, the Daley machine had ways of seeing that ballots with the "wrong" marks were not counted after the counters noticed a stray mark made using a surreptitiously hidden pencil stub.
If only…..
Disillusion sucks. Good people want to believe the best about others and you are a find, empatheitc person. Sarah Kendzior was right. They never really gave a shit about the country. No one is coming to save us.
I am 62 and disabled and can't enjoy my grandkids and time left on this planet because I'm suddenly trying to figure out if I can move to Canada and go to grad school. I feel too old and bone-tired to do this. But every cell in my body is saying FLEE! NOW!!
Everyone around me tells me to ignore this feeling. Just lay low, I'll be fine.
Lay low, don't have any opinions, certainly don't speak them, try to fit in, and see what happens in four years.
DOES ANYONE THINK THIS IS A VIABLE PLAN TO SURVIVE AUTOCRACY AND FASCISM??
Back to trying to write my Personal Statement.... This. Fooking. Sucks.
Thank YOU, Jim Stewartson. You have been holding my hand for free for years now, speaking sanity and truth which I, a retired senior newspaper reporter, can assure you, is truth, as I was trained to distilll and seek it. Thank you, Jim. And your followers. I'm finally subscribing again because, frankly, I need you.
You know I'm a big fan. However, shutting down private businesses feeds into the narrative that the Democrats are marxists etc etc. I know it's simply national defense when you understand the machinations. So this should have been a slow roll from the beginning. Obviously the FBI CIA etc etc understood the attack on our country and should have been investigating and presenting their cases to the American people from the moment Biden got into office. There could have been independent special counsels so that there would be no direct link to the president and a more independent judicial approach. It's not up to the government to decide that a private company can't lie to the American people that's the price of freedom however attacks from Russia cannot be tolerated and the old FCC rules concerning labeling Fox a news organization could be reinstated so that they would have to be labeled entertainment. I do agree that if in those investigations organizations and websites who are sharing Russian propaganda can be fined or temporarily shut until they stop propagating essentially an attack on our country. Thanks for your contributions and community
I heard from local contacts in UA that just recently, the war in Eastern UA has been ramped up notiaby
Let’s hope there are crickets for a reason .
Here is some good advice on coping.....
https://www.arcdigital.media/p/authoritarians-want-you-to-quit
Russia invaded the sovereign space of the United States of America and interfered with our election process, made bomb threats to voting stations and then publicly announced that Trump is beholden to them for helping him win the election. But not a peep of protest from anyone. No one. We are on our own.
It's so nice to hear even if it's no genuine. It's the truth and should be how our country operates.
Even if it were real, I'd still be saying "What took you so long and why did we have to suffer waiting for justice?"
Thank you, Jim! This is exactly the speech that President Biden should be giving and the actions he should be taking right now against the many traitors who are an existential threat to We the People, our democracy and the world as well!
NO MORE APPEASEMENT AND SURRENDER TO THOSE WHO ARE ATTACKING US AND OUR COUNTRY. President Biden said in his 2024 State of the Union speech with regards to Russia that "We will not bow down."
And yet, that is exactly what he is doing right now. He also promised if we voted for him in 2020 as the best person for the Presidency that it would save our democracy. Sill waiting, pleading and demanding his urgent work to fight back against our enemies as our Commander-in-Chief with necessary actions during this national and global emergency!
EXCERPT OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S MARCH 7, 2024 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS:
"I say this to Congress: We have to stand up to Putin. Send me a bipartisan national security bill. History is literally watching. History is watching.
If the United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk. Europe is at risk. The free world will be at risk, emboldening others to do what they wish to do us harm.
My message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down.
In a literal sense, history is watching. History is watching — just like history watched three years ago on January 6th — when insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy.
Many of you were here on that darkest of days. We all saw with our own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots. They had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power, to overturn the will of the people.
January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election posed a great — gravest threat to U.S. democracy since the Civil War.
But they failed. America stood — America stood strong and democracy prevailed. We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about January 6th. I will not do that.
This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Here’s the simple truth: You can’t love your country only when you win.
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy. Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America. Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching. They’re watching. Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
History is watching another assault on freedom."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
oh this is great thank you!
Our county election office received a bomb threat at about the time the polls were scheduled to close. The county election officials stayed close enough to accept hand-delivered absentee/mail-in ballots. The county stayed blue but it was closer this time.
I doubt that hand-counting ballots can be done effectively. Humans cannot read the marks nearly as well as machine scanners can. Even when the ballots were designed to be hand marked and counted, the Daley machine had ways of seeing that ballots with the "wrong" marks were not counted after the counters noticed a stray mark made using a surreptitiously hidden pencil stub.
Would have had cross party support and global backing if he said that in 20/21. But he didn’t and the Democrats are the ones responsible
Excellent speech we never heard!! And that dang Garland. Too timid for the office.
You might enjoy this if you haven’t seen it before (on Garland) https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
If only!