Agreed. This scourge on humanity has so many enablers. This is turning into the United States' "Dark Ages", and that lasted for around 500 years in Europe.
The bottom will come when in October he declares a “National Emergency” and tries to ban the midterms nationwide! His full fledged Dictatorship! Will most Republicans in Congress go along with it? We must prevent it!
The state of our democracy is indicated by fear, and only then by anger, and only then by etc?
The results of free or cheap government mediation are between 74% and 90%!
All non MAGA relatives of MAGA should sue their MAGA relatives to force MAGA into binding mediation with a 74% to 90% success rate. During mediation get your MAGA relative to make a YouTube speech like Marjorie Taylor Green did: "MEA CULPA!"
This is unlikely because Americans have been brainwashed by corporations to be afraid of Small Claims Court or any Court, as the award-winning documentary HOT COFFEE documents.
2.
Up to 60% of anxious people are cured by placebo. But placebo can be anything. If 60% of Americans are cured by fascism... GAME OVER! Science finds anxiety must be treated by facing our fears. But if our fears are already cured by placebo, and that placebo is fascism, we must practice facing our fears even if we do not feel afraid! Americans used to know that they had to face their fears because FDRs widow, Eleanor roosevelt, prescribed the White House inoculation that we all refuse: "Do one thing everyday that scares you." The true story of The SOUND OF MUSIC that was a Broadway hit in the 1950s and a Hollywood Oscar winner in the 1960s taught Americans that if you face your fear, FEAR CAN BECOME LOVE. Maria von Trapp's fear of Captain and seven motherless children became love of Captain and seven motherless children. 4 years after the SOUND OF MUSIC swept the Oscars, Purdue pharma Valium marketing taught Americans that they didn't have to face their fears anymore, "just keep taking our pills." The success of this science denying Valium marketing lead to Purdue pharma launching the opioid epidemic killing most of a million Americans.
3.
Kill thoughts not venezuelans! America has a gullibility problem and cognitive behavior techniques are the science of treating gullibility! CBT is about killing wrong thoughts! Shrinks are too wimpy to invoke our killer instincts due to their fragile egos. But robot shrinks don't have egos! For example, feelingGoodapp.com. Another example would be Tictok Challenges designed by scientists.
I'm sickened ... this one points to the 6 maga supremes, full stop, covered in blood. I should add wth blessing him with immunity ... their inability to even "try" to imagine what he would do with it confirms they are in the Federalist Heritage 2025 pockets ..does not take a genius to know if you give a gun, ie: ultimate power, to a psychopath he will use it.. nothing, nothing and no one, except the supremes launched this tyrant ...the emasculated congress was no force and the oligarchs made sure the emasculation was complete by throwing money at them... blood on all their hands ...yea I'm furious
“He advised Trump on the nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Before that, he’d helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.”
Thank you for this.... it's all in one piece.... what is their end goal? barefoot & pregnant for women and white christians only? I'm sure he would prefer white Catholics only.... wonder what Pope LEO thinks of him?
That would explain the affinity for Fuentes. He streamed his plan after DJT lost in 2020. It admitted there were not enough people who agreed with them to enact what they want. The plan was get him in the WH somehow (Jan 6?); dissolve Congress; use the military to enforce their rule.
Among the rules - early marriage, a “catholic taliban” in a “good way”. No jobs or much education needed for women, etc.
Pope Leo has expressed many times now what he thinks of Trump and JD Vance and the Trump admin policies. I haven’t read what he thinks about the Supreme Court 6 yet.
What will it take for us to get a Congress willing to wake up and reclaim its Constitutional power as a CO-EQUAL branch of government? A number of GOP cowards plan to resign before the midterms--will that help us get more opposition in the Capitol? Keep harping on releasing ALL of the Epstein Files. Write your reps and Senators and tell them to stand up against this illegal regime and its illegal war.
What can we as ordinary citizens do? Use the power of your purse to hit them where it hurts. Reduce what you buy from Amazon if you can't stop completely. Continue the Target boycott--it's working. Don't shop at Walmart, Home Depot, McDonalds. Boycott CBS/Paramount.
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS! Another No Kings is planned but I don't think it can come too soon. The Women's March is planning a Jan 20 WALKOUT across the nation: GET INVOLVED!
I am having a failure of imagination to picture what the next year will be like.
One of the prime plays in his playbook is distraction - create a shiny ball to deflect attention to something else. 2 thoughts. 1. Wow, those Epstein files must be worse than we thought. 2. We cannot let them drop out of sight.
He’s wanted to do this since his first term. He brought it back to our big oil companies on FOX. Now he’s bragging about using the military in cities in the US and how has reduced crime. “How we saved Los Angeles.” Blah blah blah
We must "MODERNIZE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY" ASAP so WE THE PEOPLE can RECALL even THE PRESIDENT we that person goes off the rails. Trump is so far off the rails that he is acting like he OWNS the EARTH. If we can illegally invade another country and kidnap its President, the why can other countries do this to us? This is NOT ONLY BAD it is EXTREMELY EVIL POLICY. Congress must meet in emergency session and IMPEACH Trump for AGAIN and THIS TIME FIND HIM GUILT, which HE obviously IS and REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE, so the International court court of law can put him on trial for this most egregious violation of international policy.
Congress has had the power to impeach Trump since day one of this administration. They have not exercised that prerogative. I have zero confidence that they will now. Sadly they, the Republicans who hold that power, have even less incentive to do so today. It’s become a feeding frenzy by the corrupt, the corrupted, the craven, and the insane.
Exactly. Congress has the power over acts of war. It has refused to exercise it.
There is no rewriting or tinkering that can prevent subversion of the Constitution. Just as there are no laws that do away with crime. The last line of defense was the voters and too many failed to see what faced us.
I realize that Venezuela is in trouble. But what would happen if our leaders were indicted by Venezuela? Would their legal system be able to force T…p, V…e, R…o and other complicit in this act of war into their courtrooms? Hmm.
Whether or not his criminal rule over our country is weakening slightly, he continues to be one of the world's greatest thugs. His dictatorship continues. He continues to do whatever he wants, and no one in our government shows any meaningful opposition to his behavior. He wants to attack Venezuela? Sure, why not. What country will be next? This is our "peace president," as he called himself.
Yes, he’s just bragged at the press conference on Venezuela about taking over DC and all the cities using the military has saved by reducing crime. Sounded like he said he stands ready to do it again ‘if needed.’
This f**cker has just walked us right into WW3. I’m furious , terrified, and heart sick for the many people here and overseas who are dying needlessly for a one more time battle of egos. What a profound waste
The people manipulating the Toddler have exploited our reliance on norms, precedents, and the US Constitution to try to remake our country into one that benefits them materially and psychologically.
They have also used our apathy and disengagement and, increasingly, our exhaustion to disregard and violate laws without fear of accountability.
Even though many judges and journalists have chosen to violate their profession’s values, there is still a critical mass of independent actors. That gives me hope.
The last bulwark, though, is “We, the People.” Get loud, confront lies and deception, shine a light on corruption and hypocrisy. Don’t obey in advance by keeping your head down and waiting for it to blow over. Tell your congressional representatives you will not vote for their re-election if they don’t do their job and put the country first.
I don’t know if it took a lot of manipulating. This is a guy who salivated over shooting & bombing to get his way in his first term. Remember when he said why do we have “nuclar” if we don’t intend to use it? Wanted to shoot protestors? Wanted to bomb MX where cartels produce drugs (and pretend some other country did it)? General Mattis wrote about sleeping in his clothes & often praying at the National Cathedral because he feared DJT would get us in a war with N Korea.
This term he chose not to have anyone who would stand in the way of such impulses. Today he says “even if they are only unfair to their own people.”
I guess he’s no longer pursuing the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's another despicable 'Empire Flex' from one of the Evilest Empires in world history. Russia and China won't stand for this as they both have billions in investments in Venezuela. But that's the intention with Empire Flexing, starting World Wars, of which we've already done (in Ukraine, Palestine, throughout Africa and the middle east, and now in our back yard.) Sick Shit. My friend leaves for Cuba tomorrow (planned months ago) and I leave for Columbia in one month (planned months ago). We will stand in solidarity with our neighbors on their sovereign land.
Live in a “red” state and county, approximately 75% of these population voted for him in 2024. The largest town that the majority of our group live around has a population of about 10,500 people.
Our small group that has turned into a larger group of these “anti-fascists” protestors (not paid BTW) have an owner of an independent print shop. We came up with the idea and pooled our money since the majority of us no longer spend our funds on any oligarch companies like WaPo or Disney+, to print on the size of an index card Pastor Martin Niemöller quotation of “First They Came” - Printed 2,000 of these index cards.
Above the quotation was this
“If you voted for him or not. Please recall this into 2026.” with a small picture of him.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
On December 11th & 12th 2025 we went to homes and businesses and dropped them off and received very little pushback.
Due to the overnight circumstances of the illegalities of this regime kidnapping another countries president we are already collecting additional funds and plan on dispersing at least 3,000 of these on January 19th and 20th. Many in the group over the holidays received feedback from friends and family that more people who voted for him are done and wished they hadn’t. Better late than never….
Always use the tools available and think out of the box.
When the military follows Trump’s unlawful orders what makes anyone believe there will be a midterm election. Losers don’t like losing. I was hoping our military would stand up against Trump but now they might actually participate in preventing the election.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Shakespeare
Every time I think he can’t go any lower, he goes lower.
Agreed. This scourge on humanity has so many enablers. This is turning into the United States' "Dark Ages", and that lasted for around 500 years in Europe.
The sooner we realize there is no bottom, the less frustrated we'll be, I think.
The bottom will come when in October he declares a “National Emergency” and tries to ban the midterms nationwide! His full fledged Dictatorship! Will most Republicans in Congress go along with it? We must prevent it!
We had elections during war - including the Civil War. There is no legal provision for suspending elections in the Constitution.
Does Congress wish to dissolve?
Most Republicans in Congress have already made it possible if not inevitable.
Very possible
Will the military back him? That’s my concern. They seem to be doing whatever he tells them to do.
ugh
The state of our democracy is indicated by fear, and only then by anger, and only then by etc?
The results of free or cheap government mediation are between 74% and 90%!
All non MAGA relatives of MAGA should sue their MAGA relatives to force MAGA into binding mediation with a 74% to 90% success rate. During mediation get your MAGA relative to make a YouTube speech like Marjorie Taylor Green did: "MEA CULPA!"
This is unlikely because Americans have been brainwashed by corporations to be afraid of Small Claims Court or any Court, as the award-winning documentary HOT COFFEE documents.
2.
Up to 60% of anxious people are cured by placebo. But placebo can be anything. If 60% of Americans are cured by fascism... GAME OVER! Science finds anxiety must be treated by facing our fears. But if our fears are already cured by placebo, and that placebo is fascism, we must practice facing our fears even if we do not feel afraid! Americans used to know that they had to face their fears because FDRs widow, Eleanor roosevelt, prescribed the White House inoculation that we all refuse: "Do one thing everyday that scares you." The true story of The SOUND OF MUSIC that was a Broadway hit in the 1950s and a Hollywood Oscar winner in the 1960s taught Americans that if you face your fear, FEAR CAN BECOME LOVE. Maria von Trapp's fear of Captain and seven motherless children became love of Captain and seven motherless children. 4 years after the SOUND OF MUSIC swept the Oscars, Purdue pharma Valium marketing taught Americans that they didn't have to face their fears anymore, "just keep taking our pills." The success of this science denying Valium marketing lead to Purdue pharma launching the opioid epidemic killing most of a million Americans.
3.
Kill thoughts not venezuelans! America has a gullibility problem and cognitive behavior techniques are the science of treating gullibility! CBT is about killing wrong thoughts! Shrinks are too wimpy to invoke our killer instincts due to their fragile egos. But robot shrinks don't have egos! For example, feelingGoodapp.com. Another example would be Tictok Challenges designed by scientists.
I'm sickened ... this one points to the 6 maga supremes, full stop, covered in blood. I should add wth blessing him with immunity ... their inability to even "try" to imagine what he would do with it confirms they are in the Federalist Heritage 2025 pockets ..does not take a genius to know if you give a gun, ie: ultimate power, to a psychopath he will use it.. nothing, nothing and no one, except the supremes launched this tyrant ...the emasculated congress was no force and the oligarchs made sure the emasculation was complete by throwing money at them... blood on all their hands ...yea I'm furious
Leonard Leo quietly set the stage for this.
“He advised Trump on the nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Before that, he’d helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
Thank you for this.... it's all in one piece.... what is their end goal? barefoot & pregnant for women and white christians only? I'm sure he would prefer white Catholics only.... wonder what Pope LEO thinks of him?
That would explain the affinity for Fuentes. He streamed his plan after DJT lost in 2020. It admitted there were not enough people who agreed with them to enact what they want. The plan was get him in the WH somehow (Jan 6?); dissolve Congress; use the military to enforce their rule.
Among the rules - early marriage, a “catholic taliban” in a “good way”. No jobs or much education needed for women, etc.
Pope Leo has expressed many times now what he thinks of Trump and JD Vance and the Trump admin policies. I haven’t read what he thinks about the Supreme Court 6 yet.
What will it take for us to get a Congress willing to wake up and reclaim its Constitutional power as a CO-EQUAL branch of government? A number of GOP cowards plan to resign before the midterms--will that help us get more opposition in the Capitol? Keep harping on releasing ALL of the Epstein Files. Write your reps and Senators and tell them to stand up against this illegal regime and its illegal war.
What can we as ordinary citizens do? Use the power of your purse to hit them where it hurts. Reduce what you buy from Amazon if you can't stop completely. Continue the Target boycott--it's working. Don't shop at Walmart, Home Depot, McDonalds. Boycott CBS/Paramount.
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS! Another No Kings is planned but I don't think it can come too soon. The Women's March is planning a Jan 20 WALKOUT across the nation: GET INVOLVED!
https://www.freeameri.ca
I am having a failure of imagination to picture what the next year will be like.
One of the prime plays in his playbook is distraction - create a shiny ball to deflect attention to something else. 2 thoughts. 1. Wow, those Epstein files must be worse than we thought. 2. We cannot let them drop out of sight.
He’s wanted to do this since his first term. He brought it back to our big oil companies on FOX. Now he’s bragging about using the military in cities in the US and how has reduced crime. “How we saved Los Angeles.” Blah blah blah
We must "MODERNIZE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY" ASAP so WE THE PEOPLE can RECALL even THE PRESIDENT we that person goes off the rails. Trump is so far off the rails that he is acting like he OWNS the EARTH. If we can illegally invade another country and kidnap its President, the why can other countries do this to us? This is NOT ONLY BAD it is EXTREMELY EVIL POLICY. Congress must meet in emergency session and IMPEACH Trump for AGAIN and THIS TIME FIND HIM GUILT, which HE obviously IS and REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE, so the International court court of law can put him on trial for this most egregious violation of international policy.
Congress has had the power to impeach Trump since day one of this administration. They have not exercised that prerogative. I have zero confidence that they will now. Sadly they, the Republicans who hold that power, have even less incentive to do so today. It’s become a feeding frenzy by the corrupt, the corrupted, the craven, and the insane.
Exactly. Congress has the power over acts of war. It has refused to exercise it.
There is no rewriting or tinkering that can prevent subversion of the Constitution. Just as there are no laws that do away with crime. The last line of defense was the voters and too many failed to see what faced us.
I realize that Venezuela is in trouble. But what would happen if our leaders were indicted by Venezuela? Would their legal system be able to force T…p, V…e, R…o and other complicit in this act of war into their courtrooms? Hmm.
That will take a Constitutional Amendment, but there are plenty of other things we can do first.
Trump’s attack is an unconstitutional act of war, immoral, & an impeachable abuse of power that violates the rule of law.
Whether or not his criminal rule over our country is weakening slightly, he continues to be one of the world's greatest thugs. His dictatorship continues. He continues to do whatever he wants, and no one in our government shows any meaningful opposition to his behavior. He wants to attack Venezuela? Sure, why not. What country will be next? This is our "peace president," as he called himself.
What country next? Look outside your front door my friend.
Yes, he’s just bragged at the press conference on Venezuela about taking over DC and all the cities using the military has saved by reducing crime. Sounded like he said he stands ready to do it again ‘if needed.’
This f**cker has just walked us right into WW3. I’m furious , terrified, and heart sick for the many people here and overseas who are dying needlessly for a one more time battle of egos. What a profound waste
Our regime has crossed a red line this morning, and our world entered a new unknown era.
The people manipulating the Toddler have exploited our reliance on norms, precedents, and the US Constitution to try to remake our country into one that benefits them materially and psychologically.
They have also used our apathy and disengagement and, increasingly, our exhaustion to disregard and violate laws without fear of accountability.
Even though many judges and journalists have chosen to violate their profession’s values, there is still a critical mass of independent actors. That gives me hope.
The last bulwark, though, is “We, the People.” Get loud, confront lies and deception, shine a light on corruption and hypocrisy. Don’t obey in advance by keeping your head down and waiting for it to blow over. Tell your congressional representatives you will not vote for their re-election if they don’t do their job and put the country first.
I don’t know if it took a lot of manipulating. This is a guy who salivated over shooting & bombing to get his way in his first term. Remember when he said why do we have “nuclar” if we don’t intend to use it? Wanted to shoot protestors? Wanted to bomb MX where cartels produce drugs (and pretend some other country did it)? General Mattis wrote about sleeping in his clothes & often praying at the National Cathedral because he feared DJT would get us in a war with N Korea.
This term he chose not to have anyone who would stand in the way of such impulses. Today he says “even if they are only unfair to their own people.”
I guess he’s no longer pursuing the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's another despicable 'Empire Flex' from one of the Evilest Empires in world history. Russia and China won't stand for this as they both have billions in investments in Venezuela. But that's the intention with Empire Flexing, starting World Wars, of which we've already done (in Ukraine, Palestine, throughout Africa and the middle east, and now in our back yard.) Sick Shit. My friend leaves for Cuba tomorrow (planned months ago) and I leave for Columbia in one month (planned months ago). We will stand in solidarity with our neighbors on their sovereign land.
Yes. We must defend democracy from fascism. I wrote a poem for Steven as a tribute to his bravery: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/steven-beschloss-poem
Very kind of you.
Live in a “red” state and county, approximately 75% of these population voted for him in 2024. The largest town that the majority of our group live around has a population of about 10,500 people.
Our small group that has turned into a larger group of these “anti-fascists” protestors (not paid BTW) have an owner of an independent print shop. We came up with the idea and pooled our money since the majority of us no longer spend our funds on any oligarch companies like WaPo or Disney+, to print on the size of an index card Pastor Martin Niemöller quotation of “First They Came” - Printed 2,000 of these index cards.
Above the quotation was this
“If you voted for him or not. Please recall this into 2026.” with a small picture of him.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
On December 11th & 12th 2025 we went to homes and businesses and dropped them off and received very little pushback.
Due to the overnight circumstances of the illegalities of this regime kidnapping another countries president we are already collecting additional funds and plan on dispersing at least 3,000 of these on January 19th and 20th. Many in the group over the holidays received feedback from friends and family that more people who voted for him are done and wished they hadn’t. Better late than never….
Always use the tools available and think out of the box.
When the military follows Trump’s unlawful orders what makes anyone believe there will be a midterm election. Losers don’t like losing. I was hoping our military would stand up against Trump but now they might actually participate in preventing the election.
If we had a responsible Congress, he would be impeached immediately