Every day he attacks democrats and disregards the law and promotes anti American values like impeding the right to vote and harasding citizens, he is violating his oath. Like swearing to tell the truth and then committing perjury. Apart from democracy being disregarded he his intentionally violating his oath of office. How can there be no repercussions. Like a bank president stealing from his bank. The problem is not autocracy. Its lying stealing cheating and causing death destruction and financial harm.
Saturday was a wonderful day here in my town…full of hope and determination. I realized something, too…that the collection of folks from all age groups and walks of life who stood shoulder to shoulder with each other were, well…ordinary folks. I realized, too, that because I live in a ‘red’ state, that if I had seen any number of them at a grocery store, that I would have assumed they were Trump supporters by the way they ‘look’. Silly. Absurd. But when you live in a state that is top-heavy with Republicans you develop a sort of protective attitude. You don’t want to speak out. You whisper your opposition when you are sitting at a cafe or restaurant for fear of being overheard. I heard another woman say just that.
The bustling, crowded, ebullient protest on Saturday made me realize that you cannot identify pro-democracy folks by the way they wear their hair, or clothes, or whether they are old or young. So…I realized that I should speak up and out from now on because there are lots of us who need to know that we are not alone. We are not living in a MAGA universe. Such thinking is the language of fear.
Wear the t-shirt…and SMILE…at EVERYONE. You never know who is waiting to be reassured that they, too, are not alone.
Thank you, Mr. Beschloss. We are truly blessed as a country that a sociopathic criminal took this long to emerge as president. We have to have hope that the devil incarnate can be defeated if we all hang together and push back.
he's absolutely terrified... between epstein and getting exposed selling/trading closely held government documents brings into focus that he is an reprehensible traitor and a vile and violent pedophile.....prison in alligator alley is too good for him
Can we please acknowledge that Trump I and Trump II didn't come out of nowhere? It's not hard to trace Trump, and "Trumpism" or MAGA or whatever you want to call it, back to the Reagan administration and what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party," and back further to Nixon's "Southern Strategy," when white Southern Democrats became Republicans and amplified all the flaws of what was once the "Grand Old Party."
Now go back even further, to big business's virulent opposition to the New Deal, to the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the worldwide depression that followed, and from there back to the "robber barons" of the late 19th century. Economic power has been trying to dominate, co-opt, and/or undermine the three constitutional branches of government since the founding. It's what the Civil War was about, after all: the "Slave Power" vs. the U.S. Constitution.
In contrast, U.S. democracy flourished when economic power was kept in check by the New Deal and the decades that followed; it even expanded with the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s. But then came the backlash: the "Southern Strategy" and eventually the Reagan administration. Under Bush II, economic power crashed the worldwide economy *again* in the mid/late 2000s, but did "we the people" learn our lesson? We did not.
The advent of Trump II shocked me. I knew things were bad. I recognized that Project 2025 was essentially an attempt to dismantle the New Deal and everything that followed. But I never guessed that things would get this bad this fast. Will "we the people" learn our lesson this time? Here's hoping!
Steven, without hope, we would be a lost society. The NO KINGS III march was absolutely stupendous. So much so, that legacy media couldn’t ignore it. People came together in solidarity, arm-in-arm, to fight peacefully but effectively. I embrace our warmth and caring for one another and I think that was on full display by people showing up, writing letters/postcards, making phone calls, holding Congress members feet to the fire. They got a big message that they work for us!!
Thanks Steven, Yes the mid-terms are so very important. Make sure your friends and neighbors are armed with ID and don't let up. Make sure you bring three folks to the polling stations and don't let the ICE gestapo hamper your vote. Make sure you know where you are voting, Drive folks to the poles. Flood the ballots with blue. Don't just hope to win the mid-terms. Turn your hope into a reality. Lets shoot for a 90% turn out. Don't lay around and be thinking whats the use. The only voice the average American citizen has got is that ballot. Use it God Speed
Again, thank you for finding hope in Robert De Nero's answer to you and sharing it with us. Here is my limited ability old-lady protest story: My experience today: No King's Day – March 28th, 2026
This morning I headed out to go to the No Kings Protest in Roseville. Along the way, I passed a smaller protest near my home. I’ll bet there were easily 200 at the intersection of Greenback and Hazel.
As I was driving, the Metropolitan Opera was beginning its broadcast of La Traviata, one of my all time favorite operas. The story was being narrated as I drove, including the fact that the famous drinking scene is at the beginning. Just as I arrived at the Galleria intersection, the party was playing on the radio. There were probably thousands standing with signs and the traffic light was mercifully long so I got to read a lot of the signs as I listened. I honked and waved and smiled at what I was being privileged to witness; and I burst into tears because it was so beautiful to me. So many people. So many horns being tooted. Such a beautiful day. I turned around and drove back through It again.
As I turned around in the parking lot, some folks got out of their car to join the gathering. I thanked them, and one of them asked me if I was coming. I said I couldn’t walk, so I was driving. I was delighted at being so surprised at the gathering.
I then went to Red Lobster to have a protest luncheon in solidarity with how dangerously corporate greed had decimated that company. My server, a young woman named Savannah shared a bit of her story with me. She is thinking of going to Europe and obtaining citizenship for which she qualifies because her grandmother is from there. She explained that, with citizenship in any EU country she could live anywhere. Wise thoughts for one so young. She spoke of her career goals – forensic psychology, and listened to some of my stories. She said she felt she had met her future self. What a nice complement.
After lunch I drove home, and as I neared my house, Violetta of La Traviata was in her death throes. I prayed that the typical operatic death of the heroine was not a portent of the Democracy I hold so dear. I got home just before she died, and was able to appreciate the magic of applause.
Well done, Americans! Today was an amazing experience. I am looking forward to learning the estimate of how many people were at the Roseville protest. I’ll bet it was in the thousands.
Every day he attacks democrats and disregards the law and promotes anti American values like impeding the right to vote and harasding citizens, he is violating his oath. Like swearing to tell the truth and then committing perjury. Apart from democracy being disregarded he his intentionally violating his oath of office. How can there be no repercussions. Like a bank president stealing from his bank. The problem is not autocracy. Its lying stealing cheating and causing death destruction and financial harm.
Saturday was a wonderful day here in my town…full of hope and determination. I realized something, too…that the collection of folks from all age groups and walks of life who stood shoulder to shoulder with each other were, well…ordinary folks. I realized, too, that because I live in a ‘red’ state, that if I had seen any number of them at a grocery store, that I would have assumed they were Trump supporters by the way they ‘look’. Silly. Absurd. But when you live in a state that is top-heavy with Republicans you develop a sort of protective attitude. You don’t want to speak out. You whisper your opposition when you are sitting at a cafe or restaurant for fear of being overheard. I heard another woman say just that.
The bustling, crowded, ebullient protest on Saturday made me realize that you cannot identify pro-democracy folks by the way they wear their hair, or clothes, or whether they are old or young. So…I realized that I should speak up and out from now on because there are lots of us who need to know that we are not alone. We are not living in a MAGA universe. Such thinking is the language of fear.
Wear the t-shirt…and SMILE…at EVERYONE. You never know who is waiting to be reassured that they, too, are not alone.
“Rebellion is born when rulers forget they are meant to serve.” - Confucius
Well done peeps. Now let’s back that up with economic boycotts and strikes.
Thank you, Mr. Beschloss. We are truly blessed as a country that a sociopathic criminal took this long to emerge as president. We have to have hope that the devil incarnate can be defeated if we all hang together and push back.
he's absolutely terrified... between epstein and getting exposed selling/trading closely held government documents brings into focus that he is an reprehensible traitor and a vile and violent pedophile.....prison in alligator alley is too good for him
Can we please acknowledge that Trump I and Trump II didn't come out of nowhere? It's not hard to trace Trump, and "Trumpism" or MAGA or whatever you want to call it, back to the Reagan administration and what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party," and back further to Nixon's "Southern Strategy," when white Southern Democrats became Republicans and amplified all the flaws of what was once the "Grand Old Party."
Now go back even further, to big business's virulent opposition to the New Deal, to the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the worldwide depression that followed, and from there back to the "robber barons" of the late 19th century. Economic power has been trying to dominate, co-opt, and/or undermine the three constitutional branches of government since the founding. It's what the Civil War was about, after all: the "Slave Power" vs. the U.S. Constitution.
In contrast, U.S. democracy flourished when economic power was kept in check by the New Deal and the decades that followed; it even expanded with the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s. But then came the backlash: the "Southern Strategy" and eventually the Reagan administration. Under Bush II, economic power crashed the worldwide economy *again* in the mid/late 2000s, but did "we the people" learn our lesson? We did not.
The advent of Trump II shocked me. I knew things were bad. I recognized that Project 2025 was essentially an attempt to dismantle the New Deal and everything that followed. But I never guessed that things would get this bad this fast. Will "we the people" learn our lesson this time? Here's hoping!
Steven, without hope, we would be a lost society. The NO KINGS III march was absolutely stupendous. So much so, that legacy media couldn’t ignore it. People came together in solidarity, arm-in-arm, to fight peacefully but effectively. I embrace our warmth and caring for one another and I think that was on full display by people showing up, writing letters/postcards, making phone calls, holding Congress members feet to the fire. They got a big message that they work for us!!
Thanks Steven, Yes the mid-terms are so very important. Make sure your friends and neighbors are armed with ID and don't let up. Make sure you bring three folks to the polling stations and don't let the ICE gestapo hamper your vote. Make sure you know where you are voting, Drive folks to the poles. Flood the ballots with blue. Don't just hope to win the mid-terms. Turn your hope into a reality. Lets shoot for a 90% turn out. Don't lay around and be thinking whats the use. The only voice the average American citizen has got is that ballot. Use it God Speed
New mantra (and e-mail signature bar): Justice, Equality, Decency, Kindness.
Again, thank you for finding hope in Robert De Nero's answer to you and sharing it with us. Here is my limited ability old-lady protest story: My experience today: No King's Day – March 28th, 2026
This morning I headed out to go to the No Kings Protest in Roseville. Along the way, I passed a smaller protest near my home. I’ll bet there were easily 200 at the intersection of Greenback and Hazel.
As I was driving, the Metropolitan Opera was beginning its broadcast of La Traviata, one of my all time favorite operas. The story was being narrated as I drove, including the fact that the famous drinking scene is at the beginning. Just as I arrived at the Galleria intersection, the party was playing on the radio. There were probably thousands standing with signs and the traffic light was mercifully long so I got to read a lot of the signs as I listened. I honked and waved and smiled at what I was being privileged to witness; and I burst into tears because it was so beautiful to me. So many people. So many horns being tooted. Such a beautiful day. I turned around and drove back through It again.
As I turned around in the parking lot, some folks got out of their car to join the gathering. I thanked them, and one of them asked me if I was coming. I said I couldn’t walk, so I was driving. I was delighted at being so surprised at the gathering.
I then went to Red Lobster to have a protest luncheon in solidarity with how dangerously corporate greed had decimated that company. My server, a young woman named Savannah shared a bit of her story with me. She is thinking of going to Europe and obtaining citizenship for which she qualifies because her grandmother is from there. She explained that, with citizenship in any EU country she could live anywhere. Wise thoughts for one so young. She spoke of her career goals – forensic psychology, and listened to some of my stories. She said she felt she had met her future self. What a nice complement.
After lunch I drove home, and as I neared my house, Violetta of La Traviata was in her death throes. I prayed that the typical operatic death of the heroine was not a portent of the Democracy I hold so dear. I got home just before she died, and was able to appreciate the magic of applause.
Well done, Americans! Today was an amazing experience. I am looking forward to learning the estimate of how many people were at the Roseville protest. I’ll bet it was in the thousands.
Thank you for this message of hope.
The first photo showing the young boy taking it all in really says a lot.
Thank you as always Steven. We must keep up our hope, like you said with actions, big and small. And lots of prayers!
Is it possible to hold the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society accountable for their roles in our current disaster?