I actually think 4 minutes is optimistic. I would put it at more like 2 minutes. I continue to be amazed that the majority of the population are either ignorant of what's happening, supportive of what's happening, or are aware but have their heads in the sand. Until it affects them directly it doesn't matter. I've been having an email dialog with a sister who lives across the country from me and is a Trump supporter. She says other than voting there's nothing we can do. Both myself and our other sister sent long well written replies to her spelling out the historic parallels between Nazi Germany and what is happening here. She refuses to pull her head out of the sand. By the time she and others like her wake up it will be too late. For a variety of reasons I'm not in a position to move to another country, so I plan to die on my feet rather than live on my knees.
It is time to organize the resistance, and I'm not talking about spamming government emails or jamming congressional switchboards. If citizens don't get seriously aligned and remove the tyrant Trump and his entire Republican regime, you can kiss democracy goodbye.
The pending protest should be an opportunity to network, to set up back up methods of communication and solidify plans for a nationwide general strike. Yes, that sounds difficult to arrange, but you don't have a choice, as it is the final PEACEFUL action available to demonstrate your outrage. Of course taking this action will come with hardships, but you need to be unwaveringly motivated by the atrocities that you are already witnessing and by what that means for all our children's future. Think of the injustice of a corrupt government allowing the pedophiles in the Epstein files to go unpunished. Think about the thousands of women and children being abducted right now by ICE criminals. Can you imagine their suffering if you remain complacent? If you aren't already pissed off enough to make a stand for your own rights, then think about your duty to protect those children. Just imagine your own child suffering the same indignities, and find the courage to shut this shit show down.
I took the “get out” seriously 7 years ago. Made sure to gain citizenship in another country and am glad I did. Many other countries won’t want Americans flocking to their countries and are now actively making it harder to enter as an immigrant, so do your research.
The Supreme Court just handed him The Enabling Act straight from the Holocaust days of 1933. That's what we should have labeled it so that people can understand what is going on. I'm still unsure if people grasp what's coming. Anyone who can't see the 'similarities' is in willful denial.
Thank you for this specific description of the appalling situation our country is experiencing. I'm more scared than I was before. I will do what I can to prevent what I can. I am a low income, retired senior, and really wish I could afford to move to another country.
I had plans to expatriate but now find out that is not possible. House isn't saleable, jobs for daughter and SIL are not replicable where we'd move to. I'm on SS and Medicare but who knows? So we're stuck in the muck. Yes I agree with all of your points. My friends are still counting on 2026 but I know we will not have free and fair elections at all by then. 2028?? Taking odds on whether the country will be around by then. All of what I taught my students about government, rule of law, citizenship and Supreme Court is in the rear view mirror not to be returned. It's gone with the MAGA/Project2025/Christofascist wind.
I hate your posts. They destroy my balance, my sleep, my decision making, and my ability to cope with the ups and downs of everyday life. I can't look away. I bust know these things even at a personal cost. I pay only in anguish (so far). I owe at least that to those who pay with their safety, their future, and their lives.
To anyone at a state or more local level of government, sludge the feds at every step. You are government. You know how. Lose your knowledge, your experience, your language, any relative instructions or documentation, and any shred of logic or common sense you ever had. Make every tiny detail impossible to resolve. I know you can. Get creative. Develop the facial expression and mental acuity of a sedated drunk. Good luck and God bless, yours is a Devine mission.
Art comments on life. I have noticed a lot of dystopian movies and television: Hunger Games, Squid Game, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the most terrifying for me: The Purge series of films. Some version of this will play out in real life. There was Survivor and The Apprentice. Recently Homeland Security was reported to be considering a reality tv show for contestants to get citizenship. It is a small leap to think that the losers of the show get deported to some jail in a Central American or African country. What about white collar criminals bidding for a pardon. Viewers can wager on the outcomes with Stable Coin.
We have the means available to 'get out,' but so far are unwilling to abandon the effort to resist, up to and counting a general strike and an across the board refusal to send in your taxes. We understand that there is a legal way to do this that has something to do with depositing the funds in a designated account 'in abeyance' if you will. We have adult children and young grandchildren. Are you suggesting we abandon them? This sounds premature, and I find myself wondering what would happen if large numbers of people did leave. No matter how you slice it, that would empower the enemy, IMHO. So what gives, Mr. "Finnegan"?
Some Jews left Germany in the mid 30s and were able to relocate before countries closed their borders. Once the borders closed the remaining were trapped.
Leaving may seem premature but staying could be lethal. This scenario has played out many times; history tells us that the gap between ‘We have time’ and ‘It’s too late’ is often shorter than people anticipated.
Trump is both reactionary and petty; Stephen Miller is a killer. Things aren’t getting better.
I understand and I share the fear, especially as I am a lifetime progressive voter and activist, and likely on some target list. So I do have some tripwires, but here's the thing, McFadden, it's a matter of timing not only for oneself but for one's country, and if we abandon our duties as citizens to resist while resistance is still likely to be effective, we are traitors to both, IMO.
Dear Americans, I think we are at the point of "get out now while you still can".
Please, take this seriously.
This is a wake up call.
The crisis is here.
I actually think 4 minutes is optimistic. I would put it at more like 2 minutes. I continue to be amazed that the majority of the population are either ignorant of what's happening, supportive of what's happening, or are aware but have their heads in the sand. Until it affects them directly it doesn't matter. I've been having an email dialog with a sister who lives across the country from me and is a Trump supporter. She says other than voting there's nothing we can do. Both myself and our other sister sent long well written replies to her spelling out the historic parallels between Nazi Germany and what is happening here. She refuses to pull her head out of the sand. By the time she and others like her wake up it will be too late. For a variety of reasons I'm not in a position to move to another country, so I plan to die on my feet rather than live on my knees.
It is time to organize the resistance, and I'm not talking about spamming government emails or jamming congressional switchboards. If citizens don't get seriously aligned and remove the tyrant Trump and his entire Republican regime, you can kiss democracy goodbye.
The pending protest should be an opportunity to network, to set up back up methods of communication and solidify plans for a nationwide general strike. Yes, that sounds difficult to arrange, but you don't have a choice, as it is the final PEACEFUL action available to demonstrate your outrage. Of course taking this action will come with hardships, but you need to be unwaveringly motivated by the atrocities that you are already witnessing and by what that means for all our children's future. Think of the injustice of a corrupt government allowing the pedophiles in the Epstein files to go unpunished. Think about the thousands of women and children being abducted right now by ICE criminals. Can you imagine their suffering if you remain complacent? If you aren't already pissed off enough to make a stand for your own rights, then think about your duty to protect those children. Just imagine your own child suffering the same indignities, and find the courage to shut this shit show down.
Hard truths, and pressing ones.
I took the “get out” seriously 7 years ago. Made sure to gain citizenship in another country and am glad I did. Many other countries won’t want Americans flocking to their countries and are now actively making it harder to enter as an immigrant, so do your research.
well that’s not exactly accurate but yes… research is helpful hence why I publish Borderless Living.
The Supreme Court just handed him The Enabling Act straight from the Holocaust days of 1933. That's what we should have labeled it so that people can understand what is going on. I'm still unsure if people grasp what's coming. Anyone who can't see the 'similarities' is in willful denial.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-enabling-act.
Thank you for this specific description of the appalling situation our country is experiencing. I'm more scared than I was before. I will do what I can to prevent what I can. I am a low income, retired senior, and really wish I could afford to move to another country.
I had plans to expatriate but now find out that is not possible. House isn't saleable, jobs for daughter and SIL are not replicable where we'd move to. I'm on SS and Medicare but who knows? So we're stuck in the muck. Yes I agree with all of your points. My friends are still counting on 2026 but I know we will not have free and fair elections at all by then. 2028?? Taking odds on whether the country will be around by then. All of what I taught my students about government, rule of law, citizenship and Supreme Court is in the rear view mirror not to be returned. It's gone with the MAGA/Project2025/Christofascist wind.
Worse than what I initially wrote about.
I hate your posts. They destroy my balance, my sleep, my decision making, and my ability to cope with the ups and downs of everyday life. I can't look away. I bust know these things even at a personal cost. I pay only in anguish (so far). I owe at least that to those who pay with their safety, their future, and their lives.
To anyone at a state or more local level of government, sludge the feds at every step. You are government. You know how. Lose your knowledge, your experience, your language, any relative instructions or documentation, and any shred of logic or common sense you ever had. Make every tiny detail impossible to resolve. I know you can. Get creative. Develop the facial expression and mental acuity of a sedated drunk. Good luck and God bless, yours is a Devine mission.
Art comments on life. I have noticed a lot of dystopian movies and television: Hunger Games, Squid Game, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the most terrifying for me: The Purge series of films. Some version of this will play out in real life. There was Survivor and The Apprentice. Recently Homeland Security was reported to be considering a reality tv show for contestants to get citizenship. It is a small leap to think that the losers of the show get deported to some jail in a Central American or African country. What about white collar criminals bidding for a pardon. Viewers can wager on the outcomes with Stable Coin.
WF
Could you expand on this:
"State governments brag about circumventing federal asylum law by deputizing private militias."?
We have the means available to 'get out,' but so far are unwilling to abandon the effort to resist, up to and counting a general strike and an across the board refusal to send in your taxes. We understand that there is a legal way to do this that has something to do with depositing the funds in a designated account 'in abeyance' if you will. We have adult children and young grandchildren. Are you suggesting we abandon them? This sounds premature, and I find myself wondering what would happen if large numbers of people did leave. No matter how you slice it, that would empower the enemy, IMHO. So what gives, Mr. "Finnegan"?
Some Jews left Germany in the mid 30s and were able to relocate before countries closed their borders. Once the borders closed the remaining were trapped.
Leaving may seem premature but staying could be lethal. This scenario has played out many times; history tells us that the gap between ‘We have time’ and ‘It’s too late’ is often shorter than people anticipated.
Trump is both reactionary and petty; Stephen Miller is a killer. Things aren’t getting better.
I understand and I share the fear, especially as I am a lifetime progressive voter and activist, and likely on some target list. So I do have some tripwires, but here's the thing, McFadden, it's a matter of timing not only for oneself but for one's country, and if we abandon our duties as citizens to resist while resistance is still likely to be effective, we are traitors to both, IMO.
I agree. If Trump’s maga decide to invade Canada we’re fighting. We could move to England but we haven’t lost a war yet…not about to start now.