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BurnDoubt

(1,611 posts)
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 02:04 AM Mar 2025

Where is our Front-Line Defense??????????

I would like to know where are Barack, Kamala, Joe, Bill, and Hillary and the rest of the front bench with knowledge of the Constitution and the workings of the federal government, and particularly the Judiciary? Can we get a meeting, and maybe spit-ball some ideas to slow the roll here and form a plan and build a team to identify if and how to bring the Constitution to bear on these abuses (PLEASE, GOD, tell me this is abuse of the Constitution) and get us out of this mess? Or are we going at this with only "thoughts and prayers"? Failing that, are we on-our-own?

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Where is our Front-Line Defense?????????? (Original Post) BurnDoubt Mar 2025 OP
Seems like trump canetoad Mar 2025 #1
I get your point but I think We The People are the front line and it starts with closing our wallets. OrlandoDem2 Mar 2025 #2
Exactly. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #3
People have to eat whether they have a job or not 😹😀 Meowmee Mar 2025 #4
The fact that having a job is the only way to be able to survive is horrifying. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #5
Not me either... people should get help when they need it Meowmee Mar 2025 #6

canetoad

(20,612 posts)
1. Seems like trump
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 02:24 AM
Mar 2025

Has decided to ignore the constitution. Bad karma for ignoring years of RW takeover.

OrlandoDem2

(3,229 posts)
2. I get your point but I think We The People are the front line and it starts with closing our wallets.
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 03:30 AM
Mar 2025

And it continues with the April 5 Hands Off rallies.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,909 posts)
3. Exactly.
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 05:36 AM
Mar 2025

Which is not a good thing. We Americans are shopping fanatics and we don't like being told that we cannot do something.

Plus, there is the matter of decades of oligarch programming that has convinced most of us that we must have a job and we must work for these people to have one. This includes those who cannot work anymore. We will have to spend to keep going to that job. We have to eat so that we can continue to do that job. Etc. and ad infinitium.

We will never win this until we stop being so easily manipulated. The op is correct, we have to stop giving them money and stop giving them manpower.

I just don't think we will do it enough to make a difference. It will take millions of us doing this to make it work. We can't even agree on a course of action against a fascist dictator. This should be a easy decision.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,909 posts)
5. The fact that having a job is the only way to be able to survive is horrifying.
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 06:32 PM
Mar 2025

It is also not what this country was built on.

But, that is just me I guess.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
6. Not me either... people should get help when they need it
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 10:13 PM
Mar 2025

regardless of their circumstances

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