December 20, 2021

Any chance?

Any chance Manchin's "this is a no" stunt blowing up BBB is a Trumpian distraction to change the conversation away from the treasonous bastards in Congress and on Faux News?

I couldn't help but notice he announced it on Faux... as if it was his personal gift of fealty to the dark side. Something stinks to high heaven...

November 29, 2021

When can DeJoy be removed?

Are we waiting on another Board member's term to expire?

October 8, 2021

It's crazy alright

But the good news is they are BY FAR the minority-- like these MAGAt crazies amount to only about 20% or less of all Americans. So, given that, the messaging should be that 80% of all Americans want nothing to do with that orange anus, and all of his spawn, and wish TFG would f*cking DISAPPEAR forever from our national political discourse, if not altogether. He is POISON and most Americans are fully fed up with everything to do with him!!!

August 15, 2021

The GQP has weaponized COVID.

This deadly virus is being used to create a public health disaster of catastrophic proportions, right under our very noses in plain sight, up to and including knowingly sacrificing the lives of unvaccinated, innocent children. EVERY single GQP that is not actively working to stop this crime against humanity is complicit, as well as perversely derelict in their duty to protect, defend, and advocate for and on behalf of the best interests of their constituents.

Using a pandemic to kill and maim Americans in a sick effort to pin this disaster on Joe Biden's coat lapel is the most obscenely cynical and dangerous political strategy ever. I am horrified and concerned for our country like never before.

How on Earth are criminal charges not being pressed and arrests not being made of every GQP participating in this evil? They should all be kicked out of Congress, or whatever office they hold-- right down to fucking dogcatcher!!‐‐ and face criminal prosecutions.

May 29, 2021

What happened to Rachel tonight?

Anyone know?

February 13, 2021

How many Senators are in attendance? n/t

January 14, 2021

Naming and Shaming

We are seeing some information about arrests of seditionists. However, I think we need to be publicly naming and shaming each and every one them. The MSM networks, newspapers, and every media outlet possible across the country, should be starting off EVERY broadcast and daily edition with the names, faces, charges, and video taped or photographed arrests and mugshots of the criminal seditionists involved in the January 6th Insurrection at our Capitol. We need a daily edition of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Maybe this would give the would-be criminals coming for Joe Biden's Inauguration a moment for serious reconsideration.
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This site is listing names of those arrested so far: https://extremism.gwu.edu/Capitol-Hill-Cases

November 12, 2020

Is it time for a National Strike?

I saw someone else mention this on another thread and cannot find it now (or I would gladly give credit). What can we do right now to apply pressure on the powers that be to put our democracy back on track?

What can We The People do right now to help? Would this work? I keep thinking of Selma and hitting them where it hurts most... THEIR WALLETS.

August 31, 2020

"America is Dying."

We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.
We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.

umair haque
Aug 29

Right about now, something terrible is happening in America. Society is one tiny step away from the final collapse of democracy, at the hands of a true authoritarian, and his fanatics. Meanwhile, America’s silent majority is still slumbering at the depth and gravity of the threat.

I know that strikes many of you as somehow wrong. So let me challenge you for a moment. How much experience do you really have with authoritarianism? Any? If you’re a “real” American, you have precisely none.

Take it from us survivors and scholars of authoritarianism. This is exactly how it happens. The situation could not — could not — be any worse. The odds are now very much against American democracy surviving.

We survivors of authoritarianism have a terrible, terrible foreboding, because we are experiencing something we should never do: deja vu. Our parents fled from collapsing societies to America. And here, now, in a grim and eerie repeat of history, we see the scenes of our childhoods played out all over again. Only now, in the land that we came to. We see the stories our parents recounted to us happening before our eyes, only this time, in the place they brought us to, to escape from all those horrors, abuses, and depredations.

We survivors are experiencing this terrible feeling of deja vu right now as a group, as a class. We talk about it, how eerie and grim this sense of deja vu is. It’s happening all over again! Do you remember this part of your childhood? When the armed men roamed the streets? When the secret police disappeared opponents? When the fascist masses united — and that was enough to destroy democracy for good? We talk about it, believe me — but you don’t hear it because we have no real voice. America’s pundits are named Chris and Jake and Tucker. They are not named Eduardo and Ravi and Xiao and Umair. But Chris and Jake and Tucker can’t help you now. They don’t know what the hell they’re dealing with. They literally have no idea because they have no experience whatsoever.

The only people who do right now in America are us survivors. Let me remind you, by the way, what happens we speak out: we lose whatever credibility and status we have. The moment I began to warn of this, I lost my column in HBR, my cable news appearances, and so forth. Don’t cry for me. Understand me, my friend, know me. If we had a voice, we survivors, we would be warning you as loudly and strongly as we possibly could.

All of us. We would say:

This is not a joke. This is not a drill.

Much more at the link:
https://eand.co/we-dont-know-how-to-warn-you-any-harder-america-is-dying-26ff80912391

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PLEASE share far and wide. America needs to SNAP OUT OF IT!!!

July 24, 2020

A serious question...

Coronavirus is now running rampant in our towns and counties, indeed throughout this country. Feeding on our loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, children, grandparents in nursing homes, and virtually any breathing human in its path. We may as well have aliens parked on our neighborhood streets, kidnapping people, never to be seen again. We just don't have to see the gory truth because, well, hospitals. My own hospital of preference just had a refrigerated trailer delivered this past week. We are under attack.

A great many of us are locked down in our homes after losing jobs, and are now in a time-out of indefinite duration, helplessly hoping to come out of this with some semblance of our lives and health and families intact. Meanwhile we have a government that thinks a measly $1,200 should tide us all over for four months and counting. We are effectively imprisoned, and many without resources and food.

Our economy and our wallets have been dealt a devastating blow. Businesses shuttered forever-- the small ones folding first. Jobs evaporated nearly overnight. Airlines all but grounded. Americans are now prohibited from traveling to much of the world-- not for business, and certainly not for fun. Retirement plans, weddings, and family vacations all destroyed or postponed. The loss of travel dollars globally incalculable-- countless billions are lost and unrecoverable.

Most horrific has been the impact on our healthcare system and its frontline heroes. Straining this vital lifeline to its utter limits, the nurses and doctors working to save our stricken suffering themselves from PTSD, even if they don't also contract the virus, for years to come. And no available hospital beds for anything else but COVID. This benefits no one.

Or does it?

The cumulative negative impact of this pandemic in the U.S. has been more broad-reaching than any war or other catastrophic global event in a century. I dare say, ever. In the history of this nation.

With our nation literally under attack from all corners by a virus, the incomprehensible, ugly truth is we have no national, coordinated plan to contain, control and mitigate this beast and protect American citizens. Instead, we have politicians gaslighting, fudging numbers, and sitting on their hands. How is this possible?

Despite our President having the War Powers Act at his disposal, he still has not marshalled the manufacturing might and resources of this country to make adequate amounts of PPE for our heroic frontline healthcare workers and for the public. No mass production of test kits to protect, track and defend against this virus. No nationwide, massive contact tracing program to isolate and starve this beast of fresh bodies to infect. States are left on their own to fend for themselves.

All of this juxtaposed against an international backdrop of so many other countries who have successfully shown the way to bring this virus to heel. It is no mystery what needs to be done. We simply have a leader that refuses to lead, refuses to listen to the scientists or act in any way that is helpful, and refuses to do his job. More to the point, he refuses to protect and defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

This is willful inaction. This, in fact, is dereliction of duty that constitutes an attack on all of us. Just as surely as watching a person drown and doing nothing will cause their death. In the hearts and minds of all Americans who care about this country, this seemingly self-inflicted mortal wound makes no sense on any level. Unless what is not being done, is done at the bidding of our enemies.

So, I ask again.... Who, in all the world, does this willful inaction resulting in a freefall of death and economic destruction-- this taking apart of America-- benefit?

More and more, I am overcome with a foreboding sense that this virus is being weaponized against all of us.

Please tell me how I am wrong.