We are a hair away from their corrupt Checkmate.........The Gilded Age all over again, complete wiith the "new" Robber Barrons. and the Great depression looming to be repeated or probably far worse this time around.

AND THERE IS NO *FDR* THIS TIME AROUND FOLKS.........................

The regime is NOT all powerful. The American people are waking up and more and more recognize they must engage in ways they've never engaged before.

As Tad Stoermer points out, hope is the life's blood of resistance as much as lies are the life's blood of authoritarians.

They want us overwhelmed, cynical, hopeless and immobilized.

You can help them spread a false reality of hopeless doom, or you can find ways to REALISTICALLY recognize the challenge, and join with others in hope, faith in each other, and action.

That is how we fix this. An expanding feedback loop of hope and action grounded in the values that have driven every decent thing this nation has ever accomplished.

If your electeds are failing -- whether they be Democrats failing to do everything you expect of them or Trumpublican enablers, join with friends and neighbors, schedule a meeting with your electeds or senior staff. Don't just go to be heard. Go to ask pointed questions. Publish the answers. If those answers are shameful rationalizations for inaction, call on others to follow up with their reactions, as well as their own questions.

resisting Pat..................

In fact, I have been screaming my head off, from the rooftops, since HB Bush and his CABAL committed treason to give the election to Reagan.
I really upped my shouting when the USSC, without any legal ground to stand on, stopped the election re-count in Florida in 2000 to corruptly throw the election to WBush. (Actually to Cheney/Rummy,...... W was just a pawn, a drug and alcohol brain wasted jerk)
And again, when that same group corruptly took out Kerrey 1n 2004
And I really went off the rails talking to people and local Dems, as well as Republicans, when I would tell people all they weren't seeing re: Trump/Hillary in 2016 and Trump/Harris in 2024.

Over the years, I have had my hand slapped by DU, even when I was being tactful and diplomatic in giving constructive criticism of a Dem, or the party.
When I was really raising hell about the corruption of the Carter/Reagan so called election......and basic treasonous actions, the Dems had a large group of "Reagan Democrats" that were giving me crap for daring to say anything bad about the "election" or Republican Reagan.

The perfect book title, as far as I am concerned, about the past 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

They all were walking down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes, and were oblivious to the herd of charging elephants....Pun intended !!!!!!!

... "can't win, so STFU" from far too many in the Democratic Party. Including things like the insanity of Nancy Pelosi's declaration that she would be for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney if she weren't the Speaker, or Senator Feinstein's refusal to join the filibuster against Alito, and thereby actually stop him, while claiming she was adamantly opposed to him and would vote no on the floor.

But I do see more ordinary people stepping up to become citizen lobbyists, pushing for bolder candidates, and pushing the old dogs to meet this critical juncture with strength. And I think more of them are actually getting that the old rationalizations for refusing to do the right thing, on principle, win or lose, come hell or high water, are what got us here -- and that if they don't start standing up when it is a moral imperative to do so, they will never live down the "Democrats are weak" brand.

Unfortunately, the likes of Jeanne Shaheen, as effective a legislator as she has been, still harbor delusions of working with an utterly co-opted opposition. It's unfortunate she didn't retire sooner.

Anyway, thank you for your fighting spirit. Who knows. We may have even crossed paths in D.C. back in the first decade of 2000. And remember, we have won meaningful victories. It may not seem like much, but it was a massive citizen lobbying effort that got Senator Boxer to join Stephanie Tubbs Jones (RIP) in objecting to the Ohio electors. That was a very big deal because it challenged the default "can win so don't fight" position. Even Conyers office told us we would never get a Senator. Never.

And for awhile, it seemed they would be proven right. It was like they were a bunch of parrots squawking "backlash" whenever called to actually take a stand for principles they claimed they held sacred.

But the people walking the halls, the people bussed in from Ohio, the people showing up to protest, the people who spoke at the press club event, won. We got a Senator to stand and object. And the REAL, fully documented facts of the corruption of the Ohio election went into the record. Up to that time, election protection wasn't even on the national radar for some groups (e.g., protecting voting rights wasn't even on the list of issues common cause focused on). That began to change as national organizations stopped seeing it as a "state issue" they could ignore. They "got it" that every state is affected when any state fails to ensure a free and fair election.

Fear of "backlash" -- that deeply entrenched rationalization for inaction is almost (but not quite) dead. There's plenty of other beltway groupthink that must be challenged, but the truth of what we had been telling them since the early 90's is just too undeniable (i.e., That "they" -- the radical right noise machine -- will call you names whatever you do, so advocate for what you believe in, loud and proud. Just do the right thing.)

Anyway, even in the losses, connecting and working with others inspires hope in me. There are a hell of a lot of people out there doing some pretty great stuff. And when I find ways to be part of it, I start crossing paths with and learn about what other groups are doing.

Sure, we may go down in defeat, but we can at least do it working hard with others. And maybe, just maybe, we inspire enough others and push enough of our electeds to turn the tide, and perhaps turn it big, toward truly transformational change.

There is no fix – you can’t fix stupid.

Trump is the consequence of the stupidity of the voters.

And the voters knew all of this before 2024, that Trump was reckless, irresponsible, and unfit to be president.

But the price of eggs.

I think, the Gaza thing

"will never vote for a "weak" woman" (wrongly perceived)

and even less "for a woman of color" (centuries of hidden and in public deeply-rooted racism)

and "she's a COMMUNIST" (lie)

and "the Elite..." (lie)

and all the BS (lies)

campaign for president. Even after all that happened during this term, a majority still voted for him for a second term. That is what scares, and disgusts, me.

The question for the author is, so what are you gonna do about it?


What is ANYONE gonna do about it?

He was elected fairish and squarish.

A Dem House in 2026 will help, should that happen. But nothing can stop his debasement of the Presidency, our international standing, the bad will among Americans on either side of the political divide, and worst, the wrecking of the Federal Bureaucracy.

That damage is generational.

reporter and Dump said you are a terrible reporter I would say yes sir they only send terrible reporters to cover a shitty president .