Common sense is that everything is connected and part of an overall and overwhelming plan - from destroying the global economy to firing the cybersecurity professionals, to siding with Russia over our allies, to threatening Greenland and Canada, to incompetent loyalists in National Security, to destroying education from kindergarten to university research, destroying healthcare agencies, gutting Medicaid and social security, eliminating right to choose, arresting people for speech, …. I can go on.
Why are the destroying America and democracy? Why are they working so hard to make us like Russia- poor, dying younger, afraid to speak out, without honest judiciary, gutting voter rights….do we need a picture of Putin smiling and Trump on his lap?
What common sense? Trump's brain is so fragmented. He takes orders from the Project 2025 vermin who scurry around him, putting things in his empty head. Whatever the fuck he is babbly on is much ado about nothing.
Just "now," I saw a mention of the protest on a local TV station WPLG, which is no longer an ABC affiliate that announced the protest will occur at 11:00 a.m. Folks, we've got to plan better than this. (EDT=10:29)
That’s great. Fear is powerless unless you make it powerful. Even if you have to walk and protest with fear every new step you take makes the fear disappear. Fight resist
The most plausible path for a Democratic comeback in the 2026 and 2028 elections is not through significant gains among white working class voters. It is more likely to be through a comeback among nonwhite voters with and without college degrees. That is because, according to data from recent American National Election Studies surveys, nonwhite voters, including nonwhite working class voters, hold much more liberal views on major policy issues than white working class voters. In 2020, for example, 62% of nonwhite working class voters and 67% of nonwhite college graduates were located to the left-of-center on the liberal-conservative policy scale.--https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/its-not-the-economy-stupid-the-ideological-foundations-of-white-working-class-republicanism/
@lacey Agreed! However, once again, the lack of organization is not as competitive as MAGA. Only 18 hours ago, I discovered it is supposed to be at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, but a lack of coordination could make it all ineffective. In a Red State like Florida, with NEW laws about protests, if the Confederate-style governor doesn't like what we're protesting, folks can be arrested, fined, and/or jailed for exercising their 1st. amendments rights. So we'd have to show up, protest, and move on. While I'm not a lawyer, I believe the wrinkle is the crowd cannot loiter nor impede the flow of traffic. Unless someone pulled a permit to march, it will all be for noting, AGAIN.
Poor organization. This is why I have been pleading with people to call a National Day of Strike when everything is shut down on a specific date, day, and time around the country. If you know of any credible organizers, I would like to hear from them. This patchy quilt will not work. In France they are famous for their boycotting. Everything is shut down: buses, trains, planes work, all of it. Floriduh is the worst. I am stuck here also. A national strike would send the message we need. Thank you for your efforts. Every bit counts.
Thank you thank you, Michael! I so enjoy your east coast fire! I particularly enjoyed your passing reference to “Nutlick” the other day. Further, it must be said that nobody but nobody swears with the effectiveness of NJ & NYers. With that I declare wholeheartedly: “We’re FUCKED.” I also value greatly your insights into the Manhattan Mango’s brainmush.
P.S. I wish I could be a paid subscriber. Living on Social Security is doable but no fun and I don’t know how much longer before the Muskax falls. So all I can do is keep saying thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you so very much!!! Let’s hope democrats awaken from the radical right’s propaganda that progressives are liberals who want to bankrupt the country. It’s so drilled into their minds that it’s difficult for them to even consider someone like AOC or Bernie as legitimate. I see this in my own family of “moderate” democrats.
God damn it man! The network dropped the ball on this, and I hope we can adjust moving forward. How can I help? The network should be "SHOUTING" repeatedly, from the "MOUNTAIN TOPS" to the "VALLEYS" from "OCEAN to OCEAN"! www.handsoff2025.com "NOT" tell me about it the morning of the event. To grow the movement, we must be more user-friendly. Folks have lives and need reasonable anticipation to plan and attend. Fuck Baron Von Shitsinpants, we must do better than this, you're our best example. MAGA ain't fucking around!
Who are where are these organizers? I am calling for a National Strike to shut the shit show down for a few hours, one day at an agreed time. Like they do in France. Unions get behind it all and make it happen, it's very effective. We don't know how to do any of this here because its been decades since we were out in the streets. I know because I was there. If you know anyone who is an organizer for any of the Unions, have them contact me at caproductions1@gmail. We need to do so much better than this.
Bing or Google hands off 2025 and the algorithms keep it low on the results which requires active browsing and not as easy to find. How fucking convenient!
The Democrats need to propose a plan to deal with our fiscal problems. They need to have this asap. If they had a solution today, maybe we could get bipartisan support to put the thing back on track and avoid a collapse. Complaining and protesting is good, but We need real solutions because the Rs are failing in so many ways.
Just came back from Bucks County protest OMG if I can thank you for ONE THING Michael is that I wouldn’t have gone if it wasn’t from reading watching your podcast with guest I know you have got to be exhausted but shout out your keeping the fire going you are making a difference
It’s my belief that trump, musk, et.al., but mostly the pumpkin head, are tanking the economy on purpose and not just as a happy accident. When the stock market gets sufficiently deflated, they will then “save” the economy by buying and buying and buying of, now, well-below-value priced issues, and reaping warehouses of profits. But, it’s not a scheme just for them, no, any billionaires who are sitting on a lot of cash, or can get very favorable loans, can participate. If there is some way of tracking who makes the largest purchases after stocks have hit their bottom just watch.
i have to agree with you. They have a serious scam going on with their off shore accounts in the ready. I give it a week, and maybe he says it's enough. Remember, his ego is his whole thing. His numbers are the lowest ever, so he will pull another oops moment and either lower the tariff amounts for some countries or remove them completely. Any credibility he had is gone, and our allies will never trust America as long as he is in office.
Is that why TCF regime leaders spent so much time talking about visiting U.S. Federal Reserve gold bullion depositories? They claimed they wanted to verify the precious metal indeed existed to be seized by the regime to rule the smoking ruins of the world economy.
It's quite simple. If a business entity cannot compete, it doesn't invest. Competing countries are not "taking advantage." They actually provide healthcare, housing, education, and the things the workers need. Our country fails to do so. As long as we pursue this course we will fail.
Common sense is that everything is connected and part of an overall and overwhelming plan - from destroying the global economy to firing the cybersecurity professionals, to siding with Russia over our allies, to threatening Greenland and Canada, to incompetent loyalists in National Security, to destroying education from kindergarten to university research, destroying healthcare agencies, gutting Medicaid and social security, eliminating right to choose, arresting people for speech, …. I can go on.
Why are the destroying America and democracy? Why are they working so hard to make us like Russia- poor, dying younger, afraid to speak out, without honest judiciary, gutting voter rights….do we need a picture of Putin smiling and Trump on his lap?
Making America Like Russia.
What common sense? Trump's brain is so fragmented. He takes orders from the Project 2025 vermin who scurry around him, putting things in his empty head. Whatever the fuck he is babbly on is much ado about nothing.
That’s a picture I don’t want in my head 🤮
Never ignore puppet Donny Convict and the hundreds of 2025 people behind Trump. This is not the moment to sit on the sidelines!
Thank you, Michael! Keep sounding
The alarm!
Well said. The madness must stop now.
Bravo! As always great writing. I loved this piece for its simplicity, humor and emergency call to action
👏👍💪
Just "now," I saw a mention of the protest on a local TV station WPLG, which is no longer an ABC affiliate that announced the protest will occur at 11:00 a.m. Folks, we've got to plan better than this. (EDT=10:29)
Excellent, Michael. I'll be out there today. First time ever protesting and with no hesitation or fear.
That’s great. Fear is powerless unless you make it powerful. Even if you have to walk and protest with fear every new step you take makes the fear disappear. Fight resist
The most plausible path for a Democratic comeback in the 2026 and 2028 elections is not through significant gains among white working class voters. It is more likely to be through a comeback among nonwhite voters with and without college degrees. That is because, according to data from recent American National Election Studies surveys, nonwhite voters, including nonwhite working class voters, hold much more liberal views on major policy issues than white working class voters. In 2020, for example, 62% of nonwhite working class voters and 67% of nonwhite college graduates were located to the left-of-center on the liberal-conservative policy scale.--https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/its-not-the-economy-stupid-the-ideological-foundations-of-white-working-class-republicanism/
@lacey Agreed! However, once again, the lack of organization is not as competitive as MAGA. Only 18 hours ago, I discovered it is supposed to be at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, but a lack of coordination could make it all ineffective. In a Red State like Florida, with NEW laws about protests, if the Confederate-style governor doesn't like what we're protesting, folks can be arrested, fined, and/or jailed for exercising their 1st. amendments rights. So we'd have to show up, protest, and move on. While I'm not a lawyer, I believe the wrinkle is the crowd cannot loiter nor impede the flow of traffic. Unless someone pulled a permit to march, it will all be for noting, AGAIN.
Poor organization. This is why I have been pleading with people to call a National Day of Strike when everything is shut down on a specific date, day, and time around the country. If you know of any credible organizers, I would like to hear from them. This patchy quilt will not work. In France they are famous for their boycotting. Everything is shut down: buses, trains, planes work, all of it. Floriduh is the worst. I am stuck here also. A national strike would send the message we need. Thank you for your efforts. Every bit counts.
Thank you thank you, Michael! I so enjoy your east coast fire! I particularly enjoyed your passing reference to “Nutlick” the other day. Further, it must be said that nobody but nobody swears with the effectiveness of NJ & NYers. With that I declare wholeheartedly: “We’re FUCKED.” I also value greatly your insights into the Manhattan Mango’s brainmush.
P.S. I wish I could be a paid subscriber. Living on Social Security is doable but no fun and I don’t know how much longer before the Muskax falls. So all I can do is keep saying thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you so very much!!! Let’s hope democrats awaken from the radical right’s propaganda that progressives are liberals who want to bankrupt the country. It’s so drilled into their minds that it’s difficult for them to even consider someone like AOC or Bernie as legitimate. I see this in my own family of “moderate” democrats.
God damn it man! The network dropped the ball on this, and I hope we can adjust moving forward. How can I help? The network should be "SHOUTING" repeatedly, from the "MOUNTAIN TOPS" to the "VALLEYS" from "OCEAN to OCEAN"! www.handsoff2025.com "NOT" tell me about it the morning of the event. To grow the movement, we must be more user-friendly. Folks have lives and need reasonable anticipation to plan and attend. Fuck Baron Von Shitsinpants, we must do better than this, you're our best example. MAGA ain't fucking around!
Who are where are these organizers? I am calling for a National Strike to shut the shit show down for a few hours, one day at an agreed time. Like they do in France. Unions get behind it all and make it happen, it's very effective. We don't know how to do any of this here because its been decades since we were out in the streets. I know because I was there. If you know anyone who is an organizer for any of the Unions, have them contact me at caproductions1@gmail. We need to do so much better than this.
Bing or Google hands off 2025 and the algorithms keep it low on the results which requires active browsing and not as easy to find. How fucking convenient!
The Democrats need to propose a plan to deal with our fiscal problems. They need to have this asap. If they had a solution today, maybe we could get bipartisan support to put the thing back on track and avoid a collapse. Complaining and protesting is good, but We need real solutions because the Rs are failing in so many ways.
Just came back from Bucks County protest OMG if I can thank you for ONE THING Michael is that I wouldn’t have gone if it wasn’t from reading watching your podcast with guest I know you have got to be exhausted but shout out your keeping the fire going you are making a difference
It’s my belief that trump, musk, et.al., but mostly the pumpkin head, are tanking the economy on purpose and not just as a happy accident. When the stock market gets sufficiently deflated, they will then “save” the economy by buying and buying and buying of, now, well-below-value priced issues, and reaping warehouses of profits. But, it’s not a scheme just for them, no, any billionaires who are sitting on a lot of cash, or can get very favorable loans, can participate. If there is some way of tracking who makes the largest purchases after stocks have hit their bottom just watch.
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i have to agree with you. They have a serious scam going on with their off shore accounts in the ready. I give it a week, and maybe he says it's enough. Remember, his ego is his whole thing. His numbers are the lowest ever, so he will pull another oops moment and either lower the tariff amounts for some countries or remove them completely. Any credibility he had is gone, and our allies will never trust America as long as he is in office.
Is that why TCF regime leaders spent so much time talking about visiting U.S. Federal Reserve gold bullion depositories? They claimed they wanted to verify the precious metal indeed existed to be seized by the regime to rule the smoking ruins of the world economy.
God bless you!🍀🌈🌞
You are so right on with your commentary, excellent and so true!
It's quite simple. If a business entity cannot compete, it doesn't invest. Competing countries are not "taking advantage." They actually provide healthcare, housing, education, and the things the workers need. Our country fails to do so. As long as we pursue this course we will fail.
Bravo