As Americans we better Start saying Your Prayers To God The Father And The SON And The Holy Ghost To Protect Us From The Devil's Sons And Daughters, Remember The Movie The Original The Omen. That's Trump Damien Thron.
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
Ever since Ronald Regan, did the Republican Party slip into darkness. It was a long-term plan. Americans go too complacent, allowing evil thoughts to end American democracy. How Trump won the election remains a mystery to me. If Democracy is to remain, then we must do what our founding father, Thomas Jefferson, wrote in 1776:
“I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The silent war to end democracy is ragging; those who voted for Trump have unknowingly cast their souls into darkness. We must avoid fighting Trump and the Republicans and rather educate darkened Americans.
Powerful truth,and I personally think the corruption including big money got T elected I am extra troubled that the Jan.6 act of treason etc is still ok with so many .Also,a secret and top secret clearance is required for T and his other political power game players,and there is no way,legally,T and others could obtain a clearance My biggest concern is thinking of Putin and how much he is controlling all of this. I am grateful for kindred spirits though,and know that LIGHT is more powerful than darkness.The real helpful,healing power comes from the heart. Let us try to SHINE as strongly as possible.I am thankful for this group and each one of you.Let us be hopeful and strong,,,,keep shining 🌟❤️
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
That's for sure. There's no doubt about that. The question is how do we deal with it legally and peacefully. Since we have a president right now who doesn't want to do anything about it
Laurie and Community: Please take Turkey Day, maybe Week off! (Renew and Restore) ☮️ Julie
A CLASSIC TACTIC by Tom Nichols, ATLANTIC, Staff Writer
In the almost three weeks since his victory in the presidential election, Donald Trump has more or less completed nominations for his Cabinet, and he and his surrogates have made a flurry of announcements. The president-elect and his team have spent much of November baiting and trolling their opponents while throwing red meat to the MAGA faithful. (Trump, for example, has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to a nonexistent “Department of Government Efficiency,” an office whose acronym is a play on a jokey crypto currency.) And though some of Trump’s nominees have been relatively reasonable choices, in recent days Trump has put forward a handful of manifestly unqualified and even dangerous picks, reiterated his grandiose plans for his first days in office, and promised to punish his enemies.
We’ve seen this before. As I warned this past April, stunning his opponents with more outrages than they can handle is a classic Trump tactic:
By overwhelming people with the sheer volume and vulgarity of his antics, Trump and his team are trying to burn out the part of our brains that can discern truth from fiction, right from wrong, good from evil … Trump isn’t worried that all of this will cause voters to have a kind of mental meltdown: He’s counting on it. He needs ordinary citizens to become so mired in moral chaos and so cognitively paralyzed that they are unable to comprehend the disasters that would ensue if he returns to the White House.
Neither the voters nor the members of the U.S. Senate, however, should fall for it this time. Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University has written that the most important way to resist a rising authoritarian regime is not to “obey in advance”—that is, changing our behavior in ways we think might conform to the demands of the new ruling group. That’s good advice, but I might add a corollary here: People should not panic and exhaust themselves in advance, either.
In practice, this means setting priorities—mine are the preservation of democracy and national security—and conserving mental energy and political effort to concentrate on those issues and Trump’s plans for them. It’s important to bear in mind as well that Trump will not take the oath of office for another two months. (Such oaths do not matter to him, but he cannot grab the machinery of government without it.) If citizens and their representatives react to every moment of trollery over the coming weeks, they will be exhausted by Inauguration Day.
Trump will now dominate the news cycle almost every day with some new smoke bomb that is meant to distract from his attempts to stock the government with a strange conglomeration of nihilistic opportunists and self-styled revolutionaries. He will propose plans that he has no real hope of accomplishing quickly, while trying to build an aura of inevitability and omnipotence around himself. (His vow to begin mass deportations on his first day, for example, is a logistical impossibility, unless by mass he means “slightly more than usual.” He may be able to set in motion some sort of planning on day one, but he has no way to execute a large-scale operation yet, and it will be some time before he has anywhere to put so many people marked for deportation.)
The attempt to build Trump into some kind of unstoppable political kaiju is nonsense, as the hapless Matt Gaetz just found out. For all of Trump’s bullying and bluster, Gaetz’s nomination bid was over in a matter of days. Two of Trump’s other nominations—Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence—might be in similar trouble as various Republicans begin to show doubts about them.
Senator James Risch, for example, a hard-right conservative from deep-red Idaho and the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declined over the weekend to offer the kind of ritualistic support for Hegseth and Gabbard that Trump expects from the GOP. “Ask me this question again after the hearings,” Risch said on Saturday. “These appointments by the president are constrained by the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate takes that seriously, and we vet these.”
What Risch seems to be saying—at least I hope, anyway—is that it’s all fun and games until national security is involved, and then people have to get serious about what’s at stake. The Senate isn’t a Trump rally, and the Defense Department isn’t a backdrop for a segment on Fox & Friends.
Similar thinking may have led to Scott Bessent as Trump’s nominee to run the Treasury. Bessent would have been an ordinary pick in any other administration, but in Trump World, it’s noteworthy that a standard-issue hedge-fund leader—and a man who once worked for George Soros, of all people—just edged out the more radical Trump loyalist Howard Lutnick, who has been relegated to Commerce, a far less powerful department. Culture warring, it seems, matters less to some of Team Trump when real money is involved.
None of this is a case for complacency. Hegseth and Gabbard could still end up winning confirmation. The anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could take over at the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, reports have also emerged that Trump may move Kash Patel—the very embodiment of the mercenary loyalist who will execute any and every Trump order—into a senior job at the FBI or the Department of Justice, a move that would raise urgent questions about American civil liberties.
But Trump cannot simply will things into existence. Yes, “the people have spoken,” but it was a narrow win, and Trump again seems to have fallen short of gaining 50 percent of the popular vote. Just as Democrats have had to learn that running up big margins in California does not win the presidency, Republicans are finding yet again that electoral votes are not the same thing as a popular mandate. The Senate Republican conference is rife with cowards, but only a small handful of principled GOP senators are needed to stop some of Trump’s worst nominees.
The other reality is that Trump has already accomplished the one thing he really cared about: staying out of jail. Today, Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss the January 6–related case against him. So be it; if enough voters have decided they can live with a convicted felon in the White House, there’s nothing the rest of us can do about that.
But Trump returning to office does not mean he can rule by fiat. If his opponents react to every piece of bait he throws in front of them, they will lose their bearings. And even some of Trump’s voters—at least those outside the MAGA personality cult—might not have expected this kind of irresponsible trolling. If these Republican voters want to hold Trump accountable for the promises he made to them during the campaign, they’ll have to keep their heads rather than get caught up in Trump’s daily dramas.
Allow me to add one piece of personal advice for the upcoming holiday: None of the things Trump is trying to do will happen before the end of the week. So for Thanksgiving, give yourself a break. Remember the great privilege and blessing it is to be an American, and have faith in the American Constitution and the freedoms safeguarded within it. If your Uncle Ned shows up and still wants to argue about how the election was stolen from Trump four years ago, my advice is the same as it’s been for every holiday: Tell him he’s wrong, that you love him anyway, that you’re not having this conversation today, and to pass the potatoes.
Already, our Wisconsin Farmers who donated [bigly] to Republicans are sounding the alarm on immigration: You are going to deprive us of our cheap work force. the price of tomatoes and cucumbers is going to skyrocket next year.
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
As Americans we better Start saying Your Prayers To God The Father And The SON And The Holy Ghost To Protect Us From The Devil's Sons And Daughters, Remember The Movie The Original The Omen. That's Trump Damien Thron.
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
Ppl
Ever since Ronald Regan, did the Republican Party slip into darkness. It was a long-term plan. Americans go too complacent, allowing evil thoughts to end American democracy. How Trump won the election remains a mystery to me. If Democracy is to remain, then we must do what our founding father, Thomas Jefferson, wrote in 1776:
“I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The silent war to end democracy is ragging; those who voted for Trump have unknowingly cast their souls into darkness. We must avoid fighting Trump and the Republicans and rather educate darkened Americans.
Powerful truth,and I personally think the corruption including big money got T elected I am extra troubled that the Jan.6 act of treason etc is still ok with so many .Also,a secret and top secret clearance is required for T and his other political power game players,and there is no way,legally,T and others could obtain a clearance My biggest concern is thinking of Putin and how much he is controlling all of this. I am grateful for kindred spirits though,and know that LIGHT is more powerful than darkness.The real helpful,healing power comes from the heart. Let us try to SHINE as strongly as possible.I am thankful for this group and each one of you.Let us be hopeful and strong,,,,keep shining 🌟❤️
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
So true
That's for sure. There's no doubt about that. The question is how do we deal with it legally and peacefully. Since we have a president right now who doesn't want to do anything about it
Laurie and Community: Please take Turkey Day, maybe Week off! (Renew and Restore) ☮️ Julie
A CLASSIC TACTIC by Tom Nichols, ATLANTIC, Staff Writer
In the almost three weeks since his victory in the presidential election, Donald Trump has more or less completed nominations for his Cabinet, and he and his surrogates have made a flurry of announcements. The president-elect and his team have spent much of November baiting and trolling their opponents while throwing red meat to the MAGA faithful. (Trump, for example, has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to a nonexistent “Department of Government Efficiency,” an office whose acronym is a play on a jokey crypto currency.) And though some of Trump’s nominees have been relatively reasonable choices, in recent days Trump has put forward a handful of manifestly unqualified and even dangerous picks, reiterated his grandiose plans for his first days in office, and promised to punish his enemies.
We’ve seen this before. As I warned this past April, stunning his opponents with more outrages than they can handle is a classic Trump tactic:
By overwhelming people with the sheer volume and vulgarity of his antics, Trump and his team are trying to burn out the part of our brains that can discern truth from fiction, right from wrong, good from evil … Trump isn’t worried that all of this will cause voters to have a kind of mental meltdown: He’s counting on it. He needs ordinary citizens to become so mired in moral chaos and so cognitively paralyzed that they are unable to comprehend the disasters that would ensue if he returns to the White House.
Neither the voters nor the members of the U.S. Senate, however, should fall for it this time. Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University has written that the most important way to resist a rising authoritarian regime is not to “obey in advance”—that is, changing our behavior in ways we think might conform to the demands of the new ruling group. That’s good advice, but I might add a corollary here: People should not panic and exhaust themselves in advance, either.
In practice, this means setting priorities—mine are the preservation of democracy and national security—and conserving mental energy and political effort to concentrate on those issues and Trump’s plans for them. It’s important to bear in mind as well that Trump will not take the oath of office for another two months. (Such oaths do not matter to him, but he cannot grab the machinery of government without it.) If citizens and their representatives react to every moment of trollery over the coming weeks, they will be exhausted by Inauguration Day.
Trump will now dominate the news cycle almost every day with some new smoke bomb that is meant to distract from his attempts to stock the government with a strange conglomeration of nihilistic opportunists and self-styled revolutionaries. He will propose plans that he has no real hope of accomplishing quickly, while trying to build an aura of inevitability and omnipotence around himself. (His vow to begin mass deportations on his first day, for example, is a logistical impossibility, unless by mass he means “slightly more than usual.” He may be able to set in motion some sort of planning on day one, but he has no way to execute a large-scale operation yet, and it will be some time before he has anywhere to put so many people marked for deportation.)
The attempt to build Trump into some kind of unstoppable political kaiju is nonsense, as the hapless Matt Gaetz just found out. For all of Trump’s bullying and bluster, Gaetz’s nomination bid was over in a matter of days. Two of Trump’s other nominations—Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence—might be in similar trouble as various Republicans begin to show doubts about them.
Senator James Risch, for example, a hard-right conservative from deep-red Idaho and the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declined over the weekend to offer the kind of ritualistic support for Hegseth and Gabbard that Trump expects from the GOP. “Ask me this question again after the hearings,” Risch said on Saturday. “These appointments by the president are constrained by the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate takes that seriously, and we vet these.”
What Risch seems to be saying—at least I hope, anyway—is that it’s all fun and games until national security is involved, and then people have to get serious about what’s at stake. The Senate isn’t a Trump rally, and the Defense Department isn’t a backdrop for a segment on Fox & Friends.
Similar thinking may have led to Scott Bessent as Trump’s nominee to run the Treasury. Bessent would have been an ordinary pick in any other administration, but in Trump World, it’s noteworthy that a standard-issue hedge-fund leader—and a man who once worked for George Soros, of all people—just edged out the more radical Trump loyalist Howard Lutnick, who has been relegated to Commerce, a far less powerful department. Culture warring, it seems, matters less to some of Team Trump when real money is involved.
None of this is a case for complacency. Hegseth and Gabbard could still end up winning confirmation. The anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could take over at the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, reports have also emerged that Trump may move Kash Patel—the very embodiment of the mercenary loyalist who will execute any and every Trump order—into a senior job at the FBI or the Department of Justice, a move that would raise urgent questions about American civil liberties.
But Trump cannot simply will things into existence. Yes, “the people have spoken,” but it was a narrow win, and Trump again seems to have fallen short of gaining 50 percent of the popular vote. Just as Democrats have had to learn that running up big margins in California does not win the presidency, Republicans are finding yet again that electoral votes are not the same thing as a popular mandate. The Senate Republican conference is rife with cowards, but only a small handful of principled GOP senators are needed to stop some of Trump’s worst nominees.
The other reality is that Trump has already accomplished the one thing he really cared about: staying out of jail. Today, Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss the January 6–related case against him. So be it; if enough voters have decided they can live with a convicted felon in the White House, there’s nothing the rest of us can do about that.
But Trump returning to office does not mean he can rule by fiat. If his opponents react to every piece of bait he throws in front of them, they will lose their bearings. And even some of Trump’s voters—at least those outside the MAGA personality cult—might not have expected this kind of irresponsible trolling. If these Republican voters want to hold Trump accountable for the promises he made to them during the campaign, they’ll have to keep their heads rather than get caught up in Trump’s daily dramas.
Allow me to add one piece of personal advice for the upcoming holiday: None of the things Trump is trying to do will happen before the end of the week. So for Thanksgiving, give yourself a break. Remember the great privilege and blessing it is to be an American, and have faith in the American Constitution and the freedoms safeguarded within it. If your Uncle Ned shows up and still wants to argue about how the election was stolen from Trump four years ago, my advice is the same as it’s been for every holiday: Tell him he’s wrong, that you love him anyway, that you’re not having this conversation today, and to pass the potatoes.
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Another spot on!
Spot on
I don’t believe that Michael Cohen is Trump’s personal lawyer any more.
Already, our Wisconsin Farmers who donated [bigly] to Republicans are sounding the alarm on immigration: You are going to deprive us of our cheap work force. the price of tomatoes and cucumbers is going to skyrocket next year.
We can't have that. Try another way
In one hour, I am pulling all of your comments down. This is a warning. At People Power United we will never advocate for fighting-we prefer to fiercely advocate-we will never promote violence-only civil respectful disobedience. Furthermore, we do not call anyone names or ad hominen attacks. Again this is your final warning.
Thanks for sharing David. I hope you consider adding People Power United to that list. We are the largest grassroots group in America.