I thought I couldn’t be more shocked and sickened than I already was, but what’s happened this week is truly horrifying.
In the Oval Office, before cameras and journalists, Trump openly lied to the president of South Africa about alleged violence against white South Africans. The Trump regime has also granted refuge to white South Africans while continuing to bar or deport people of color who desperately need refuge.
The regime told Harvard it can no longer enroll foreign students and that its existing foreign students must transfer to another university or lose their legal status in the United States.
Trump auctioned off a personal dinner to foreigners who poured money into his own crypto business. He has also accepted Qatar’s gift of a $400 million “flying palace” (it’s also just for him — no other president in future years can use it).
At Trump’s insistence, House Republicans have passed a giant bill that would, if enacted, be the largest redistribution of income and wealth in American history — from the poor and working class to the rich and super-rich. The bill includes a poison pill that eliminates the power of courts to hold officials in contempt for disregarding court orders.
In recent days, according to Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent of The New York Times, Trump or his team have charged, investigated, or threatened with investigation New York Attorney General Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo, Kamala Harris, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Bono, Oprah Winfrey, James Comey, unnamed “treasonous” Biden aides, the city of Chicago, and the Kennedy Center.
Trump seems to have entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. Rapacious, racist, nativist, vindictive, corrupt.
If you’re also horrified by all this, know that most other Americans are, too (if polls are to be believed).
Resistance is more important than ever.
I feel enormous gratitude to the judges who are trying to stop this. Most have shown themselves to be principled, steadfast, and courageous.
We should also be grateful to the public servants still in their jobs who are standing up to this.
And to everyone else who is pushing back.
Grateful to all communities that are protecting their residents and neighbors from Trump’s vicious dragnet.
Thankful to all the people fighting his attacks on Medicare and Medicaid. Teachers, public employees, workers, and grassroots groups fighting his attacks on the poor.
To the professors, administrators, and students joining together to fight his attacks on higher education.
Appreciative of all who are planning to protest on June 14. It’s Trump’s birthday, on which he’s trying to justify a huge military parade using the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the start of the Continental Army that fought against King George III.
On that day we will join together to tell the world and affirm for ourselves that we do not abide kings.
The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance. The worse it gets, the larger the backlash. The crueler and more vicious his regime becomes, the more powerful the alliances being formed at every level of society to stop him.
We will sweep vulnerable Republican lawmakers out of office in 2026 or before.
We will support groups like the ACLU that are taking Trump to court.
We will spread the truth.
Tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. We will not submit. We will emerge from this stronger than we were before, and more committed to the common good.
"He added that U.S. judges were “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again — all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”
In fact, there is NOTHING more dangerous than Trump himself.-greenman
unless he is stopped. The American people must stop him.
I was watching something on Putin and Russia… how he controls the media and the narrative in Russia. Someone said that about 15% of the population there support Putin, 15% oppose him, and the other 70% just kind of go along or do not resist.
We the people have to shut this down. We can’t let trump become a Putin or Hitler or even worse. He is so crazy, you don’t even know what he is going to do. We must resist.
Re: He will not stop….
Posted by jacque on May 26, 2025, 2:03 am, in reply to "He will not stop…." Valued Poster
US numbers aren't far off from those. When 25% of eligible voters can control leadership it will be hard to stop.
How do you convince people their vote matters? How do you instill a sense of civic duty for the community at the very least?
🤷🏽♂️ Depends ...
live long and prosper as best you can Jacque
The hope that I have....
Posted by Skye on May 26, 2025, 3:07 am, in reply to "Re: He will not stop…." Valued Poster
is that because this country is so diverse, and because they have obviously pitted the diverse groups against each other as their smoke screen to hide what they are doing behind the scenes... people will wake up and unite to stop them.
We are used to having freedom in this country... maybe a little too much freedom when it comes to things like guns and cheating on your taxes... however, with there being that many guns out there, and when people find out they have been duped and are having to pay more for everything and have less to show for it... no one voted for this crap that is going down... for higher prices and less freedom, and when family, friends and neighbors start going hungry or dying with no medical care, while the richer get richer... That just may not go over well.
Another thing is that they are not only picking on minorities... they have been treating women as a minority, too, which they are not. So now they are taking rights away from a majority just because they think they can. Here in Missouri, the people voted to overturn the abortion ban, and those in power refused to honor that recent vote and are now forcing it to come up again.
It may not be easy to get the different factions in society to unite and fight these fascists, but that is what needs to happen, and I'm hoping that people will come to that realization. United we stand! Divided we fall. The fascists are counting on us being divided. Thus the hate and lies they have been peddling for years and years... just like Hitler did.
on May 25, 2025, 6:19 pm
