100 strong this morning at Tesla Takedown in Dedham Ma. With 37 degrees cold rain and wind. Honking horns and waving hands fantastic. Donated to Allison Riggs earlier this wee.
Now that DOGE has access to information about all citizens and is currently using the database to seek out immigrants for deportation, the next step for the Nazis is to use the once secure government database to seek out citizens that they can disenfranchise at the voting booth This is why Der Fuhrer in 2024 said “if you vote for me this one time my beautiful Christians, you won’t have to vote again” Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s sugardaddy, created the Palantir software that is used for Investigative Case Management(ICM) and now being used against American citizen electorate So the Nazis now have an inside track as to how to use the government’s database for nefarious purposes such as voter disenfranchisement
The “rigged election” that the Orange Cheeto has been claiming for 4y is now coming to fruition but it’s not the Democrats rigging the election It’s the Nazi regime now in power and the Congressional Nazis who are rigging the elections for real and are okay with that because it solidifies their positions in Congress and the Executive branches
Wake Up America Talk to your friends relatives neighbors and let them know what’s going on and then Protest Donate Protest because the Nazi government takeover is almost complete
Fun fact: IBM set up the system for the Nazis that allowed them to identify all the Jews in Germany, first for purging from the civil service, and then far, far worse. IBM would want anyone sharing this information to know they had no idea their machinery would be used in this way, and that may well be true, and might even be something everyone since then until the end of time should thank them for, because what it tells us that anyone providing anything to fascists should assume that it will be used for the most evil purpose imaginable--and beyond.
Yes ---- and all this makes me cry!! What is happening with this data? On to whose computers is it going to be used? Why have court orders not been able to stop this - and of course Watson and his IBM cards allowed exquisite monitoring of where and who the Jews were. This has been going on for months now - and although we have had many court wins - it simply continues to go on. The ICE - IRS connection, as you point out, is vintage Hitler and the Nazis. Most Americans don't have much of a clue about Hitler and the Nazis - except, as the criminal said, 'there are good people on both sides.' I've said this many times already ---- this is what I grew up with in South Africa in the 1960s and it took 40 years to reverse (sort of)
Germans and Jews in the 1930's didn't have the technology of communication we have now with the internet This is a major advantage that WE the People have Everyone can be in the know now so that people can appropriately respond
Totally agree, Dr Bill. It frustrates me to no end to listen to legacy media types trashing the Net as having created polarization and post-truth, generated fascism, ruined politics etc when every tool used to create Big Lies online could equally be used to reveal Big Truths. Of course, what can we expect from a bunch that knows so little about what they're talking about that they can't properly manage comment sections in their publications, or in most cases make them available at all.
Yes agree Unfortunately almost all the time MSM does reactionary news coverage Report the event next report the event without policy responses since it would show I guess political bias I think that from reporting an event it should go to the question "What are the alternatives to fix the problem"
But of course proposing solutions doesn’t have to be political, and they know it. For every problem they report, they could tell us what the left thinks the solution is to the problem, what the right thinks the solution is, what both sides agree has to be part of the solution, and what a (Hegelian) synthesis between the positions might be and/or what some of the more innovative solutions might be, rather then just the usual tired "more spending vs more tax cuts" trope.
There would be no more reason to call such an assemblage political than their coverage of the news itself, which falls in the "comes with the territory" bucket.
*This* is what the public wants when they say, persistently, that they wish the media reported more good news, news about how what's weighing them down in their daily lives and keeping them up at night could be or is being addessed, not a "good news" "section" that appears once a week, not "inspiring" stories about how one individual overcame the odds (which just makes the vast majority who, by definition, don't think they have it within them to do the same, feel like they're looking at their "friends" vacay pics on social media. ie somehow even worse than before--and guilty for feeling that way).
Surely they've been told all this and more. The fact that in spite of that they keep doing how they do, ie including NO solutions in their coverage and far more "feel good" stories about "individuals overcoming the odds" than about *groups* of people working *together,* and effecting real change betrays their *real* end game; learned helplessness on the part of the people, for the benefit of the powerful.
Excellent, Simon! I appreciate your insight on the falling Trump approval overall and in the specific sub categories and how it piled on to influence Trump this week. I wouldn’t want to be his pollster telling him the news.
Just as Hitler knew at first that he had to keep the public on his side, Trump appears to cave on everything with enough pressure from us. Lots more backpedaling and about face this term it seems. I think he senses that when the public turn against him in large enough numbers, he's done. (And, good!)
Last fall, I had neighbors with signs in their yard that said, "Kamal High Prices/Trump Low Prices." They're in that 30+ % who will stick with him no matter what. But I often wonder if they think about their sign choice.
We have started our voter registration postcard campaign for NC. Thank you for all the economic and polling info, I use it in my recruitment letters to my postcard hub writers. (With attribution of course!)
Made my calls, attending a Tesla Takedown today. I was unexpectedly brought to tears while speaking to Merkeley's kind aid last week when I brought up the men kidnapped to the for profit concentration camp in El Salvador. I think those were the words I used to describe it. This is all beginning to feel not surreal, but Sci Fi, which I was never fond of.
Thinking about them gives me nightmares about what they are going through so understand your feeling. Especially seeing the 14 y.old boys and hearing on NPR that most are not gang members.
I’m donating to ACLU to support their work In suing DOJ for lack of due process. There should be a special hell for people like Kristie N who uses their El Salvador hellhole for a photo op.
Our American society wants quick and painless fixes! That being said, our economy and country were on a trajectory of recovery from the ravages of COVID and a budget busting Republican Administration that accelerated our economic decline due to the mishandling of the pandemic. These things coupled with a career criminal chief executive refusing to accept the outcome of the 2020 election. Lying about the election severely damaged many Americans trust in our very secure election system. This makes for a very toxic irrational condemnation of our election system. Americans must never forget that the only election that was so vehemently demonized was the one that Trump the felon lost fair and square! So we need to as a country fully embrace this reality and fact! Therefore, I implore all Americans to STOP! Allowing this man and his regime to continue to exploit this lie and taint our election system confidence.
This week was the first time I ever called him President, and then only because I felt I had to when leaving messages for a Republican Senator. As far as I'm concerned, anyone selected with the "sweeping and systematic" assistance of a hostile foreign power (whether that made the difference or not--and there's a lot of evidence it did; whether the campaign participated or not--and the hundreds of contacts plus dangled pardons to obstruct justice say they did; because a failed robbery is prosecuted just as surely as a successful one) has not been legitimately elected. And as for everything that's happened since both the law and Bible tell us, that's fruit of the poisoned tree.
Friends, I just want to point out that the rapid decline in Trump's approval rating is confirmation that new arguments can be introduced into our public discourse and minds can be changed. This is core to our work here. That we can change understandings through our work and advocacy. I cannot stress how important this is. For tomorrow can be better - if we do the work!
These two “gentlemen”, Sieg Heel and Leon, are acolytes of the Dark Enlightenment movement. See my note above about Network States. They truly believe that they are the answer for humanity (do a search on “Longterminism” and “Transhumanism”) and that democracy has seen its last days. Also, Sieg Heel would like to avoid death (his favorite National Socialist philosopher/lawyer lived into his late 90s: Carl Schmitt). They are WEIRD folks who are actively working their WEIRD plan!
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : Dolos or the Nation, you can only have one! The other side must choose! The madness will only subside until the next urge for “narcissistic supply” arises. This is not 4-D chess. It is most likely a form of something else. The new media must promote mental health practitioners— like the MSM has lawyers and other professionals.
Tha nerdreich podcast was really interesting, I’m glad you shared it. I didn’t know about why this was happening and it shed important light on what’s going on and how idangerous, short-sighted, and fallible this attempted tech takeover is. Hopefully their incomplete plan (unless they really see around all the corners) ) is just so full of blind hubris that we overtake it. Still, the consequences of what is already happening will be very painful and I don’t know how we avoid that. This was an excellent conversation.
BTW I like calling him Leon but I also like (F)Elon, he's into such weird names and all.... I frequently use "cyber-cowboy Musk" (he wears what looks like a cheap Texas cowboy belt buckle much of the time) and his "DOGE Wild Bunch of outlaws". I had in mind the late 1800's train robbers, Butch Cassidy, Sundance and Kid Curry, et.al., they all met such lovely fates, karma can be tough. The reference also works as to the gritty and controversial 1969 Peckinpah movie of the same name. According to Wikipedia the movie "...was controversial [at that time] because if its its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means." Yeah, I know, too many cheesy comparisons but if we didn't make light of things some of the time we'd be depressed all of the time.
What can we do to push back on the Save Act? Thoughts? Strategies?
Moving forward Dems need a new formula for government and government institutions. My understanding is that the one area where Trump polls the highest is on immigration. I think we all recognize the system was broken long before Trump got elected. His supporters seem to want the border closed. Period. Dems need to find a solution that isn’t complicated and easy for voters to digest. Obviously another plank in the Dem’s platform needs to be on the economy. No pie in the sky promises but real world fixes.
It’s likely that “taxing the rich” isn’t a message that will resonate with Trump voters (and certainly not with the wealthy or with corporations.) While we understand the value and fairness of it those who are not paying close attention to it don’t care. They just want their phones and refrigerators and cars (and yes, eggs) to be affordable.
Lastly (for now), Democratic leadership needs to find a way to connect with young men. Make in-state tuition to community colleges or trade schools free - or nearly free. Right now these young men don’t see a path forward. Without marketable skills they have no hope of a sustainable future for themselves and certainly not for a family they one day hope to have.
On one point: When I communicate with my reps (all Republicans) I admonish them by saying NO TAX CUTS for corporations and wealthy. They haven't impressed me as the sharpest tools in the shed but it should be pretty obvious I don't just mean no new tax cuts but also don't extend the TCJA of 2017 or at least not all its provisions. They are going to do it anyway and probably add some more but they need to know that the voters will remember and that it will have a cost to them. Let's just say my NO NEW TAX CUTS is a frequent recurring theme in my communications. My justification is that if they are belt-tightening the budget, the pain should be shared proportionally by all and not just by those with the least political influence or power.
You really need to add fighting the budget cuts that the Senate is going have to announce to pass Trumps budget that passed the House this week. If the 7 trillion in cuts and deficit spending are approved the federal government from Medicaid to SNAP to Drug treatment programs and so much more will be decimated. We need to make the Senate know that the American people will not accept these cuts and the budget needs to be revised!
Heeding Simon’s words, taking it easy today. Went to the gym & drove by a Tesla Takedown on US-22 in NJ, beeped and 👊 especially since it is still rainy and cold.
So the raving lunatic is now backing off tariffs on electronics, like cellphones. What rational adult could possibly take this weak pathetic moron seriously?
I’m glad to the extent that it prevents a global recession but what about other merchants who make their living selling products that happen to be manufactured abroad and can’t afford to pay millions for favors??????
Let’s keep pounding him as the chaotic, weak, corrupt and wildly incompetent buffoon that he is. So embarrassing.
Today’s calls to my reps are about Social Security Administration limiting its public announcements to X, a site I refuse to use. Such brazen CORRUPTION.
Oh, I am feeling sooooo good after reading Hopium today. Besides loving the stats, I love the message that Democrats are The Party Of Prosperity, Opportunity, Getting Ahead and Better Lives! More than ever, Trump is weak and unpopular, going down in flames. We are the Proud Patriots who will reclaim Our Country. We The People are Strong!
... and a brag re. DPNM internal party elections. I was re-elected to all three positions that I hold, including State Central Committee.
We have a local Town Hall meeting this afternoon to discuss the recent legislative session.
Sure. 😊 and Thank you! In addition to being re-elected to State Central Committee (SCC), I was re-elected as Ward Chair and Precinct Chair. Both of those Chair positions are automatic appointments to the County Central Committee (CCC), but Democrats registered at least 30 days before the election can run for CCC in their counties. So, that is a fourth position that I hold. The CCC is part of the County Executive Committee, along with the County Officers. Our newly-elected SCC, the Governing Body of DPNM, has an upcoming election for us to decide who will be our State Officers -- Chair, Vice Chairs, Secretary and Treasurer. There are other committees with elected positions, such as State Platform and Resolutions. A table of the roles, responsibilities and powers for all of the internally-elected positions in our state is here, and is probably similar to other states: https://members.bernalillodems.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dem-Party-Roles-Responsibilities-v2.pdf These are two-year terms.
How do we find out where the town halls you listed are being held? I'm trying to spread the word
I have this link in the post - https://democrats.org/peoples-town-halls/
100 strong this morning at Tesla Takedown in Dedham Ma. With 37 degrees cold rain and wind. Honking horns and waving hands fantastic. Donated to Allison Riggs earlier this wee.
No Voter Is Safe From Disenfranchisement
Now that DOGE has access to information about all citizens and is currently using the database to seek out immigrants for deportation, the next step for the Nazis is to use the once secure government database to seek out citizens that they can disenfranchise at the voting booth This is why Der Fuhrer in 2024 said “if you vote for me this one time my beautiful Christians, you won’t have to vote again” Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s sugardaddy, created the Palantir software that is used for Investigative Case Management(ICM) and now being used against American citizen electorate So the Nazis now have an inside track as to how to use the government’s database for nefarious purposes such as voter disenfranchisement
The “rigged election” that the Orange Cheeto has been claiming for 4y is now coming to fruition but it’s not the Democrats rigging the election It’s the Nazi regime now in power and the Congressional Nazis who are rigging the elections for real and are okay with that because it solidifies their positions in Congress and the Executive branches
Wake Up America Talk to your friends relatives neighbors and let them know what’s going on and then Protest Donate Protest because the Nazi government takeover is almost complete
Fun fact: IBM set up the system for the Nazis that allowed them to identify all the Jews in Germany, first for purging from the civil service, and then far, far worse. IBM would want anyone sharing this information to know they had no idea their machinery would be used in this way, and that may well be true, and might even be something everyone since then until the end of time should thank them for, because what it tells us that anyone providing anything to fascists should assume that it will be used for the most evil purpose imaginable--and beyond.
Interesting fact....end game talk to friends etc so everyone is in the know
Yes ---- and all this makes me cry!! What is happening with this data? On to whose computers is it going to be used? Why have court orders not been able to stop this - and of course Watson and his IBM cards allowed exquisite monitoring of where and who the Jews were. This has been going on for months now - and although we have had many court wins - it simply continues to go on. The ICE - IRS connection, as you point out, is vintage Hitler and the Nazis. Most Americans don't have much of a clue about Hitler and the Nazis - except, as the criminal said, 'there are good people on both sides.' I've said this many times already ---- this is what I grew up with in South Africa in the 1960s and it took 40 years to reverse (sort of)
Germans and Jews in the 1930's didn't have the technology of communication we have now with the internet This is a major advantage that WE the People have Everyone can be in the know now so that people can appropriately respond
Totally agree, Dr Bill. It frustrates me to no end to listen to legacy media types trashing the Net as having created polarization and post-truth, generated fascism, ruined politics etc when every tool used to create Big Lies online could equally be used to reveal Big Truths. Of course, what can we expect from a bunch that knows so little about what they're talking about that they can't properly manage comment sections in their publications, or in most cases make them available at all.
Yes agree Unfortunately almost all the time MSM does reactionary news coverage Report the event next report the event without policy responses since it would show I guess political bias I think that from reporting an event it should go to the question "What are the alternatives to fix the problem"
But of course proposing solutions doesn’t have to be political, and they know it. For every problem they report, they could tell us what the left thinks the solution is to the problem, what the right thinks the solution is, what both sides agree has to be part of the solution, and what a (Hegelian) synthesis between the positions might be and/or what some of the more innovative solutions might be, rather then just the usual tired "more spending vs more tax cuts" trope.
There would be no more reason to call such an assemblage political than their coverage of the news itself, which falls in the "comes with the territory" bucket.
*This* is what the public wants when they say, persistently, that they wish the media reported more good news, news about how what's weighing them down in their daily lives and keeping them up at night could be or is being addessed, not a "good news" "section" that appears once a week, not "inspiring" stories about how one individual overcame the odds (which just makes the vast majority who, by definition, don't think they have it within them to do the same, feel like they're looking at their "friends" vacay pics on social media. ie somehow even worse than before--and guilty for feeling that way).
Surely they've been told all this and more. The fact that in spite of that they keep doing how they do, ie including NO solutions in their coverage and far more "feel good" stories about "individuals overcoming the odds" than about *groups* of people working *together,* and effecting real change betrays their *real* end game; learned helplessness on the part of the people, for the benefit of the powerful.
Excellent, Simon! I appreciate your insight on the falling Trump approval overall and in the specific sub categories and how it piled on to influence Trump this week. I wouldn’t want to be his pollster telling him the news.
He has real and serious pollsters, and they know what is happening. It is why we are seeing this chaotic "retreat."
Indeed
Just as Hitler knew at first that he had to keep the public on his side, Trump appears to cave on everything with enough pressure from us. Lots more backpedaling and about face this term it seems. I think he senses that when the public turn against him in large enough numbers, he's done. (And, good!)
Last fall, I had neighbors with signs in their yard that said, "Kamal High Prices/Trump Low Prices." They're in that 30+ % who will stick with him no matter what. But I often wonder if they think about their sign choice.
We have started our voter registration postcard campaign for NC. Thank you for all the economic and polling info, I use it in my recruitment letters to my postcard hub writers. (With attribution of course!)
Made my calls, attending a Tesla Takedown today. I was unexpectedly brought to tears while speaking to Merkeley's kind aid last week when I brought up the men kidnapped to the for profit concentration camp in El Salvador. I think those were the words I used to describe it. This is all beginning to feel not surreal, but Sci Fi, which I was never fond of.
Thinking about them gives me nightmares about what they are going through so understand your feeling. Especially seeing the 14 y.old boys and hearing on NPR that most are not gang members.
I’m donating to ACLU to support their work In suing DOJ for lack of due process. There should be a special hell for people like Kristie N who uses their El Salvador hellhole for a photo op.
Our American society wants quick and painless fixes! That being said, our economy and country were on a trajectory of recovery from the ravages of COVID and a budget busting Republican Administration that accelerated our economic decline due to the mishandling of the pandemic. These things coupled with a career criminal chief executive refusing to accept the outcome of the 2020 election. Lying about the election severely damaged many Americans trust in our very secure election system. This makes for a very toxic irrational condemnation of our election system. Americans must never forget that the only election that was so vehemently demonized was the one that Trump the felon lost fair and square! So we need to as a country fully embrace this reality and fact! Therefore, I implore all Americans to STOP! Allowing this man and his regime to continue to exploit this lie and taint our election system confidence.
This week was the first time I ever called him President, and then only because I felt I had to when leaving messages for a Republican Senator. As far as I'm concerned, anyone selected with the "sweeping and systematic" assistance of a hostile foreign power (whether that made the difference or not--and there's a lot of evidence it did; whether the campaign participated or not--and the hundreds of contacts plus dangled pardons to obstruct justice say they did; because a failed robbery is prosecuted just as surely as a successful one) has not been legitimately elected. And as for everything that's happened since both the law and Bible tell us, that's fruit of the poisoned tree.
Seems impolite to call him President when he identifies as a dictator
:D Touche
Friends, I just want to point out that the rapid decline in Trump's approval rating is confirmation that new arguments can be introduced into our public discourse and minds can be changed. This is core to our work here. That we can change understandings through our work and advocacy. I cannot stress how important this is. For tomorrow can be better - if we do the work!
I doubt he cares about his approval ratings. going to do what he wants regardless.
The NETWORK STATE - For the best synopsis of the objectives of the “Tech Lords”, please listen to this 45-minute podcast and share widely (these folks are going to leave a huge blast radius - if we let them): https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-nerd-reich-podcast-episode-1-the-network-state-2/.
Project 2025 Trackers:
https://www.project2025.observer .
https://substack.com/@project2025progress .
https://substack.com/@ahmedbaba/p-158109308 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPElaGebGPc (timestamps 13:10 and 55:07).
Simon et al.:
IMPORTANT! I would think that the Democrats would want to get eyes on this development with the IRS and Palantir: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email . Thanks to Olga Lautman of the “Trump Tyranny Tracker” for promoting this article: https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com. This initiative just confirms that the current dysfunction within our government is really a collaboration between Sieg Heel (of Palantir) and Leon (of D.O.G.E.). To understand how governmental information can be weaponized, take a look at this article about immigrants and the Social Security Administration: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-administration-adds-immigrants-to-social-security-dead-list-to-encourage-self-deportation/ar-AA1CHOjt?ocid=BingNewsSerp.
These two “gentlemen”, Sieg Heel and Leon, are acolytes of the Dark Enlightenment movement. See my note above about Network States. They truly believe that they are the answer for humanity (do a search on “Longterminism” and “Transhumanism”) and that democracy has seen its last days. Also, Sieg Heel would like to avoid death (his favorite National Socialist philosopher/lawyer lived into his late 90s: Carl Schmitt). They are WEIRD folks who are actively working their WEIRD plan!
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : Dolos or the Nation, you can only have one! The other side must choose! The madness will only subside until the next urge for “narcissistic supply” arises. This is not 4-D chess. It is most likely a form of something else. The new media must promote mental health practitioners— like the MSM has lawyers and other professionals.
P.P.P.S: For those observing Passover, be well!
Tha nerdreich podcast was really interesting, I’m glad you shared it. I didn’t know about why this was happening and it shed important light on what’s going on and how idangerous, short-sighted, and fallible this attempted tech takeover is. Hopefully their incomplete plan (unless they really see around all the corners) ) is just so full of blind hubris that we overtake it. Still, the consequences of what is already happening will be very painful and I don’t know how we avoid that. This was an excellent conversation.
BTW I like calling him Leon but I also like (F)Elon, he's into such weird names and all.... I frequently use "cyber-cowboy Musk" (he wears what looks like a cheap Texas cowboy belt buckle much of the time) and his "DOGE Wild Bunch of outlaws". I had in mind the late 1800's train robbers, Butch Cassidy, Sundance and Kid Curry, et.al., they all met such lovely fates, karma can be tough. The reference also works as to the gritty and controversial 1969 Peckinpah movie of the same name. According to Wikipedia the movie "...was controversial [at that time] because if its its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means." Yeah, I know, too many cheesy comparisons but if we didn't make light of things some of the time we'd be depressed all of the time.
What can we do to push back on the Save Act? Thoughts? Strategies?
Moving forward Dems need a new formula for government and government institutions. My understanding is that the one area where Trump polls the highest is on immigration. I think we all recognize the system was broken long before Trump got elected. His supporters seem to want the border closed. Period. Dems need to find a solution that isn’t complicated and easy for voters to digest. Obviously another plank in the Dem’s platform needs to be on the economy. No pie in the sky promises but real world fixes.
It’s likely that “taxing the rich” isn’t a message that will resonate with Trump voters (and certainly not with the wealthy or with corporations.) While we understand the value and fairness of it those who are not paying close attention to it don’t care. They just want their phones and refrigerators and cars (and yes, eggs) to be affordable.
Lastly (for now), Democratic leadership needs to find a way to connect with young men. Make in-state tuition to community colleges or trade schools free - or nearly free. Right now these young men don’t see a path forward. Without marketable skills they have no hope of a sustainable future for themselves and certainly not for a family they one day hope to have.
Just a few thoughts on a beautiful spring day.
On one point: When I communicate with my reps (all Republicans) I admonish them by saying NO TAX CUTS for corporations and wealthy. They haven't impressed me as the sharpest tools in the shed but it should be pretty obvious I don't just mean no new tax cuts but also don't extend the TCJA of 2017 or at least not all its provisions. They are going to do it anyway and probably add some more but they need to know that the voters will remember and that it will have a cost to them. Let's just say my NO NEW TAX CUTS is a frequent recurring theme in my communications. My justification is that if they are belt-tightening the budget, the pain should be shared proportionally by all and not just by those with the least political influence or power.
You really need to add fighting the budget cuts that the Senate is going have to announce to pass Trumps budget that passed the House this week. If the 7 trillion in cuts and deficit spending are approved the federal government from Medicaid to SNAP to Drug treatment programs and so much more will be decimated. We need to make the Senate know that the American people will not accept these cuts and the budget needs to be revised!
"A clear majority, 56%-33%, wants Congress to take its tariff authority back from Trump. "
This is alarming in the light that fully one-third of Americans are A-OK with a president "wildly" violating the Constitution.
cut and paste from CNN:
"Donald Trump’s White House has a threatening message for anyone who might even be perceived to disagree with the president: Don’t. Or else."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/politics/trump-krebs-khalil-taylor-crackdown-dissent-what-matters/index.html
Heeding Simon’s words, taking it easy today. Went to the gym & drove by a Tesla Takedown on US-22 in NJ, beeped and 👊 especially since it is still rainy and cold.
So the raving lunatic is now backing off tariffs on electronics, like cellphones. What rational adult could possibly take this weak pathetic moron seriously?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/12/us/trump-administration-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I’m glad to the extent that it prevents a global recession but what about other merchants who make their living selling products that happen to be manufactured abroad and can’t afford to pay millions for favors??????
Let’s keep pounding him as the chaotic, weak, corrupt and wildly incompetent buffoon that he is. So embarrassing.
Today’s calls to my reps are about Social Security Administration limiting its public announcements to X, a site I refuse to use. Such brazen CORRUPTION.
Do we call on the weekend too? I’ve been doing Mon-Fri.
Yes! I call and leave messages on the weekends. Why not?
Oh, I am feeling sooooo good after reading Hopium today. Besides loving the stats, I love the message that Democrats are The Party Of Prosperity, Opportunity, Getting Ahead and Better Lives! More than ever, Trump is weak and unpopular, going down in flames. We are the Proud Patriots who will reclaim Our Country. We The People are Strong!
... and a brag re. DPNM internal party elections. I was re-elected to all three positions that I hold, including State Central Committee.
We have a local Town Hall meeting this afternoon to discuss the recent legislative session.
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deborah can you share what offices? Perhaps others here can look into running for internal Dem offices this year......
Sure. 😊 and Thank you! In addition to being re-elected to State Central Committee (SCC), I was re-elected as Ward Chair and Precinct Chair. Both of those Chair positions are automatic appointments to the County Central Committee (CCC), but Democrats registered at least 30 days before the election can run for CCC in their counties. So, that is a fourth position that I hold. The CCC is part of the County Executive Committee, along with the County Officers. Our newly-elected SCC, the Governing Body of DPNM, has an upcoming election for us to decide who will be our State Officers -- Chair, Vice Chairs, Secretary and Treasurer. There are other committees with elected positions, such as State Platform and Resolutions. A table of the roles, responsibilities and powers for all of the internally-elected positions in our state is here, and is probably similar to other states: https://members.bernalillodems.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dem-Party-Roles-Responsibilities-v2.pdf These are two-year terms.
🙌🏻yay!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸