A Democrat who has not been silent is Pete Buttigieg. He has consistently posted videos about current events, explaining in plain language what is happening, why, and what we can do about it. He is booked for public addresses around the country that instantly get sold out, and is a regular on all forms of media. He is a trusted voice and we need to hear from someone we can trust more than anything.
I’m dicking around at work so I can’t read the whole thing because “Capitalism” but I did want to thank you for the opening. Like, none of this is fucking normal. I’m in a steadily simmering rage every fucking day. I call my congressmen (So much so one of them sent me a LETTER. In the MAIL.), I advocate for my coworkers at my job every day and am slowly but surely trying to get people to wake up. (Employer public employee forums. Utilize them!!!! Call out your leaders publicly! All the time!)
But I’m one person, and I nearly put my hand through a wall over something that fell behind the bed I couldn’t see. Thank god my spouse wasn’t home, because I never want him to see me like that.
I understand what you were doing, and the clarification is super helpful, because we get a lot of this “WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING?!” when this country is fighting to get shit done without a civil war, and NONE of the people in charge understand what the fuck they’re doing and how allowing this shitstain to go unchecked is bad.
Fuck man, I even wrote to the UN 3 times to get them to do SOMETHING other than treat trump as a peer.
We shouldn’t be here, and Democratic leadership fucked off and left us to rot.
Thank you, Ana, for your Activism. Many, like you, are working individually writing Congress, talking to friends, etc. Don’t give up even though at times it seems hopeless. My state of Minnesota is under siege by Trump’s minions. We need all the support we can get. Above all, take care of yourself and believe your efforts matter.
Yeah, it’s fucking insane. Never in my fucking life did I think this would happen, but sadly, this is what we all said in 2016 and everyone called us crazy.
Thank you for telling people what you are doing to change the situation.
Sorry to tell you this but the UN has no army. Supporting countries use their armies. They can’t do anything. The main enforcer of international law was the might of the USA and it’s allies which greatly increased the reach of the US military. That was what the whole system was built to do. The post WW2 world order was enforced by US military power. No single Country, except maybe China is in a position to confront US military power. Also currently there is no group of allied countries with that ability either. So it really is up to everyday Americans.
Sorry, I know it must suck hardcore. You are helping every time to try to get people to wake up.
And, stay angry, because it’s not normal and it doesn’t have to be this way and people, can change it. You just need more people until you finally hit the enough people threshold. Wishing you luck from Canada.
I would like our Democratic Reps to find a united voice and sing out, loud and unified. But please, not like talking points. We need to hear truth, repeated over and over again. No arguments. Just civics, history, and facts. And I want to see them on the streets with The People!
Listen to some people like Sen. Chris Murphy. He is an example of someone who is speaking out all had time and trying to push force legislation like a bill to curb ICE.
I support your efforts to get the Truth Portal established and the continuous efforts to keep it relevant. Could you address the seemingly unabated access Trump has to the media which he effectively uses to spread his lies. There does not seem to be enough effort to break through into the echo chambers of MAGA world and dispell the lies.
It’s a big challenge John, the level of control he has over the entire media space is very troubling. My aim here is to provide a trusted access point for factual political information.
This is about trying to establish a destination outside of the social media platforms which can’t be cut off or suspended. It has to be very carefully structured so as to limit vulnerabilities etc. It’s difficult to discuss in an open forum such as this.
On the contrary. We Americans buy too muchcrap. Stop buyin so much. Brawny paper towels, gas, Koch Brothers, for example. Even if you stop using Google temporarily, makes a huge difference.
There are plenty of us who are angry at Democratic “leadership” right now. Unfortunately there are many Americans who are ignoring everything because “oh, I’m not into politics.” The stupidity enrages me. 🤬
One of Josef Goebbels quotes that should sink in to us all “Let me control the media, and I will turn any nation into a herd of Pigs”.
Another one is “if you repeat a message long enough, loud enough, hard enough, at the end everybody believes it.” And I think the crux of the problem is in the media.”
The brother of Officer Brian Sicnick (sp?) said on NPR “ I have been angry for 5 years” since he died after being assaulted at the capital on Jan 6th. I believe that many of us have had a hidden, simmering anger since then and this current state of affairs has brought it to a boiling point. I THANK YOU for giving voice to it. Perhaps we just aren’t angry enough yet at what this lunatic is doing to US and OUR country.
At what point is something going to actually Done about it? Effectively and Permanently. The madness has been diagnosed and exposed I need upon ad nauseam for over a decade. It remains unimpeded.
That is the point, we're in the middle of a soviet style Yiri Bezmenov demoralization takeover.
4 stages of idealogical subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, normalization
We are currently in the demoralization and destabilization phases where social cohesion and the fabric of society begin to break down. That means that the worst phase - Crisis - is on deck.
In the crisis phase you can expect violence to erupt everywhere as our intricate supply chains collapse, spreading famine and desperation—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order.
After crisis we will enter the normalization phase (our 'new normal') where some semblance of reliable civilization is restored, but at the cost of us - the entire world in our case - becoming the subjects of a new tyrannical power structure.
The treasonous journalists are playing a major role in the demoralization and destabilization stages of the coup we are experiencing. They create the fear and uncertainty and division and hatred.
These mind-games are a major component of the demoralization phase where people begin to grow more and more mentally exhausted from the constantly shifting goalposts, social rules, and behavioral expectations, that they eventually just throw their hands up and stop resisting.
You apologized for the heat. Don’t. The fire is the only thing keeping the lights on.
I read the Pillai study. It explains the mechanics of the PrumpTutin engine perfectly. They hack the national hard drive by overwriting the truth sector with garbage data until the system crashes. Most people just stare at the blue screen. You are writing the patch.
The Political Truth Portal is exactly what is needed. Not more noise, but signal. You are building infrastructure in the middle of a demolition derby. That takes nerve. You admit to the anxiety, which tells me you are sane. Only the delusional aren’t worried right now.
The United States is drowning in comfortable lies. Your work is the jagged edge of reality. It cuts, and it should. Keep the anger. Keep the clarity. You have a hell of a blueprint here.
The facts are that Democrats have been working all along to focus on the many assaults on our rights in the USA! The MAGAs have been shouting lies constantly to counter the reality.
This is 99% of us American Citizens as a small David vs the incredibly gigantic 1%! Most of us know that Trump is poisoning our world to kill most of us. Living in his cesspool will accelerate our illness & death.
i understand how you feel. i am angry too. i also understand that you do not want to alienate anyone, not just your readership but under the big tent as well. BUT and that is a big but, i am so anrgy at the people who put him there. but also angry at people who are too lazy to do the research into the people running for office. too many blame dems for not doing enough of X or Y when the reality is if they were paying attention they would see that the R lie through their teeth and do not want to help people and dems do want to help people for the most part. not every dem is created equal. pissed aat those too lazy do to meet the candidates where they are instead of complaining that they never came to my town or did anything for me or didnt return my calls, etc. enough excuses. vite blue no matter who. our republic depends on it.
A Democrat who has not been silent is Pete Buttigieg. He has consistently posted videos about current events, explaining in plain language what is happening, why, and what we can do about it. He is booked for public addresses around the country that instantly get sold out, and is a regular on all forms of media. He is a trusted voice and we need to hear from someone we can trust more than anything.
Congress needs to actually function and use the constitutional remedies that are available. Period.
Pete is great! Sadly, he’s not part of the government right now.
Right now he says he just wants to help. We’ll just have to wait to see if he decides to run for President again.
I’m dicking around at work so I can’t read the whole thing because “Capitalism” but I did want to thank you for the opening. Like, none of this is fucking normal. I’m in a steadily simmering rage every fucking day. I call my congressmen (So much so one of them sent me a LETTER. In the MAIL.), I advocate for my coworkers at my job every day and am slowly but surely trying to get people to wake up. (Employer public employee forums. Utilize them!!!! Call out your leaders publicly! All the time!)
But I’m one person, and I nearly put my hand through a wall over something that fell behind the bed I couldn’t see. Thank god my spouse wasn’t home, because I never want him to see me like that.
I understand what you were doing, and the clarification is super helpful, because we get a lot of this “WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING?!” when this country is fighting to get shit done without a civil war, and NONE of the people in charge understand what the fuck they’re doing and how allowing this shitstain to go unchecked is bad.
Fuck man, I even wrote to the UN 3 times to get them to do SOMETHING other than treat trump as a peer.
We shouldn’t be here, and Democratic leadership fucked off and left us to rot.
Thank you, Ana, for your Activism. Many, like you, are working individually writing Congress, talking to friends, etc. Don’t give up even though at times it seems hopeless. My state of Minnesota is under siege by Trump’s minions. We need all the support we can get. Above all, take care of yourself and believe your efforts matter.
Yeah, it’s fucking insane. Never in my fucking life did I think this would happen, but sadly, this is what we all said in 2016 and everyone called us crazy.
Fucking infuriating
Thank you for telling people what you are doing to change the situation.
Sorry to tell you this but the UN has no army. Supporting countries use their armies. They can’t do anything. The main enforcer of international law was the might of the USA and it’s allies which greatly increased the reach of the US military. That was what the whole system was built to do. The post WW2 world order was enforced by US military power. No single Country, except maybe China is in a position to confront US military power. Also currently there is no group of allied countries with that ability either. So it really is up to everyday Americans.
Sorry, I know it must suck hardcore. You are helping every time to try to get people to wake up.
And, stay angry, because it’s not normal and it doesn’t have to be this way and people, can change it. You just need more people until you finally hit the enough people threshold. Wishing you luck from Canada.
I would like our Democratic Reps to find a united voice and sing out, loud and unified. But please, not like talking points. We need to hear truth, repeated over and over again. No arguments. Just civics, history, and facts. And I want to see them on the streets with The People!
Hear hear
Listen to some people like Sen. Chris Murphy. He is an example of someone who is speaking out all had time and trying to push force legislation like a bill to curb ICE.
Unfortunately, there aren't enough loud voices.
I support your efforts to get the Truth Portal established and the continuous efforts to keep it relevant. Could you address the seemingly unabated access Trump has to the media which he effectively uses to spread his lies. There does not seem to be enough effort to break through into the echo chambers of MAGA world and dispell the lies.
It’s a big challenge John, the level of control he has over the entire media space is very troubling. My aim here is to provide a trusted access point for factual political information.
This is about trying to establish a destination outside of the social media platforms which can’t be cut off or suspended. It has to be very carefully structured so as to limit vulnerabilities etc. It’s difficult to discuss in an open forum such as this.
On the contrary. We Americans buy too muchcrap. Stop buyin so much. Brawny paper towels, gas, Koch Brothers, for example. Even if you stop using Google temporarily, makes a huge difference.
Right the fuck now!!!!!!!!
There are plenty of us who are angry at Democratic “leadership” right now. Unfortunately there are many Americans who are ignoring everything because “oh, I’m not into politics.” The stupidity enrages me. 🤬
And thank you, so very much for what you are doing to protect democracy. Thank you. ❤️🩹
One of Josef Goebbels quotes that should sink in to us all “Let me control the media, and I will turn any nation into a herd of Pigs”.
Another one is “if you repeat a message long enough, loud enough, hard enough, at the end everybody believes it.” And I think the crux of the problem is in the media.”
The brother of Officer Brian Sicnick (sp?) said on NPR “ I have been angry for 5 years” since he died after being assaulted at the capital on Jan 6th. I believe that many of us have had a hidden, simmering anger since then and this current state of affairs has brought it to a boiling point. I THANK YOU for giving voice to it. Perhaps we just aren’t angry enough yet at what this lunatic is doing to US and OUR country.
At what point is something going to actually Done about it? Effectively and Permanently. The madness has been diagnosed and exposed I need upon ad nauseam for over a decade. It remains unimpeded.
There is a very interesting Wikipedia page titled "False or misleading statements by Donald Trump".
That is the point, we're in the middle of a soviet style Yiri Bezmenov demoralization takeover.
4 stages of idealogical subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, normalization
We are currently in the demoralization and destabilization phases where social cohesion and the fabric of society begin to break down. That means that the worst phase - Crisis - is on deck.
In the crisis phase you can expect violence to erupt everywhere as our intricate supply chains collapse, spreading famine and desperation—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order.
After crisis we will enter the normalization phase (our 'new normal') where some semblance of reliable civilization is restored, but at the cost of us - the entire world in our case - becoming the subjects of a new tyrannical power structure.
The treasonous journalists are playing a major role in the demoralization and destabilization stages of the coup we are experiencing. They create the fear and uncertainty and division and hatred.
These mind-games are a major component of the demoralization phase where people begin to grow more and more mentally exhausted from the constantly shifting goalposts, social rules, and behavioral expectations, that they eventually just throw their hands up and stop resisting.
There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject. —Prevensilk: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/there-is-something-way-bigger-going
You apologized for the heat. Don’t. The fire is the only thing keeping the lights on.
I read the Pillai study. It explains the mechanics of the PrumpTutin engine perfectly. They hack the national hard drive by overwriting the truth sector with garbage data until the system crashes. Most people just stare at the blue screen. You are writing the patch.
The Political Truth Portal is exactly what is needed. Not more noise, but signal. You are building infrastructure in the middle of a demolition derby. That takes nerve. You admit to the anxiety, which tells me you are sane. Only the delusional aren’t worried right now.
The United States is drowning in comfortable lies. Your work is the jagged edge of reality. It cuts, and it should. Keep the anger. Keep the clarity. You have a hell of a blueprint here.
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WOW, I don’t know what to say other than thank you for your support Joe - Martin
The facts are that Democrats have been working all along to focus on the many assaults on our rights in the USA! The MAGAs have been shouting lies constantly to counter the reality.
This is 99% of us American Citizens as a small David vs the incredibly gigantic 1%! Most of us know that Trump is poisoning our world to kill most of us. Living in his cesspool will accelerate our illness & death.
Thank you for your commitment to the truth!
i understand how you feel. i am angry too. i also understand that you do not want to alienate anyone, not just your readership but under the big tent as well. BUT and that is a big but, i am so anrgy at the people who put him there. but also angry at people who are too lazy to do the research into the people running for office. too many blame dems for not doing enough of X or Y when the reality is if they were paying attention they would see that the R lie through their teeth and do not want to help people and dems do want to help people for the most part. not every dem is created equal. pissed aat those too lazy do to meet the candidates where they are instead of complaining that they never came to my town or did anything for me or didnt return my calls, etc. enough excuses. vite blue no matter who. our republic depends on it.