Sharon Arthur

Once again, Trump is stepping all over our Constitution. How much longer are we going to let him get away with this? How much longer are we going to put up with this? He can’t just deport or imprison people he doesn’t like, but he’ll certainly try. We need to put a stop to this now!

Durham, N.C. is underwater. Climate change is here. It’s looking like America is going to lose a lot of land to sea rise, maybe a lot more than we thought and a lot sooner. This is serious business. Wake up people! Wake up before there is no more land left, and everyone has drowned in the sea.

We’re paying for all this alright and not just in money, but with our lives (or we will be soon). Every single executive order and policy that Trump made is designed to kill off Americans. Trump is a Russian agent in league with Putin. They are trying to destroy America and our democracy. Stop them!

Yes, that is correct. And yes, Trump and his entire administration all have blood on their hands from just about every one of Trump’s policies he’s made. By the time Trump is through, the entire earth will be covered over with the oceans. We need to undo Trump’s climate policies fast!

I’ve been advocating nonviolent struggle which means some things like protests and/or strikes. It’s we the people collectively who will do this. There are more of us normal Americans than there are MAGAS. America is owned by the people, no one else. It is the people who have the power in the U.S.A.

Trump and his whole administration are a crime ring of mobsters who all need to be removed from our government immediately. We have a gangster along the order of a modern day Al Capone running our country. This can not continue! It’s high time to do this!

At Camp Mystic, they should have evacuated everyone the day before. You don’t wait until 3 hours before an event hits to get everyone out. Even if you weren’t expecting a lot of flooding, where 8 year old little girls are involved, they shouldn’t have taken any chances.

So there have now been four 100 year rain events in the last seven days. Rivers have flooded to over 20 feet in 45 minute time frames, in Central Hill Country, Texas; Ruidoso, New Mexico; Central North Carolina; and Chicago and Cook county, Illinois. It’s climate change, folks!

Climate change is real, and hundreds of thousands more people will die from it if we don’t start addressing it with our energy policies. The earth doesn’t care whose fault it is, she will have her vengeance on all of us because of Trump with his drill baby drill policies.

Sunday thought: A national reckoning As we slide further into a dysfunctional police state

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Yeah, I can't wrap my head around it either. It's a stunning failure of our National Security agencies that they didn't see what was happening. And everything you said about our government is true. It'll be difficult, but this can be turned around. I think it comes down to persistence and strategy.

Well yeah, I do see your point. But I see the real problem as being a lack of enforcement for our laws. Our entire government just stopped enforcing the Constitution at some point. All of this could be solved if our laws were enforced. We are a nation of laws. That is what makes us a democracy.

Thank you so much for posting this, I appreciate it. I'll listen to the video on YouTube. It's really good to educate people about these things.

What it sounds like you're really saying is you just want to quit. That is self indulgent. You're saying you're defeated and want to just sink back into apathy. Well we don't get to do that. We have to fight for freedom. Freedom isn't free. It takes hard work to achieve it and vigilance to keep it.

Like I said, there are simply more of us than there are of them, even ICE agents. Unless Trump has some roughly 270 million ICE agents, his ICE force can not match the population of the U.S. who are not MAGA's. It also remains to be seen whose side our military will take, if it comes down to that.

It's not too late. It's never too late, don't get discouraged. We must all keep on fighting and keep our morale up. We are making progress against Trump, even though it may not look like it. Trump is scared of our greater numbers. We the people have the power here, let's use it! We can do this!

Everyone, keep on fighting! Don't lose hope or get discouraged. It takes time to depose a dictator and his government. Be patient, be persistent, be strong! Stay in the fight. We will win. Good will always win out over evil in the end. Never give up or give in. Stay the course. Keep the faith.

Thanks!

Yes, that may be true, but we should do those things. There is one other thing we could try is a general strike of some sort, either against buying things from big box businesses, or a general work strike.

I thought you all might be interested in this as the best approach for defeating Trump. I did a Google search on how to defeat an authoritarian government that had already somewhat consolidated their hold on power. The Google search said the following, and I am quoting it: "Challenging an

established authoritarian government is complex and difficult... certain strategies can be potentially effective. These often involve a combination of nonviolent resistance, and utilizing existing institutional avenues."

"Under Nonviolent Resistance:
- Mass Mobilization and Noncooperation.

"This is protests, boycotts, and strikes and other forms of civil disobedience. The goal is to disrupt the regimes control and make the country ungovernable for the regime. It is also to show widespread opposition and to challenge the regime."

- "Building Solidarity and Networks

- Challenging Propaganda and Censorship
- International Pressure and Support"

"Under Institutional Resistance (when applicable):
- Utilizing Checks and Balances (if they still exist)
- Fortifying Democratic Institutions (for the ones that remain
independent)"

"Focusing on nonviolent strategies and leveraging any available institutional avenues are generally considered the most viable and ethical approaches for challenging an established authoritarian government, while minimizing harm."

"Successfully resisting fascism often requires a long-term strategy

and sustained effort."

"The effectiveness of any particular method depends on the specific context and characteristic of the fascist government and the society in which it operates."

"While violence can be a tactic, many advocate for prioritizing nonviolent methods due to their ethical

advantages and historical successes."

I'm afraid we should have acted sooner. The longer the authoritarian has to cement his new fascist government in place, the harder it becomes to remove him. And Trump is pretty far along in instituting his destruction of and changes to our democratic government

However, it's never too late for us to fight Trump, to fight an authoritarian in power. Better late than never. It just makes it a little harder that's all. But history does prove that nonviolent struggle works against authoritarian governments. That's why I keep saying for everyone who can attend

a protest to please do so. It really matters a lot. Ours is a people powered movement. Trump doesn't own America, he never will no matter how hard he tries. We don't even own America as individuals. America is owned collectively by ALL the people, all its citizens. That's what "We The People" means.

I've said it before, we far outnumber the MAGA's in this country. There are simply more of us than there are of them. We need to all rise up and roar! We need to make our voices heard, make it clear that we will not tolerate these mafia criminals, these fascists running our country.

We will kick them all out. Imagine if we could get 70,000 people all marching on Washington DC! Wouldn't that be a sight, that would really be something! I don't think we will be able to exactly make that happen, but I do want to say that I think we are doing really well in the turnout for these