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ð¨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolisâcausing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
— Status Coup News (@statuscoupnews.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T00:43:53.942Z
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Trump has declared war on America.
dem4decades
(13,760 posts)sheshe2
(96,214 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,538 posts)Oh, WAIT!!! He was talking to the people fighting and dying for their Freedom
In IRAN!!!!!!
Im going to need a couple hits of Orange Sunshine to understand this!!!!
Another Jackalope
(139 posts)a couple hits of the Brown Acid. Nightmare city!
I miss the Sunshine...
BurnDoubt
(1,538 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)How can Articles of Impeachment not be the direct answer?
Article 1 - I'm talking to you Congressional RepubliCONS.
chicoescuela
(2,672 posts)sheshe2
(96,214 posts)calimary
(89,180 posts)if the President was a Democrat.
Count on it.
Volaris
(11,427 posts)TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IN AMERICA HAD INDOOR PLUMBING, Alex Jones would have told everyone to go buy another gun, and then called for their hanging from the Capitol Rotunda.
I don't know how, but the Republicans who enabled this shit need to be held to a reckoning.
Again, I've no idea how, but if we don't find a way to actually punish them for it this time, they will be back and next time IT WILL BE WORSE.
EdmondDantes_
(1,431 posts)And one of them shot up a pizza place because of rumors. I'm not certain they'd stop at merely calling for hangings.
yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,254 posts)speak up for impeachment, LOUD AND CLEAR.
yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)Jeffries - hopefully. Occasionally he surprises me.
There are voices that are singing the right tune, loud and clear. They include (but aren't limited to) Chris Murphy, Chris van Hollen, Maxwell Frost. Not a surprise that they were at the rally in D.C. last night, along with Alex Padilla.
I am glad to see Congress critters in front a federal building drawing attention to the Authoritarian take over of our Democracy.
Kid Berwyn
(23,254 posts)My problem is the lack of communication if ever the nation needed vocal leadership, it is now.
Trump has been on the TV, cable, Hate Radio, etc. 24/7 for over a decade now.
The Democratic leadership should demand EQUAL TIME on any and every outlet TO MAKE A CASE. At least hire Gavin Newsoms Twitter team.
We Democrats can and do have the best ideas in the universe, and it doesnt matter if no one knows.
yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,254 posts)And the message got right through to one who needs to hear it.

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-detroit-news/uaw-backs-suspended-ford-worker-condemns-trumps-vulgar-response/
Wiz Imp
(9,115 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,254 posts)
they control pretty much all it spews out.
How Corporate McPravda got so powerful
The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Additional important history to know...
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
Source: TUC Radio
Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/
Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/
Maybe one day when we have all three branches of government under the control of people who know the Bill of Rights, we can make some noise about it, not that anyone will hear us, considering the all-consuming affordability issue.
maxsolomon
(38,280 posts)Wingers on FB are openly calling for killing of protestors.
yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)They feed their audience vile propaganda intended to incite. It is really OTT stop.
maxsolomon
(38,280 posts)we're in the fulfillment of desires era. trump is their retribution.
yellow dahlia
(4,768 posts)It wasn't rejected or reined in - so they ramped it up.
People are dying because of fauxnews and notnewsmax...and a bunch of other nutjobs.
leftstreet
(39,005 posts)If the protestors were bothering the ICE agents, they should have called the real cops
These fuckers are out of control
sheshe2
(96,214 posts)They do as they please without repercussions by DHS and this admin. They shot a woman in the head and will never be held responsible because she was just a "Fucking Bitch".
Welcome to America.
Kid Berwyn
(23,254 posts)Terrorism works.
Thunderbeast
(3,786 posts)maxsolomon
(38,280 posts)than all the police in every municipality in the county combined. Over 2000.
BurnDoubt
(1,538 posts)The Rogue Congress needs to issue Impeachment against the Rogue Supreme Court for abdicating their Authority to the Rogue Administration.
I dont think this Trifecta was achieved lawfully and in accordance with the Constitution.
Once the Russians take over there will NEVER be Investigations of this Travesty. The only consolation is theyll ALL fly out windows sooner or later.
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Russia, Russia, Russia
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electric_blue68
(26,101 posts)😬😬😬😬
Initech
(107,641 posts)Fuck all of them and everyone who made this bullshit possible.
bluestarone
(21,348 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,715 posts)They have no legal mandate for crowd control, none.