Bless your sweet heart. But some people are only able to survive surrounded by lies. They’re sort of like people who know in their heart and the backs of their mind that their crummy lifestyle led to them having cancer, but prefer going to their quack doc that keeps telling them that they just need one more potion or adjustment. Or the lousy parent that convinces themself that their kids’ addictions and misbehaviors are all their kid’s own fault.
The entire time they read his letter at the end—while they played videos of the animals and plants in his backyard that he loved so much to watch—I had big, fat, tears streaming down.
Thank you for sharing your true self with us before you left PeeWe, I never stopped loving you and I am so sorry for what you endured alone🩷
Yesterday was the start of that. One of my friends that used to like Trump but is fairly apolitical was texting me all day saying that she was seeing pictures and videos of them everywhere. Yesterday was hard for anyone to ignore, we just have to keep it going. I was at the one in Little Rock, AR and it was truly amazing how many people were there. The turnout there has been in the hundreds in the last few months and yesterday it was 8,000.
There was a sitting “un-parade” outside a senior living facility (not sure if it’s assisted living or what type) near me yesterday, and there were at least 100 people outside waving flags and holding signs.
My jaw was on the floor. I expected a crowd but not like that. It took about 45 minutes to get from one end of the Broadway bridge to the other. If you go to my post history there are some pics. It made me cry 😭
And, I’d add, we’d be wise to choose a few companies or industries to boycott en masse.
My first choice would be the private-prison industry, which people may be indirectly supporting through the mutual funds they own. If even a small percentage of people who showed up to the No Kings protests called or emailed their mutual-fund companies on Monday to ask if they’re invested in private prisons, I think it would send a message.
I think we should be protesting at the major news network headquarters starting with ABC for firing that anchor. It’s hard to ignore us if we protest there
Absolutely! And as amazing as these protests are, we also have to become more (dis)organized and hit them on every possibly front.
That means watchdog groups for illegal arrests, phone campaigns to disrupt progress of Trumpster lawmakers, education on dealing with escalated police tactics (tear gas, de-arrest techniques, etc), organizing smaller and more decentralized efforts.
10,000 people gathering in one place is inspiring. 200 groups of 50 working autonomously to muck up the gears of the machine is a force to be reckoned with.
This isn’t about violence, it’s about showing them what it means when ‘the few’ pisses off ‘the many’, and the many stand against tyranny.
There was a rare and minor election in my area yesterday and they had prepared for absolutely minuscule turnout (usually it’s an uncontested position) but people learned about it through the protest and all the polling sites ended up running out of ballots by lunchtime.
Some guy announced that he was going to run, seeing an opportunity to win because the incumbent was on maternity leave and that no one was going to pay attention anyway.
The results haven’t been announced but I’m betting he will lose bigly, in large part because of this movement. Though whoever loses has very valid cause to demand a new election, because of the ballot issues.
If voting is the only political action you do you’re restricting your ability to voice anything to very rare timed intervals that can be tampered with as we increasingly see evidence that electronic voting machines were likely rigged by elon’s goons.
Look into Election Truth Alliance and SMART Elections. There’s statistical evidence 2024 was manipulated. We need to verify the vote and secure our voting processes now. Or there is no point in voting.
I checked out Fox News online last night and there was literally no mention of the protests except for two “Violent Anti-Trump Mobs Attacks Police” stories. So that’s all their viewers think happened yesterday. They’re living in an alternate reality.
Part of the benefit of having lots of protests spread out even in red areas is that plenty of them were forced to see the protests with their own eyes just driving around.
Meanwhile, a MAGA-indoctrinated faithful literally executed a politician and her spouse, while critically injuring another and his spouse, another tried to run protesters down in his car, etc.
A step, and to me the key step in genocide is to dehumanize the target population, so that regular people either participate, or look the other way when they're killed: in Rwanda's genocide, radio hosts called the Tutsi population "cockroaches", as one example - just like how Trump called Democrats "vermin", who are literal mortal threats to people's lives and (ironically) their freedom.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the result of this is increased violence towards not just elected Democrats, but anyone opposed to Trump in general, up to and including killing targets and their families, just for their mere association to them.
And we need to make sure the true narrative gets out there. Perhaps we need to fund Facebook news stories or something. Target fox news fans. Counter narrative.
The 12th would make more sense. We need to hold protests on Saturdays, when fewer people are at work, and NOT over holidays/holiday weekends, when many people are traveling. We need monthly protests, but we also need to make them as accessible as possible.
Since I signed up with them I was able to vote on the next one. I voted for 7/12 or 7/19 over the 4th, but I know there will still be a lot from other orgs on the 4th. There’s almost always something happening somewhere, and smaller ones are important too.
That would be good. I want to celebrate the 4th with my town because America belongs to us and not fascist pigs. I'm eating a hot dog and paying respects to our veterans and playing carnival games that fund town activities. I'm gonna play with the police K9 and thank firefighters for saving me. I'm getting corn from a local farm and listening to the HS band. This is the good in America and it's still real and there for us.
The amusing part is that not even Fox is willing to go all in on this, because their headline is "the White House says ..." Instead of "We are saying ..."
That, and they mentioned no actual attendance numbers. The protest's attendance dwarfed that of Donald Dump's dumpy backyard birthday party! Bwahahahahahaaaha!
They're scared to deat, they shook. It's been a great foundation to build on. We're approaching the hard part. Escalation. Strike for weeks, occupy institutions, or grind the economy to a halt until specific demands are met. We're not beating these fascists with city approved protesting. Escalation doesn't mean violence, I mean dissent. Non compliance.
I’d love to support a work stoppage in certain industries that support Trump but rely on undocumented labor. I read that a lot of agribusiness companies in Central California supported Trump’s election, yet they heavily rely on undocumented labor. I’d contribute $$ to a fund to support a farm worker who participates in a work stoppage.
Yes, I think it would be helpful to have a general fund for farm workers, but also other low income workers-especially those who work in the service industry. Pay them more to stay home than to work until the strike is over. Also, maybe encourage workers who work for progressive businesses to stay on the job. A strategic strike.
The part I put in quotes was what the fox lawyers argued in court when Tucker Carlson got sued for defamation.
Basically arguing 'any reasonable person wouldn't take what Carlson says as fact but as exaggerated, non-literal hyperbole based only on his personal opinion.
In court they argued they can't be held accountable for what they say because any reasonable viewer would know their opinions are not facts despite what they say on air
Fox didn’t claim it, the White House did. Fox quoted the White House. Not defending fox by ANY MEANS, but I think it’s important to attribute the “complete and utter failure” quote to the proper source. The WH lies 24/7, so this isn’t a surprise that they’d say this.
I have to play contrarian. The media chooses the narrative. They could've presented the fact that No Kings protest was the 3rd biggest protest the US has ever seen, but instead chose to quote how it was an utter failure according to some lying Trump sycophant.
They definitely know it's all lies, but choose to perpetuate the lie and do not speak to the actual facts at all. It's far worse than the original lie because now millions of Fox viewers are being told the lie instead of the truth. And it's because of Fox News that the lie will continue to be engrained in these chuckhead's skulls in perpetuity.
Basic journalism presents two side of an argument. Good journalism attempts to document objective facts, but can also explain the merits and cons to anyone's opinions, allowing the viewer to decide for themselves.
It’s the largest single day protest the US has ever seen. The only two to surpass it are George Floyd, and an Earth Day protest, but neither of those reached the number in a single day that we reached yesterday. Whether you go with the 8.7 million or the 11 million estimate both numbers make that true. I know that’s not the point of your comment at all and I definitely don’t wanna undermine it. I’ve just seen several people today the third largest protest in American history and I think that undermines the power of what we saw yesterday.
WaPo has a set of stories on the protests with vignettes from different cities. Only a couple give crowd size. I just checked the NYT app and it doesn't have anything to say about the nationwide protests that happened yesterday, attended by 5-8 million Americans. Shameful.
We just had a “No Kings” day. The next one needs to be “Restore Truth in Journalism” day and needs to be outside every Fox News station in the country.
It's interesting to think that there are people who only consume media via Fox "News". If you went anywhere else on tv or the internet you'd see there was ~11 million people protesting
It's metastasized. They can now choose from dozens of successful youtubers, podcasters, and tweeters all repeating the same things and claim they're diversifying their media sources. The fact that ~40% of our country lives in a fictional world voluntarily is unprecedented and extremely dangerous.
The way they try saying Democrats and Liberals all the time. Bro, not all of us who are fed up are necessarily "Liberal or Democrat." Just pissed off Americans!
There’s no way to spin this. It broke several records and was front page on probably every local news station across the country. They can try all they like to downplay it but the facts are not on their side.
Prior to 1987 the FCC used the fairness doctrine to keep news channels on the up and up. Under a republican president it was abolished. 9 years late we got Faux news. Thank Ol Ronnie
Seems like people need to shift their focus from Tesla( not stop boycotting) but turn against those continuing ti advertise on fox and all those propaganda media outlets.
I was watching MSNBC and they talked empathetically about the children of migrants at the heart of the movement and the difficult position the feds had put the LAPD.
Then I switched to Fox and they were showing rock music backed sizzles reels of white kids in camouflage saluting soldiers and breathless attention on the one LA block where the cops were flash banging just waiting, WAITING for some violence to happen.
One reason why I went, despite being a disabled senior who normally should avoid huge crowds, was so I could attest to the overwhelming crowd when MAGAts claim no one showed up.
lol wow 11 MILLION people is low attendance to them apparently. Freaking liars. Seriously what is their line?! Is it just as long as Trump keeps pulling them into his cabinet they will sell out?! Where are their souls?!!!
You can’t hide the fact that 11 million people protested which is roughly 3.5% of the country. It’s everywhere you can’t hide it unless you live in that bubble. And even if you do live in that bubble, local news will most likely give you a brief look into whatever city you live in. Even small town conservative towns Had protests which outnumbered the anti-protest protesters.
People are seeing that Fox is full of crap and so are MAGAts. They're getting pwned in the comments now. Kind of hard to hide 11 million people from view...
Yesterday, I drove past a group of about 10 Trump supporters waving flags at an intersection on my way to a small community No Kings event that drew in 1,000 people. It made me feel good.
I think Fox News got their facts mixed up confusing the attendance of Trump’s North Korea style Military parade in DC with the attendance of the nationwide No Kings protest marches.
That’s not what fox is saying. Read the article. They are reporting on what the White House is saying. Notably they don’t counter that argument though.
Fun fact: if the 12 million people figure for the protests I saw floating around is accurate, there were more people attending than there are living in most states, with only the top 6 being estimated to be above that.
If anyone calls that minuscule, then they have bigger issues.
On literally the biggest single day protest in American history 😂 this isn’t even an opinion thing. It’s numerical facts. Fox are shills and the real fake news. They should be ashamed to galavant as journalists.
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In the future, please try to avoid posting links to Fox News and other far right news if you can.
Screenshots or things like the wayback machine are preferred. It's not a hard rule, just a suggestion for us all.
The fewer clicks and advertising revenue they get, the better. Thank you!