I felt every word of this today. I don’t know what to do with the feelings I have, they are giant and ravenous and stuck in my throat. Thank you for writing this.
Thank you for being here. I wish you lived closer, I want to go for a walk or a drink or a coffee or something. I want to howl at the moon or go to a kickboxing class or one of those places where you can break things. But exchanging comments with you helps, too ❤️🩹🙏🏼
It is too much. I haven’t slept but I sort of didn’t think I would. I don’t know how we’re all getting through this, but I know we are and we will and having each other helps. Hugs ❤️🩹 text you later.
The kidnappers and rapists are now also murderers, or maybe they already were. I grieve for Renee Nicole Gold, and for her family, and for her community, and for Minnesota, and for our society and nation. What we have become is beyond the worst nightmares of anything I could have dreamt. God damn our spineless Congress and corrupt Supreme Court to hell for what they have enabled and empowered.
Pretty much exactly that, Paul. I didn’t even bother trying to go for the hopeful message tonight because I am too enraged and too heartbroken and too disgusted by the endless gaslighting. These people have to go. Cheers I guess. And hugs. Thanks for being here as always ❤️🩹❤️🩹
Incandescent with rage. My heart is shaking. I'm with you, and whoever else is willing to spit the bloody skittles right into the soulless faces of this rising tide of madness.
I don’t usually bother arguing with people on the internet because I know it’s pointless. But today I could not help myself, Kendall. I gave in a few times because there were people (seemingly) believing the Noem version and I just could not. I could not walk by. The smugness. The casual cruelty. All of it trickling down from their feckless leader.
And why am I bothering? If that’s who you follow obviously there’s not much hope I’m going to get through but it just made a horrible thing that much worse. I’m so tired of what’s happening here. And so angry. I wish I knew what we should do. I am at the point of hoping other countries band together and put an end to this madness since Republicans are the only ones who can stop him internally and they won’t — and we are not violent. And I’m thankful those of us who are liberal minded are not violent but I’m frustrated that we let the clock run out on Jan 6. No real repercussions for that? Ugh. Anyway. Good luck to me getting sleep tonight, I feel like I could go run a marathon.
Well, at least we're awake together, all dizzy with righteous indignation, bot sleepingin our beds. I don't blame you for arguing with the ignorant little people. We need to dig our claws into something, anything at all that makes us think we have purchase. This is a normal response to drowning.
I'm going to try to go down and down into the place where stillness sits and I'm going to ask her what to do. That's the only thing I can think of right now. 💔 And anyway, we think you're wonderful.
Yes, I will be trying to meditate my way into sleep at some point. Maybe now that I wrote it out of my head I will manage. After I walk my dog ❤️🩹 Thanks for being here, I adore you.
Heather Cox Richardson reports over on Facebook (probably also in her newsletter later here) that not only are the taxpayers supposed to foot the bill for Venezuela... but also it seems that Trump personally is planning to pocket the profits. At least as of now they are planning to transfer the revenue to off-shore accounts that aren't being handled by the treasury. Not that this would be necessarily better, but it's incredibly brazen.
I have had trouble sleeping all year so far but this night really made me blind with rage. Seeing Miller and later Rittenhouse gloating that he could come in and "help out and do his thing", while quipping that "She was not good" (because haha get it her last name?) really pushed me over the edge.
These people need to be brought to justice.
If the USA are supposed to still stay standing in any recognizable way then simply getting rid of these people is not enough.
Hamilton Nolan already wisely suggested to tear down that atrocious Ballroom in any case.
Yes! That’s exactly right. It’s all insane, as if these are business deals he’s doing for himself and for his family and we, the people, are lucky to have him making all this money for his enterprise. Because of course he’s made the country so wealthy with his stupid tariffs. Which he has not. For the life of me I will never understand why a group of Republican senators has not banded together quietly to plan and topple this joke of a clown car cruel administration and their utter betrayal of the Constitution and anything that resembles our country. I am left to understand there are not enough of them with integrity and a spine, not enough of them who care about the country. So I don’t know what we do exactly, but I know we can’t sit back and wait and hope. We’re off the rails here. Smh. Thanks for being here, Ged.
Oh! And the ballroom and everything else he’s “built” and added on, my god yes. I can’t wait for the day we get to watch these things meet the wrecking ball. I hope they put the East Wing back. I hope they get his name off the Kennedy Center. I hope somehow the pain he has caused so many people comes back to him. I don’t even have to say “a million fold” it just needs to come back to him and the rest will take care of itself.
I also can't tell you what we do, but I can tell you that I am 100% with you that we can't sit back. Around the same time last year I had started my substack and spoke of my feeling that we are at a threat level dark orange (I have since learned that this could be taken as a Trump-skin-color pun which I did not intend) - what I meant was that I thought if we get real lucky and pull all our means together we might avert the worst and could possibly navigate out of this crisis by normal means.
I do _not_ see that anymore. We are off the rails, as you say. So far most commentators are still seeing good midterm results and are speculating about whether house or senate or both will be taken. And I think we can confidently say that most people hate this. This is not a German 1933 situation. While there is a hard core of absolutely atrocious ghouls, there are so many people pissed off by so many things, even among those that were stupid enough to vote for him.
BUT: He already says "I am not saying they should cancel the vote, because they then say I'm a dictator but they should cancel the vote". I do not understand where the confidence comes from that the votes will happen at all or be taken into account. He already has the Federal government at war with the municipalities and the states now, why would that not be a thing then. He has shown that he does not accept votes on January 6. He has made it clear that he does not believe the polling.
ALL THE SIGNS INCLUDING HIM SAYING THAT HE IS THINKING ABOUT IT ARE ON THE FUCKING WALL.
Us Europeans must take our governments to account and make it clear that we are dealing with a hostile entity. Unfortunately, many of them are just too happy to roll over - we have similar levels of profiteering here. But seeing how there's some contradictions this can at least make it a little harder and everything that we're pulling away from you guys on the ground enhances your chances.
I have also put myself on a stricter discipline when it comes to commenting. Raging as I may be, I will only engage in constructive and community building commentary (as I do here) and limit myself to one comment per Ghoul maximum. I will not get into a discussion about whether Maduro was a dictator or not or whether Venezuelans are happy or any of this shit. People discussing Poland's interior policy in 1938 are at best idiotic, but likely worse. The only thing I will tell these people is that they are beyond contempt and that they are a waste of time and this is only something I signal for people watching so that their presence doesn't go unchallenged.
Other than that, I think we are all called upon to organize. Which is to say ideally in organizations that already have a standing and institutions and channels. Linking these up and seeing that they don't roll over is important. We are seeing that our institutions won't save us. The way the press is behaving is shameful. The NYT printing this "Trump was right" Oped - not worth the paper they are printing on.
Symbolically I think it would even be good to delegitimize the Nobel Peace Prize because one can very clearly see that their choice was also instrumental in this entire shitfest.
But yeah, we cannot sit back. I used to tell people that - as bad as things are, we kind of got this. And we do - we will win, because they cannot win. But the way ahead will be more than just rough. It will be literally atrocious.
We will do this, though. They got nothing on us. They even hate themselves. And how could they not. I could go off for hours about what I think about the things Kyle Rittenhouse and Steven Miller said... it's not worth it though. We got shit to take care of.
Thank you for being here too. We will NOT go gentle into that good night.
Oh Janey, thank you. I was writing through a red haze. I am beside myself with heartache and sorrow and anger. But I am so grateful to meet you all here. It is a comfort at 4:23 am. I didn’t expect to sleep. Hugs and love.
Well ranted. How is nobody making citizens arrests? How is nobody staging a re-insurrection? And how is no leader apologizing for this? Renee was a hero. I hate that she's a martyr. Arrest Noem. Organize a militia.
I worry so much, Kristen. I think the issue is most of the people who are liberal-minded are not the ones who would attempt a citizens arrest because how do you even do that with a bunch of armed ICE thugs ready to shoot? They’d just shoot and lie after. They’d say they were afraid — and take a look at how his supporters defend these guys when they murder a citizen.
But I worry. The frustration is growing and I am scared we’re going to start seeing this happen more. I’m afraid it’s going to boil over, and civil war in the streets won’t go well for those of us not in favor of what’s happening here. Those of us who didn’t vote for this. It’s a generalization, but we don’t tend to be the ones with firearms, and most of us could not fathom taking the life of another person.
And that’s the thing, if we staged a re-insurrection and did EXACTLY what they did January 6, they’d shoot us all in the streets and say the officers feared for their lives. They’d lie and make up stories about what awful, dangerous people we were, and his supporters would not care they’d shot us dead. I really think that’s where we are and part of what stops people. We could use some outside help but no one wants to fight our military. And he fired all the top-ranked military officers and personnel who would have objected to turning on their own citizens or following illegal orders, or so it would seem. It’s such a mess. That doesn’t mean I think we should keep doing what we’ve been doing, because I don’t. But I’m not sure what it is we can and should do yet.
You have perfectly expressed all the rage, shock, fury, and deep sadness I'm feeling right now. This is not normal. This is not okay. I keep wondering when people are going to take to the streets, not quietly, but with powerful, potent rage. None of this will end until we do.
I’m getting so tired of all the instant messaging about “protest but be peaceful, don’t give them what they want” — obviously I understand. He’s waiting for any excuse to declare Martial Law. I get it and I don’t want to see that, either. But I wish someone would say, “be peaceful, don’t give them what they want, but please come. Get in the streets. Buy as little as possible. Check on your neighbors. Start forming community watch groups and make plans to keep each other safe.” Something, you know? So the message isn’t oh hey just keep coming out with your signs every few months and boycott Amazon and Target and call your reps. It’s not working. It’s not enough. They’re getting too much of what they want. So we have to change course somehow.
Thank you for being here, Keicha. Really so grateful for this comments section 🙏🏼❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Thank you for so eloquently stating what so many of us are feeling now and for years. You did a wonderful job reporting a horribly brutal story of an innocent victim of our corrupt government. The line that really sticks out (many do. So well written.) is about how he violated the constitution and yet got into office again. Wtf?!!!! RIP Renee Nicole Good, you did nothing wrong and you did not deserve your fate. Thank you, Ally, for helping us process our rage and grief.
Thank you, Tracey. And it did strike me as so incredibly sad, just the timing of thinking about January 6th from 5 years ago and the absolute revisionist history they’re hawking, and watching these thugs murder Renee. It feels like a trajectory, like we didn’t stop the first unbelievable breach of our government and this is where it’s led. Along with all the other unthinkable and devastating examples. Anyway I thank you for being here. I’m so grateful to come and read everyone’s thoughts and know that there are so many of us feeling this way. Sending you love ❤️🩹
The video of the murder was clear. Almost like a scene from a movie. Yet they still lie to us. She was just a normal person. Scared. Trying to get out of a situation that had suddenly gotten serious. But they shoot her. And lie to us. I keep waiting for someone in the government to make it stop. Just make it stop. But every day is worse. And it does not stop.
It is escalating no doubt. And he is greedy and bitter and
dying and he wants to take as much as he can get while he can get it and it’s disgusting. For the rest of my life I will never understand the people who like this man and the awful people he has around him. I cannot wait to be past this chapter looking back. We will get through this and past this, but we have to change course. I wish I knew better what that meant. I have given up on Republicans in our government, they would be the only ones with the normal levers to pull and they won’t pull them. I find myself in the odd position of hoping other countries get tired of this relentless cruelty and blatant disregard for international law, the threats to simply take what he wants — and band together to stop him. He’s not invincible, he’s a bloated old man and he’s pissing off a lot of countries, many of them our allies. This whole administration needs to be rounded up and put somewhere where they can’t keep breaking laws and hurting people.
It is complete and utter mind bending madness the cognitive dissonance of this segment of America that comprises the magats. Thing is there are 70% of us and only 30% of them. I am all for rolling over a coupla fat bigots stuck in their recliners drinking koolaid and watching Fox. If each one of us take on a few of them we can round em up and send em off to Venezuela with the Trump family.
I would love to give them all their own planet. Take Mars. Go with Elon. Paint it all gold. Create your robot girlfriends. Do your thing. Just leave us in peace. Let us have the redwoods and the oceans and the rivers and just go. Smh. Thanks for being here, I appreciate you.
Amen to that, say my offspring and my rage, and billionaires first, please. But HOW to do it is yet another issue that will split the resistance. Fight them with their own filthy means and aren't we better than that, yada-yada, but there comes a point where our impotence is bound to explode (terrible image, but you know what I mean)...
I do know what you mean. I wish I knew the HOW. Everything I think of ends with violence raining down upon us. It is so weird to be hoping other countries will band together and put an end to this but that’s where I find myself. And even that sounds scary and leaves us open to god knows what possibilities so obviously I hope it’s a classic ally of ours. Or allies. I don’t know, it’s all so insane.
I can’t put my deeply sad feelings in words like you do, so thank you for that. Every day is just another heartbreaking news cycle. Even at my advanced age, I know I have to keep showing up and fighting for our country for the sake of my grandchildren and future generations. Thank you for all you do to pull this supportive community together. We all benefit!
Thank you so much, Maureen. I live for this comments section. It’s such a relief and a comfort to know there are so many of us feeling this way. I know we will be okay, I just don’t know exactly how yet. I appreciate you and I’m sending love and hugs ❤️🩹 Don’t give up xx
I am despairing over what is happening in America and how the government is lying about EVERYTHING and that people still believe the crap they are putting out there. I am racking my brain about what could be the magic thing that could get through to some people. I am so freaking rageful and heartbroken over what happened yesterday in Minneapolis, I keep breaking into sobs until I can control it again. I wonder how we will be able to get back our country and keep this from happening again. I hope that someone has maintained an archived repository of .gov websites so that they can be reclaimed. The sheer number of daily happenings is destroying my optimism, hope and beliefs that all will work out eventually. I know one thing: the blue "wave" MUST be a tsunami to get these people out - at the local, state and federal level.
Thank you, Ally, for writing these words. I know it helps me to read them. Blessings
It is really painful right now. I know so many of us are feeling sorrow and despair and I feel sick watching his supporters repeat the lies. I don’t know when or how this will end but I know this is not sustainable. I am saddened that more of his supporters don’t break ranks already. It really is like they are under a spell and I spent far too much time today seeing if I could snap any of them out of it on another platform. I got through to maybe two people. But the hatred spewed at me was unreal. And from women too. It’s tough to watch and I don’t know how we overcome this but I know we will, Sharon. And I appreciate your being here and I’m sending you a lot of love. What heartbreaking times we’re living through❤️🩹
I felt every word of this today. I don’t know what to do with the feelings I have, they are giant and ravenous and stuck in my throat. Thank you for writing this.
Thank you for being here. I wish you lived closer, I want to go for a walk or a drink or a coffee or something. I want to howl at the moon or go to a kickboxing class or one of those places where you can break things. But exchanging comments with you helps, too ❤️🩹🙏🏼
I was in a grief blackout yesterday and hadn’t heard about Renee until last night.
We weren’t designed to handle the horsepower of this much anger/sadness/cruelty I don’t think. I’m just wordless and beside myself with despair.
Thank you for giving so much of yourself in service of others — both here in words and in the world in deeds. Please protect your beautiful heart.
It is too much. I haven’t slept but I sort of didn’t think I would. I don’t know how we’re all getting through this, but I know we are and we will and having each other helps. Hugs ❤️🩹 text you later.
The kidnappers and rapists are now also murderers, or maybe they already were. I grieve for Renee Nicole Gold, and for her family, and for her community, and for Minnesota, and for our society and nation. What we have become is beyond the worst nightmares of anything I could have dreamt. God damn our spineless Congress and corrupt Supreme Court to hell for what they have enabled and empowered.
Pretty much exactly that, Paul. I didn’t even bother trying to go for the hopeful message tonight because I am too enraged and too heartbroken and too disgusted by the endless gaslighting. These people have to go. Cheers I guess. And hugs. Thanks for being here as always ❤️🩹❤️🩹
Incandescent with rage. My heart is shaking. I'm with you, and whoever else is willing to spit the bloody skittles right into the soulless faces of this rising tide of madness.
I don’t usually bother arguing with people on the internet because I know it’s pointless. But today I could not help myself, Kendall. I gave in a few times because there were people (seemingly) believing the Noem version and I just could not. I could not walk by. The smugness. The casual cruelty. All of it trickling down from their feckless leader.
And why am I bothering? If that’s who you follow obviously there’s not much hope I’m going to get through but it just made a horrible thing that much worse. I’m so tired of what’s happening here. And so angry. I wish I knew what we should do. I am at the point of hoping other countries band together and put an end to this madness since Republicans are the only ones who can stop him internally and they won’t — and we are not violent. And I’m thankful those of us who are liberal minded are not violent but I’m frustrated that we let the clock run out on Jan 6. No real repercussions for that? Ugh. Anyway. Good luck to me getting sleep tonight, I feel like I could go run a marathon.
Well, at least we're awake together, all dizzy with righteous indignation, bot sleepingin our beds. I don't blame you for arguing with the ignorant little people. We need to dig our claws into something, anything at all that makes us think we have purchase. This is a normal response to drowning.
I'm going to try to go down and down into the place where stillness sits and I'm going to ask her what to do. That's the only thing I can think of right now. 💔 And anyway, we think you're wonderful.
Yes, I will be trying to meditate my way into sleep at some point. Maybe now that I wrote it out of my head I will manage. After I walk my dog ❤️🩹 Thanks for being here, I adore you.
I don’t know where to begin. Wrote this as a note last night, now retitled.
Now They Shoot Poets
parked her Honda, blocked a swarm,
was approached and was unarmed
agent aimed and fired his gun
shot to kill and not to stun
Offed a poet, mom and wife
took away her right to life
She stopped traffic, took a risk
now she’s called a terrorist
murdered by a goon from ICE
neutralized and sacrificed
don’t forget her, say her name
watch how easily she’s blamed
just remember why she died
no surprise now that they lie.
RIP Renee Nicole Good
This is beautiful, Carole. And incredibly sad.
I am sad and angry and I feel powerless. Thanks for sharing your words, too.
Heather Cox Richardson reports over on Facebook (probably also in her newsletter later here) that not only are the taxpayers supposed to foot the bill for Venezuela... but also it seems that Trump personally is planning to pocket the profits. At least as of now they are planning to transfer the revenue to off-shore accounts that aren't being handled by the treasury. Not that this would be necessarily better, but it's incredibly brazen.
I have had trouble sleeping all year so far but this night really made me blind with rage. Seeing Miller and later Rittenhouse gloating that he could come in and "help out and do his thing", while quipping that "She was not good" (because haha get it her last name?) really pushed me over the edge.
These people need to be brought to justice.
If the USA are supposed to still stay standing in any recognizable way then simply getting rid of these people is not enough.
Hamilton Nolan already wisely suggested to tear down that atrocious Ballroom in any case.
The same has to be done with ANY Trump property.
This man is by now far in Yimakh Shemo territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yimakh_shemo
Yes! That’s exactly right. It’s all insane, as if these are business deals he’s doing for himself and for his family and we, the people, are lucky to have him making all this money for his enterprise. Because of course he’s made the country so wealthy with his stupid tariffs. Which he has not. For the life of me I will never understand why a group of Republican senators has not banded together quietly to plan and topple this joke of a clown car cruel administration and their utter betrayal of the Constitution and anything that resembles our country. I am left to understand there are not enough of them with integrity and a spine, not enough of them who care about the country. So I don’t know what we do exactly, but I know we can’t sit back and wait and hope. We’re off the rails here. Smh. Thanks for being here, Ged.
Oh! And the ballroom and everything else he’s “built” and added on, my god yes. I can’t wait for the day we get to watch these things meet the wrecking ball. I hope they put the East Wing back. I hope they get his name off the Kennedy Center. I hope somehow the pain he has caused so many people comes back to him. I don’t even have to say “a million fold” it just needs to come back to him and the rest will take care of itself.
I also can't tell you what we do, but I can tell you that I am 100% with you that we can't sit back. Around the same time last year I had started my substack and spoke of my feeling that we are at a threat level dark orange (I have since learned that this could be taken as a Trump-skin-color pun which I did not intend) - what I meant was that I thought if we get real lucky and pull all our means together we might avert the worst and could possibly navigate out of this crisis by normal means.
I do _not_ see that anymore. We are off the rails, as you say. So far most commentators are still seeing good midterm results and are speculating about whether house or senate or both will be taken. And I think we can confidently say that most people hate this. This is not a German 1933 situation. While there is a hard core of absolutely atrocious ghouls, there are so many people pissed off by so many things, even among those that were stupid enough to vote for him.
BUT: He already says "I am not saying they should cancel the vote, because they then say I'm a dictator but they should cancel the vote". I do not understand where the confidence comes from that the votes will happen at all or be taken into account. He already has the Federal government at war with the municipalities and the states now, why would that not be a thing then. He has shown that he does not accept votes on January 6. He has made it clear that he does not believe the polling.
ALL THE SIGNS INCLUDING HIM SAYING THAT HE IS THINKING ABOUT IT ARE ON THE FUCKING WALL.
Us Europeans must take our governments to account and make it clear that we are dealing with a hostile entity. Unfortunately, many of them are just too happy to roll over - we have similar levels of profiteering here. But seeing how there's some contradictions this can at least make it a little harder and everything that we're pulling away from you guys on the ground enhances your chances.
I have also put myself on a stricter discipline when it comes to commenting. Raging as I may be, I will only engage in constructive and community building commentary (as I do here) and limit myself to one comment per Ghoul maximum. I will not get into a discussion about whether Maduro was a dictator or not or whether Venezuelans are happy or any of this shit. People discussing Poland's interior policy in 1938 are at best idiotic, but likely worse. The only thing I will tell these people is that they are beyond contempt and that they are a waste of time and this is only something I signal for people watching so that their presence doesn't go unchallenged.
Other than that, I think we are all called upon to organize. Which is to say ideally in organizations that already have a standing and institutions and channels. Linking these up and seeing that they don't roll over is important. We are seeing that our institutions won't save us. The way the press is behaving is shameful. The NYT printing this "Trump was right" Oped - not worth the paper they are printing on.
Symbolically I think it would even be good to delegitimize the Nobel Peace Prize because one can very clearly see that their choice was also instrumental in this entire shitfest.
But yeah, we cannot sit back. I used to tell people that - as bad as things are, we kind of got this. And we do - we will win, because they cannot win. But the way ahead will be more than just rough. It will be literally atrocious.
We will do this, though. They got nothing on us. They even hate themselves. And how could they not. I could go off for hours about what I think about the things Kyle Rittenhouse and Steven Miller said... it's not worth it though. We got shit to take care of.
Thank you for being here too. We will NOT go gentle into that good night.
In fact, we're going to light that fucker up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZWslqjfPE
I am well-nigh speechless before your eloquence and your rage. 🫂
Oh Janey, thank you. I was writing through a red haze. I am beside myself with heartache and sorrow and anger. But I am so grateful to meet you all here. It is a comfort at 4:23 am. I didn’t expect to sleep. Hugs and love.
Well ranted. How is nobody making citizens arrests? How is nobody staging a re-insurrection? And how is no leader apologizing for this? Renee was a hero. I hate that she's a martyr. Arrest Noem. Organize a militia.
I worry so much, Kristen. I think the issue is most of the people who are liberal-minded are not the ones who would attempt a citizens arrest because how do you even do that with a bunch of armed ICE thugs ready to shoot? They’d just shoot and lie after. They’d say they were afraid — and take a look at how his supporters defend these guys when they murder a citizen.
But I worry. The frustration is growing and I am scared we’re going to start seeing this happen more. I’m afraid it’s going to boil over, and civil war in the streets won’t go well for those of us not in favor of what’s happening here. Those of us who didn’t vote for this. It’s a generalization, but we don’t tend to be the ones with firearms, and most of us could not fathom taking the life of another person.
And that’s the thing, if we staged a re-insurrection and did EXACTLY what they did January 6, they’d shoot us all in the streets and say the officers feared for their lives. They’d lie and make up stories about what awful, dangerous people we were, and his supporters would not care they’d shot us dead. I really think that’s where we are and part of what stops people. We could use some outside help but no one wants to fight our military. And he fired all the top-ranked military officers and personnel who would have objected to turning on their own citizens or following illegal orders, or so it would seem. It’s such a mess. That doesn’t mean I think we should keep doing what we’ve been doing, because I don’t. But I’m not sure what it is we can and should do yet.
You have perfectly expressed all the rage, shock, fury, and deep sadness I'm feeling right now. This is not normal. This is not okay. I keep wondering when people are going to take to the streets, not quietly, but with powerful, potent rage. None of this will end until we do.
I’m getting so tired of all the instant messaging about “protest but be peaceful, don’t give them what they want” — obviously I understand. He’s waiting for any excuse to declare Martial Law. I get it and I don’t want to see that, either. But I wish someone would say, “be peaceful, don’t give them what they want, but please come. Get in the streets. Buy as little as possible. Check on your neighbors. Start forming community watch groups and make plans to keep each other safe.” Something, you know? So the message isn’t oh hey just keep coming out with your signs every few months and boycott Amazon and Target and call your reps. It’s not working. It’s not enough. They’re getting too much of what they want. So we have to change course somehow.
Thank you for being here, Keicha. Really so grateful for this comments section 🙏🏼❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Thank you for having a space for people to express their feelings and connect.
Yes, to everything you said above. My brother wrote about the protest movement back in October. He knows of which he speaks, as he's spent much of his career and life as a community organizer. Here's his post if you're interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/spamlikely/p/no-kings-hobby-or-movement?r=25isyd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It's time for something different. Without large, dramatic, sustained protests with clear demands and goals, nothing will change.
Thank you for so eloquently stating what so many of us are feeling now and for years. You did a wonderful job reporting a horribly brutal story of an innocent victim of our corrupt government. The line that really sticks out (many do. So well written.) is about how he violated the constitution and yet got into office again. Wtf?!!!! RIP Renee Nicole Good, you did nothing wrong and you did not deserve your fate. Thank you, Ally, for helping us process our rage and grief.
Thank you, Tracey. And it did strike me as so incredibly sad, just the timing of thinking about January 6th from 5 years ago and the absolute revisionist history they’re hawking, and watching these thugs murder Renee. It feels like a trajectory, like we didn’t stop the first unbelievable breach of our government and this is where it’s led. Along with all the other unthinkable and devastating examples. Anyway I thank you for being here. I’m so grateful to come and read everyone’s thoughts and know that there are so many of us feeling this way. Sending you love ❤️🩹
So we’ll written eloquently!
There’s no line they won’t cross. Literally nothing will shake the cult. No outrage or tragedy.
It would appear that is the case, and it is so sad for all of us.
The video of the murder was clear. Almost like a scene from a movie. Yet they still lie to us. She was just a normal person. Scared. Trying to get out of a situation that had suddenly gotten serious. But they shoot her. And lie to us. I keep waiting for someone in the government to make it stop. Just make it stop. But every day is worse. And it does not stop.
It is escalating no doubt. And he is greedy and bitter and
dying and he wants to take as much as he can get while he can get it and it’s disgusting. For the rest of my life I will never understand the people who like this man and the awful people he has around him. I cannot wait to be past this chapter looking back. We will get through this and past this, but we have to change course. I wish I knew better what that meant. I have given up on Republicans in our government, they would be the only ones with the normal levers to pull and they won’t pull them. I find myself in the odd position of hoping other countries get tired of this relentless cruelty and blatant disregard for international law, the threats to simply take what he wants — and band together to stop him. He’s not invincible, he’s a bloated old man and he’s pissing off a lot of countries, many of them our allies. This whole administration needs to be rounded up and put somewhere where they can’t keep breaking laws and hurting people.
The Lewandowski fix:
Rejoin the world
Fix SS
Medicare for all
Term limits for Congress
Expand the Supreme Court
Reduce presidential power back to executing the laws that Congress passes
AND BACK OUT EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP HAS EVER DONE = BUILDINGS, LAWS, EOs, BATHROOM REMODELINGS, AND ALL THAT FUCKING GOLD CRAP
Absolutely Ally!! I felt every word here!💔
It is complete and utter mind bending madness the cognitive dissonance of this segment of America that comprises the magats. Thing is there are 70% of us and only 30% of them. I am all for rolling over a coupla fat bigots stuck in their recliners drinking koolaid and watching Fox. If each one of us take on a few of them we can round em up and send em off to Venezuela with the Trump family.
I would love to give them all their own planet. Take Mars. Go with Elon. Paint it all gold. Create your robot girlfriends. Do your thing. Just leave us in peace. Let us have the redwoods and the oceans and the rivers and just go. Smh. Thanks for being here, I appreciate you.
That would be the ideal, peaceful solution. But poor Mars.
Amen to that, say my offspring and my rage, and billionaires first, please. But HOW to do it is yet another issue that will split the resistance. Fight them with their own filthy means and aren't we better than that, yada-yada, but there comes a point where our impotence is bound to explode (terrible image, but you know what I mean)...
I do know what you mean. I wish I knew the HOW. Everything I think of ends with violence raining down upon us. It is so weird to be hoping other countries will band together and put an end to this but that’s where I find myself. And even that sounds scary and leaves us open to god knows what possibilities so obviously I hope it’s a classic ally of ours. Or allies. I don’t know, it’s all so insane.
All right: Boots on concrete. Knuckles white. No incense, no civility lace.
Here it is: How long are we going to talk while the house is on fire?
When do we stop debating language and start occupying space?
In the streets.
On the sidewalks.
On the courthouse steps.
On front porches and factory gates and school parking lots.
When do we stop posting and start standing?
When do we decide that comfort is no longer a virtue and fear is no longer an excuse?
When do we tighten our guts, grit our teeth, and fight for this country like people who know it’s being stolen in real time?
Not metaphorically.
Not someday.
Not after one more election cycle or one more op-ed.
Now.
Here.
With our bodies.
With our voices hoarse.
With our refusal loud enough to be impossible to ignore.
History doesn’t remember who was reasonable. It remembers who showed up and wouldn’t move.
Now. Now would be good.
I can’t put my deeply sad feelings in words like you do, so thank you for that. Every day is just another heartbreaking news cycle. Even at my advanced age, I know I have to keep showing up and fighting for our country for the sake of my grandchildren and future generations. Thank you for all you do to pull this supportive community together. We all benefit!
Thank you so much, Maureen. I live for this comments section. It’s such a relief and a comfort to know there are so many of us feeling this way. I know we will be okay, I just don’t know exactly how yet. I appreciate you and I’m sending love and hugs ❤️🩹 Don’t give up xx
I am despairing over what is happening in America and how the government is lying about EVERYTHING and that people still believe the crap they are putting out there. I am racking my brain about what could be the magic thing that could get through to some people. I am so freaking rageful and heartbroken over what happened yesterday in Minneapolis, I keep breaking into sobs until I can control it again. I wonder how we will be able to get back our country and keep this from happening again. I hope that someone has maintained an archived repository of .gov websites so that they can be reclaimed. The sheer number of daily happenings is destroying my optimism, hope and beliefs that all will work out eventually. I know one thing: the blue "wave" MUST be a tsunami to get these people out - at the local, state and federal level.
Thank you, Ally, for writing these words. I know it helps me to read them. Blessings
It is really painful right now. I know so many of us are feeling sorrow and despair and I feel sick watching his supporters repeat the lies. I don’t know when or how this will end but I know this is not sustainable. I am saddened that more of his supporters don’t break ranks already. It really is like they are under a spell and I spent far too much time today seeing if I could snap any of them out of it on another platform. I got through to maybe two people. But the hatred spewed at me was unreal. And from women too. It’s tough to watch and I don’t know how we overcome this but I know we will, Sharon. And I appreciate your being here and I’m sending you a lot of love. What heartbreaking times we’re living through❤️🩹