I'm a retired lawyer, but have signed up LDAD to do what I can.
Please address the question of how quickly we can realistically get to meaningful impeachment proceedings. I know you can't really answer that b/c we need Rs to vote with Ds to bring the Articles of Impeachment in the House and 2/3s in the Senate to convict. So, I guess the real question is how far does Rump have to go to convince 20 Senators to vote for impeachment? Or are we really stuck waiting for and hoping our nation survives until 2028?
I love it when I hear a little grin in your audio. I enjoy your calm voice, much easier to listen to than the rest of the crowd, but when those little chuckles sneak out, it's like sunshine peeking through the clouds.
Please provide plenty of discussion about the memo sent to 2.8 million federal employees, pressuring them to resign! Joyce Vance covered it. It is, to use one of the orange monster’s favorite terms, DISGRACEFUL and more.
I suspect a number of those who voted for Trump are holding their heads and thinking, "Yikes, I made a horrible mistake. How was I to know Trump was going to go off the rails." My reply to them is:
Don't come crying to me. You voted for this scumbag. You failed to do any homework.
So now you can live with it. You owe it to your conscience to write to your hero and tell him what you think, and share your letter with everybody you know, including family, relatives, friends, neighbors, your mayor, governor and members of Congress.
Thanks, Robert! It has taken a minute for people to wake up from the trauma of the election and begin to fight for our democracy! Step by step, we will win! We will save the country that has given us such opportunity! The Felon is too stupid to carry out any plans and his broligarchs have little interest outside of scamming more money out of the government and the Felon's cult! I hope that everyone will contribute what they can to Lawyers Defending American Democracy! I have and will continue to give what I can in the future. We should all be supporting Democracy 2025 as well. DEMOCRACY WILL WIN if we the people just stand up for it!!
I do not want to attack Democratic leadership but, one has to wonder when and what kind of ORGANIZED and EXPLICIT response we (Democrats) are making or are going to make. I have not left Facebook yet but everyday I post, in a RED BOX, as pithy a criticism of the most recent MAGA actions as I can muster. I want to see a coalition of the strongest, most articulate Democratic Party Leaders, identified as such (e.g. Democratic Leaders Against MAGA Insanity-DeLAMI.) We need an overt, organized and United front in protection of the Constitution and the American people out there everyday in a very public stance against these dangerous action. Protestations against the cowardly media carries no water in this fight. Strong visible statements and actions, especially ones that respond to whatever latest outrage they throw at us, are absolutely mandatory and their absence is Political Malpractice. Here is Adam Kissinger making a similar point. https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-video-extreme-emergency?r=97ajt&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
Simply registering young voters will not help (believe me, I did A LOT of that in 2024). There must also be robust civic education required for high school graduation as well. I'll be damned if I am going to register one more low-information voter who has no idea how to get reliable information on issues, policies, or candidates - and who does not know how to distinguish facts and information from misinformation and disinformation. I wish the Civics Center addressed this. Our county's chapter of the LWV has mastered voter registration - we know we now need to focus on voter education and civic engagement.
If registering high school students is going to succeed is bolstering democracy: civics, history, and government courses need to be mandatory and taught accurately, in order to counter the influence of other curricula including literature like The Fountainhead, which has inspired many youth to a life of me-first profiteering. My brother was a young Republican even before high school, and bought the agenda aggressively until he finally saw the light during the second term of W. I'm all for registering students, but have qualms about registering those with a skewed, faulty, biased education... speaking to the importance of a Board of Education and local school boards that are not mired in propaganda... it's a vicious circle.
Hegseth's list of prohibited holidays looks like a white Christian nationalist's dream come true. It should be publicized (and protested) loudly, especially in media aimed at everyone whose days of remembrance it prohibits--including those who voted for Felonius Rump!
There were so many moments when I’ve included at the end of my postings, emails and other communications to every elected official I could reach, and anyone else I could think of who has any kind of influence in this country the following phrase for the past 10 years as an added wake up call, to look around and act!
“DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES!”
Trying to underscore the severity and gravity of what was happening.
It is where we are and have been the whole time!
No one listened..No one took the necessary actions.
Trump says remove Gazans from their homeland and do what? Build Trump Towers? We should
have begun assembling a structure of a "Marshall" Plan as soon as the Israelis started bombing
which resulted in over 40,000 dead. A very credible formal organization of responsible nations, the UN, NGOs, companies and people under a respected "czar" would have hastened peace talks with the Gazans gaining respect for us and losing respect for Hamas. With the cease fire finally in effect, we could have been ready to have our own people on the ground to help rebuild. I would have asked Israel to contribute with a desalination plant in Gaza. They are probably best in the world at this. All this is needed more than ever.
While we're all being harmed, some lawyers are getting really rich.
I'm a retired lawyer, but have signed up LDAD to do what I can.
Please address the question of how quickly we can realistically get to meaningful impeachment proceedings. I know you can't really answer that b/c we need Rs to vote with Ds to bring the Articles of Impeachment in the House and 2/3s in the Senate to convict. So, I guess the real question is how far does Rump have to go to convince 20 Senators to vote for impeachment? Or are we really stuck waiting for and hoping our nation survives until 2028?
I love it when I hear a little grin in your audio. I enjoy your calm voice, much easier to listen to than the rest of the crowd, but when those little chuckles sneak out, it's like sunshine peeking through the clouds.
That gigantic cross hanging around Leavitt's neck! So Christian of her.
Postcards@TonyTheDemocrat.org are writing postcards to Wisconsin voters for the Spring Election so that's my way to deal with the madness.
Please provide plenty of discussion about the memo sent to 2.8 million federal employees, pressuring them to resign! Joyce Vance covered it. It is, to use one of the orange monster’s favorite terms, DISGRACEFUL and more.
I suspect a number of those who voted for Trump are holding their heads and thinking, "Yikes, I made a horrible mistake. How was I to know Trump was going to go off the rails." My reply to them is:
Don't come crying to me. You voted for this scumbag. You failed to do any homework.
So now you can live with it. You owe it to your conscience to write to your hero and tell him what you think, and share your letter with everybody you know, including family, relatives, friends, neighbors, your mayor, governor and members of Congress.
I have to correct my earlier post. It is America at a Crossroads and Nancy MacLean that I meant to suggest people look at.
Thanks, Robert! It has taken a minute for people to wake up from the trauma of the election and begin to fight for our democracy! Step by step, we will win! We will save the country that has given us such opportunity! The Felon is too stupid to carry out any plans and his broligarchs have little interest outside of scamming more money out of the government and the Felon's cult! I hope that everyone will contribute what they can to Lawyers Defending American Democracy! I have and will continue to give what I can in the future. We should all be supporting Democracy 2025 as well. DEMOCRACY WILL WIN if we the people just stand up for it!!
I do not want to attack Democratic leadership but, one has to wonder when and what kind of ORGANIZED and EXPLICIT response we (Democrats) are making or are going to make. I have not left Facebook yet but everyday I post, in a RED BOX, as pithy a criticism of the most recent MAGA actions as I can muster. I want to see a coalition of the strongest, most articulate Democratic Party Leaders, identified as such (e.g. Democratic Leaders Against MAGA Insanity-DeLAMI.) We need an overt, organized and United front in protection of the Constitution and the American people out there everyday in a very public stance against these dangerous action. Protestations against the cowardly media carries no water in this fight. Strong visible statements and actions, especially ones that respond to whatever latest outrage they throw at us, are absolutely mandatory and their absence is Political Malpractice. Here is Adam Kissinger making a similar point. https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-video-extreme-emergency?r=97ajt&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
Simply registering young voters will not help (believe me, I did A LOT of that in 2024). There must also be robust civic education required for high school graduation as well. I'll be damned if I am going to register one more low-information voter who has no idea how to get reliable information on issues, policies, or candidates - and who does not know how to distinguish facts and information from misinformation and disinformation. I wish the Civics Center addressed this. Our county's chapter of the LWV has mastered voter registration - we know we now need to focus on voter education and civic engagement.
If registering high school students is going to succeed is bolstering democracy: civics, history, and government courses need to be mandatory and taught accurately, in order to counter the influence of other curricula including literature like The Fountainhead, which has inspired many youth to a life of me-first profiteering. My brother was a young Republican even before high school, and bought the agenda aggressively until he finally saw the light during the second term of W. I'm all for registering students, but have qualms about registering those with a skewed, faulty, biased education... speaking to the importance of a Board of Education and local school boards that are not mired in propaganda... it's a vicious circle.
Don’t take the bait. Trump has now made the airplane story about him. Has he no shame?
Hegseth's list of prohibited holidays looks like a white Christian nationalist's dream come true. It should be publicized (and protested) loudly, especially in media aimed at everyone whose days of remembrance it prohibits--including those who voted for Felonius Rump!
There were so many moments when I’ve included at the end of my postings, emails and other communications to every elected official I could reach, and anyone else I could think of who has any kind of influence in this country the following phrase for the past 10 years as an added wake up call, to look around and act!
“DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES!”
Trying to underscore the severity and gravity of what was happening.
It is where we are and have been the whole time!
No one listened..No one took the necessary actions.
All of this was avoidable, where was the will?
"Help!", The inmates are in charge of the institution.
Trump says remove Gazans from their homeland and do what? Build Trump Towers? We should
have begun assembling a structure of a "Marshall" Plan as soon as the Israelis started bombing
which resulted in over 40,000 dead. A very credible formal organization of responsible nations, the UN, NGOs, companies and people under a respected "czar" would have hastened peace talks with the Gazans gaining respect for us and losing respect for Hamas. With the cease fire finally in effect, we could have been ready to have our own people on the ground to help rebuild. I would have asked Israel to contribute with a desalination plant in Gaza. They are probably best in the world at this. All this is needed more than ever.