I too am afraid right now Joanne. Honestly for the first time in my 68 years. So I’m old enough to remember Nixon and what he attempted to do with his DOJ. But the “Friday Night Massacre” was a picnic by comparison. At least Dick believed in the Constitution.
My biggest fear is that he is desensitizing us into accepting troops and ICE thugs in the streets of American cities for the midterms wherever he thinks R’s are losing in order to depress turnout.
We must track this back to P25 Charles. Around 60% of their agenda has been implemented to achieve an Imperial Presidency and SCOTUS agrees. We.re in peril as a country, 10/18
The perversion of law by the corrupt SCOTUS 6 is very scary. They rubber stamp every illegal, unconstitutional action of Trump. We have two last life preservers: a Democratic sweep next year or a military coup.
He just ordered troops into Portland, OR “Full force if necessary”. I was in Portland two weeks ago. Stayed downtown. Walked around after dark no problem. Rampant violence and AntiFa?
72 almost 73 here. I used to think it would never get worse than Nixon. I don't have (and won't) any grandchildren. I used to sort of be sad about that. Now I feel sorry for my friends who have them!
I’m 85, and I refuse to give in to the evil. I will stand in front of my 16 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren if necessary. They are all precious to me. I doubt that I will live to see the end of this regime, but I believe it will end in the not too far distant future. We have advantages that didn’t exist in 1930s Germany. We have their history, we have social media where we can communicate 24/7 instantly. We will get through this. The removal of Jimmy Kimmel from his show was a warning even to the people who aren’t paying attention. There are also far more of us than there are of them.
I'm sorry to say it, but I do have some part of me that lives in fear. However, as a Black, gay man, this has been my state of affairs since age 12 (I'm 67 now). All I wanted at this point in life was to have a "quiet" semi-retirement with my spouse. As you might have guessed: no such luck. But resist we must and will. We need to: support writers and bloggers (like a certain "Jersey Girl", ahem...); march and protest when we can...especially in small towns and (gasp) red cities and states; and most importantly...DON'T SUBMIT TO THE TYRANT AND HIS MINIONS IN ADVANCE...EVER!! We won't let you down JoJo!
Why thousands allowed the incontinent cankleer to attend the Golf and NOT “chase him outta dodge”
is sadly PROOF of this complacency..
I much preferred that young Carlos Alcaraz from Spain,angered Old Donny John at the Tennis a few weeks ago by (a) winning and (b) NOT gushing and fawning over the Hepatitis Spelling idiot( he can’t even use SPELLCHECK🤣)
I WISH THE GOLFERS WOULD stand up and tell T Rump to “go away” ( Stronger Words are available in your imagination)
Love YOUR work JoJo
Your sincerity and care about not just YOUR country BUT the legacy this idiot is creating for your children and mine
I confess lining up at Citizenship and Immigration in Chicago and even hiring a lawyer but I quit the line because I didn't ever before experience being treated worse than shit. In 2003 I told my wife we were returning to my country to spend the rest of our biological eternity. My wife is a Socratic and facts matter in philosophy and science even in Nashville where she was born. There never was no Noah or even A NOAH.
I remember hearing the song "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics and actually getting the chills. The lyrics haunted me and now are so relevant. I always thought it was about the Hitler regime, and wouldn't be relevant in America. I can't shake that initial reaction and it runs the loop in my head on the daily.
Jo, I am so sorry you are being harassed ❤️ it’s unbelievable what is happening in our country right now and what people are getting away with 😠 scary stuff for sure. I did see a video of an army veteran filming and yelling at two/three thugs grabbing a young man. It was horrific to witness 😢 but I’m glad he did it so people can see what’s really happening. I know there are others videos as well, like the ones you mentioned. Never has it been more important for us to stand up, stand together and support each other! Jo, I hope you have a safe and happy weekend ❤️ and thanks for being here with/for us! BTW, I’ve really been enjoying the Siren Network!
Interestingly, the YouTube follow to David's outstanding song of rebellion was Talking Heads 'Life during wartime' a lesson we may all need to learn far too soon. I'm almost afraid to play 'Silent Running' by Mike and the Mechanics, that's a little too scary and too real.
Super column today JoJo, if it doesn't inspire more defiance, not much will, but I have no doubt and all confidence that we shall indeed overcome.
It is a sad sad time for the Constitution and the United States. We have put a guy in office who has surrounded himself with yes sir to everything. Our 250th year since the birth of these United States may well have ended in the 248th year. We have watched fascism slowly take our Constitution and shred it in favor of one man. We have watched the shadow docket of the Supreme Court take a knee for this one man to do what he likes. We have even watched a murdered free speech advocate become a MAGA martyr not unlike Horst Weezel when Hitler needed one.
I have lawn signs that are anti Trump., a lot of them. A salesman came by and told me I was brave to put them out there and might pay consequences. I said the worst they can do is take them down and I'll replace them. He said that it could be more then that, they could break down my door. I said they can walk in but they won't be walking out. He smiled and said go get them girl. I asked him as a man, if he would do the same and he said no because he had a family to protect. Any excuse to not do the right thing. I'm with you JoJo, fight to the end which ever way it goes. To bad men don't have the balls anymore to do it.
After watching the Siren with Miles Taylor, my new rally cry will be DEFY! It was RESIST, but you guys were right . . . that’s too passive. 😡Defiance gets more results! Btw, I really miss Bowie.😔 Thanks for your inspiring words. Gotta add a new sign for the next No Kings Rally. DEFY THE LIE THAT IS THIS REGIME! 💙
My father was born in a town near Camp Auschwitz in 1910. He arrived in New York City after finishing Jesuit High School in 1927. I've known about the Holocaust since 400 AD when a brutal Roman Tyrant called Constantine had a dream of conquering all our biosphere and he and SAINTS AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND JOHN CHRYSTOSOM created a new religion. John and Augustine created the religion of Rome and Constantinople. Russia had its Pogroms and Europe had its Holocausts, The Rhineland Massacre of Peter the Small began a bloodbath in Jerusalem the City of Peace and Peter the Drunk is set to blow up the World.
It was 70 years ago my father told me Christopher Columbus was a Celt and a Basque and a Jew and the DNA said Columbus' DNA said he was not a sailor from Genoa but a REFUGEE from the Supreme Court of Ancient Washington the first Court of Roman Inquisitions. Augustine of Hippo and John Chrysostom blamed us for killing our brother Jesus and ending your CONSEERVATIVE PARADISE.Antonin Scalia carried around a dictionary to pervert your constitution that barred Roman Catholics from high public office like the Supreme Court. Only real Christians like John the Calvinist Adams could be among the the chosen.. The Jews lived among the Calvinists and were Spanish and Portuguese in 1776.
Marco Rubio's hero Fulgenio Batista began the Holocaust in Havana Cuba and Marco is a National Socialist like Peter Hegseth and Steve Bannon , Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Robert Stanley Weir wrote Oh Canada in Stanstead and Benet wrote The Devil and Daniel Webster met in Stanstead. Stanstead College is Wesleyan and ultra-conservative and top down governance with liberalism still utopian
We have no right to judge but Charlie Kirk was murdered in the Beeehive State and that is the American divide between the DRONES and the WORKERS. We are naked apes not beehives and we have work to do. George the third had no power to tax and spend . Virginia was a democracy in 1689. George the third had no responsibilities other than screwing, partying and signing anything Lord North the Prime MInister put in front of him.
To make the whole religious schism all the more ridiculous it is the Jews of Ukraine who sang the Heneni before Jesus was conceived whether normally or immaculately. It is Jews like Zelenskiiy and my maternal ancestors who are Semites.
Leonard Cohen led the country band at Kamala's High School where you don't have to Imagine. There is no religion. There are as many genders as there are student at Westmount High School and only one race the double oxymoronic homo sapiens sapiens.
At Westmount High School where Kamala spent her High School years healthcare, education and welfare are human rights not American privileges. I know you want it Darker but John and Yoko wrote and sang this diddy wah diddy walking distance from Westmount high.
I watched your talk with Miles Taylor yesterday. It left me in tears. When he said he had a little girl he loved with all his heart...mine broke then. I haven't been able to get that out of my head. For too long I thought I was alone in my fear. I am so afraid, of something happening to you, who I look to for my courage and grit. For something to happen to the few Congress people (AOC, Swalwell, Crocket come to mind first) who are actually standing up for the country and the people. I am terrified and oh so angry that those bastards in the senate think more of their own hides and possible access to power than the people who sent them there. And my biggest fear of all, that they won't let us have an honest election in 2026. I am almost certain they won't. My mother (95) is constantly saying she's glad she'll be gone, she doesn't want to be here anymore. I get it. She lived through WWII, as a kid, but still. I know most of the Greatest Generation is gone, but oh my God! What the hell is wrong with too many in this country?
I too am afraid right now Joanne. Honestly for the first time in my 68 years. So I’m old enough to remember Nixon and what he attempted to do with his DOJ. But the “Friday Night Massacre” was a picnic by comparison. At least Dick believed in the Constitution.
My biggest fear is that he is desensitizing us into accepting troops and ICE thugs in the streets of American cities for the midterms wherever he thinks R’s are losing in order to depress turnout.
No Kings 🤴 10/18. Please be there.
I agree 😞
That's exactly their game plan. It's been the tyrant's playbook since the beginning of civilization.
We must track this back to P25 Charles. Around 60% of their agenda has been implemented to achieve an Imperial Presidency and SCOTUS agrees. We.re in peril as a country, 10/18
The perversion of law by the corrupt SCOTUS 6 is very scary. They rubber stamp every illegal, unconstitutional action of Trump. We have two last life preservers: a Democratic sweep next year or a military coup.
He just ordered troops into Portland, OR “Full force if necessary”. I was in Portland two weeks ago. Stayed downtown. Walked around after dark no problem. Rampant violence and AntiFa?
BULLSHIT 🚫
https://youtube.com/shorts/jTQQthsQZ-Y?si=u2OuREoHiDXvLID6
DAMMIT - Just when I was fixin’ to jump off the Fremont Bridge (tallest in Portland to my knowledge) Andy Borowitz had to go n make me laugh.
I’ll wait until morning 😏
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/federal-troops-arrive-in-portland
72 almost 73 here. I used to think it would never get worse than Nixon. I don't have (and won't) any grandchildren. I used to sort of be sad about that. Now I feel sorry for my friends who have them!
Exactly. That was the framers biggest concern.
I am your age, Rob. I feel the same way.
I’d like to leave my daughter a decent world. Afraid that if it happens will take a generation to undo this damage. Will I live to be 88? Dunno 🤷♂️
I’m 85, and I refuse to give in to the evil. I will stand in front of my 16 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren if necessary. They are all precious to me. I doubt that I will live to see the end of this regime, but I believe it will end in the not too far distant future. We have advantages that didn’t exist in 1930s Germany. We have their history, we have social media where we can communicate 24/7 instantly. We will get through this. The removal of Jimmy Kimmel from his show was a warning even to the people who aren’t paying attention. There are also far more of us than there are of them.
I'm in the same boat, Rob. I have a son and daughter. And I worry about the world we're leaving them.
"Defiant in the Face of Fear." That is one of my signs for No Kings Day. The other is "All Welcome Here: except ICE"
Excellent post, JoJo. I highly recommend this movie with Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber as a good inspiration for continued resistance:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_defiance
JoJo you are a beacon of courage in this ocean of bewilderment and cowardice
I'm sorry to say it, but I do have some part of me that lives in fear. However, as a Black, gay man, this has been my state of affairs since age 12 (I'm 67 now). All I wanted at this point in life was to have a "quiet" semi-retirement with my spouse. As you might have guessed: no such luck. But resist we must and will. We need to: support writers and bloggers (like a certain "Jersey Girl", ahem...); march and protest when we can...especially in small towns and (gasp) red cities and states; and most importantly...DON'T SUBMIT TO THE TYRANT AND HIS MINIONS IN ADVANCE...EVER!! We won't let you down JoJo!
It's what you do after you're afraid that matters.
And you Madam show daily that it is within us to stand tall and proud, fearful and resolute both.
Complacency is Complicity
BRILLIANT JoJo
Why thousands allowed the incontinent cankleer to attend the Golf and NOT “chase him outta dodge”
is sadly PROOF of this complacency..
I much preferred that young Carlos Alcaraz from Spain,angered Old Donny John at the Tennis a few weeks ago by (a) winning and (b) NOT gushing and fawning over the Hepatitis Spelling idiot( he can’t even use SPELLCHECK🤣)
I WISH THE GOLFERS WOULD stand up and tell T Rump to “go away” ( Stronger Words are available in your imagination)
Love YOUR work JoJo
Your sincerity and care about not just YOUR country BUT the legacy this idiot is creating for your children and mine
🌟🙏❤️
Thank you Rory,
Are you a ginger and a Jacobin?
I confess lining up at Citizenship and Immigration in Chicago and even hiring a lawyer but I quit the line because I didn't ever before experience being treated worse than shit. In 2003 I told my wife we were returning to my country to spend the rest of our biological eternity. My wife is a Socratic and facts matter in philosophy and science even in Nashville where she was born. There never was no Noah or even A NOAH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu-duTWccyI&list=RDqu-duTWccyI&start_radio=1
I remember hearing the song "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics and actually getting the chills. The lyrics haunted me and now are so relevant. I always thought it was about the Hitler regime, and wouldn't be relevant in America. I can't shake that initial reaction and it runs the loop in my head on the daily.
My thought too when I read today's column. There was a lot of what now seems prescient writing back then.
Jo, I am so sorry you are being harassed ❤️ it’s unbelievable what is happening in our country right now and what people are getting away with 😠 scary stuff for sure. I did see a video of an army veteran filming and yelling at two/three thugs grabbing a young man. It was horrific to witness 😢 but I’m glad he did it so people can see what’s really happening. I know there are others videos as well, like the ones you mentioned. Never has it been more important for us to stand up, stand together and support each other! Jo, I hope you have a safe and happy weekend ❤️ and thanks for being here with/for us! BTW, I’ve really been enjoying the Siren Network!
This is the single best piece on the subject I have read. It is worth the entire cost of an annual subscription, so I went from free to annual.
I did the same awhile back. Great writing and in so many different ways.
Interestingly, the YouTube follow to David's outstanding song of rebellion was Talking Heads 'Life during wartime' a lesson we may all need to learn far too soon. I'm almost afraid to play 'Silent Running' by Mike and the Mechanics, that's a little too scary and too real.
Super column today JoJo, if it doesn't inspire more defiance, not much will, but I have no doubt and all confidence that we shall indeed overcome.
Thanks JoJofrom Jerz,
It is a sad sad time for the Constitution and the United States. We have put a guy in office who has surrounded himself with yes sir to everything. Our 250th year since the birth of these United States may well have ended in the 248th year. We have watched fascism slowly take our Constitution and shred it in favor of one man. We have watched the shadow docket of the Supreme Court take a knee for this one man to do what he likes. We have even watched a murdered free speech advocate become a MAGA martyr not unlike Horst Weezel when Hitler needed one.
I have lawn signs that are anti Trump., a lot of them. A salesman came by and told me I was brave to put them out there and might pay consequences. I said the worst they can do is take them down and I'll replace them. He said that it could be more then that, they could break down my door. I said they can walk in but they won't be walking out. He smiled and said go get them girl. I asked him as a man, if he would do the same and he said no because he had a family to protect. Any excuse to not do the right thing. I'm with you JoJo, fight to the end which ever way it goes. To bad men don't have the balls anymore to do it.
After watching the Siren with Miles Taylor, my new rally cry will be DEFY! It was RESIST, but you guys were right . . . that’s too passive. 😡Defiance gets more results! Btw, I really miss Bowie.😔 Thanks for your inspiring words. Gotta add a new sign for the next No Kings Rally. DEFY THE LIE THAT IS THIS REGIME! 💙
I love you Jo Jo,
My father was born in a town near Camp Auschwitz in 1910. He arrived in New York City after finishing Jesuit High School in 1927. I've known about the Holocaust since 400 AD when a brutal Roman Tyrant called Constantine had a dream of conquering all our biosphere and he and SAINTS AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND JOHN CHRYSTOSOM created a new religion. John and Augustine created the religion of Rome and Constantinople. Russia had its Pogroms and Europe had its Holocausts, The Rhineland Massacre of Peter the Small began a bloodbath in Jerusalem the City of Peace and Peter the Drunk is set to blow up the World.
It was 70 years ago my father told me Christopher Columbus was a Celt and a Basque and a Jew and the DNA said Columbus' DNA said he was not a sailor from Genoa but a REFUGEE from the Supreme Court of Ancient Washington the first Court of Roman Inquisitions. Augustine of Hippo and John Chrysostom blamed us for killing our brother Jesus and ending your CONSEERVATIVE PARADISE.Antonin Scalia carried around a dictionary to pervert your constitution that barred Roman Catholics from high public office like the Supreme Court. Only real Christians like John the Calvinist Adams could be among the the chosen.. The Jews lived among the Calvinists and were Spanish and Portuguese in 1776.
https://jewishcurrents.org/emperor-constantine-and-the-jews
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_adversus_judaeos_01_homily1.htm
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2136-augustine
https://www.historyandheadlines.com/may-18-1096-crusaders-massacre-800-jews-in-worms-germany-first-crusade/
https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker-archive/updated-dna-tests-all-over-was-columbus/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis
Marco Rubio's hero Fulgenio Batista began the Holocaust in Havana Cuba and Marco is a National Socialist like Peter Hegseth and Steve Bannon , Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fulgencio-Batista
Fidel's pipe dream was to take the mound at Yankee Stadium in pinstripes.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fidel-Castro
It was however KKKristi Noem who came to Stanstead Township to tell us we would be assimilated into your Beehive.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/02/utopian-fantasies-vs-real-happiness-samuel-johnson-rasselas-mitchell-kalpakgian.html
Robert Stanley Weir wrote Oh Canada in Stanstead and Benet wrote The Devil and Daniel Webster met in Stanstead. Stanstead College is Wesleyan and ultra-conservative and top down governance with liberalism still utopian
We have no right to judge but Charlie Kirk was murdered in the Beeehive State and that is the American divide between the DRONES and the WORKERS. We are naked apes not beehives and we have work to do. George the third had no power to tax and spend . Virginia was a democracy in 1689. George the third had no responsibilities other than screwing, partying and signing anything Lord North the Prime MInister put in front of him.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/act-of-toleration-1689/
To make the whole religious schism all the more ridiculous it is the Jews of Ukraine who sang the Heneni before Jesus was conceived whether normally or immaculately. It is Jews like Zelenskiiy and my maternal ancestors who are Semites.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/synagogue-unearthed-in-russia-may-be-one-of-the-oldest-outside-israel-but-not-everyone-is-convinced
https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/hineni-here-i-am-send-me/
Leonard Cohen led the country band at Kamala's High School where you don't have to Imagine. There is no religion. There are as many genders as there are student at Westmount High School and only one race the double oxymoronic homo sapiens sapiens.
At Westmount High School where Kamala spent her High School years healthcare, education and welfare are human rights not American privileges. I know you want it Darker but John and Yoko wrote and sang this diddy wah diddy walking distance from Westmount high.
https://westmount.emsb.qc.ca/whs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7IP4UlXvG8&list=RDL7IP4UlXvG8&start_radio=1
Excellent post, Jo! Your words are truth. The famous words of FDR, " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. "
Defiantly yours,
Jo
I watched your talk with Miles Taylor yesterday. It left me in tears. When he said he had a little girl he loved with all his heart...mine broke then. I haven't been able to get that out of my head. For too long I thought I was alone in my fear. I am so afraid, of something happening to you, who I look to for my courage and grit. For something to happen to the few Congress people (AOC, Swalwell, Crocket come to mind first) who are actually standing up for the country and the people. I am terrified and oh so angry that those bastards in the senate think more of their own hides and possible access to power than the people who sent them there. And my biggest fear of all, that they won't let us have an honest election in 2026. I am almost certain they won't. My mother (95) is constantly saying she's glad she'll be gone, she doesn't want to be here anymore. I get it. She lived through WWII, as a kid, but still. I know most of the Greatest Generation is gone, but oh my God! What the hell is wrong with too many in this country?