- Large protests are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to express voice discontent with President Trump’s administration.
- Organizers aim to make the protests accessible by holding events in many places, including small towns.
- The protests reflect growing momentum and dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies on immigration, transgender rights, and the firing of federal workers.
Stock market crashing -> now a reason for corporate interests to align with resistance -> finally hearing about protests in mainstream media
To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism. This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.
From Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”, emphasizes added.
The bourgeoisie aligning to the resistance has happened before. Now, make no mistake: they will betray the movement as soon as it’s in their interests to do so. Don’t trust them past the current crisis.
Don’t even trust them now. Nothing has happened yet. We can say that they took our side after MAGA is out of power and the extremist apparatus that supported them is totally destroyed.
If there’s one lesson we can learn from Trump, it’s that it’s much easier to destroy something than it is to build it. IF we gain power again, we need to take that lesson to heart, and turn it against the fascists who gleefully applied it to the American people, and the rest of the democratic world.
That’s fine. Secure funding and munitions, build committed resistance groups. Let them know the funding situation, and that at some point your life line will become a leash, so keep enough spare equipment to blow off the arm that fed you for it’s own purposes
It’s fascinatingly dumb how short-sighted they are. Do they like having money? People deported, in jail, dead, unemployed, homeless can’t buy their stuff. A delusional hope of feeding off government money only works until the government no longer has a use for you, or decides to just take you over and you become part of the government.
It is in their best interests to support the masses, but they can’t ever see past 3 months in the future.
These people didn’t get money from being smart. They got it from luck, and from violating laws that the government refused to enforce.
They don’t realize that before government regulations existed, instead of paying an incredibly reasonable tax rate, they were able to keep everything… Until an angry mob stormed their home and murdered them all
Just a thought. Mother’s Day is on May 11th. People with children, time to use leverage. If you have MAGAt parents (most likely a maga father and mother whose learned to ignore the worst in her husband) make it clear that they won’t be able to see their grandkids for the month of May. You don’t get to actively destroy the country/world you and your children have to live in, then expect us to give you access to your grand children. Period. My dad is a magat(although suddenly since Trump got elected and started tanking the stock market, and Tesla is on a downward spiral, his vocal support of Trump\Musk has suddenly gone silent).
He’ll be dead before he realizes how wrong he was. Don’t care, I’ll get his money, and can use it to fund the resistance… But my mom, your mom, they do care, greatly. Not having access to grandkids will crush them. Put them to work, on the phones, calling representatives to demand for Trump’s forceful removal. Make it clear that if Trump’s still in office at the end of the month, the ban extends, and so on.
Their generation fucking sold out their own kids and got us into this mess. They aren’t going to feel the effects of a taking economy and country for several years. But we can make our parents feel the effects immediately by denying them affection and contact. It is our right and it is our most powerful tool.
Make it clear they will either assist with the removal of Trump or they will be forgotten. No funeral, no burial, no grave site you’ll be cremated and the ashes will be flushed down the toilet where they belong unless you undid what you have done.
Can’t wait to see the democrats pull a January 6th.