The old hippies around here: "ah, crap, not this shit again"

of my thinking every single day. Really, "not this shit again" comes around almost every day around here. Us old hippies did get old and there was no one to follow. I hope they get out there before it is too late. My old joints won't do what we did back then but we would all still do what we can.

Us geezers have time to do every protest. They younger people make it when we have weekend events, and LOTS of them drive by giving us happy honks, waves, thumbs up when we are along roads during rush hour.

And it is sometimes reassuring to be out front of the house when even younger kids are walking to their school bus stops. There are some pretty young Americans who watch, listen, and have some pretty encouraging discussions amongst themselves, if you get a chance to putter in the front yard and quietly eavesdrop.

Need active young en’s

and we see LOTS if 20-30 year olds at weekend gatherings.

What's going on behind the scenes while we're discussing his $400M gift from Qatar?

He has eviscerated our Constitution, thrown thousands or millions out of work and into poverty, denied children Head Start, thrown innocent people into prisons or deported them without just cause or due process, kneeled down to foreign leaders who want to destroy our democracy...I could go on and on, but I am preaching to the choir here.

Why can't this evil bastard JUST DIE???!!!

during Covid... and that *needs* to be always remembered. But no one is talking about how many people have ended up dead because of his policies today and ICE thugs. And I still would like to know where all those kids, slipped away during the dead of night by ICE, ended up!

And the families torn apart during his first reign of terror and children put in cages. He is evil personified.

There’s only a relatively small number of HS guys compared to a national population of over 350 million. Federal law enforcement in total isn’t designed for this. The vast majority of law enforcement is state and local and not under DCs jurisdiction. My state will tell them to fuck off.

Stay strong. Stay pissed not afraid.

but that's why he's building his own army of jackboots... he can't trust he can get the military pared down enough to do what he says, no matter what. I used to be a cop in my younger days... and even *I* don't trust today's cops as a whole!

"....he's building his own army of jackboots."

I'll bet not all of them are old and moneyed...

associated with the Musk family.
Damn, this is all very playing out like Fisk in Daredevil Reborn.

Sometimes I think there’s something deep in the human psyche that goes out of its way to be afraid. We’ll make up fears from whole cloth if we have to. The left is just as guilty of it as the right.

As for state and local law enforcement, I live in blue America. We don’t enforce fascism around here. Red state mileage may vary.

"the purpose of evil is not to make you evil. The purpose of evil is to wear you down."

That's the MO here. The rapist has been backlogging courts for years and that's going to continue to happen as he and his criminal cadres double down on the bad.

is chilling and shockingly familiar. Lots of examples of authoritarian governments, kings, polarization, domination, death through the centuries and all over the globe. I'm still digesting my sense of foreboding when learning about these...and sense that we (USA and wider) are on the wrong but well-worn path. Super sad. (Can't yet describe how similar some of the early official 3rd Reich decrees are to current US executive orders)

Lots of clear-eyed rebellion and awareness in the young-ish neighborhoods we've been in, so...uplifting but at the same time the messages of resistance constantly underline the problems facing the US, Gaza, Ukraine, Berlin, and others. Esp for marginalized groups

Even as a frequent DU reader, very good to be in a place where issues of justice are near the surface and discussed. The need for urgency is clear.