Thursday, March 27, 2025

Take it to the streets!

 Take it to the streets!

We don’t have 2 years.

                                        By Keith Thomas

3/27/2025

Do like the title says[1]

Not wanting to be a downer here but we really don’t have time to wait for the 2026 elections assuming that we still have elections by then. I’m serious.

            What can you do to fight against fascism?

            The easy answer is to do what you can.

            What might that be?

·        You can use social media. My health isn’t all that great so I write and post these missives on social media. I interact with people.

·        We’re Independents but contribute the small amounts that we can to various Democratic candidates. Or at least did until Schumer folded. Now we only contribute to a couple of Democratic Progressives that we know fight back with actions as well as words.

·        I write letters to MAGA Red State Republicans and officials as well as Democrats. Letters matter. And I keep copies.

·        You can call people on the telephone. Most people carry a phone around these days so how easy does it have to be! Flood their zone!

·        Boycotts work. You can boycott businesses and products.

·        You can march in the streets! Yes, you can. If there’s a rally being held that you can make it to GO! I’m going to give it a shot. I’ve seen people attend rallies walking with canes, crutches and in wheelchairs’

            When I was in a union we went on strike and rallies were called. I once helped distribute 4,000 handbills for a rally. Eight people showed up. The next day union people told me “Hey not very many people showed up.” They knew that because they stayed home and sat on their ass watching it on television and wringing their hands because no one showed up. So, if you can SHOW UP. MAGA is watching.

Showing up matters.

After the flood.

            The whole purpose of MAGA “flooding the zone” is to take over government control before elections ever get here. Every government entity will quickly become unreliable as a source of credible information. Every spokesperson for the government becomes a mouthpiece for the Führer Trump.

            By 2026 the government run election machines at the Federal and MAGA Republican Red States level will be nothing more than rubber stamp for MAGA. MAGA Red State fascists increased voter suppression activities after the 2020 elections. While some of their proposed changes failed, many succeeded.[2]

            Just like what is happening at the Pentagon with our military, minorities (People of Color) and women are being scrubbed from the information provided to the public. The woman Commandant of the Coast Guard and a Black General were among the first to be removed. Now that’s trickling down to the lower levels. The military is once again being segregated.

            The Department of Education is being gutted and a white-people-are-supreme education is being delivered. Talk about race, diversity, equity, and inclusion and funds get pulled and teachers get fired.  That’s why books were banned.

            Talk bad about the Führer Trump and you get sued or get disappeared.

Welcome to Soviet Russia.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxWPEdYCnI

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dozen-state-laws-shift-power-elections-partisan-entities/story?id=79408455

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I didn’t vote for this.


I didn’t vote for this.

Bullshit! Yeah you did.

By Keith Thomas

3/19/2025

State of denial.

            We do have a 51st state already. Welcome Trumpers to your great 51st State of denial!

            A common refrain from disenchanted MAGA voters is, “I didn’t vote for this!”

            Trump told them repeatedly several times a day the things that he wanted to do and was going to do. MAGA cheered his agenda. They love his agenda. They voted for his agenda thinking that his hateful actions would happen to others. NOT to them. They are MAGA! They chose to believe the ridiculous lies TRUMP told and things he said. They had an excuse for his every questionable disgusting crazy action. They believed their Dear Leader Führer, thinking that they were safe.

Some of them weren’t.

MAGA made their choice.

            In order to make the claim that they didn’t know what they were voting for, Trumpers have to ignore all the information that was available from legitimate sources. They chose to ignore all the people that worked for the Trump Administration saying that the man was a horrible President. They either chose NOT to believe or didn’t care. Instead they chose to suspend reality and believe all the Trump propaganda outlets. What they didn’t like they called FAKE. They chose to ignore his mishandling of the plague that cost an additional couple of hundred thousand lives in America. They chose to ignore all of Trump’s lies.

But most of all they chose to ignore the man himself, his petty vindictive nature, lack of character, and history of no one loving him as much as he loves himself and money. It’s always all about money for him and how he can profit personally.

            The MAGA cult want People of Color put in detention camps, families separated, and deported. Even MAGA men and women who are married to immigrants, including legal immigrants. They chose to make themselves a part of the action by voting for their MAGA Führer Trump.

            And then some of them got to take the punishment that they thought was intended for others. Their immigrant spouses got put in detention centers. Their own family members got grabbed up. Their Medicare and Medicaid are being threatened. Their freedoms are being curtailed and not just the freedom of others. They got laid off. MAGA Veterans and law enforcement got laid off. Tens of thousand more are getting laid off in industries affected by Trump’s Tarriff Trade War against our allies. Contracts are being canceled. MAGA 401Ks are being affected just like everyone else’s as the stock market tanks. Their cost of living is going up. They’re paying more. Their pocketbooks are being pinched.  

            MAGA laughed at the misery of others.

Then the misery became theirs.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Franklinstein!

 

Franklinstein!

Christian Nationalist Fascists

By Keith Thomas

3/18/2025

Praising Putin.

            During the Cold War Evangelist Billy Graham crusaded against then communist Russia as being anti-American and anti-God. Fast forward to 2021 when Russia was massing troops to invade Ukraine and Franklin Graham, the son of Billy, said that it was time for the U.S. and Russia to stand together.[1] (You should consider reading the article in the footnote.) He enjoyed hobnobbing with Putin and his rich fascists. The apple fell far from the tree. Real far. Fascist far.

            Franklin Graham is adept at playing both sides of the street and is also providing relief to Ukraine.[2] Like a lot of MAGA Christians he has two faces. He also supports the bizarre idea that God has chosen Trump, evidently not believing that the plague that took place in Trump’s last year was not divine Providence.

            Graham’s salary from the relief organizations that he oversees is over $600,000 a year. In total he knocks down around $1 million a year and has a net worth of $10 million.[3] So, he’s just another Christian Nationalist multi-millionaire supporting the Führer Trump. FG also believes that there is a homosexual agenda in America, like MAGA sees pedophilia all over and refers to America as being in a dark place before the emergence of Trump. Again, seemingly forgetful of Trump’s 4 years as President and the plague.

Since I mentioned pedophilia, ex-Trump spiritual advisor and multi-millionaire Robert Preston Morris was in the news recently for having been accused of indecent acts against a child.[4] [5]

            To be clear, Russia is, in fac, no longer Communist. Under Putin Russia has evolved to a fascist state or what MAGA Red Hat Republicans would call an “illiberal democracy” like Orban’s Hungary. Speaking of which, Hungarians are now marching in the streets against his repressive regime. Seeing much coverage of that in legacy media? People standing up against authoritarian rule in European nations? It’s happening there.[6]

It can happen here.


[1] https://religionunplugged.com/news/2022/2/24/some-prominent-christian-leaders-and-groups-face-reckoning-over-praise-for-putin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Graham

[3] https://whatstheirnetworth.com/richest-businessmen/franklin-graham-net-worth/

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/robert-morris-trump-surrenders-child-sexual-abuse-charges

[5] https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-child-sexual-abuse-charges-cdc546e89ecf09feebf0f99b8e2dbd18

[6] https://www.newsweek.com/russia-protests-hungary-romania-2045771

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