I'm not going to even discuss the SOTU address. I didn't watch it, and from all the scuttle butt on the television today, I know that I made the right decision.
Right now, it feels as if the people who have the power to make a difference aren't doing so. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/government-lawyers-ethics-help-trump-crackdown-bar-associations-rcna190460
Can you imagine he's ordering lawyers to follow orders even if it goes against their ethics?
And people aren't screaming about this?
He's giving himself the right to bend the law to suit his purposes.
He's making sure that he can face no consequences for what he does.
I feel as if when I say things like this out loud, I'm seen as some sort of radical.
In the end, we can only do what we can do.
We can do this:
Kay has a call for action: The Ides of Trump
https://travelerswife.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-ides-of-trump.html
We can do this:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2025/03/03/companies-boycott-2025/81098702007/
The Amazon Boycott starts March 7th.
We can write or call our representatives in DC.
John Fetterman is, unfortunately a waste of time, stating on the New Yorker Radio Hour, that Trump's administration is "dumping three feet of raw sewage on America and we have a dixie cup to bail it out." Then he goes on to say we have to work with tRUMP.
(Like tRUMP is working with Putin?)
He was entrusted to go to Washington and to stand up against the status quo, uphold the constitution, represent his people. He's not doing that, but he gets an e-mail from me anyway pointing out his responsibilities, and closing with a note than when this is done, the voices that will be remembered for all of history are the ones that spoke out against what is happening.
Anyways.
Just do what you can do, and when you have done that:
The passivity of the American people is shocking. Could it be that they've never confronted a president like this, so don't know how to react? IDK. I didn't watch his blabbing yesterday, but my sister did. She said it was awful, full of lies.
ReplyDeleteI don't see us as passive. I see us as, at the moment, being unable to change anything. I see a lot of protesting.
DeleteI was so frustrated by the Democrats' response to his speech. Talk about milquetoast. A few of them have backbone but too few by far.
ReplyDeleteAnd the guy up for deputy FBI Director? Total wacko, thinks Democrats are evil, pure evil. Also believes in demons and such. Sure to be confirmed i bet. I wonder when we decide it's time to pack up and go, before they come for us? It's getting just that scary.
That is the part that worries me. Remember Lori Vallow? I never could understand how anyone could listen to her and not thought she was completely off her rocker. And now, we've got people running the country just like her.
DeleteI know the idiots in my state (Ohio) are useless. I contributed to Fetterman. I prayed for him when he suffered the stroke. And what a *** he has turned out to be. Disappointing.
ReplyDeleteHe really gave some inspiring talks, but in the end, I don't think he's up to the job. He no longer has my vote.
DeleteIt is all.just unbelievable..and like watching a car crash in slow motion
ReplyDeleteI can hardly wrap my head around it. My nephew really that the whole Project 2025 was bullshit. His big saying was, 'If half the stuff they are claiming happens, I'll be making ammo and the first one out there.' I said then that it made more sense to me from preventing that from getting its foot in the door than to try to get rid of it once it got in. What I notice is that now that it IS in, now that it is unfolding according to the plans, he has begun to align his thinking more and more with that thinking.
DeleteFetterman is a total waste of skin. He has been such a disappointment. I didn't watch, either. I had the live stream up on my laptop, and just decided nope. I don't remember Scholastic books. I do remember Golden Books. My Mom worked there for awhile, I had many books.
ReplyDeleteScholastic books were an offshoot of 'My Weekly Reader'. Do you remember that?
DeleteI remember "My Weekly Reader" well, still odd that I have no memory of Scholastic Books, rats, another hole in my brain. I read that article about DOJ lawyers, ethics, and the Bar Association. Bondi's memo was infuriating and totally unethical, but then so is she.
DeleteDid you hear the hot mike moment at the SOTU? He shook Alito's hand and said, "Thank you so much. Thank you very much. I won't forget this." I wonder what favor was done?
DeleteI'll send a postcard and I am already not buying anything from Amazon.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me glad that so many people are already 'boycotting'.
DeleteRome wasn't built in a day. Just make your resistance your priority.
ReplyDeleteThe wisdom of an old warrior. Thanks for the reminder.
DeleteKay of Musings: 98% of my friends and relatives are seeing what’s going down the tubes and don’t even want to look at the news because each day finds more disgusting things that are being done by Trump and his henchmen. But we’ll all send out those postcards and can only hope it shows our disgust anyway.
ReplyDeleteI guess that I don't see what else we can do: Make our unhappiness known, refuse to buy into the system where ever, whenever we can. That includes staying away from social media.
DeleteKeep up the fight, steady but sure.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that we're pushing and not really seeing anything is what discourages me.
DeleteI started to boycott Amazon a couple of weeks ago. I go on there and research what I want to buy and then buy it elsewhere. It's not much, but it certainly makes me feel better.
ReplyDeleteThat has been my method for a couple of years now. I don't think I will ever stop being amazed at the discovery that it is not nearly as difficult as I expected it to be. Most of my on-line shopping happens around the holidays. That is also the time when the manufacturers and other on line stores are offering sales and free shipping deals anyways. I think that we get 'sold' on the thinking that Amazon is more convenient. It's not, really.
DeleteAmerica has just been downgraded to a non democracy country.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't been for quite awhile. With the orange one in charge, it's become painfully impossible to ignore.
DeleteThe orange one is behaving as though he's king of the world, now busy meddling with Hamas - unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThat is the part that boggles my mind. He actually does seem to think that he is king of the world.
DeleteT wants to annex Canada while for all intents and purposes, USA has been annexed by Russia. It boggles the mind.
ReplyDeleteObama tweeted something about he's not a big conspiracy person although he's been a target of many conspiracy theories. Despite that, he wonders if anyone has actually checked tRUMP's birth certificate to make sure he wasn't born in Russia.
DeleteI don't even know what to say. Every day is a new and horrible and unbelievable announcement and there must be a Department of Lies that we don't know about because one person cannot possibly be coming up with all of them coming out of the gross squinchy mouth of the Republican president.
ReplyDeleteNo. It was the Project 2025 plan. They actually put it together so that they could roll it out quickly. I don't think it can stand. It's not sustainable for the long term, but it will be a miserable time, that's for sure. We can only pull our tribe close and tend to each other as we wait it out.
DeleteI am taken aback by the few bloggers I've followed for so long (who never talked politics) have turned out to be Trump supporters! Boggles my mind! Truly does. Ordinary people who think he's doing a good job and the democrats were rude to him!!! AWK!! The world has gone bonkers...and will go down the toilet as Trump flushes 8 - 9 -10 times. :(
ReplyDeleteI sadly am not shocked. We can only wait it out. I told a friend that we were the lucky ones. We see the writing on the wall and can prepare ourselves for the trainwreck. The ones who are celebrating and cheering it all on will be caught by surprise. It will hit them harder, I think.
DeleteOh, I totally agree. There are the people following him who know who he is and are hoping to use him...and then there are all the gullible, blind Maga followers who will be blindsided--pardon the pun. It is going to shock the hell out of them when they realize they have been lied to and used. It will be very hard on them, truly. :( Those are the ones I will be able to feel sorry for. The ignorant Trump loves so well. Now Trump--he is going to be shocked when Putin stabs him in the back bigtime...but I have no sympathy for OrangeMan. ;)
DeleteReminds me of Germany in 1930’s and we know what happened then. I am British and travel a lot like Bush nobody admits they voted for Trump, somebody must have.
ReplyDeleteSure as heck did, but most everyone I know who voted for him are proud supporters, not at all ashamed. If you are traveling outside the US, I'd guess that most people didn't vote for him. The world seems to have a clearer view of him than my own fellow Americans.
DeleteI quit Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram when I heard those billionaires financed the Orange Bastard's inauguration party!
ReplyDeleteI quit Amazon in August of 2023. I have purchased two gifts at Christmas, but have pretty much stayed true to my vow. I need facebook for Messenger for my daughter who lives overseas, but I'm trying to minimize Facebook time. There have been some real funky things happening on facebook. I don't like the questions I have, and so I'm avoiding them. I've never had Instagram or Twitter.
DeleteDebby,it is starting to turn around. He was forced to back off on auto tariffs, and he is now getting pushback from your farmers. The word up here is that he will be dropping tariffs. They are starting to hurt the orange idiot. I think from up here the damage is permanent. Do not buy American is on everyones lips. My daughter sent me a photo of Zelenski in a flack jacket, saying “Here’s my f…ing suit you draft dodging Motherf..cker!’ Gigi
ReplyDeleteI did get a wild rush of jubilation when I heard that he'd delayed tariffs and that he did not sign the executive order to get rid of the Department of Education. It did feel as if the pushback was working.
DeleteHugs from afar, Debby.
ReplyDeleteI think that I will take up hard drinking. (I joke, I joke!)
DeleteI remember listening to trump complain about toilets and having to flush multiple times, all I could think was, "Dude, you need more fibre in your diet."
ReplyDeleteI went to Canadian Tire (a store here) to buy pots for some new plants. They were made in the USA. WTF. I bought more expensive pots, made in Vietnam, with the added bonus of they're prettier.
His ignorance knows no bounds and that fact the republicans are not stopping him from destroying the country, says a lot about them as people.
Tim was listening to him today, and again, it just strikes me: if he is asked a question, he just blabs. He cites numbers, but offers no proof. He talks about murderers, but offers no names, just the vague suggestion that they killed multiple people "five. Maybe seven." He says that USA has been paying for all of NATO (up from his previous bullshit that we've been paying 70%. Easily disproven.) He just blabs and no one fact checks it in real time. And his cult gobbles every word up and parrots it back in arguments.
DeleteI don't use Amazon, I support Small Businesses and Family Owned Businesses, I've been doing what I can for as long as I can for as long as I can remember. But, sadly, I don't see a lot of American Society willing to make any uncomfortable sacrificial contributions. I think the Masterminds behind all of this are Thiel and his Cronies of Elite who want an American Modern Feudal System owned by them and parsed out at their whim to the Serfs, who won't be able to escape it Generationally if they succeed. DonOld is just a Tool, and he won't last, Thiel bought and paid for Vance, since, well, the obvious. And unless these Bad Actors actually orchestrating all of this are rooted out, revealed, dealt with or eliminated, we're in REAL trouble my Friend... it's darker than most people can even imagine.
ReplyDeleteI believe that what we are seeing is merely the tip of the iceberg. What goes on behind the scenes would shock us all. In the end, these great plans will bring great hardships to everyone, even the most entrenched MAGA. I think the tide will turn. The plans are frightening but I don''t see them as sustainable for the long term. The system will implode. My prediction, for what it is worth.
DeleteUp and not crying is a pretty good mantra for the week. Mrs. Shife and I did watch the Netflix show "Maid" and I did cry during that but I was lying on the couch so technically not up. Thanks for fighting the good fight, Debby, and sharing the links.
ReplyDeleteThank you for making me aware of that show. It looks like a good one. We all need that little inspiration to push through, don't we? - Debby
DeleteFetterman does seem like a disappointment, but I suppose he feels he has to toe a centrist line, given how closely divided Pennsylvania voters have been in recent elections. (Not an excuse, just an observation -- and an obvious one!)
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