Thanks, Mike. Loved the pics of the home-made signs. Well be making ours today. One with humor and the Light touch for sure. Our local board of health had an info talk on ticks a few weeks ago, so the one you posted with the tick-trio gave us a chuckle.
We'll be playing Mavis Staples "Livin' On a High Note" CD as we work. Recorded 2015.
Mavis is a National/ Global Treasure! One world. Cheers to all.
Our sign will be simply encouraging folks to vote. The board of health talk on ticks did not include "luna-tick" so that was the humor for us. Just an unexpected kind of thing, sort of Charlie Brown humor.
We have a lot of thoughts in a day. Directing them towards what we value is a silent practice. Mostly our prayers center on holding space for the highest good of all. Not trespassing on another's soul space, respecting our brothers and sisters, stuff like that. Remembering we can't tell another what to do since we're still learning too. Just offering encouragement, safe spaces. Much good can be born when folks feel safe is our experience. One world.
We'll probably put the sign near our red Cardinal whirly-gig in the front yard. It creates motion and gives off a good vibe. We never know what burdens or joys folks are carrying as they walk by. Best to be kind.
BTW, I do pray for Donald AND Kamala. These days it seems like the donkey and the elephant mated and gave birth to a porcupine pointing with accusatory quills.
We began in the early 80's reading "Around the Year With Emmet Fox" as one of our quiet morning connections. Have done daily since.
Today's message Sept. 1 -- Divine Love Never Fails.
Dr. Fox writes "Read 1 Corinthians 13." And then explains in 3 paragraphs his message. Each year we grow in understanding.
You paint a very vivid pic -- the donkey/elephant and resulting porcupine!
When it all gets too much, we re-read The Emperor's New Clothes. Still have the original from childhood. Some books just always fit.
History is full of scoundrels, fantasies, myths, and real lives lived in their times. Power is a tough thing to master. Sitting on the front steps at 4am, seeing the night sky brings wonder, calm, balance to us. Cheers, Bob.
Cheers and God's love and peace for you and your grandparents' descendants.
1 COR 13 may be the pinnacle of all the letters of the New Testament, along with 1 JOHN 4:16, which, along with 1 COR 13, highlights the oft-quoted JOHN 3:16
What fun! There's no question as to which ticket represents fun-fascism and which represents grim-fascism. What fun the Prosecutor and the Coach are having. I understand, Michael, It's hard not to want to join in the fun.
Who's not having fun: Palestinian children in Gaza who have lost a leg and their parents. Starving Sudanese people, driven from their homes by RSF wielding guns delivered from the UAE which was supplied by those fun fascists in the White House. Desperate families seeking asylum on the southern border. Working families across the USA whose wages have done worse than stagnate during this administration, who have yet to see ANY of the "progressive agenda" (card-check, medicare4all, free public higher ed, universal pre-K) enacted.
But to paraphrase the old song: And she'll have fun, fun, fun, till the workers take her power away.
“The Constitution names the vice president of the United States as the president of the Senate. In addition to serving as presiding officer, the vice president has the sole power to break a tie vote in the Senate and formally presides over the receiving and counting of electoral ballots cast in presidential elections.”
Unless some fascist in the White House sends a fascist mob to hang Mike Pence, or push aside anybody that gets in the way.
Definitely reach out to your state and county party officials whenever possible. Donations received at the local level will go back in to fund other outreach. Surplus from our county party sign donations will fund postcards to remind voters to get out and vote. This benefits the top of the ticket and those crucial down ballot races. We sold out of the first run of signs in Oklahoma. Ponder that, Oklahoma.
Apparently the Roman circus routine still works…if you’re hungry enough, a moldy crust can be attractive, and now it’s been shown to disengage critical thinking skills. Exchanging one war criminal—Biden—for another—Kamala Harris and Co. is a bad bargain that the DNC ringmasters are selling the voters, using the “lesser of two evils” scare tactic yet again. And the idea they are all about “saving” our mythical democracy is laughable…if it wasn’t so outrageous. What about this process resembles anything like a reflection of the will of the people?
This tactic doesn’t work anymore, Michael. You can’t keep labeling your opponents as fascists when it’s clear that the real fascists are the Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Harris crime families. They’ve been deceiving, lying, and manipulating Americans for years. You and your progressive, left-wing comrades in the media have been smearing those who disagree with you as racists, xenophobes, homophobes, and worse. The Democrats forced Americans to get vaccinated and shut down schools for children under 20, even though not one healthy child died from COVID-19 during the so-called “panicdemic.” They tried to claim otherwise, but we know the few children who did die had other underlying health conditions, merely testing positive for the virus. Look at the far-left criminal politician in Brazil who shut down X. Biden’s White House censored Americans and had no issue with social media as long as it followed their orders and silenced dissenting voices while they continued to lie and gaslight the public.
Why do you require a paid subscription to allow comments? Afraid your comment section will be flooded with ridicule for your blind loyalty to the Democratic Party? You and that failed ex-sports journalist turned party hack, who shall remain unnamed, have made millions peddling your garbage “crockumentaries,” twisting statistics, and using deceptive camera angles. It's obvious to everyone that you're just an opportunist, leading a flock of mentally fragile, low-IQ leftist sheep—cult followers of the Democratic Party. Your whole operation is nothing but a sham, profiting off the delusions of your gullible audience.
Hmmm—I think you’ve mixed a few facts into a stew of over-the-top crazy here. No argument with the concept we’ve got fascistic leaders—both Democrats and Republicans—but it’s not a leftist problem as much as a government-by-corporation problem.
“ Etymology. The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio, meaning 'bundle of sticks', ultimately from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.”
Here in America lately the groups like the acronym WWG1WGA:
Where
We
Goose-step
One
We
Goose-step
All
It’s bundled into the package, along with the poopypants.
my homemade sign (leftover posters from Harris /Walz rally at DTW) disappeared. I was crushed, so I bought 22 signs from Blue Deal and a GIANT Harris banner now hangs over our garage. I have distributed all but one sign (yes, I travel with a sign, it sign - still picnic/beach season)
Sadly, I am not the only one who has lost a yard sign in my little neighborhood in Royal Oak
Best Bumper sticker "Have you accidentally become a fascist " I liked it so much I put one one my pickup truck. I love driving it to my local Tractor Supply.
Hello. I created the list below and sent it out to friends and family all over the country. I hope these links work after I post this, and I hope this list is helpful to you as well. I am going to post this list each time Michael sends out one of his missives, adding to the list whenever I learn of more options to share.
I welcome your comments to my post that make me and everyone else aware of any other groups/organizations that have campaigns or mobilization efforts going to prevent Trump from getting elected.
Experts who study these things have seen that such simple actions as personal postcards, phone calls, or texts to specifically identified voters can and do make a difference. The organizations below are either the experts or are groups that partner with the experts. Some of these organizations promote who to vote for, while others just encourage infrequent voters to vote, knowing that the people they contact typically vote Democratic. All of these groups can benefit from your time and/or your donations (some of which can be tax-deductible).
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. I have done postcards and phonebanks with them.
Third Act and Elders Climate Action primarily recruit Seniors as volunteers, but all are welcome. Their campaigns include helping young people get registered to vote.
Seed the Vote teams up with organizations like People’s Action and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) with Phonebanking campaigns of volunteers calling voters in Swing States.
The Civics Center organizes high school voter registration. A huge event they do is High School Voter Registration Week, which will be Sept. 23-27, 2024. They can use volunteer help with that and other events.
The Arizona Dream Act Coalition provides assistance to DREAMERS. They also contact legal Latino voters and mixed-status families to help those who can legally vote to register to vote and then encourage them to vote.
As Michael has shared, Vote.org will give everyone all the info they need to register and vote — and to double check their registration: https://www.vote.org/
VoteFromAbroad.org helps US citizens living abroad register to vote and request absentee ballots.
David French is a conservative opinion columnist at “The New York Times.” Commonly voting for Republicans, on 8/19/24 French did an oral piece for the NY Times on why he is voting for Harris. These links go to an AI-generated transcript of the oral piece and directly to the oral piece:
There were several Republican speakers at the Democratic National Convention, explaining why they are Republicans who are choosing to support Harris instead of Trump in this election. One of them was former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129329/lt-gov-geoff-duncan
Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and over 40 former DOJ Officials thank Pres. Biden and endorse VP Kamala Harris for President of the United States:
Do you not think that Netanyahu is waiting for Trump to win the presidency? It seems likely to me that was the message Trump gave to Netanyahu when he met with Trump after his address to Congress. Both he and Trump are in legal trouble and hope dictatorship will solve their problems.
I have no solid evidence to support this, but Biden may not get his ceasefire.
Netanyahu visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he met with Biden.
I wonder what they talked about?
Netanyahu is certainly NOT trying to get the hostages back or get a cease fire.
Will it work? Probably
No one wants for Trump to win the election more than Netanyahu, except for maybe Putin.
Nixon sabotaged Johnson's peace talks with the Vietnam, so that Johnson would lose the election and so that Nixon would win. It worked.
Ronald Reagan, or his handlers sabotaged the Jimmy Carter's negotiations with Iran to release the 52 American hostages held in the embassy, so that Carter would lose the election. It worked
Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show
President Richard M. Nixon in 1970. His campaign’s intervention in peace talks in 1968 has captivated historians for years.Credit...Mike Lien/The New York Times
By Peter Baker
Jan. 2, 2017
Richard M. Nixon told an aide that they should find a way to secretly “monkey wrench” peace talks in Vietnam in the waning days of the 1968 campaign for fear that progress toward ending the war would hurt his chances for the presidency, according to newly discovered notes.
Ronald Reagan, or his handlers sabotaged the Jimmy Carter's negotiations with Iran to release the 52 American hostages held in the embassy.
past is prologue Mar. 20, 2023
Did Reagan Team’s Iran-Hostage Sabotage Defeat Jimmy Carter?
Portrait of Ed Kilgore By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Jimmy Carter looking down while looking down as he conceded to Ronald Reagan on November 5, 1980. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
Jimmy Carter’s slow drift toward life’s end after the longest and most impressive post-presidency in U.S. history has spawned a lot of retrospective assessments of the 39th president and his legacy. But the New York Times has brought us a look back that’s also news: Longtime Texas lieutenant governor Ben Barnes, now 85, decided to let it be known that he was part of a scheme in 1980 to make sure Carter’s reelection campaign wouldn’t benefit from an early release of the U.S. hostages in Tehran whose captivity had tormented the White House since November 1979.
Barnes’s story is indeed stunning. For decades, it was generally assumed that Iran’s revolutionary regime countenanced the hostage taking by allied students and activists and refused to negotiate a release with the Carter administration because of entrenched hostility toward Carter over his friendship with the deposed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and/or because they had reason to expect a better deal from Carter’s general-election opponent, Ronald Reagan. (Iran released the hostages, after 444 days, on Reagan’s Inauguration Day.) But no one has really offered concrete evidence of a dirty Republican deal with Tehran until now. And the prime mover in the reported drama happens to be one of the shadier figures of the modern era, former Texas governor John Connally, a powerful career-long political fixer who was suspected of personal corruption.
Best known for being wounded in the same car that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in, Connally, a protégé of Lyndon B. Johnson, played a large role in the defection of southern Democrats to the Republican Party during Richard Nixon’s administration, during which he served as Treasury secretary. His influence was best reflected by his success in convincing Nixon to impose the heretical step of wage and price controls to (temporarily) rein in inflation. Connally was reportedly Nixon’s preferred pick to replace disgraced vice-president Spiro T. Agnew, but the hostility of Democrats toward the turncoat and his less-than-ideal reputation led the Republican president to instead choose Gerald Ford, whom Carter defeated in 1976.
Four years later, Connally launched his own presidential campaign, but despite lavish funding and enthusiastic backing from corporate leaders, he floundered in Iowa and New Hampshire, losing to Reagan. According to Barnes, a longtime political associate and business partner of his fellow Texan, Connally was determined to land a high-level Cabinet appointment in a Reagan administration, so, with Barnes in tow, he put on his globe-trotting shoes to prove his worth. Per the Times account:
What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.
The Iranians appear to have gotten the message, as a happy Connally later reported to Reagan’s campaign chairman and future CIA director William Casey.
So should we conclude that if Connally’s mission hadn’t take place, Carter might well have won a second presidential term, relegating Reagan (and quite possibly his running mate, George H.W. Bush. and his running mate’s son George W. Bush) to the political dustbin? Tempting as the hypothesis is, it is not terribly plausible.
First of all, the Islamic regime in Tehran didn’t trust any American politician enough to depend on indirect promises of a “better deal,” and its hatred of and desire to humiliate Carter ran deep, independent of any comparison with Reagan.
Second, if Connally played such a dramatic role in postponing a potential hostage release, Team Reagan was notably underappreciative. Hoping for a job in the State Department or the Pentagon once Reagan took office, he was instead offered Energy (which the new administration intended to abolish); Connally contemptuously rejected the gig.
More important, the Iran-hostage crisis was just one of the problems weighing down Carter’s reelection campaign heading into 1980. Far more damaging than the hostage situation or any international issue was the economy, which had produced the election-year disaster of “stagflation.” In 1980, the average unemployment rate was 7.1 percent, the average inflation rate was 12.67 percent, and average home-mortgage rates were 13.74 percent. This was a political-economic catastrophe for Carter.
And that wasn’t all. Carter had to deal with a deeply divided Democratic Party and one of the strongest primary challenges any modern incumbent president has faced from liberal legend Ted Kennedy. (Ironically, a rally-round-the-flag effect stemming from the hostage crisis undoubtedly helped Carter hold off Kennedy’s challenge.) And Carter’s reelection campaign had a big strategic problem to overcome. He had narrowly won the 1976 general election thanks to the excitement of southern and southern-inflected voters (many of them former Nixon and future Reagan voters) who were thrilled to have credible presidential candidate emerge from their region of the country. But it was extremely difficult for Carter to maintain that unique coalition, particularly against an ideological candidate like Reagan. He also lost a lot of liberal voters to third-party candidate John Anderson, who ran to Carter’s left. Under these circumstances, it was actually impressive that Carter lost to Reagan by only 9.8 percent of the popular vote (though he lost the Electoral College by a 489-to-49 margin). Well before Connally and Barnes’s Middle East tour, Carter’s job-approval rating (per Gallup) had already slipped well below 40 percent, never to recover.
As much as it might give Carter and his friends some grim sense of vindication to know that skullduggery was deployed to keep the hostages locked up as his presidency slipped away, it ultimately mattered only at the margins. But the tale does provide a bit more posthumous damage to the already spotty image of Connally.
Happy Labor Day! In the rest of the world Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st. Liberal and conservative masters of the USA could not have this. The godless Russian commies celebrated May Day. So happy neoliberal Labor Day. Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and other “New Democrats”, following the lead of Reagan Democrats of the Democratic Leadership Council pushed through NAFTA in 1994. So when Genocide Joe and Vice President Harris push for tougher border controls, it is time to remember all the Mexican farmers who were forced to move to America because the US flooded Mexico with cheap subsidized American corn. Biden is called the best president for labor since FDR. The Democrats are at best lackeys of the oligarchy that will give you leftovers at the back door.
I am 69, 40 year union member and have voted Democrat all my life. I have voted for the lesser of two evils and honestly it is continues the downward spiral. The DNC orchestrated the downfall of Sanders and Biden’s 2020 win of the Democratic primary. The DNC’s support of Israel’s genocide is the most extreme and failed example identity politics. I campaigned vigorously for Bernie. I did this because of what he sought for our country. His ethnicity, his religion, his gender and preferences were never a consideration. I cannot set aside genocide. I cannot choose one evil over the other. I give money to Rashida Tlaib and Jewish Voices for Peace out of hope that their messages are heard. Given the DNC track record how sure are we that President Gore would have not gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq? Bush is a war criminal and Gore may have been one had he been elected.
We need a government that total restricts the sell and transfer of weapons outside the country. That would severely shrink the arms industry. It would also end the American profit motive of maintaining NATO. The EU can carrying on without the American subsidiary, NATO.
We can replace NATO with an international labor movement and return to the American tradition of celebrating May Day.
Thanks, Mike. Loved the pics of the home-made signs. Well be making ours today. One with humor and the Light touch for sure. Our local board of health had an info talk on ticks a few weeks ago, so the one you posted with the tick-trio gave us a chuckle.
We'll be playing Mavis Staples "Livin' On a High Note" CD as we work. Recorded 2015.
Mavis is a National/ Global Treasure! One world. Cheers to all.
How's this for an action or two? Pray for Trump's soul and for Kamala Harris's presidency.
It would make a nice sign - or a million (even nicer)
Thanks for taking the time to write, Bob.
Our sign will be simply encouraging folks to vote. The board of health talk on ticks did not include "luna-tick" so that was the humor for us. Just an unexpected kind of thing, sort of Charlie Brown humor.
We have a lot of thoughts in a day. Directing them towards what we value is a silent practice. Mostly our prayers center on holding space for the highest good of all. Not trespassing on another's soul space, respecting our brothers and sisters, stuff like that. Remembering we can't tell another what to do since we're still learning too. Just offering encouragement, safe spaces. Much good can be born when folks feel safe is our experience. One world.
We'll probably put the sign near our red Cardinal whirly-gig in the front yard. It creates motion and gives off a good vibe. We never know what burdens or joys folks are carrying as they walk by. Best to be kind.
BTW, I do pray for Donald AND Kamala. These days it seems like the donkey and the elephant mated and gave birth to a porcupine pointing with accusatory quills.
Yes, prayer always helps.
We began in the early 80's reading "Around the Year With Emmet Fox" as one of our quiet morning connections. Have done daily since.
Today's message Sept. 1 -- Divine Love Never Fails.
Dr. Fox writes "Read 1 Corinthians 13." And then explains in 3 paragraphs his message. Each year we grow in understanding.
You paint a very vivid pic -- the donkey/elephant and resulting porcupine!
When it all gets too much, we re-read The Emperor's New Clothes. Still have the original from childhood. Some books just always fit.
History is full of scoundrels, fantasies, myths, and real lives lived in their times. Power is a tough thing to master. Sitting on the front steps at 4am, seeing the night sky brings wonder, calm, balance to us. Cheers, Bob.
Cheers and God's love and peace for you and your grandparents' descendants.
1 COR 13 may be the pinnacle of all the letters of the New Testament, along with 1 JOHN 4:16, which, along with 1 COR 13, highlights the oft-quoted JOHN 3:16
Not judging your sign, just augmenting your excellent observations. Apparently I should’ve read the “see more“ part.
I liked your comment. If one can love a comment, let the record show that if I can, I do do love it.
What fun! There's no question as to which ticket represents fun-fascism and which represents grim-fascism. What fun the Prosecutor and the Coach are having. I understand, Michael, It's hard not to want to join in the fun.
Who's not having fun: Palestinian children in Gaza who have lost a leg and their parents. Starving Sudanese people, driven from their homes by RSF wielding guns delivered from the UAE which was supplied by those fun fascists in the White House. Desperate families seeking asylum on the southern border. Working families across the USA whose wages have done worse than stagnate during this administration, who have yet to see ANY of the "progressive agenda" (card-check, medicare4all, free public higher ed, universal pre-K) enacted.
But to paraphrase the old song: And she'll have fun, fun, fun, till the workers take her power away.
Vice Presidents don’t have much power.
Ooh:
“The Constitution names the vice president of the United States as the president of the Senate. In addition to serving as presiding officer, the vice president has the sole power to break a tie vote in the Senate and formally presides over the receiving and counting of electoral ballots cast in presidential elections.”
Unless some fascist in the White House sends a fascist mob to hang Mike Pence, or push aside anybody that gets in the way.
We see you.
Definitely reach out to your state and county party officials whenever possible. Donations received at the local level will go back in to fund other outreach. Surplus from our county party sign donations will fund postcards to remind voters to get out and vote. This benefits the top of the ticket and those crucial down ballot races. We sold out of the first run of signs in Oklahoma. Ponder that, Oklahoma.
Great, fun and creative idea. And we can always use a laugh these days!
Apparently the Roman circus routine still works…if you’re hungry enough, a moldy crust can be attractive, and now it’s been shown to disengage critical thinking skills. Exchanging one war criminal—Biden—for another—Kamala Harris and Co. is a bad bargain that the DNC ringmasters are selling the voters, using the “lesser of two evils” scare tactic yet again. And the idea they are all about “saving” our mythical democracy is laughable…if it wasn’t so outrageous. What about this process resembles anything like a reflection of the will of the people?
They are too brain-washed to see anything other than what their handlers have told them. ORANGE MAN BAD
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This tactic doesn’t work anymore, Michael. You can’t keep labeling your opponents as fascists when it’s clear that the real fascists are the Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Harris crime families. They’ve been deceiving, lying, and manipulating Americans for years. You and your progressive, left-wing comrades in the media have been smearing those who disagree with you as racists, xenophobes, homophobes, and worse. The Democrats forced Americans to get vaccinated and shut down schools for children under 20, even though not one healthy child died from COVID-19 during the so-called “panicdemic.” They tried to claim otherwise, but we know the few children who did die had other underlying health conditions, merely testing positive for the virus. Look at the far-left criminal politician in Brazil who shut down X. Biden’s White House censored Americans and had no issue with social media as long as it followed their orders and silenced dissenting voices while they continued to lie and gaslight the public.
Why do you require a paid subscription to allow comments? Afraid your comment section will be flooded with ridicule for your blind loyalty to the Democratic Party? You and that failed ex-sports journalist turned party hack, who shall remain unnamed, have made millions peddling your garbage “crockumentaries,” twisting statistics, and using deceptive camera angles. It's obvious to everyone that you're just an opportunist, leading a flock of mentally fragile, low-IQ leftist sheep—cult followers of the Democratic Party. Your whole operation is nothing but a sham, profiting off the delusions of your gullible audience.
You are right,I guess. It’s not fascism.
Republicans goose-step because they have poopypants.
Hmmm—I think you’ve mixed a few facts into a stew of over-the-top crazy here. No argument with the concept we’ve got fascistic leaders—both Democrats and Republicans—but it’s not a leftist problem as much as a government-by-corporation problem.
PEB or PLEB as I call him - is a CAT(s) or chatbot ... but has pre-figured human guidance and settings.
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Like most every handle on this page - a layer that is actually viewed by very few actual humans.
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Almost like a NPC - non playable character on steroids.
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hehe - "Non playable character - on steroids ".
“ Etymology. The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio, meaning 'bundle of sticks', ultimately from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.”
Here in America lately the groups like the acronym WWG1WGA:
Where
We
Goose-step
One
We
Goose-step
All
It’s bundled into the package, along with the poopypants.
In a nutshell, Trumpolini’s party is full of fasces.
Ony You Can Prevent Luna Ticks.
I’m still waiting for the Sign from God. ⚡️
my homemade sign (leftover posters from Harris /Walz rally at DTW) disappeared. I was crushed, so I bought 22 signs from Blue Deal and a GIANT Harris banner now hangs over our garage. I have distributed all but one sign (yes, I travel with a sign, it sign - still picnic/beach season)
Sadly, I am not the only one who has lost a yard sign in my little neighborhood in Royal Oak
Best bumper sticker "Have you accidentally become a fascist" Liked it so much I put one one my truck. I love driving it to my local Tractor Supply.
Best Bumper sticker "Have you accidentally become a fascist " I liked it so much I put one one my pickup truck. I love driving it to my local Tractor Supply.
OPTIONS FOR YOU TO HELP SWING STATES ELECT HARRIS
Hello. I created the list below and sent it out to friends and family all over the country. I hope these links work after I post this, and I hope this list is helpful to you as well. I am going to post this list each time Michael sends out one of his missives, adding to the list whenever I learn of more options to share.
I welcome your comments to my post that make me and everyone else aware of any other groups/organizations that have campaigns or mobilization efforts going to prevent Trump from getting elected.
POSTCARDS, PHONEBANKS, TEXTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, DONATIONS
Experts who study these things have seen that such simple actions as personal postcards, phone calls, or texts to specifically identified voters can and do make a difference. The organizations below are either the experts or are groups that partner with the experts. Some of these organizations promote who to vote for, while others just encourage infrequent voters to vote, knowing that the people they contact typically vote Democratic. All of these groups can benefit from your time and/or your donations (some of which can be tax-deductible).
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. I have done postcards and phonebanks with them.
https://www.environmentalvoter.org/
https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved
Third Act and Elders Climate Action primarily recruit Seniors as volunteers, but all are welcome. Their campaigns include helping young people get registered to vote.
https://thirdact.org/
https://www.eldersclimateaction.org/
https://eldersaction.org/promote-the-youth-vote/
Programs with Activate America have Volunteers contact voters via Postcards, Phonebanking, Texting, and Canvassing.
https://www.activateamerica.vote/
The Progressive Turnout Project organizes volunteers to send postcards and do canvassing.
https://turnoutpac.org/
https://turnoutpac.org/postcards/
https://www.mobilize.us/ptp/
Vote Forward coordinates letter-writing campaigns to voters.
https://votefwd.org/
https://votefwd.org/campaigns
Seed the Vote teams up with organizations like People’s Action and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) with Phonebanking campaigns of volunteers calling voters in Swing States.
https://seedthevote.org/
https://peoplesaction.org/
https://surj.org/
VoteRiders and Fair Count work separately and together to help folks register to vote and have the required ID to vote.
https://www.voteriders.org/
https://www.faircount.org/
The Civics Center organizes high school voter registration. A huge event they do is High School Voter Registration Week, which will be Sept. 23-27, 2024. They can use volunteer help with that and other events.
https://www.thecivicscenter.org/
https://www.thecivicscenter.org/hsvrw
RAZE helps rural Arizonans register to vote.
https://www.raze.org/
Arizona Native Vote is dedicated to building tribal and rural political power by working with community members to increase voter registration.
https://arizonanativevote.org/
The Arizona Dream Act Coalition provides assistance to DREAMERS. They also contact legal Latino voters and mixed-status families to help those who can legally vote to register to vote and then encourage them to vote.
https://theadac.org/
As Michael has shared, Vote.org will give everyone all the info they need to register and vote — and to double check their registration: https://www.vote.org/
VoteFromAbroad.org helps US citizens living abroad register to vote and request absentee ballots.
https://www.votefromabroad.org/
LINKS TO SHARE WITH “NEVER TRUMP” REPUBLICANS TO HELP THEM MAKE WHAT MAY BE THEIR UNCOMFORTABLE BUT APPROPRIATE CHOICE TO VOTE FOR HARRIS
There are several websites devoted to Republicans for Harris. This is just one of them:
https://www.democracyrepublicans.com/
David French is a conservative opinion columnist at “The New York Times.” Commonly voting for Republicans, on 8/19/24 French did an oral piece for the NY Times on why he is voting for Harris. These links go to an AI-generated transcript of the oral piece and directly to the oral piece:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ae5e0a134-adbe-356e-b511-cc534b2c2308&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/harris-trump-conservatives.html
John Giles, Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, shared in print and on TV why he supports Harris.
Print: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A5114ae48-b9a3-3f0f-b388-a0a5418c1312&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover
TV: https://www.pbs.org/video/vote-2024-mesa-mayor-1722368872/
There were several Republican speakers at the Democratic National Convention, explaining why they are Republicans who are choosing to support Harris instead of Trump in this election. One of them was former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129329/lt-gov-geoff-duncan
Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and over 40 former DOJ Officials thank Pres. Biden and endorse VP Kamala Harris for President of the United States:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25002785-statement-thanking-president-biden-and-supporting-vp-kamala-harris
A couple more links to articles about Republicans endorsing Harris:
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/24/a-dozen-former-republican-white-house-lawyers-endorse-kamala-harris.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-lawyers-who-advised-reagan-bush-endorse-harris-over-trump-in-2024-showdown/ar-AA1pk3wi
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-unfit-fox-news-publishes-mass-gop-endorsement-for-kamala-harris/ar-AA1pko9c
Do you not think that Netanyahu is waiting for Trump to win the presidency? It seems likely to me that was the message Trump gave to Netanyahu when he met with Trump after his address to Congress. Both he and Trump are in legal trouble and hope dictatorship will solve their problems.
I have no solid evidence to support this, but Biden may not get his ceasefire.
Yep,
Netanyahu visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he met with Biden.
I wonder what they talked about?
Netanyahu is certainly NOT trying to get the hostages back or get a cease fire.
Will it work? Probably
No one wants for Trump to win the election more than Netanyahu, except for maybe Putin.
Nixon sabotaged Johnson's peace talks with the Vietnam, so that Johnson would lose the election and so that Nixon would win. It worked.
Ronald Reagan, or his handlers sabotaged the Jimmy Carter's negotiations with Iran to release the 52 American hostages held in the embassy, so that Carter would lose the election. It worked
Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show
President Richard M. Nixon in 1970. His campaign’s intervention in peace talks in 1968 has captivated historians for years.Credit...Mike Lien/The New York Times
By Peter Baker
Jan. 2, 2017
Richard M. Nixon told an aide that they should find a way to secretly “monkey wrench” peace talks in Vietnam in the waning days of the 1968 campaign for fear that progress toward ending the war would hurt his chances for the presidency, according to newly discovered notes.
Ronald Reagan, or his handlers sabotaged the Jimmy Carter's negotiations with Iran to release the 52 American hostages held in the embassy.
past is prologue Mar. 20, 2023
Did Reagan Team’s Iran-Hostage Sabotage Defeat Jimmy Carter?
Portrait of Ed Kilgore By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Jimmy Carter looking down while looking down as he conceded to Ronald Reagan on November 5, 1980. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
Jimmy Carter’s slow drift toward life’s end after the longest and most impressive post-presidency in U.S. history has spawned a lot of retrospective assessments of the 39th president and his legacy. But the New York Times has brought us a look back that’s also news: Longtime Texas lieutenant governor Ben Barnes, now 85, decided to let it be known that he was part of a scheme in 1980 to make sure Carter’s reelection campaign wouldn’t benefit from an early release of the U.S. hostages in Tehran whose captivity had tormented the White House since November 1979.
Barnes’s story is indeed stunning. For decades, it was generally assumed that Iran’s revolutionary regime countenanced the hostage taking by allied students and activists and refused to negotiate a release with the Carter administration because of entrenched hostility toward Carter over his friendship with the deposed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and/or because they had reason to expect a better deal from Carter’s general-election opponent, Ronald Reagan. (Iran released the hostages, after 444 days, on Reagan’s Inauguration Day.) But no one has really offered concrete evidence of a dirty Republican deal with Tehran until now. And the prime mover in the reported drama happens to be one of the shadier figures of the modern era, former Texas governor John Connally, a powerful career-long political fixer who was suspected of personal corruption.
Best known for being wounded in the same car that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in, Connally, a protégé of Lyndon B. Johnson, played a large role in the defection of southern Democrats to the Republican Party during Richard Nixon’s administration, during which he served as Treasury secretary. His influence was best reflected by his success in convincing Nixon to impose the heretical step of wage and price controls to (temporarily) rein in inflation. Connally was reportedly Nixon’s preferred pick to replace disgraced vice-president Spiro T. Agnew, but the hostility of Democrats toward the turncoat and his less-than-ideal reputation led the Republican president to instead choose Gerald Ford, whom Carter defeated in 1976.
Four years later, Connally launched his own presidential campaign, but despite lavish funding and enthusiastic backing from corporate leaders, he floundered in Iowa and New Hampshire, losing to Reagan. According to Barnes, a longtime political associate and business partner of his fellow Texan, Connally was determined to land a high-level Cabinet appointment in a Reagan administration, so, with Barnes in tow, he put on his globe-trotting shoes to prove his worth. Per the Times account:
What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.
The Iranians appear to have gotten the message, as a happy Connally later reported to Reagan’s campaign chairman and future CIA director William Casey.
So should we conclude that if Connally’s mission hadn’t take place, Carter might well have won a second presidential term, relegating Reagan (and quite possibly his running mate, George H.W. Bush. and his running mate’s son George W. Bush) to the political dustbin? Tempting as the hypothesis is, it is not terribly plausible.
First of all, the Islamic regime in Tehran didn’t trust any American politician enough to depend on indirect promises of a “better deal,” and its hatred of and desire to humiliate Carter ran deep, independent of any comparison with Reagan.
Second, if Connally played such a dramatic role in postponing a potential hostage release, Team Reagan was notably underappreciative. Hoping for a job in the State Department or the Pentagon once Reagan took office, he was instead offered Energy (which the new administration intended to abolish); Connally contemptuously rejected the gig.
More important, the Iran-hostage crisis was just one of the problems weighing down Carter’s reelection campaign heading into 1980. Far more damaging than the hostage situation or any international issue was the economy, which had produced the election-year disaster of “stagflation.” In 1980, the average unemployment rate was 7.1 percent, the average inflation rate was 12.67 percent, and average home-mortgage rates were 13.74 percent. This was a political-economic catastrophe for Carter.
And that wasn’t all. Carter had to deal with a deeply divided Democratic Party and one of the strongest primary challenges any modern incumbent president has faced from liberal legend Ted Kennedy. (Ironically, a rally-round-the-flag effect stemming from the hostage crisis undoubtedly helped Carter hold off Kennedy’s challenge.) And Carter’s reelection campaign had a big strategic problem to overcome. He had narrowly won the 1976 general election thanks to the excitement of southern and southern-inflected voters (many of them former Nixon and future Reagan voters) who were thrilled to have credible presidential candidate emerge from their region of the country. But it was extremely difficult for Carter to maintain that unique coalition, particularly against an ideological candidate like Reagan. He also lost a lot of liberal voters to third-party candidate John Anderson, who ran to Carter’s left. Under these circumstances, it was actually impressive that Carter lost to Reagan by only 9.8 percent of the popular vote (though he lost the Electoral College by a 489-to-49 margin). Well before Connally and Barnes’s Middle East tour, Carter’s job-approval rating (per Gallup) had already slipped well below 40 percent, never to recover.
As much as it might give Carter and his friends some grim sense of vindication to know that skullduggery was deployed to keep the hostages locked up as his presidency slipped away, it ultimately mattered only at the margins. But the tale does provide a bit more posthumous damage to the already spotty image of Connally.
Happy Labor Day! In the rest of the world Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st. Liberal and conservative masters of the USA could not have this. The godless Russian commies celebrated May Day. So happy neoliberal Labor Day. Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and other “New Democrats”, following the lead of Reagan Democrats of the Democratic Leadership Council pushed through NAFTA in 1994. So when Genocide Joe and Vice President Harris push for tougher border controls, it is time to remember all the Mexican farmers who were forced to move to America because the US flooded Mexico with cheap subsidized American corn. Biden is called the best president for labor since FDR. The Democrats are at best lackeys of the oligarchy that will give you leftovers at the back door.
I am 69, 40 year union member and have voted Democrat all my life. I have voted for the lesser of two evils and honestly it is continues the downward spiral. The DNC orchestrated the downfall of Sanders and Biden’s 2020 win of the Democratic primary. The DNC’s support of Israel’s genocide is the most extreme and failed example identity politics. I campaigned vigorously for Bernie. I did this because of what he sought for our country. His ethnicity, his religion, his gender and preferences were never a consideration. I cannot set aside genocide. I cannot choose one evil over the other. I give money to Rashida Tlaib and Jewish Voices for Peace out of hope that their messages are heard. Given the DNC track record how sure are we that President Gore would have not gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq? Bush is a war criminal and Gore may have been one had he been elected.
We need a government that total restricts the sell and transfer of weapons outside the country. That would severely shrink the arms industry. It would also end the American profit motive of maintaining NATO. The EU can carrying on without the American subsidiary, NATO.
We can replace NATO with an international labor movement and return to the American tradition of celebrating May Day.
Luckily I have never seen a contract nor signed ANY waivers or NDA.
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Nor have I been paid to engage in fake directed / auto directed "Bubble" scenarios.
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Everything has been an egregious intrusion and non stop surveillance operation.
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Despite current laws and legislation somehow permitting 24/7 electronic surveillance and current social bubble media algorithms turned to the MAX.
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Not exactly a 24/7 crime scene but current legislation is so weak that any all such crimes are totally transacted for years on end with impunity.
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Read and re-read your contracts - YOU have the right to sue.
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Constitutionally you cannot in any scenario sign your actual rights away in the form of a waiver or NDA nor won't sue clause.
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There's a high probability that it is not even provable WHO you should be suing.