You are hitting the nail on the head in terms of National Security! We are more and more vulnerable each day as they chip away at every brain trust we have had for protection!!
If you haven’t read Lisa Baker, please do! She has a picture of the past 45-50 years and the Russian influence, money laundering and the sex trafficking that is being covered up! Just way too much history of this!
By the way agree with the idea of having as many military leaders as possible talking to America about what the current regime's takeover. Excellent idea!
FEMA is basically gutted and will not be there to protect & help people, but apparently the federal government no longer cares. They are busy terrorizing nondocumented people. Helping people is not a priority. You saw how he responded to the flood in Texas. Not his problem.
The people to talk to are Lev Parnas, Michael Cohen, Joe Walsh, and Malcolm Nance. They have inside information about what is going on behind the scenes.
First of all, we blame Donald Trump. He's the one who has been amping up violence. He's the one who says violence in politics is fine. He constantly tells people that judges are killing America, which sends the message that it's okay to kill judges. Hundreds have received credible death threats in the last few years. Those death threats don't come from liberal snowflakes.
Second, where are the gun companies? What do they propose we do about school shootings? It's their product these crazies use to kill children. What's their proposal to stop that?
And third, I blame Republicans. They are the ones who created the permission structure for anyone to own a gun and use it whenever they feel like. They are the ones responsible for nominating crazy-guy Trump. And they don't hold him to the rule of law. (Speaking of crime.) Republican criminals. Republican criminals. Republican criminals.
So, there's the message. It's not complex. Democrats need to be on the attack on these things. If you are on the attack, it allows less room for your opponent to maneuver and gain ground. It sucks up all the oxygen in the news cycle, so they can't get that precious air time.
So far, it isn't working. So far, his favorability on immigration has plunged into negative territory. So far, Latinos have shifted back to the Democrats.
Combined with the direct attack on the economy, it is very likely the House and the Senate will go back to the Democrats after the next election.
The fascist Republicans may think they can stop that by cheating at the ballot box, but I think they are kidding themselves.
The counter narrative is that they are wasting money. At a time when crime rates have been plummeting, it is a very big waste of money to use the National Guard and a bunch of very expensive ICE operations to try to reduce crime that isn't actually a major problem.
This is all just a distraction from rising prices. And by wasting money at the federal level, they are just making prices higher. Not to mention the direct impact on farm prices of taking workers out of the fields.
The entire reason the voters turned Democrats out of office was because prices kept rising when they thought they should be going down. But Trump and his fascist Republicans are wasting our money instead of reducing prices.
And, look, the reason crime rates are down is because President Biden and the Democrats, with help from the Federal Reserve, got the economy humming. You know what will cause a spike in crime?
Ruining the economy.
Which is what the Republicans have been doing for six months.
The plan is that ICE will sweep up whole lines of voters waiting to cast their ballots. MAGA voters will be released immediately and driven back to the voting station. Dem voters will be held until after voting has closed.
Olivia, your retired generals need to make a statement that sending the National Guard or the regular military into an American city without either a clear breakdown of law (massive riots or something of that scale) or the invitation of the state legislature IS AN ILLEGAL ORDER, which should not be obeyed.
Create the permission structure for the people still in the military chain of command to say No.
Draw a line.
That's how the military people can help. And I'm sure there are a lot of retired military people who could do this.
Talk with retired general Wesley Clark. Ask him to head it up. Get someone to be point person.
We might not have the Mark Espers of the world, but we should have the courts. And the courts should trouble themselves to read the Constitution and rule accordingly.
You are hitting the nail on the head in terms of National Security! We are more and more vulnerable each day as they chip away at every brain trust we have had for protection!!
Love and respect you Olivia and all you stand for!
It’s past time for military to speak out! With troops on the street, they need to to know this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!
Trump wants Greenland’s rare earth minerals for AI production.
If you haven’t read Lisa Baker, please do! She has a picture of the past 45-50 years and the Russian influence, money laundering and the sex trafficking that is being covered up! Just way too much history of this!
Olivia is A Hero!
By the way agree with the idea of having as many military leaders as possible talking to America about what the current regime's takeover. Excellent idea!
Rubio's ambition has "Trumped", defeated himself, as far as future office.
He has no career left after the Trump regime falls apart.
FEMA is basically gutted and will not be there to protect & help people, but apparently the federal government no longer cares. They are busy terrorizing nondocumented people. Helping people is not a priority. You saw how he responded to the flood in Texas. Not his problem.
The people to talk to are Lev Parnas, Michael Cohen, Joe Walsh, and Malcolm Nance. They have inside information about what is going on behind the scenes.
Joe was on our kickoff episode, Malcolm was on 2 weeks ago & I went in his YouTube show 3 weeks ago
Here's the message, Cliff.
First of all, we blame Donald Trump. He's the one who has been amping up violence. He's the one who says violence in politics is fine. He constantly tells people that judges are killing America, which sends the message that it's okay to kill judges. Hundreds have received credible death threats in the last few years. Those death threats don't come from liberal snowflakes.
Second, where are the gun companies? What do they propose we do about school shootings? It's their product these crazies use to kill children. What's their proposal to stop that?
And third, I blame Republicans. They are the ones who created the permission structure for anyone to own a gun and use it whenever they feel like. They are the ones responsible for nominating crazy-guy Trump. And they don't hold him to the rule of law. (Speaking of crime.) Republican criminals. Republican criminals. Republican criminals.
So, there's the message. It's not complex. Democrats need to be on the attack on these things. If you are on the attack, it allows less room for your opponent to maneuver and gain ground. It sucks up all the oxygen in the news cycle, so they can't get that precious air time.
So far, it isn't working. So far, his favorability on immigration has plunged into negative territory. So far, Latinos have shifted back to the Democrats.
Combined with the direct attack on the economy, it is very likely the House and the Senate will go back to the Democrats after the next election.
The fascist Republicans may think they can stop that by cheating at the ballot box, but I think they are kidding themselves.
The counter narrative is that they are wasting money. At a time when crime rates have been plummeting, it is a very big waste of money to use the National Guard and a bunch of very expensive ICE operations to try to reduce crime that isn't actually a major problem.
This is all just a distraction from rising prices. And by wasting money at the federal level, they are just making prices higher. Not to mention the direct impact on farm prices of taking workers out of the fields.
The entire reason the voters turned Democrats out of office was because prices kept rising when they thought they should be going down. But Trump and his fascist Republicans are wasting our money instead of reducing prices.
And, look, the reason crime rates are down is because President Biden and the Democrats, with help from the Federal Reserve, got the economy humming. You know what will cause a spike in crime?
Ruining the economy.
Which is what the Republicans have been doing for six months.
The plan is that ICE will sweep up whole lines of voters waiting to cast their ballots. MAGA voters will be released immediately and driven back to the voting station. Dem voters will be held until after voting has closed.
Simple.
Olivia, your retired generals need to make a statement that sending the National Guard or the regular military into an American city without either a clear breakdown of law (massive riots or something of that scale) or the invitation of the state legislature IS AN ILLEGAL ORDER, which should not be obeyed.
Create the permission structure for the people still in the military chain of command to say No.
Draw a line.
That's how the military people can help. And I'm sure there are a lot of retired military people who could do this.
Talk with retired general Wesley Clark. Ask him to head it up. Get someone to be point person.
We might not have the Mark Espers of the world, but we should have the courts. And the courts should trouble themselves to read the Constitution and rule accordingly.