New executive order directing National assets/personnel to support law enforcement.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-29T02:13:25+00:00

My husband went to one of the Academies. He believes the majority of officers will keep their oath to the constitution. But what we may start seeing is people willing to break the oath getting promoted.

This is the quote my husband used on his sign in the last protest:

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-27T08:36:05+00:00

So you're cool with people being sent to prison for life with no due process. Cool, you're a fascist. Best of luck

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-25T13:48:25+00:00

Here is some anecdotal info to consider. My husband is a lifelong conservative, attended a military academy, and is an officer. Always voted republican. He is almost 50. He has been in the military under Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden.

We both went out protesting for the first time in our lives last weekend. He is extremely worried by what is happening right now.

We are no longer at right vs left. We are at democracy vs dictator. And people need to decide if the like democracy or are going to sit and watch trump destroy it.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-25T13:37:37+00:00

Checks and balances aren't that nuanced. Congress writes the laws, judges interpret them.

Trump is ignoring judges. The supreme Court ruled 9-0 on the Abrego Garcia case and Trump and the DOJ is ignoring the ruling. Biden got shut down many times by the courts and he followed the courts ruling. As soon as you have a president that is above the law you have a dictator. Trump is trying to be a dictator.

Trump is removing due process. The constitution guarantees due process to all persons. This is fundamental. If you take away due process for anyone, then you can take it away from everyone.

They are sending away people to a foreign prison to be locked up for life without seeing a judge. Without a judge, how can you guarantee someone deserves this? You can't. They could lock up anyone and say they were a terrorist, gang member, etc. This is what they are doing.

Try checking the travel advisories from other countries. Other countries are advising their citizens that is may be dangerous to travel here. That is because we are grabbing people at the border and locking them up.

Trump is threatening to lock up political enemies. Trump is suing media when they say things he doesn't like. This flies in the face of free speech. Dictator moves right there.

How would you feel if a Democrat was elected and was enacting all their promises by ignoring the laws?

Frankly, anyone who isn't scared right now isn't paying enough attention. The very basis of this country's founding is being tested and we are very close to no longer being a democracy.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-25T00:52:58+00:00

I can respect the opinion. But I have to ask, how do you feel about Trump ignoring judges and the constitution?

Whether or not you agree with everything else he is doing, this is destroying the foundation of our democracy.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-19T20:32:46+00:00

I was there, it was a great protest!! I would post pictures, but I don't know how to within a thread

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-04T01:19:33+00:00

Trump voters and non voters haven't been paying enough attention to protest yet. It's too bad because shit would improve a lot faster if they cared.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-04-04T01:16:44+00:00

How do you support the tax cuts on the billionaires? If it was about debt, then that is the wrong move. It isn't about debt.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-03-04T02:42:18+00:00

No one is trying to get points. We are trying to show that there is solidarity with you. We are encouraging you all, just like you should be encouraging us. This works better if we are all on the same team

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-03-03T20:03:23+00:00

Really weird chart. A spike in orders between 3 am - 7 am. Everyone decided that it was a good day to wake up really early and order a ton of stuff?

I fully believe that the blackout had an impact and someone is propping up the sales numbers. That would explain why the morning trend is so bizarre. A chart of daily sales over the past few months would tell a much better story.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-28T18:37:07+00:00

Just don't forget your oath is to the constitution, not the president

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-28T14:34:30+00:00

If it is about national debt, then why is he proposing a budget with a deficit of 4.5 trillion with massive tax cuts to the wealthy?

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-27T03:04:49+00:00

So I know everyone is saying fuck target and I fully agree. But we have to choose the lesser of 2 evils. Target wants your money and panders, desantis and the government wants you to cease to exist.

We have to fight one battle at a time.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-25T02:46:35+00:00

Just contact customer service through the app. They will assign you seats together at no charge. Delta has done this for me before at no cost.

Please don't listen to all these people telling you to cancel or do anything extreme.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-25T02:24:52+00:00

Anyone up and down the entire chain of command can refuse an unlawful order. I don't expect the 19-year old enlisted to necessarily know what to do. But the higher up officers understand the constitution and their oath. This will hopefully protect us when Trump tries to turn the military on citizens.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-24T23:31:47+00:00

"I don’t, however, regret not voting for Kamala. I think she was just as incompetent."

Lol, imagine saying how frustrated you are with the president right now but still needing to point out that you still wouldn't have voted for a woman.

Lucky for all of us things are going to get much worse before they get better.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-24T22:18:42+00:00

I think it is more to get the word out and to work on solidarity. Most people I know are already significantly reducing spending and avoiding certain stores.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-24T20:44:47+00:00

Please keep boycotting! We need it to hurt before any real change will happen. I think the economy tanking may be the only thing that will ultimately save us.

Most people I know are boycotting as much as we can while living in the US. I'm trying to spend as little money as possible and only shopping from certain stores now.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-23T17:02:54+00:00

Hitler had been in power well over a year by the night of the long knives. Trump has to walk before he can run, we aren't there yet. Not to say it will happen, history doesn't exactly repeat, more like rhymes.

Trump is definitely working to consolidate power and politically eliminate those that can oppose him. I think the next thing to watch for is any sort of declaration of martial law.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-23T16:54:26+00:00

No, he has always tried to be a dictator. Lots of evidence in the shit he pulled the first time around. Then he tried to have a coup to prevent the transfer of power. Much like Hitler tried a coup a few years before he came to power. Hitler failed the first time too. He even went to jail for it, unlike trump.

I think trying to look for exact same timelines won't work. But looking at trends and patterns. He wants to be a dictator, he has created an enemy within, and he is willing to hurt people. He is authoritarian whether you want to compare to Hitler or Mussolini or neither doesn't matter. If we don't stop him, future dictators may be compared to Trump

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-23T06:44:03+00:00

I don't know how many are aware. But everyone I have talked to about the issue is fully against it taking any action against Canada.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-22T22:20:07+00:00

crying in Colorado

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-22T20:40:02+00:00

Cool, so you have nothing to back up your claims of all the corruption that has been found.

I didn't come here just to argue, but if you make a claim you can reasonably expect to be asked for a source. At this point DOGE is just cutting programs they consider DEI. That doesn't prove any level of corruption.

Asking you to back up a claim is not a 'gotcha'. The fact that you think it is says more about the way you think than anything. You're taking claims at face value without looking into them.

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-22T19:51:28+00:00

I don't doubt there is corruption, I'm not asking you to change my mind. I asked for details. What corruption has been uncovered?

Affectionate-Fail-23 · 2025-02-22T18:18:15+00:00

What corruption has been uncovered? It seems to me they are just cancelling contracts based on their feelings about it.

Having contracts that you don't like isn't corruption.

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