ETA : This is my daily fear now... my nightmare ... the reoccurring scenario in my head!! My daughter and her boyfriend left the house smiling and laughing and we waved and said we love you be careful, you know the normal. But I didnt think to say RUN - I forgot to say not to talk to anyone - Now a phone call with our sweet girl sobbing, unconsolable, her guy , well that is the story ---- My sweet imp has been with her elven prince for 5years I think. He is like a son and we love him - he IS family!!! But on their way home .... a siren. were they going too fast? did they forget a signal? they didnt see anyreason. They told my daughter they didnt think she had on her seatbelt. Her damn seatbelt? yeah it was on... they stopped them because our Elf happens to be brown, the wrong color. Ice was called although our Elf is a natural born citizen... He is as american as I, doesnt matter where his parents came from..... My daughter sobbed on the phone-- please come get her come help. But we are helpless. as a mother I was so stunned - in shock and despair!! They had taken his belt and shoes, and POOF took off with him and would not tell us where. I dont know where to turn!!! I am panicked they --- they dissappeared him, our Imps guy - her elf prince for no other reason than -----that he is brown. Is he ever coming home???? we do not know ANYTHING. It has been 2 days!! my Daughter is in despair, the not knowing is horrible.. His mom is panicked and bereft and stuck in the same old situratiuon she has no where to turn that would not deport her for why? she pays taxes and is a community member... How can this happen in America... in my small town? well why not me why not here? it is happening everywhere to GOOD Innocent people. I am not special, - well I think I am pretty special but I am supposed to right? HOW HAVE WE COME TO THIS??? Ok -- so this IS my Nightmare - everyday, every story I here, every time they go anywhere I am worried, not if but when will it happen? I am just so just out of sorts, everyything is all kinds of wrong. Life is good but bittersweet and I am waiting on the rug to get pulled. How many others Have this fear????? Stay strong yall. I just had to get this off my chest.... Buckle in all!!!!! HANDS OFF!!!!!!!

If you're a billionaire, stop reading.
Go check your offshore accounts or buy another senator. This post isn’t for you.

Now that the billionaires are gone, let me let the rest of you in on a cold, hard truth:

It doesn’t matter whether you vote red or blue.
If you're not in the top 0.1%, you are being squeezed by a system that wasn’t built to serve you—it was built to extract from you.

You’re not lazy. You’re not crazy. You’re not missing some personal finance trick.
You’re stuck in a rigged game designed to feel broken—so you don’t realize how well it’s actually working for the people at the top.

Let’s break it down.

The Illusion of Choice

We’re told we have democracy.
We’re told if we vote harder, things will get better.

But every year:

• Wages stay flat.
• Housing gets worse.
• Healthcare bankrupts people.
• Student debt crushes the future.
• Climate collapse inches forward while oil execs throw parties.

And no matter who’s in charge—red or blue—nothing structural changes.

That’s not dysfunction. That’s design.

Why Democrats Won’t Save You

Democrats have mastered the art of symbolic progress without material change.
They talk about equity, fairness, and justice—but only to the extent that it doesn’t upset the people writing campaign checks.

They’ll:

• Appoint the first trans Assistant Secretary of Health—but block Medicare for All.
• Tweet #BlackLivesMatter—but do nothing about public school funding, food deserts, or police union protections.
• Celebrate firsts—first Black VP, first gay cabinet member—while funneling COVID relief into corporate stock buybacks.

Obama had a supermajority and didn’t pass a public option.
Biden’s signature domestic policy was gutted with barely a fight.
Pelosi called the Green New Deal “the green dream, or whatever.”

This isn’t failing. This is protecting the structure.
The structure that ensures nothing meaningful changes.

Why Republicans Won’t Save You Either

Republicans just sell a different fantasy: that you’re not being exploited—you’re being disrespected.

They offer:

• Moral certainty
• Tribal identity
• Clear villains

They tell you:

• You may be broke, but you’re still a “real American.”
• Your problem isn’t the corporation paying you poverty wages—it’s the immigrant who moved into your town.
• It’s not your health insurer—it’s the trans kid using the “wrong” bathroom.

And when you’ve lost control over your job, your bills, and your future, that kind of emotional clarity feels like power.

I think of a nurse in West Virginia I met years ago. Working 12-hour shifts, no paid leave, raising two kids. She voted for Trump twice. Not because she’s a bigot—but because she was tired of being lectured by people who never showed up for her. All she saw from Democrats was condescension and half-baked promises.

The GOP gave her someone to blame—and that felt more honest than another empty slogan about "unity."

But it’s still a lie. And while she’s working herself into the ground, the GOP is cutting taxes for billionaires and deregulating the very industries poisoning her water.

Two Parties, One Pyramid

Here’s the part that makes people uncomfortable:

Both parties serve capital.
They just manage the public differently.

• Democrats pacify with identity, hope, and technocratic language.
• Republicans mobilize with rage, fear, and cultural war.

But neither will:

• Break monopolies
• Guarantee housing or healthcare
• Tax billionaires
• Empower labor
• End the legalized bribery of the donor class

They need us divided.
Red vs. blue. Rural vs. urban. Woke vs. traditional.
Because when we’re fighting each other, we’re not looking up at the pyramid.

So What Do We Do?

If voting alone could fix this, billionaires would’ve outlawed it already.

The truth is:

• Symbolic wins aren’t justice.
• Representation without redistribution is decoration.
• Culture war victories won’t put food on the table.
• Neither party will dismantle a system they benefit from.

So maybe it’s time to stop hoping they will.

Maybe we stop waiting to be rescued—and start refusing to play their game.

That might mean:

• Organizing in your workplace
• Supporting unions and mutual aid
• Building alternative institutions
• Getting involved in local politics that isn’t bought
• Saying no—loudly, publicly, and together

Because the vote that really scares them isn’t the one in November.
It’s the one we cast every day when we decide what we tolerate.

You’re not broken.
The system is.
And both parties are in on the con.

Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

Trump , Musk and the republicans are DUMB, When the public has no money and no jobs they won't be paying any Taxes to fill the billionaires pockets.and the republicans are DUMB, When the public has no money and no jobs they won't be paying any Taxes to fill the billionaires pockets.

Sorry for the glare. That mug looking pleasant as always, with the substitute PE teacher as his VP.

I get your anger, I really do! But, at some point, collectively, people are going to have to come together to defeat the Orange guy, because we can't do it alone.

"They actively chose to ignore the vast majority of the world’s warnings and trusted a conman". What warnings did they have when the #1 "news" network constantly fed them lies, and bent over backwards to defend his every action? All you have to do is watch Adam's videos of his interactions with Maga, to see that these people are grossly and massively misinformed/uninformed. Yes, they were duped by a conman, and Fox, and Alex Jones, and Newsmax, and the New York Post, etc...but, to blame the cult members for the cult, is ridiculous!

"Ridicule the fuck out of these people. Shame them out of existence. Never let them forget that they chose this and now they need to actively work to fix it.". Again, the voters aren't the ones reeking havoc, the liars are, not the lied to. And, if you think that shitting upon them, for "causing" the problem, is gonna help, well, then you are, also, massively misinformed/uninformed. BTW, shame can have great results, but not always.

"Learn from Germany’s past; don’t roll over and play nice with people who chose to destroy our country; they wer e warned, very nicely by Kamala and Walz. ". Now, I've travelled Germany, quite a bit, and one of the things that I always had a problem reconciling, was, should young Germans collectively feel the guilt for things that they didn't do themselves. I was in Munich, at the train station, and there was an old guy espousing 1940's propaganda, and everyone around him, walked around with their heads down, in shame. It was really palpable! And, I thought is this a good thing? And, quite frankly, I'm still not sure.

Plus, should there be no blame on the Democrats for losing the election? Down the stretch they put a muzzle on Walz. Was that a good thing? Plus, they were in denial of Biden's condition until he shit the bed at the debate. PLUS, that's exactly what "they" want is for there to be infighting. Don't blame the conmen, blame the people who voted for them? It's extremely short-sighted.

The thing that I, mistakenly, left off my last post, was that, you can save your anger for the reckoning that will happen after he's gone. But, first, you have to put out the fire, and then you argue about who/what caused the fire in the first place.

Have a look at my post from a few days ago, about being Canadian, and everyone coming together to fight against OJ, like Americans did after 9/11. Cheers!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/comments/1jq68op/thank_you_donny_for_trying_to_take_over_my_country/

Please, give me a thumb!

Is this attempted murder or what?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/ozturk-detained-ice-dhs-inhaler-medical-care-disability-rights-tufts/

Inspiration.

( Also, be wary of any who might find themselves suddenly gravitating towards posts like these, like moths to a flame, to psychologically deflate/nip in the bud any potential whiffs of oppositional sentiments through any number of different social media manipulation methods. It's the pursued agenda that always reveals, and is always attempted to be explained away, fallacy, specious argument, ad hominem, and all.😏 )

18-year-old Carlos Daniel Terán was arbitrarily shipped to El Salvador on the charge of gang membership. But the Trump administration has produced no evidence of his guilt. These human rights violations embarrass the USA in front of the world.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-austin-area-teen-trump-disappeared-to-el-salvador/

The thing that I don't get, is why he chooses to be so flippant about deporting people by mistake. Nobody wants gang members in their community, but to mistakenly deport people, who aren't gang members, just undermines everything that both sides want. Just sayin'.

Be safe tomorrow everyone ✌️😊

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WeAreTheFlood.net This activism group has has been organizing an ever-expanding series of protests against news media refusing to cover protests, The Heritage Foundation, and more. They were just in 4 different cities / states last weekend, with another big one against the Heritage Foundation this Saturday 4/5, amongst others planned.

One of the gentlemen who's been at the helm of organizing/promoting it, Cliff Cash, is powerfully motivating, whom you see in the above linked video. He's seen all of his social media accounts explode in the past couple of weeks alone.

You can check out his socials here:

Cliff Cash, aka @CliffCashComedy on:

YouTube

on Instagram

cliffcashcomedy.bsky.social on bluesky

This is Authoritarianism on steroids America is becoming more like Russia this is unamerican and people will protest in April 10

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