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The resistance begins.
By meagain
January 22, 2025 9:01 am
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The introductory part of an article in the "The Bullet."

"he resistance to the MAGA juggernaut has already begun at community, city, and state levels.

The governors of Illinois and Colorado announced a new coalition called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, designed to protect state-level institutions against the threat of authoritarianism. It’s reported that more than 20 states are involved.
Governor Gavin Newsom called a special session of the California legislature to fund the state’s civil rights, climate action, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights, disaster funding, and protections shielding undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. It’s been referred to as “Trump-proofing” California.
Less than a week after the election, 100,000 people registered for a call hosted by more than 200 organizations, including the Working Families Party, MoveOn, and Indivisible.
More than 40,000 people joined a call announcing a new version of the Indivisible Guide, which played a crucial role in mobilizing the first Trump Resistance.
Denver mayor Mike Johnston announced he will encourage people to protest mass immigrant deportations and that he would be willing to go to jail if necessary.
The Los Angeles city council passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance to bar using local resources to help federal immigration authorities. In emergency resolutions the city’s public school system reaffirmed itself as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ students. Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and other cities have also passed sanctuary ordinances.
The organizers of the largest one-day demonstration in US history, the 2017 Women’s March, along with many other groups such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, are organizing a feminist People’s March for January 18, shortly before Trump’s inauguration.
Chicago officials have instituted community trainings designed to teach people how to spot and respond to immigration enforcement actions. A local training in mid-November drew nearly 600 people.
San Diego county supervisors voted to prohibit its sheriff’s department from working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the federal agency’s enforcement of civil immigration laws, including those that allow for deportations.
The ACLU laid out a program to help cities and states become a “Firewall for Freedom,” blocking federal efforts to access private data, limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, banning federalization of state National Guard units, and funding abortion care and travel to get it.
The watchdog nonprofit Congressional Integrity Project initiated a “Civic Defense Project” as a rapid response “war room” to debunk baseless attacks and defend those unfairly targeted.
Some predict this resistance will fizzle. Others expect it to burgeon. Neither of these predictions can be counted on. What happens with the resistance to the MAGA juggernaut will depend on what people decide to do and whether they create means for action that can accomplish their ends. The purpose of this Prospectus is to contribute to the search for those means of action.

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  1. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 9:12 am

    Ain't life in this Constitutional Representative Republic grand!!!!!?

    Too bad, meagain, you have to be a foreigner and are required to watch from afar!


  2. by meagain on January 22, 2025 9:55 am
    If I were there, I would not be watching. I would be doing what I have done in the past in Canada. That is organising actual resistance in the Courts and in the streets.

    Perhaps it is the British in me but I do not accept Fascism and try to wait it out.


  3. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 10:08 am

    To quote Indigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    What, do you think fascism is?


  4. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 10:24 am
    Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy.

    HtS, you are correct. Trump is more fascist-light, not full blown fascist.


  5. by oldedude on January 22, 2025 11:24 am
    Lead- congrats on the great grand kid. I'm not up to that. And I agree. At least when we say "the biden crime family" we have proof. And pedojoe covered his ass (and his "family's") before he left the orifice where his head's been for four years.


  6. by meagain on January 22, 2025 11:29 am
    Trump is a full blown fascist.

    For an explanation read this excerpt from a Guardian article.

    "While Democratic strategists debate whether or not their attack ads labeling Donald Trump a fascist have been effective, experts and academics told the Guardian his campaign and the Republican party he now heads have clear autocratic sympathies and political qualities that are firmly in line with fascism movements historically.

    Put together, that makes any Trump victory this week and his return to the White House for a second presidential term a clear threat to US democracy, they added.


    “There couldn’t be a more obvious example of a fascist social and political movement about to take power,” said Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor whose new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, looks at the global playbook of fascists through the lens of America and beyond.

    Stanley continued: “Trump and the people behind him have already promised to replace the government at all levels with loyalists. [LGBTQ+] citizens, particularly trans citizens and their families, will have to leave the country. Political opponents will be targeted in some way ranging from financial penalties to prison.”

    Even Trump’s own longest-serving chief of staff during his time in the White House, John Kelly, put his former boss under “the general definition of a fascist”, the same political category as the infamous Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Kamala Harris openly agreed with that assessment."


  7. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 11:40 am

    As a member of the GOP party, the party that is the home of openness and inclusion, acceptance, tolerance, diversity and freedom, and, based on the results of the last election, please...

    ... please, please, please, please! Continue to accuse Trump of being a fascist.


  8. by Indy! on January 22, 2025 11:53 am

    At least when we say "the biden crime family" we have proof.

    You mean like the orange ass monkey's 34 convictions? 🤔

    Or pardoning cop killers? 🤔

    Which one of you Brown Shorts is the one who always uses the "good germaning" thing? Because you do realize you guys are playing the part of the Germans in this movie, right? You're the ones leading the Jews to the gas chambers.


  9. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 11:54 am
    HtS,
    We agree with you. The GOP is open to, includes, accepts, and tolerates fascists and diverse political views outside the mainstream.


  10. by Indy! on January 22, 2025 11:57 am

    Cop killing used to be out of bounds for everyone. Now Brown Shorts here and OD embrace it. They ARE cop killers.


  11. by islander on January 22, 2025 1:30 pm

    meagain,

    Here in Maine, we are the only state bordered by just one other state and that is Vermont, that border is about 90 miles long. The majority of Maine's border is with Canada, about 611 miles long. Both Vermont and Canada are excellent neighbors !! Even though we are mostly covered with forest and have a low population density, we are surprising progressive. We already have in place laws to protect the very people Trump and the Trump voters want to hurt most by taking away their rights...We will most certainly be a part of the resistance !! 🍻


  12. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 2:05 pm

    "We already have in place laws to protect the very people Trump and the Trump voters want to hurt most by taking away their rights..."

    Who are they?


  13. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 2:10 pm
    HtS,
    People born of immigrant parents in the US.


  14. by Indy! on January 22, 2025 2:10 pm

    Non-whites. The only brown the Homeless Hairdo likes are Brown Shorts like you.


  15. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 2:37 pm

    "HtS,
    People born of immigrant parents in the US."

    Really?


  16. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 2:41 pm
    Really.


    axios.com


  17. by HatetheSwamp on January 22, 2025 2:46 pm

    As I've noted, I'm certain that that Executive Order will be overturned.

    Nevertheless...

    You are misstating and exaggerating. Your article is accurate but you ain't.


  18. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 2:50 pm
    HtS,
    How was I inaccurate? I am supposed to give Trump points because he may be unsuccessful in taking away peoples' rights?


  19. by Indy! on January 22, 2025 2:58 pm

    I wouldn't hang my hat on the Supreme Whored. They had no problem turning over decades of Roe. Plus they voted for a cop killer like Brown Shorts here.


  20. by oldedude on January 22, 2025 8:51 pm
    Or pardoning cop killers? 🤔
    You stated the J6 folks were cop killers. Prove it. Or are you sliming down the leg of your daddy again.


  21. by Indy! on January 22, 2025 9:19 pm

    You know how your favorite orange ass monkey decided to pardon everybody? They were going to go over all the cases and decide them on an individual basis, but when they saw how much work was involved the Homeless Hairdo LITERALLY said...

    "Fuck it - release all of them".

    That's what you voted for. A cop killer who released cop killers from prison. Aren't you the guy who always whines about how hard a cop's job is? Then you're okay with your boss releasing cop killers from prison. Also guys who beat up cops with things like a flag pole and a fire extinguisher. The total number of cops injured in the INSURRECTION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT was 140. Think of that - you voted for a guy who thought 140 cops getting their asses kicked by backwoods MAGAts was just fine and dandy...

    "Fuck it - release all of them".

    You have absolutely ZERO moral standing on this board from now on. YOU and your pal Brown Shorts VOTED for this. I already posted the info on this board - you missed it. The information is readily available online - just google it and avoid any sources that start with the letters F-O-X. It's not my job to keep you informed - just to keep you in line... cop killer. 😉


  22. by Curt_Anderson on January 22, 2025 9:30 pm
    OD,
    Do you believe soldiers with PTSD who die by their own hand within a short time after their enlistment are casualties of war?
    people.com


  23. by Indy! on January 23, 2025 12:11 am

    He won’t answer. This is the real OD - the one I knew he was the entire time. The one who obsesses over children having sex. The one who’s fine killing brown people. The one who’s fine releasing traitors onto the streets of America. OD is a cop killer just like the Homeless Hairdo and the murderers he let out of prison onto the streets of this country.

    The MAGAts have ZERO moral standing from now on. None. There is NO coming back from this one.


  24. by HatetheSwamp on January 23, 2025 2:48 am

    Curt,

    You asked how your post was inaccurate.

    Re: "HtS,
    People born of immigrant parents in the US."

    That's how.


  25. by Curt_Anderson on January 23, 2025 9:03 am
    HtS,
    You are being more obtuse than usual. You asked Whose rights is Donald Trump is threatening. I answered children born of immigrant parents in the US. In other words, birthright citizens. Trump wants to end birthright citizenship, Which is inshrined in the 14th amendment.


  26. by HatetheSwamp on January 23, 2025 9:12 am

    But, you're wrong.

    Trump proposes to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, not immigrants. Big difference.


  27. by Curt_Anderson on January 23, 2025 9:29 am
    HtS,
    The 14th makes no distinction about the parents’ immigration status.


  28. by HatetheSwamp on January 23, 2025 10:05 am

    Curt!

    Think, man!

    Ole pb was the first on SS to declare that the text of the 14th Amendment clear. Trump has every right to address what's come to be known as "birthright citizenship." He's a citizen of the United States!... but this is a battle he almost certainly lose.

    That being the case, you're lying about Trump's position... as members of the progressive Swampcult often do...

    ... and, you're lying about pb agreeing with Trump.

    I get it. Mr Tangerine Man's immaculation changes our orientation here.

    I despise Trump. But, you take pb to another level. You practice deranged TrumpHate.

    From before Trump assumed office in 017, pb was saying that the truth about Trump is enough. You don't have to lie,... as you have in this 14th Amendment issue.


  29. by Curt_Anderson on January 23, 2025 6:36 pm
    "Illegal aliens" ARE immigrants, no matter how often you and Trump deny it, HtS. Their US born kids are American citizens.

    The babies of foreign students, guest workers and tourists born in the US are American citizens.


  30. by HatetheSwamp on January 24, 2025 4:22 am

    To paraphrase you, Curt, "Tell that to the PRESIDENT."

    A new day's already here.

    You watch Fox. You have to have noticed. MAGA is reclaiming the language. It's no longer woke. Watch the Megyn Kelly video I posted.

    These four years are going to be sooooooo much fun.


  31. by HatetheSwamp on January 24, 2025 4:40 am

    Curt,

    Think, man!

    It ain't as obvious as you want. If the Venezuelan Ambassador to the US has a child while serving as Ambassador, that kud ain't an American citizen.

    Ole pb said it looooooooong before you, Trump will almost certainly lose this but, there's sumpthin to it.

    The world you trusted was evolving is dissolving right before your eyes!

    Baha


  32. by Ponderer on January 24, 2025 7:20 am

    "HtS, you are correct. Trump is more fascist-light, not full blown fascist." -Curt

    So was Hitler when he first started out.


  33. by HatetheSwamp on January 24, 2025 7:34 am

    Do me a favor. You, and y'nes, please continue to call Trump and MAGAs fascist. It won GOPs the 024 landslide. We GOPs will need all your help in 026!


  34. by Curt_Anderson on January 24, 2025 9:53 am
    It ain't as obvious as you want. If the Venezuelan Ambassador to the US has a child while serving as Ambassador, that kud ain't an American citizen. —-HtS

    Speak for yourself. It is made obvious by the language of the 14th amendment that diplomats and their families are not “subject to the jurisdiction”. Diplomats have diplomatic immunity in our country and every country we have relations with. Embassies are almost like tiny countries within a country. That is why Julian Assange was able to hold up in the Ecuadorian embassy for years even though he was a criminal in England.



  35. by Indy! on January 24, 2025 12:50 pm

    by HatetheSwamp on January 24, 2025 7:34 am

    Do me a favor. You, and y'nes, please continue to call Trump and MAGAs fascist. It won GOPs the 024 landslide. We GOPs will need all your help in 026!



    Oh my... did Brown Shorts just admit he was lying about "supporting Kamala" that whole time? Color me shocked. So now - on top of having no morals and being a cop killer - he's also a confirmed liar.


  36. by HatetheSwamp on January 24, 2025 3:22 pm

    Let me start off with two words. I support Cackles Mckneepads. I support the Dingbat...

    ...but, I voted for JD.


  37. by Indy! on January 24, 2025 3:50 pm

    You voted for the cop killers because that's what you are.


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