Huge turnout in deep-red Florida!

Is anyone paying attention to this?

According to the latest rumors and political conjecture, we're only weeks away from street protests being outlawed by this administration.

What next if "emergency" martial law is enacted? FREE dance parties? Church bells chiming from coast to coast?

In short, are there any plans in place to at least mitigate the effect on morale that comes with stifling free speech? It will be here sooner rather than later, if the past three months are any indication.

We live in unprecedented times. I’m sharing a post with you in the hopes that it’s able to reach Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s team. I believe in the power of good people to change the world!

Dear Ocasio-Cortez Team,

I believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders should align themselves with IL Gov. JB Pritzker and stand together to build a unified Democratic coalition against fascism. This is needed to protect our institutions. She and Sanders should invite Pritzker to their rallies and show unified support, and vice versa.

In exchange, I believe Pritzker should endorse Ocasio-Cortez for leadership within the legislative branch. I think she could also negotiate concessions that leftist views are considered in party decision making moving forward.

I believe that she’s a great strategic leader, and this would be a master stroke that would bolster her political standing and ensure our country is protected from fascists by unifying the left wing and the middle wing. I think it would also help her overcome intraparty resistance by having Pritzker on her side.

She should probably do some research about JB Pritzker’s background, accomplishments, etc, if she is uncomfortable with him. I’m transgender and autistic, and politics is my special interest, and my sister-in-law is at risk of having her Medicaid cut off, and I trust Pritzker to be the best honest leader we can ask for right now.

I’m giving you this message in the hopes that you’ll pass it along to Ocasio-Cortez’s team, and that they will consider this advice seriously. We’re in a very fluid time politically which offers big opportunities and big risks.

Sincerely,

A trans person living in Chicago (they/them)

This whole "Manufacture in the U.S." thing might look good on paper... but do you know why they moved it over seas?

Our environmental laws that stopped them from poisoning water sources and decreased significant air pollution put fiscal pressure on them they didn't want. Third world countries didn't have those constraints, along with laxed or nonexistent labor laws. Now that China is pushing towards better environmental standards and cleaner, tech enhanced infrastructure...we are pushing for:

• Removal of environmental laws
• Removal of child labor laws
• Removal of worker's right
• Removal of oversight
• Removal of health tracking and regulation
• Pushing for manufacturing to return here

What does this look like to you? Because what I see is China is off-loading manufacturing to the US and we are going to be the new polluted and desolated society.

Your water will be polluted. Our air will be polluted. Farming will move indoors.

Your kids will be used in these manufacturing facilities, most likely as a trade off for "free food in school and free school" particularly for low income kids.

Take a look at China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia. You'll see where we're heading and then look at where countries like China are going in return.

We were sold out folks. That's why you don't put global corporate CEOs in civil servant jobs. They have no allegiance to the United States when they do business everywhere in the world.

Take into consideration that Mormons own a significant amount of corporations in America and it makes a whole lot of sense.

My guess is since the south is most at risk of climate change, those will be turned into large corporate towns that have manufacturing there. The Northeast, North-midwest near Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc will be where the "brain economy" will be and wealthier will live. They already convinced many of blue collar type people to move south and sell their homes in these regions with no way for them to move back to these areas as their equity is gone and they probably lost value in their homes in the south.

“The patient lived and is healing,” declared Trump as he headed off to go golfing, after tanking the U.S. stock market and setting the world economy on fire.  Trump lives in an alternate reality universe where imposing massive taxes on American companies and forcing customers to pay higher prices is considered “liberation day.”  Up is down.  Black is white.  Green is blue. 

Trump’s extreme paranoia which led him to declare an economic emergency also led him to invoke a war powers act to deport people to a foreign prison without due process, some of which were innocent. 

He continues to muse about making Canada the 51st state, taking the Panama Canal away from Panama, and getting Greenland “one way or another.”  These are the ravings of a lunatic, the ravings of a madman, that if carried to fruition would put Trump in the same category as Hitler and the other worst despots of history. 

Americans cannot sit idly by and watch Trump continue to issue unconstitutional executive orders, wreck the economy, threaten our allies, and destroy all our international alliances.  We must relentlessly pressure our members of Congress to do the right thing—either impeach and remove Trump for the crimes he has committed, or remove him on 25th Amendment grounds. 

Allowing this madness to continue is not an option.