At 1:39 this afternoon, after a nearly 40-minute delay and an unexplained commotion right outside the doors, the President of the United States finally made his way into the East Room of the White House. As he walked toward the podium, invited guests held their phones up high to record the moment. Even after the long wait, there were still screams of “Thank you, Mr. President” and loud cheering.
For the next 58 minutes, Donald Trump seemed to forget what the event was even supposed to be about, and at one point, he even forgot that he was the president when he started an explanation with, “If I ran any country.” He made a racist joke that only Hispanics can survive long falls and then said he shouldn’t talk about how beautiful women are, but then said exactly that about two sisters. This was supposed to be an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, but it was really an hour in the life of a very self-absorbed man.
The older I get, and I'm officially old, the faster time flies. Less that 5 weeks, it seems like forever. I can only imagine what it feels like on the ground there. I hope, as fervently as if I lived there, for a peaceful election.
Thank you for this insightful piece. Yes, even when we are afraid, or angry, or depressed, we must still do what we know to be morally right.
A few nights ago, I attended an author "in conversation" event at an independent bookstore in London where I am staying for a few weeks. The book being discussed, The Bookshop of Forbidden Books, which deals with banning books. Soon the author, Marc Levy, and the British audience were talking about the banning of books in various US states and school districts. The British ladies shook their heads, expressed sadness and horror at "such stupidity," and asked the author how this made any sense. I sat in a front row feeling uncomfortable and distressed that the accusations about my country were true. I wanted to stand up and interject that it wasn't happening in every state, that in my state, California, book banning was not prevalent. But I kept silent. I felt their disbelief and rage was justified and the Us deserved to be called to task by book lovers around the world. Thankfully, toward the end of the hour, Mr. Levy, a US citizen, clarified that the massive book banning isn't happening everywhere. "Only in the Republican states," he said.
There are so many things happening in the US these days that need addressing with fervent opposition to our current government. Book banning is one of the many that is on my mind today.
I’m a Brit who lived in the U.S. for 57 of my 85 years (married to a Mexican American for 50 years). I’m a lifelong reader, love books, had shelves full of them. When ebooks first appeared, I took to them immediately because the logic of not cutting down forests to produce books appealed to me. Also, my eyesight deteriorated to where I need large fonts, which are easier to achieve with ebooks. I’ve been criticized a lot, even by family members, for not reading “real” books, which makes me sad.
My point is that many people also believe that ebooks aren’t “real” and that there’s nothing like having an actual book in your hands. I don’t disagree. But with all the book-banning that The Pearl Clutchers of America are insisting on, they forget that all of those books are available as ebooks and there is even a source (the Project Gutenberg website) where many of those banned books are available FREE for downloading. Since nowadays, almost everyone has a phone or other electronic device, they could easily bypass the biddies. No one needs to allow others to dictate to them what they may read (except parents of young children).
Unfortunately banning books keeps them out of the schools and public libraries, and in some “Red” states, teachers can no longer use books like To Kill A Mocking Bird, Orwell’s 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou in the classroom…. I’m not kidding!
The existence of ebooks does not solve this problem!
Maybe ebooks solve the problem for some ppl even if not for everyone. Nonetheless depriving anyone of books they might enjoy and learn from is a serious problem!
I grew up living on military bases, my father left a scholarship at Cal to enlist to defend our country after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Although he returned to finish college, he was ‘recalled’ for the Korean War because having flown 59 missions over Germany and occupied Poland, including on D-day, instructor pilots were needed for the Korean War. Having had his education interrupted twice, he stayed, and for the next 30 years I was living ‘with and in’ the Air Force. When I put the peace sign on our family car in 1969 and did everything I could to protest the wars we had started in Viet Nam and Cambodia, it was because of everything I had learned from him—the man who drove that car on base from our housing to headquarters until the war was ended. We see this kind of warrior in Senators Kelly and Slotkin and many of those in Congress and they are never to be confused with the draft-dodger in chief and his clown boy because neither has any idea what why we have a military or what it means to serve. Keep the faith and get out the vote.
My Dad was in the Navy, but long ago and went to the Philippines. My Grandparents came fled from Poland, Russia, and Czechoslovakia.
It is unbelievable we are the Country that Needs to be saved and fought against this very thing.
But ultimately it will be up to WE the PEOPLE.
This is a great piece, especially for Military and families, but also everyone by Lance Rosen. I share him often because he (and his wife) are lifelong Civil Rights activists, involved in Politics and a Master of history and endless knowledge.
Thank you for this—I was hoping to reach other ‘brats’ who are watching the pain inflicted on military families, but I think you caught a piece of where I stand (my first hero was MLK) and the parents who led me here. And I will read your addition with interest.
But he truly knows what he’s talking about and has connections in important places.
His articles are free, but obviously would love people to support him.
He does a ton of work, but absolutely no pressure.
His goal is to save our country.
I promise you won’t be disappointed by any of his articles, as well as many of the writers you probably read and follow…HCR, Thom Hartmann, Robert Reich, Glass Empires W.A. Lawrence, etc.
And did you see or read about Hogsbreath’s latest tirade against anyone even slightly unconventional being in the armed forces? It was downright frightening!
As a young child starting at the age of five in the early 1960’s every summer would have two weeks with my grandparents who lived in Washington DC. We would go to all the sights that tourists would go to. What was special was that my grandfather was a public servant in the Pentagon and my uncle who also lived in DC was in the State Department. So access to other places in DC that wasn’t necessarily available for the general public was afforded me and was always aware how fortunate, grateful and amazing this was. Loved to see art, oil paintings, sculptures just everything from all the masters and not so famous artists that were in all the galleries of the Smithsonian Institution and the out of the way places that are in DC. My grandparents were school teacher’s who met in the 1930’s and married and they always believed in education. That no matter what in life the only thing you take with you is learning. Learning about as much as possible, whether it was poetry, art, music, everything and especially about people. That through many spectrums from relationships, business and expressed by the arts shows so much about people. Their nightmares, fears, to their loves and their humanity.
Yesterday while Heather was observing Trump which am grateful for, because there are many a day can no longer stomach that thing. While on a flight home watched the display from Pete Hegseth in which he delivered a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. He announced he had transformed the military by enforcing the idea of “[n]o fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”
“The ideological clowns are out,” he said. “The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.”
While watching this presentation from Hegseth was reminded of the year 1966. Know the year because that was the first year that ever attended a protest with my grandmother against the Vietnam war. Granddad may have been at the Pentagon however grandma knew who she was. Also a piece of art work that hurled my mind back to that same year, with both my grandparents that we saw. It’s a painting that has left a long lasting memory. This artwork is called “The Apotheosis of War” painted by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. This painting depicts a pile of human skulls set on the barren earth. There’s a flock of birds still in flight and some picking over the pile of human skulls. The ground is an earthly color that the human skulls make an impression with that ivory color of bleached bones with the black orifices created by empty jaws and eye-sockets. The scale of the deathly pile of human remains from war. On the art work's frame, Vereshchagin inscribed that he dedicated the painting "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come". It’s also a memorable time because it was the first time I saw my grandfather weep. My grandfather had served in WWII and was one of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, a Nazi labor camp and a subcamp of the Buchenwald system. Did not know that then, found out later in life but has stayed with me.
Find that those who never served or had family that has, just can’t ever find “the right battlefield at the right time." Really can’t recall to many politicians who did serve in the military that called out that war was really ever a good thing. It’s grotesque when you think about it when politicians who used numerous deferments to skip service just decide that war is their only option, that this “warrior ethos” will overtake the world. Maybe they "have no right to send our kids off to war.”
Everyday awake these last twenty months as to what “fresh hell awaits us all from these creatures..” and see so many people in this nation fighting back. From protesting, to contacting their representatives in DC, their states and even locally. That there is something that is unexplainable in so many people fighting back about what this nation was intended to become that has gone way off course by this regime. Have witnessed people who would have never considered picking up a sign and protest, and have witnessed some people who did vote for him and have regretted that decision. While am glad to see that these individuals now regret their decision for whatever their reasons, that they chose in their past, will not forget that and that’s the process of learning about people. No matter your age, always keep learning.
Have two grandchildren in the military and in the best of ways that most in the military view an oxygen thief is the current testosterone pusher.
We are at day 33 until November 3rd. In person early voting starts in the first few weeks of October, today is the 1st. Make your plan, execute your plan. — Vote
TJ, I want to let you know that old vets are still fighting. I served in the USN 68-72 and I'm still at it, just in a different capacity. I volunteered to be a poll worker back in 24, and started working with my local democratic precinct doing canvassing. I also wear T-shirts from Vote-Vets and my USS FDR-CVA-42 hat (the ship I served on) and I was in Costco yesterday for about 30 minutes and had three people thank me for my service and at what i was wearing, it says, "Don't Give Up the Ship - No Kings on Deck". What I don't see very much is anything to do with Trump. I watch people approach me and read my shirt and I just smile and look them in the eyes, I make no comment, it's not necessary. With that said, I'll leave you with this thought we are winning and will in 32 days.
Still serving after all these years and a lot of vets are doing the same right now.
Bill thank you for your service and sacrifice. Love the saying on your T-shirt, it’s to the point. The continuation of the fight with serving this nation as a poll worker.
Am doing as well. We do what we can do. All the vets doing their part. As some vets have remarked, “once served, always served”
Yes, believe we are winning yet do not want people to become complacent and think that they do not need to vote because others will. It takes us all to steer this nation towards a different path.
Will not go into how or why this Felon got a second crack at this destruction, but it happened and this election is the first step towards a different outcome.. We all just need to vote. Again thank you stay safe and healthy..
Completely agree, Bill. I wear my Vote Vets Tee shirt everywhere that says, "Veteran, Not a sucker or a loser." I can't tell you how many people have stopped me, thanked me for my service, and agreed with the writing on the shirt. Djt and Kegsbreath have no place being anywhere near our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen - much less running the entire operation. Such incompetence.
I’m curious about where most military and Veterans , not under the microscope, stand. Anyone I’ve talked to in the Military in the past are definitely against this trump’s and KegsDeath’s illegal, endless, “War” of choice, Genocide.
It is crazy to think Everything we have fought for in the past is Now happening here and we’re the country that’s needs to be rescued.
But it is ultimately up to WE the People and NOT just our VOTE BLUE, but what hurdles we are facing now until November and thereafter, especially Jan. As we have seen, Jan 6, 2021, was the practice run and term 2 and Project 2025 and placing loyalists throughout pretty much all points to Jan.6-2.0, ICE Gestapo fully armed and his Fuhrerbunker, Guard in Washington DC, etc.
I want to share these pieces by Lance Rosen…he and his wife are lifelong activists, warned of trump before his first term, Jan.6, and many other things, plus an amazing historian.
Shelly, 70yo Navy veteran here. I'm totally against this regime. Such incompetence. I just responded to Bill above. I wear a tee shirt from Vote Veterans that says, "Veteran, not a sucker or a loser." MANY people have stopped me, smiled and agreed. Bring on the blue wave!!
Janine thank you for your service and sacrifice. You and Bill have such great T-shirts. Going to get one for both my DIL’s for Christmas they will love it. Both women are Veterans… who knew that the sons as they say and readily admit they married up when they found these two women.
TJ, thank you again and thinking of you and your family.❤️🩹
It’s frightening to think we are now the country that’s needs needs to be rescued from the very thing Our country and allies all fought against…trump’s=Hitler’s Nazi, fascist, Eugenics, Sociopathic Regime, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, on A.I. Steroids with the Technofascists and A.I. on Steroids already infiltrated into our government’s highest agencies and BIG BROTHER watching and collecting all our private information and face recognition software used by ICE Gestapo.
People don’t seem to understand, almost EVERY device, car, computer phone, internet connected appliances, TV’s etc., are watching and recording, people’s Ring Cameras and other home “security” cameras, plus Cameras Everywhere.
Thank you for your sharing and safety for your family and all our military.❤️🩹
Shelly thank you will read Lance Rosen’s article. Stay safe and healthy as well. Already know you are hell bent on voting.. may we have better days, it will take time and patience will need to be acquired, there’s no quick fix for all this shite..
As I just said on a different thread, if we wake up on 11/4, congratulate ourselves for a big win, and then walk away, we have failed. 11/3 is only a beginning of the massive repair project this broken nation faces.
Yes, thank you for this powerful essay. Especially your recollection of your junior high school teacher's advice, that clearly affected you and has stayed with you, to our benefit as well: "...how sometimes when you feel strongly about something, or have a responsibility to others, that is exactly when you have to push through the fear and follow your conscience."
For about ten of the last fourteen years, I have been subject to sleepless nights, heavy heart and dissolutionment with our shining city on a hill. More and more we have fallen to the varied corruptions of a deadeyed reptilian usurpation of rule and a crack in what I had thought was a solid foundation of justice, decency and intelligence. The breath of relief I exhaled during the Biden administration turned out to be but brief respite and a turn back to light in the midst of a larger, darker social historical era. I will never give up hope but it feels sometimes like a small campfire in a night of perpetual gloom.
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank
I like to dream there is a timeline where Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl and so many others lived long and peaceful and well-loved lives…
The countdown has begun…make sure everything is in order..check your registrations again...vote early if you can. Help others vote early or get to the polls if you can.
This is the most important call for action that we have faced in our lifetime…there is so so much at stake.
We have the strength in the numbers..we have the truth and the facts on our side..we know they may try anything to stop us or to sabotage the results but we’re prepared for any and all of it.
We’re SICK of ALL of them and everything they stand for.
We’re getting ready to clean the house..sweep them out the door and take OUR COUNTRY BACK.
Thank you Heather. I too breathe a little heavier the closer to midterms we get. I feel confident, but there’s the nagging fear of what trump has planned.
It’s now up to our generation to ensure the persistence of this “great experiment” in democracy — and the founders and Lincoln and others have warned us that it IS an experiment.
Yes, vote — but we all must do even more. Drive people to the polls. Donate to candidates. Help people register. Join the No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct 17.
Patriots, unite! Only we can stop Trump, the authoritarian.
The League of Women Voters will train anyone to register others to vote. Just yesterday I met a young woman doing this work at a local community college.
It’s hard to imagine there are people who think attacks on the social safety system and defenseless people, and so many more, are just fine. You speak the truth.
The older I get, and I'm officially old, the faster time flies. Less that 5 weeks, it seems like forever. I can only imagine what it feels like on the ground there. I hope, as fervently as if I lived there, for a peaceful election.
Thank you for this insightful piece. Yes, even when we are afraid, or angry, or depressed, we must still do what we know to be morally right.
A few nights ago, I attended an author "in conversation" event at an independent bookstore in London where I am staying for a few weeks. The book being discussed, The Bookshop of Forbidden Books, which deals with banning books. Soon the author, Marc Levy, and the British audience were talking about the banning of books in various US states and school districts. The British ladies shook their heads, expressed sadness and horror at "such stupidity," and asked the author how this made any sense. I sat in a front row feeling uncomfortable and distressed that the accusations about my country were true. I wanted to stand up and interject that it wasn't happening in every state, that in my state, California, book banning was not prevalent. But I kept silent. I felt their disbelief and rage was justified and the Us deserved to be called to task by book lovers around the world. Thankfully, toward the end of the hour, Mr. Levy, a US citizen, clarified that the massive book banning isn't happening everywhere. "Only in the Republican states," he said.
There are so many things happening in the US these days that need addressing with fervent opposition to our current government. Book banning is one of the many that is on my mind today.
I’m a Brit who lived in the U.S. for 57 of my 85 years (married to a Mexican American for 50 years). I’m a lifelong reader, love books, had shelves full of them. When ebooks first appeared, I took to them immediately because the logic of not cutting down forests to produce books appealed to me. Also, my eyesight deteriorated to where I need large fonts, which are easier to achieve with ebooks. I’ve been criticized a lot, even by family members, for not reading “real” books, which makes me sad.
My point is that many people also believe that ebooks aren’t “real” and that there’s nothing like having an actual book in your hands. I don’t disagree. But with all the book-banning that The Pearl Clutchers of America are insisting on, they forget that all of those books are available as ebooks and there is even a source (the Project Gutenberg website) where many of those banned books are available FREE for downloading. Since nowadays, almost everyone has a phone or other electronic device, they could easily bypass the biddies. No one needs to allow others to dictate to them what they may read (except parents of young children).
Unfortunately banning books keeps them out of the schools and public libraries, and in some “Red” states, teachers can no longer use books like To Kill A Mocking Bird, Orwell’s 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou in the classroom…. I’m not kidding!
The existence of ebooks does not solve this problem!
Maybe ebooks solve the problem for some ppl even if not for everyone. Nonetheless depriving anyone of books they might enjoy and learn from is a serious problem!
It may mitigate the problem somewhat, although probably not as much as we’d like.
I grew up living on military bases, my father left a scholarship at Cal to enlist to defend our country after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Although he returned to finish college, he was ‘recalled’ for the Korean War because having flown 59 missions over Germany and occupied Poland, including on D-day, instructor pilots were needed for the Korean War. Having had his education interrupted twice, he stayed, and for the next 30 years I was living ‘with and in’ the Air Force. When I put the peace sign on our family car in 1969 and did everything I could to protest the wars we had started in Viet Nam and Cambodia, it was because of everything I had learned from him—the man who drove that car on base from our housing to headquarters until the war was ended. We see this kind of warrior in Senators Kelly and Slotkin and many of those in Congress and they are never to be confused with the draft-dodger in chief and his clown boy because neither has any idea what why we have a military or what it means to serve. Keep the faith and get out the vote.
Nancy, it’s hard to even imagine military life.
My Dad was in the Navy, but long ago and went to the Philippines. My Grandparents came fled from Poland, Russia, and Czechoslovakia.
It is unbelievable we are the Country that Needs to be saved and fought against this very thing.
But ultimately it will be up to WE the PEOPLE.
This is a great piece, especially for Military and families, but also everyone by Lance Rosen. I share him often because he (and his wife) are lifelong Civil Rights activists, involved in Politics and a Master of history and endless knowledge.
https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/hegseth-channels-hermann-goering?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for this—I was hoping to reach other ‘brats’ who are watching the pain inflicted on military families, but I think you caught a piece of where I stand (my first hero was MLK) and the parents who led me here. And I will read your addition with interest.
Nancy, you’re welcome.
I have learned so much from him and his wife.
But he truly knows what he’s talking about and has connections in important places.
His articles are free, but obviously would love people to support him.
He does a ton of work, but absolutely no pressure.
His goal is to save our country.
I promise you won’t be disappointed by any of his articles, as well as many of the writers you probably read and follow…HCR, Thom Hartmann, Robert Reich, Glass Empires W.A. Lawrence, etc.
W.A. Lawrence…Revolution https://wendy664.substack.com/p/the-coming-velvet-revolution-how?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
And did you see or read about Hogsbreath’s latest tirade against anyone even slightly unconventional being in the armed forces? It was downright frightening!
Unfortunately, I saw it.
Nazi playbook.
Thank you Heather a powerful piece of writing.
As a young child starting at the age of five in the early 1960’s every summer would have two weeks with my grandparents who lived in Washington DC. We would go to all the sights that tourists would go to. What was special was that my grandfather was a public servant in the Pentagon and my uncle who also lived in DC was in the State Department. So access to other places in DC that wasn’t necessarily available for the general public was afforded me and was always aware how fortunate, grateful and amazing this was. Loved to see art, oil paintings, sculptures just everything from all the masters and not so famous artists that were in all the galleries of the Smithsonian Institution and the out of the way places that are in DC. My grandparents were school teacher’s who met in the 1930’s and married and they always believed in education. That no matter what in life the only thing you take with you is learning. Learning about as much as possible, whether it was poetry, art, music, everything and especially about people. That through many spectrums from relationships, business and expressed by the arts shows so much about people. Their nightmares, fears, to their loves and their humanity.
Yesterday while Heather was observing Trump which am grateful for, because there are many a day can no longer stomach that thing. While on a flight home watched the display from Pete Hegseth in which he delivered a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. He announced he had transformed the military by enforcing the idea of “[n]o fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”
“The ideological clowns are out,” he said. “The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.”
While watching this presentation from Hegseth was reminded of the year 1966. Know the year because that was the first year that ever attended a protest with my grandmother against the Vietnam war. Granddad may have been at the Pentagon however grandma knew who she was. Also a piece of art work that hurled my mind back to that same year, with both my grandparents that we saw. It’s a painting that has left a long lasting memory. This artwork is called “The Apotheosis of War” painted by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin. This painting depicts a pile of human skulls set on the barren earth. There’s a flock of birds still in flight and some picking over the pile of human skulls. The ground is an earthly color that the human skulls make an impression with that ivory color of bleached bones with the black orifices created by empty jaws and eye-sockets. The scale of the deathly pile of human remains from war. On the art work's frame, Vereshchagin inscribed that he dedicated the painting "to all great conquerors, past, present and to come". It’s also a memorable time because it was the first time I saw my grandfather weep. My grandfather had served in WWII and was one of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, a Nazi labor camp and a subcamp of the Buchenwald system. Did not know that then, found out later in life but has stayed with me.
Find that those who never served or had family that has, just can’t ever find “the right battlefield at the right time." Really can’t recall to many politicians who did serve in the military that called out that war was really ever a good thing. It’s grotesque when you think about it when politicians who used numerous deferments to skip service just decide that war is their only option, that this “warrior ethos” will overtake the world. Maybe they "have no right to send our kids off to war.”
Everyday awake these last twenty months as to what “fresh hell awaits us all from these creatures..” and see so many people in this nation fighting back. From protesting, to contacting their representatives in DC, their states and even locally. That there is something that is unexplainable in so many people fighting back about what this nation was intended to become that has gone way off course by this regime. Have witnessed people who would have never considered picking up a sign and protest, and have witnessed some people who did vote for him and have regretted that decision. While am glad to see that these individuals now regret their decision for whatever their reasons, that they chose in their past, will not forget that and that’s the process of learning about people. No matter your age, always keep learning.
Have two grandchildren in the military and in the best of ways that most in the military view an oxygen thief is the current testosterone pusher.
We are at day 33 until November 3rd. In person early voting starts in the first few weeks of October, today is the 1st. Make your plan, execute your plan. — Vote
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5986304/hegseth-troops-address
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mwr274cutq2l
TJ, I want to let you know that old vets are still fighting. I served in the USN 68-72 and I'm still at it, just in a different capacity. I volunteered to be a poll worker back in 24, and started working with my local democratic precinct doing canvassing. I also wear T-shirts from Vote-Vets and my USS FDR-CVA-42 hat (the ship I served on) and I was in Costco yesterday for about 30 minutes and had three people thank me for my service and at what i was wearing, it says, "Don't Give Up the Ship - No Kings on Deck". What I don't see very much is anything to do with Trump. I watch people approach me and read my shirt and I just smile and look them in the eyes, I make no comment, it's not necessary. With that said, I'll leave you with this thought we are winning and will in 32 days.
Still serving after all these years and a lot of vets are doing the same right now.
Bill thank you for your service and sacrifice. Love the saying on your T-shirt, it’s to the point. The continuation of the fight with serving this nation as a poll worker.
Am doing as well. We do what we can do. All the vets doing their part. As some vets have remarked, “once served, always served”
Yes, believe we are winning yet do not want people to become complacent and think that they do not need to vote because others will. It takes us all to steer this nation towards a different path.
Will not go into how or why this Felon got a second crack at this destruction, but it happened and this election is the first step towards a different outcome.. We all just need to vote. Again thank you stay safe and healthy..
Completely agree, Bill. I wear my Vote Vets Tee shirt everywhere that says, "Veteran, Not a sucker or a loser." I can't tell you how many people have stopped me, thanked me for my service, and agreed with the writing on the shirt. Djt and Kegsbreath have no place being anywhere near our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen - much less running the entire operation. Such incompetence.
Janine, Thank You for your service, too.
And thank you for sharing your experiences and being bold and “speaking” out whether with words and your shirt. ❤️🩹
Bill, THANK YOU…for your service then and Now!
I’m curious about where most military and Veterans , not under the microscope, stand. Anyone I’ve talked to in the Military in the past are definitely against this trump’s and KegsDeath’s illegal, endless, “War” of choice, Genocide.
It is crazy to think Everything we have fought for in the past is Now happening here and we’re the country that’s needs to be rescued.
But it is ultimately up to WE the People and NOT just our VOTE BLUE, but what hurdles we are facing now until November and thereafter, especially Jan. As we have seen, Jan 6, 2021, was the practice run and term 2 and Project 2025 and placing loyalists throughout pretty much all points to Jan.6-2.0, ICE Gestapo fully armed and his Fuhrerbunker, Guard in Washington DC, etc.
I want to share these pieces by Lance Rosen…he and his wife are lifelong activists, warned of trump before his first term, Jan.6, and many other things, plus an amazing historian.
Hegseth and great share for military and others…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/hegseth-channels-hermann-goering?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
And stealing the Midterms ….https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/what-will-trump-do-to-steal-the-midterms-835?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Shelly, 70yo Navy veteran here. I'm totally against this regime. Such incompetence. I just responded to Bill above. I wear a tee shirt from Vote Veterans that says, "Veteran, not a sucker or a loser." MANY people have stopped me, smiled and agreed. Bring on the blue wave!!
Janine thank you for your service and sacrifice. You and Bill have such great T-shirts. Going to get one for both my DIL’s for Christmas they will love it. Both women are Veterans… who knew that the sons as they say and readily admit they married up when they found these two women.
Well stated, well written!
TJ, thank you again and thinking of you and your family.❤️🩹
It’s frightening to think we are now the country that’s needs needs to be rescued from the very thing Our country and allies all fought against…trump’s=Hitler’s Nazi, fascist, Eugenics, Sociopathic Regime, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, on A.I. Steroids with the Technofascists and A.I. on Steroids already infiltrated into our government’s highest agencies and BIG BROTHER watching and collecting all our private information and face recognition software used by ICE Gestapo.
People don’t seem to understand, almost EVERY device, car, computer phone, internet connected appliances, TV’s etc., are watching and recording, people’s Ring Cameras and other home “security” cameras, plus Cameras Everywhere.
Thank you for your sharing and safety for your family and all our military.❤️🩹
I’m going to share Lance’s piece on KegsDeath, in addition to his recent Nazi playbook rant, by Lance Rosen to share with other military and everybody…https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/hegseth-channels-hermann-goering?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Shelly thank you will read Lance Rosen’s article. Stay safe and healthy as well. Already know you are hell bent on voting.. may we have better days, it will take time and patience will need to be acquired, there’s no quick fix for all this shite..
We must have accountability but we must also rebuild, and that's the harder, less flashy job.
As I just said on a different thread, if we wake up on 11/4, congratulate ourselves for a big win, and then walk away, we have failed. 11/3 is only a beginning of the massive repair project this broken nation faces.
Keep up the good fight Heather! 🩷🇦🇺🙏
Yes, thank you for this powerful essay. Especially your recollection of your junior high school teacher's advice, that clearly affected you and has stayed with you, to our benefit as well: "...how sometimes when you feel strongly about something, or have a responsibility to others, that is exactly when you have to push through the fear and follow your conscience."
For about ten of the last fourteen years, I have been subject to sleepless nights, heavy heart and dissolutionment with our shining city on a hill. More and more we have fallen to the varied corruptions of a deadeyed reptilian usurpation of rule and a crack in what I had thought was a solid foundation of justice, decency and intelligence. The breath of relief I exhaled during the Biden administration turned out to be but brief respite and a turn back to light in the midst of a larger, darker social historical era. I will never give up hope but it feels sometimes like a small campfire in a night of perpetual gloom.
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank
I like to dream there is a timeline where Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl and so many others lived long and peaceful and well-loved lives…
The countdown has begun…make sure everything is in order..check your registrations again...vote early if you can. Help others vote early or get to the polls if you can.
This is the most important call for action that we have faced in our lifetime…there is so so much at stake.
We have the strength in the numbers..we have the truth and the facts on our side..we know they may try anything to stop us or to sabotage the results but we’re prepared for any and all of it.
We’re SICK of ALL of them and everything they stand for.
We’re getting ready to clean the house..sweep them out the door and take OUR COUNTRY BACK.
We have a job..a DUTY …and we’re going to DO IT.
V O T E.
A delusional, confused, dangerous, horny, lonely old man babbelling about his life... 😵💫😱🥴
This is the man "leading" our country.
Is it a surprise the country goes down day by day???
Hispanics have caused a lot of pain to so many by voting f0r Trump!!!!
Honestly, there’s no point in blaming and rehashing 2024 by singling out a specific ethnic group. Me thinks you’re racist.
Sounds it. I will rethink it but they did do a lot damage to the democracy
Thank you Heather. I too breathe a little heavier the closer to midterms we get. I feel confident, but there’s the nagging fear of what trump has planned.
It’s now up to our generation to ensure the persistence of this “great experiment” in democracy — and the founders and Lincoln and others have warned us that it IS an experiment.
Yes, vote — but we all must do even more. Drive people to the polls. Donate to candidates. Help people register. Join the No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct 17.
Patriots, unite! Only we can stop Trump, the authoritarian.
The League of Women Voters will train anyone to register others to vote. Just yesterday I met a young woman doing this work at a local community college.
There is hope in the vote.
Well done you. Can you make a post to advertise it ?
It’s hard to imagine there are people who think attacks on the social safety system and defenseless people, and so many more, are just fine. You speak the truth.
Thanks
I really find it hard to believe that those creatures will ever face accountability. And what about all their facilitators??