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Doug Spraley's avatar

June 28th is Musk Must Fall/Tesla Takedown.com rally.

I will be there, Dayton, Ohio.

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Bruce H's avatar

When might there be a Unified Protest Day/Event with multiple groups supporting? Seems like there needs to be more time to organize one. The July 4th & 17th dates seem to be coming up too quickly to get nationwide numbers together.

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Sara Smith's avatar

Wait until he tries to bring back mandatory military service.

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Judith Logue, Ph.D.'s avatar

I agree with Dennis. Let's keep the message going. Let's step it up. No DICTATORS Day. Let's label him accurately. Many younger people have little sense of history or understand throwing over the King. The birthday and coronations of kings today (hello, King Charles) are not like the military parades of Jinping, Putin, and Jong-un. BTW, there were some great protests in Florida though it's Trump Land. Let's highlight the positive too.

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Sarah Marshall's avatar

I enjoyed the discussion, as always, but wish there had been more emphasis on expanding the number of protests and attendees in Republican states and districts. The fastest route to putting the brakes on Trump’s disastrous agenda runs through Congress. 13.5% of the population evenly spread across Congressional districts is surely better than the same percent but mostly in Democratic states. I heard this point at the end but would like it highlighted!

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Dennis L. Green's avatar

It's more important to keep the message resonating than just posting numbers. I suggest reminding people on July 4th that we are celebrating the anniversary of the first NO KINGS day.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Orange Cheeto and Herbert Hoover

History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes Herbert Hoover presided over the calamitous equity market collapse of 1929 and then ushered in the Smoot Hawley tariffs in 1931 A year later the American electorate had enough and FDR was elected into office In that same decade the growing influential Nazi party in the US began using the political slogan “Make America First”

Now the US electorate has chosen a Nazi solution after being lied to by Cheeto and his Nazi sychophants using the banner “Make America Great Again” And like Hoover Cheeto believes that the path to greater prosperity and solving inflation is the imposition of tariffs recognizing that the “golden era of tariffs” in the late 1890’s brought about increased wealth for the already wealthy while stiffing the middle class It’s a classic Reagan “trickle down economics” ploy and has proven in studies over decades not to work

But there’s a gathering storm for Cheeto Not only are his polling numbers under water he’s hard at work to push the dollar into oblivion and throw the country’s economy into default by alienating foreign investors to not only stop supporting US debt but reducing equity investment as well(sharp drop in the stock market)

It will take time but during Cheeto’s term it will become clear that Cheeto will be “Hoovered” by the American electorate

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Sara Smith's avatar

He even talks about a “new Golden Agr” - apparently he never learned how that ended (or doesn’t care, because he will have extracted as much as he can out of the country by then).

(But Hoover was better than Trump in at least one way. When you go to his center in West Branch, Iowa, you can see burlap grain sacks that Belgian women embroidered beautifully and gave to Hoover in thanks for the grain that the US sent to Europe. Contrast that with Trump’s handling of humanitarian aid.)

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

In a way Hoover was a victim of his time but Cheeto has no excuse

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Sara Smith's avatar

To a point, but Hoover did make the mistake of believing that austerity was the solution. My parents came of age during the Great Depression. FDR was a hero to them, and I owe my Elizabeth Warren-style ideology in large part to them.

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