Frankly, these insights motivate me to stop watching. As committed as I am to watching, knowing it benefits the pedo-in-chief, moves me to watch far less, and probably not watch at all. The LAST thing I want to do is help the "pretendisent" be even more deranged and crazed.
Watching kids get blinded, dragged by their necks, babies get pepper sprayed and pregnant women get their faces smashed in to the pavement just keeps the fire going to keep calling my reps any chance I get every day. You cannot watch these ppl being terrorized and NOT DO something if you have a heart! If you look away for too long you WILL become complacent. Don’t. Please!
HCR is a steady calm in this storm. I turn Trump & his sycophants & all legacy media off anymore. Everything they cover is a distraction & lies. Just. Any handle hearing them at all. Eventually, we know “this too shall pass” but it’s not happening quick enough. We see what is apparent & it’s going to take a lot to rid them & right this ship. But, I swear, we have so much work to do to make sure this oligarchy never steals our democracy again but to pilfer out every complicit representative on either side out & replaced. We have a slew of Supreme Court traitors we need to impeach for starters. Then usurping Citizens United & ridding or fixing the voting machine’s ability to be altered from the companies servicing them from the inside. This election was proven to be rigged. This was a concerted coup d’état. See This Will Hold (here on Sub) about the NSA’s 2024 election audits being withheld according to a CIA whistleblower, who worked on the audit. They explain how & who did it. They did indeed create the vote count to go to Trump. They know KH won by a landslide. As always, these oligarchs don’t want us to believe our eyes. We knew her momentum was far beyond Trump’s. That said, he’s trying desperately to distract & obfuscate his heavy-handed involvement in the Epstein sex trafficking. Quite possibly one of the heads of it according to the boy/male victim assaulted by Trump & several in govt not only protecting him but also were also abusers involved. This cannot stand! Whatever it takes!
That's why you make the effort to check it out and verify. This is going to be more important as certain parties get more desperate to falsify the agenda
That's a good question. However, I think it's good for each of us to know what our limit is and at that point stop looking. I have reached my limit more than once. I can't watch the news on TV. I can't even watch the news from other countries such as the BBC. I can only follow certain sights that I subscribe to. And then I've become more selective.
Change your W2 so you have no federal tax withholding. If millions of middle income Americans did this, it would send a loud message. If you have democratic senators let them know they shouldn’t pass the January 30th budget unless there are significant reductions to DHS and specifically ICE funding. Also that you won’t forgive another cave from them.
I don’t quite remember how that works, but I think it was Pritzker who explained why that wasn’t a possibility. But yes, I’d certainly advocate for any state that the Doofus in Chief withholds money from return the favor. Wouldn’t California be funny? It’s the red states that suckle at the teat of the blue states.
Be reasonable, that tax has to be paid eventually and it will be in a lump sum with possible interest. DHS funds a lot more programs than you're aware of, do I would exercise caution here too. It's a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Anything that is carelessly done now can boomerang back out you in a very bad way
So you put it in a DIY escrow account. Whatever you would normally get deducted for taxes you divert, by automatic transfer to another, preferably interest bearing account. I’ve done this for years with big expenses like property taxes and homeowners insurance, which my mortgage company used to take automatically. It saved me a fortune because I got much better rates from my bank because I had a larger balance, I lost all service fees and qualified for higher interest rates on interest earning accounts.
If you look at the ratios of how tax dollars are spent under this regime, most resources have been diverted from agencies that support the American people to agencies that support the regime. DHS has already gutted FEMA in favor of ICE.
Musk got all our banking info back when he first broke into the Treasury in the middle of a Saturday night and he and his little sac of horrors locked themselves in for several days. They could easily just take it from our accounts without even notifying us.
You have to authorize any deduction from your account. Even from the federal government. I’m not suggesting you don’t pay your taxes, I’m saying don’t pay them early. Why let tRump use your money to wage war and build his arch of drumpf when it could be in your own account making money for you? They aren’t due until April 14th.
That said, I’ve not paid my taxes in protest in the past though I’ve always filed them. It’s not much of a protest if they don’t know you’re doing it. Plus, failing to pay is civil, failing to file is a felony. It took them so long to get it together it rolled off-by law they have 10 years to collect or they eat it.
If you don’t earn enough to pay taxes, you don’t need to file. I haven’t filed for several years because I’m on Social Security and don’t earn enough to pay taxes.
OMG, no. You have to file. My stepmother left the country for 40+-years. She didn't file and there was a fine "for not filing," that only grew and grew! Her son is now stuck with a mega bill for failing-to-file though she never earned or owed anything in or to the U.S. File every single year. File belatedly to catch up. The FINE for not filing. Seriously problematic.
Time to confuse Trump data gathering- change your banking a couple of times. Use p o boxed if you can getaway with it. Etc. start hiding or mixing your data.
Great idea! Anytime I can avoid giving away my data I do. I have a VPN and use it to locate myself in Europe. They have much stronger privacy protections and you can deny data collection with one click. It feels like a big FU to the tech oligarchs.
DEFUND ICE NOW!!! THEY HAVE INVADED US HERE IN MINNESOTA AND ARE KILLING AND INJURING PEOPLE EVERY DAY - U.S. Citizens - including women, children and BABIES!!! DO SOMETHING!!!!!
And Trump is using our tax dollars to arm, feed, clothe, provide weapons, transport them in bit expensive SUVs, and pays them to brutalize and assault our citizens that they are supposed to be protecting. That is the government's job! To provide us protection, security and stability.
Change your W2 so you have no federal income tax withheld. Print your tax forms and fill them out longhand and mail them in. Pretend like it’s the 80’s. You’ll have to take them to the post office and have it postmarked in front of you (I’d snap a photo) because they’ve changed when mail gets postmarked in yet another attempt to subvert voting.
I thought Laura Loomer's influence was bad, but if Trump is seriously making decisions based on the ridiculous fake news and misinformation that Nick Shirley is putting up on his YouTube channel—God help us.
Words matter. How information is reported matters. Do not amplify Trumps, maga, Project 2025 propaganda voice bites and videos. Speak truth and reference, move on in truth as best we all can discern. This is no easy task, but one well worth doing.
If trump couldn’t get to his audience for 10 hours, that must’ve caused some worry and a lot of hope. My word, without trump tweeting his distractions every half hour, people probably started thinking about the Epstein files again😂
This makes me physically ill. ICE, with the blessing of this administration, is creating video content— games— of human suffering. It’s like snuff porn. I cannot stomach the fact that we’re allowing this to happen.
Mmm... I'm confused. In simple terms... Should we still follow social media? HA! Think about it. Maybe we are all causing this chaos. We have media crap coming at us almost every second. Maybe we are all going mad! 🤔
I do not have social media, I only lasted about 12 hours on the substack app because I thought it was so obnoxious. I have independent media that I support and follow via email and sometimes YouTube, but I feel pretty well informed and don’t feel obsessed to look at it every second.
I didn’t even notice my Verizon was down until I tried to make a phone call in the afternoon. I’m not sure when it came back on, but it was mostly phone calls that didn’t work. My messaging wasn’t down for long. They gave me a $20 credit for my next bill for what I’d call minimal inconvenience.
I subscribe to Zeteo, Democracy Docket, Glenn Kirschner (who I watch almost nightly, at double speed hehe)The Lever, The Nerd Reich and a couple of others. I have no mainstream media subscriptions-I canceled them to divert the funds to PBS and NPR.
I’ve never seen any of the propaganda films mentioned.
I also watch Glenn Kirschner. I find his work to be a great way to keep up with the legal news. After this is over, I think Glenn should be on the Presidential Crimes Commission. His friend Kevin Flynn would be an excellent candidate for it too.
I dumped them and picked up subscriptions to Democracy Docket and The Lever with the money. I highly recommend them both. Doers of good deeds. Glad not to be participating in anything Bezos anymore.
A lot of Comments are fake foreign accounts, intent on stirring up division that wouldn't otherwise be there. For pay or for fun, interlopers have an effect on public discourse.
The Trump admin thinks that they are in a competition for ratings on a reality TV show. Eventually, real "reality" is going to rear it's ugly head, and the US is going to pay a terrible price for the foolishness.
Definitely one of his weaknesses! That could be used against him in 2 ways for trial purposes and to weaken his ego! That young Ford employee certainly showed the world that 2 words could invoke a reaction and irritation! Absolutely loved it! I think if we all put Pedophile Protector on our pages around the country he’d go ballistic!
This seems like an echo of crowds shouting to us from the ancient Roman colosseum, the cruelty, the blood: for entertainment purposes. This encouragement to the baser appetites of humans seems perverted. Trying to cultivate depraved indifference? What a cynical political ploy. (Well, it worked for Hitler.) And it was working for the MAGA crowd. But I think Trump and his masked, heavily armed goons have gone too far. I don't think American appetites can stomach those spectacles. They are seeing real people in real time being crushed by the state. Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Putin? Trump is version 2.0
Should we stop looking? I would like nothing more than for them to lose oxygen.
Frankly, these insights motivate me to stop watching. As committed as I am to watching, knowing it benefits the pedo-in-chief, moves me to watch far less, and probably not watch at all. The LAST thing I want to do is help the "pretendisent" be even more deranged and crazed.
Watching/reading Heather Cox Richardson is somewhat soothing because she places what is happening in historical context.
She says that we must not stop PEACEFULLY protesting in myriad ways.
Especially if you have Republican representatives and senators, give them no peace.
HCR thinks things will get a lot worse before they get better.
But also that we are at a "tipping point" where Trump et al. will continue to fall apart.
Yes to Heather Cox Richardson! She maintains sensibility, thankfully.
Definitely my go to!
Watching kids get blinded, dragged by their necks, babies get pepper sprayed and pregnant women get their faces smashed in to the pavement just keeps the fire going to keep calling my reps any chance I get every day. You cannot watch these ppl being terrorized and NOT DO something if you have a heart! If you look away for too long you WILL become complacent. Don’t. Please!
HCR is a steady calm in this storm. I turn Trump & his sycophants & all legacy media off anymore. Everything they cover is a distraction & lies. Just. Any handle hearing them at all. Eventually, we know “this too shall pass” but it’s not happening quick enough. We see what is apparent & it’s going to take a lot to rid them & right this ship. But, I swear, we have so much work to do to make sure this oligarchy never steals our democracy again but to pilfer out every complicit representative on either side out & replaced. We have a slew of Supreme Court traitors we need to impeach for starters. Then usurping Citizens United & ridding or fixing the voting machine’s ability to be altered from the companies servicing them from the inside. This election was proven to be rigged. This was a concerted coup d’état. See This Will Hold (here on Sub) about the NSA’s 2024 election audits being withheld according to a CIA whistleblower, who worked on the audit. They explain how & who did it. They did indeed create the vote count to go to Trump. They know KH won by a landslide. As always, these oligarchs don’t want us to believe our eyes. We knew her momentum was far beyond Trump’s. That said, he’s trying desperately to distract & obfuscate his heavy-handed involvement in the Epstein sex trafficking. Quite possibly one of the heads of it according to the boy/male victim assaulted by Trump & several in govt not only protecting him but also were also abusers involved. This cannot stand! Whatever it takes!
I guess it depends on what you're looking at. Personally, I avoid, at all costs, anything coming from Trump and his SS machinery.
But you cannot always discern
That's why you make the effort to check it out and verify. This is going to be more important as certain parties get more desperate to falsify the agenda
Maybe it's time to turn off our phones at home and turn them on to record when ICE attacks and terrorizes neighborhoods.
That's a good question. However, I think it's good for each of us to know what our limit is and at that point stop looking. I have reached my limit more than once. I can't watch the news on TV. I can't even watch the news from other countries such as the BBC. I can only follow certain sights that I subscribe to. And then I've become more selective.
For the brave and steadfast among citizens...NO.
My protest sign says:
NO TAX DOLLARS FOR ICE VIOLENCE
Change your W2 so you have no federal tax withholding. If millions of middle income Americans did this, it would send a loud message. If you have democratic senators let them know they shouldn’t pass the January 30th budget unless there are significant reductions to DHS and specifically ICE funding. Also that you won’t forgive another cave from them.
Similarly, I thought all Democratic states should withhold sending any funds to DC.
I don’t quite remember how that works, but I think it was Pritzker who explained why that wasn’t a possibility. But yes, I’d certainly advocate for any state that the Doofus in Chief withholds money from return the favor. Wouldn’t California be funny? It’s the red states that suckle at the teat of the blue states.
Be reasonable, that tax has to be paid eventually and it will be in a lump sum with possible interest. DHS funds a lot more programs than you're aware of, do I would exercise caution here too. It's a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Anything that is carelessly done now can boomerang back out you in a very bad way
So you put it in a DIY escrow account. Whatever you would normally get deducted for taxes you divert, by automatic transfer to another, preferably interest bearing account. I’ve done this for years with big expenses like property taxes and homeowners insurance, which my mortgage company used to take automatically. It saved me a fortune because I got much better rates from my bank because I had a larger balance, I lost all service fees and qualified for higher interest rates on interest earning accounts.
If you look at the ratios of how tax dollars are spent under this regime, most resources have been diverted from agencies that support the American people to agencies that support the regime. DHS has already gutted FEMA in favor of ICE.
What are your suggestions for resistance?
Musk got all our banking info back when he first broke into the Treasury in the middle of a Saturday night and he and his little sac of horrors locked themselves in for several days. They could easily just take it from our accounts without even notifying us.
You have to authorize any deduction from your account. Even from the federal government. I’m not suggesting you don’t pay your taxes, I’m saying don’t pay them early. Why let tRump use your money to wage war and build his arch of drumpf when it could be in your own account making money for you? They aren’t due until April 14th.
That said, I’ve not paid my taxes in protest in the past though I’ve always filed them. It’s not much of a protest if they don’t know you’re doing it. Plus, failing to pay is civil, failing to file is a felony. It took them so long to get it together it rolled off-by law they have 10 years to collect or they eat it.
Correction: failing to file is a felony UNLESS you are the president of the United States.
Touche!
I thought if you owed nothing, you were not required to file.
If you don’t earn enough to pay taxes, you don’t need to file. I haven’t filed for several years because I’m on Social Security and don’t earn enough to pay taxes.
You could file anyway, as described above. The point is to gum up the works as an act of subversion.
And when you do that, you delay your refund if you're lucky enough to get one.
OMG, no. You have to file. My stepmother left the country for 40+-years. She didn't file and there was a fine "for not filing," that only grew and grew! Her son is now stuck with a mega bill for failing-to-file though she never earned or owed anything in or to the U.S. File every single year. File belatedly to catch up. The FINE for not filing. Seriously problematic.
I was worried about that too. But seeing as how I don't have any money, I don't worry much about it anymore.
If it bothers you, close your old account and open a new one, where he won't have skimmed the number.
That’s a great idea. I too, don’t have much money, my account includes a free deposit box. If I’m not using it for anything it goes in there, as cash.
Time to confuse Trump data gathering- change your banking a couple of times. Use p o boxed if you can getaway with it. Etc. start hiding or mixing your data.
Great idea! Anytime I can avoid giving away my data I do. I have a VPN and use it to locate myself in Europe. They have much stronger privacy protections and you can deny data collection with one click. It feels like a big FU to the tech oligarchs.
The elites are totally clueless as to the meaning of public service.
DEFUND ICE NOW!!! THEY HAVE INVADED US HERE IN MINNESOTA AND ARE KILLING AND INJURING PEOPLE EVERY DAY - U.S. Citizens - including women, children and BABIES!!! DO SOMETHING!!!!!
And Trump is using our tax dollars to arm, feed, clothe, provide weapons, transport them in bit expensive SUVs, and pays them to brutalize and assault our citizens that they are supposed to be protecting. That is the government's job! To provide us protection, security and stability.
Change your W2 so you have no federal income tax withheld. Print your tax forms and fill them out longhand and mail them in. Pretend like it’s the 80’s. You’ll have to take them to the post office and have it postmarked in front of you (I’d snap a photo) because they’ve changed when mail gets postmarked in yet another attempt to subvert voting.
Actually, I don't think this is a bad idea. I will have to check with my tax advisor to see if it is a good one.
Very interesting
I thought Laura Loomer's influence was bad, but if Trump is seriously making decisions based on the ridiculous fake news and misinformation that Nick Shirley is putting up on his YouTube channel—God help us.
Words matter. How information is reported matters. Do not amplify Trumps, maga, Project 2025 propaganda voice bites and videos. Speak truth and reference, move on in truth as best we all can discern. This is no easy task, but one well worth doing.
If trump couldn’t get to his audience for 10 hours, that must’ve caused some worry and a lot of hope. My word, without trump tweeting his distractions every half hour, people probably started thinking about the Epstein files again😂
This makes me physically ill. ICE, with the blessing of this administration, is creating video content— games— of human suffering. It’s like snuff porn. I cannot stomach the fact that we’re allowing this to happen.
We're not allowing it - we haven't found a way to stop it. Yet.
Mmm... I'm confused. In simple terms... Should we still follow social media? HA! Think about it. Maybe we are all causing this chaos. We have media crap coming at us almost every second. Maybe we are all going mad! 🤔
I don't think ignorance is the answer. I think that is partly the reason we are where we are.
I do not have social media, I only lasted about 12 hours on the substack app because I thought it was so obnoxious. I have independent media that I support and follow via email and sometimes YouTube, but I feel pretty well informed and don’t feel obsessed to look at it every second.
I didn’t even notice my Verizon was down until I tried to make a phone call in the afternoon. I’m not sure when it came back on, but it was mostly phone calls that didn’t work. My messaging wasn’t down for long. They gave me a $20 credit for my next bill for what I’d call minimal inconvenience.
You are not media dependent, then.
I’m not. I read BTC (obviously)
I subscribe to Zeteo, Democracy Docket, Glenn Kirschner (who I watch almost nightly, at double speed hehe)The Lever, The Nerd Reich and a couple of others. I have no mainstream media subscriptions-I canceled them to divert the funds to PBS and NPR.
I’ve never seen any of the propaganda films mentioned.
I also watch Glenn Kirschner. I find his work to be a great way to keep up with the legal news. After this is over, I think Glenn should be on the Presidential Crimes Commission. His friend Kevin Flynn would be an excellent candidate for it too.
You haven't missed anything.
I get all the propaganda I need from The Washington Post.
Such a disappointment.
I dumped them and picked up subscriptions to Democracy Docket and The Lever with the money. I highly recommend them both. Doers of good deeds. Glad not to be participating in anything Bezos anymore.
Correct ignorance is not the answer. My comment was based on the shortcomings of social media.
Thanks for clarifying. I suspected/hoped that was the case.
👍
A lot of Comments are fake foreign accounts, intent on stirring up division that wouldn't otherwise be there. For pay or for fun, interlopers have an effect on public discourse.
The Trump admin thinks that they are in a competition for ratings on a reality TV show. Eventually, real "reality" is going to rear it's ugly head, and the US is going to pay a terrible price for the foolishness.
Now we're ALL watching snuff films
😢
I pay as little attention to that narcissist psychopath as I can.
I have Verizon, but wasn’t affected by the outage here in Tucson.
At least take away their guns and masks.
Back in 2003 we had an east coast blackout . My town was affected for almost 3 days. I loved it. And the internet was in its infancy.
Keep posts on Substack coming so we don't have to use social media!
Definitely one of his weaknesses! That could be used against him in 2 ways for trial purposes and to weaken his ego! That young Ford employee certainly showed the world that 2 words could invoke a reaction and irritation! Absolutely loved it! I think if we all put Pedophile Protector on our pages around the country he’d go ballistic!
This seems like an echo of crowds shouting to us from the ancient Roman colosseum, the cruelty, the blood: for entertainment purposes. This encouragement to the baser appetites of humans seems perverted. Trying to cultivate depraved indifference? What a cynical political ploy. (Well, it worked for Hitler.) And it was working for the MAGA crowd. But I think Trump and his masked, heavily armed goons have gone too far. I don't think American appetites can stomach those spectacles. They are seeing real people in real time being crushed by the state. Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Putin? Trump is version 2.0