They’ve taken away EVERYTHING that made this a wonderful country & it’s strictly for the richest & most selfish & cruel. STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I feel that, Betsy — it’s exactly what they want us to feel. Powerless. Isolated. Exhausted by the cruelty. But here’s the truth: they haven’t taken everything. Not yet. The fact that we still see what’s happening means they haven’t broken the signal. Every time one of us refuses to look away, we hold the line a little longer. That’s what the Forge is for — to turn that heartbreak into momentum.
Thank you Ethan & bless you! My nature is to fight for my principles but I’m much older now & slowing down. We’re fighting the wealthiest & there are so many more than in the past & then to add the white supremacists & Nazis along with Putin infiltrators, it feel insurmountable. Knowing trump for 14 yrs sailing weekends in his Castle Marina gave me knowledge of real cruelty & his lack of caring or loyalty. He’s not too bright but he’s got the gift of manipulation & Con. If he was to get too ill there wouldn’t be anyone to replace that kind of vile lying & fabricating of numbers & stories done so naturally. I not only married a trump for a short time but he’s so transparent to me & my late husband. On that fatal day in 2016 my bedridden hubby said & I quote “He will be the death of us” but he meant all of US😩. Pretty intuitive & his silver lining was passing in May, 2018 missing the 2 1/2 yr horror that followed. 💔🙏🏼 My ex marine would cringe at the present with a War monger looming off of Venezuela.
My heart breaks! I m horrified but I don't know what to do. I haven't lived in America for 50 years but I still care with all my heart about the land of my birth and upbringing! 😩😡😭
I’m praying that the Epstein files will prove the facts about our nightmare & save our democracy & for me to be free & see my family thrive before I leave this earth🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌈☀️
I agree this is all a diversion to keep us distracted & squabbling amongst ourselves… my birth chart horoscope told me if I wanted less arguing in my life then to just stop arguing with people… I’m getting pulled into debates that lead to nowhere. The person isn’t listening anyway… they just want to fight. Walk away in mid sentence…
I do believe this is great advice, especially now. I’m a huge empath & tend to take in the toxicity of my environment… I have final exams coming up soon & I’d much rather spend my time studying than arguing with a bunch of random dumbasses that have no sense of morality. Now it’s time to step back & wait for the shutdown to end… one way or another… I can only do what I can when I can afford the time. ✨
They are all projectionist! that and liars is the only thing of trumps they copy! Otherwise he’s the conduit and. puppet! They clik off the project 2025 boxes everyday ,the distractions are bigger and more dangerous each time.While we and the survivors DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH on the Epstein files,I believe were a few short days away from learning that Maxwell is out!annnd Out of country.Everything IS ABOUT CRUELTY MADE NORMAL! Look left while they AND scotus 6 Destroy our nation. I ask again as I do everyday posting somewhere,WHAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT DELIBERATELY GOES ABOUT DESTROYING AMERICA?! Answer; Someone who has Never Had Allegiance to her in the first place!😔
They blamed autism on Tylenol! This way Tylenol stock goes down then they come and Big Corp can buy it up at a lower price and soon we will learn that it was hogwash (Intelligent People with clinical thinking mindset and Medical Experts) know it was false hyperbole from RFK worm brain and Trumps Oligarchy! Tylenol will then be the best medicine! Just wait to see! It is all a great big manipulation!
For people feeling despair: that’s their playbook. If you despair, you disengage, which is what they want. Our disengagement gives them more opportunities to destroy the institutions that have held the country together for 250 years. The outrages committed by Trump and his minions are the smokescreen behind which they line their pockets.
Respectfully, it’s not actually “all old news” until everyone who needs to know, knows!
Another point of the regime is to consistently bombard the various cycles with more events and stories than the community can actually absorb and disseminate.
Even this short article raised a dozen different issues - thats my point.
Thanks for sharing this! With My Best Wishes, Bill.
A gasp to catch my breath! This is appalling. I feel like I’m living in the Middle Ages a poor lowly peasant ruled by evil greedy oligarch grifters!!! I’m too old for this though the extreme worry I have for my soon to graduate college son. It’s like the America I’ve lived is no longer here and my kid will be in a cold cruel new terrain all together. This makes my mother’s heart weep so bad…
I want the Democrats to start running now on a platform of undoing everything trump has done. On their first day in office 2029 they could promise to tear down trump’s great hall of grift and return the White House to its former state, charging all the contributors for the destruction, removal and rebuilding. They could promise to cancel every lease to drill in ANWR or on any public lands or any sales of same, and charge every corporation for returning the lands to their former pristine condition. An Executive order could make this happen. This would have a chilling effect on participation in any of these deals and, I believe, compel voters’ support.
Down here in South Alabama I'm a blue speck in a red sea. I know first hand if we don't get more people to vote it might over. My front is my mouth using it to communicate one person at a time, and there is still a great percentage of people who are either not voting or in bed with them still. We must not get overconfident and now is the time to really get out and push back. Unless we take control of the House and Senate nothing will get done. By midterms we need control because Trump will start war to hold on to power. The reason he wants a peace prize is to justify war.
Robert, Tennessee native here. You are doing EXACTLY what every one of should be
Doing. We don't have the unlimited resources the R's have; the most important thing we can do is talk to as many people as we can about the issues. And... it doesnt need to be some wonky info.... and please- please, no scripts. It has to
Be short & sweet....
And shocking. For example! (I use this example a lot).
"Did you know the governor and legislature gave big businesses operating in TN a 1.7 billion dollar tax package.... but they refuse to abolish a statewide 4% food tax?" Always gets a reaction.
Be advised that "DHS" is founded upon LIES & FRAUD and should not exist at all
the argument can be made using the laws of physics to PROVE beyond any doubt that the events leading up to the creation of DHS, simply didn't happen, therefore DHS is without foundation and should not exist at all . . .
These horrific acts are being fought against and many will be overturned, but not before irreparable damage is done. That's what this regime is counting on.
They’ve been forcing a left wing agenda for years using lobbyists in all agencies most particularly health related and held money over universities’ heads to teach radical sexual ideology among other strict, narrow, censorious curriculum - maybe this is clawing back. Land was taken and put off limits for public use in previous administrations, NASA was tasked with Muslim outreach…etc.
You're 100% right about one thing: a "strict, narrow" agenda is being forced on us by "lobbyists".
But you're aiming at the wrong target.
While you're still mad about "Muslim outreach" at NASA, the agenda you're defending just put:
A Big Oil lobbyist in charge of all public lands (BLM).
A private nuclear lobbyist in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
A billionaire federal contractor in charge of NASA itself.
You're so focused on the culture war spectacle ("radical sexual ideology") that you are literally cheering for the actual corporate lobbyists as they seize control of the entire government.
Congratulations. You are the perfect proof of why their distraction worked. You are the mark.
If by “Muslim Outreach” one means the bombing of Iran, Iraq and decimation of SW Asia by western imperialism for the end game of resource extraction then the narrative starts to make sense.
I’m not mad - I’m just pointing out other factors. People think these things are new and start clutching the pearls. They’re old, and each outrage should never be forgotten. They should pile up as obvious evidence…but they don’t. People move on and forget. A picture needs to be painted of how we got here - in so many aspects of our cultural and politics.
When the R's here in TN started raging about trans kids being mutilated, you could
See where this was going. They could care less about these
Kids but it sure did inflame their base and ... that was the goal. It's not exactly stochastic terrorism; i suppose it's stochastic politics: use topics which rile up peoples' disgust - their most base emotion. It doesn't require any thought to understand this is a "very bad thing" when you are disgusted by it. "Its gotta stop! "Thanks to those caring R's who told us about this!"
This leaves no room for reasonable conversations about gender disphora or the high incidence of suicide amongst those who experience it. And here's the kicker: get the base all worked up over kids being "mutilated" at vanderbilt but leave out the miniscule fact that Vanderbilt does not and has never performed gender reassignment surgery on minors. (They do/did perform "top" surgery on indviduals over the age of 16.)
Meanwhile: thousands of people are uninsured because the state failed to accept expanded medicaid (and it will be getting worse). And Let's stop abortions but so what about rural hospitals closing and the resultant impact on maternal and infant care. Where's the rage over that? Not my problem.. until it is.
Our public schools are under attack because the R's mandated one thing after another without providing schools' with the corresponding funding to pay for the mandates. Schools suffered.
T R's helped spread the ridiculous rumor that some kids identified as animals and were allowed to use litter boxes at school.
What to do? The r's view? give vouchers to families so the kids can leave these awful schools and go to private schools. (In some areas, the vouchers per child amount to more than the cost spent on kids at the local public schools.
It's all good because turning a public function into a private one means..income for the owners. And while trickle down theory may not work, trickle up theory is alive and well in these schemes.
I am optimistically ( maybe unrealistically) holding out for a shift. News yesterday about photos from the Epstein file being truly heinous will make a difference. Apparently some members of Congress and Senate have spoken to law enforcement ties they have and it's very bad. These documents/photos are not well-kept and some of these folks work at keeping other employees from seeing them - they are that upsetting. Sheesh. Ok, keep on keeping on and thanks!
It makes perfect sense Anne. Sometimes we have to rant, get that frustration out! All that you describe in USA is being advocated by the right in UK. The hysteria over trans people is extraordinary, there are about 262,000 trans people in UK, 0.5%, of a population of 67,000,000. Apparently this 0.5% are hell bent on invading our toilet spaces, corrupting our children and, perish the thought, cheating at games! The Murdoch media ran the story about some children in schools here identifying as cats and being given litter trays and feeding bowls. All absolute bollocks, lies and blatant right wing slurs against 'woke' teachers. All of this was reported uncritically and gleefully in the tabloid press and much social media. The true story was that some smart kids in a class discussion joked about self-identifying. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Outrage sells. Reform UK, some of the nascent Tory party, Neo Nazi groups like the English Defence League and their abhorent mouthpiece, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka 'Tommy Robinson' amplify it and rouse their base into rage. Add the extra furore over immigration, "Stop the Boats", child grooming and paedophile gangs of Pakistani origin and you have an outrage spiral of almost unstoppable momentum. Reform UK and its ghoulish fraud, Farage feeds on this, rhe media love it and he gets the most broadcast time of any politician in UK, nowithstanding his 'party' has a mere 5 members of Parliament. We truly are in an apocalyptic moment for democracy. Sorry Anne, my rant!
They’ve taken away EVERYTHING that made this a wonderful country & it’s strictly for the richest & most selfish & cruel. STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I feel that, Betsy — it’s exactly what they want us to feel. Powerless. Isolated. Exhausted by the cruelty. But here’s the truth: they haven’t taken everything. Not yet. The fact that we still see what’s happening means they haven’t broken the signal. Every time one of us refuses to look away, we hold the line a little longer. That’s what the Forge is for — to turn that heartbreak into momentum.
⚙️ Stay in signal. You’re not alone.
Thank you Ethan ❤️
Thank you Ethan & bless you! My nature is to fight for my principles but I’m much older now & slowing down. We’re fighting the wealthiest & there are so many more than in the past & then to add the white supremacists & Nazis along with Putin infiltrators, it feel insurmountable. Knowing trump for 14 yrs sailing weekends in his Castle Marina gave me knowledge of real cruelty & his lack of caring or loyalty. He’s not too bright but he’s got the gift of manipulation & Con. If he was to get too ill there wouldn’t be anyone to replace that kind of vile lying & fabricating of numbers & stories done so naturally. I not only married a trump for a short time but he’s so transparent to me & my late husband. On that fatal day in 2016 my bedridden hubby said & I quote “He will be the death of us” but he meant all of US😩. Pretty intuitive & his silver lining was passing in May, 2018 missing the 2 1/2 yr horror that followed. 💔🙏🏼 My ex marine would cringe at the present with a War monger looming off of Venezuela.
My heart breaks! I m horrified but I don't know what to do. I haven't lived in America for 50 years but I still care with all my heart about the land of my birth and upbringing! 😩😡😭
Yes I feel that same thing 🥰
I’m praying that the Epstein files will prove the facts about our nightmare & save our democracy & for me to be free & see my family thrive before I leave this earth🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌈☀️
I agree this is all a diversion to keep us distracted & squabbling amongst ourselves… my birth chart horoscope told me if I wanted less arguing in my life then to just stop arguing with people… I’m getting pulled into debates that lead to nowhere. The person isn’t listening anyway… they just want to fight. Walk away in mid sentence…
I do believe this is great advice, especially now. I’m a huge empath & tend to take in the toxicity of my environment… I have final exams coming up soon & I’d much rather spend my time studying than arguing with a bunch of random dumbasses that have no sense of morality. Now it’s time to step back & wait for the shutdown to end… one way or another… I can only do what I can when I can afford the time. ✨
Yes as we wake up
They are all projectionist! that and liars is the only thing of trumps they copy! Otherwise he’s the conduit and. puppet! They clik off the project 2025 boxes everyday ,the distractions are bigger and more dangerous each time.While we and the survivors DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH on the Epstein files,I believe were a few short days away from learning that Maxwell is out!annnd Out of country.Everything IS ABOUT CRUELTY MADE NORMAL! Look left while they AND scotus 6 Destroy our nation. I ask again as I do everyday posting somewhere,WHAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT DELIBERATELY GOES ABOUT DESTROYING AMERICA?! Answer; Someone who has Never Had Allegiance to her in the first place!😔
Thank you, Ethan, for providing us with all the necessary weapons to fight for our rights and the rights of others! 🙏🏼💞
❤️❤️❤️
💖🤗
We have been waiting on the last one 1️⃣ hour for this one and it’s been over an hours now yet it’s not
They blamed autism on Tylenol! This way Tylenol stock goes down then they come and Big Corp can buy it up at a lower price and soon we will learn that it was hogwash (Intelligent People with clinical thinking mindset and Medical Experts) know it was false hyperbole from RFK worm brain and Trumps Oligarchy! Tylenol will then be the best medicine! Just wait to see! It is all a great big manipulation!
Kimberly Clark is buying out makers of Tylenol! I knew it!
Kimberly Clark now is buying out the maker of Tylenol in 40 Billion Dollar Deal !
See… All a ploy !
For people feeling despair: that’s their playbook. If you despair, you disengage, which is what they want. Our disengagement gives them more opportunities to destroy the institutions that have held the country together for 250 years. The outrages committed by Trump and his minions are the smokescreen behind which they line their pockets.
With each passing day they consolidate more power. It was time to throw them out months ago. Save the little that is left!
This is all old news! They need to be sued. And they need it now. Who's to do it? 😥🦅🇺🇸🦅
Respectfully, it’s not actually “all old news” until everyone who needs to know, knows!
Another point of the regime is to consistently bombard the various cycles with more events and stories than the community can actually absorb and disseminate.
Even this short article raised a dozen different issues - thats my point.
Thanks for sharing this! With My Best Wishes, Bill.
Locked up
A gasp to catch my breath! This is appalling. I feel like I’m living in the Middle Ages a poor lowly peasant ruled by evil greedy oligarch grifters!!! I’m too old for this though the extreme worry I have for my soon to graduate college son. It’s like the America I’ve lived is no longer here and my kid will be in a cold cruel new terrain all together. This makes my mother’s heart weep so bad…
We must still fight on!
I want the Democrats to start running now on a platform of undoing everything trump has done. On their first day in office 2029 they could promise to tear down trump’s great hall of grift and return the White House to its former state, charging all the contributors for the destruction, removal and rebuilding. They could promise to cancel every lease to drill in ANWR or on any public lands or any sales of same, and charge every corporation for returning the lands to their former pristine condition. An Executive order could make this happen. This would have a chilling effect on participation in any of these deals and, I believe, compel voters’ support.
I don’t know where you find the energy, but I appreciate all the work you doing and bringing this information to the public👍
Doing this brings me energy, my friend
Your words are so very insightful and empowering and I appreciate your perspective and sanity in these insane times.!
May God bless you!
Down here in South Alabama I'm a blue speck in a red sea. I know first hand if we don't get more people to vote it might over. My front is my mouth using it to communicate one person at a time, and there is still a great percentage of people who are either not voting or in bed with them still. We must not get overconfident and now is the time to really get out and push back. Unless we take control of the House and Senate nothing will get done. By midterms we need control because Trump will start war to hold on to power. The reason he wants a peace prize is to justify war.
Robert, Tennessee native here. You are doing EXACTLY what every one of should be
Doing. We don't have the unlimited resources the R's have; the most important thing we can do is talk to as many people as we can about the issues. And... it doesnt need to be some wonky info.... and please- please, no scripts. It has to
Be short & sweet....
And shocking. For example! (I use this example a lot).
"Did you know the governor and legislature gave big businesses operating in TN a 1.7 billion dollar tax package.... but they refuse to abolish a statewide 4% food tax?" Always gets a reaction.
Great Idea thanks Alabama has a 3% tax on food
Be advised that "DHS" is founded upon LIES & FRAUD and should not exist at all
the argument can be made using the laws of physics to PROVE beyond any doubt that the events leading up to the creation of DHS, simply didn't happen, therefore DHS is without foundation and should not exist at all . . .
Bob, you're right. The laws of physics also prove that billionaires should be able to buy politicians. It's just gravity.
Now, back to the actual heist...
These horrific acts are being fought against and many will be overturned, but not before irreparable damage is done. That's what this regime is counting on.
They’ve been forcing a left wing agenda for years using lobbyists in all agencies most particularly health related and held money over universities’ heads to teach radical sexual ideology among other strict, narrow, censorious curriculum - maybe this is clawing back. Land was taken and put off limits for public use in previous administrations, NASA was tasked with Muslim outreach…etc.
You're 100% right about one thing: a "strict, narrow" agenda is being forced on us by "lobbyists".
But you're aiming at the wrong target.
While you're still mad about "Muslim outreach" at NASA, the agenda you're defending just put:
A Big Oil lobbyist in charge of all public lands (BLM).
A private nuclear lobbyist in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
A billionaire federal contractor in charge of NASA itself.
You're so focused on the culture war spectacle ("radical sexual ideology") that you are literally cheering for the actual corporate lobbyists as they seize control of the entire government.
Congratulations. You are the perfect proof of why their distraction worked. You are the mark.
If by “Muslim Outreach” one means the bombing of Iran, Iraq and decimation of SW Asia by western imperialism for the end game of resource extraction then the narrative starts to make sense.
Trueeee
You’re stirring emotions and thats all the left has No facts No common sense
I’m not mad - I’m just pointing out other factors. People think these things are new and start clutching the pearls. They’re old, and each outrage should never be forgotten. They should pile up as obvious evidence…but they don’t. People move on and forget. A picture needs to be painted of how we got here - in so many aspects of our cultural and politics.
Rubbish!
When the R's here in TN started raging about trans kids being mutilated, you could
See where this was going. They could care less about these
Kids but it sure did inflame their base and ... that was the goal. It's not exactly stochastic terrorism; i suppose it's stochastic politics: use topics which rile up peoples' disgust - their most base emotion. It doesn't require any thought to understand this is a "very bad thing" when you are disgusted by it. "Its gotta stop! "Thanks to those caring R's who told us about this!"
This leaves no room for reasonable conversations about gender disphora or the high incidence of suicide amongst those who experience it. And here's the kicker: get the base all worked up over kids being "mutilated" at vanderbilt but leave out the miniscule fact that Vanderbilt does not and has never performed gender reassignment surgery on minors. (They do/did perform "top" surgery on indviduals over the age of 16.)
Meanwhile: thousands of people are uninsured because the state failed to accept expanded medicaid (and it will be getting worse). And Let's stop abortions but so what about rural hospitals closing and the resultant impact on maternal and infant care. Where's the rage over that? Not my problem.. until it is.
Our public schools are under attack because the R's mandated one thing after another without providing schools' with the corresponding funding to pay for the mandates. Schools suffered.
T R's helped spread the ridiculous rumor that some kids identified as animals and were allowed to use litter boxes at school.
What to do? The r's view? give vouchers to families so the kids can leave these awful schools and go to private schools. (In some areas, the vouchers per child amount to more than the cost spent on kids at the local public schools.
It's all good because turning a public function into a private one means..income for the owners. And while trickle down theory may not work, trickle up theory is alive and well in these schemes.
Rant over! Hope it makes some bit of sense.
.
I am optimistically ( maybe unrealistically) holding out for a shift. News yesterday about photos from the Epstein file being truly heinous will make a difference. Apparently some members of Congress and Senate have spoken to law enforcement ties they have and it's very bad. These documents/photos are not well-kept and some of these folks work at keeping other employees from seeing them - they are that upsetting. Sheesh. Ok, keep on keeping on and thanks!
It makes perfect sense Anne. Sometimes we have to rant, get that frustration out! All that you describe in USA is being advocated by the right in UK. The hysteria over trans people is extraordinary, there are about 262,000 trans people in UK, 0.5%, of a population of 67,000,000. Apparently this 0.5% are hell bent on invading our toilet spaces, corrupting our children and, perish the thought, cheating at games! The Murdoch media ran the story about some children in schools here identifying as cats and being given litter trays and feeding bowls. All absolute bollocks, lies and blatant right wing slurs against 'woke' teachers. All of this was reported uncritically and gleefully in the tabloid press and much social media. The true story was that some smart kids in a class discussion joked about self-identifying. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Outrage sells. Reform UK, some of the nascent Tory party, Neo Nazi groups like the English Defence League and their abhorent mouthpiece, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka 'Tommy Robinson' amplify it and rouse their base into rage. Add the extra furore over immigration, "Stop the Boats", child grooming and paedophile gangs of Pakistani origin and you have an outrage spiral of almost unstoppable momentum. Reform UK and its ghoulish fraud, Farage feeds on this, rhe media love it and he gets the most broadcast time of any politician in UK, nowithstanding his 'party' has a mere 5 members of Parliament. We truly are in an apocalyptic moment for democracy. Sorry Anne, my rant!
Well, all of that is just plain Bollocks! 😊