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For those of you who are complaining that I comment too much.

I'm not a computer scientist but I do know that the more comments my favorite writers gets the stronger their Substack's becomes.

The organizers planning these Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance get much needed attention for their events.

We are not oligarchs with unlimited marketing funds. I found a way to support the news writers and broadcasters and the resistance organizers at the same time by listening to these broadcasts while I do, what I encourage all my readers to do - support each other by using our voices to spread the word about ways to support these movements.

No one makes anyone read my comments or anyone else's. Only people truly trying to find ways to end the administration from hell actually read them. I give them options!For those of you who are complaining that I comment too much.

I'm not a computer scientist but I do know that the more comments my favorite writers gets the stronger their Substack's becomes.

The organizers planning these Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance get much needed attention for their events.

We are not oligarchs with unlimited marketing funds. I found a way to support the news writers and broadcasters and the resistance organizers at the same time by listening to these broadcasts while I do, what I encourage all my readers to do - support each other by using our voices to spread the word about ways to support these movements.

No one makes anyone read my comments or anyone else's. Only people truly trying to find ways to end the administration from hell actually read them. I give them options!

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Effective civil disobedience and successful activism require some degree of inconvenience and sacrifice. Strikes and Blackout are the most effective way to initiate change but they come with hardship and sacrifice. People could lose jobs and businesses may close.

But historically we have sacrificed far more. At this point, no one is asking people to walk miles to work every day for a year, endure personal violence or sacrifice their own lives like they did during the first Civil Rights Movement.

Our resistance efforts now are minor in comparison. The longer we wait to resist the more intense our sacrifices become. Above all resistance only works if we stand together. Mature adults are the ones building and leading this New Civil Rights Movement, the ones with knowledge of our history, the ones that fought for equality and remember what it was like before the movement. It seems like young Americans will need to directly feel the pain of the tRump's destructive cuts and illegal executive orders. This tRump nightmare could have been over already if we had united when he first revealed his authoritarian plans. Instead most Americans are sitting back watching our democracy collapse around us. So many more are clueless about the immense evil the tRump has unleashed in our country.

Unfortunately, people in this country don't want to be temporarily inconvenienced in any way and they definitely don't want to make the simplest of sacrifices like stop unnecessary shopping, avoiding traveling, limiting their entertainment!

Right now we have no where near the numbers of people consistently resisting that we need to save our democracy. The tRump is winning the war against our democracy and has begun the initial stages of genocide in America.

We have to decide if it is better to sacrifice some jobs or a few small businesses or do we allow the tRump to privatizing public education, health care and insurance, making it available to only the wealthy. On top of your mortgage, transportation, utilities, cell phone services and everyday essentials can you afford to pay private school tuition for twelve years and then college, medical expenses without insurance, nursing homes for your parents or grandparents? The tRump wants to privatize health insurance too. Say good-by to insurance benefits from work. Insurance is expected to double in price for everyone. Can you afford all of that? If not what will you have to live without?

The tRump has no plan to increase your wages. Do we continue to let the tRump regime, steal our Medical services, medications, food services for our veterans, disabled, children and the elderly. If we don’t resist more people will loose their jobs, homes, medical care, freedom and many more people will die from neglect while the tRump gives much more of our money to his billionaire oligarch friends?

Do we prefer to fight for our democracy or allow the tRump to continue to strip FEMA funds for communities that mother nature destroys, accurate weather alerts and food safety inspections? He has already ended science and medical research for climate change, cancer, vaccines, Alzheimer's and much more.

Would you prefer to have low wages forever, no civil rights, no truthful media, no right to choose what movies, TV shows or music we watch or listen to?

We need to bring down the true leaders of this country, the greedy billionaire oligarchs that fund the campaign of politicians that support the causes that make them richer. The only thing they care about is money. We need to hit them where it hurts - their bank accounts.

In order to do that and when possible we must stop giving them our money. We need to stop buying their products and using their services. We need to stop spending money unnecessarily. We need to make the oligarchs start paying the same taxes we do and they need to start paying their employees fair wages.

We need to support small businesses instead. Imagine if everyone stopped supporting the oligarchs owned national chain businesses and started shopping locally owned small businesses and restaurants instead. That's how we build our local economy.

SPEAK UP AMERICA! Words are our most powerful tool to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance. Please forward, share or talk about these messages with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post, restack or repost on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone.

To learn more about how to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance read:

SIMPLE WAYS TO SUPPORT THE ANTI-TRUMP / FIGHT THE OLIGARCHS RESISTANCE EVERYDAY

https://onemommy.substack.com/p/everyday-ways-support-the-anti-trumpfight?r=113nff

ADDITIONAL ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The impact of person to person communication:

https://onemommy.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-visits-deep-red-trump?r=113nff

SPREAD THE WORD! If permitted here are some e-posters to screenshot and share on your social media…  

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For those of you criticizing me for supporting the Blackouts and Strike because they hurt poor people and small businesses consider this -

"DC doesn’t feel the same as it did even a year ago. One night during my trip, I went back to a restaurant I’d visited last year. Back then, the place was buzzing, so packed that you had to put your name on a waiting list just to get in. This time, I arrived during peak dinner hours, and the dining room was almost empty. I asked the workers what had changed. They told me that ever since Donald Trump ordered the National Guard onto DC streets and increased ICE patrols, business has collapsed. People are scared, and if this keeps up, they don’t know how much longer they can ride this out for.

This is what happens when politicians use military presence and immigration crackdowns to score political points: local businesses collapse, workers lose their jobs, and entire communities are pushed into fear.” ~Carlos Eduardo Espina

The tRump's government shutdown also hurts the poor and millions more.

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I don’t blame you for canceling your appearance on Jubilee’s Surrounded, David. I thought it was a bad idea in the first place. Those forums are just attack free-for-alls and no one participating cares what the “guest debater” has to say.

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edith p's avatar

good idea to cancel the debate format. it's an ego thing.

It doesn't increase your standing or reputation. I find those debates very cringe and I won't watch. It's from the head not from the heart.

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Sharon Otstot's avatar

I commend David not going to Jubilee's Surrounded. For me it's a matter of good faith which seems to be lacking nowadays.

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If you are feeling like you're not fit to fight you are wrong. Here is a list of simple ways to support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance everyday! Don't feel guilty if you can't do it all. All we are asking is do what you can! Everything helps!

EASY WAYS TO SUPPORT THE ANTI-TRUMP RESISTANCE EVERYDAY

ECONOMIC BLACKOUTS /BOYCOTTS

~ Move your money out of national banks and use local credit unions instead

~ Use Cash Only

~ NO Credit cards

~ Cancel Delivery Services

~ NOT SHOPPING HELPS TREMENDOUSLY!

~ BUY NECESSITIES & GROCERIES ONLY

~ BOYCOTT BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSES (the Oligarch's) that have locations in nearly every state like: Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's, Starbucks

~ Costco has refused to kiss tRump's ass from the beginning. Consider buying a membership, buy in bulk Kirkland essentials only and divide the cost between friends and family

~ Don't buy brand name products! Buy generic or wholesale instead

~ Start a garden

~ Learn to can

~ Support Farmers Cook & EAT Nutritional

Foods Only at Home Often

~ If you must buy support small local businesses, farmers markets and small grocery stores

~ Shop at Thrift Stores and you help support a worthy cause too

Sign the Strike Card at

GeneralStrikeUS.com

SPEND NO MONEY ON ENTERTAINMENT OR SOCIALIZING

~ Boycott Fox News, Paramount, other streaming services and media platforms kissing the tRump's ass

~ Cancel Prime and all subscriptions

~ Make arrangements where neighbors take turns preparing meals for social nights out

~ Organizers you photographers

~ Use the library to checkout movies and music for movie nights and dance parties

~ Some library's have games and puzzles for game nights

~ Read more books instead of watching TV

AVOID TRAVELING & STAY HOME MORE

~ Oil companies are definitely owned by oligarchs. Use less gas

~ Car pool, public transportation, bike or walk more

RESISTANCE EFFORTS

~ Join the Resistance

~ WORDS HELPS TREMENDOUSLY - Write about and Talk to everyone about the resistance

~ Record & share your stories (good or bad) involving immigrates or any of today's issue

~ Our seniors voices matter. Record and post their stories about growing up during past civil rights movements

~ Attend Protest Events and take two extra people every time you go

~ Volunteer to provide child/elder care for others attending/organizing rallies

~ Plan back yard potlucks or in the picnics in the park

~ Consider investing in a solar panel and a radio for every day electrical savings

~ Keep Boycotting! Use this list to choose your causes https://share.google/S6Q0QErXzb5GS21PI

~ Join One Million Rising - they have free YouTube classes on how to plan/host resistance events.  

~ Use Mobilize.us to post and find events near you. Organizers post your national events early and protesters check often. Don't count on just social media.

ADDITIONAL ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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IF GRANNIES CAN BE HEROES THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS STOP SHOPPING!

Our wise Government leaders are telling us that we the people need to be the ones to organize the Anti-tRump Resistance. The protests, the boycotts, the marches, the strikes, the blackouts are all being organized by true heroic everyday citizens! The last protest I attended was planned by a group of Grandmas!

One Million Rising (on YouTube) is a great free resource to train organizers how to build a movement. The organizers can use that free education to build whatever kind of resistance they want.

The rallies are wonderful but not as effective as Strikes and Blackouts. All of these only work if people are willing to commit to making some sacrifices. Unfortunately, most Americans don't seem to give a damn. It's easy to tell which ones are committed to saving our democracy and which aren't by asking how many new seldom wore clothes/shoes are in their closets, how many beauty products are cluttering their bathrooms, how much money are they spending on unnecessary travel, entertainment and socializing (theaters, streaming services, bars, sport events, concerts, eating out). If we aren't willing to make these small temporary sacrifices now, we may soon have nothing left to fight for.

Führer tRump has begun the beginning stages of genocide in the USA. People are dieing because of him, his ICE Gestapo and his Administration from hell. Unless you want your children and grandchildren to grow up in this hate filled Un-United nation we all must rise, unite and support the resistance in every way possible. Stand Up America - Do Something - Stop Spending Money!

The two growing Strike/Blackout organizations fighting right now are:

Blackout the System at: blackoutthesystem.com

General Strike US at: GeneralStrikeUS.com

ADDITIONAL ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Please spread the word about these ongoing Anti-tRump Resistance efforts. Here are some resistance e-posters to screenshot and share…

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*MomsRising

~ Don't Erase Our Children's Future

~ Protect Our Public Schools

~ Protect Our Healthcare

From efforts to dismantle the Department of Education to rollbacks in Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, SNAP, and disability protections; from the withholding of billions in funding for afterschool and mental health programs to national voucher schemes like the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) which shifts funds from public schools to private profit; our public schools are under attack. This is not just a policy shift. It is a full-scale assault on the idea that every child—no matter their zip code, race, language, ability, or identity—deserves a high-quality public education.

Join our Monthly Community Zoom Meeting

Protect Our Kids Zoom meetings are on:

Thu, Aug 28, 8:30pm–9:45pm EDT

Thu, Sep 25, 8:30pm–9:45pm EDT

Thu, Oct 23, 8:30pm–9:45pm EDT

Thu, Nov 20, 8:30pm–9:45pm EST

Thu, Dec 18, 8:30pm–9:30pm EST

Sign up on Mobilize.us:

https://actn.et/MvgLs8i0

Learn more here:

MomsRising.org

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*Fight the Oligarchs. They bought and own the evil tRump and his administration from hell.

The oligarchs already get rich hogging the money you earn but now they have found ways to get wealthier by ending our basic human services.

The tRump Administration is defunding and eviscerating our Medical, Science, Emergency, Weather, Care, Research Services and so much more. He is trying to remove protections and even sell our public forests. The Führer is doing nothing to prevent climate change. Say good-by to accurate National Weather Alerts and FEMA disaster relief. Look forward to more of our friends and family developing deadly illnesses and dementia because he's cutting funding for Alzheimer's, Cancer, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Prevention and Research too.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has slashed funding for these Emergency, Medical and Research Services and more.

~ FEMA Disaster Relief

~ Weather Monitoring & Alerts

~ Emergency Preparedness Programs

~ National Institute of Health

~ Center for Disease Control and Prevention

~ U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

~ Women's Health Programs

~ Free Preventive Healthcare screenings

~ Children's Healthy Start Programs

~ Senior Medical Services

~Food Assistance Programs

~ Food Safety Inspection

~ Public Health Warnings

In an effort to make the billionaire oligarchs even richer the tRump wants to privatize all of our schools, insurance companies, add tolls to more highways, bridges, rest stops, veteran services and much more. Imagine no more free education and paying tolls every time we need to go somewhere? They know we can't afford all of that!

Combine privatization of these services with our lost Medicare, Medicaid, & other Health Care Services millions of Americans will get sick or die! Eliminating the old, weak, sick and poor through needless suffering until death without services that our tax money should be paying for means more money for the greedy rich. Privatizing health insurance, prescription drugs and medical care only for those who can afford it means less Americans and more money for the billionaires.

It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump regime and billionaire oligarchs, who own and rule them.

Enough with the Democrats vs Republicans. You must choose between Democracy and Dictatorship, between Good and Evil, between Love and Hate.

I hope you stand up, choose love, and join the resistance!

BLACKOUTS and STRIKES ARE THE BEST WAYS TO BRING DOWN THE BILLIONAIRE OLIGARCHS.

Learn more here - ANTI-TRUMP PEACEFUL RESISTANCE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/anti-trump-peaceful-resistance-resources?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Keep Boycotting! Especially Amazon! Use this list to choose your causes: https://share.google/S6Q0QErXzb5GS21PI

Boycott Amazon's owner, oligarch Jeff Bezos's and his Washington Post and Blue Origin too!

America's Professor, Robert Reich offers proof that Amazon is cheating it's customers! Plus stop shopping from all oligarch owned big corporations that hoard all their profits and underpay their workers! You know, the ones that have businesses in every state, like Walmart, Target, McDonald's, Starbucks and many more.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/because-amazon-wont-police-its-offerings?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff

~ Join One Million Rising - they have free YouTube classes on how to plan/host resistance events.  

~ Use Mobilize.us to post and find resistance events near you.

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No Kings Kick Off - organizers are building the movement. Find out how to join them! Invite everyone!

No Kings, Indivisible’s founder, Rzra Levin has more great ways to help support the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance and oh “By the way, please plan on demonstrating October 18 in the second and largest No Kings Day protests across the nation. Information (and locations) can be found here - (https://www.nokings.org/).” ~America's Professor, Robert Reich.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ezralevin/p/political-violence-hurts-democracy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff

If you can't find an event near you start one. In the USA all we need to do is show up - we do not need permission to protest in common public places like streets, sidewalks and parks - as long as our protesters do not obstruct traffic or block access to the businesses/buildings in the surrounding areas. If you need help planning a bigger event visit: NoKings.org/Trainings for free support, training and a tool kit to get you started. We will not be the ones breaking the laws or disregarding the our Constitution - Be Loud but Stay Peaceful!

https://www.youtube.com/live/HJewRRfp4K4?si=Xb9t5q52d1_khqLs

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GENERAL STRIKE US

Let's make Good Trouble and Strike! FiftyFifty.One has reported that we are winning major battles at the International - Anti-tRump protests! But there are mixed reports on those numbers and we may never know the truth because Führer tRump now controls are news networks. Regardless of the numbers the war against the tRump is far from over. We are still no where near the numbers of persistent Americans resistors we need to end the reign of the Limp Dick Traitor, Führer DonOld tRump, his regime of Musk Rats, Nazi MAGAts, his Battalion of Rich Oligarchs , his ICE Gestapo and his administration from hell.

The 3.5% Rule says that 3.5% of the population (only 11 million in America) must exhibit SUSTAINED RESISTANCE to effectively enact change. The Anti-tRump protests are major wins towards our goal of getting the tRump out of our White House. But the next steps in the Anti-tRump movement must show our commitment to SUSTAINED RESISTANCE.

We must stop The tRump and his administration from hell! The demonic tRump and his billionaire oligarch only care about money. LET'S SHUT THIS FUCKIN’ COUNTRY DOWN!!!

General Strike US supporters are organizing a National Strike. The most powerful strikers are the workers who are employed by the national multi-billionaire companies like Amazon, chain stores and restaurants who have locations in nearly every state across the country, like Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's along with technology and auto, like Tesla, Apple, Meta (Facebook) , Alphabet (Google) workers like these will have the most impact. The rest of us should be boycotting these companies. Keep your money in your own communities and when possible please support small grocery stores, restaurants and businesses instead.

The most important thing Non-Strikers and everyone can do is use your words (verbal or written) to inform everyone about the Strike and the Boycotts. Those that are capable please stop making the greedy billionaire oligarchs even richer. STOP SHOPPING and BUYING from INTERNATIONAL BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES! Make yourselves richer and buy GROCERIES AND NECESSITIES ONLY until we get the Limp Dick Traitor out the White House and out of our government!!!

Learn more about the

General Strike US: https://onemommy.substack.com/p/the-general-strike?r=113nff

General Strike US Supporters - How Non-Strikers can help! https://onemommy.substack.com/p/general-strike-supporters?r=113nff  

Everyone (strikers and supporters) sign up here: GeneralStrikeUS.com

Organizers can/will not write their demands or strike until they have eleven million Americans willing to stop working for the unknown duration of the strike. This strike is for everyone, even for workers without a union. They need organizations, businesses, unemployed workers, retired workers, students, family members, community, etc.- committed to supporting the Strikers during this potentially difficult time. Personally, I believe that if millions of Americans don't show up for work that the billionaire oligarchs will be calling for the immediate resignation of their king - themselves!

To learn more and determine when the time is right to strike, the organizers are asking everyone to sign the General Strike US strike card at GeneralStrikeUS.com. Stand Up America, sign the card and be counted so we can get that true homegrown demented criminal terror out of our lives and get on with the task of rebuilding our democracy and our government. Learn more about how to rebuild visit BernieSanders.com.

Please forward, share or talk about this message with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post or repost it on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone. It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump, the billionaire oligarchs (who hog the money you earn) and the Administration from Hell!

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BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM

Time to End this Evil Nightmare.

BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM is a national movement born out of frustration, injustice, and the undeniable truth that the people hold the power - not corrupt governments, not billionaires, not broken systems.

The billionaire oligarchs pay big bucks for campaigns that help elect politicians, who will support the causes that make them richer. They are the ones who elected the tRump and control the government. In an effort to bring down the tRump's administration from hell - we are strategically and peacefully shutting down the U.S. economy - by removing our labor, our spending, our financial support, forcing the system to listen.

This movement launched to remove the billionaires from our government, reclaim power for the people, restore justice, and unite citizens across all races, cultures, and classes.

We are asking all citizens to boycott billionaire businesses and products (the ones that have locations or can be purchased in every state) avoid working and spending as much as possible November 25 - December 2, 2025

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Let’s build a force

bigger than fear

and louder than hate.

Let’s get ready.

Let’s get organized.

Let’s stop the tRump.

One Million Rising

teaches free coordinated national strategic actions to locally organize, host community gatherings, and build a force bigger than fear, to bring down the tRump and his administration from hell.

Search

"One Million Rising"

on YouTube and/or Mobilize.us

to sign up or post an event.

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SAVE OUR MEDICAL SERVICES

Indivisible.org' founder Ezra Levin is calling for urgent actions (ahead of the October 18 No Kings Day protests) to save our Medical Services! Please read the attached article below and join us.

“Dems are showing a little backbone. Our job is to stiffen it. Our goal is not a shutdown -- it’s building an opposition party that uses its leverage to reduce human harm and slow the march toward authoritarianism. Whether Republicans drive us into a shutdown or not, our success depends on Democrats holding strong rather than simply surrendering again.

Republicans will not change course if they think they can just roll over Dems again. And Dems will not stay strong unless they feel like they have the support to do so. This is a week when your calls, your visits to congressional offices, and your level of vocal support really matter.” - Ezra Levin

https://onemommy.substack.com/p/healthcare-not-authoritarianism?r=113nff

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