Now, go climb back into your hole

I have US CDN citizenship.
We aren't sure if we are going back for a family wedding in November.
Trying to get my daughter here permanently.
It is a shame.

Working for an American university. My wife is currently in the US for a visit, and we are actually nervous about her going in and out of the country. We are both citizens from multi-generational citizen families so it should not be a problem.

But a lot of things are going on that should not be.

Some of my African friends and colleagues are displaying a bit of schadenfreude that America is now suffering from some of the same problems that some African nations have been facing for decades. Though other are saying Trump has not yet gone full dictator.

As long as the current administration does not cause my university to withdraw it support of its African campus due to DEI or other stupid issue, I hope to ride out the current crisis outside the country. But I still have many family and friends at home I have to worry about.

Not to mention the nation as a whole.

while I appreciate the sentiment, the advice is totally wrong. I'm 79 and have politically lived through some outrages, written LTE's, called reps. marched etc. but to not speak out, to not stand up against this outrage makes you ( not you Potopan, you are away in Philippines ) a collaborator........don't be a collaborator.........please.

If he has goons reading here, you’ve made him very happy.

Everyone else is talking about how he’s s a senile old doddering fool, but here he’s Superman!

I think Stephen Miller is the one giving the evil advice.

And whether or not Trump likes it, what I posted here is the truth. The rest of my theory is that the fear translates into votes. You see, the secret ballot is our not-so-secret weapon. You can see it in the odd elections and the specials.

I don't think they can fix the elections. They are run locally and those people have not been corrupted. I am confident this thing will blow over. First in the mid-terms and then in 2028.

But, in the meantime, people are afraid to speak up. This post notwithstanding, the reaction of the press, the colleges and the legal profession encourages Trump more than any obscure post on DU.

That this morning there is a post about the Harvard president encouraging others to speak up—like they did.

I think it depends on your mentality. Where you see fear, I see people from all walks of life speaking up.

People who are fearful probably don’t have much confidence in themselves.

That hasn’t been my life experience, so I don’t see it that way.

Where are the brave "Genocide Joe" demonstrators now that the Gazans are being starved out of existence with Trump's assistance?

It’s a one-issue thing with you.

I’m taking a broader view.

If you just scan the subject headings today, there are more about people speaking out than cowering behind the couch.

Oh and those law firms trump scammed into free work? Their best lawyers left them and started winner firms of their own. Turns out acquiescence isn’t good legal PR.

Who knew?

Anyway, who’s that guy who said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?



Here are some more smilies with which you fraidy cats can decorate your posts:

Is the goal of authoritarian regimes. Keeping our noses to the grindstone and minding our own business is what they want.

Point fingers, laugh at, deride, shame, scream, protest while it’s still possible. I’m not looking for a hill to die upon, but if this isn’t it, I don’t think there is one.