I sent another one. I took some ideas from copy you wrote a little while back and added some of my own verbiage. If it's not ok to post my idea here, let me know. I'm a voice actor & this is the copy I'll be using to leave voice mail messages too. Here's what I said:
To Whom it Concerns,
This is an urgent message! I am calling upon you to urge you to vote against the reconciliation bill and to roll back the president’s terrible, illegal and inane tariffs. Together, these actions will and have raised taxes on us all. They will explode the deficit to the ruin of a majority of citizens and for what? Republicans have always told us there were two things they did not believe in.
1). Wantonly raising taxes and 2). Extreme deficit spending, yet here we are today!
The harsh reality is this; those plans will further weaken this great nation and are an extraordinary betrayal of everything they promised during the campaign - which was to help folks like us, like me, like the folks whom this new agenda will further mire into penury. I served my country but not for this slap in the face from the republican party to veterans and citizenry alike, just so this president and all of his cronies can have a few more coins in their already deep pockets!
The president's plans sabotage all this great nation is supposed to stand for and I urge you to stymie them. Work with other democrats, independents, grass-roots organizations and whatever republicans left that have the ability to grow and maintain a functioning spine! Eschew those corporate donations! Work out better ways to make this great country work for ALL of it’s great citizens. Not just for those people who have access to out-sized wealth and wield out-sized influence because of it!
Thank you Scott for inspiring me and providing this forum in which I can do what I can to make a difference whether large or small. Everything counts dammit!
This the nice version. I have another version that is worded almost the same but it pointedly refers to "you" and "your party" or "the republicans," etc. The tone is harsh, just the way they like it. Make em feel like "Daddy's gone whup that ass!"
And sell digital trading cards on the site with the funds going to the legal defense of migrants caught up in the gears of this Made-for TV-Hate Machine.
I email several times a day. It’s all I have left to me. Got into an argument with my dearly loved husband of 49yrs over whether or not Alligator Alcatraz is inhumane. He trotted out all the tired maga arguments, including Biden. Kept insisting he stick to the point. I get so tired. 😔
Same. I’m in TX23, so my representative and both senators are MAGA-core. I still call their offices every weekday, more out of spite than out of any hope anything will change.
I live in Arkansas…land of Sarah Huckleberry Sanders and Tom Cotton. I just wrote AGAIN to Rep. Rick Crawford about the Big Ugly Bill. He refused to have a town hall and seems to not care about constituents, but I hope somehow he’ll get the backbone to go against Trump on this.
Thanks for giving us convenient links to contact our Reps and Senators. I just hope many Arkansans will send letters.
No one may like this but I kind of think this - TACO and his minions - might be happening so that true Americans can do the honorable thing by fighting for democracy and what is right. We have become pretty soft and lax in our dealings with others. Maybe this is happening for a reason. By the way, I believe in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit but I told God I cannot just sit idly by and watch this happen and do nothing. He understands.
Oh, I believe he MORE than understands. I believe he is embodied in every detained immigrant, every hungry child, every sick person denied care, and we people of faith will each be held to account for what we do or do not do in regards to them in this moment, Matthew 25 style.
The deacon of my church expressed it all beautifully this past Sunday, here’s the video (homily starts at 32:05).
📣📣📣“A 35-page report obtained by the Herald/Times outlining the state’s “initial draft of minimum requirements” for the site shows the level of planning that went into building the facility in an eight-day span. The undated records point to a myriad state and federal regulations the facility had to meet before it could open and suggest that there is a possibility children could be among the detainees who could be sent to the facility.
When transporting detainees, for example, the guidelines say “minors shall be separated from unrelated adults at all times during transport and seated in an area near officers and under close supervision.” The records also say “snacks and water shall be given to minors, pregnant females, and as necessary for detainees with medical conditions,” while being transported “by lan.”
Democrats have stood together as a solid block against this evil bill. Not one of them have caved, they may not have done everything we wanted them to do to stop this regime, but now they are using their voices and their votes to do all possible damage to the cruelty devised by the felon and his toadies.
Regarding "Alligator Alcatraz" - I really wish we could refrain from calling it by any nickname. A concentration camp is not something that should be "cutified," which is what these nicknames do, clever though they may be.
Scott, I live about 30 miles from DeSantis’ evil folly. It flooded yesterday with a typical rainstorm and the forecast for the weekend is heavier rain from a tropical storm. It will flood again. This travesty was thrown up in 8 days so, as usual in Florida, it’s poorly constructed.
It's not like you're not doing enough (sigh), but somewhat lost in all this insanity is the sheer scope of funds in this bill to build the ICE police state. It's a staggering amount of money. I don't think most Americans are clued into this at all. Where is mainstream media in this coverage?
Trump (through his mastermind, Susie Wiles -- he himself is little more than a vegetable at this point) urged this bill to be hurried through Congress for a reason. So we wouldn't know what hit us.
Charles, the mainstream media is trying to protect themselves from $16 million lawsuits that Trump files against everyone. Personally I think Mr K A Garcia needs to file one against dump.
If they think they can sweep this under the carpet and go about business as usual, they have another think coming. Since the media won't cover it, we the people need to spread the word about what is in this bill and how it will impact everyone!
Please check out the latest post from K. Starling in her substack "We the People Dissent".
Therre are lots of good links for stuff that we can all do. I signed up for a letter-writing campaign with Local Majority to write to CEO's. Here is a link to join me:
Thanks, Scott! This good news is much needed today! It is sad to see the so called GOP waste money on such crap, give rich people tax cuts they do not need, then claim they cannot fund Medicare, healthcare and SNAP. It shows just how little they care for their fellow man. If there are elections in 2026, we should all remember just how callous they are and vote them out! The corporate media has normalized this insanity! Corporate democrats are just riding along so they can get theirs! Please
Dachau U.S. It was one of first concentration camps, and built IN Germany (Auschwitz was in occupied Poland). "The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents." (from Wikipedia)
Tell your Rep. to vote NO on the big evil bill: https://tinyurl.com/3h5knn2r
Hey Scott,
I sent another one. I took some ideas from copy you wrote a little while back and added some of my own verbiage. If it's not ok to post my idea here, let me know. I'm a voice actor & this is the copy I'll be using to leave voice mail messages too. Here's what I said:
To Whom it Concerns,
This is an urgent message! I am calling upon you to urge you to vote against the reconciliation bill and to roll back the president’s terrible, illegal and inane tariffs. Together, these actions will and have raised taxes on us all. They will explode the deficit to the ruin of a majority of citizens and for what? Republicans have always told us there were two things they did not believe in.
1). Wantonly raising taxes and 2). Extreme deficit spending, yet here we are today!
The harsh reality is this; those plans will further weaken this great nation and are an extraordinary betrayal of everything they promised during the campaign - which was to help folks like us, like me, like the folks whom this new agenda will further mire into penury. I served my country but not for this slap in the face from the republican party to veterans and citizenry alike, just so this president and all of his cronies can have a few more coins in their already deep pockets!
The president's plans sabotage all this great nation is supposed to stand for and I urge you to stymie them. Work with other democrats, independents, grass-roots organizations and whatever republicans left that have the ability to grow and maintain a functioning spine! Eschew those corporate donations! Work out better ways to make this great country work for ALL of it’s great citizens. Not just for those people who have access to out-sized wealth and wield out-sized influence because of it!
Good day,
Adam Scott Conway
Thank you for sharing this Adam!
Thank you Scott for inspiring me and providing this forum in which I can do what I can to make a difference whether large or small. Everything counts dammit!
It absolutely does Adam!
Awesome. My senators and congressman are democrats. They hate this bill as well.
This the nice version. I have another version that is worded almost the same but it pointedly refers to "you" and "your party" or "the republicans," etc. The tone is harsh, just the way they like it. Make em feel like "Daddy's gone whup that ass!"
So did mine!💙
Hahaha! I love it Edie. Rock on!
Name the concentration camps “Trump Dumps”
with a new social media site dedicated to them called “Trump Fecal” 💩
And sell digital trading cards on the site with the funds going to the legal defense of migrants caught up in the gears of this Made-for TV-Hate Machine.
Mine are too! They hate it!!
Thank you, Adam! I have been calling and writing!
I wrote to my good representative Rosa, She is a fighter!
Thank you Veronika!
No problem on this. Our rep is Jasmine “Give ‘em Hell” Crockett!
Awesome Geo!
I envy you. Both my Florida senators and my rep are magats.
I email several times a day. It’s all I have left to me. Got into an argument with my dearly loved husband of 49yrs over whether or not Alligator Alcatraz is inhumane. He trotted out all the tired maga arguments, including Biden. Kept insisting he stick to the point. I get so tired. 😔
Just to be clear, it is inhumane
as in I agree with you and they are wrong
Same. I’m in TX23, so my representative and both senators are MAGA-core. I still call their offices every weekday, more out of spite than out of any hope anything will change.
Mine is Coward Hawley. He's perfect for this area.
I live in Arkansas…land of Sarah Huckleberry Sanders and Tom Cotton. I just wrote AGAIN to Rep. Rick Crawford about the Big Ugly Bill. He refused to have a town hall and seems to not care about constituents, but I hope somehow he’ll get the backbone to go against Trump on this.
Thanks for giving us convenient links to contact our Reps and Senators. I just hope many Arkansans will send letters.
Thanks!!
Thank you for stepping up Martha!
An artist friend calls her “fuckabee Sanders”…..🫤😁
They love fear.
They cheer for pain.
They laugh at cruelty.
They worship inhumanity.
This is MAGA.
This is evil.
Stop this bill.
YES. Absolutely. Also, we need to double down on countering what they are.
We love compassion.
We cheer for empathy.
We laugh when tyrants trip over their own feet.
We worship humanity.
This is AMERICA. The America that has never yet been, has never quite managed to live up to its own promises, but is now struggling to be born.
We are the Good.
We keep marching forward, whatever comes.
💯🖖
No one may like this but I kind of think this - TACO and his minions - might be happening so that true Americans can do the honorable thing by fighting for democracy and what is right. We have become pretty soft and lax in our dealings with others. Maybe this is happening for a reason. By the way, I believe in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit but I told God I cannot just sit idly by and watch this happen and do nothing. He understands.
Oh, I believe he MORE than understands. I believe he is embodied in every detained immigrant, every hungry child, every sick person denied care, and we people of faith will each be held to account for what we do or do not do in regards to them in this moment, Matthew 25 style.
The deacon of my church expressed it all beautifully this past Sunday, here’s the video (homily starts at 32:05).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_O519w7PrLQ
Well said
Alligator Auschwitz. Already very popular.
Or American Auschwitz.
LOVE!
Auschwitz USA would also work.
Ouch
📣📣📣 Call out DeSantis and his corporate donor! “Governor DeSantis is building “Alligator Alcatraz” with little oversight – and this big campaign donor is set to reap millions from it” https://floridatrident.org/governor-desantis-is-building-alligator-alcatraz-with-little-oversight-and-this-big-campaign-donor-is-set-to-reap-millions-from-it/
📣📣📣“A 35-page report obtained by the Herald/Times outlining the state’s “initial draft of minimum requirements” for the site shows the level of planning that went into building the facility in an eight-day span. The undated records point to a myriad state and federal regulations the facility had to meet before it could open and suggest that there is a possibility children could be among the detainees who could be sent to the facility.
When transporting detainees, for example, the guidelines say “minors shall be separated from unrelated adults at all times during transport and seated in an area near officers and under close supervision.” The records also say “snacks and water shall be given to minors, pregnant females, and as necessary for detainees with medical conditions,” while being transported “by lan.”
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309892650.html#storylink=cpy
I like it!
Democrats have stood together as a solid block against this evil bill. Not one of them have caved, they may not have done everything we wanted them to do to stop this regime, but now they are using their voices and their votes to do all possible damage to the cruelty devised by the felon and his toadies.
Love watching them stand together.
Absolutely. I’m disgusted with him too. But he did do right on this one. Now he can go to the beach…
Didn’t Fetterman cave?
Fetterman will never get a dime from me again. All talk & no action. He is DONE as far as I’m concerned!!!
No. He’s a senator. All dem senators voted no.
You’re right but he has not been voting for his constituents
Regarding "Alligator Alcatraz" - I really wish we could refrain from calling it by any nickname. A concentration camp is not something that should be "cutified," which is what these nicknames do, clever though they may be.
American Auschwitz... we own it whether we like it or not
Unfortunately, I have to agree Nancy.
Only maga, Loser Trump and most of the Republicans own it!!
True. We should just call it a concentration camp
Death Camp.
I disagree. Call it what it is. And I am a Jew.
My thought also.
As of now it looks like I will be calling it by it's official name. Thanks Mary.
Alligator concentration camp.
I don't know. Disgusting, whatever the name.
All I can think of now is that damn bill! May it be rejected!
Reject it!
Scott, I live about 30 miles from DeSantis’ evil folly. It flooded yesterday with a typical rainstorm and the forecast for the weekend is heavier rain from a tropical storm. It will flood again. This travesty was thrown up in 8 days so, as usual in Florida, it’s poorly constructed.
That runway flooded so often that it helped kill the international airport that was going to be built there.
Awful
It's not like you're not doing enough (sigh), but somewhat lost in all this insanity is the sheer scope of funds in this bill to build the ICE police state. It's a staggering amount of money. I don't think most Americans are clued into this at all. Where is mainstream media in this coverage?
Trump (through his mastermind, Susie Wiles -- he himself is little more than a vegetable at this point) urged this bill to be hurried through Congress for a reason. So we wouldn't know what hit us.
Charles, the mainstream media is trying to protect themselves from $16 million lawsuits that Trump files against everyone. Personally I think Mr K A Garcia needs to file one against dump.
Already done. Google K A Garcia. His lawsuit is a beautiful thing.
It is an enormous amount of money. For sure.
If they think they can sweep this under the carpet and go about business as usual, they have another think coming. Since the media won't cover it, we the people need to spread the word about what is in this bill and how it will impact everyone!
Please check out the latest post from K. Starling in her substack "We the People Dissent".
https://open.substack.com/pub/thepeopledissent/p/free-america-weekend-411-and-july?r=1aiy5t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Therre are lots of good links for stuff that we can all do. I signed up for a letter-writing campaign with Local Majority to write to CEO's. Here is a link to join me:
https://mobilize.us/s/Znlerj/r
Yes & what is up with the steel walls now put up in DC?
I haven't heard about that.
I found the article & posted in comments
Thank you :-)
I’ll look for the news oulet that shared it.
Can you provide a reference? I haven't heard anything at all about this.
I found the report & posted in comments, who knows anymore, especially now with AI
I just posted what I saw re:walls.
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1938781722365071798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1938781722365071798%7Ctwgr%5E8b2a2f942ffb4aad5267bc1465f2bfe9462d5ef8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fworld-news%2Flarge-barricades-erected-around-white-house-and-treasury-video-sparks-speculation-101751077017479.html
I'm surprised they didn't send ICE in to kidnap the people putting up the fencing.
Let Hakeem cook!
Thanks, Scott! This good news is much needed today! It is sad to see the so called GOP waste money on such crap, give rich people tax cuts they do not need, then claim they cannot fund Medicare, healthcare and SNAP. It shows just how little they care for their fellow man. If there are elections in 2026, we should all remember just how callous they are and vote them out! The corporate media has normalized this insanity! Corporate democrats are just riding along so they can get theirs! Please
Keep the good news coming!
Dachau U.S. It was one of first concentration camps, and built IN Germany (Auschwitz was in occupied Poland). "The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents." (from Wikipedia)
Which is exactly what dump intends to use this one for too.
Exactly.
Thank you, Scott!! I so needed this right now!!
Thanks Ellyn!
Yes. Alligator Auschwitz was my choice also
🇨🇦🇨🇦 Fingers crossed. God bless Hakeem! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Trumptraz
He'd consider that an honor, Anne.
OMG we wouldn't want that how about Tacotraz
Or mar-o-largo 2
Let’s call it a concentration camp. Stick with the truth.