Obama is correct. We have to fight back, even when we might feel powerless. A great place to start is Boycotting Disney in all its manifestations. Cancel trips to Disney(land and world). Cancel bookings on Disney cruises and resort properties. Cancel subscriptions to Disney streaming streaming services. And boycott Disney cable and broadcast programming, particularly sporting events, like NFL and college football games. It may not bring an end to American fascism by itself, but at least you’ll save some money you may need and it will make them pay the price for caving in to fascism.
While you’re at it, if you haven’t already done so, drop subscription to Paramount, Amazon products (Prime, Video, and Music) and of course, don’t buy a tesla. Not even a used one.
The place I get my hair cut is in a mall, and for some reason, the area in which I park has become a storage lot for Teslas. Actually had to drive in between a couple of rows of them last week and felt as if I needed to go through a car wash. Might have even put my car through it, too.
In this real-life Twilight Zone, I wouldn’t rule anything out. Especially if Trump survives until 2028. He would orgasm at the thought of an Obama-Trump match up.
The incompetence of Trump’s minions is so obvious that despite their loyalty to Trump—they are actually becoming a huge liability for him. His numbers are tanking! And now the Kimmel suspension from ABC is another ‘visible’ atrocity they’ve perpetuated. But I think this one will wake up a portion of Americans who, along with watching Colbert silenced can really see—this is getting out of control. And of course, Colbert and Kimmel will not be silenced—they’ll find ways to get louder!
I agree completely. I also have written my Congressman and Senators and demanded they bring Brendan Carr in front of them for questioning and an investigation into his use of power for extortion. The more we see these minions or AH's, (whatever vernacular you like to refer to them as) in front of Congress and the Senate, I fell more people will wake up and realize that our democracy is in dire straits! I stress on my re-stacks that people respond by writing their Reps and make their voices and intents known.
Yes, we all do. But that is an acknowledgment. I’m fortunate that I live in a Blue State and represented by Democrats. I know living in a Red State, but voting Blue has to be so frustrating. Telephoning might be a better method to state your opinion.
Well, maybe not…but voters/followers do. Maybe not the extreme CN’s and MAGA…but more the Joe Rogan types who came into the fold at the last minute—when they see numbers like this—they feel okay to walk.
Krash Patel is a blithering idiot. He looks lost in space and his "Italian" boss isn't much better, but then again, they weren't hired for their brains.
President Obama’s comments were exactly right. Oh, how I miss him! We must abhor the violence against Kirk while saying that we have a right to disagree with him. Itotally agree with the CDC calling out Kennedy. He must be removed before many people die due to his ignorance. One small example stood out for me personally today. He wants to stop vaccines for Hepatitis A and B. Any decent physician would tell you that without these a person will die if infected with Hepatitis C. Almost everything out of Kennedy’s mouth is false and will be deadly if not countered.
⬆️"Almost everything out of Kennedy’s mouth is false and will be deadly if not countered".
We have long been hearing about the digital divide because of the lack of high-speed internet in rural areas. I see the same thing happening around vaccines.
Democratic governors are stepping up to make vaccines more widely available than the guidelines put forward by RFK Jr's anti-vaxx flunkeys. They are also making sure that insurance companies operating in their states are required to pay for them.
Red states,on the other hand, are likely in for a perfect storm when you combine an existing rural hospital crisis exacerbated by cuts to Medicaid with the anti-vaxx rhetoric being lapped up by MAGA.
The former CDC director should still be there along with the other top officials. Kennedy and the other fools should be dismissed immediately before they kill more people in red states. I know my so is fearful of his shit but he can afford to buy his kids vaccines. Most people cannot.
Good for Obama for reminding us of the horrible things that Charlie Kirk said, notably that women in leadership positions didn't have the brain power for them and they had deprived a more qualified white man of the job. I'm fortunate to be retired, so I won't lose my job because of my reactiom to Kirk's death. Kirk was a contemptible. racist, misogynist jerk. Will Trump's goons find a way to withhold my Social Security payments to punish me for my thoughts and words?
Also—if Trump does somehow manage to control ABC, CBS, NBC etc., and only ‘Fox’ is left alone, the viewership will collapse. We need to do a huge letter writing campaign to advertisers (Scott—right up your alley! LOL) to say—we aren’t watching anymore, save your money, stop advertising. Advertising is the lifeblood of these media companies.
⬆️" Former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry, testified in front of the Senate yesterday. Both were fired after they refused to blindly go along with Bob Kennedy’s reckless vaccine policies."
Check out this report on the same testimony from Robert Hubbell's substack:
Mullin is so stupid he hires someone to tie his shoe laces. At least he didn’t challenge anyone to a fight as he did previously during a Congressional hearing.
Mullin finds a way to embarrass himself everyday. Thank you for the link. I didn’t see the testimony. Mullin trusts that Kennedy is telling the truth? He’s an idiot.
Every time I see the Congress grilling someone, or listening to a 'whistleblower,' it confirms to me that nothing is going to change unless we change it.
I am NOT recommending any sort of violent uprising against the government.
But there is an uprising that will change things, and it begins with us stopping buying anything outside of vital necessities.
I don't see that happening, because as a people, we are greedy consumers, of just about everything.
Bottom line, until we bring the corporations to heel, this will not change. And as yet, not enough of us are hurting to make that happen.
Unfortunately, America is greed. The entire country believes it has to spend all day, every day, part of some fabrication that living beyond your means is part of being American. It's really sad. No values, no clue, and not able to think for themselves. This is how Autocracy takes over.
And we are talking order of magnitude here. Let us not delude ourselves that 1,000 or 2,000 fewer people going to Disney World is going to make any difference to Bob Iger....even if we could get that. I am not saying that we shouldn't make individual choices regarding our economic and political views, but let's not think that we are going to topple Disney or ABC by not going to the Magic Kingdom.
I do not know what will work. When 8 Democrats in the House vote with the Republican majority to allow 14 year-olds to be tried as adults in the District of Columbia in a clearly racist action aimed at Black youth, then not buying mouse ears is hardly the solution. These Democrats will probably whine, "I'm in a tough district" or "I only won by a few percentage points so I got to SEEM to be tough on crime." But I say, "No you have to seem to offer an alternative vision of America, one in which racism and sexism and dominance by the rich and the powerful is not driving us all to ruin. You have to point out the illegal crimes that Trump is enacting every day."
And as for President Obama, whom I admire, his statements are mild mannered NPR style "viewing with alarm." He said as quoted by Scot Dworkin today, "I can say I disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.” 90% of Americans probably don't even know what he is referring to, i.e. Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump's racist slurs regarding the intelligence of Black people in general and Black women in America. I'd be cheering if Obama said, "We have a clear racist in the White House and in the leadership of the Republican Party. These men and women do all they can to disparage Black Americans, distort our shared history, and excuse heinous cruelty, indifference, and brutality toward people of color. When is this going to stop. When are all Americans going to work together to bring the country back from the abyss."
Obama also made it clear that extremist views “were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the US government behind extremist views.” So he looks like the good guy. Big deal! The race is not between Obama in 2004 and Trump 2024. Racism and sexism beat Kamala Harris and namby-pamby descriptions of our desperate times in which good ol' Barack can play the statesman are not driving the debate.
Core values like Freedom of Speech? Here is my letter to Disney Prez Bob Iger for his unconscionable sacking of Jimmy Kimmel:
Mr. Iger - let me be the latest of many who are congratulating you for your reprehensible acts of cowardice. Because of rich cowards like you who are putting money and power over Country, we may very well end up living in a Fascist Dictatorship.
I used to read the ABC news website every single day - now I don’t and will never consume their content ever again. (Same for CBS.) I used to wait until Disney movies came out on DVD and buy and watch them at home. Now - never again.
I live 3 1/2 hours from Orlando and I think it is safe to say the place you are least likely to ever find me again in Disney World.
Nothing would please me more than to see you, tRump, and the rest of the oligarch class taxed into penury and all of the Megacorps broken up into easily regulated pieces.
Good for you Stephen. So sick of these ass kissing oligarchs. It just seems stupid that these CEOs, and company president's or whatever, cave to the orange blimb.
It's we the people who buy their products, entertainment, watch their programs. We the people are getting more and more fed up and refusing their crap. Doesn't it seem like by bowing to Trump, they are cutting their own throats or money supply? Not everyone will stop using, buying or viewing, but they could experience losses. I hope. By choosing Trump, they are hurting themselves. Seems a stupid move.
The incompetence, arrogance, and craven fealty to the felonious, dementia ridden bigot desecrating the presidency by these cultists is appalling .
After hearing Musk brag about using Skylink to manipulate some voting machines I tend to doubt the legitimacy of the tyrant's position let alone that if his ignorant and inept appointees.
NEW: Tell Congress: Demand Kash Patel Resign: https://tinyurl.com/yhpyrbn6
Here is my interview with James Talarico: https://tinyurl.com/mmu4eydj
Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act: https://tinyurl.com/3yfw2m7a
Tell Congress: Demand Kennedy Resign: https://tinyurl.com/2324bmrh
Tell Congress: Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v
Tell Congress: Protect our use of voting by mail: https://tinyurl.com/bde676xm
Tell Congress to push back on Trump’s DC takeover: https://tinyurl.com/2jpp94yk
Tell Congress to support law to unmask ICE: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82
Tell Congress to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case: https://tinyurl.com/4pfh2p4f
Links to everything we are doing: https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/how-were-fighting-trump
Obama is correct. We have to fight back, even when we might feel powerless. A great place to start is Boycotting Disney in all its manifestations. Cancel trips to Disney(land and world). Cancel bookings on Disney cruises and resort properties. Cancel subscriptions to Disney streaming streaming services. And boycott Disney cable and broadcast programming, particularly sporting events, like NFL and college football games. It may not bring an end to American fascism by itself, but at least you’ll save some money you may need and it will make them pay the price for caving in to fascism.
While you’re at it, if you haven’t already done so, drop subscription to Paramount, Amazon products (Prime, Video, and Music) and of course, don’t buy a tesla. Not even a used one.
The place I get my hair cut is in a mall, and for some reason, the area in which I park has become a storage lot for Teslas. Actually had to drive in between a couple of rows of them last week and felt as if I needed to go through a car wash. Might have even put my car through it, too.
Excellent idea, Kim!
YES!
Obama 2028 anyone?
LOL
In this real-life Twilight Zone, I wouldn’t rule anything out. Especially if Trump survives until 2028. He would orgasm at the thought of an Obama-Trump match up.
Aw, why do that to the poor guy. Haven't you seen how white his hair is now? LOL
Did you notice his bronzer in place of his pumpkin burn?
I'd love that but it won't happen.
He’s too smart.
The incompetence of Trump’s minions is so obvious that despite their loyalty to Trump—they are actually becoming a huge liability for him. His numbers are tanking! And now the Kimmel suspension from ABC is another ‘visible’ atrocity they’ve perpetuated. But I think this one will wake up a portion of Americans who, along with watching Colbert silenced can really see—this is getting out of control. And of course, Colbert and Kimmel will not be silenced—they’ll find ways to get louder!
I agree completely. I also have written my Congressman and Senators and demanded they bring Brendan Carr in front of them for questioning and an investigation into his use of power for extortion. The more we see these minions or AH's, (whatever vernacular you like to refer to them as) in front of Congress and the Senate, I fell more people will wake up and realize that our democracy is in dire straits! I stress on my re-stacks that people respond by writing their Reps and make their voices and intents known.
I'm in Coward Hawley's district. Every time I email him, I get an insultingly generic email back that says nothing at all.
I’m so tired of him and Nazi Schmitt.
Yes, we all do. But that is an acknowledgment. I’m fortunate that I live in a Blue State and represented by Democrats. I know living in a Red State, but voting Blue has to be so frustrating. Telephoning might be a better method to state your opinion.
Publish the replies people need a dose of reality.
Exactly what I’m thinking. They will get louder and stronger from here! Maybe they’ll join Substack lol
He doesn't care about his numbers.
Well, maybe not…but voters/followers do. Maybe not the extreme CN’s and MAGA…but more the Joe Rogan types who came into the fold at the last minute—when they see numbers like this—they feel okay to walk.
True Ann, true, true, true!
It's way past Fuck You O'clock, America, you need to wake up.
President Obama’s comments are completely correct, I agree with them
Also completely agree with the two former CDC officials
RFK and Dr Oz have no business being anywhere near the CDC
Lastly Kash Patel is hiding the truth about the Epstein files and we the people need to keep the pressure up peacefully to uphold Democracy
Krash Patel is a blithering idiot. He looks lost in space and his "Italian" boss isn't much better, but then again, they weren't hired for their brains.
Agree!
Keep up the pressure!
President Obama’s comments were exactly right. Oh, how I miss him! We must abhor the violence against Kirk while saying that we have a right to disagree with him. Itotally agree with the CDC calling out Kennedy. He must be removed before many people die due to his ignorance. One small example stood out for me personally today. He wants to stop vaccines for Hepatitis A and B. Any decent physician would tell you that without these a person will die if infected with Hepatitis C. Almost everything out of Kennedy’s mouth is false and will be deadly if not countered.
⬆️"Almost everything out of Kennedy’s mouth is false and will be deadly if not countered".
We have long been hearing about the digital divide because of the lack of high-speed internet in rural areas. I see the same thing happening around vaccines.
Democratic governors are stepping up to make vaccines more widely available than the guidelines put forward by RFK Jr's anti-vaxx flunkeys. They are also making sure that insurance companies operating in their states are required to pay for them.
Red states,on the other hand, are likely in for a perfect storm when you combine an existing rural hospital crisis exacerbated by cuts to Medicaid with the anti-vaxx rhetoric being lapped up by MAGA.
I am surprised that Orange Blob is not going after him. Wasn't one of his greatest achievements vaccine Warp Speed during COVID?
Kennedy will have him convinced that Biden was responsible for Project Warp Speed . . . .
The former CDC director should still be there along with the other top officials. Kennedy and the other fools should be dismissed immediately before they kill more people in red states. I know my so is fearful of his shit but he can afford to buy his kids vaccines. Most people cannot.
The uncertainties alone are terrifying
Good for Obama for reminding us of the horrible things that Charlie Kirk said, notably that women in leadership positions didn't have the brain power for them and they had deprived a more qualified white man of the job. I'm fortunate to be retired, so I won't lose my job because of my reactiom to Kirk's death. Kirk was a contemptible. racist, misogynist jerk. Will Trump's goons find a way to withhold my Social Security payments to punish me for my thoughts and words?
I miss having an intelligent, articulate, and calm President.
Coming next from fascist MAGA: thought police. Seriously, if they could do it, they absolutely would
Yes! Once a dictator gains sufficient power to control speech, there is nothing he can’t control!
Elon / Doge made sure they had all the data they need to withhold SS.
I'm sure you're right. No one is safe.
Brava!!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 to Dr. Susan Monarez and Dr. Debra Houry for calling out RFK Jr’s lies and speaking truth to power.
I agree. We absolutely need to stand up, speak out, and continually work and fight for democracy.
It really is great news for us today, Scott. 🙏🏻
Obama laid it out perfectly.
Love hearing from a real president
Also—if Trump does somehow manage to control ABC, CBS, NBC etc., and only ‘Fox’ is left alone, the viewership will collapse. We need to do a huge letter writing campaign to advertisers (Scott—right up your alley! LOL) to say—we aren’t watching anymore, save your money, stop advertising. Advertising is the lifeblood of these media companies.
⬆️" Former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez and former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry, testified in front of the Senate yesterday. Both were fired after they refused to blindly go along with Bob Kennedy’s reckless vaccine policies."
Check out this report on the same testimony from Robert Hubbell's substack:
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/i/173914828/hearing-on-robert-kennedys-firing-of-susan-monarez-as-cdc-director.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin behavior during the hearing was despicable - but par for the course from Trump bootlickers. See this article for more details: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-sen-mullin-cites-recording-as-he-accuses-cdc-leader-of-repeatedly-lying-later-walks-it-back.
Mullin is so stupid he hires someone to tie his shoe laces. At least he didn’t challenge anyone to a fight as he did previously during a Congressional hearing.
I had forgotten about that incident.
Mullin finds a way to embarrass himself everyday. Thank you for the link. I didn’t see the testimony. Mullin trusts that Kennedy is telling the truth? He’s an idiot.
Every time I see the Congress grilling someone, or listening to a 'whistleblower,' it confirms to me that nothing is going to change unless we change it.
I am NOT recommending any sort of violent uprising against the government.
But there is an uprising that will change things, and it begins with us stopping buying anything outside of vital necessities.
I don't see that happening, because as a people, we are greedy consumers, of just about everything.
Bottom line, until we bring the corporations to heel, this will not change. And as yet, not enough of us are hurting to make that happen.
Unfortunately, America is greed. The entire country believes it has to spend all day, every day, part of some fabrication that living beyond your means is part of being American. It's really sad. No values, no clue, and not able to think for themselves. This is how Autocracy takes over.
And we are talking order of magnitude here. Let us not delude ourselves that 1,000 or 2,000 fewer people going to Disney World is going to make any difference to Bob Iger....even if we could get that. I am not saying that we shouldn't make individual choices regarding our economic and political views, but let's not think that we are going to topple Disney or ABC by not going to the Magic Kingdom.
I do not know what will work. When 8 Democrats in the House vote with the Republican majority to allow 14 year-olds to be tried as adults in the District of Columbia in a clearly racist action aimed at Black youth, then not buying mouse ears is hardly the solution. These Democrats will probably whine, "I'm in a tough district" or "I only won by a few percentage points so I got to SEEM to be tough on crime." But I say, "No you have to seem to offer an alternative vision of America, one in which racism and sexism and dominance by the rich and the powerful is not driving us all to ruin. You have to point out the illegal crimes that Trump is enacting every day."
And as for President Obama, whom I admire, his statements are mild mannered NPR style "viewing with alarm." He said as quoted by Scot Dworkin today, "I can say I disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.” 90% of Americans probably don't even know what he is referring to, i.e. Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump's racist slurs regarding the intelligence of Black people in general and Black women in America. I'd be cheering if Obama said, "We have a clear racist in the White House and in the leadership of the Republican Party. These men and women do all they can to disparage Black Americans, distort our shared history, and excuse heinous cruelty, indifference, and brutality toward people of color. When is this going to stop. When are all Americans going to work together to bring the country back from the abyss."
Obama also made it clear that extremist views “were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the US government behind extremist views.” So he looks like the good guy. Big deal! The race is not between Obama in 2004 and Trump 2024. Racism and sexism beat Kamala Harris and namby-pamby descriptions of our desperate times in which good ol' Barack can play the statesman are not driving the debate.
Don't give you know who the idea of removing Secret Service protection from O as well.
Core values like Freedom of Speech? Here is my letter to Disney Prez Bob Iger for his unconscionable sacking of Jimmy Kimmel:
Mr. Iger - let me be the latest of many who are congratulating you for your reprehensible acts of cowardice. Because of rich cowards like you who are putting money and power over Country, we may very well end up living in a Fascist Dictatorship.
I used to read the ABC news website every single day - now I don’t and will never consume their content ever again. (Same for CBS.) I used to wait until Disney movies came out on DVD and buy and watch them at home. Now - never again.
I live 3 1/2 hours from Orlando and I think it is safe to say the place you are least likely to ever find me again in Disney World.
Nothing would please me more than to see you, tRump, and the rest of the oligarch class taxed into penury and all of the Megacorps broken up into easily regulated pieces.
Cheers!
Stephen Brady
Colquitt GA
Good for you Stephen. So sick of these ass kissing oligarchs. It just seems stupid that these CEOs, and company president's or whatever, cave to the orange blimb.
It's we the people who buy their products, entertainment, watch their programs. We the people are getting more and more fed up and refusing their crap. Doesn't it seem like by bowing to Trump, they are cutting their own throats or money supply? Not everyone will stop using, buying or viewing, but they could experience losses. I hope. By choosing Trump, they are hurting themselves. Seems a stupid move.
Do you have a particular address or email you used? Or just the corporate address?
Robert.Iger@Disney.com
Thank you.
Ty Scott! I miss President Obama so much! His eloquence alone stands out compared to the felon. We need him yesterday!✌️🫶💙🇺🇸💙
The incompetence, arrogance, and craven fealty to the felonious, dementia ridden bigot desecrating the presidency by these cultists is appalling .
After hearing Musk brag about using Skylink to manipulate some voting machines I tend to doubt the legitimacy of the tyrant's position let alone that if his ignorant and inept appointees.