U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.
“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
There are protests every week, even in my tiny ass rural Appalachian city.
People are actively resisting ICE and the National Guard however they can
And they’ve already pulled back on federalizing DC because nobody wants to pay soldiers to clear homeless camps
Everyone other than MAGA is furious and terrified in some measure and most of us are doing what we can. This aint France where you can effectively gather people quickly, this country is huge and most of us live in the sticks. We gotta do what we can where we are. Shit, its like a 5 hour drive for me to get to my state capitol, I can’t do that all the time.
Most Americans also live paycheck to paycheck, and cannot afford to lose their job (or even ditch work for a day or two)
It might not be France, but you can still learn a lot from them. Stop with one day protests a la the Kings Day protests. Those don’t work. A protest with a deadline will just be waited out. If you want change, you stop when demands are met. If only 25% of the Kings day protestors went to DC and just sat there till change happened, things might have actually worked out. Spread over 2000+ locations and one day? Nothing will happen. Only maybe strengthen others in a shared goal. Sadly nobody marched to DC afterwards.
Living paycheck to paycheck sucks, but if you’re not willing to commit and they know it. Why would they listen? It’s not going to improve like that. It’s clear the US gov doesn’t gives a rats ass about the wellbeing of the majority.
It’s time for a salt march! Bernie Sanders maybe? Mamdani?
Oh I agree. We need to be focusing on direct action.