BACK OFF!


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At Last It’s Happening and We Know The Answer

I’ve been asking the key question since the last election, as we suffered under leadership insufficiency and have steadily been sorely pained by would-be political leaders who cannot lead anyone. The question is

Who Will Lead?
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Now I think we’ve seen the face of who will lead.

Cory Booker has always led with his insight, with his values and his heart and his 25 hour marathon speech in the Senate has sealed the deal to lead us. It’s not because he kicked out hateful segregationist Storm Thurmond as the longest filibusterer. That was symbolically good but was beside the point. It was his speaking with righteous passion and clarity about values – our values – that establish him as a guy to lead us back to being the United States of America.

We’ll see where this goes, but good things are happening beyond Booker’s filibuster. There was Susan Crawforde’s win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the halving of Trump margins in Florida. Now Mallory McMorrow, the fiery Michigan state senator, has announced her candidacy to be the next U.S. senator from Michigan. We’re starting to flex our muscles.

The National Declaration

We did a national demonstration yesterday to send a message to the awful guys. It was officially named “BACK OFF!“, but the energy of the crowd said, “BACK THE F*** OFF!“

There were millions of people in over 1400 demonstrations nationwide yesterday. Some say that we won’t have made any difference, but I have a short list for you that says otherwise.

    1. We made it clear for everyone to see that we are not alone. Millions of us have one another’s backs.
    2. We put a stake in the ground that we support those legislators and officials who stand for our democracy, our Constitution and our people. We let them know that when they won’t stand for the awful and un-American things the Republicans are doing, that we have their six when they are brave.
    3. We told the world that we are not like Trump, Musk and their army of cruel, greedy sycophants. They don’t speak for We The People. We are rising up in righteous fury.

Here are just a few pics from the demonstration in little Tucson, AZ, where there were over 14,000 people lining the streets 5 deep, carrying signs and chanting amidst the constant honking of the horns of cars passing by. The air was electric.

That’s a United States Marine holding the Distress flag. He told me that he’s in distress for our nation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best sign of the day

Just For Fun

From Andy Borowitz:

Americans Demand Breathalyzer Be Attached to Pete Hegseth’s Phone
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Washington (Borowitz) – Amid the outcry over the leaking of top-secret war plans, on Monday millions of Americans called for a breathalyzer to be attached to Peter Hegseth’s phone.

In emotional apology at the Pentagon, Hegseth said that someone in his position “should never drink and text, and so I am giving up texting.”

According to national security experts, a journalist was given access to highly sensitive war plans that are normally available only to people using a public bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.

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3 Responses to BACK OFF!

  1. Jim Altschuler April 6, 2025 Reply

    I believe yesterday, April 5, 2025, may have been the best day for the American people since the 60s. I’m aware that not all of the American people think and feel the way yesterday’s demonstrators do but:
    1. It was the first time in nearly 50 years that Americans spoke up … together
    2. I didn’t see or even hear about any dissention or counter-protests

    2. I saw and heard hours of The People from across the country, chanting and singing and coining slogans. I heard the honking of horns from private cars, vans, city buses, commercial trucks seemingly all in support of the demonstrators

    3. I never saw nor heard of any dissention or counter-protests

    Hip, Hip, Hooray for Cory Booker! Someone finally found some guts, grew some “stones”, developed the nerve to speak up, to speak the truth, to prioritize the American people. Now if about 300 representatives and 55 senators have the nerve to step forward and do the jobs for which they were elected by We The People, perhaps We and they can reclaim OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAWS, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, OUR PRESIDENCY. Lofty goals but they ARE do-abled!

    Rise above!

    Aim high!

    Never quit!!

    Expect to win!

    I have to admit that I didn’t pull these concepts together. General Benjamin O. Davis, leader of the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII who were assumed by many to be a complete waste of time, coined them as the group’s inspirational motto. Please share it with as many other People as possible. Thank you.

  2. Kirk Landers April 6, 2025 Reply

    I agree with you, especially on which was the best sign of the day, though “so much wrong, so little cardboard” could have been a worthy winner.

    Does this seem radical to you? I’d like to see Trump hang for his crimes against humanity and American democracy, and I’d like all his toadies, including the principle owners and “talent” at Fox and the other Putin outlets to be imprisoned for life at Guantanamo Bay where they would be waterboarded weekly and walked like dogs to relieve their bowels.

    I know, a little over the top, especially for a tree-hugger, but these Nazis have inflicted more pain and death on Americans than any group of Islamic terrorist or, for that matter, any foreign army.