“Children you are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources? Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!“

Utah Phillips

They are collapsing the government. Seriously you need to know this. Our country is being broken and smashed apart to sell the parts to the highest bidder. People will say this is hyperbole but they are wrong. They will say the Democrats have a plan but they are wrong. The Democrats want people to feel the pain so the voters who betrayed them come running back even though the Democrats will have a thousand excuses why they can't put it back together again. S.K was too conspiratorial for me at times and I don't agree with the same conclusion yet she has been scarily prophetic. I see some people saying this was the fault of Clinton's neoliberal steamrolling agenda and austerity in the 90s yet this is inadequate. This is not about order this is full blown chaos and for the American public to let themselves be prepared to be rolled right over. 

I have my own conspiracy that the elite saw how fearful, disorganized and eager the general public was to comply with 'get back to work peasants' orders during Covid. The "owners" witnessed the "peasants" rush to get back to restaurants, football games, dancing in the streets, Disney World and concerts where people can be suffocated to death while onlookers sway as the ambulance pushes through. Did you think some of us wouldn't notice the desensitization taking place? The elites high fived each other in relief during the early phases of Covid (they still do) 'Wow that was close! They were so close to getting it! No pushback? Fuck yeah!' Now you did have the Floyd protests that took people by surprise but once that influenced Harris getting nominated for VP the people who thought the Dems maybe would take police brutality & the brutality of this system seriously shuffled confidentially back into place. 

The elites have realized they can push things to annihilation it's time to get it over with already because climate catastrophe will change it all and they want to go out on a high note. Some of those on a lower tier complying, which is how it goes for plans to go forward, are nervous yet eager to go along with all of this because they are not certain the true elite will let them into the bunkers or let them bargain to be servants inside the caged sealants if they don't. 

"It was handed to you and you had no other choice but to take it for your own survival."

I don't send food back at restaurants. Even if it's horrible. I was once served a veal piccata that I was pretty sure was rancid. And it was so oversalted that it made the inside of my mouth sting. But I still ate half of it thinking that maybe it would get better or maybe I just didn't know how veal piccata should taste. Then, I finally just gave up and sat there still hungry until the server came over.

"Everything OK?"

"Yeah, it's great. Thank you."

I should have sent it back. I should have said, "No. This is, in fact, the worst thing I've ever tasted. I'm sure it's not your fault, but this is awful."

That's what I should have said.

But, instead, I sat on my hands, paid, and tipped the server generously. I'm just not a "Take a stand" guy.

I think it's like that with liberals. I think, way down deep, many of us have been considered freaks our whole lives because of the way we are or the way we think. We have suffered the consequences of not falling in line so many times that it cows us. And we want people to like us, so many of us tend not to make a fuss.

If this is you, I'd like to talk to you.

Let me begin by saying that I know it may be uncomfortable for you. You see all that's going on and it feels overwhelming, but you don't know what to do. So, instead, you just wait. Or, worse yet, you eat that rancid veal piccata and smile. Something inside you makes you doubt yourself. But I'd like you to know that that's not YOUR doubt. Somebody else put that in you and it's not yours. It was handed to you and you had no other choice but to take it for your own survival. Or at least that's what they told you.

I have never called an official's phone in my life to tell them what I want. What I won't stand for. What I need them to do. But I've been using the 5 calls app just to do that. At first, I was disappointed that it wasn't like Resist Bot where you don't actually have to talk to anyone. Resist Bot does it for you. The 5 Calls app means you have to talk to somebody. They even provide a script if you need one.

My first call to Fetterman's office ended with me being on hold for a half our and when it finally clicked over, they seemed to have hung up on me. I was momentarily relieved, actually. But I stuck it out and called again.

My delivery was clunky.

"My name is Brian Broome and I...uh...I have some things I want to say. And I uhhh... I need John Fetterman to...uh...listen."

I was legitimately rattled.

I went on like that sounding unsure of myself. Like I owed him money and called to tell him that I wasn't going to be able to pay him. That's what I sounded like because that's how they've taught us to think.

But, since then, I have found my voice. I don't need no script. I just need them to know what the fuck they seem to be supporting.

What I need you to know, shy person, is that nobody else is going to do this for you. There is no calvary on the way. And what we're facing now is so dangerous that even I put my insecurities away and made my voice heard.

And I will keep doing so.

If this is you too, I beseech you to swallow hard and make those calls or do something that will make a difference. Be braver than you're used to being or maybe never were.

Your first call will be clunky.

But by the third, fourth, and fifth, you'll realize that all those people who've made you think your voice doesn't matter were dead wrong. Because, again, nobody else can save you right now, but you. If you have children, do it for them. Hell, if you even LIKE children do it for them because this will affect the world they grow up in.

We are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover and no amount of scrolling on your phone is going to help it. And, I get it. You don't know how to make a fuss. But I also remind you that dumb is loud. Dumb is so very fucking loud.

Don't eat what they're trying to serve you.

Send it back.

Writer Brian Boome, Facebook post Feb. 19, 2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1XKVoZfCZu/

I'm not listening to any self appointed King. We live here and we outnumber you. (Not that all those people will come out in numbers mind you). You didn't even get 50% of the voting population that voted in this last election. Even if it were 90% I will never bow to this. Ten years, unbelievable and we learn (or do we? who's the we?), that people don't learn shit and are susceptible to the worst people to exist. Glad the liberal/moderates who are sympathetic to dems and hate Trump independents/progressive/left are more broken in alliance and organization more than ever as we ascend finally smashing into the wrecking ball of both the Republican's dreams and goals for the last 80 years and the fascists. Some of us may hate this place but we get up in the morning too...so some of us survive as all kinds of people in history have in some form (and are currently here and from afar) to come out the other side not torn in half. What an endeavor. I hate it here but I'll find a way to get up in the afternoon.

So if the Army is formally turning against trans people it's about to get worse.  

This road being taken is going down to where it will be illegal to be trans and punishable by institutionalization and if you don't convert back the death penalty will be hanging over because they will be labeled as child sex predators. Trump said he will be doing that (during his campaign, Mussolini in Florida did). Fuck you and your fucking bullshit about children's sports no one gives a shit. There are many incidents of parents physically assaulting other parents over their children's sports team and a man beat to death another parent over an ice hockey game in front of everyone some years back so you people have the problem. Many coaches have been actual sex predators so maybe you should look into that unless that will make some panic with a LGBTQ+ coach you'll target. You fucking assholes. You fucking rubes. There's something wrong inside your hearts and spirits you should seek help in fixing it.  The fucking TERFS I think are the most decrypt and broken, they actually resent women with all their insecurity and need to dominate and want selected women they can target and break. They can't be too racist or classist because they need to be seen as great figurehead feminists so they have to pick women whom are outside the socially scripted norms. 

Oh and a big shout out fuck you to left/progressive media heads who said Project 2025 was a fear mongering nothing burger. Marks.

One of the greatest and most devastating health crisis's of our time is soon to be confirmed. Hell is not hot enough for the people who has let this proceed confirming with 'skepticism'. Trump and Biden did enough damage with Covid malpractice of 'oopsie this is hard to deal with, let's hope it goes away!' 

The actual Covid conspiracy 'get back to work peasants!' Glad the left didn't waste any time or energy and made sure to message and hammer this unpleasant but honest reality into people's heads...oh....oh well, great job...

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What is all this hand wringing from so called leftists on how woke has lost, and it's over? How can being socially conscious be suddenly over? OMG it's canceled because the right said so!? Get a grip and stop acting like infants who have no concept of history. You have to have more resilience and better critical thinking skills than surrendering yourself to the narrative of the day. Social consciousness can not be killed off and it will never die no matter temporary battles lost in electoral politics. On top of that by a Democratic candidate who ran the most "unwoke" and conservative campaign by a Democrat in years. Social awareness does not end. Apologies to the irony poisoned and doomers.

Don't let anyone tell you are being alarmist or overreacting. Or the manipulative 'It's always been this way, you were just only now paying attention. You need to sit and make space for your privilege.' What about the non white people chunk Trump bit off, do they get the same prescription that is just a form of neo-liberal white washing and not actual radical left critique? Of course there are the horrors that certain groups existed in that has familiar features right now and yet no one has lived with this particular collision of events before because we live in the 21st century. A very different world than much of the past actually. Why is this so hard to grapple with? Technology, communication, infrastructure, social relations, culture, politics, etc. have transformed greatly. People have to stop being so naive. Or other bad insights and making excuses like 'He will do and say crazy things that's what he does! He'll back off...' yeah back us off all a cliff. Anyway...This is another coup, Part 2 of the first one he didn't get to finish. Also the one the Republicans and their backers have been planning for over forty years. I didn't think the Democratic Party would have much resistance to Trump if he got in, that they would just do a bullshit 'wait and see until the pain sets in' approach because they are the so called adults in the room. However these smart, proper, and good Democrats don't seem to realize that when people feel pain people don't suddenly make rational decisions. The opposite is always at risk of occurring. They could say 'fuck it' and hightail it out of political participation or be so frazzled, scared, they actually double down. Even if Trump will cause much pain, it's' not a guarantee people are going to magically snap out of the spell and rush for the Democrats to remedy their misery in the midterms. When people are in pain they are not their best critical thinking selves they are upset, angry, vulnerable and lash out. Hello have you seen the last few years? How do you think Trump got back in? Man if only the opposing party was an actual opposition one. At least people who I thought were wrongly worrying themselves in believing that Trump would be able to transform himself politically into some triumphant popular figure have nothing to worry about now.

Our national anthem is dear God do not let the blows leave a permanence on America she's already have had to have multiple surgeries

So the 'we are all going to get what's coming' is happening swiftly. Smash and grab administration for Christina Nationalism to fill the hole. Glad the Democratic Party, it's supporters, people who are generally alarmed at this, progressives groups and the left are all acting accordingly for this ten tier fire and have had multiple strategies laid out since the past year Trump and the GOP have loudly exclaimed what the plans were. Happy no one called it fear mongering and dismissed it as hiding behind "both sides." I'm glad we are in such good hands otherwise it would be a once in a generation catastrophe and tragedy. 

Trump is finally getting to do what everyone was worried about in his first term. Almost a decade to prepare. It doesn't matter how well you can analyze, dissect, write, and speak out about it, what is an actual plan, what are you going to do? Throwing money at the ACLU and Planned Parenthood? Making memes and postcards? Getting angry at people who didn't want to back a candidate who did not seem committed to stopping the genocide in Gaza? Do you realize what the Democrats have done, their own version of George W Bush? The other side of the coin, those spending days of their lives scolding liberal and the Democratic Party online, dog piling leftists who don't want to label liberal/Dem voters fascists also? The smugness. Bitches you better be more humble you can't even mask and assimilated yourself in denial of the ongoing pandemic. But what am I doing? I'm scared, you got me, I'm stuck too.

The most frightening reaction backlash are those laughing about Trump supporters who are Latino and now dealing with massive fall out with deportation concerns in their communities. And the women waiting for the 'told you so' at other women. A haunting thing I saw after the unfortunate election results was a woman on TikTok who has done work in helping people get reproductive care who believed she decided to take stand and be brave. Now being a white woman of course this meant this could veer easily into self interest, 'I'm better than that! That's not me, that was never me! I don't know them! Those are the BAD people!' territory. However she did not fail to fail overcoming this fatal flaw. She openly threatened to out all right wing women who are in states where abortion is banned who dare to ask her for abortion help because they made their beds. She then made another video doubling down and laughing. The comments celebrated her as well as some corners of twitter who are stuck on FAFO. Like hello we are in the burning house along with these people too who maybe regretting their voting choices or non choices. The smoke is overcoming you also as you say you're going to sit back and laugh. So you have made your own beds also ironically. 

I saw those perfectly ugly troll photos of the rich white new right youth partying. The photographer is either undercover or in denial how he captures them. A photographic equivalent of the comic artist Eli Valley. 

So many monsters shedding out in the open like lizard skin. Creepy and weird.