Thanks Huff post, we need this idea to get talked about throughout the media and start gaining momentum. Even just the threat of a general strike will get a response, and any kind of work stoppages even if short of a general strike will cause enough disruption to get a response.
You don't have to have a revolution where some whole new government takes over from scratch--a new political party could be enough if enough support. I think most people want to keep the Constitution but with fixes to safeguard the freedoms it was supposed to guarantee, but turned out to be optional.
We can demand new elections and amendments to the constitution (probably via a Constitutional Convention), and until that can happen, legislation to prevent the executive branch from ever being able to take this much power again.
Reforms to demand would need to start with the most crucial, including things like those listed here. Especially stripping power from the oligarchs! by massively taxing them, overturning Citizens United, and allowing only publicly funded elections. Shoring up the checks and balances to fix the vulnerabilities we've learned the hard way. Expanding the Supreme Court to a fairly large number would also be important so our very rights don't depend on something like one person not dying. Etc, etc. Ah well, I can dream, right?
[Chicago mayor Brandon] Johnson closed out his remarks by calling for a general strike.
Yes!. This is why the regime is scared of large peaceful protests--it tells them we are reaching enough support a stage a successful general strike. I'm glad to hear the mayor call for it! May the idea gain momentum.
The regime was really pushing their propaganda portraying the opposition as consisting of mostly "Hamas supporters", "antifa terrorists", marxists, etc. and to expect violence! But what they got was peaceful protestors, costumes, and kids in strollers. You can be sure teams of agents and right wing media are combing footage to find any violence they can possibly use, but it's too late this time since everyone has seen the peaceful footage. Next time they'll probably resort to rolling out some AI stuff.
BTW another important thing about these protests is alluded to in the article:
During the march, two protesters stood across from the Trump Tower handing out zines — small, often handmade, booklets — titled, “Why Escalation?”
The zines discussed various methods of making protests more disruptive to the status quo — like blocking major roads and occupying buildings — as well as the role these methods played in the work of historical radical groups like the Black Panther Party.
“It gives us a really good opportunity to reach people that we wouldn’t have reached otherwise,” one protester, Sarah, said about their decision to come to the No Kings protest.
No I don't, I don't have a smartphone and my phone only takes still pictures.. But that is irrelevant.
You missed the entire point of my post, which is to suggest that someone take this propaganda video which is the topic of this thread, and make some edits to it that turns the tables so that it's mocking trump.
I'm not interested in going down a rabbit hole arguing about how people who may decide to make additional, anti-magat videos should go about doing that.
Yes, but it's easier and faster to do the slop--for those who know how to use it and/or are willing to pay for the subscription, which doesn't include me but there must be plenty of people who can. So scripts, actors, production, time, editing can't keep up with their method of just typing in prompts until posting the results.
Of course South Park and SNL and those who can do more professional stuff should keep doing what they're doing, but meanwhile they are "flooding the zone" as they call it, and it works. Turning their slop-generated messaging (Trump is a king who humiliates his enemies by dropping shit on them from our mighty military jets) into our own messaging (trump is a doofus who shits his pants uncontrollably).
Oh, and in addition to the edits I suggested above, the crowd his shit falls on should all be wearing red MAGA hats and waving MAGA signs!
Can someone please take that video and have AI insert a cut to a shot of his diaper filling up, he gets a surprised "oh-uh" look on his face, then cut back to the original where the shit shoots out? Also maybe put a "Fisher-Price" label on the crown and a three stooges kind of look on his face?
Also I hate to encourage use of AI slop generators, but it looks like 'our side' needs to start making some mocking AI vids too.
Edit to add: I just thought of something else, the crowd his shit falls on should all be wearing red MAGA hats and waving MAGA signs. Some could be farmers holding signs saying Soybeans FOR SALE Cheap!
Part of the reason the SCOTUS has been avoiding ruling against trump is that they don't want to be in that "Emperor has no clothes" position where he defies them with impunity and everyone sees that they have no power over him and his minions at all. The other part is that at least 4 of them are delighted by his actions and 2 are at least OK enough with what he does to go along with those 4.
The problem is that while trump may not know what he's talking about, his followers will believe him anyway. So it's important to loudly and repeatedly point these things out.
Of course the media should but won't do it, so it's good that Newsom is calling attention to it, but even then he has to be aggressive and sensationalist about it for the media to report what he says. It's a role he has taken on, possibly detrimental to his career (or maybe not--we'll see) but it's a role that someone with influence like his needs to play so I'm glad he's stepping up.
And yet as outraged as they are, MAGA still finds a way to say this is the Democrats' fault:
This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.'
Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson.
Oh, if they (along with Vought and Miller behind the scenes) can get to where they don't need him any more, they'd absolutely love to invoke the 25th. The problem for them is, so far they're still dependent on his cult of personality. They just need to finish consolidating their power. They're working on that with the military right now and the goal is to have everything cemented before the midterms that would normally take place next November, or before the time trump kicks the bucket, whichever comes first.
He's a complete puppet who has no idea what's going on. A figurehead who believes whatever the fascist regime tells him and signs whatever executive orders they put before him. They still need him because the cult base is what keeps them in power-, otherwise he'd already be gone. What will they do when he dies or can't go out in public any more? I'm not sure if they know, but I think once the midterms are over and once they believe they've cemented their power they'll get rid of him in a heartbeat.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think I read that it was neurological issues in general (not just autism specifically) that weakly correlated with tylenol usage.
But yes, the next question is what were they taking tylenol for? Fevers? Infections? Some type of illness? Some factor that itself might be what contributed to the neurological problems rather than the medicine they took to relieve their symptoms?
To over-simplify, it's like saying tylenol causes headaches with no further study, because they found a correlation between taking tylenol and having headaches. Distinguish correlation and causation. Sometimes a correlation points to a cause, oftentimes it doesn't.
Thanks Huff post, we need this idea to get talked about throughout the media and start gaining momentum. Even just the threat of a general strike will get a response, and any kind of work stoppages even if short of a general strike will cause enough disruption to get a response.