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Put it this way. If some good ole boys show up in my neighborhood. The Nortenos will probably deal with them before they even get set up.
Militarize the police
It wasn't yet? US police has fucking tanks and mraps, it is already militarized, just without the training and restraint
Clearly they need cybertrucks and Hugo Boss uniforms
I thought for a moment he invited the village people to the White House….
Building a corrupt police state one EO at a time.
Always fucking has been.
Holy fucking shit... 1000$ for an asylum claim? And 3500$ for children. This is monstrous. I am an immigrant and naturalized citizen to Canada and I never had to pay that much legal fees for immigration and citizenship.
A third executive order requires professional truck drivers to be proficient in English.
Higher requirements than the office of president.
I saw the picture and thought "Blazing Saddles"! Now I'm even sadder that I live in a farce country.
I am going to short on my American stocks for the next four years. Trump won't want to step down at the end of his term and when that happens, there will be chaos.
I dumped all my us stocks as soon as Trump was getting warmed up, I won't be going back for some years irrespective of perceived returns potential
I'm holding no stocks or crypto. I've got a few hundred of bonds I probably ought to sell. I liquidated my 401k and IRA a couple months back. Big penalty, no regrets.
I getting rid of my bonds and stocks, aside from a token $1,000. I will leave that in, since I hope hyperinflation to make that paltry amount reach the account's cap within five years. No idea if that hyperinflated excess would actually be useful, but...well, who knows what is a good choice, if you can't buy physical properties right now?
The rest of my savings are being transmuted into Euros. I have no idea how to get gold at a fair price, and I am aligned with democracy, so I figure money affiliated with Europe would be a good choice for me. Partially in case if I need to flee the Trump Regime, but also because Europe has an protective ocean and many different countries to prevent an outright crash when economies start breaking. I will almost certainly lose buying power, but probably won't get wiped out by America's self-disassembly.
Any advice on getting your money converted to Euros? I’ve been trying to figure that out, but online searches for information are complete garbage now.
Honestly, that is bit of a pickle in the US. I am an amateur, so use plentiful salt.
First off, most banks don't hold foreign currency, and if they do, it is for people with big bucks. IIRC, I think you need at least $30,000+ for Citi, but most banks seem to be $200,000+ before they will talk with you. However, you can trade in your American dollars for physical foreign currency. Not very flexible, but Trump might have DOGE pillage the US bank accounts of "dissidents", so...shrug. I would treat Euros like gold or an refugee fund. It isn't an investment vehicle.
1: Go to the bank, and ask for a foreign currency. You are basically selling your dollars for XYZ. They will have you sign forms, and order the physical money. 2: Wait about a week, and you will be called to pick up your foreign bucks. 3: Keep in mind, the bank will ask whether you are going on vacation. Your call on how to interpret this question. I just told mine about hyperinflation. It might make me look looney, but...well, here we are. :P
Aside from physical foreign currency, you can try a Neobank. They are purely online banks, no physical branches. You get sent a credit card, and be able to buy and hold foreign currency for it. Keep in mind each neobank offers a different selection of currencies, will require IDs, and most only use a smartphone app. You will likely want a Neobank from London or the EU. Neon is based in Switzterland, offering a IBAN - International Banking Number. Revolut is with London, and apparently quite friendly for many folks. I am might go with Wise in London, since they apparently have a PC-desktop interface available, and Britain might be "neutral" in a US-EU conflict. Note that you will have assorted costs with exchanging currency in addition to standard costs of banking.
Up to now I only had a flip phone, but got a smartphone since I might need flexibility for handling the times ahead. Maps, photos, drone controllers, ICE spotting, neobanks, and so forth. Wish I could just be lazy and have the troubles go away, but that isn't how it works. :(
Wish I could just be lazy and have the troubles go away, but that isn’t how it works.
I feel this so hard. I've been more active this year than ever, and it takes so much out of me to socialize. But I've been giving talks, canvassing, and attending protests because we really don't have a choice anymore. This government sure as hell isn't interested in helping anyone, so it's all on us.
I was raised in rural territory, having no neighbors or childhood friends. To say the least, figuring how out to socialize is a bit...problematic. Is it proper to deny sharing a first name when asked by a random dude who fist-bumped me at the library for just telling him the opening time? I do not know.
Getting out of my shell is going to be weird.
I have some gloves-off shit I need to get off my mind and I feel the time and place for it is now because I’m very angry:
So… non voters, remember when we were telling everyone that would listen to “vote blue no matter who? Remember that? Of course you do- you threw that shit back at us like it was a god damned grenade. Remember that?
Yeah, well…. THIS is why we were saying that.
You see, we all saw this shit coming. Which is why we were saying to plug your fucking noses and just vote. Hell.., We even tried to reason with you- suggesting that-
“You’re not voting FOR Harris, you’re voting AGAINST fascism!”
You didn’t listen.
Your “…but, they’re doing a genocide!” was so deeply embedded via your little edgelord wind-tunnels, that most of you began to see it as an argument to win, instead of a point to be made-
Instead of doing anything substantial to help end it.
Well. Your point was definitely made. We all have heard you loud and clear. You collectively and VERY loudly agreed that you would be fine with the outcome either way- since genocide was going to be happening no matter who you voted for, right?
I do have to ask though…
Are you still fine with your choice? How about the memory of you, sitting on your asses and laughing at all the people rushing to voting booths in-between work and picking their kids up from daycare… How is that sitting with you? All those jokes and inflammatory remarks you hurled at the people who tried their fucking best to stop this with the only thing they have- their vote. The people, who tried to protect your sorry asses that couldn’t be bothered to even do the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM asked to protect our democracy.
I ask you… are those jokes still funny?
Is there any chance that any of you want to walk back all those accusations you made about everyone being sheep? What about those smug and arrogant jabs about how both sides are the same? About how democrats and republicans are somehow working together…
care to issue a statement here?
Because I’m pretty damned certain that NONE of this shit would be happening right now if you had listened to us when we told you that this was going to happen.
When HE fucking told you this would happen.
And while very few people here were ever in favor of the genocide in Palestine- much to the disagreement of the few that are around that are STILL arguing against this point- we knew and know- that the pain we face at home must be resolved before we can be of any aid in the pain endured by others in theirs… Especially when most of you couldn’t have even pointed to any of those homes on a map a year ago and a half ago.
It should be noted that this is not in any way to lay the entirety of blame at the feet of the stay-at-home/its-someone-else’s-problem protestors, but the numbers are in, and while your combined lack of effort might not make up the entirety of the ninety one million registered voters that stayed home, it’s a fair guess that between you and the ones that voted third party-
We could have avoided this.
Roughly four to five million votes. That’s all we needed. Just four to five million of you to have listened. But your arrogance, your fucking entitlement- wouldn’t let this happen.
So now here we are. With this shit. This tyrant king and his pet tech-gremlin, stripping away our rights hour by hour, day by day. And while dealing with this shit, I as an American, have to carry on hour by hour, day by day- being tossed into the same bucked with you.
I have to shoulder the blame right along side you. And it’s not fucking fair. I did my part. I voted. I canvased, I shouted from the fucking rooftops.
But I’ll digress…
I sincerely hope that high road you thought you were taking lands you all right to where it seems the rest of us are going….
Because no one deserves it more.
The genocide stuff(yes we know its deplorable) was a wedge issue grift started and perpetuated by russia
Why are you okay with your fellow Americans being unrepresented in the voting booth?
Are you working to replace First past the post voting in your state? People should be free to vote for those they deem best, while still counting their vote against those they don't want in office.
We don't need to wait for a miracle from congress. How we vote us controlled at the state level. Alaska has already done away with FPTP voting. Alaskan Republicans were so upset that Ranked Choice voting kept Sarah Palin out of office they offered up a referendum to go back to FPTP voting. The people of Alaska voted to keep it. Other republican controlled states are passing legislation to outlaw any voting system other then First-past-the-post voting
Why do you want to use the same voting system republicans prefer? Do you support democracy? Or do you get off on telling people how to vote?
Videos on alternative voting systems
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
90 million voters don't know just how fucking good they have it. They think America is America because it's America. America is America because the people before us were willing to die for human rights.
I didn't even have to hold my nose for Kamala. She seemed fine. Nothing amazing but fine, just like Biden.
But then again I don't care about the pressing issues like how someone laughs.
I hear she wore a tan suit just like Obama
I was one of those people right there with you, screaming at the non voters to vote.
Given what the Election Truth Alliance, and The Voice of San Diego have uncovered, I don't think it would have mattered. They used every single method to steal the election that they could.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Am Not an American . Are the Democrats now doing something to be more appealing in the future, or they just rely on Trump to keep being awful?
At the moment, our fiercest Democrat just voted for the new law to allow The government to censor anything on the internet they don't like. I think it's fair to say it's not going well.
Funny, why don't you name the law and let people look it up and read what it actually says? Are you talking about S.146, a bill to prohibit the nonconsensual online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals, and requiring platforms to remove it upon request?
So in other words, if someone posts nudes of you online and you object to it, this law would require the site to take it down upon your requesting it.. is THAT the censorship you are crying about??
Well said brother.
