The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
Mr President, can't you and all of the past presidents get together and speak to the damage Trump and his administration are doing to our democracy? I don't know of any other way to get Republican Reps and Senators to finally do their jobs and hold him accountable.
Yeah we’re past “concern”, chief
I am very concerned that by the time republicans (or at least the voters who placed them in office) figure it all out, the guns will be pointed at them, and it will be too late. The pro-GOP news media is very, VERY good at not showing the man behind the curtain, instead putting eyes toward... logos.
Oh didn’t you hear? Susan Collins is very concerned & disappointed. Problems solved.
Unfortunately, Obama spent 8 years serving the billionaire parasite employer class & DeepState wars, instead of Americans economic needs, which allowed Trump to con his followers. If Democrats had done anything to help Americans since Bill Clinton, they would be popular like FDR.
Apparently it doesn't concern republicans and democratic leadership seems to be passively waiting for the backlash rather than leading the resistance from the front
President Obama: the U.S. is a failed republic. An Authoritarian regime centered on White Christian Nationalism. Our society is now xenophobic, isolationist, racist, with an economy that is increasingly commanded by the regime. Trust, decency, and morality are supplanted by loyalty to the dictator.
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Republicans don’t seem to be concerned, they support fascism. Every single Republican in Congress supports the president. What do we do now?
🙌🏼 please get on a stage with the entire anti- Trump coalition. Do a nationwide tour. AOC, Bernie, Stacey Abrams,Hillary, Kamala, Gavin, George w, Liz Cheney, beshear, ostroff , mayor wu, mayor Pete everyone and sell out stadiums across the country. Get Beyoncé, get Bruce, get Taylor. Solidarity.
He ain’t doing that…he’ll give the occasional softball interview and then go back to executive producing Netflix movies
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Tom Hanks and Leslie Jones can host!
you dont negotiate with cancer, you kill it or it kills you
And where are the Don’t Tread On Me Libertarians? They’ve been awfully quiet.
Libertarians function as cowardly Republicans. We're seeing that now.
Does it address what @democrats.org are going to do about it?
You signed a law pipelining military into domestic police departments providing them hiring preferences that ensured they'd get the job over more qualified applicants. Both parties militarized the cops, and you signed off on it. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
So, what do we do now
I’m concerned with how little you’re actually doing about this.
Yeah what kind of monster would appoint someone like Tom Homan to oversee the border?
As a teen & younger adult majority of LEO's were standing up to protect & serve. Obvious that's changed. The profession attracts those with severe personality deficits. Thugs that get off putting underdogs in their place & bashing the innocent. It accelerated after we got our first black President.🤔
republicans aren't concerned in the least. As long as they're in power, they couldn't care less.
And then what? We're concerned alright. We need actionable ideas!
And all other citizens of the world
It should concern Republicans but they seem to mostly be enthusiastically embracing the fascism.
Their mantra right note is ‘we have to do it before the evil Democrats do it’.
Biden and Garland had 4 years to inoculate America against this.
How much did AIPAC pay you to give Zionist Israel support while you were in Office? $35 billion? Meanwhile, Americans were going hungry and homeless and still are.
Cut the crap Obama. If America was actually a proper functioning Democracy, Trump would have been Arrested straight away & held without bail on J6. You are all the same. None of you assholes care about the American people. You only care about yourselves. You selfish politicians created this mess.
And BTW it's because of you politicians is the reason why the American taxpayers don't have Medicare for all. You are nothing but greedy selfish assholes. Hang your head in Shame Barrack Obama.
We must speak out against the tyranny of Trumpism. Hold the free press accountable for reporting facts and real consequences— not both-siding every news story. Trump is everything our country fought against at its inception. He conned MAGA. But America is not MAGA. Our troops are not his toys.
I think Trump is trying to kill us. Slowly, over time. As the Sun Tzu quote goes: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.
This quote is so relevant. Thank you for the quote / reminder!
Some days I’m fired up and ready to fight and some days I’m completely in shock and overwhelming despair at this loss of our country, as we all knew and understood our precious America, our United States. It’s like a slow train wreck that I want to look away from but can’t. My heart is broken 😥
Be aware! They could send mask #ICE agents to you to deport you to Kenia. No one is safe anymore in the Kingdom of #Trump. You will at least believe it when his #SupremeCourt grants him the purse of the kingdom. He will personally get richer than #Putin, who is the richest person on earth today.
Nice sentiment but we need the top dogs actually collaborating and strategising to get Trump & Co. out of office before the POTUS chair … is called a throne..🤷♀️
So what’s next…? Y’all see it coming…? What happens next Barak…? What happens when America willingly embraces a dictator…? What happens when Americans decide they no longer want a messy democracy but would rather have a king…? Let’s hope these next elections aren’t your last🔮👀⚠️?❔❓
There needs to be hangings when this is over. All the military and police who went along with it need to be hung, and all the republicans who voted for it need to be hung.
Republicans have long ago lost their souls and integrity.
Honestly Mr.President, I wish you would be more strident in your commentary on all this. I totally get that you don’t want to be dragged back into the mire, but not speaking out more forcefully risks greater damage to the country.
Honestly…please replay one of his last speeches before he left the Presidency. He exhorted us to take care of our fragile democracy. Don’t you remember??!!! I do. Did we listen? Or pay attention??!! We. Did. Not. (Well, some of us did…but not enough, apparently)
Obama cannot be more strident and blunt for obvious reasons. He is a gentleman first.
You have the duty of helping to stop this. All former presidents/high ranking military should be flooding the streets with us. One word from you or another higher official and we would be there with you. Americans need to be led.
Says the guy who drone striked a kid from the us.
Don't expect anything from the republicans.
Republicans have chosen Trump 3 times. Pretty obvious that that is who they are, time to stop pretending otherwise.
Things must be bad if the reading list guy is posting politics-adjacent content.
We had it so much better back when he was in. I love how Rucka just rips those bigots to shreds with this video. It's never gotten old. They were the same back then and they're worse now. youtu.be/mDvnZiCOPqw
We are in the hypernormalization phase, as Adam Curtis would say.
It's a huge concern! What can be done to stop it??? Why are the Congress and Senate so compliant and useless?
Because they have no power. The people voted for this and the people are getting exactly what they voted for. Perhaps we need to do something outside the legal and constitutional framework to stop it but that's not a "congress needs to do something" thing, that's a "people need to revolt" thing.
To be clear, revolutions are bloody. So if that is what people are suggesting, be prepared for that result. I'm not making a judgment call either way, I don't know if we are "there" yet. But I do get annoyed when people think there is something congress can do without republicans. There isn't.
Their test run was in 2016, they had 8 years to plan & perfect. With the house, senate & scotus under his thumb all working for the same agenda the only alternative to stop this will eventually be physical violence sadly, hope im wrong.
You put it in a balanced way. Shouldn't there be a call for civil resistance yet?
Doesn't seem to concern either enough, does it
'Should' is pulling a lot of weight there...
Stop it. Would ya, just stop it. You know damn well it doesn't concern RusPublicans. This is all on them and you know it, this is what they want. Stop giving them a shred of decency, they have none.
Come on Barry.
ok but the republicans like it and think it's cool, what should we do about that?
MORE OF THIS PLZ
Gee, if only there had been someone in power for 8 years that could've done something.
Can you stop using bullshit words like "dangerous", "troubling", "at risk" and so on? We're under fascism ALREADY. It's not proto-fascism or incipient fascism, it's fascism NOW. Use appropriate language!
Lol
Republicans aren't on our side. Not a one. Wishing more dems were doing something viable to stop this.
Good thing Dems are doing jack shit about it. Ya'll rolled over after he won all 7 swing states with less than half the popular vote...NOT ONE QUESTION. THAT is why we're here.
Shouldn't you be collecting Netflix checks?
You Americans missed the boat in term1. Who did he have meetings with? Dictators
at this point going back to saying nothing would be better than this crap
Oh word?
My guy just post your fall reading list already, you are not up for this moment.
Says who??
Time to call it what it is. This is fascism being established in America. Both the GOP (by embracing it) and the media (by looking away) are complicit.
It's not over til it's over.
I'll tell you what sir, do something please. Everyone talks and talks. No action happens. We are a lost country
Ya think?
Any chance that you will help in guiding us out of this terrible mess?
Nope
Trump is trying to replace blue area elected officials with appointed cronies👍
Omg…I miss you and your family and decency and civility so much. 🥰
Ok Drone Strike in Chief. Yeah I wonder who else Eroded those liberties and Expanded the executive branches power through the abuse of executive order. And continued support for #Am #Israel #Chai .
I so wish the so called leaders will get out on the front lines, besides pontificating from the safety of the cyberspace. Give him credit for this, the same can't be said of current and past leadership.
Ok, but we KNOW. What the fuck do we do about it, man?
It should concern British people too as we have a political party intending to take us down the same road
Yep!
I have to believe that the discussion about how concerned we are has been exhausted. As we sit in our assigned prisons we will have plenty of time to discuss what went wrong and how we failed our democracy. Or we move past discussion on how bad this is and move to take our country back.
As a german I don’t understand why your military is following all of these these orders - that are obviously different to all that the US stands for - without questioning them🤔
Da ist so viel das Deutsche nicht verstehen können. I mußte es letzte Jahr zu viele von meine Freunde und Familie erklären. Ich kommt es einfach nicht. Mein Deutscher Mutter is aufgewachsen unter Hitler. Als Amerikanerin kann ich es auch nicht ganz begreifen.
Stupid orders and illegal orders are not always the same. The national guard are not breaking any laws. Their commanders (state governors) sent them to DC. They are being misused as pawns for a draft-dodging rapist pedophile #trumpepstein and the MAGAt cult.
That's not going to stop me calling them fascists.
The soldiers aren’t fascists. They weren’t fascists on January 19 and they aren’t fascists now. But hey. Be loud wrong. It’s still a free country.
They can stop being soldiers.
Why would they? They haven’t been asked to do anything illegal (yet). Walking around bored isn’t illegal. Picking up trash isn’t illegal. Guarding federal property isn’t illegal. Why would you want good people to leave the military? Then only the MAGAts have the power. Think it through
What part of DC do you live in?
I don’t. Irrelevant.
Then you don't understand the climate of fear here. I am *afraid* to take the Metro because of this.
Ok. You control how you feel. I’m talking about national guard soldiers in the whole. These are not ICE Gestapo. Seeing how I cannot control anyone’s actions, I can only 99.99% guarantee those soldiers don’t want to be there & aren’t looking to start shit with civilians. Remember, they’re …
Republicans think they’re immune, and so surprised when this administration’s policies and actions are applied to them. I’m not counting on republicans to be concerned beyond clutching their pearls. Trump is amassing military force. It’s going to take more than just the democrats to fight it.
Sad to say this, but US fascism is in a stage that can not broken back with traditional elections and such The avenues of democracy and freedom are being torn apart in front of your eyes Looking at Fascism in history books will tell you what’s gonna happen next in the US
Tell us something we don't already know. Actions speak louder than words.
An OpEd by a certain 2 term President might create more of a stir than an OpEd by Ezra Klein.
I don't think you're going to op-ed your way out of fascism... maybe a podcast though, oh he could even have James Clyburn on, or someone to bridge the social divide like Gingrich.
Obama on fascism: looking into it. big if true
Our National Guard troops were ordered to DC, only to mulch and pick up trash Our National Park Service used to do this before they were left with 20 employees to service the 1000s of acres in the capital These men and women have to leave their jobs for this stunt @resist4harris.bsky.social
and we are spending a million a day for this!
You are a war criminal.
Trump is watching - in the present - Ukraine burn, Gaza starve, and you are fixated on past events. We need everyone pulling in the same direction right now. America, our democracy, our way of life is in the hands of a madman.
Your democracy and way of life have been electing war criminals for generations. Move on from that or crumble. Obama can't help because he's one of the people responsible for all of this.
Im not fixated on anything, im just pointing out obvious thing. He is directly responsible for thousands of deaths. He is no authority, he is a another criminal.
Just asking: Is George W. Bush brain dead or complicit?
Consensus? Dude you looking to build consensus? Republicans kneecapped and starved your signature ACA, Republicans made you cry over assault weapons, McConnell beat you down for a year and you lost a SCOTUS seat… and you are looking for consensus? Sling on a bandolier and break a sweat.
Lol you’re 15 years out of date with this.
It does not concern Republicans. You're about a decade late in letting go of that delusion.
#WETHEPEOPLE demand a Special Presidential Election! ARTICLE 2 SECTION 4: If the president is impeached for treason, the Vice President & Civil Officers shall be removed as well!
Is this a thing? If it is then it may be almost time for it but don't deploy that card too early as we need maximum effect when it is played
There are many legal democratic organizations working on it now. Petitions and a blue wave 🌊 starting to grow across the states. 💪
THE US NOW IS A FUCKING JOKE - Stay away from there - It's a sick, twisted and dangerous place for anyone to go to. If I were in trump's America, I'd be looking for a way out.
Blah, blah, it's too late for interviews and conversations. Get your thumb out and actually DO something about it! Your oath to the Constitution didn't end when you left office.
It was great. This is definitely the time to follow @radleybalko.bsky.social & read his Substack and his books.
It’s unlikely the Republicans care about anyone being put at risk. They’ve all sold out whatever morals and ethics for an Authoritarian felon. The hard reality is the GOP is the American Fascist Party and should be labeled as such.
It doesn’t concern Republicans We all know that Been known That’s the problem There is NO MORE reaching across the aisle
Concern? Mr. Obama you should be DOING something about it. We The People are way ahead of you on this. We don’t live in wealth, separated by our own private security from the world around us, from our terrified neighbors. But my border city of Tucson, you are known by many as the Deporter-in-Chief.
People are reporting that FBI agents are showing up at their doors & questioning them regarding negative social media posts about Don the Con. They are introducing thought police! So much for free speech. What are Democrats doing? A few are rising to the occasion. When are the rest of you?
Proof please.
The rest are in need of Viagra, impotent and clueless.
If you don't know what the Democratic Reps,Congresspersons, hundreds of thousands American Citizens protesting EVERY FUCKING MONTH are doing, you're simply aren't paying attention.
There are lots of people protesting & some politicians fighting, but there are a lot of Democrats, like Hakeem Jeffries, who are acting like its business as usual in the face of fascism. But maybe I'm wrong. What have Jeffries &, say, Schumer accomplished lately?
Good question. Neither of those guys are impressive.
#ImpeachShitler
Can anyone imagine, for just a moment, the apoplexy republicans would have experienced if President Obama had militarized the police in our nation’s Capital? Or Tallahassee, or Nashville?
DO you remember the Beer Summit? The Q-anoners went nuts for about a year over it.
Just call it fascism.
The fact that he and Hillary both refuse to cross that line is telling
If it were a far left or socialist in office (like Bernie) they’d call it communism, but when it’s the far-right and fascism we have to be measured and respectful and above it all.
Love you Mr President, but please tell me you don't believe in the myth of the sensible Republican.
When did he imply this? It’s a basic truth that people of all creeds SHOULD be concerned over a military occupation of our cities.
Tell that to @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and all your other chums that keep calling this a "distraction."
Don’t worry, you’ll get due process… You started the whole Russia collusion conspiracy against Trump and instructed people to violate the law to do it.
It should do a hell of a lot more than “concern” people. But, I guess I’m glad you’re addressing it…
Is Obama Bot just here to keep him in the public eye to hype his comedy show with Larry David?
Can you please get a little more progressive? Your messaging is just stating the obvious and isn’t really helping anyone.
A year ago we had a functioning Federal Government. But over the last year it has been destroyed, as certainly as if Washington D.C. had been bombed by Russia. It will take decades to rebuild our position in the world, and to restore the agencies that serve all Americans. Democrats must do more.
Foreign Governments have provably funded far-right candidates through massive influxes of money to political action committees. They funnel money directly to our new media. We are at war; a Civil War, instigated by foreign meddlers and run by foreigners to our shores like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
It is already too late to go "Back to the way things were". Democrats need to find a small handful of Republicans who are still loyal to the Constitution, to America, and to Americans. You must work to fix the media narrative; to expose MAGA as foreign occupiers, and to restore Democracy to the US.
If you can't build a consensus across the aisle, to remind conservative moderates why America has been a world leader for a hundred years, then no amount of grassroots politics will save us. We will be mown down in the streets and camps; America's light will be extinguished by cruelty and stupidity.
Americans that see what’s happening are overwhelmed & don’t know what to do. The media mismatch from reality is disturbing & disorienting. Short fair elections what do we do? We need bold leadership and meaningful actions if we are to save ourselves from what looks like plans for Social Murder.
Key word: should
I like you, my dude, and you’re a lot smarter than me, but this statement is as milquetoast as your presidency turned out to be. Appealing to the GOP/MAGA and expecting them to have a revelation was your undoing then and continues to be our undoing now.
Evil Fascist Regime, that was easy.
Time for the US to get a taste of its own medicine, enjoy
Republicons have wanted what trump is selling for many years. They have never wanted the constitution or ruie of law for themselves. What they fear they are actually creating. Their downfall.
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Reminder... #PROJECT2025
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Any one with a brain has known this for months.
yessir
Good to see you, sir.
But, it doesn't appear to concern Democrats or Republicans at large. And I find that fact far MORE concerning.
You set a dangerous precedent by extrajudicially killing an American citizen. you expanded the imperial presidency and just had a better PR machine at your fingertips. I supported you both times in spite of this but you need to acknowledge that you laid many of the bricks on this road to hell.
Where is George W Bush in all of this. Does he have a view?
The measured language ain’t gonna cut it rn, we’re beyond being “concerned”. That was for fall of 2015, when Trump rode down the golden escalator.
Dude the days of measured language and searching for the “good, sensible Republican” is over…be aggressive, be bold, be combative, be unapologetic. It’s not 1998 anymore, it’s okay to speak you mind and not be above it all.
Well it should, but no-one seems to give a damn. I guess it's not an existential crisis threatening to destroy the future of your kids / Denmark
President Obama. It is time for you and all the other living Presidents to make a joint public statement about how the current occupier of the White House, wannabe #kingtrump is bringing disrespect to the highest office in the land and making our country a laughing stock to the world.
Yes please, we've tried the strongly worded letters, we have to bring out...the joint public statement.
He’s too busy producing a Netflix documentary and partying on the Vineyard
Please say more. Explain why to the folks in the cheap seats who aren’t paying attention.
Yes it does We have a Supremacy Clause and a Vesting Clause But they don't authorize absolute power or arbitrary rule
"should concern democrats and republicans alike." It SHOULD concern all of us, but the fact that almost NO GOP member is concerned should be MORE concerning to the rest of us. Republican members of Congress have foregone almost any resistance to Trump and given up on democracy writ large.
Will the American project survive 250 years?
Spoiler alert: they don't care about anything except their stock portfolio.
But it doesn't concern Republicans. Many of them are embracing this because they think it hurts "liberals" and because they think they will keep power forever. We cannot join with people who are completely at odds with American democracy.
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Maybe ixnay on the domestic military stuff, President Dronestrike.
ur so brave for tweeting this. thank u for ur service
“thank u, Obama” never took off.
I wish it would concern republicans.
Is this a law course? Cuz it sure sounds like one.
Wannabe crime boss wants to control the cops, building a mafia state to enable kleptocracy, how very Russian of Felon Guy.
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
This is correct. Its already happening. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
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Would need a blue dot passport please. 🥺
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Soft Secession needs to start now. I would really like to see Americans be the first and fastest at toppling a corrupt regime in the history of the world. America can be great.👍🙏😁
Time for blue states to build up their own defense industries.
"We need a government" - Bernie Sanders August 2025
You’re right. Blue states are currently paying for their own hostile and unlawful occupation. If the mid terms are not conducted fairly, blue state citizens should cease paying federal taxes.
The Epstein files need to be released before he kicks the bucket from whatever disease he is hiding!! Once he’s gone, the files will never get released 😡 We The FUCKING People must DEMAND release of all files, unredacted (excluding victims). This will end the fascism if the gop!
I agree. I think blue-state secession is probably where this is headed. I just hope people understand the sacrifice this will entail. It's going to be a big fight.
balkanization is going to happen, its a question of when
Democratic governors have been preparing for a soft secession once Rump got back into office. It's gonna be one rough ride but it can be done.
Stop sending their money to the feds.
One positive aspect is that we are kinda slowly doing that in the background but now it needs to be said out loud open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
SOFT SECESSION: Since blue states are donor states meaning they give more to the federal government than they receive, they will decline federal funds and keep their own. I suppose this could extend into giving preferential treatment in business to other blue states.
And 95% of the DC Democrats need to b kept far away from shit. We’ll let the Governors that r ACTUALLY fighting and HAVE been, can start things off, while we elect NEW people
What happens to all of the people in those states that don’t want their states to secede from the United States? I don’t think there are any Democrat law makers that even think your idea to secede is a good idea. Have Democrats really given up on pushing their agenda to the voters?
I agree. How we will do it is complicated and will require international recognition and allies, but I think we've hit the point where we have to work outside the extant system
No, the nuclear-armed fascists have to be removed, period.
Putin carefully calculated this perfectly to sow misinformation, discontent, and fascism. I've seen these folks operate before, in loss prevention analysis in retail, they really hate honesty. Which a lot of other MGAAts hate.
No, they'll burn themselves out trying to prove party loyalty. We should be aiming for subversion and subversive behavior within their ranks. It's an intelligence game of showing discord and discomfort within their ranks.
"burn themselves out" what's wrong with you
They will burn themselves out once they are divided and have no infrastructure deals. As Blue States will explode with trading and becoming more and more independent. We will most likely go into the division between North and South Korea.
The important thing is to engage in subversion, and disruption. To push the MAGAt fascists over the edge. Using Epstein and Maxwell along with how they've felt about James Comer having domestic violence backgrounds assaulting college girlfriends.
No. That's insane.
Not if subtly lines were shifted into subversion. Along with calculating how the MAGt base feels about protecting sexual predators and domestic abusers like Comer.
Can't decide about the wisdom of this idea but...sounds a lot like laying the groundwork for a second Civil War to me. Something I always thought was a risk under a second Trump 'presidency'. www.bu.edu/articles/201...
I don’t want it but I think Trump and a whole bunch of white supremacists do
Say less fam: bsky.app/profile/jonr...
Blue states are going to need to secede.
And state militias, which is what the 2nd amendment actually was for, rather than for all the gun nuts who are now in ICE. States will need to form their own forces. It’s crazy but ICE is a brown shirt army. They will be turned on us soon enough
Honestly, if this is the path (i.e. secession), then the alignments will be pretty clear. And unlike the 1860s Civil War, the lines will be vastly different (i.e. West, NE, Great Lakes vs North-South). Also, nothing stops blue states from joining Canada and/or Mexico.
I'm hoping #BritishColumbia #Canada will annex the entire US West Coast. Please?!
Yeah, no thanks - we’re good. Signed - a British Columbian.
No
As long as y'all understand you DO NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS as a part of Canada as you do in your current (maybe former at this point) system of government. We are extremely similar but we are different. With that said, we are cousin nations. We are family. You are all welcome here.
Doubt any state will join Canada. But if they are law abiding US citizens, they can visit and spend money.
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JFC. This is what I get for being hopeful. I guess I'll go back to being my normally cynical self.
they can join but don't bring their f'n yahoo gun mentality here. As well as their " I got mine, fu mentality "
Would the US States be happy to be in Commonwealth? Who would be Head of State? Presumably not the King of a foreign country as is currently the case in Canada
That's part of being part of Canada. That said, a temporary union or furthering the idea of "a nation within a national" aka what Quebec is at this point, could do the trick. Look, it wouldn't be perfect but I'm pretty sure something will be sorted out rapidly if it was asked for and voted on.
Seriously? Why would you encourage that? More Americanization of Canada ?? We already are struggling to keep Canada’s identity intact. Of course our American friends can visit but not move in.
Blue states joining Canada is a stupid idea but… We’re being put in concentration camps. You would deny our refugees based on some sense of a loss of national identity? Hate to say it bud but you’re not a lot better than the worst Americans if so.
we’re coming and we’re gonna vote like hell
Blue states joining Canada is a stupid idea. You are 💯 correct. Canada has and will always take refugees from around the world. The mosaic of Canada has been embroidered with refugees. Americans need to stand up and fight for their country, before lazily demanding Canada solve their problems
But Americans shouldn’t move to Canada because they’re in danger?
Do you think the American left just decided to let this happen? You think this is laziness? You think all the Latinos and trans people who are in grave danger need to fix their own problems?
I'm not against the idea of certain blue states forming a union with Canada, but anyone that joins is joining OUR system. We have no interest in losing our universal Healthcare system or a rise in gun violence, also keep your evangelical Christian bullshit in the south too
These things would all be reasons why I would want to live in Canada. Universal healthcare? Yes, please. Much lower gun violence? Yes, please. I have no interest in owning a gun anyway. No crazy evangelicals in government forcing their worldview onto everyone else? That would be awesome!
Seriously, Canada is large enough. Difficult enough to rule a country this large. Why on earth talking about adding states. SMH.
A Canadian economy with the added economic strength of states like California, Michigan and New York would be an absolute economic powerhouse
California alone is almost as populous as Canada. In effect adding CA and a few other states would amount to giving control of Canada to Americans, which is no more acceptable than joining the US to Canadians. Blue states would also rapidly disenchant when they realize how profoundly they’d need to
change things at the state level in order to conform to the Canadian Constitution as new provinces. Many of those changes would never be acceptable to Americans. We have more diverging visions of government than most Americans realize, they just don’t know us well enough to know.
Any Americans that find the changes unacceptable are free to move to shithole regressive red states. They are a failed nation, in no position to dictate anything to anyone anymore
Those blue states would do much better as their own smaller and still fully American Republic, roughly as big as Canada. We’d be great neighbours and probably better allies than today, with the toxicity of red states out of our way.
Its obviously never going to happen, but a united front between Canada and the blue states could effectively crush the fascism of red state maga hell.
We already have evangelical Christian bullshit here too. Premier Smith has pretty much banned renewable energy, made vaccines harder to get, and is actively working on separating Alberta from Canada.
Yes but its mostly contained. Smith won't succeed. Adults will prevail in Alberta somehow
As someone loving in Alberta, I want you to be right, but Albertans seem to have Self-Harm as their core political ideology. The Apbertans who dont are trying to leave Alberta because of them. Its part of why Carney needs to take Trump fascism seriously, cus Alberta will be an invasion point.
Much respect and love to @lukaszukab.bsky.social His #ForeverCanadian campaign is showing Smith that 2/3 of Albertans love Canada and will fight to stay in it.
Not to mention handing Healthcare to the Catholic Church. We dont talk about that enough. Its one of the scariest things Smith has done, and its clearly a move to build a 2 tiered system. She's gonna privatize it, and the free option will be the Catholic Church. Like the 1800s.
I don't think anyone from California has an issue with any of that
You are speaking my love language. I hate those things too. I should have been Canadian. Damn ancestors leaving Canada for America!
Mine, too. I guess if my ancestors would have stayed in Montreal, I probably wouldn’t exist, but I still think about what my life would be like if they had stayed.
Y'all need to deal with the Alberta o&g firms before they go full Texas on Canada.
Nice! This means Americans can move to Canada and be citizens right away? Thanks man, I thought it was gonna be tougher than that.
Thank you
Usually when I tell conservative Americans that Canada has better freedom at this point it breaks their brains. They just can't fathom it. They can't break the indoctrination.
Americans really dont realize how not-free Canadian are. Not that we are actively oppressed, and itd CERTAINLY better compared to life under Trump. But its small stuff. Like if you have a beer outside you'll spend the night in jail.
Why is “freedom” always sold as the ultimate goal - a word used to sell tampons, trucks & tech. Westerners idolize individualism but what if we judged success by social cohesion, community care? Maybe real progress isn’t about buying more choices, but about building stronger communities.
In this case I was using it to mean freedom of domination by the state and private entities, but you are absolutely correct. Liberation would be a better word to describe that kind of freedom, which I would say isnt opposed to collectivism because that form of freedom relies on it.
love this.The truck ads are stupid now. Are they listening to their bs? It’s all gone now. And those truck owners have the perfect opportunity to use their 2A rights and they aren’t. Also ads for superhero movies fall very flat. We really need some and there aren’t any. It was a lie.
Because individual freedom is good. “Social cohesion” is the same shit the fascists are obsessed with. You can foster community without oppressive restrictions.
Individual freedom is absolutely important. My point is about balance: the west treats freedom as individual choice, ignoring the health of community. Social cohesion doesn’t have to mean oppression; it can be strong networks, mutual support, shared responsibility & supported people.
Currently the fascists are focused on individual freedom but define it as hoarding guns, saying slurs, and hurting queer people. Individualism and collectivism are ends of a spectrum, fascism will use either. Social cohesion can be about having common goals and community, not only subservience.
I will gladly give up guns for healthcare
I only got guns BECAUSE OF the current regime.
Nope, you have guns because of your gutless spineless complicit politicians on both sides. You don't have Medical help for all because of your politicians who are on the payroll of medical companies. You don't have gun control laws because of the NRA. Zionist Israel has been sucking you dry
Right? I have a friend who moved to Colorado many years ago for work and he bought a gun. I was shocked because he's not the 'type' to shoot anything so I asked him why? He said he needed a gun to protect himself from all the other nuts with guns. Sigh.
Sadly same
I saw them buying by the grocery cart full Wasn't going to the party with a butter knife
Same here. My 761st WW2 Tank Battalion was correct.
It’s not just guns, “freedom of speech” is “freedom of expression” here. Which is very different. Laws may limit expression that constitutes hate speech, harassment, or discrimination against specific groups. We also are a multicultural country a mosaic not a melting pot.
This all sounds excellent to me. This means Nazis can’t March down the street. I don’t plan on trying to fit in with French speakers. But seriously. My country does not want me or my child. Melting pot=forget your culture of origin most of the time
Maybe when the fascists are literally taking over is a bad time to give up your guns.
I will not gladly give up any of our freedoms. I’m all for waiting periods and strict background checks but saying competent people shouldn’t own guns won’t win the Democratic Party any support. In my opinion it will do the opposite.
I’m not a representative for the Democratic Party. I’m a person. I learned to hunt squirrel at 9 years old. I, as a PERSON would do whatever I had to do to leave this hellscape. Leaving is being throttled by having a child+lack of funds
I also am a person and also have been hunting since an early age. Never once has shooting up a school crossed my mind or any other people for that matter. The point I’m making is there’s more to it that just guns and there is no simple solution. I’m not trying to be condescending.
These terrorists are homegrown, in every sense. So many people have done the work to explain it better than me. It’s a cult. It’s our civic duty to look at it and call it what it is, in my opinion. If you sincerely don’t know, I’m happy to provide references.
I’m not trying to be, either. It’s just that we’re so far past the point of normal, you know? My local college used to do gun safety classes (which are good) but now they’re doing trainings on immigrant rights. It’s because that’s where the need is, I’m heartbroken
Unfortunately our rightwing is using the fact that our healthcare system is broken in complicated ways to force through American style healthcare. They framed the argument as "it stays broken vs. Privatize" instead of "Improve it vs. Privatize" so we may lose healthcare. In Alberta we almost have.
Yes, that is a classic Regressive tactic. “It’s broken, let’s get rid of it and have the ultra wealthy run it into the ground”
As long as brown skinned people like me would be able to walk outside without having to worry about a group of brownshirts snatching us away, I think I can probably handle handle the other differences.
we'd have more, i know
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Scary. Thanks for sharing.
The ex-kgb article is super scary
I love how much this map gives away that The Atlantic—the supposed adults in the room— have absolutely no idea about the political landscape of America lol
Not happening. No way Utah and Idaho goes with CA/OR/WA. Same with the NorthEast section, TBH
I remember hearing about that man years ago and thought it was a joke and unfathomable. It may not be this division but as soon as Dumpy was elected the first time it was all I could think of.
We gotta get thru the midterms and see if the House can sort this mess out. We may end up with a very different flavor of Federalism soon. With a National Referendum on it via the next Presidential administration.
Do you seriously seriously believe that he would let it happen? Bombs and occupation of Canada and Mexico would stop it...
Secession implies a war. Always has, always will. So if you're doing it, then you know what you can defend. As for going it alone or joining someone, that's a lot of government discussions. My guess is that IF states leave, then they will leave as a group and join another country later on.
Plus Canada isn’t interested
Canada is large enough. We do not need any states. Please stop talking about Canada as if it isn't a sovereign country and member of the Commonwealth.
Yeah nothings stopping that. Yup sure. There’s no obstacles in the way of a portion of one country becoming part of another. Easy as pie.
lmfao...your american exceptionalism is gross...america or no part of america is joining canada...you know nothing about us...your ignorance is just everything we despise about america..🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 have a fucking choice you moron
But think what you could do with total control of maple syrup production!
Came here to say this. If we're going through all of that, why not just make our own country with blackjack and hookers at that point?
No. Not joining Canada. Leave Canada alone. It’s bad enough they’re so close. We start new.
Honestly Canada’s BORDERS stop blue states from joining We are not interested in being the side piece in your messy divorce You are a cousin and we don’t marry our cousins up here. Mostly Get your divorce and we will be friends and partners but Canada is SOVEREIGN and will remain so Respect that!
Republicans don't give a shit Barack. Senate Republicans installed the most dangerous Cabinet in American history with their YES votes. RFK Jr. wants all of us eradicated from this earth. What the hell is wrong with you?
Sir, I appreciate you so much, but this is fucking fight time; the time for “strongly worded letters” should’ve ended when the maga cult was born in 2015.
You're not wrong, but I'm also concerned about how many Bush-era policies you carried forward and helped normalize. They were not all legal. They were not all moral. You did damage too, sir. Maybe everyone who takes the office does. But you did promise us something different.
It should, but apparently ALL of the GOP, are sycophantic Orange Pedofuehrer supporters, who do not care if the country burns, as long as it "owns the libs." You gave them too much credit, when you counted on their love of country. They HATE the country.
The actual conservative Republicans are getting primaried out of their offices in service to a jackass. What we have now is active dismantling of the way we live.
Then, if they can't fight harder with facts, they deserve to go. Any actual Repub, should be fighting these assholes, as hard as the dems are.
“Pedofuehrer” is THE perfect title.
They love their vision of it, their sick, distorted vision of it. Anything which deviates from this system of institutionalized greed, gaslighting and psychopathy is seen as a threat to their absurdly grandiose fast food face-stuffing giant pickup truck driving bible thumping "American way of life".
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Concern? That’s the best you got?
💯 Concerned!!!
Jfc 🤦
yeah, too bad you didn't close gitmo or shut down ice. too bad you bombed American civilians outside of war zones and normalized bombing funerals. really could have made the world a better place and instead you normalized and empowered the very fascists we're fighting today.
Susan Collins is concerned enough for all Republicans.
53% of Republican voters want Trump to serve a third term. Are only 47% concerned? Really concerned or Susan Collins "concerned"?
Needs more hair on fire.