A Vietnam Veteran came up to me afterwards and thanked me for coming and then took my arm and said, “You are going to have to tell them the truth. You know the truth. We have to be in the streets.” I don’t disagree. To the streets. jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...
A friend of mine has has come up with a great idea Jess. Take to the streets with mirrors!! Especially with ICE. Make them look at themselves. We can buy the non breakable kind. We can chant look at who you are!! (As an aside we can blind them as well. lol)
To the STREETS! In WASHINGTON! We need the equivalent of the million man MARCH PLUS!
Strike. Revolt against these lawless tyrants. It is our moral duty.
Way overdue
anyone physically or mentally or financially able to protest this regime has a moral obligation to do so
America, I have a question. Why do you bother to register to vote then, when democracy & your freedom are on the line, you sit home? Americans take voting for granted & by doing so, the wrong people are being elected to public office and the country as a whole suffers for it. We gotta do better.
#firewithfire
Yes.
Yes. It appears the people who care about maintaining the U.S. as we know it and grew up with its freedoms and strengths will have to resist in the streets. Shut it down! #resist
Great article. I hope I get to see you in office one day!
I thank you in my head and share every one of your posts. A sincere thanks and gratitude to you.
The streets is where all this will be solved.
Me too
The regime is just waiting for that. The drone rules have been augmented, they’ll sick the brown shirts on any protesters. Gas masks are going to be needed.
We need snipers.
I am perplexed as to the only attempt was manufactured.
Correct.
Agreed.
Jess, I commend you! It's difficult, but someone has to do it. I work in ag mostly with people in the Delta. I'm probably the only D they'll ever speak with so every chance I get I speak up. The amount of disinformation they believe is astounding. I may not change minds, but we can plant the seed.
It's hard riding that line in a Red state while in business, trying to retain/gain customers but also trying to forward the truth. Some are so gone there is just nothing to gain by entering political convo with them, only something to lose.
Can we bring ourselves to be uncomfortable? youtu.be/KqdrpYd_j0Q?...
If we don't bring ourselves to be uncomfortable, they definitely will make us regret it.
Agreed
We MUST!
I'm so glad, when I left Twitter on January 19th most everyone was still in full denial. We could have saved quite a bit of time and trouble if people had just listened to me from the beginning, now our only way out is through.
We all have to tell the truth, all the time. And we have to show up, all the time. We're finding out what it was like to be in the Revolution, the Civil War or WWII in Europe, maybe all three. Thanks for teaching us, Jess.
Nothing will change till we shut it down. W can cripple the the world economy if we united in action.
Go, Jess‼️ ✊👍💙
America needs to get together, flood the streets and shut down the country. The problem? No General to rally and coordinate the troops. There is a blueprint — The MLK rallies.
I think we all knew it was coming
You know what he meant by saying we need to be in the streets? He means using his skills he learned in the 60s. That's what he means. That's what it's going to take to remove the cancer from our society.
This looks more and more like a big piece of the reason why Trump is putting troops on the streets. He must know he is close to being deposed.
🪧 To The Streets We Go 💪🏽
And we are going to be fired upon.
How do you feel about @lwvsf.bsky.social coming out against Newsom redistricting California to cancel out Texas’ redistricting ploy before the next election?
You tagged the San Francisco League — we focus on local issues in the city. The League of Women Voters of California works on state-level redistricting, and is on Bluesky at @lwvc.bsky.social. LWV of the U.S. works on redistricting at the national level and is at @lwvus.bsky.social.
Any good protest sign ideas?
As a result, I will only repost substack articles when they complete a thought beyond cluckbait.
We shouldn't have to pay to be in the resistance. I was blocked by a substacker just for suggesting three free reposts. This would have increased his reach, inspired some to pay, and helped the poor take action.
We’re in time for the 250th anniversary. It is now- We the People’s time to reassert our power- to kick the lobby out, to kick the heritage foundation out and to replace the usurpers in government-the executive, the legislature and the judicial.
To the Streets in daylight. To Arms in the night.
It's beautiful to see that Vietnam did not destroy this man's brain. As a veteran, he is standing up against this tyranny. I Applaud him! 👏👏👏
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Awesome! You're doing great work 💙
It’s true. Be there ! FightTheTrumpTakeOver.com
Good job, but you need the youth. They need to be informed for a better future. They don't care now, but they need to understand the future isn't set. It's what you make of it now.
Great article. Thank you. Very true, as well. We can be bystanders and watch 250 years of our Constitution and democracy be hijacked and corrupted for personal gain by oligarchs, or we can do what we were instructed to do in that OTHER founding document and rise against tyranny.
We don't need a NEW government: we just need one that honors our Preamble's values, our Constitution's limits on government, our debated and legislated laws, and our American freedoms and unalienable rights. The third of Americans who voted FOR this, voted AGAINST American values. As for the rest
of us (the OTHER two-thirds), we remember that "A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people" and will work to efficiently remove him (LAWFULLY, unlike the Republican J6 traitors whose shameful violent coup attempt failed)
He ain't wrong.
oh good lord 😭
Couldn’t agree more - I’ve been saying this for months . . . We need a Vietnam moment and we need to be in the streets 👊
We’ve been saying this since 2016. 👇 None of this is normal. Stop acting like it is. 👆 This is the basic truth. Once it’s understood, it’s easy to set aside the fear and own our destiny. Forget the courts. Forget Congress (our votes may not count). No one is coming to save our country but us.
It’s the only way to stop this takeover of our country by a narcissistic Russian puppet. We need to be in the streets and push back in force and do whatever it takes
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It was the only thing that got us out of Nam. Oh, the blisters on my feet.
Yes. Absolutely. It's a multi-front struggle and we gotta be everywhere: In the Streets In the Courts In the voting booth On the doorsteps On the Internet Talking to small business owners Talking to farmers Talking to family and friends All of it.
And, to those who can’t be in the streets but wish they could… the Streets warriors could use all the support you are capable of so they can be fearless. You’re the ones they’re fighting for. 💙💙💙
It's the American way. We have a constitutional right to assemble in peaceful protests. The violence is brought by rightwing anarchists.
This is going to require a massive uprising. Massive.
Well written. I have to say there is going to be a time when talking about what’s going on and doing something about it is near. At some point we have to fight back. There comes a time when people will have to fight back or just acquiesce. Politics will not save us.
Sadly, we're passing out of the "laugh at you" part of the timeline. Please be careful. Please remember we're all Americans. And lots and lots of Republicans despise Trump as much as we do.
#Resist
