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Emmanuel Macron, standing next to The Felon, and telling the truth about Ukraine, Putin, and Putin’s Bitch, The Felon:

“I stopped talking with Putin after Bucha and the war crimes … In 2014, after Crimea, Putin violated the peace agreement. In 2022, just before Putin attacked Ukraine again, he denied to me [that] he planned to attack. So being strong and having deference capacities is the only way to be sure that Putin will respect any peace plan. So you never want to say you won’t put troops on the ground, because that’s giving Putin a blank check to violate ant peace agreement.”

We need more world leaders, more party leaders in this country,  speaking truth to power about Putin and The Felon and their lies.

We know what happened in Ukraine, and the tyrant and his little bitch cannot change that FACT!

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Janet Mills, Maine’s Democrat Governor, telling The Felon she will see him “in court” after he ordered the Department of Education to investigate Maine’s refusal to ban transgender athletes:

“I have spent my career—as a District Attorney, as Attorney General, and now as Governor—standing up for the rule of law in Maine and America. To me, that is fundamentally what is at stake here: the rule of law in our country. “No President—Republican or Democrat—can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold. Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so. I imagine that the outcome of this politically directed investigation is all but predetermined. My Administration will begin work with the Attorney General to defend the interests of Maine people in the court of law. But do not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot.”

Again, a woman in public office is taking a stand against The Felon. Brava Governor Mills, brava. But where are the men? Why are most, not all, of them silent? I mean, stay silent if you choose, but when it’s time for reelection my coins will be going for the female candidates who stood up to tyranny.

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Blake Dremann, trans US Navy Commander, of drunken predator Pete Hegseth’s attempt to remove trans Americans from service:

“If the Secretary of Defense wants to see what trans service looks like, they can come out to Guam and watch me lead my sailors. Watch how they follow me not because I’m trans but because of the leader I am.”

Dremann and a small group of mid-level trans officers and enlisted personnel began advocating for open transgender service even though they had no trans Colonels, no Navy Captains, no General Officers in their corner. They weren’t supposed to win and yet, by showing up—walking the halls of the Pentagon, telling their stories, and refusing to be erased—they convinced the Department of Defense to change course.

I’ll take one Blake Dremann over a whole shipload of Pete Hegseths in our military.

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JB Pritzker, Democrat Governor of Illinois, on the idea of America becoming Nazi Germany in the hands of this administration and those who goose-step along with it;

"As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there. The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population—so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps. The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis—contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment. As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case—but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981—a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately—and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned—the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed—a seed of distrust and hate and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame. I’m watching with a foreboding dread of what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac—and suggests—without facts or findings—that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks—arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems. I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities—once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends; after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face—what comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history—then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it. I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s bible: ‘I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.’ My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America—and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions—but in deference to my obligations. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control. Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978—just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame. Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most."

Finally, a male Democrat spelling out what is happening; reminding us that doing nothing is not an option; telling us that it can happen here.

Resist!

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Mark Levin, Fox News host, also stepping up to callout The Felon’s lies about Ukraine:

“I don’t have a problem if it’s the position of our administration to cut back on support for Ukraine—which I oppose, by the way—then so be it. Elections have consequences, so be it. But I want to make sure the facts are on the table and you, the American people, draw your own conclusion. MAGA doesn’t support Putin. Zelensky ordered martial law—that’s what the constitution there compelled. Zelensky hasn’t called for an election—that’s what the constitution there compels. Now, I’m waiting for the first free election for Vladimir Putin. I mean, this is almost comical in a sick way that Putin is demanding an election. Why is he demanding an election in Ukraine when he doesn’t have free and real elections in his own country? And why does he get to call the shots when in fact, he murders people who dare to challenge him? This is what we’re dealing with. Again, old KBG, and not just KBG, he [Putin] was in like Flynn with the Stasi in East Germany. So, I don’t know why there are people that not only oppose Zelensky but seem to support Putin. The parliament—with all parties in the parliament—support what he’s doing. They’re trying to survive. Ukraine did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. But the idea that Ukraine must hold elections in violation of its own constitution as a condition for peace, or that Ukraine must give up more territory as a condition for peace… you have to understand the Ukrainian people don’t want to do that. That’s why Zelensky is at 57% [approval rating], higher than most politicians in our own country!”

Again, there are some heads at Fox News, who will stand for truth and speak out against the lies of a wannabe dictator. And I am not saying that Levin is an ally of Democracy, but if a hired hand at Fox can speak up the dangers of a Felon in the White House, then we can all speak up.

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Chris Kluwe, former NFL punter, who was arrested in California last week after protesting against what he called a tribute to the Maga movement at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach:

“As the community made clear at the library commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast majority are against including a MAGA acrostic. Unfortunately, it's clear that this council does not listen. So instead I am going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks: MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for re-segregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is. I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.”

He was then arrested and escorted out of the building. Kluwe is taking a stand; we all need to take that same stand.

Stand up, speak up, resist and for the sake of all of us, vote.

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