It's Wonderful that Columbus discovered "America" - A Place That People Can Escape To When there is a Disaster in the Old World. In My Own Family, My Great Great Grandmother...

got pregnant while Unmarried. Shocking! a Scandal! So she Left the Busybodies in Holland and moved to New Amsterdam on the Hudson River... and Her Child was Nobody's Business but Her Own. Later the English renamed that city New York. The Dutch people were pretty Tolerant of Everything... If you wanted to have a different God, OK... That's Your Business... If you wanted to Speak a Different Language, OK... If You were a Native American and We were Europeans, OK... Let's see if we Can do Business... Trading, Farming, Hunting, Furs... We were all Just Folks trying to Earn a Living and Raise up our Kids... 

People Have Been fleeing Disaster and Coming to America for Centuries. The Ukrainians today. The Afghans, The Irish, The Chinese, Central Americans, Haiti, Vietnamese Boat People, The Hmong... and The Spanish Colonized Mexico and then California, Texas, Colorado, New MEXICO and Arizona. 

During the Russian Revolution, The "Reds" Won and the "Whites" had to Get Out of Russia or get Killed... So... Many Fled to America! That's what happened people I Know... They Came to America, Shortened their Name and Built a Business, raised Kids... Truly enjoying the Blessings of Capitalism.

Who were the Reds and Whites in Russian history?

The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds.

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/the-russian-civil-war/

And all of those people that came to America had to pay for their boat ride... The Irish often had to work for Seven Years as an Indentured Servant to Pay off the Debt for the Boat Ride... 

as a Matter of Fact, Only Slaves from Africa got a Free Boat Ride and a Guaranteed Job for Life! Who Could Turn Down That Offer? Not Many... 

Seems pretty Obviously Racist... 

I read Obama's Autobiography and He Had a JOB as a Community Organizer in Chicago... REALLY! That's a Job! Someone Paid him Money to Organize a Community! I'd Pay a Man to Fix the Brakes on my Car. I'd Pay a Man to Put a New Roof on my House... But I would NEVER pay a Man to Organize a Community... What IF it Never Got Organized? SO WHAT! So I did some research and The Catholic Church was Paying his Salary... They Help the Poor in Guatemala and Haiti and China... and ALSO The South Side of Chicago!

Finally we have a MAP with Red Lines of Where the Dangerous People Hold their Machine Gun Battles... AVOID GOING THERE! Crazy People! Over 100 Bullets Fired... Six Dead, 18 Wounded...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/us/sacramento-california-shooting-monday/index.html

and here's the Photo of the Men Arrested! Didn't they use to play in that band ABBA? or were they in KRAFTWERK? No... They were the Guys that Learned how to Put a Ball in a Basket when they were in School... Instead of Studying Computers or Nursing or Agriculture... This time When they Go to Prison DON'T LET 'EM OUT!

One Might Think That Black Lives Don't Actually Matter After All! Not to These Guys!

The Reason I'm Concerned by Machine Gun Battles in Sacramento is... I Live Near There. I might actually GO to the DangerZone®... I'll never travel to Russia or Ukraine... or Afghanistan or DirkaDirkaStan... but I Might Go to Downtown Sacramento... If I'm Called to Serve on Jury Duty the Courthouse is down there in the CrazyTown® - Really! But Here's a MAP with RED LINES to Show Where the MADNESS LIES!

Somehow We Let "Machine Gun" Smiley Martin OUT of Prison Early... Really! There's a Law that just Lets 'em GO... A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend's mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release.

Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records.

Proposition 57, the 2016 ballot measure that aimed to give most of the state's felons a chance of earlier release... ---> IN EFFECT, MAKING CRIME LEGAL! <--- Police have said the violence was a shootout between rival gangs in which at least five people fired weapons, including Martin's brother, Dandrae Martin, who also was arrested. No one has yet been charged with homicide in the shooting...

https://www.whec.com/national/mass-shooting-suspect-served-less-time-with-california-law/6440286/?cat=10036

and on a different Subject... Notice That Lawrence Livermore Lab is an Atomic Waste Cleanup Site...

On a different Subject... 

VisionQuest!

I wanted to Learn How to Do 

"Remote Viewing" and Telekinesis... 

Well... I've Pretty Much Gotten Damn 

Good at "Remote Viewing."

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Using Google Maps, Street View, Satellite Images and Google Image Search... 

I Can See Many Things Far AWAY... 

and People Upload their own 

Photographs! In Locations I'm 

Forbidden to go... 

Inside the Monastery high in the Mountains of Humboldt County... Poolside at the Christian Summer Camp... Inside the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia... 

They have an Excellent Virtual Tour... 

Right Inside the Control Room 

and the Factory Floor Where they 

Build the Reactors and Turbines... 

NOW, I Want to Learn Telekinesis... 

So I Can Do Some Monkey Wrenching at

The Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant... 

What IF I Traveled inside the Reactor 

Control Computer and Freaking 

MELTED the Microprocessor? 

Automatic Shutdown!

NRC Investigation! 

Link to the 1st Earth Battalion

Evolutionary Tactics Manual

by Lt Jim Channon.

https://archive.org/details/FirstEarthBattalionManual/mode/1up?view=theater

"Dare to Think the Unthinkable!"

It's Pretty Obvious that the US Army took Lt Jim Channon's Ideas and Started Training ALL Soldiers That way.

From "Dare to Think the Unthinkable."

to "Be All That You Can Be!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXz6TsOPsQ

The 1st Earth Battalion (FULL MOVIE)

Read More: MY Book! 

FICTION: Not One Word is True... All Lies!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-to-be-eco-terrorist-lunatic-moon.html

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FC SAID: Yes, Baha'u'llah tells us that the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

We, as world citizens, need to learn that the strong individualism of the past will need to blend into a world where the group is more important than the individual. But that diversity is still valuable. Can you do it?

I said: Nope, Not Me. 

and FC Asked: Rugged Individual?

and I Replied: Nope... I enjoy being wealthy... If I participated in the Bahai concept of sharing the wealth fairly, World Wide... I'd be poor... and I don't want to be poor. I eat every day, Have indoor plumbing, hot water, an air conditioner and a heater with a thermostat, a TV with hundreds of Channels and a Computer with the internet... If We Shared Wealth Fairly... it would be great for natives living in East Ooga-Booga but bad for me. SO... NO THANKS!

 I do have a Guru... Sonya Sophia... and I participate in Weekly Group Meditations for Mental and Spiritual Health... I met her at the Rainbow Gathering in Utah 2014... She was Teaching a Seminar... She Is Worthy - some Real Wisdom Here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIQWhGoKQY

Then FC Said: You really seem to have misinterpreted the concepts of wealth and poverty as discussed in Baha'u'llah's teachings. One can still be wealthy, but maybe not to such extremes as our overly privileged 1% have achieved, mostly because they gained their wealth by underpaying their workers, etc. I am, right now, fairly wealthy, enough so that I can give to charities and not worry about next year's income. The Baha'i faith is not the communism that many of its detractors attempt to claim. The faith is also intently spiritual, but suggests that we not become "the playthings of the ignorant" such as those "gurus for cash" we often meet up with. One can be a Baha'i for decades and never shell out a penny for the pleasure. Sure, there is a Baha'i Fund (Often a bit strapped for cash) but no one waves an alms bowl in your face.

If you are happy having the Guru that you have, wonderful. I wonder how many of Baha'u'llah's teachings she's cribbed, many of them do anymore, but the important part is that you feel as if you are participating in carrying forward an ever advancing civilization as well as your own personal spiritual development.

Carry on, but try not to wreak division, that would mean that your Guru is a false prophet.

The "natives of East Ooga-Booga" often feel that they are more wealthy than the materialists of the West. Something to toss into your next bit of meditation.

and I replied: Thanks for taking the time to Question the teachings of your own Guru and ask IF what he says makes any sense at all in 2022... I actually read every word... I still believe that somewhere in the teachings is the concept of Sharing Resources Fairly... NO, I'm not willing to do that. I've had a Hot shower and drinking water in my home my whole life... and I'm not willing to give that up so an Iranian can have a Bicycle... or flush toilets in Iraq... or WhatEVER... Have you ever traveled to the "Third World?" - I Have and it Horrified me... I went to Mexico in 1976 and I'll never go there again... Starving Children and NO Birth Control... They didn't feel Wealthy... they felt Hungry. Because their Religion was Insane... The Irish are the same way... Breeding like Crazy and having Half Starve to Death...

You may be interested in the Science Fiction Stories of Orson Scott Card. He wrote a series of books Starting with Ender's Game... In the later books He explores The Hive Mind of the Bugs... Where the Good of the Group is More Important than the Individual... We See this on Earth with Bees and Ants... "blend into a world where the group is more important than the individual." Beehive thinking... 

FC Changed his Tune: I've know Orson personally, he's not a friend. He's actually rather a jerk, and seems to be proud of it. but we frequent many of the same circles. You seem to think that Baha'u'llah is suggesting a hive mind of some sort. Far from it, remember my earlier mention of "diversity"? Unified, but not uniform, working together and using our diversity to make everything better for everybody.

Yes, this is the age when "salvation" is for the collective instead of the individual, but the individual does still matter.

You know, I feel that I can go on like this for hours and you are still only going to hear those things which you wish to hear. So I will leave it here. If you haven't read Baha'u'llah's writings for yourself, please don't try to critique them. There are many volumes of His works, and you are hanging up on merely one of the complex concepts.

So I give you a gift, the chance to be honest with yourself. Visit https://www.bahai.org for an overview. then ask me for other sites, if the one's they present aren't to your satisfaction.

and I Replied: Thanks. I'll read that... and this discussion is taking time away from my work building a Travel Blog... People from all over the World can take a Virtual Journey thru Remote Northern California... Because I went there, Took Pictures and so did Many Other people!

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I don't Smoke Weed but It's INSANE to Spend Taxpayer Dollars on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. - When we Tax It, It's a VOLUNTARY Tax that I Don't Pay... READ MORE:

https://www.minds.com/gregvan/blog/i-don-t-smoke-weed-but-it-s-insane-to-spend-taxpayer-dollars-1371124297694711828

Music Video: How We Do it In Humboldt! - by Brett McFarland & Band

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1533779054387784

https://www.facebook.com/yourfriendbrett/reels/

and I said: I was driving over Highway 36 at night and pulled off the side of the road... Looked at the stars... Just amazing... I used to live in Chico and then I moved to Eureka... So Highway 36 & 299 are my roads! Unless they're closed due to snow and then I take number 20... Clear Lake...

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Buying Used Stuff at Thrift Stores DOES NOT CAUSE ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE Like Buying New Stuff Does. When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. 

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

Oddly, I Expressed These Opinions during a Group Discussion at an Ecology Class at Humboldt State University and ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS SAID I WAS WRONG... They said that Used Stuff Still Requires Ecological Damage to Exist at All... I tried to explain that the Manufacturing Damage Happened IN THE PAST and it is impossible to Change History but Buying New Stuff CAUSES Purchasing Agents at Corporations to Hire People to Create New Stuff IN THE FUTURE to Fill the Shelves At The Store. No One Grasped the Concept. But I Did Make The Other Students Think. and That's a Good Thing. It's a difficult concept... I Wish I Could Explain it in a Shorter Sentence... Maybe YOU can Re-Write the Concept Better and Post it in the Comments Section... Thanks!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want. Get More or Want Less. and... You Can Get More Stuff Per Dollar At The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop... or Your Own Store... Did You Know that There is a Fashion "Thing" where Corporations PRE-RIP Clothes? Intentionally Making Them LOOK USED! Really! They Hire People to Rub Jeans over Rough Surfaces to SIMULATE Wear and Tear of Normal Use... I'm Not Making This UP! All the Pathetic Dupes are Wearing Clothes Like That! On My Own Webstore... I Offer Hats that have been "Distressed" to look like they are Old... It's an Option... I wish I could write a Mocking Slogan Poking Fun at this Fashion Trend... Then I Could Sell a Hat with That Saying... Sort of like the Question: "Can You Imagine a World Without Hypothetical Situations?" or The Page that says: "This Page Is Left Blank Intentionally." A Cosmic Haiku Slogan... I do sell a Hat that says "PRESS" so people can wear it at Protest Marches and Avoid Being Bashed on the Head By The Police... I Do Not Really Know if It REALLY Helps Avoid Police Violence... I Do Know That People Made T-Shirts Saying "Backstage Pass - Shoreline Ampetheater - Bill Graham Productions" and Used them to sneak past Security Guards... I admire the Guy that Made a Sign that Says "This is a Sign." Was That Absurdist Theater or End Times Warning?

"Life is More Complex than a Slogan on a Hat."

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SE SAID:

There is too much plastic in the world. Practically everything is packaged in plastic nowadays. Shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap, dish soap, laundry detergent, vinegar, coffee, salad dressing, barbeque sauce, mayonnaise, mustard, hand lotion - these are just a few things I have here in my apartment which are packaged in plastic. Also, bottled water, soft drinks, and juices are bottled in plastic bottles...and of course we also have our plastic storage containers for food and other stuff. Plastic pretty much lasts forever, and it's lightweight and convenient, and those are some of the reasons why it's everywhere. But it's so bad for the environment. It ends up in the landfills where it doesn't degrade. Or worse, it ends up in the ocean. When you consider the fact that nearly everything is packaged in plastic all over the world, and plastic is filling up landfills and ending up in the ocean all over the world, it's really a problem. But I don't know what the solution is. Plastic is so convenient and lightweight, and if you drop it, it won't break, so people aren't going to want to go back to drinking soda out of glass bottles or bringing their lunch to work in a ceramic casserole dish rather than a plastic storage container. I don't know what the answer is.

I Replied: We can Make Plastic Out of Hemp.

https://ministryofhemp.com/blog/why-isnt-hemp-plastic-everywhere/

Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/boycot-plastic-garbage-chicken-of-sea.html

I Oppose Small PLASTIC Containers for Single Servings of Food. Since We Already Have the Technology to Make Milk Cartons, WHY NOT use Waxed Paper for Cheese, Coffee, Yogurt and Sliced Ham? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-oppose-small-plastic-containers-for.html

I keep on seeing TV advertisements for Keurig Coffee that puts ONE CUP Worth of coffee grounds in a little PLASTIC container... Ridiculous! We have been brewing coffee for Hundreds of Years without Little Plastic Cups! You buy a two pound Aluminum Can and scoop a few spoonfuls into your percolator... or your drip coffee machine... using brown paper filters... simple, easy, clean, ecological and NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE AN INVENTION THAT CREATES MILLIONS OF LITTLE PLASTIC CUPS!

Bubble Up Economics - Simply Raise the Minimum Wage and Social Security Checks and all that extra money will BUBBLE UP throughout the Entire Economy - In a Rising Tide, ALL Boats Float! - meme - gvan42

and Then on Facebook I read This Long Story...

SE SAID: The main issue I have with buying clothes online is that you end up losing money when you have to return stuff, unless it happens to be one of the rare stores that allows free shipping on returns. But unfortunately, most stores make you pay for return shipping. I don't know how many other women have this problem, but for me, I rarely know exactly what size is going to fit me because sizing is all over the place now. Sometimes I fit a 2, and sometimes I fit a 6. Sometimes I fit a small, sometimes a medium, and sometimes a large. I almost never get it right on the first try. If I'm shopping at a brick-and-mortar store, I can take several sizes into a fitting room, try them on, and buy the one that fits...or, if I don't feel like doing that, I can buy them all, try them on at home, and then return the ones that didn't fit, and I don't lose any money in the process because nothing had to be shipped. But when you order online and you aren't sure which size is going to fit, you need to PAY to return the ones that didn't fit, so basically you're paying to try them on! Also, sometimes you love the look of an article of clothing, but after you try it on, you realize that it's unflattering on you, or it just doesn't look as good as you thought it would look, so you decide not to buy it. This process is free when you shop in person, but when you shop online, this process ends up costing money because you paid for the item, tried it on at home, decided you didn't like the way it looked, and now you get to PAY to send it back. If more and more clothing stores continue to disappear, and we are eventually forced to buy everything online, it would be really helpful if ALL clothing retailers would offer free shipping on returns so people can try stuff on without losing money when they return the stuff that doesn't work for them. Otherwise, they'd better allow us to continue to have brick-and-mortar clothing stores where we can try stuff on for free before we buy it. 

I'm having this issue right now, as a matter of fact. There's a dress I'm eyeing online, but I've never owned anything in that brand before, so I have no idea if I would fit the 4 or the 6, and it's an expensive dress, so I can't afford to buy 2 of them and pay to return the one that didn't fit, or to find out that it doesn't even look good on me in the first place, so then I have to pay to return it. I'm probably not going to buy it in the first place because it's just too big of a hassle if I can't try it on ahead of time for free.

CF SAID: Have you tried a subscription service? I really liked StitchFit. They set you up with a personal stylist who you can text pictures and things to. (I loved mine; we would just chat randomly and she sort of felt like a friend.) And return shipping is free, and they keep shopping until they've found you looks you'll love!

SE REPLIED: I did try Stitch Fix a few times. I liked the way it worked, but I only kept one of the items they sent me, a blouse which I like a lot. But most of their stuff was either too expensive or just didn't work for me for whatever reason. I think I prefer picking out my own stuff rather than having someone do it for me. It's an interesting concept, though, and I can see how it might work for others.

I Said: I also buy clothes online... Big and Tall refused to tell me what size I wear... They COULD Have Just Looked Up what was Ordered Last Time but NO... It was a Gift and The Giver's Privacy is Top Secret... So I Guessed, Guessed wrong and Simply Gave the Pants to a Guy Who Lives Here... I was too Lazy to Figure Out How to Return the Pants... HOWEVER... Online Shopping DOES HAVE MY SIZE and Most Brick and Mortar Stores Do Not... So It was a Great Step Forward when online Shopping was Invented! The Best Place to Shop is at the Thrift Store... I Love the Eureka Rescue Mission Store... Not only do I Get Great Used Clothes Cheap but I'm Employing Homeless People That Live at the Mission... AND... When You Buy New Clothes the Corporations Automatically Order More New Clothes to be Created... with Slave Labor and Pesticides in the Orient, Dyes That they Dump Right into the River... Diesel Fuel for the Boats to bring them Here from There... an Ecological Disaster... None of that Happens with Thrift Store Clothes... AND... If You Shop in a Rich Neighborhood, The Clothes that are Donated are Super-Duper! North Shore Lake Tahoe is Excellent... All Those Ski Bunnies would Rather Donate their Extra Clothes Than Pack in a Suitcase and Fly Home... 

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ICE will NOT be going to the Super Bowl ----> #TACO <---- NO DANGER OF ICE KIDNAPPING at SUPER BOWL FOOTBALL GAME in SANTA CLARA, CA - Spanish speaking people have lived in Santa Clara since 1777 when the mission was built.

ICE Quietly Bails on Super Bowl as Outrage Grows... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-quietly-bails-on-super-bowl-as-outrage-grows/ The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly benched for any NFL-sponsored events.

Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics... 

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47787274/demonstrators-milan-protest-ice-unit-winter-olympics 

Will the protests be enough to keep the insane ICE murderers away???

----> Earlier I said: <----

ICE Doubles Down on Planned ‘Enforcement Actions’ at the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium...

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/sports/ice-doubles-down-on-planned-enforcement-actions-at-the-super-bowl-at-levis-stadium/

While the Slogan "Punch a Nazi in the Face. Do it for the Human Race!" is fun to chant at Protest Marches it's not a Great Idea to Actually Do That... 

One thing that makes this a totally bizarre action is that people who have enough money to purchase a ticket are very unlikely to be illegal aliens... However the people that are working there selling beer could be illegally aliens... So is this just going to be another Roundup The Working Man event??? How in the hell is that supposed to Make America Great??? Here where I live we have gardeners that take care of the property near our old folks home... And I've never had a conversation with them so I don't know if they speak Spanish or not... But I'm glad they mow the lawn and trim the rose bushes... And it would be insane for an Ice Ice Baby Agent to come around and Deport those guys...

The border that is near Minnesota is with the country of Canada... And yet for some unknown reason Trump sent border patrol Nazis to Minnesota... I've never heard of any kind of problem we had with the northern border of the USA... People are not trying to sneak in... I have heard that they smuggle prescription medicine across the border... I've heard that you can buy insulin quite cheaply in Canada and avoid the insane price ripoffs of the American Healthcare System... 

SHORTY GO BYE BYE! Gregory Bovino to GTFO! Replaced by Tom Homan ($50,000 Bribe case magically dropped by Trump's DOJ) Border Czar to Supervise Minnesota & the ICE DHS Government Freak Out!
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/politics/gregory-bovino-minnneapolis-exit-ice

The FBI recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts in an undercover operation before he began his role in the Trump administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/tom-homan-50k-sting-operation-00611219

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2370496676745002 a comparison of the USA Today with Nazi Germany... Very similar!

Joni Mitchell Motivated Me by wearing an "ICE OUT" Button at The Grammy TV Show. --- Jane Fonda said: "They Arrested the Wrong Don!"

Since I own a store that makes buttons, 

I said: Dang! I ought to sell those!

Click Here to Buy a Button!

Click Here to buy a Map of the Earth ICE OUT Button

ICE will NOT be going to the Super Bowl or the Olympics! ----> #TACO <---- NO DANGER OF ICE KIDNAPPING at SUPER BOWL FOOTBALL GAME in SANTA CLARA, CA - Spanish speaking people have lived in Santa Clara since 1777 when the mission was built.

ICE Quietly Bails on Super Bowl as Outrage Grows... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-quietly-bails-on-super-bowl-as-outrage-grows/ The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly benched for any NFL-sponsored events.

Heather Cox Richardson 

Hey MAGA, did you watch Trump On Dan Bongino's show? He did not talk about "election security." He did not talk about reforms. He said Republicans should "take over the voting" and that elections should be "nationalized." His words. Not paraphrased. Not implied. Take over the voting. Nationalize it. Because he is still clinging to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, after six years of lawsuits, audits, recounts, investigations, and public humiliation that produced exactly nothing. Zero evidence. Zero facts. Zero proof. Just a rotting grievance he refuses to let die because he's a thin skinned, insecure, participation trophy obsessed little bitch.
And if you support this, you are not a patriot. You are not confused. You are not "concerned about fraud." You are a fundamentally anti-American piece of shit who hates democracy because it does not always give you what you want. You despise the Constitution unless it can be weaponized against people you fear and hate. You wrap yourself in flags while cheering the destruction of the only thing that flag is supposed to represent. You do not love this country. You love hierarchy. You love cruelty. You love the idea that some people should rule and others should shut the fck up.
The stolen election lie is not a belief. It is a weapon. It exists to make democracy optional. If elections are "crooked," then voting is meaningless. If results are fake, then power can be seized and justified. This is why he keeps naming places. Fulton County. Detroit. Philadelphia. Black cities. Diverse cities. Cities that terrify people whose version of America is white, Christian, obedient, and silent. This is not reform. This is targeting. This is punishment.
Then comes the part that removes all doubt. Federal agents seizing election records and voter rolls in Fulton County, Georgia, tied to the same election he lost and never accepted. And the sitting Director of National Intelligence inserting herself into it, not to stop it, not to create distance, but to facilitate it. On site. On the phone with Trump. Letting him thank the agents like a crime boss congratulating his crew. That is not oversight. That is rot. That is the state being bent to serve one man's obsession.
None of this is normal. Presidents do not "take over the voting." Intelligence chiefs do not hover around election seizures at the request of a defeated candidate. Law enforcement does not become a prop in a grievance tour. And this is happening while Republicans are staring down a midterm bloodbath they know is coming. They know they are about to be demolished at the ballot box. So they are not changing policy. They are changing the rules. They are tearing out constitutional guardrails, floating the Insurrection Act, arresting and killing Americans in the streets, and daring the country to stop them.
This tells you everything. Fascism has already taken hold. Not someday. Now. And it is being carried forward by millions of ugly, vicious, small-souled Christian nationalists who would rather protect pedophiles than admit their worldview is garbage. People who scream about "family values" while covering for rapists. People who worship a Constitution they are actively trying to shred. People so morally bankrupt that they will burn the republic to the ground to preserve white supremacy and male dominance for one more generation.
So no, you are not merely complicit. You are the fcking problem. You are the darkness you pretend to fear. You are what America has survived before and will have to survive again. History will not struggle to name you. It will file you where you belong, with the cowards, the authoritarians, and the people who chose hate over country when the moment demanded something better.