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tRUMP FAILED to invade Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis and Baltimore... And Now he's Threatening to Invade Portland, Oregon... I've been to Portland myself... It's really nice... And Trump is out of his f*cking mind!


Trump is a screaming freak - meme


tRUMP Vows to Destroy "The Deep State" - AN IMAGINARY ENEMY! Anyone that Has Any Actual Work Experience OPPOSES tRUMP'S IDEAS... Because They are FREAKING STUPID IDEAS!
Nuke the Hurricanes?
You Don't Need to Be A Weatherman to Know That This is an Astonishingly Stupid Idea! But If You ARE a Weatherman and You Point Out That tRUMP's Plan Would Produce Radioactive Rain... Then You are a member of "The Deep State"


Did You Know that one of the Souvenirs tRUMP Loved to Show Guests at Mar-A-Loser was his SharpieGate Map!

Did You Know that COVID-19 was NOT a Democratic Hoax? tRUMP's FAILURE Caused Over 1.1 Million Americans to Die...

Another of tRUMP's Imaginary Enemies was "Invasion of Earth by Space Aliens in Flying Saucers" - YES, That's Why tRUMP Founded the Space Force... to do Battle with Bug Eyed Monsters from the Planet OOGA-BOOGA!





Here are Many Anti-Republican Memes... Please Copy and Paste them on Every Social Media Websites... For Example: Gab, Mastodon, MeWe, Post, Deviant Art, Instagram, Linkdin, Minds, Tribel, Tumblr, Gettr and Occupy... and Don't Forget Twitter, Threads, 4Chan, Reddit, Mediun and Truth Social... A Great Place to Harvest Memes is FaceBorg... People Love Sharing them There...

In 2016 Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works! His Puppet Won the Electoral College...




















JH on FaceBorg Said:
I would like to line up all the politicians that are against/banning books in school and ask them if they have ever read any of these books. If they have then they should be immediately removed from office!!! Hippocrates! We read a lot of books that today would be offensive in their eyes yet we turned out just fine and learned from those books!


























and now for something completely different...
Los Gatos High School Graduate and PRO UNION REVOLUTIONARY! On August 23, 1943, acting on the advice of her lawyer Martin Gang, de Havilland filed suit against Warner Bros. in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking declaratory judgment that she was no longer bound by her contract[154][155] on the grounds that an existing section of the California Labor Code forbade an employer from enforcing a contract against an employee for longer than seven years from the date of first performance.[156] In November 1943, the court found in de Havilland's favour, and Warner Bros. immediately appealed.[157]
A little over a year later, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District ruled in her favour.[155][Note 10] The decision was one of the most significant and far-reaching legal rulings in Hollywood, reducing the power of the studios and extending greater creative freedom to performers.[159] California's resulting "seven-year rule", as articulated by the Court of Appeal in analysing Labor Code Section 2855 in the De Havilland case, is still known as the De Havilland Law.[159][160] Her legal victory, which cost her $13,000 (equivalent to $220,000 in 2022) in legal fees, won de Havilland the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister Joan Fontaine, who later commented, "Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal."[161]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland

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My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.
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Remember October 7th, 2023 When Islamic Terrorists Murdered 1,200 People in Israel. DO NOT START A WAR. That is the Lesson to be Learned. Israel's Revenge has Killed Over 40,000 People in Gaza... I Believe there are Bad People on Both Sides of the Israel/Gaza War. Tell Joe Biden to STOP Sending US Taxpayer Dollars to Israel! Because they Just Use That Money to Buy Bombs, Guns, Bullets and MORE DEATH...
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LINKS TO MY BEST BLOG POSTS!
*The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - FICTION

*Trump Confesses to Adultery! "Hey, Moses Was JUST JOKING When He Wrote those Ten Commandments...

*Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

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*THANK YOU US Capitol Police for Defending Democracy from Terrorist Attack on 1/6/2021 American Heroes!

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...




My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.

History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.

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Suppose you're a MAGA Moron... 
January 20th Would be an excellent time to stay home...
Trump already won...
You've done your part to Destroy the USA- take a break!

Pete Seeger on Banjo

”Once upon a time wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking or physical exercise or religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes or walking long journeys.
Can we make our lives once more all of a piece? Finding the right songs and singing them over and over is a way to start. When one person taps out a beat while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.”
~Pete Seeger

Dutch wind powered trains

All electric trains in the Netherlands have been powered by wind energy since January 1, 2017

The national railway company, NS, partnered with the energy company Eneco to make this happen.

The wind power comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and other European countries, including Belgium, Finland, and Sweden.

NS uses 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of wind energy a year, which is about the same amount of electricity used to power Amsterdam.

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Jim Scoggins

Allow me to preface the following observations with the understanding that I am well aware that friends and family think that I am overly obsessed, one used the term “insane,” that I should just take a chill pill and unplug. I am trying my best, wish I didn’t care, like more than half of the US adult population. As long as I am living and breathing, I will care deeply about the future of this nation. With that out of the way, please indulge some thoughts on billionaires, who have suddenly appeared out of the shadows to the forefront of our daily consciousness.
Something sinister is happening on a global scale involving the world’s billionaire class, not all, but those without scruples and in this country, those who fear retribution, most often both. Marc Zuckerberg, estimated net worth $217.7 billion, is the latest in a line of mega rich to visit Mar A Lago and not only bend the knee but who subsequently enacted sweeping changes to democratic safeguards that will seriously damage our democracy, almost immediately.
Billionaires have learned that the US Supreme Court will accept bribes, maybe less so, now that two justices were exposed. However, they achieved the court imbalance they desired through the Citizens United ruling that makes dark money campaign contributions near impossible to trace, prior to those revelations. The Republican Party and billionaire class will likely maintain control of SCOTUS for at least a generation. I have long contended that, in any form of democracy, to include a democratic republic such as ours, every American should desire a balanced 4-4- 1 Supreme Court, not skewed in either direction, with the outlier being an impartial justice. The average American voting in the 2024 presidential election had virtually no appreciation of the impact of an increasingly extremist 6-3 SCOTUS on their future.
Billionaires are finding it far easier to influence election outcomes by investing dark money into global campaigns through non profits and other cut-outs (e.g. NRA in the US). Foreign actors are willing to partner with them to spread disinformation and corrupt leaders willingly accept that interference with plausible deniability. Steve Bannon is a major player in this facet of the strategy.
Legacy media, in particular, Fox News, led by a foreign born billionaire, has damaged American democracy, possibly irrevocably, through an agenda that keeps the MAGA base fearful, somewhat confused, and unable to discern fact from fiction. Tragically, they have caused Americans to believe , for example, that the world’s leading immunologist, Dr Fauci, is an enemy, whereas Elon Musk is a savior.
Social media influencers are willing to accept payoffs to propagate Russian based disinformation. US media influencers were recently named by DOJ following an FBI investigation. Others like Tucker Carlson are extremely cunning, but there is no doubt in my mind they are deriving financial benefit. Those benefits are untraceable and insufficient to directly implicate him and others with the means to avoid detection.
More deviously, the damage is through omission and deception. Devoted viewers, those who are aware of DJT’s charges and convictions somehow believe that they are without merit. The 88 felony charges by four separate grand juries, with testimony by Republicans, many his own staff and attorneys, 34 convictions, an adjudicated sexual assault charge the judge said was actually rape, massive fraud verdicts involving a charity, a university, an election, tax, insurance, business filings, two impeachments for extortion of an ally and a violent insurrection, too many crimes to list, dozens of SA allegations, the Access Hollywood recording…. are somehow just a witch hunt. The prevailing sentiment is that our government is just out to get Trump.
What I find most disconcerting is the number of intelligent, well educated, and otherwise decent people that suffer from collective cognitive dissonance and are able to reconcile all of his crime and corruption. I wrote a piece on why I can never forgive or forget, and that is because VOTERS were the ultimate backstop, when the separation of powers, the Executive Branch, US Congress, our Judiciary, when checks and balances, the US Constitution, free and fair elections and independent media all fail us. They have. They did.
You may recall in the Mueller Report that Trump and mostly his campaign associates, met with Russian operatives throughout the 2016 campaign and avoided prosecution. The investigation found there were at least 140 contacts between Trump and 18 of his associates with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, “though the contacts were insufficient to show an illegal conspiracy.” Again, they defeated the US Judiciary. That investigation and its failure to implicate and charge the head conspirators, was the first of many gut punches to come.
Even before Trump takes office, notice that he is creating friction with not just key economic allies, but these all happen to also be critical intelligence sharing partners. That is no coincidence, even though it also serves as a distraction for other more corrupt endeavors that are underway. Let’s just call it a two-fer, the MAGA base remains sufficiently stimulated and Putin gets his payoff.
I read all of Bob Woodward’s books during the first Trump term and did not read the latest, “War.” In his latest book, Woodward reveals that Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic. Without question, the tip of the iceberg. Other credible reporting indicates that Trump’s trusty sidekick, his new appendage, Elon Musk, has been in regular contact with Putin for the past two years straight.
As of the latest data, there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world. If this administration and his numerous billionaire buddies are successful, Russian oligarchy is the model that we can look forward to, with bogus elections. The Russian oligarch class structure refers to the small group of extremely wealthy and politically influential individuals in Russia who amassed their wealth and power through control of key industries during the privatization of state-owned assets in the 1990s. Russian oligarchs have close ties to their government and are involved in various sectors such as energy, natural resources, finance, media, and telecommunications. As in the current situation we now face, billionaires wield significant influence over political decisions and the economy.
The Russian oligarch class is part of the country's elite, with immense wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few individuals. This has led to massive corruption, a total lack of transparency, and the consolidated concentration of wealth.
We can’t say for certain if democracy will fall in the United States, but our own misinformed, non critical thinking, and otherwise naive citizens are complicit in leading us down a path to that model. A day rarely passes that I learn of another former colleague or friend who is fully onboard the Trump Train to Oligarch Nation.
Even though I tend to comport with the nation’s “haves” through hard work but with the privilege of my white older male status, through life experience, compassion, and empathy, I will always align and advocate for the “have nots,” the oppressed, those who face discrimination and scorn. Especially those targeted under the extremist MAGA regime.

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