These are chilling words.

[Arkansas Granny]

Link to tweet

[malaise]

1. Wow!

Profound!
Off to the greatest page for thee

[madokie]

26. And too the point

[democratisphere]

2. Mercer / Bannon Nazi Nationalist Party is in place and becoming emboldened.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

[Enoki33]

38. Much like what the industrialists did for Hitler.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Wow! If that wasn't a smack upside the head.

Thanks for posting. It's really giving me - and I think a lot of us - something to seriously think about.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. It makes me realize that I need to contact my Congressmen more often

than I do now. It gives new meaning to this quote:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edmundburk377528.html

[smirkymonkey]

6. Yes, exactly!

My senators are Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey. My Rep is Stephen Lynch (Boston) Do you have a message that you send to your congresspeople? I have so many things I want to say, but I am not very good at composing and I want to make an impact. I am going to e-mail them today.

Thank you!

[bdamomma]

29. Hey smirky

you have some good reps and Senators there, I am from your sister state of Rhode Island, we need our Reps and Senators to hear from us, but I have been so upset what this jerk is doing to the country I need to compose myself before I make calls. to another blue state person.

[smirkymonkey]

31. Yes, we are lucky to live in solid blue states!

I have emailed them to ask them what they are doing to get Trump out of office. You have some good ones too! Even though I know they are fighting for us, I want to know what I can do to help instead of just passively watch Trump destroy our country. It feels better to just take some kind of action.

[bdamomma]

32. Just have to keep people informed

they need to keep on top of everything, and hopefully read or listen to good news sources. BBC news is always good, Progressive radio too, NY Times, Washington Post those guys are coming out with some excellent articles.

[smirkymonkey]

33. Yes, I read all of those as well as many liberal websites. Also like the UK Guardian and LA Times

as well. Of course the deplorables are pretty much on a steady diet of Fox News, so that doesn't help us much. They are so unwilling to step out of their comfort zone.

[riversedge]

5. Sobering to say the least.

[Heartstrings]

7. Whoa!

Reality check in those words....

[BSdetect]

8. Yes we are. Time to act has long passed.

[Blue_true]

9. The Nazis in 1929 and the Klan all it's history

and American Nazis today, use economic dislocation to gain power. People that are under economic pressure, deserved it not, vote for demagogues and brutes, because those people promise to fix their problems.

We will one day be rid of Trump. The thing that I find scary is that 63 million Americans thought a conman and proven failure could hold the most important job in the world. Trump will be gone, but we will be stuck with a lot of that 63 million for a long, long time.

[tblue37]

12. And the next brutish demagogue will probably be even more effective at doing damage. nt

[Arkansas Granny]

14. I keep thinking that Trump is going to do something that will be to much

for even his most ardent supporters to accept, but his base just blindly accepts anything he does as being brilliant strategy. They don’t seem capable of seeing that they are being used by someone who only thinks of himself.

[lunatica]

22. It might not be too long off now

They will soon lose health benefits. This was the one thing they didn't want him to mess with. They never made the connection between the ACA and Obamacare. They'll make it relatively soon.

When he keeps his promises they lose just as much as the rest of us do.

[adigal]

36. My brilliant very liberal son tells me this is their last gasp and chance

to turn us into South Africa before the country changes forever. We MUST fight them with every breath we have.

[Juliusseizure]

41. Their loyalty is based on white hierarchy

fundamental to their identity. This is fear driven and irrational but runs reptilian deep, especially in more historically racist states. It can't be underestimated.

[stevenleser]

10. Sobering. Makes me 10x as glad I voted Hillary in the GE.

I would feel sick if I didn’t take the one most important step that I could have to prevent this.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Conservative/KKK boasting: We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven millio

Conservative/KKK boasting:

“We killed six million Jews the last time,” he answered. “Eleven million is nothing.”

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article167939222.html

[Arkansas Granny]

15. He must be one of those "very fine people" Trump referred to

after the Charlottesville rally.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Far too many people are doing the same thing as then...

which is nothing.

[orangecrush]

17. Super K&R

Thanks for this.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

18. I watched Birth of a Nation last night

And that exact question came to mind - what would I have done?

[lunatica]

23. Anyone who never asks themselves that question

Is simply not introspective enough to feel empathy for the victims of the Holocaust. And they're also not very brave.

[yurbud]

19. This is more like their Beer Hall Puscht. Bush after 9/11 was half an inch from full fascism

and too many Democrats in Congress gave him a blank check to start wars, commit war crimes, and violate civil rights at home.

Trump is incompetent and doesn't seem to have the support of the financial elite or there would be no special prosecutor.

What happens once he's gone is when the shit will really hit the fan, and if he's not gone by after 2018 midterms, Democrats better do everything they can to jam him up and investigate him if they can't remove him.

[Hekate]

20. Kick

[donotpissoffacow]

21. I worry about the three generals...

...trying to control Orange Vomit. If he calls out the military, where will they stand? Where will you stand? For years I've been hearing about christofascists infiltrating and infecting the military by preaching ISIS-like pathologies and controls. Have we delivered our democracy into the hands of xenophobic war lords who might easily decide to "stabilize" American government?
Reminds me of an old song that is never out of date or place.

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize

Just remembered this documentary. Find out what you might be required to do to get your country back. Also great music.

[Soph0571]

24. History repeats itself

Has to
No-one listens

Steve Turner

[adigal]

37. In the gret poem Evening Hawk, history drips, ignored, in the corner of basement

Evening Hawk
By Robert Penn Warren

From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak’s black angularity of shadow, riding
The last tumultuous avalanche of
Light above pines and the guttural gorge,
The hawk comes.
His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.

The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.

Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow.

Long now,
The last thrush is still, the last bat
Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom
Is ancient, too, and immense. The star
Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain.

If there were no wind we might, we think, hear
The earth grind on its axis, or history
Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

25. K&R nt

[spanone]

27. K&R...

[Nevernose]

28. As the t-shirt says:

I used to think that somebody should do something and then I remembered that I was somebody.

[bdamomma]

30. K&R

that saying is so true.

Something will set us off and then watch out we are a force not to be reckoned with. I hope it's soon cause we are being assaulted and abused by this filthy regime.

[zentrum]

34. Wow. That is a real

.....reality check.

[adigal]

35. I'm resisting in every way I can!!!! I offered sanctuary to any illegals

who are threatened with return, ive helped organize a town hall where our Rep didnt show up, i write and write, I call and call. Would I die to.protect another oerson from being cruelly treated? I would hope so.

[MarvinGardens]

39. K & R. (nt)

[roamer65]

40. push has come no where near to shove yet.

It is coming, though. soon.