Another good one is imagining him getting smashed in a rugby maul at a high end South African school.

Yeah there’s not really that many problematic influentials, I reckon no more than 1000 at best around the world. The rest are all taking orders to one degree or another.

Replaced, the planet would be substantially better off.

They’re beginning to stir. The only thing they can do is passively resist and they’re becoming more aware of that each day.

Go ahead, arsehole. Keep pushing people who have less to lose each day.

They’ll craft tools all right.

savour

Unfortunately that stops pretty quickly when you realise there will be a bailout

Maybe they do, the point is EV development is important.

Yep, there’s another one.

That’s what builds the community. Or binds it. Those things at that level that aren’t offered elsewhere to ordinary people.

Nope, nothing else offers an out from the fear of death.

To make it worse, the company makes a thing modern society needs going forward.

Currently in the process of migrating out of their system now. I’ll keep my account and gmail addresses for rubbish and using Earth or Maps when necessary but I’ve moved all the important stuff to Proton and I’ve stopped using Chrome.

I’m on medcan in Australia. It gets imported from everywhere but I’ve yet to come across a US grown flower.

All of the North American stuff I’ve gotten is Canadian.

In Australia a lobbyist would get that for around 10k AUD from Labor and probably 6 from the Coalition.

Muse

If you can get hold of it, there’s a live set from a Big Day Out in Sydney getting around if you can find it.

I saw the Brisbane set. That was two days before the Sydney one, which incidentally was this date (26th), 2004 IIRC. It was one of the best live sets I’ve ever seen.

Amazing band. Live and on record.

This is another level to that.

Citizens are being shot in the streets. Look, you might find someone to galvanise it around but the sooner people take the hardship the better.

I don’t think they can though. Churchill was spot on.

So you stop work, stop trading where you can. You’re not going to get a figurehead or anything to galvanise around.

You just basically have to do it. You can’t organise this; enough have to care and it be bad enough to do it.

One week would be enough, but it would have to be a substantial amount of people.

They might lose jobs though. The boss won’t like it.

Americans abusing their children again ay?

Yes, it’s simply true.

They’re trying, as you point out. They’re not there yet.

Besides which, the use of the ‘world’ in place of the ‘US’ sterilises where the responsibility lies.

I understand your frustration, but take a moment to remember you are where you are because you didn’t vote in numbers.

People overseas are threatened by this without having a choice in that. So yeah, they may have to defend themselves against your military because you are too lazy to vote as a collective.

There is something your citizenry could do, but unfortunately they lack the unity to do it nor can most of them put up with the hardship it would entail. The size of the nation in terms of distance isn’t a problem, smaller populations with just as much distance have successfully protested in unity. It’s unity itself and the inability to put up with hardship.

That is to stop work, stop buying anything you can, grind the means of production to a halt. Yeah, people would lose jobs they don’t want, healthcare which is inadequate anyway and housing that will still be available once the goal is achieved, which is to force the houses to act on impeachment and whatever amendments and institutional rules exist to remove this administration.

Violence or inciting violence is not the answer and I think I’d be preaching to the converted on this one, you said you were an ex serviceman. Sure, all your citizens should have on hand whatever means they can to defend themselves (as is their constitutional right) but you know as well as I do where that will end up.

The easiest method to stop this is voting; in every election where the position requires election from the people, you’re there. You tell your employer you will be before you take a new job, it’s that important. That’s why the Republicans are where they are, because their people vote. It might be the only redeeming quality they have.

That one’s done now though. The next easiest is what I suggested above and it has to be done, or you’re done because I can’t see a fair midterm happening. They have to be removed. It’ll work if enough stop.