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I am in ah of Mr. Mitch Jackson in condensing the fascist playbook. I read the replies and there are some brilliant minds following you. I have one comment to make about one reply. Medicaid is a welfare program. We did not work to pay into it. MEDICARE is the insurance program we paid into and are entitled to collect on in retirement. Also there is a disability program for MEDICARE. And for minors when their working parent dies.
Now my interest, I believe Dtrump was raised by his parents, most likely his father, to be a racist. He had a narcissistic personality and seems to be a sociopath, ( I am a licensed psychotherapist and agree with Dr. Mary Trump), but I don’t think Trump is smart enough to be a Hitler, except for a wannabe dictator. So I would like to read more about how Stephen Miller is dictating to Trump. And who else is the puppet master in the Administration?
I am a professional who accepts insurance for payment. I am not a Medical-Cal provider. I do accept Medicare assignments. Many people who call for an appointment have no understanding of the difference between Medi-Cal and Medicare. My comment was not a political message. Thanks for your reply. My apology for the delayed response. I was new to the this Substack and not aware for some time there were responses or how to find them.
Yes, l misspoke citing MEDICAID when l meant MEDICARE. No s G ame he t e in admitting l made an "oops". My misstatement aside, and not to come across as defensive in anyway, but Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, USAID, FEMA and MANY other social programs - now, or soon-to-be "gutted" by His lnferiority - are/were PREDOMINANTLY funded via working-class, American's TAX dollars! Period. So, while l mis-cited the so-called "healthcare" l now do not receice vua Medicare, l STILL paid into them ALL, thru my tax deductions as a working American. Split hairs much?
Another EXCELLENT article, Mitch! Here's what I see, given the itemization's above:
1 - Trump has created a "cascading effect" stoking this specific fear of a rigged election - and everyone who SHOULD vote against him, believes he will somehow rig the Midterms to remain in power (either from claiming our streets are too dangerous and require Marshall Law, or by outright theft of voting ballots). IMPORTANTLY; Every American seeks REASSURANCE that they/we will be able to vote in November - and that our votes (not the rigged ones) will be the ones ACCURATELY COUNTED!
2 - I'm f-ing PROUD to be the ENEMY by standing up and speaking out for what I know is RIGHT. I've distanced myself SIGNIFICANTLY from family members who shamefully voted for this mess (they are too fearful NOW to KNOW how to pull away from it...because they don't want to be seen as the enemy)! smh. WE ARE THE ONES ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY (yet to be written), so Hang tight - and KNOW you're RIGHT to stand-up for those who can't or won't! History will NOT be kind to DJT or his EVIL GOP!
3 - This one made me laugh out loud! The only "thing" dRump can "fix" is adding more poop to the cesspool! He seems to do this effortlessly and it's piling up (so to speak). When it hits the fan, and it will - it won't be pretty!
4 - He should definitely fear today's youth when and if they acquire the ability to own critical thinking skills. He has undermined their desire for college (and distracted from education by expanding marijuana dispensaries) and threatening schools with oversight and censorship. What today's youth fails to comprehend is that education is the ONE INTANGIBLE that NO ONE can take away from you! It's one's "security blanket" in a world gone mad! I'm so glad I got mine and paid off my student loans well before he took office, because he's asking for a really DUMB population - a population that he and his Broligarchs can control (AFTER they've messed up the world so badly that it ALL belongs to them...and they're busy making that happen with the destruction (and buyout) of farms, businesses, housing, etc. I don't think anyone would want to live it it then, but hey, they're on a mission!
5 - No one is safe and anyone misbelieving/misperceiving that they are is DOOMED under this EVIL administration!
6 - I've captioned a slogan about this GOP: EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. has undergone a spinal-testicalectomy! A spinal-testicalectomy is the surgical removal of both their spine and their testicals - in one fell swoop. That MUST be the ONLY REASON none of them will stand up against this outrage of abysmal political failures (plural. Not one failure, but a full compendium of FAILURES)! There can be no other rational reason...
7 - They have bought-out any/all means for Americans to receive fair, impartial media coverage of current events. Personally, I am convinced that the AI-coverage of "news" is modern-day brainwashing...and I do not waste time on it. The small amount I have watched is heavily laced with AI-generated commercials and I daresay those, too, perpetuate brainwashing! No thank you!!
8 - Anyone who has studied (academically) beyond high school understands that diversity brings about GREATNESS....and alikeness (sameness) brings about the mundane. Personally, I spent COVID curating, wordsmithing & posting [on LinkedIn] a SOLID year's worth of Black History! I am NOT Black, so everyone asked me "why"? The Answer: self-fulfillment in KNOWING that Black individuals contributed as much or MORE to our society than people like dRump and his brainwashed cult-followers give them credit for! Hopefully, in the process, opening the eyes of those too brainwashed to see clearly that: WE ARE ALL MORE ALIKE THAN WE ARE DIFFERENT! ...and to satisfy my own curiosity that there is way more Black history than a month-long "celebration" can highlight or that ANY of us were taught in public schools! We were ALL robbed of a REAL education (back in the 1960s & 70s - and now I KNOW why)!!!
9 - tDump is the ONLY threat to our Constitution, because he rules by the seat of his pants! He is so glaringly UNamerican and UNfit for the office of POTUS that I have a really hard time containing this! Anyone else who would have done what he's done while in office, would have already been removed/Impeached.
10 - What he's done to American farms has ensured that immigrants will NEVER come here to help our farmers gather the crops that have not only fed us, but have also fed the entire WORLD! This was one of the MOST DESTRUCTIVE and DESTABILIZING "THINGS" he did - EARLY in his 2nd REIGN of TERROR, that should have shown EVERY American - indeed, the entire WORLD - how psychopathic tDump actually is! Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite their face - this was EXACTLY that!
11 - This one struck particularly HARD for me. Almost exactly to today's date (plus just a couple of handfulls of additional days), TWO of my dearest friends (gay & trans...and married to each other) LEFT the USA for Mexico, so they could STOP living in FEAR each TIME they left their house (because tensions here had become insufferable and intolerable for them). So, I've literally "lost" the ability to visit with them DAILY, as we were able to do when they lived here! Two of the coolest, kindest, most caring people I've known in my 70-year old life...and I can now only talk to them via phone! That to say, as humans, we need to be focused on living our own life, not someone else's. tDump has NO life (of substance, anyway), and therefore, he focuses ALL OF HIS ATTENTION on EVERYONE ELSE"S LIVES - TO THE EXTREME!
12 - Kill at a Distance and Mass Harm - we're ONLY seeing the tip of the Iceberg with the Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Keith Porter, Jr. killings by ICE. I am uplifted (modestly) that ICE has been halted, at least temporarily. But what EVERY american needs to know is that he's STILL pushing to continue funding them and understand "why": First, he says that there are no "qualified Americans" for these jobs! Then, he privatizes "these jobs" AND makes "deals" with the owners of "the [private] solution-providers" [who are companies his kids, his Broligarchy, his cronies have put together and he makes MAJOR financial "deals" with them to "provide the solution" to the jobs that Americans are allegedly NOT qualified for. Then, he does the inside "takeover" by putting those private entities in those jobs...and slowly, but surely, those jobs get converted into private jobs that line the pockets of his kids and family members, while REAL american workers are now...UNEMPLOYED! Oh, and those warehouses he and his family are buying up - they aren't for storing "products", they are for housing US - ALL OF US - Not immigrants (because they're shiipping those immigrants to other countries with our "tax dollars") - those warehouses are for US! And they WILL EXECUTE us in those warehouses - JUST LIKE THE NAZIS did in Germany Gas Chambers in the 1930s!!!
13 - Voting in the Midterms?! Yes, that's the EASY part! The HARD part is KNOWING our votes will be counted as cast. Beyond that, Democrats need a ROBUST GAME PLAN to effectuate a takeover of the house AND the senate!!
A POWERFUL platform that includes:
*Universal Healthcare (this would create a "purple" wave - because Red & Blue voters are BOTH hurting with health premium increases) AND older folks, like me, are getting threats of having our Medicaid CUT [remember, these are programs we ALL paid into with our tax dollars when we worked!];
*MAJOR REFORMS like:
* $100,000 cap on corporate and individual campaign contributions (to ensure NO ONE can "buy" a political outcome or office (like Musk did);
* Popular (not Electorate) vote wins the position;
* Congressional and Senatorial positions have the SAME healthcare and tax levels as ALL other americans (this will motivate them to do their BEST for us instead of doing the least for those who voted them into office)
*TERM limits for elected officials - eight to twelve years, then you go back where you came from;
*No LIFETIME Retirements for congress/senate and NO security detail/security entourage (if we have to life this life UNprotected, you do too)!;
*Every Senate and House member MUST provide constituent updates - no hiding in DC while your constituents call endlessly trying to find out why you're too cowardice to hold a Town Hall to update us on what you're "doing" on our behalf.
*A tamper-proof voting system to ensure something like what we are experiencing NOW NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN - - - - EVER!!
REMEMBER: There's POWER and SAFETY in NUMBERS!!! WeThePeople ARE the NUMBERS!!! It's Take-Back Time!!!
Excellent historical perspective. Important to share broadly. Truth Social is a national security risk. Untethered to any standards for truth and factual accuracy, avoids constitutional and legal responsibility, wide open to foreign misinformation. warfare. Time for Communication Policy Reform in America.https://timlove.substack.com/p/the-amplify-doctrine?r=tvmd4&utm_medium=ios
I am in ah of Mr. Mitch Jackson in condensing the fascist playbook. I read the replies and there are some brilliant minds following you. I have one comment to make about one reply. Medicaid is a welfare program. We did not work to pay into it. MEDICARE is the insurance program we paid into and are entitled to collect on in retirement. Also there is a disability program for MEDICARE. And for minors when their working parent dies.
Now my interest, I believe Dtrump was raised by his parents, most likely his father, to be a racist. He had a narcissistic personality and seems to be a sociopath, ( I am a licensed psychotherapist and agree with Dr. Mary Trump), but I don’t think Trump is smart enough to be a Hitler, except for a wannabe dictator. So I would like to read more about how Stephen Miller is dictating to Trump. And who else is the puppet master in the Administration?
Tracy, your perspective is well taken.
I am a professional who accepts insurance for payment. I am not a Medical-Cal provider. I do accept Medicare assignments. Many people who call for an appointment have no understanding of the difference between Medi-Cal and Medicare. My comment was not a political message. Thanks for your reply. My apology for the delayed response. I was new to the this Substack and not aware for some time there were responses or how to find them.
Have a blessed day.
Yes, l misspoke citing MEDICAID when l meant MEDICARE. No s G ame he t e in admitting l made an "oops". My misstatement aside, and not to come across as defensive in anyway, but Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, USAID, FEMA and MANY other social programs - now, or soon-to-be "gutted" by His lnferiority - are/were PREDOMINANTLY funded via working-class, American's TAX dollars! Period. So, while l mis-cited the so-called "healthcare" l now do not receice vua Medicare, l STILL paid into them ALL, thru my tax deductions as a working American. Split hairs much?
Another EXCELLENT article, Mitch! Here's what I see, given the itemization's above:
1 - Trump has created a "cascading effect" stoking this specific fear of a rigged election - and everyone who SHOULD vote against him, believes he will somehow rig the Midterms to remain in power (either from claiming our streets are too dangerous and require Marshall Law, or by outright theft of voting ballots). IMPORTANTLY; Every American seeks REASSURANCE that they/we will be able to vote in November - and that our votes (not the rigged ones) will be the ones ACCURATELY COUNTED!
2 - I'm f-ing PROUD to be the ENEMY by standing up and speaking out for what I know is RIGHT. I've distanced myself SIGNIFICANTLY from family members who shamefully voted for this mess (they are too fearful NOW to KNOW how to pull away from it...because they don't want to be seen as the enemy)! smh. WE ARE THE ONES ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY (yet to be written), so Hang tight - and KNOW you're RIGHT to stand-up for those who can't or won't! History will NOT be kind to DJT or his EVIL GOP!
3 - This one made me laugh out loud! The only "thing" dRump can "fix" is adding more poop to the cesspool! He seems to do this effortlessly and it's piling up (so to speak). When it hits the fan, and it will - it won't be pretty!
4 - He should definitely fear today's youth when and if they acquire the ability to own critical thinking skills. He has undermined their desire for college (and distracted from education by expanding marijuana dispensaries) and threatening schools with oversight and censorship. What today's youth fails to comprehend is that education is the ONE INTANGIBLE that NO ONE can take away from you! It's one's "security blanket" in a world gone mad! I'm so glad I got mine and paid off my student loans well before he took office, because he's asking for a really DUMB population - a population that he and his Broligarchs can control (AFTER they've messed up the world so badly that it ALL belongs to them...and they're busy making that happen with the destruction (and buyout) of farms, businesses, housing, etc. I don't think anyone would want to live it it then, but hey, they're on a mission!
5 - No one is safe and anyone misbelieving/misperceiving that they are is DOOMED under this EVIL administration!
6 - I've captioned a slogan about this GOP: EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. has undergone a spinal-testicalectomy! A spinal-testicalectomy is the surgical removal of both their spine and their testicals - in one fell swoop. That MUST be the ONLY REASON none of them will stand up against this outrage of abysmal political failures (plural. Not one failure, but a full compendium of FAILURES)! There can be no other rational reason...
7 - They have bought-out any/all means for Americans to receive fair, impartial media coverage of current events. Personally, I am convinced that the AI-coverage of "news" is modern-day brainwashing...and I do not waste time on it. The small amount I have watched is heavily laced with AI-generated commercials and I daresay those, too, perpetuate brainwashing! No thank you!!
8 - Anyone who has studied (academically) beyond high school understands that diversity brings about GREATNESS....and alikeness (sameness) brings about the mundane. Personally, I spent COVID curating, wordsmithing & posting [on LinkedIn] a SOLID year's worth of Black History! I am NOT Black, so everyone asked me "why"? The Answer: self-fulfillment in KNOWING that Black individuals contributed as much or MORE to our society than people like dRump and his brainwashed cult-followers give them credit for! Hopefully, in the process, opening the eyes of those too brainwashed to see clearly that: WE ARE ALL MORE ALIKE THAN WE ARE DIFFERENT! ...and to satisfy my own curiosity that there is way more Black history than a month-long "celebration" can highlight or that ANY of us were taught in public schools! We were ALL robbed of a REAL education (back in the 1960s & 70s - and now I KNOW why)!!!
9 - tDump is the ONLY threat to our Constitution, because he rules by the seat of his pants! He is so glaringly UNamerican and UNfit for the office of POTUS that I have a really hard time containing this! Anyone else who would have done what he's done while in office, would have already been removed/Impeached.
10 - What he's done to American farms has ensured that immigrants will NEVER come here to help our farmers gather the crops that have not only fed us, but have also fed the entire WORLD! This was one of the MOST DESTRUCTIVE and DESTABILIZING "THINGS" he did - EARLY in his 2nd REIGN of TERROR, that should have shown EVERY American - indeed, the entire WORLD - how psychopathic tDump actually is! Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite their face - this was EXACTLY that!
11 - This one struck particularly HARD for me. Almost exactly to today's date (plus just a couple of handfulls of additional days), TWO of my dearest friends (gay & trans...and married to each other) LEFT the USA for Mexico, so they could STOP living in FEAR each TIME they left their house (because tensions here had become insufferable and intolerable for them). So, I've literally "lost" the ability to visit with them DAILY, as we were able to do when they lived here! Two of the coolest, kindest, most caring people I've known in my 70-year old life...and I can now only talk to them via phone! That to say, as humans, we need to be focused on living our own life, not someone else's. tDump has NO life (of substance, anyway), and therefore, he focuses ALL OF HIS ATTENTION on EVERYONE ELSE"S LIVES - TO THE EXTREME!
12 - Kill at a Distance and Mass Harm - we're ONLY seeing the tip of the Iceberg with the Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Keith Porter, Jr. killings by ICE. I am uplifted (modestly) that ICE has been halted, at least temporarily. But what EVERY american needs to know is that he's STILL pushing to continue funding them and understand "why": First, he says that there are no "qualified Americans" for these jobs! Then, he privatizes "these jobs" AND makes "deals" with the owners of "the [private] solution-providers" [who are companies his kids, his Broligarchy, his cronies have put together and he makes MAJOR financial "deals" with them to "provide the solution" to the jobs that Americans are allegedly NOT qualified for. Then, he does the inside "takeover" by putting those private entities in those jobs...and slowly, but surely, those jobs get converted into private jobs that line the pockets of his kids and family members, while REAL american workers are now...UNEMPLOYED! Oh, and those warehouses he and his family are buying up - they aren't for storing "products", they are for housing US - ALL OF US - Not immigrants (because they're shiipping those immigrants to other countries with our "tax dollars") - those warehouses are for US! And they WILL EXECUTE us in those warehouses - JUST LIKE THE NAZIS did in Germany Gas Chambers in the 1930s!!!
13 - Voting in the Midterms?! Yes, that's the EASY part! The HARD part is KNOWING our votes will be counted as cast. Beyond that, Democrats need a ROBUST GAME PLAN to effectuate a takeover of the house AND the senate!!
A POWERFUL platform that includes:
*Universal Healthcare (this would create a "purple" wave - because Red & Blue voters are BOTH hurting with health premium increases) AND older folks, like me, are getting threats of having our Medicaid CUT [remember, these are programs we ALL paid into with our tax dollars when we worked!];
*MAJOR REFORMS like:
* $100,000 cap on corporate and individual campaign contributions (to ensure NO ONE can "buy" a political outcome or office (like Musk did);
* Popular (not Electorate) vote wins the position;
* Congressional and Senatorial positions have the SAME healthcare and tax levels as ALL other americans (this will motivate them to do their BEST for us instead of doing the least for those who voted them into office)
*TERM limits for elected officials - eight to twelve years, then you go back where you came from;
*No LIFETIME Retirements for congress/senate and NO security detail/security entourage (if we have to life this life UNprotected, you do too)!;
*Every Senate and House member MUST provide constituent updates - no hiding in DC while your constituents call endlessly trying to find out why you're too cowardice to hold a Town Hall to update us on what you're "doing" on our behalf.
*A tamper-proof voting system to ensure something like what we are experiencing NOW NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN - - - - EVER!!
REMEMBER: There's POWER and SAFETY in NUMBERS!!! WeThePeople ARE the NUMBERS!!! It's Take-Back Time!!!
True excellence, Mr. Jackson, and well done. Thank you, Sir.
Thank you for condensing what we see unfolding before us and for the synopsis. Importantly, fascist take over is not inevitable.