I've been a follower and appreciate the honest, no bullshit advice and guidance you post! This is indeed a time for CLARITY AND NO NONSENSE, NO TIMID APPROACH. WE NEED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE! SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR! Thank you! Thank you! Our country needs more like you and the others who are out there fighting this horrible civil war over our type of government!
I protest as much as I can via physical protests with home made signs, my FB posts and my voice! I'm not afraid to stand up to this bullying that this maga has become. DANGEROUS ‼️
I appreciate you Rick - have been a free subscriber but have upgraded to paid. Times are hard but your voice is important, I can’t do much from our small territory but I can support those in the trenches fighting for America. Blessings to you. 🙏
what a great new name. i wish i had thought of it. Wait. I did think of it. In fact it was the name of my book which was the NY Times # 1 Best seller in non-fiction when released. In fact, it sold about 750,000 copies in all formats in 20+ languages. So, nice of you Rick to acknowledge that today.
Thank you, Rick! You are a beacon of courage whenever I feel like giving up. The fact that we are in mortal danger, yet most people are going on with life as usual is terrifying to me. The rest of us must pick up the slack.
The siege of McArthur Park was staged to intimidate and acclimate us to the illegal $170 billion military takeover by a masked militia answerable to Homans and Trump. And now the government has every bit of information on all of us. So Rick, danger is already here. Now what?
What should really terrify us now are the almost unseen enemies; the idea of technofeudalism, the paying of“cloud rent”, the threat of AI, the corruption and inadequacy in all levels of government in both major political parties.
Thank you for bringing your intelligence as well as your integrity to this fight.
As the Buddhists say; “Thank you for your practice.”
There are always shades of distinction. The Republicans and Democrats are not equivalent on any level. Getting us to believe that they are so we'll give up is a key component of the strategy of sworn enemies of the pro-democracy movement.
And grizzled former GOP consultant Rick Wilson is saying that, not just yellow dog Democrat Yours Truly.
No, for now we all have to join forces against the fascists, I agree. But you really should read this article in our local independent news outlet Civil Beat. The local government here is terribly corrupt and we have to live with the results of that corruption every single day. The saying “all government is local” is true. We have to live with the regressive taxation, the totally corrupt building department that sells building permits to all and sundry and has allowed foreign investors to drive the price of housing out of reach of all but the wealthiest people. I don’t know where you live but a one party system of government, whether that party is the Democratic Party of the Republican Party, is horrible. I hoped Kamala Harris would be elected because I think she might have addressed the corruption here. Now- well - we’re stuck here fighting fascism AND dealing with a local corrupt government that’s ruining our island.
God yes. I think we actually agree about everything. I’m literally preparing for the worst as far as the global economy goes. My folks lived through the Great Depression and I figure if we can avoid a nuclear holocaust (which I sometimes think is just around the corner) humanity has a pretty good chance of surviving until my grandchildren reach adulthood. Of course there’s microplastics, global climate change and the whole AGI thing out there lurking in the dark woods of time and space but WTF, surviving one day at a time like everyone else on the planet. Glad not living in Kiev or Gaza or Kabul right now. Re-reading my Idries Shah books and hoping the Invisible Government of the World has this covered.
Oh I totally agree with you; political monocultures are a disaster, just like single commodity economies, whether the oil of petrostates or tourism like Hawaii.
But in politics it's always relative. I doubt you'd want to trade Hawaii's Democratic monoculture with Florida's Republican monoculture.
Our daughter is currently doing an internship in Jacksonville. Did you know there’s a hotbed of folks in Florida like Rick Wilson in Talahassee and these people at the Jacksonville Tributary who are actively working against the Republican monoculture there? Seriously, I wouldn’t want to live in Florida for a lot of reasons, but I’m not sure I’d want to live in Vermont where our other daughter lives and everyone is old and white. I like Hawaii because I was born and raised here but it’s become more and more fucked up practically by the hour. My friends of various ethnicities here are not pleased with our local government and the effects of our local government are more onerous than the effects of the Trump administration on our daily lives. Mostly on social media I rant and rave about the Republicans in the Federal Government, but that doesn’t mean I am going to turn a blind eye to the corruption of our state and local government, which is making it almost impossible for our children to return to live here after they graduate from college.
Well in terms of good governance, I think I'd rather live in Vermont, which you'll note is not a political monoculture. They've got Bernie Sanders, but they also have a Republican executive with Phil Scott and his lieutenant governor. Ethnic mix is lower on Maslow's hierarchy of needs when it comes to quality of life than good public infrastructure.
What you're complaining about is transpartisan and electing Republicans isn't going to fix it. The underlying problem is neoliberalism. I'd venture to guess you have a lot of foreign investors and/or private equity firms buying up real estate and sitting on it, which causes rents to spike and exacerbates a housing shortage. This is a problem all over the world. And, since it's Hawaii, I'd also assume there's a lot of NIMBYism which impedes public infrastructure.
What's needed is not more bipartisan governance, it's left populism which is the only tendency that's trying to address the neoliberal cannibalism which is eating up our urban spaces and making them unlivable. Zohran Mamdani is trying to address this in NYC.
My older daughter and her partner love it in Vermont but says the only reason they were able to buy their home was because they are young people. The sellers wanted to sell to a younger couple!
The population of Vermont is overwhelmingly white (from what I can see anyway) and elderly.
My daughter wrote this:
“It was quite the turn of luck…”
(getting to buy the property)
“…They were originally going to sell to a retired person but that fell through and then they gave it to us because we were young and they wanted to give young people a chance to live here.
(~70% of my town is over age 60. This is very representative of Vermont in general. Land is very hard to get here)”
I agree with you about populism. And I love Zohran Mamdani, but he’s going to have a hard time carrying through on all his promises I’m afraid.
My feeling about politics these days is that we have to be pragmatic and do whatever it is that works to fight fascism and at the same time we can’t neglect our local political problems. It’s pretty exhausting because I’m old and not in the best of health and I see young people here just living in the usual bubble while crime invades what used to be safe neighborhoods and animal cruelty and homelessness increases. And people rant on about being all pono this and that while our islands are bought up by the broligarchy and prices get higher literally by the day.
Save you sanity, if you can. Subscribe to "Funny Times." Beautifully sourced from all our writers of truth, satire and the comic sections of newspapers, where they still exist. Laughter is, indeed, the best medicine.
I am, indeed, against. I fly 3 flags: Planet Earth (without it, we are nothing), Hiawatha's belt aka the flag of the Iroquois Confederacy the oldest living democracy which informed America's constitution and a solid black flag, the flag of protest. My mother was an immigrant and lived in this country for 76 years reporting her status to the federal gov every January. She chose to remain a citizen of the place she considered home. She lived and worked and paid taxes and helped other immigrants. The world is now beyond borders and that will become more apparent in a very short time. Famine and death are on the horizon brought to you by all things human. As the famous philosopher, Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Walt Kelly
I have lost any allegiance to the federal government and consider myself an expatriate who doesn’t have the resources to leave this clown-show country. I support secession and reorganizing the country. Our government and political parties have lost all worth they once had, the SCOTUS and rule of law is an absolute joke, MAGA people and churches have perverted themselves, and I can no longer wash off the taint and smell of being an american loser.
So grateful for the particular way you tell the truth, offer insight and wisdom, and invite us to be a part of the vanguard against the destruction of our democracy. Keep up the good work.
Lol, just my luck. I signed up for a paid subscription two days too soon. 🤦
Happy to help "keep the lights on" though.
I've been a follower and appreciate the honest, no bullshit advice and guidance you post! This is indeed a time for CLARITY AND NO NONSENSE, NO TIMID APPROACH. WE NEED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE! SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR! Thank you! Thank you! Our country needs more like you and the others who are out there fighting this horrible civil war over our type of government!
I protest as much as I can via physical protests with home made signs, my FB posts and my voice! I'm not afraid to stand up to this bullying that this maga has become. DANGEROUS ‼️
I appreciate you Rick - have been a free subscriber but have upgraded to paid. Times are hard but your voice is important, I can’t do much from our small territory but I can support those in the trenches fighting for America. Blessings to you. 🙏
what a great new name. i wish i had thought of it. Wait. I did think of it. In fact it was the name of my book which was the NY Times # 1 Best seller in non-fiction when released. In fact, it sold about 750,000 copies in all formats in 20+ languages. So, nice of you Rick to acknowledge that today.
I love it. And it's so you. Go get um, all of them.
I appreciate and support this. Thank you, Rick.
Hillsdale College is a domestic enemy
Thank you, Rick! You are a beacon of courage whenever I feel like giving up. The fact that we are in mortal danger, yet most people are going on with life as usual is terrifying to me. The rest of us must pick up the slack.
Love the new name!!! 💙💙💙
The siege of McArthur Park was staged to intimidate and acclimate us to the illegal $170 billion military takeover by a masked militia answerable to Homans and Trump. And now the government has every bit of information on all of us. So Rick, danger is already here. Now what?
Perfect my friend.
What should really terrify us now are the almost unseen enemies; the idea of technofeudalism, the paying of“cloud rent”, the threat of AI, the corruption and inadequacy in all levels of government in both major political parties.
Thank you for bringing your intelligence as well as your integrity to this fight.
As the Buddhists say; “Thank you for your practice.”
Don't buy into the bothsiderist frame.
There are always shades of distinction. The Republicans and Democrats are not equivalent on any level. Getting us to believe that they are so we'll give up is a key component of the strategy of sworn enemies of the pro-democracy movement.
And grizzled former GOP consultant Rick Wilson is saying that, not just yellow dog Democrat Yours Truly.
No, for now we all have to join forces against the fascists, I agree. But you really should read this article in our local independent news outlet Civil Beat. The local government here is terribly corrupt and we have to live with the results of that corruption every single day. The saying “all government is local” is true. We have to live with the regressive taxation, the totally corrupt building department that sells building permits to all and sundry and has allowed foreign investors to drive the price of housing out of reach of all but the wealthiest people. I don’t know where you live but a one party system of government, whether that party is the Democratic Party of the Republican Party, is horrible. I hoped Kamala Harris would be elected because I think she might have addressed the corruption here. Now- well - we’re stuck here fighting fascism AND dealing with a local corrupt government that’s ruining our island.
God yes. I think we actually agree about everything. I’m literally preparing for the worst as far as the global economy goes. My folks lived through the Great Depression and I figure if we can avoid a nuclear holocaust (which I sometimes think is just around the corner) humanity has a pretty good chance of surviving until my grandchildren reach adulthood. Of course there’s microplastics, global climate change and the whole AGI thing out there lurking in the dark woods of time and space but WTF, surviving one day at a time like everyone else on the planet. Glad not living in Kiev or Gaza or Kabul right now. Re-reading my Idries Shah books and hoping the Invisible Government of the World has this covered.
Oh I totally agree with you; political monocultures are a disaster, just like single commodity economies, whether the oil of petrostates or tourism like Hawaii.
But in politics it's always relative. I doubt you'd want to trade Hawaii's Democratic monoculture with Florida's Republican monoculture.
Our daughter is currently doing an internship in Jacksonville. Did you know there’s a hotbed of folks in Florida like Rick Wilson in Talahassee and these people at the Jacksonville Tributary who are actively working against the Republican monoculture there? Seriously, I wouldn’t want to live in Florida for a lot of reasons, but I’m not sure I’d want to live in Vermont where our other daughter lives and everyone is old and white. I like Hawaii because I was born and raised here but it’s become more and more fucked up practically by the hour. My friends of various ethnicities here are not pleased with our local government and the effects of our local government are more onerous than the effects of the Trump administration on our daily lives. Mostly on social media I rant and rave about the Republicans in the Federal Government, but that doesn’t mean I am going to turn a blind eye to the corruption of our state and local government, which is making it almost impossible for our children to return to live here after they graduate from college.
Well in terms of good governance, I think I'd rather live in Vermont, which you'll note is not a political monoculture. They've got Bernie Sanders, but they also have a Republican executive with Phil Scott and his lieutenant governor. Ethnic mix is lower on Maslow's hierarchy of needs when it comes to quality of life than good public infrastructure.
What you're complaining about is transpartisan and electing Republicans isn't going to fix it. The underlying problem is neoliberalism. I'd venture to guess you have a lot of foreign investors and/or private equity firms buying up real estate and sitting on it, which causes rents to spike and exacerbates a housing shortage. This is a problem all over the world. And, since it's Hawaii, I'd also assume there's a lot of NIMBYism which impedes public infrastructure.
What's needed is not more bipartisan governance, it's left populism which is the only tendency that's trying to address the neoliberal cannibalism which is eating up our urban spaces and making them unlivable. Zohran Mamdani is trying to address this in NYC.
My older daughter and her partner love it in Vermont but says the only reason they were able to buy their home was because they are young people. The sellers wanted to sell to a younger couple!
The population of Vermont is overwhelmingly white (from what I can see anyway) and elderly.
My daughter wrote this:
“It was quite the turn of luck…”
(getting to buy the property)
“…They were originally going to sell to a retired person but that fell through and then they gave it to us because we were young and they wanted to give young people a chance to live here.
(~70% of my town is over age 60. This is very representative of Vermont in general. Land is very hard to get here)”
I agree with you about populism. And I love Zohran Mamdani, but he’s going to have a hard time carrying through on all his promises I’m afraid.
My feeling about politics these days is that we have to be pragmatic and do whatever it is that works to fight fascism and at the same time we can’t neglect our local political problems. It’s pretty exhausting because I’m old and not in the best of health and I see young people here just living in the usual bubble while crime invades what used to be safe neighborhoods and animal cruelty and homelessness increases. And people rant on about being all pono this and that while our islands are bought up by the broligarchy and prices get higher literally by the day.
Save you sanity, if you can. Subscribe to "Funny Times." Beautifully sourced from all our writers of truth, satire and the comic sections of newspapers, where they still exist. Laughter is, indeed, the best medicine.
I am, indeed, against. I fly 3 flags: Planet Earth (without it, we are nothing), Hiawatha's belt aka the flag of the Iroquois Confederacy the oldest living democracy which informed America's constitution and a solid black flag, the flag of protest. My mother was an immigrant and lived in this country for 76 years reporting her status to the federal gov every January. She chose to remain a citizen of the place she considered home. She lived and worked and paid taxes and helped other immigrants. The world is now beyond borders and that will become more apparent in a very short time. Famine and death are on the horizon brought to you by all things human. As the famous philosopher, Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Walt Kelly
ALOHA..
I have lost any allegiance to the federal government and consider myself an expatriate who doesn’t have the resources to leave this clown-show country. I support secession and reorganizing the country. Our government and political parties have lost all worth they once had, the SCOTUS and rule of law is an absolute joke, MAGA people and churches have perverted themselves, and I can no longer wash off the taint and smell of being an american loser.
So grateful for the particular way you tell the truth, offer insight and wisdom, and invite us to be a part of the vanguard against the destruction of our democracy. Keep up the good work.