The fourth estate is under attack. You have your President to thank for that. Everything is going according to HIS plans. He gets many in the police forces to do his dirty work. I say many NOT all. Important distinction.
He keeps people of brown people in cages. He's controlling the Senate, the Department of Justice, and many in the military and police departments across the country. He got FOX News.
But to get good control of the propaganda, he needs to intimidate the rest of the press so things go his way. This is just history repeating itself. And the country is numb to it because the citizens can't believe this could happen to the greatest country in the World.
Protect your fourth estate, whoever or whatever they might be. Protect them all.
@vestralux Vestralux, I did not find your words, in particular, to be harsh. I thank you for trying to hear what I trying to say. I am going to sign off now. Probably for a long time.
I did want to clarify a couple of things:
1) I do not claim the right to tell anyone how they should *feel* about anything. PERIOD.
2) I still do not understand how property destruction is helpful in the long run.
3) I am not scolding anyone. In fact I hate telling people what they "should" or "shouldn't" do, even in a professional capacity. But I might caution someone if I think they are about to make a move they may regret.
4) I am very logical, it is true.
5) Yet I am also empathic. My heart breaks for the oppressed.
Take care and be well, all.
Your comment makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and visions. It gives us a lot to ponder.
I do believe a huge shift is happening.
Tonight Boston erupted in a crisis too. A day of peaceful protests with most protesters gone home has suddenly erupted in violence, not against people but property. But as the police move in to push the crowds back, the crowds grew angrier. We watched it live at the edge of our seats. Not sure what is happening at this moment. Just so afraid for all of them.
@Ana, it's a confusing time for all right now. @vestralux and @Laura-f I agree with your points about how white privilege is invisible to those who have it. But it doesn't help if we pit ourselves against each other here in this forum. Instead let's try to educate each other with kindness.
I pray this situation creates a positive outcome. If Biden picks a black running mate, then we may not have to write all those postcards to help people of color get past the roadblocks the GOP has set for them. Come hell or high water, people of color will do everything in their power to vote this election.
Today, our local mall "closed" before it even opened today. Mostly because of what happened at the Scottsdale Fashion Center yesterday. Well, that and on social media, there were hundreds of posts saying protesters needed to head to our local malls and riot, So, they boarded up our mall this morning.
I cannot even believe what our local business owners across the country are going through right now after barely surviving Covid closure.
Very sad news.
St. John’s Church, a historic landmark opened in 1816 and attended by every president since James Madison was set ablaze in Washington DC. It is also know for its "pew of presidents". Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police was intentionally set.
The second is the infiltration of these protests by dark forces, whether they be on the part of the administration, supported by Russia, Erik Prince, and others. Done for the purpose of advancing a right wing takeover of the US. I'm feeling this on a fear level. This is not all that it appears to be.
Anyone else getting any similar feelings?
I have absolutely no doubt that this is their intention, Lynn.
For two years, I've been posting related visions in this forum (or telling them directly to Jeanne and others), describing what I saw would be violent protests starting this summer and going (on and off) through perhaps 2024. I've said that Erik Prince would be somehow involved.
Now, there are rumors/reports of a direct link between him and what's happening now with regard to rouge rioters, ICE, and police (alleged former spies who reportedly trained with Prince's mercenary corps and are now being covertly deployed across the country). I'm not going to link anything directly here on the subject, but if you have a good VPN, please do a search.
As soon as they saw there is no direct path to DJT's reelection, they appear to have engaged tactical Plan B. I actually believe they would have engaged this maneuver during his second term, either way, but the moment is of the essence, and this is their "now or never." It feels bigger than the Dark Enlightenment/Bannon game plan, though. I also wouldn't doubt that it supersedes Russia and possibly jumps right to China in its anti-democratic desires. It's fascism, plus. And I think we should be paying very close attention to what's happening in the tech space in the run up to the election.
So yes, it's deeply, deeply disturbing, to say the least.
But I'm being reassured by my council (my guides and teachers) who insists that we have everything we need to disrupt this dark timeline. They're showing me an image of people everywhere—hundreds, maybe thousands of people—meditating on peace. Praying for peace. Intending deeper peace into our lives.
There's a feeling of being ground very slowly inside a high-gravity machine until approximately mid-July, when everything seems to speed up very, very fast. I believe a lot of truth will pour out like flour through a sieve from that point onward until after the New Year. I'm hearing, "Many courageous individuals will step forward." That feels hopeful.
Yup, that is my feeling too. For Donald Trump, it is just another way to get chaos to work in his favor. While I watched the agitators, I thought of how our CIA sent right wing agitators into Latin American democracies back in the 60's to create enough chaos to oust democratic leaders.
@carmen. I am not predicting yet how it will all end, but I have long thought he would, if desperate, use Erik Prince or some organized agitators to help him create chaos so he can declare a state of emergency and stay in office. Unless he takes ill, I can't see him willingly walking away from office next year. I also can't see the GOP letting go of their majority without resorting to desperate measures. So while I do not know yet what will happen, I feel they are making contingency plans to hold on to power in case they can't win the election, even with all the voter suppression and Russian meddling.
@jeanne-mayell "Come hell or high water, people of color will do everything in their power to vote this election."
Yes! On 11 Nov. '19 I clearly heard this for Nov. '20: "Following the election, Congress is predominantly blue because of black (Black voters).