Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻

Retired English Professor, Liberal, Lover of Music and Travel; born and educated in MS, married since 1978z

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

When Trump was in office, he even deported the wives of active duty military, like Alejandra Juarez (whose husband ironically voted for Trump).

President Biden won't be around to save them from the consequences of voting against their own interests.

[Overton @overton_news]

NOW - Ana Navarro calls on President Biden to pardon Hunter, despite Biden's promise that he won't; "Joe, since they're talking smack about you anyways, you know what? Baby, pardon Hunter. Pardon Hunter, because America just pardoned a criminal."

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself.

The American Oligarchy.

They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media.

They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked.

They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control.

Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses.

Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high. Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue.

We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it.

They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other.

It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy.

Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe.

Some of us just don't know it yet.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@Tim_Walz I surely wish I could, you lovely man. I am ricocheting between despair and fury, I will never sut up or give up.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

This. ⬇️ 100%.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Reelecting Donald Trump after January 6 is the greatest dereliction of civic duty by the electorate in the history of the United States. We’ll pay for it in years to come..."

https://t.co/gVtekyqnbO"

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@mmpadellan I am ricocheting between fury and despair. I will never give up or shut up. Ever.

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

Seniors voted to gut Social Security.

Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.

Immigrants voted for deportation raids.

Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.

Women voted to have fewer rights than men.

Police voted for a convicted felon.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@TheRickyDavila Us.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

❤️

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

I don’t even have the words for not having any words. We stick together. Breathe. Keep the patient comfortable. Feel like shit. Take care of the poor, each other and ourselves. Look around for all the light that remains and can never go out. Sending you all a big quavering hug.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@TheOnlyEsta 💙

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@ElieNYC Not this one or my big posse.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

@WaterDean Yay! 😍

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Agreed, it's not like it's something new. Blacks are survivors. Yet, many of his policies will actually affect us. Such as full immunity to the police. The biggest problem is the racial devide that his first presidency caused. Now, more racists and bigots feel emboldened to act out.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

Truth.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Some of y’all aren’t gonna be ready for it. Being under constant threat of terror, arrest, and brutality… while also refusing to give up your humanity or accept the programming, and producing the scholarship, art, and music to sustain your culture….takes practice

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

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[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Black people are relatively well prepared for what’s about to happen because it’s happened to us before. America has done this to us before. It’s just about to widen the aperture to a bunch of people who ain’t used to it.

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

100%. ⤵️

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“As Churchill put it: ‘In Defeat: Defiance.’ We’ll have to keep our nerve and our principles…We’ll have to fight politically and to resist lawfully. We’ll have to do our best to limit the damage. And we’ll have to lay the groundwork for future recovery.” https://t.co/esFj1tKPBC

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

CNN has a story titled “where the Harris campaign went wrong.”

Nope, I won’t read it.

Harris ran a great campaign.

The story should be titled “where the American people went wrong.”

[Sheila Fox Miller, Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 @SheilaFoxMille3]

Exactly.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“The American people have made a disastrous choice. And they have done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open. After everything, the American people liked what they saw [in Trump]. At a minimum, they were willing to accept what they saw.” https://t.co/esFj1tKPBC

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

What could possibly go wrong?