Bob Prellwitz

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

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We want our fucking country back. Your neighbor is not your enemy. The teacher down the street. The farmer in Iowa. The Black mother in the Bronx. The white guy driving a pickup truck in Kentucky. The immigrant pouring concrete in August. The boy holding another boys hand. The MAHA mom reading the ingredients on a cereal box. None of them is your enemy.

We have been sold a magnificent steaming pile of bullshit. We have been told that America is two hungry tribes crouched on opposite sides of a river, sharpening knives, waiting for the opportunity to wade across and murder one another.

The great political scam of our time was convincing 340 million people who share a country, schools, roads, rivers, grocery stores, hospitals, fears, children, mortgages, illnesses, dreams and funerals that we have nothing in common. That we are enemies.

There is an enormous amount we agree on. We want clean water. Clean air. We don’t want corporations filling our children’s bodies with poison. We don’t want plastic in our oceans, our soil, our blood and our babies. We want food that is actually fucking food. We want our children educated. We want to be able to go to the doctor without wondering whether the bill will bankrupt us.

We want a decent job. We want Social Security when we’re old. We want politicians to stop using public office as an ATM. We don’t want political violence. We don’t want our government owned by billionaires. We want our votes to matter. We want a country where the law applies to the rich bastard in the penthouse as surely as it applies to the poor bastard standing before a judge.

And while we’re being made afraid of one another, somebody is picking our fucking pockets. The billionaires figured something out before the rest of us did: Anger, fear, loneliness, and resentment are business models. And Donald Trump understood the product better than anybody. Grievance. Barrels and barrels of grievance. Bottle it. Brand it. Sell it.

Tell a man whose factory disappeared that an immigrant stole his country. Tell a struggling mother that some other struggling mother is getting something she isn’t. Tell rural America the cities despise them. Tell the cities rural America wants to destroy them. Tell white people Black people are coming for them. Tell Black people every white neighbor is secretly waiting to put them back in chains.

Keep everybody suspicious. Keep everybody angry. Keep everybody separated. Rape us one by one. Then watch as Trump and the billionaires walk through the wreckage taking everything. We all see it.

Democracy will be saved by finding the places where we already agree and building from there. Citizenship is not a subscription service. Democracy is not something delivered to your doorstep. You don’t get to order it from Amazon. You don’t get to complain that democracy is dying while sitting on the toilet scrolling Instagram. Democracy requires something from us. Time. Courage. Attention. Neighbors. Argument. Forgiveness. Work.

And sometimes the willingness to stand up and say No. No, you will not make me hate my neighbor. No, you will not make me afraid of somebody because they pray differently or vote differently or love differently or were born somewhere else. You will not convince me that cruelty is strength. You will not convince me that corruption is patriotism. You will not convince me that billionaires need another tax break while teachers buy their own fucking pencils. No, you will not divide us and then sell off the pieces to the oligarchs.

Reimagine the country. Rebuild the democracy. Rework the communities. Find each other again. Fight like hell for the enormous territory we share. Because beneath all the noise and bullshit and algorithms and campaign advertisements, there is still a country here. Ours

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Legendary Singer Neil Young has removed all his albums from Amazon Music due to founder Jeff Bezos and his support for Donald Trump.

RETWEET to thank @NeilYoung for standing up for our democracy!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.

Please share this far and wide...

"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.

"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."

"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.

Please like and share.

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

@ProjectLincoln I agree, but please use the correct spelling of “led” from now on.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

@mpetitgoue I am deeply saddened to hear this. Coach Petitgoue was a friend and a mentor, especially during the early part of my coaching career. My prayers go out to you and your family.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American High School teacher left being a teacher and she has a warning for America

She exposes the school boards are making teachers pass students just to keep their graduation numbers up

“Now that I am no longer a teacher, I can finally say the things that have been on my mind all school year. As somebody that taught high school and basically educating our new young adults, we should all be scared. Every last one of us should be scared

- These kids cannot read
- They cannot write
- There is no type of comprehension skills
- No type of critical thinking
- They cannot do anything on their own
- They expect everything to be taught to them

Well, I won't even say taught. They expect everything to be given to them”

“Genuinely the truth of the matter is everybody is failing these kids. Everybody. The school board with all these different rules, they're failing these kids, the principals or admin all together, they're failing these kids and they're failing the teachers because they're basically telling us that we had to just pass a child along just to keep these graduation numbers up”

“These colleges are going to have to start lowering. Lowering their requirements. They're gonna have to start lowering the fact. Or just lowering everything. Because the way that stuff is going now, the amount of kids that are going to come into these schools, and they cannot read, they cannot write, they cannot do anything without AI”

She talks about giving assignments to write 5 sentences and basically no students can do that

“We should be scared. We should really be scared”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

YUP!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

“I’ve watched men bleed out in the Ardennes for a flag you’re not fit to hold, let alone wrap yourself in. You think bluster is bravery? I led men through hell. You couldn’t march through rain without whining about your hair.
You dodged the draft, praised dictators, and called that strength. I stared down Rommel’s panzers and pissed in the Rhine. You ran from bone spurs and hid behind Twitter like a spoiled child playing general.
You talk about purging patriots and jailing dissenters? That’s not power. That’s cowardice in a cheap suit and a clip-on tie.
I fought Nazis. You invite them. I liberated camps. You threaten to build new ones. I defended democracy with a .45 and a tank. You disgrace it with a pen and a podium.
So let’s be clear, sunshine: if you’d stood in front of me in ’44 spewing this treasonous filth, I’d have court-martialed you so fast your gold toilet would’ve flushed itself.
You’re a disgrace to the presidency and this Republic. And if you keep dragging this country toward dictatorship, history won’t salute you—it’ll spit.”
~ Army staff sergeant who fought in World War Il, shared by Vets Against Trump

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

HARVARD WON THIS ROUND!

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote a letter to Harvard. The university responded by marking up the letter for spelling and punctuation mistakes- and then shared it on social media.

Your thoughts?

[Debbie 🟦🟧✡️🇺🇸🇮🇱🪬🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🦅 @DebbieDem3]

Let The Games Begin In Earnest!

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

You did it. Congrats.

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

@LambeauField Vince Lombardi

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

@oasis28uk2001 The Rasputin of our times.

[Bob Prellwitz @bob_prellwitz]

@aintscarylarry Considering there's no brain, no heart, and no guts inside . . . It's possible.

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Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Trump is stepping on the people he promised to help.