Yes. Wage garnishment is one tool they have. Granted, debt collectors have that tool as well, it’s just that the federal government can do it much more quickly and easily.
I’ve had 2 family members, that I know of, over the years who decided they weren’t going to pay their federal taxes because they didn’t like who the president was. Both of them regretted it.
And unicorns can’t fart if you steal their butts!
No matter how insolvent, the USA is always going to be able to afford more war.
Maybe, but in my entire lifetime (certainly more than 10 years), Republican POTUS can say or do literally anything they want with little to no actual repercussions at the polls. I feel 100% confident that Reagan could have said this, his policies were doing this just not so explicitly stated. Bush Jr got the USA into war over false pretenses and it took many, many years after his presidency was long over before public opinion shifted slightly on the topic in terms of realizing how wrong it was.
I hear so many people make that statement. I realize most are just making a flippant “joke”.
Not paying your taxes, assuming you owe any federal taxes, is a recipe for a whole heap of trouble and expensive if you’re working class. This isn’t VISA where you can basically just ignore the debt for X number of years and then you’re in the clear. The federal government has considerably more options for getting the money owed.
Gosh, you never would have guessed. Otherwise. I forgot to put otherwise in that sentence. You never would have guessed otherwise. Yeah, that.
I did take a look at your site, but I didn’t see any real answers to most of my questions in terms of numbers and plans. Sorry. Did I miss those?
Sounds like a great idea. How many people (raw number or percentage-wise) do you estimate will need to participate in those protests? How do you plan to get them engaged and activated to join your protests? How soon can you get those people out there on the street during the week? I’m all in, where can I sign up?
It’s happening more than twice a year. Another good reason to go visit that website I posted above! It’s called NOKINGS.ORG, you can view it in pretty much all the browsers I’ve tested. Lots of great information there for those curious and with questions like these!
But to make it even easier – There are 2 more No Kings events in the works leading up to November this year.
As for week day No Kings – Completely possible for future events, but for now that would never achieve the goal of larger and larger protests leading up to November. No matter what, there will be fewer people on a week day protest.
However, the May 1st event coming up – look at your calendar. That’s a FRIDAY.
Fortunately, there’s a website called nokings.org and if you were to peruse that “What’s Next” section at https://www.nokings.org/whats-next it will answer some of your questions.
Honestly, you don’t really sound sorry to be negative, and in fact, it’s almost impossible to differentiate your comment from the ones being made by Trump supporters. If you sound just like them and are saying the exact same things, then you’re really no different.
These events are currently in the build-up phase. People have to become familiar and comfortable with protesting. Protests can be scary. It takes a lot of bravery to get past that first step and show up to a massive protest in a city. It takes a lot of bravery to get past that first step and show up to a tiny protest in a small MAGA dominated town. But once people do that, it means they’re more likely to come to the next and bring a friend. And then the next and bring more friends. For there to be a chance of resisting, there needs to be enough people participating. These things, in the USA, just don’t happen by random chance.
Similarly, the people organizing and planning these events – local people who started with little or no experience planning for this type of thing. They have to learn how to do this. That takes time, practice, repetition. They aren’t paid experts who will get everything perfect on the first go.
Why bother? Because to actually pull this country back from the brink, it may very well require rapid response protests, on-going sustained protests. It will definitely require active civilian participation in politics and elections. The groups running these events are getting people signed up to help campaign for local, progressive leaders, to become poll watchers, and so on at record numbers – especially in these rural areas that have, for decades, been overwhelmingly conservative places. If Trump decides to invalidate the November election because he doesn’t like the outcome, who’s got a better chance at resisting and stopping that attack on democracy? Unorganized people who’ve never protested before and local organizations with no ability to mobile people OR an engaged populace of people who know what to do and what to expect and how to make that happen? The outcome isn’t guaranteed either way, but I like the odds of that latter group much better.
HEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEEEY
I’m going to come down with a bad case of gay that morning.
Holy Cow!
I live in a rural area, surrounded by staunch conservatives. It’s isolating at times.
But today? It was incredible to see how many people showed up for our small town rally. Hundreds of people who feel the way I do about the direction this country is being taken. And it’s a breath of fresh air. Hard to feel alone when I talked to dozens and dozens of people today who want the same thing I want … NO KINGS.
Almost as refreshing? Almost no hostility shown to us. I saw a few middle fingers. One lame-ass truck drove by and tried to “roll coal”. It was pitiful. My lawnmower smokes more than that. Overwhelmingly, it was cars driving by beeping and waving and smiling at us. Felt the love.
Realistically, though, these events are our practice runs. It’s where the people are learning to exercise their rights. Lots of folks are rusty. Even more of us are just now attending our first protest ever. It’s also local people learning how to organize and build community. For a lot of those folks, this is their first time organizing events for hundreds or thousands of people. It’s a daunting task. They deserve recognition, too.
Next steps: Did you see any local organizations today like I did? Did you see who organized your local No Kings? Reach out to them. Offer help. Offer feedback. Send donations. Sign-up. Register. Follow their socials. Blah, blah, blah. You know the drill.
I’d rather he save the country billions (or trillions) of dollars by cutting back on golfing excursions, stopping all the corruption going on in his cabinet, and oh yeah, not bombing brown babies in foreign countries.
Oh no. Not … this can’t be happening. So terrible. I just put my foot near a fire ant mound while I was out working in the yard. Those fuckers hurt.