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Natasha Merriweather's avatar

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 We support your protests! Support ours also…try to buy any products that are not American and are from other countries ie Mexico, EU, Canada etc. We have starved your liquor/bourban industry and travel industry. All our grocery stores over the past year now label Canada products with a Maple Leaf, and have all produce label from which country they come from. US produce dies on the shelves. State representative keep coming to Canada to try and get us to stop boycotts US products in Blue states, but we refuse. Canadians are reading every label. This is a grassroots boycott, not started by our Canadian government We are doing what we can. You all need to step up and crush your own government, because we are on your governments list of threats!! 77 million Americans voted for this and we will never forgot. It’s not only T, it’s your own people who are ignorant about this government. I lived in the US for 20 years, recruited as a medical professional and prepared my exit in 2018 when T first got elected. I originally thought I would retire there, but I foresaw the future with that first election and got out. Sold everything we owned and moved back to Canada.

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Stephen Strum, MD, FACP's avatar

I am an American, and am also Ashamed. I have been extremely pro-active since 2015 and despite having an active medical practice, wrote a book with my son entitled What We Must Demand For Our Democracy to Survive. It is on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/2j4b3acd

I have spent hours on the phone talking to people in Georgia and believed such efforts help put Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff into the Senate. I have worn T-shirts and Hoodies denouncing Trump as a fascist, racist, etc. I have worn these in public and no one ever challenged me but at least some gave me a thumb's up. Our home has signs like "Democracy or Dictatorship, Your Choice" and others.

I have written blistering comments backed up by factual references about our criminal-in-chief and his mafia cabinet. Yes, too many Americans are just plain stupid, while others are apathetic about voting. They equated Biden's ineptitude with Trump's psychopathy and now, after the fire is an inferno, they realize what a piece of shit Trump is, and how dangerous his ass-kissing executive cabinet has been to this country.

I was offered a position at the U of Calgary back in the mid-80s. The University, under Dr. Martin Jerry, approached me. I gave a lecture and was set to move but then was told I would have to wait up to one year before being cleared by Canadian Customs and Immigration. That sucked, and especially because Canada was accepting Vietnamese with what appeared to be little vetting. I am a Vietnam veteran and truly admire the Vietnamese people but I thought the Canadian bureaucracy were just plain stupid to treat an American-born and U of Chicago trained MD who they sought in the manner they did. Many of my patients have traveled from Canada to see me. From BC, to Alberta. I recently did pro bono work for a farmer in Edmonton.

I can understand why you would be pissed at Americans in general, but there are many of us who would love to put Trump behind bars. I have begged my wife to leave the US, not for me, but because she is much younger than I, and I see little future for the US unless the vast majority of the people stand up and speak up for what is right. I see football stadiums packed to the hilt, and I wonder how many of those fans would spend time in rallies. Don't get me wrong; I love sports. But the priority of a citizen should be how well the government is being run and if there is evidence of LUV (Legacy, Unity, Vision), which there has not been.

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Cindy's avatar

I've been to over a dozen this summer and will be at two next week. Indivisible/Mobilize websites if you are looking for actions near you!

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Sunnygirl58's avatar

Yes.

And since I am a protester (member of Indivisible) I need to hear more people say “I support the protestors.”

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Mike Brock's avatar

I support you!

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Michael Helperin's avatar

I support the right to free assembly and the right to free speech, but I am very worried about these protests. Unless done carefully and respectfully, they will be used as propaganda material, and convincingly so, by those who wish viewers of the news to support crackdowns against "lawlessness." My message to the protestors is this: If you want to succeed, you must be ready and willing to be arrested, like King and Gandhi and Jesus and their followers were.

I also have a message for ICE: If that officer who killed an American citizen indeed had a traumatic interaction with a suspect in his recent past, then he should've been on desk duty or simply suspended. He did not follow proper protocol and neither have you. Her blood is on your hands.

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Mike Brock's avatar

I support the protests. I will not clear my throat before doing so.

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Donna's avatar

I support them from Jamaica. I hope to be at one after I am home.

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Charley Ice's avatar

Re: "This does not make you a radical. It makes you part of the human race."

This is true in the most literal sense (but I'm going to hedge). Normal gestation into the childhood years is under seige, costing too many their sapiens birthright of emotional maturity, leaving them with "cornered rat syndrome" of bullying, grievance, and desperate lies. This is proto-sapiens, relatively apelike behavior (we all start as apes).

We should all aspire to be radical -- meaning to get to the root of things, like our democratic sovereignty, and the informed, active citizenry that requires, getting on with folks with a little different view because what's really important is our common cause of freedom from oligarchy and arbitrary cruelty. We are re-learning that importance, with dignity, grace, and energy. Thanks Mike, for a beautiful Sunday inspiration.

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Mike Brock's avatar

Do you believe my sentiments are radical?

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Scotty Louise Eckert's avatar

I support the protests and I have been to many. They build people power and unite us. They inspire hope.

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Rosanne Azarian's avatar

Good to have your outspoken endorsement and support.

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Elena F's avatar

Do you realize the ICE Raids happen because Sanctuary Cities release ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS back into society RATHER than ALLOWING ICE to pick them up from JAILS??? Do you ALSO REALIZE the Globalist anti-American BidenHarrisRegime ALLOWED TENS OF MILLIONS UNVETTED ILLEGAL ALIENS MOSTLY CRIMINALS into our Country for 4 Years?!?? You really need to educate yourself rather than just believing the Propaganda Media and democrat politicians.

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Mike Brock's avatar

I support the protests!

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Suzee Jones's avatar

Do you realize that’s 💯 state funded propaganda you’re repeating? Do you realize what a sanctuary city really is (not what msm or regime implies that it means)? Do you realize that if you spent half as much time online looking up information (or read a book 😳) as you do repeating what you’ve been told to think or say you would know what the sanctuary laws are established for (hint: not hiding or releasing illegal criminals. It gives sanctuary to non criminal immigrants, regardless of immigration status, for reporting crimes). They use “sanctuary cities” language to imply they are hiding criminals intentionally to get you riled up…and it works. Then they terrorize target workers, Home Depot parking lots, and schools to catch criminals? If indiscriminately tackling and kidnapping people at work based on accent or skin color is your idea of law enforcement and not criminal behavior….then please understand you’re the reason we are protesting. But, yes Elena, by all means school us on propaganda 😂 👍

I support the protesters.

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Myra Lee's avatar

I Agree. You Really Need to Educate Yourself to a more Accurate Orientation of the Facts on the Ground.

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TriTorch's avatar

Not condoning what ICE is doing by any means. But according to Obama, our current situation is a big problem:

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Those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws" —President Obama

Why he said this:

Bloomberg: Headline: Venezuela's Violent Deaths Fall to 22-Year Low on Migration

Text: Venezuela's rate of violent deaths dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades following years of massive migration as both criminals and victims fled the nation's economic crisis. —Archived Source: https://archive.is/JOaY9

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How can we weed out those that came over to harm the United States?

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Mike Brock's avatar

I support the protests!

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Myra Lee's avatar

So you’ve Seen the JOB OPENINGS HERE placards Placed Across the Borderlands like Potted Plants for Decades by All Administrations. Rule of Law be Damned when Corporations, Contractors, Anti-Unionists, Etcetera go Lobbying Congress like there’s no Tomorrow. Well Tomorrow has Arrived. And ICE is the Damnable Solution? Even You don’t Agree with That. You State the Obvious. The Solution a Long Time Ago was to ENFORCE The LAW. Our Politicrats Still Ain’t Interested in That. LAWLESSNESS has Been the Flavor of the Day, Everyday for My Whole Damn Life in the United States of this Americas.

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TriTorch's avatar

It’s on purpose, shhhh…

There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject. —Prevensilk: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/there-is-something-way-bigger-going

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