The courts will be vital to opposing Trump’s fascist agenda – including Trump’s racist, bigoted immigration policy.

Especially the Supreme Court. They'll probably have an occasional social issue ruling to placate the masses, but the real power/wealth transfer issues will all go the oligarchs. This is the 40 year plan coming to its original intent. Let's call January 21st Opus Dei Day.

... when Trump is gone, preferably to the warm place below, where he belongs. Hating him, and every evil he represents, as much as I do is exhausting. Sadly, there are plenty of sick, twisted people eager to take his place, so my simmering rage that such people are allowed to hold office probably won't have time to cool.

Continuous feelings of hatred will destroy you. Look what it does to MAGAs.

Oppose him, yes. Do it in the name of love for the humanity that he destroys. Oppose him in the name of family and friends that you love. Do it for the values that you love.

Let love of people, values, and country lead your opposition to him. It's healthier and more creatively productive when it leads to courses of action.

Those are not my views alone. It's what Timothy Snyder says about opposing authoritarianism in his book, On Tyranny.

Hate and resentment are crippling in the long run. It is more important for our resistance to prevent the suffering of our fellow Americans than to exact vengeance upon the orange fascist and his clowns of the apocalypse government.

... How 'bout my "Extreme Dislike" for the irredeemably evil psychopath whose diseased malice and corrosive rhetoric has forever poisoned the minds of some of my family members, friends, and neighbors, given license to the vilest people among us to unleash their inchoate resentments on those who are least able to defend themselves against such cowards, whose lies about the pandemic cost a half a million Americans their lives, and whose treason has cost the nation what little trust its allies may still have had in it, even as he turns on them yet again, all in service to Putin's malignant desire for the destruction of America from within, and the total domination the world?

And I never said anything about vengeance, but now that you mention it...

I do what little I can, with my limited resources, to alleviate the suffering of others, but resistance inevitably demands that we take a stand against those who would inflict harm on us for not bending the knee to a tin-pot tyrant. And anyone that thinks that won't happen on a horrific scale in the coming 4 years is not paying attention.

Have a nice day.

His crimes are well documented and undeniable.
Regardless, hate and resentment damage me more than him/them.

and the harm being done to individuals, groups, and society as a whole.

I did not mention revenge, nor did I suggest that we should do nothing.

We are angry over what's happening. We hate it and we feel hatred or contempt for the person(s) doing it. I'm only saying that if we let ourselves get consumed in hate, it hurts us even more. It can burn us out, hurt our health and ruin what's left that's good in our lives.

We can take a stand against what's happening from a position doing it out of love for friends, family, strangers, and ourselves who are being harmed instead of out of hatred for the people who are causing the harm. We want to stop the damage because of what it does to us and to people we care about and values that matter to us.

I think that anger can motivate us to action, but hatred depletes our energy.

I sort of felt this without having words for it until I heard AOC say why she's in Congress and why she fights for certain bills and policies and opposes others. She said that she does it because she loves the people, cultures, and values of the people that she represents.

... "HATE" is just a word that most accurately describes a very intense feeling of dislike and distrust of abominable actions and/or people. I could say that Trump and his evil minions are not very nice people for their desire to inflict pain on others simply to satisfy their twisted craving for dominion over the lives of others, but that takes too long to say. So consider "HATE" just monosyllabic shorthand for the sake of efficiency.

You can say and feel anything you want to. It's your choice and your life.

interests. Like Nature, Art, Music, Science, Art making, Craft doings, Architecture!
So my brain is much more happy, and perculating with all of those instead! And my hands involved with Creative makings! Thank Goodness.

Still, I will try to take Professor Synder's advice at least part of the time.

you've got interests and activities to keep you grounded and sane.

Unfortunately, I suspect I'll have fight off higher anxiety, and fear after he gets in and the Repuglican Congress starts threatening entitlements, and other groups of people I care about which is most vunerable groups.

... have a multitude of interests, none of which are diminished by my passionate opposition to Trump and the plans outlined in Project 2025. This is not just a difference of opinion on certain matters, this is an existential threat to our way of life, and, even more importantly, to life itself on this planet. These people are not "loyal opposition", they are psychotic monsters carved out of the same turd as Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, just to name a few. They couch their rhetoric in bland terms, but their underlying intent is unmistakable. Failing to recognize the bottomless malice inherent in their proposed policies invites unimaginable disaster. We cannot afford a Neville Chamberlain approach to this crisis. It will literally be the death of us all.
I am 2 years and change shy of 80, and I have seen some shit. But I am still pretty strong, not overcome by fear, and I am still a deadly marksman. I do not for one second believe that Project 2025 is some benign thought experiment; it is evil down to its core, and so are those that conceived it. Don't doubt that for a nanosecond. There is NO good in these people.

and hastening more terrible climate change here, and all over the world. What happens elsewhere, can eventually affect us, too.

Their sense of superiority over other groups of people gives them their shameless "ability" to act like this.

We in blue NYC may have a buffer for a little while, but not necessarily more than that.

I sure hope you won’t need those serious marksman skills! Stay safe!

In May. Out of the blue she says "I hope I die before him so I can push him to hell."

She died suddenly June 5th.

She's looking out for us.

As my late father called her - was a little pisser!

Start showing the courage of others around the world demonstrate day after day... S Korea, France, the women of the middle east. T will sic his brown shirts on us, no doubt... but the more he does that, the more sympathy and allegiance we'll receive, IMO.

American civil rights leaders of multiple generations in US history, and the anti fascist WWII generation be our sources of inspiration.

Get ready to make some good trouble.

I read an article by Chris Hedges, whose views I respect on most things that said movements die without leadership and he cited the short-lived occupy movement. But in our current situation, a strong voice is going to face a barrage of criticism from media at best and possibly or probably face assassination.
Can a movement grow without a leader? And when are we going to get this off the ground?

and the more charismatic and well spoken, the better. But you're right, in today's world here in the U.S., a leader on the left would face death threats and probable attempts. But we need to rally around someone who can take charge in the organizing, delegating, etc. of a movement. I loved the democratic process of Occupy, but it also showed how too many cooks in the kitchen can spoil the soup.

government.
Katie Porter?
Alan Grayson?
Al Franken?
Leonardo DiCaprio?

Start a movement and post a job opening on Indeed?

Personally, I'd like to see Franken... but I feel like the best bet would be someone outside politics. That makes it tend to a grassroots uprising. But the right politician could pull it off. DiCaprio has done some excellent humanitarian work, as have a few other philanthropists. But I wonder if the celebrity would work against someone like this?

ship out 4 of his 5 kids.

Any child of a citizen has citizenship, regardless of where they are born.

the female side of lineage to carry citizenship.
Sort of like jews follow the maternal line. (I've heard, and could be wrong.)

The 14th amendment doesn't say anything at all about a person's lineage. In fact, that is the whole point of the citizenship clause.

Birthright citizenship has nothing to do with one's parents. 300+ million of us have citizenship because we were born here. The 14th amendment doesn't say "if you were born here but your parents weren't..." It says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

Overturning the 14th amendment would strip citizenship protection from most of the population.

When Trump talks about revoking birthright citizenship, he isn't talking about lineage (the means by which his children are citizens, since he is a citizen), he is talking about location of birth (within the US).

that doing away with birthright citizenship would
mean repealing the 14th amendment. Then again,
with this SCOTUS full of unqualified Federalist Society
hacks you never know.

How about that fucker Barron Trump (he's an adult now and worked actively on MAGA Moron's campaign so that turd in the punch bowl is now fair game)?

Junior, Eric, and Ivanka.

What Trump is talking about repealing are children of two non-citizens who are granted citizenship based on the location of the child's birth (in the United states).

Always resist.

MAGA have always hated my birth and citizenship in the US. They love telling me to self deport. They don't care about documents. It's about race.

Supposedly during the last tRump presidency. Russian citizens were staying at tRump hotels to purposely have a baby and get instant citizenship. Some type of Russian/Putin long term plot? I don't know, but I don't like it.

I really don't know how to fix this loophole and still be the USA we have always been.

some real data on that. My guess is that the proportion of "come into the country when pregnant or to get pregnant and have a US citizen baby" is extremely small relative to the proportion of tax paying, productive, legal and illegal immigrants who have been in this country for a while and gave birth.

3,747,540 babies were born in the US in 2019. Figuring 14% of the US population are non-citizens (rounding up) and assuming the same proportion of non-citizens give birth each year as citizens (which is probably a faulty assumption) that means (rounding up) about 525,000 of those babies are potentially birth right citizens. How many Russian women would have to have come to the US and given birth in a Trump hotel could meaningfully make a difference?