Dear Marianne, thank you. I am from Bosnia. We met briefly at one of the past conferences. I love your work. if you need anything, translated into BCS I am here. This is indeed happening and this happened in the Balkans to me and my family. We were too weak to stop Milosevic. He owned the media and people simply did not understand his intentions until it was too late. Then we managed to legally come here, hoping for a better life, democracy and freedom which we had. But I have to tell you, I moved to a small town USA and in the past couple of years no one wanted to hire me here. I am college educated. I read and write five languages. Yes, we can legally live here. Only when I changed and “Americanized” my name on my resume, I got an interview after more than 150 applications elsewhere.
I am not sure what I can do to help others at this point. I am afraid that my own legal status might be removed and therefore I might remove this comment later. I am afraid indeed.
oh, and most of my countrymen and women who live here and they are Muslims from Bosnia (as far as I am informed) unfortunately voted for trump hoping that would stop the suffering in Gaza. They are now in for a rude awakening.
Dear Language teacher - I hear you, I believe you, and the USA is lucky to have you! We are a country of immigrants. Your experience under Milosevic may fall on deaf or ignorant ears, but those of us who remember know you speak the truth. Thank you for raising your voice here - it matters & is vital for us to fight for “liberty & justice for all”!
How I understand you, dear Language Teacher... I followed the terrible events in Bosnia remotely, and suffered with you, seeing your beautiful culture, seeing multicultural Sarajevo so atrociously attacked for years by the ultranationalist armies and militias of Milosevic, Karadzic & consorts. I published a collection of poems for Bosnia at the time. I'm well aware of how Milosevic came to power, yes. Always the same frightening way, imposing himself little by little on the people, distilling day after day a nauseating propaganda, a frightening narrative, polarizing, stirring up hatred against a designated scapegoat, in the manner of a Hitler, a Putin... I remember having heated debates at the time, with a colleague (I was a language teacher too 😉): he told me I was exaggerating, that “Milosevic had been democratically elected”...
We can see where the most democratic elections can sometimes lead, as in Hungary, yes, as in Germany in 1933... As could be the case again in Germany soon, if the bulwark against the AfD gives way (fortunately thousands of people are saying NEIN right now in the streets! ); just as it could happen in France, where I live (where I came as a child from Turkey with my parents, also in a difficult political context), a country whose tradition has always been to defend human rights and welcome others, and which narrowly avoided the far right coming to power a few months ago, but it is still lurking in ambush, and under its impetus many are beginning to talk in an uninhibited way of “migratory submersion”, of calling into question the « jus soli », the birthright citizenship which is one of the cornerstones of the French nation…
Everywhere in the world there is now this temptation to exclude, to authoritarianism... So, yes, democracies have both this strength and the fragility of a strength that can turn against itself: freedom of vote, opinion and expression is their Achilles' heel, where they must learn to protect themselves, as Marianne suggests in today's powerful video, and previous ones, and fight fiercely for their own values - and their very existence.
Nothing can be taken for granted, and we have to fight back - peacefully. To fight FOR…
But know that you're not alone, dear language lover from your beautiful country, and dear American friends struggling with this clique of madmen who have now been installed in power in the US: I do hope that knowing that we're all in this together, all fighting together, all over the world, for the same cause, and that something beautiful is bound to come out of all our joint thoughts and actions, will cheer you up a little.
Take heart! Like Churchill, whom Marianne quotes, Alexey Navalny himself, assassinated a year ago, used to say: even if I die, you must not give up. DON’T GIVE UP ! My heart goes out to you. Warmest greetings from France.
Thank you Marianne for your courage and direction! I continue to fear this won't resolve peacefully. What good comes to anyone who instigates the collapse of a society? I can't follow the thinking of Elon in this teardown.
HELP‼️ Marianne, everyone -- if you know of a federal government employee or employees who were fired by DOGE, please let them know that the 14 Democratic state attorneys general are seeking an Order from Judge Chutkan to block DOGE from accessing data systems or making personnel decisions at seven federal agencies, and they need to hear from them. Their input will help tremendously in prevailing on this issue with Judge Chutkan. Chutkan needs specifics as to the impact of being fired in their lives, etc. They can refer to the 2/17/2025 NBC NEWS article by Daniel Barnes and Natasha Korecki, "Judge Appears Unlikely to Immediately Halt DOGE Access and Firings," for their confidential tips e-mail, phone number, address, etc. (can also click on "contact us" on the article). Thank you.🙏
"We’re looking to hear from federal government workers. If you’re willing to talk with us, please email us at tips@nbcuni.com or contact us through one of these methods."
Thanks Marianne🌹couple questions perhaps you could clarify. I’m a member of Peace Action of Michigan. Alert 🚨 cane in today.
February 13 Headline: "Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts"
Believable? Crazy? Distracting? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
Eventually Trump hopes all three would agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half. He lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation's nuclear deterrent. “There's no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many. You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over."
"We're spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually,
hopefully more productive."
Will Trump actually say to the Presidents of Russia and China: "Let's cut our military budgets in half?"
Secondly, I also read they are going to be giving out DOGE stimulus checks. Is this True? “Elon Musk expresses interest in sending out DOGE checks
The proposal calls for sending 20 percent of savings back to taxpayers.” ~~Politico 2/18/25
“On Tuesday, Musk posted on X that he “will check with the president” on Azoria CEO and co-founder James Fishback’s idea to send out “DOGE dividend” checks. The plan calls for returning 20 percent of the savings generated by the Department of Government Efficiency back to taxpayers in the form of direct payments.”
Please 🙏🏼 lmk your thoughts. Not only Am I in a Hostile Takeover of the Government. I’m also going thru a Hostile Takeover of Family!! Maga brother is POA and will not allow me to see my Mom in Hospice🥹Justice will be served. However , exactly a microcosm of the macrocosm💯it’s a very strange place to be in to say the least….
I’m well aware Of the Total 💯Abuse of Power, of the Coup, take over of FAA, using 4yr old baby as a Human Shield, etc. Watch “Dead Zone” based on Stephen Spielberg’s 1979 book. Great film & book 📕 I will be calling Washington in the morning. Appreciate any feedback you have Marianne as we navigate these troubled waters🌊
Given that we spend so much more than those other countries do, why can’t we make our own reductions whether they do or not? But yes, I welcome. Those comments I have made that point about nuclear arm so many times.
Yep! Thank you for connecting the dots and saying it. It’s undeniable
.they try to twist it, confuse everyone, tell us this is good for us, and all the money distraction.
Trump and Musk are our Viktor Orban. They have been in many meetings. And with Heritage Foundation, who is now speaking on certain news stations like they are mainstream.
It isn’t true that Dems helped approve the nominees. They actually fought hard, but it’s a numbers game. The Republicans got more votes and are in charge of both houses.
Just restacked. Have been listening to you, reading you, loving you, sharing you for 30 years. Wish I’d known and supported you when you were on the front lines of caring for people with AIDs, when others were terrified to be near gay people, much less gay people with AIDs. You are tireless, fearless, relentless, present, and prescient and I ache that my fellow Americans have chided you when you were speaking truth and wisdom. It takes tremendous strength, capacity, courage, conviction, and willingness to do what you are doing Marianne. Only someone open to being truly guided and fueled by love could be doing what you are doing. I’ve seen that for decades. Praying others will in this Holy Instant. Love and appreciate you!
I am the daughter of Hungarian parents who fled to this country after World War II to escape the terrors of Communist rule. Over the past eight years, I have spent considerable time in Budapest researching my family history, which I documented in my book, The Politzer Saga. During this time, I have witnessed firsthand how Viktor Orbán’s government has devastated the country.
Friends have been blackballed, unable to find work. Families with young children have been forced to leave because the educational system was gutted. Others suffered immensely due to the collapse of healthcare. Many have endured brutal winters without heat, as fuel costs soared. Restaurants, museums, and libraries have been forced to close.
If Americans truly understood the extent of Orbán’s corruption—how he has turned a once-thriving, beautiful nation into a place of hardship and despair—they would not hold him in such high regard.
Let’s remind everyone that genocide is not an act of politics, neither a crime ( although it us a criminal act as well ) … genocide is the act of evil . And we as humans , must destroy evil for the sake of future generations.
Please keep this up and let’s do anything however small to push back against the devil in charge of our affairs .
Dear Marianne, thank you. I am from Bosnia. We met briefly at one of the past conferences. I love your work. if you need anything, translated into BCS I am here. This is indeed happening and this happened in the Balkans to me and my family. We were too weak to stop Milosevic. He owned the media and people simply did not understand his intentions until it was too late. Then we managed to legally come here, hoping for a better life, democracy and freedom which we had. But I have to tell you, I moved to a small town USA and in the past couple of years no one wanted to hire me here. I am college educated. I read and write five languages. Yes, we can legally live here. Only when I changed and “Americanized” my name on my resume, I got an interview after more than 150 applications elsewhere.
I am not sure what I can do to help others at this point. I am afraid that my own legal status might be removed and therefore I might remove this comment later. I am afraid indeed.
oh, and most of my countrymen and women who live here and they are Muslims from Bosnia (as far as I am informed) unfortunately voted for trump hoping that would stop the suffering in Gaza. They are now in for a rude awakening.
Thank you for this post. I hope others read it. Good luck to you and your family.
Dear Language teacher - I hear you, I believe you, and the USA is lucky to have you! We are a country of immigrants. Your experience under Milosevic may fall on deaf or ignorant ears, but those of us who remember know you speak the truth. Thank you for raising your voice here - it matters & is vital for us to fight for “liberty & justice for all”!
How I understand you, dear Language Teacher... I followed the terrible events in Bosnia remotely, and suffered with you, seeing your beautiful culture, seeing multicultural Sarajevo so atrociously attacked for years by the ultranationalist armies and militias of Milosevic, Karadzic & consorts. I published a collection of poems for Bosnia at the time. I'm well aware of how Milosevic came to power, yes. Always the same frightening way, imposing himself little by little on the people, distilling day after day a nauseating propaganda, a frightening narrative, polarizing, stirring up hatred against a designated scapegoat, in the manner of a Hitler, a Putin... I remember having heated debates at the time, with a colleague (I was a language teacher too 😉): he told me I was exaggerating, that “Milosevic had been democratically elected”...
We can see where the most democratic elections can sometimes lead, as in Hungary, yes, as in Germany in 1933... As could be the case again in Germany soon, if the bulwark against the AfD gives way (fortunately thousands of people are saying NEIN right now in the streets! ); just as it could happen in France, where I live (where I came as a child from Turkey with my parents, also in a difficult political context), a country whose tradition has always been to defend human rights and welcome others, and which narrowly avoided the far right coming to power a few months ago, but it is still lurking in ambush, and under its impetus many are beginning to talk in an uninhibited way of “migratory submersion”, of calling into question the « jus soli », the birthright citizenship which is one of the cornerstones of the French nation…
Everywhere in the world there is now this temptation to exclude, to authoritarianism... So, yes, democracies have both this strength and the fragility of a strength that can turn against itself: freedom of vote, opinion and expression is their Achilles' heel, where they must learn to protect themselves, as Marianne suggests in today's powerful video, and previous ones, and fight fiercely for their own values - and their very existence.
Nothing can be taken for granted, and we have to fight back - peacefully. To fight FOR…
But know that you're not alone, dear language lover from your beautiful country, and dear American friends struggling with this clique of madmen who have now been installed in power in the US: I do hope that knowing that we're all in this together, all fighting together, all over the world, for the same cause, and that something beautiful is bound to come out of all our joint thoughts and actions, will cheer you up a little.
Take heart! Like Churchill, whom Marianne quotes, Alexey Navalny himself, assassinated a year ago, used to say: even if I die, you must not give up. DON’T GIVE UP ! My heart goes out to you. Warmest greetings from France.
Excellent! I went to the 50501 protest at ca Capitol… Thank you for education and call to wake up!!
Excellent 💥💥I couldn’t make it out🕊️Kudos to You!!🕊️🕊️🕊️
Thank you Marianne for your courage and direction! I continue to fear this won't resolve peacefully. What good comes to anyone who instigates the collapse of a society? I can't follow the thinking of Elon in this teardown.
I’m spreading factual history and truth ❣️
HELP‼️ Marianne, everyone -- if you know of a federal government employee or employees who were fired by DOGE, please let them know that the 14 Democratic state attorneys general are seeking an Order from Judge Chutkan to block DOGE from accessing data systems or making personnel decisions at seven federal agencies, and they need to hear from them. Their input will help tremendously in prevailing on this issue with Judge Chutkan. Chutkan needs specifics as to the impact of being fired in their lives, etc. They can refer to the 2/17/2025 NBC NEWS article by Daniel Barnes and Natasha Korecki, "Judge Appears Unlikely to Immediately Halt DOGE Access and Firings," for their confidential tips e-mail, phone number, address, etc. (can also click on "contact us" on the article). Thank you.🙏
"We’re looking to hear from federal government workers. If you’re willing to talk with us, please email us at tips@nbcuni.com or contact us through one of these methods."
Thanks Marianne🌹couple questions perhaps you could clarify. I’m a member of Peace Action of Michigan. Alert 🚨 cane in today.
February 13 Headline: "Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts"
Believable? Crazy? Distracting? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
Eventually Trump hopes all three would agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half. He lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation's nuclear deterrent. “There's no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many. You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over."
"We're spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually,
hopefully more productive."
Will Trump actually say to the Presidents of Russia and China: "Let's cut our military budgets in half?"
Secondly, I also read they are going to be giving out DOGE stimulus checks. Is this True? “Elon Musk expresses interest in sending out DOGE checks
The proposal calls for sending 20 percent of savings back to taxpayers.” ~~Politico 2/18/25
“On Tuesday, Musk posted on X that he “will check with the president” on Azoria CEO and co-founder James Fishback’s idea to send out “DOGE dividend” checks. The plan calls for returning 20 percent of the savings generated by the Department of Government Efficiency back to taxpayers in the form of direct payments.”
Please 🙏🏼 lmk your thoughts. Not only Am I in a Hostile Takeover of the Government. I’m also going thru a Hostile Takeover of Family!! Maga brother is POA and will not allow me to see my Mom in Hospice🥹Justice will be served. However , exactly a microcosm of the macrocosm💯it’s a very strange place to be in to say the least….
I’m well aware Of the Total 💯Abuse of Power, of the Coup, take over of FAA, using 4yr old baby as a Human Shield, etc. Watch “Dead Zone” based on Stephen Spielberg’s 1979 book. Great film & book 📕 I will be calling Washington in the morning. Appreciate any feedback you have Marianne as we navigate these troubled waters🌊
Much Love to You & All, Anna
Given that we spend so much more than those other countries do, why can’t we make our own reductions whether they do or not? But yes, I welcome. Those comments I have made that point about nuclear arm so many times.
Do we even know if DT meant 50% reduction in weaponry or in staffing? :/
I have no idea 🤷🏼♀️ at this point they have everyone’s head spinning which is intentional. Peace & All Good
Yes you have…I missed the zoom call. It’s like is it even safe to Hope anymore?🙄Sighhhh🙏🏼🕊️🌹
Yep! Thank you for connecting the dots and saying it. It’s undeniable
.they try to twist it, confuse everyone, tell us this is good for us, and all the money distraction.
Trump and Musk are our Viktor Orban. They have been in many meetings. And with Heritage Foundation, who is now speaking on certain news stations like they are mainstream.
America, trust your gut. Marianne’s, good job🔥🙏
I look forward to these videos! Thank-you so much for your moral guidance. It renews my spirit. There is so much going on that it's overwhelming.
Soooo grateful for your voice and perspective, Marianne. Grateful for every breath of sanity still available to us.
Please work with AOC! She should be high on your list of brave women
action is our only hope.
And the Dems are doing nothing. They helped approve his dumb nominees.
I can’t even believe that the Dems helped Trump.
We have guns and our people are not homogeneous like hungary. We will give an adjustment to people who need it.
Fuck orban and fuck every single white Christian nationalist.
My concern is why the Dems are doing nothing at all.
It isn’t true that Dems helped approve the nominees. They actually fought hard, but it’s a numbers game. The Republicans got more votes and are in charge of both houses.
Just restacked. Have been listening to you, reading you, loving you, sharing you for 30 years. Wish I’d known and supported you when you were on the front lines of caring for people with AIDs, when others were terrified to be near gay people, much less gay people with AIDs. You are tireless, fearless, relentless, present, and prescient and I ache that my fellow Americans have chided you when you were speaking truth and wisdom. It takes tremendous strength, capacity, courage, conviction, and willingness to do what you are doing Marianne. Only someone open to being truly guided and fueled by love could be doing what you are doing. I’ve seen that for decades. Praying others will in this Holy Instant. Love and appreciate you!
Thanks So much for your life time passion to share and inspire , I ve followed you since church in Chicago , love you , and our new world unfolding 🌈
I am the daughter of Hungarian parents who fled to this country after World War II to escape the terrors of Communist rule. Over the past eight years, I have spent considerable time in Budapest researching my family history, which I documented in my book, The Politzer Saga. During this time, I have witnessed firsthand how Viktor Orbán’s government has devastated the country.
Friends have been blackballed, unable to find work. Families with young children have been forced to leave because the educational system was gutted. Others suffered immensely due to the collapse of healthcare. Many have endured brutal winters without heat, as fuel costs soared. Restaurants, museums, and libraries have been forced to close.
If Americans truly understood the extent of Orbán’s corruption—how he has turned a once-thriving, beautiful nation into a place of hardship and despair—they would not hold him in such high regard.
I'm so glad you are free to come and go and free to speak your mind.
Thank you for your 1st-hand perspective on Orbàn. We must be watchful and heed your warning.
Excellent post .
Let’s remind everyone that genocide is not an act of politics, neither a crime ( although it us a criminal act as well ) … genocide is the act of evil . And we as humans , must destroy evil for the sake of future generations.
Please keep this up and let’s do anything however small to push back against the devil in charge of our affairs .