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Marilyn Strozak's avatar

Marianne, thank you for your bravery - and spine - in always speaking truth to power!

May we all find the courage & bravery to stand up to these brazen assaults on our Democracy! 💕

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Peter Wehle's avatar

C'mon Man! What the heck is going on! Bring back Colbert! We are a Democracy not an autocracy! We the People not We the MAGA!

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Judi Lindsey's avatar

Wow! It's crazy as to how many organizations are just caving. It makes you wonder what they are thinking! Or perhaps - they are not thinking! Definitely - everyone needs to grow a strong spine - and stand up to these injustices in any way they can.

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Cat's avatar

To me it looks like traditional corporate media is dying. It’s so much more exciting to get the news as it’s breaking straight from the reporters, here on Substack— where you can comment and they talk back to you and we all ask questions & there’s a sense of community that someone will do the research and find the answers!

And if there’s any time to study the bravery of our fourth fathers, it is today!

Maryann, you are just a magical person! You’re teachings were part of saving my life … but to my shocking surprise my youngest son found you at 13!! He came to me and told me all of your beliefs and he had no idea that I had taken whole courses in your books! Right now he’s standing over my shoulder, saying that it was your political views and the birds— your knowledge of birds?🤣❤️

Thank you… I’m so excited you are here on SubStack. We are witnessing this new historical way of communicating together. God bless you. Thanks again for everything you do. And thank you for changing my life and the most positive of ways that has given me purpose — it’s a gift I can’t thank you for enough. It’s priceless 💞🇺🇸💪🏼

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

Tell your son I said hi!!

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Lila McClellan's avatar

Thanks Marianne. How can we hold these institutions accountable for caving in to trump? It seems to be just about money and greed that causes this. Where has our strength; belief in goodness and a higher power gone? And how do we get it back again?

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Sanchez  Sylvia's avatar

Amen your a champion

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Rebecca Suzanne's avatar

It is the everyday folks who are being brave, writing and speaking to others. It is these crazy powerful organizations that bend the knee. In my youth we said, if the people lead, the leaders will follow. We, here at the grassroots, will save this country. Perhaps it is because we don't have millions and billions to lose! What we have to lose is far more precious. It is our beloved USAmerican democracy!

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Colette Harman's avatar

I don’t know…the Biden administration was severely dictatorial during the COVID years rife with lies and censorship and enforced mandates over an intervention that proved to be neither safe nor effective. Perhaps it’s a manifestation of the system…it doesn’t matter who’s in power in a corrupt system the corruption overrides any best intentions.

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Joseph Breuwet's avatar

I am really shocked and this view point. It is really about time that the media reverse their bullying tactics against the President. The audacity that they blocked him, continually ganged up against him has NEVER been seen before, ever. The tyranny that you speak of is exactly the reason he has to be so bold and braisen. The years of corruption that he is standing up against is not about to back down.

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Ellen's avatar

Yes, the media was horrible to Trump, and especially as they were also lying about everything else, their lies about him helped his popularity. The media has been the tyranny.

But also, sometimes Trump does go too far, sometimes things need to be rebalanced but are done so with a sloppy intensity that also causes harm, that's minimized or denied. (like the insanity of open unvetted borders wasn't compassionate to anyone. Like all countries we need to have a border. But it's become where they round up people sometimes for no cause, and spin the narrative that it's only violent criminals being put in prison, and only people not here legally being taken by ICE, and that's not true either.)

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/trump-adoration-syndrome-better-than-trump-derangement-syndrome

And underneath the partisan fighting, are the same forces controlling both parties, moving us quickly to digital control.

Important to continue to question and stay vigilant and connect patterns. Trump is not honest either ....

But after everything the media has done, especially "safe and effective" ... they need to be exposed and held accountable.

I don't see Trump as a hero who will hold the powerful to account, he is the powerful ... maybe there is some unseen force helping move things to justice. Colbert surely deserves to be fired.

https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/context-catastrophes-and-selective (Selective empathy, on all sides .. )

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Joseph Breuwet's avatar

1000% in the same court you are. There is huge change going on and to blindly follow anyone is to not listen to your higher intuition and all that are constantly directing you. I love your open mind and ability to see all sides and all dimensions of our world today. We just ride the wave and watch all evolve with the positive changes. We send out our bright light into the game and watch as it evolves in the direction we all came to help the earth move toward. We are not nahsayers but the positive power behind it all. We do not follow the events, we create them. Everyday another tone of frequency higher and more stability . As we connect our higher frequency, light and vibration, the earth does not have a choice but to continue to move toward the Oneness we all are connected to.

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Michael Goldstein's avatar

Trying to be Paul Revere. And again would like to send you the book that came through me about the need for, and possible path for creating, a nonviolent but real second U.S. Revolution. https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Disillusionment-Letting-Cannot-Turning/dp/0578978318

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AmylouiseDonnelly's avatar

I would be open to reading the book, because I suspect it has some good ideas between its covers.

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Andrew Gaines's avatar

Hi Michael – I just read your excellent book. If I get the essence of it correctly, you suggest forming small study groups / dialogue groups focused on developing a more or less common understanding of the realities of our time [environmental destruction, the military-industrial complex, corporate political power]… with a view to ultimately coalescing into a national movement to disempower abusivr of capitalism.

Indeed, coming to terms with our economic-industrial system and the (emotionally disturbed) domination-control thinking of the leadership that drives it is essential for our future well-being.

How we can align to create a viable society outlines a communication approach that complements your vision.

https://app.box.com/s/2y2jfjbuxyojl6ln6ftuq9u0n4xhmuue

I would be pleased to have a Zoom conversation to get acquainted and consider possibilities. I live in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney.

Andrew.Gaines@stableplanetalliance.org

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scott curtis's avatar

Colbert profited from his participation in mass marketing the bioweapons program. He should hang…Be not gentle with these butchers.

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Ricardo Hernández's avatar

Thank you Marianne for helping me and my wife keep our spirits up.

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Nancy's avatar

I am beyond sick and tired of the daily bullshit this administration has wrought. Due process has failed and continues to fail every single day. While we sit and scratch our heads, the plot thickens and sickens… clearly, the corruption is so dense that only a miracle can save us. May the Heritage Foundation, its newly deceased founder and our demented figurehead meet their due karma asap. I pretty much have to pretend I’m dead just to get through a day on this planet. How could we let it get to this point????

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Fanny Bea Wilde's avatar

Thank you for your faithfulness and tenacity. I wish you were president.

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Cindy the “Psycho” Therapist 😉's avatar

So true so brave so inspiring- keep telling truth to fake power Marianne - let us be the wind beneath your wings

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Leslie Davis's avatar

Just what we need to hear. I love your message …surrendering in advance. We don’t need to wonder anymore how it happened in Germany.

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