We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty?

The Guardian ^ | 27 Jul, 2025 | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

[MtnClimber]

Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose.

The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear. We wake each morning, holding our breath to bear witness to the new devastation: PBS and NPR defunded, cuts to the fight against human trafficking, Medicaid gone for millions, Ice working to surveil critics, tons of food for the poor ordered burned and wasted.

The momentum of cruelty always feels inevitable. Cruelty is by definition “a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain”. For those of us who have suffered physical, political, racial and emotional abuse, it feels like a familiar steamroller of violence. We only have to witness the cries of parents being separated from their children, men screaming out for “libertad” from cages in Everglades detention center (AKA Alligator Alcatraz), non-violent protesters beaten for trying to stop a genocide, to be frozen in that same incapacitating dread and fear.

What is the antidote to this destructive environment of mendacity possessing us now with fear, ennui and self-mutilating rage?

Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, a powerhouse activist and brilliant organizer, told me: “It’s not decided where we go yet. Which is why it feels tense. What we know is that there’s no going back to an old normal because our economic system has failed us and our governmental structure is being destroyed. They’re trying to replace what was with this minority rule of disgustingly wealthy humans dictating what can happen not only in this country, but globally.

[Red6]

Trump is fixing YEARS of stupidity where feelings and ideology (not rational thought where concepts like risk and ROI determine the COA) have led government to become bloated, highly inefficient, invasive in peoples lives, riddled with fraud, nepotism, waste and abuse.

In the end, it will be those “paying the taxes” and who are “citizens” that stand to benefit from his actions which will lesson the burden on the system may it me Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, or even public schools, etc.

People like this author are always the same, feeeeeeling..... nothing but feeeeeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_yaZQmRzA

You cannot base macro / national level policies on “feelings.” The outcome of that is disastrous.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

She’s one to talk about suffering political abuse. Talk about a hypocrite. Wow.

[Mark]

OH! The HORROR !

[SaveFerris]

Is it transitioning into a man called “V”?

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

AND…. How much “Cruelty” happened to American women from illegals coming into our country???

Turn it back on them!!

[SaveFerris]

(What’s the “V” stand for?
(Dare I ask? 🤣))

I think she’s V for Vapid

[SaveFerris]

I have never seen such cruelty!

https://youtu.be/LjY4rQxhE88?si=dC7jOolsldZpz01I

[SuperLuminal]

This screed is the result of the prolific use of hallucinogens

[brookwood]

“Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, a powerhouse activist and brilliant organizer, “ ... translation: some stupid liberal.

[Vigilanteman]

You want examples; I'll give you examples:

1. PBS and NPR defunded, ==>most of their audience is a very wealthy demographic who could easily support the programming with grants and/or advertising if it is important to them.
   
2. cuts to the fight against human trafficking, ==> by deporting the biggest segment of human traffickers a/k/a cartels and gang members.
   
3. Medicaid gone for millions, ==> of illegal aliens
   
4. Ice working to surveil critics, ==> mostly here illegally and/or suckling off said problem.
   
5. tons of food for the poor ordered burned and wasted.==>Been to any free government food distribution area lately? That's been happening since long before Trump first came down the escalator in 2015 to announce his run.

[Candor7]

Esler: “The world is ending....RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !”

I love the sound of leftists caterwauling.

The people voted for whats happening. And Esler just does not get it. We do not want your bizarro world. We voted against all of it.

[hal ogen]

I guess because they seemingly experience such “cruelty”, their best option is to off themselves so they do not have to experience this horror. Bye...bye!

[yuleeyahoo]

You gotta be
Cruel to be kind in the right measure
Cruel to be kind it’s a very good sign
Cruel to be kind means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind

[2nd Amendment]

I agree! Trump is moving too slow to get these freeloader off the public payroll!

[Spok]

“I think the author needs a lobotomy.”

I think the author has had a lobotomy.

[Eleutheria5]

Can the NY Post pontificate about the UK? Seems it’s only fair.

[Eleutheria5]

She's a comic book character now? Or is it the really bad movie version that she's emulating?

[Eleutheria5]

“I think the author needs a lobotomy.”

“I think the author has had a lobotomy.”

At this point, what difference does it make?

[Eleutheria5]

“The people voted for whats happening. And Esler just does not get it. We do not want your bizarro world. We voted against all of it.”

Yeah, but you’re all dumb knuckledragging peasants who refuse to listen to your betters, such as me./s

[SaveFerris]

GREAT song