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Daniel Solomon's avatar

The people we need to impress are the Congressional Republicans. The insane Big Beautiful bill is toxic.

Today on Heather Cox Richardson. "Last night, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) told host Jimmy Kimmel that Republican senators are indeed unnerved by Trump’s behavior and the actions of the administration. The problem, Booker said, is what Thomas Jefferson said: “‘When the public fears their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears its people, there is liberty.’”

"Republicans in office “are so afraid of Donald Trump that they are letting things go,” Booker said “We the people have to make our politicians fear the consequences of…doing wrong more than the fear that Donald Trump will run a primary against them, or put $100 million, or troll them on the internet. This is…one of those moments when we are not going to see change in Washington unless more of us have said enough.”

We need to make them more afraid than unnerved.

Picket. Sit in. Call. Write.

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

All I know is when we take the house back BOYYYY, if the Democratic senators don't have a backbone - they better fucking grow one overnight and bring charges against all those who have done wrong. LOCK THE BASTARDS UP!

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peter tucker's avatar

Another moron You sound like Trump

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Catt woman's avatar

You spelled your name wrong—Fucker…..

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Steve's avatar

Pete, Isn't it a bit early to be drunk?

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Get that tree trunk out of your ass!

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Janet Wilson's avatar

I don't buy the "we are afraid" excuse. If you are afraid to defend the Constitution, step down in favour of someone who is prepared to do that job.

Republicans in Congress should be more afraid of the midterms...unless they plan to collude in making sure there aren't any.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

We're at the point where push comes to shove. Either they take on Trump or lose their next election.

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Rusty (Woke/DEI Commenter)'s avatar

Yes… I want to see impeachments, I want to see investigations and I want to see my representatives show up and act like they give a shit.

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CJ's avatar

Perfect!

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Totally agree with you. And we also need to email our Democratic representatives to let them know what we are thinking.

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Just keep doing it. I am.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

Do not provoke. The President, Hollman, Stephen Miller, Noem and the rest of them are just itching to shoot some Americans and invoke the Insurrection Act.

We keep our heads. We maintain a peaceful approach. We practice non-violence.

Anything else is sabotaging ourselves. Violence gets us nowhere. Beware using the sit-in approach historically it is a provocation. We stay standing, shouting and marching. It is impossible to corral a million protesters. We need to raise huge numbers of people in the streets.

It is not our job to strike fear. It is our job to raise our voices in strong opposition. It is our job to take back our Country.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Nobody (except maybe Trump agent prevacateurs) is advocating violence.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

I did not say they were.

These things need to be talked about ahead of time. It is important to educate protesters; possibly many of whom have never been in the streets.

The organizers of major protests such as Indivisible talk about these things.

Sit-ins turned bloody in the 1960's. I see people in these comments talking about doing that. This is called civil disobedience action and takes things up significantly.

Educating protesters is the best play.

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Pamela Koch's avatar

Fear of being primaried holds them in check, also fear of violence(which is more likely), but at some point it's not worth keeping your job & with all the money they get paid for doing nothing, they can afford private security! Grow a spine, Republican Congress!

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I'd like to believe Booker maybe in that some or even many Republicans are unnerved by trump's behaviors but are just too cowardly to do anything, but I sometimes think that is worse that genuinely worshiping him and feeling he can do no wrong. The folks that may be unnerved by him yet stand by and do nothing are just as bad or worse for their constituents that the true believers..they are not serving their constituents, will gladly see them hurt greatly just to get that paycheck every month...what horrible cowards. If they only had the integrity to stand up to trump the worst that can happen is he "primaries" them out of a job that is causing them to go against everything they claim to believe in, and how bad of an outcome is that? For goodness sake, they need to stand up for what is right and if they get primaried out then find a real job where they can honestly work towards outcomes they believe in....again what a bunch of cowards. I hope that the Congressman who recently said at a town hall meeting that he didn't know the budget bill included unlimited immunity for trump and whomever he likes at the moment at least feels a little bit like a real jerk. For some even those with next to no integrity, admitting you voted for something you had no idea about has got to be just a tiny bit unnerving deep down inside. I know many of these folks do in fact have parents who would be proud of their incompetency and deception, but I'd like to think there are a few whose parents would cringe and that they know this and again, deep down inside feel like crap for being such a disappointment to their parents.

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Vicki Murrell's avatar

I’d love to know how to get the MeidasTouch folks talking about this: https://open.substack.com/pub/dashkaslater/p/the-democrats-dont-love-democracy

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I'm sorry but It looks like Russian Trump/Musk psy ops has you on the wrong track. It's not us - it's REPUBLICANS who let us get into this position.

My regret about Biden is that he didn't go after Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections

IMHO we wuz robbed. “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”― Joseph Stalin. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania for him?

We have a window of opporunity because the toxicity of the Big Beautiful budget casts REPUBLICANS as codependants of an insane, malicious demagogue.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

Why? What is there of any substance to talk about?

This reads exactly like a summary of the mainstream news junk over the past few months with more than a little of make-believe thrown in. Lots of words saying little to nothing. (and yes-I read it)

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Vicki Murrell's avatar

I don’t follow mainstream news, so I don’t know what they are saying. I do know, however, that Biden should not have run (surely you noticed the physical decline?), that the old Dems need to play a different games with different rules or move aside, and that we cannot continue to lose local and national elections to the kinds of Repubs who have been taking over state and national legislatures for the past 25+ years.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

I do not play hindsight what if scenarios. We are here right now. How we got here is a moot point; one for the historians to chew over.

I don't get stuck in the weeds of how the Democratic Party should function at this time. We are not holding elections. We are in a coup.

No one is coming to save us. Endless critiques are useless at this point.

Let's organize and fight back. There are more of us than them. And we will win.

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