Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
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cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
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They've got better ways to fight legislation.
If that's a tactic that works, then it's never going to stop; it'll only get more refined/extreme.
The only way to make it stop is either to get police to give a fuck, or to tell the threateners to go ahead and try.
There's kompromat and threats and lots of bribes if they just go along.
That’s not a value statement, just an observation. One that Dems do not seem to fully grasp or grapple with.
I don’t think it will stop if Ds continue to provide Rs with cover and safety.
If there is anything you can reliably predict about DJT, it's that his "allies" will sooner or later get thrown under the bus
Black folks already know these risks. It's in our history.
Any Republican who changed parties would paint a HUGE target on his back.
And Democrats get death threats too.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/susan-wicklund/this-common-secret/9781586486471/?lens=publicaffairs
But hey, gotta reach that hand across the aisle because bipartisanship or whatever. Literally negotiating with terrorists
We're complicit with normalizing this depravity.
Too many non-Trumper friends and family defended "friends and family" over "politics". The rot is culture wide. It isn't just Trumpers.
No lifetime elected representatives.
#TermLimits
Thanks.
fuckin resign and let somebody with the mettle for the work take over
https://bsky.app/profile/mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social/post/3lhrg5tuygs2y
and lol; lmao
I think we are now seeing the consequences of coddling RW terrorists again and again.
This tolerance of violence goes one way and one way only
That's why democracy was seen as such a radical idea.
Abba Eban, Israeli politician/diplomat, 1967
Sometimes it does less than nothing, because some people think protesting is a substitute for voting.
We're in this situation directly because of the results of votes. No amount of angrily waving signs is gonna fix that.
And which peaceful protestors get labeled domestic terrorists and that's all the justification needed to retaliate with impunity.
I wonder why the discrepancy /s
https://bsky.app/profile/theonion.com/post/3lholh4p7rs2a
the WH. Limousines, Elizabeth Arden red doors, newly homeless everywhere and bomb threats. Evacuated 3 times at least.
No taxation without representation.
It's the American way.
Homo sapiens are not the delightful creature you imagine them to be.
Trump released 1600 murderess insurrectionists from prison
What do we think their job is now
You obtain a firearm, you train, and you stay strapped.
The only place where we will be able to protect ourselves from an authoritarian leader is in blue states.
That is why Pence suddenly went and inspected military facilities in blue states after Jan 20 when it still looked like Trump might try to continue his attempted coup.
The real problem will be if we allow the FBI to come and arrest our political leaders and install regime friendly figures like Adam’s.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Sorry you never bothered to read a single book about governance in your entire life before you ran.
Seriously. It comes with the job. Quit if you can't handle it.
It's part of the gig.
Don't want to deal with it, don't take the job.
I don't blame people who don't want to. Fuck knows I don't.
Being an elected official brings duties and obligations. And risks.
Don't want to accept them? Quit. Don't complain about them when the cost of the oath comes due.
It's always been a very real threat.
And even granting that premise, yes, having a job that requires you to put yourself and your family at risk is a big ask.
No one is requiring them to do it.
If elected representatives don't want to fulfill their oath, they should resign.
Very white, very Conservative, that should tell all.
up and act with integrity.
That said, is that Gillibrand’s
excuse? I’m skeptical they’re really physical cowards to that degree. I think they’re compromised in other ways.
Seriously, that's the cure to this kind of intimidation.
Have they considered making their briefcases transparent and funding more cops?
If you fear the cost of truth, ask yourself what the cost of continued lies will be for your children.
And I didn't take an oath to defend the Constitution.
Gillibrand and others can suck it up, or resign and let someone else do the job.
Of course, the GOP doesn't care about others, particularly brown others in other countries.
https://bsky.app/profile/ellisor.net/post/3kfg2llgp2l2i
Even our arts support violence and lawlessness.
So many Republicans resigned "for family reasons" under Trump 1.0. The current cowards can do that as well.
If these threats scare them into folding them now they will always be threatened to do anything trump wants!
#AmericanAutocracy
These weak little pukes need to up their game.
going off 🤦♂️
The message would be "terrorism works".
It can be both cowardly but at the same time a serious and legit threat.
Live my life, falling in line pssie posse.
This morning.
I was stirring my coffee too loud.
Also,i don't trust the cat.
It's plotting something.
That's not exactly a high bar, I know.
Not one inch...
It's especially bad when conservative politicians in Canada are scared shitless!
Cowardly shitheels
Job doesn't stop just because you get spooked.
This morning.
I was stirring my coffee too loud.
Also,i don't trust the cat.
It's plotting something.
In the end, it’s a distinction without a difference and I don’t know why Dems keep bringing it up.
Disagree that we need 'heroes'. What we need are regular people, standing up for what is right. Tons of them. Regular people, calling out corruption, right now.
Fall in line? Nope.
PRIMARY THREATS FROM ELON
I had this question in 2016 when the women who accused Trump of rape were threatened.
It was mobsters before he had nazis, it’s all been second nature for him… If the GOP “normals” had half the bravery of others who have stood up for democracy, we wouldn’t be here
Quarter million a year!
Let them pay.
And she is married to a
British Venture Capitalist.
Senator AOC sounds good to me.
Gillibrand is the bitch that demand Al Franken resign. He was becoming more popular than her in her conservative Albany,
District.
Cowards unfit to serve.
Not that there aren't a ton of other issues, but that one isn't one.