At this point I honestly don't understand how no elected Democrat has gotten themselves arrested on live TV yet.
It makes those of us outside of the U.S. assume that they either universally don't care that the country is falling to fascism or that literally none
of them realize it's happening.
It makes those of us outside of the U.S. assume that they either universally don't care that the country is falling to fascism or that literally none
of them realize it's happening.
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No Dem has challenged Trump to publicly execute them for their beliefs.
We need martyrs. Not cowards.
Cowards die a thousand deaths.
They’re all asking a version of “how were they so stupid.”
I hold Democrats to a higher standard.
Correction: I USED to hold Democrats to a higher standard.
Good luck with your theory that if everyone stays quiet and doesn't do anything too dramatic some Republicans will decide to save you.
The United States is basically Germany in 1938 at this point and calls for someone, ANYWHERE, to protest against that fact as though the nation literally depends on it are being read as a call for a "performance" by people who, I guess, aren't even willing to PERFORM resistance.
If no one's willing to risk arrest to protest the rise of fascism and the plan is "wait for some Republicans to abandon power" then you're gonna get fascism.
Frankly, I agree.
Until people do the massive protests we see in Germany or in the UK against Trump, not much will be happening.
I happen to think protesting against fascism is a worthy task in ANY context but even if it's merely performative... at least they could PERFORM some outrage.
Second, there is very little live TV around right now. Getting arrested live on C-SPAN isn't a guarantee of press coverage.
Third, it's a bad idea to take votes off the floor when the margins are so close.
Second, Chuck Schumer getting arrested would DEFINITELY get wall-to-wall coverage for days.
Third, on voting, MITCH McCONNELL is lapping the Dems in opposition.
A Schumer arrest would NOT get "wall to wall coverage" for days. And it would allow R-controlled media to accuse Dems of what Rcons are doing: abandoning the rule of law.
As for McConnell, he can vote no without risking anything.
Fair enough.
Please understand though that if you try to bring what's happening down there north of the border you'll be forced to kill thousands of us, over decades.
That's your misinformed opinion.
You have no idea what we're doing down here.
None of us on the Blue team want to bring this to Canada.
You better keep an eye on Poilievre and your own "maple maga".
Rubio is a fool but he's not as nakedly incompetent as most of the others.
If you want to see the resistance Dems are offering, it's there for you to see.
If you want to pretend it isn't there, that's a YOU problem.
Maybe because I've yet to hear a single elected Democrat even meekly suggest that the POTUS should stop attacking Canada while seemingly every Dem on BlueSky muses about us responding by "voting Blue" and not "waging a decades-long violent insurgency".
I have.
Where have you been looking/listening?
Why should they go get arrested now?
If you don't understand why protesting against the rise of fascism in the United States is worth getting arrested over though then all I can hope is that you stay on your side of the border.
A normal healthy population would have took warnings from everyone way more seriously. Even Darth Vader made a symbolic vote showing how serious it is.
This population just wants to live irresponsibly.
We're not protesting, we're much too busy trying to deal with the collapse of the country on our southern border while its leader constantly threatens to end our nation's existence.