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karaswisher.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Exactly

Unfortunately for the Democrats, no, you cannot flashmob your way out of a coup.
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Look the rebuttal was key opportunity lost. Third Way think tanks and polling data will not help.

Picking a leading fighter, highlighting each asset being destroyed each week - across all media - to galvanize retribution will.

But Trump seeing people’s back, not bows will drive him nuts in public.

dorosaynow.bsky.social•36 days ago

Normal decorum will have no impact. Trump is all performance art. Act back in kind!

billb2222.bsky.social•36 days ago

If they want to hold up signs, they should read “Putin’s Pussycat” or “Billionaires’ Bootlicker”.

kitposting.bsky.social•36 days ago

buttfarts7.bsky.social•36 days ago

Luigi gets out of jail teams up with AOC who abandons politics as futile and joins him underground where they lead a digital grassroots dometic insurgency commanding direct action and civil disobedience against the gov't with clandestine aide and support from our once ally's intelligence agencies.

voscari.bsky.social•36 days ago

Honestly I would have preferred a flash mob during the SOTU to whatever that was.

lalasplace.bsky.social•36 days ago

It takes everything!! Friction may not be enough, but it matters. Our social nature is hardwired and though these monsters seem shameless, it catches up with them! Protest fuels action and there’s a smaller distance to cross over to more drastic measures. Resistance = Hope!
I ❤️ Kara and Scott!!

imouttaheeeah.bsky.social•36 days ago

I get that they’ve looked inept, but what is it that they’re supposed to be doing?

talleststone.bsky.social•36 days ago

YELLING

trruhnke.bsky.social•36 days ago

New leaders are emerging and this will continue. By all measures, the public is simultaneously in a heightened state of economic awareness and a political coma, as they have lost thread of the relationship between economics and politics (if they ever had it).

gavsbullies.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Democrats should have yelled Traitor to Trump, Vance and every Republican who is supporting the MAGA authoritarian regime. Then walked out and held a press conference,

gregovereasy.bsky.social•36 days ago

Where is the goddammed leadership????. Is there no elected democrat willing to do something like Al Green just did? I could not be more horrified at the complete non response - the signs were humiliating.

gregovereasy.bsky.social•36 days ago

Try not showing up, next time it’s far more effective and less embarrassing.

gregovereasy.bsky.social•36 days ago

This is a five alarm fire, and our democratic leaders are failing us.

chappie12.bsky.social•36 days ago

Everyone of the Dems should have continued to interrupt and call Trump a liar until they were all cuffed and taken to jail, John Lewis is rolling over in his grave.

morrowjamesadam.bsky.social•36 days ago

Exactly 💯
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ljo4qorqfk26

iheartdannon.bsky.social•36 days ago

I left the party in December and I'm feeling really smug rn.

muchachoburacho.bsky.social•36 days ago

You're a fucking moron.

iheartdannon.bsky.social•36 days ago

But no longer a Democrat!

I didn't switch parties I just went no affiliation and will vote for dem candidates most likely.

muchachoburacho.bsky.social•36 days ago

That will help.

migginsoldepieshop.bsky.social•36 days ago

Seems legit...

pjcrooks.bsky.social•36 days ago

The entire leadership needs to go.

adhdwonderwoman.bsky.social•36 days ago

It’s building a momentum for people that have been paralyzed & standing still. every act of resistance counts and matters. Fuck anybody puts down people who are actually taking action, while they stay in complacency complaining cycle instead of doing stuff. they won’t divide us. We’re busy uniting

freedomnow.bsky.social•36 days ago

My housemate is like that, but it’s because she’s nearly paralyzed with fear & anxiety as a queer Jew in this moment. I don’t hold it against her, it’s all she can do to hold it together day by day.

Anyway… I agree 100% we need to throw as much sand in the gears as possible. Every grain helps.

madewithfire.bsky.social•36 days ago

I've called Hakeem Jeffries to let him know to stand up speak up, sitting in silence will not save democracy.

#BeLikeAlGreen

doctorparadox.bsky.social•36 days ago

We need many acts of resistance large and small -- ridiculing the small ones is unlikely to help uncoup either imho (see also: the entire "Republicans are doing fascism, let's dish on Democrats!" genre)

elisacp.bsky.social•36 days ago

Perfectly said. I am deeply disheartened by my own kind.

doctorparadox.bsky.social•36 days ago

The friendly fire fills me with facepalm. 🤦🏽

elisacp.bsky.social•36 days ago

I could go on and on. I keep composing and either deleting or saving to draft a million rants about it.

show-me-the-hope.bsky.social•36 days ago

Democratic leadership needs to be replaced. Our democratic republic is burning down and Dems are holding up signs and TikTok dancing - and those are the ones who aren’t sleeping.

Al Green is a Lone Ranger. 🫡

quodnomenmihiest.bsky.social•33 days ago

But but but...
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov are writing reminding their Dem colleagues to display decorum... bc... you know... this has been so effective. And Schumer is happy that Sen Fetterman is happy about something something unified blah blah. 🙄

valerieb02.bsky.social•33 days ago

Green will be censured and likely
lose his committees because of this. While I admire his actions we've got to pick our battles.

show-me-the-hope.bsky.social•33 days ago

Due respect, this is such an unfair assessment. Why should he be censured? NO ONE should be censured for acting on behalf of their constituents. Republicans do the opposite - they act on behalf of themselves only, so THEY are the ones who should be censured.

You're blaming the victim here.

valerieb02.bsky.social•32 days ago

He's going to be censured and will lose his committees.theyre not MY rules but that's why more didn't speak up.

show-me-the-hope.bsky.social•32 days ago

I understand. I'm not yelling at YOU. I'm just completely OUTRAGED that Democrats can never UNITE, especially when American democracy is on the line and we're losing it more every day.

show-me-the-hope.bsky.social•32 days ago

We are WAY beyond this. WAY beyond a call for decorum. WAY WAY beyond 10 effing DEMOCRATS voting to censure a fellow Democrat.

This should not have happened -- PERIOD, NO EXCUSES.

Our very democracy is on the line. ENOUGH with Roberts Rules of Order. ENOUGH with decorum.

This is time to FIGHT.

valerieb02.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm wrong about the committees ..has to be the members own party that votes them off.

show-me-the-hope.bsky.social•32 days ago

And we need to be LOUD to make SURE this does NOT happen. I swear to God if a single Democrat votes to pull Al Green from a single committee, I will personally work night and day to make SURE those Democrats are never re-elected.

valerieb02.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm just saying that that's the way it works. I obviously don't agree with it but there's rules and decorum and when the Dems are in the minority they unfortunately are at the mercy of the ruling party.

aabutler.bsky.social•36 days ago

oh, you think so. . .

bob1976nl.bsky.social•36 days ago

Who is the leader of the Democrats?
Asking for Europe... who do we talk to?

joe-guiliano.bsky.social•36 days ago

Depends on the unemployment numbers:

Jeffries until it hits 5%
Then you get the waffling until about 6%.

At that point it is Bernie/AOC party.

judgejewdy.bsky.social•36 days ago

What are they supposed to do exactly? Also, what are we supposed to do? When the rule of law has collapsed and there is no political pressure (elections), what are the options?

happybeachvibes.bsky.social•36 days ago

“norms” aren’t working and while some @democrats.org get it the majority do not, while @aoc.bsky.social is polarizing at least she gets it…..she hasn’t had a cushy Congressional job all her life!!

dr-fox.bsky.social•36 days ago

Such a tepid response from congressional dems. I was hoping that Rep. Al Green was kicking things off for an evening of full of the good kind of trouble. They should have continued to “breach decorum,”getting bounced out one by one until no one was left but that orange carbuncle and his sycophants.

muchachoburacho.bsky.social•36 days ago

The fact that you think that wins you a single swing voter is exactly how we ended up here in the first place.

dr-fox.bsky.social•35 days ago

I don’t really like being part of a nation-sized batch of frog soup. But, hey, if you enjoy stewing in the broth as it comes up to temperature, then go ahead and continue playing this game.

muchachoburacho.bsky.social•33 days ago

I love that the people who phrase it like this almost universally don't give a shit about actually trying to win elections if that would require even the tiniest bit of modulation.

dr-fox.bsky.social•33 days ago

I very much give a shit about winning elections. But what to do when the words or actions of actions of our elected officials so patently contradict the spirit and, increasingly, the letter of the law?

dr-fox.bsky.social•33 days ago

We have all become too siloed in our information ecosystems, shunning people and ideas that threaten to undercut the premises upon which our precariously constructed micro-realities are built. I’m certainly guilty of this, though I try to keep this hazardous thumb-sucking myopia in check.

mtnem.bsky.social•36 days ago

Rather than wearing pink and holding up signs, all of the Democrats should have boycotted the SOTU and held their own meeting to start planning what the fuck they’re going to do to get us out of this mess

lifeinfuquayvarina.bsky.social•36 days ago

I am so hot.

Ffs color coordinate and t shirts.

Stop following the god damn rules.

Fuck your chance of reelection. Fuck the immediate consequences. Fuck the punishment. Walk out with Al Green.

Stop making Tik Toks.

Show some goddamn chutzpah.

Our goddamn daughters need warriors.

e-edwardgrey.bsky.social•36 days ago

I do not expect to survive the coming CW2. But I figure if I can take out 2-3 RedHats before they get me, I'll go out of here a happy man... and hopefully leave a constitutional republic standing for my daughter, and possible grandchildren.

This is going to take violence, and rivers of MAGA blood.

cankatethegreat.bsky.social•35 days ago

Do not underestimate how much those 'former allies' hate ALL United States of Americans.

Not just the Cheeto or Leon Mush. Add in all those brainless R's who primaried out non YesMen, and for all those brainless D's who thought "it can't happen here" even AFTER Jan 6, and accepted Biden for Prez.

qbnmamaslays.bsky.social•36 days ago

Rep. Al Green is the only one with the courage!

hopesprayers.bsky.social•36 days ago

kathleenchance.bsky.social•36 days ago

Exactly !!!!! Democrats need guts!!! Sadly, they haven’t had that in decades. Biden did great things for the middle class and the economy. Let’s focus on that AND making the government more efficient and up to date. Blowing up government is NOT the answer. But it does need some major upgrades 👍🏻

buttfarts7.bsky.social•36 days ago

I envy magas for their natural belligerent aggression. Say what you will, they are willing to throw down for what they feel is right without regard to personal consequences. It'd be heroic if they weren't so ass-backwards.

As much as I hate them, I do share their distain for liberal pussies.

just-icememes.bsky.social•36 days ago

But can you flash-dance your way out of this?

No?

Dang.

larryleclair.bsky.social•36 days ago

Quick Note To Democrats: In the midst of a fascist coup if you think holding up ping pong paddles and looking stern is an appropriate response, perhaps it's best in future to simply not attend.

porcdalmatian.bsky.social•36 days ago

I hate to say it, but it’s gonna take violence. It’s the only language fascists understand.

realmajority.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yes. And money.

blbarden.bsky.social•36 days ago

Are the national Democrats doing anything in the special elections to the House?

timcon8.bsky.social•35 days ago

It is time to speak up and remove the Russians from our White House and media.

mariena91.bsky.social•36 days ago

Exactly. No one has emerged as a true long-term dissident/opposition leader yet. The lawmakers are floundering along with the population because they are still thinking with their cushy R vs D politics brains while the other side is thinking with revolutionary movement/mission brains.

nerdpocalypse.bsky.social•35 days ago

Perhaps someone could differentiate flashmob and revolution for me?

beingbetterhumans.bsky.social•36 days ago

If they do, no matter what they do, close ranks! Be as disciplined in our righteous pluralism as they are in their deviant pluralism. Let's start there!!

wordlydiscourse.bsky.social•36 days ago

But #socialproof it very important. @anatosaurus.bsky.social

dmgaltieri.bsky.social•36 days ago

Louder for the cheap seats

mrsdianek.bsky.social•36 days ago

So then it's Civil War. That movie, it's going to be like that. I'm crying for my grandchildren.

agbooth.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yeah, like going into Repub districts with a Dem challenger and holding a town hall...

lindamk.bsky.social•36 days ago

The democrats wouldn't even stand up in protest or at least show solidarity with Al Green. Looking away and staying frozen in their seats as if afraid they'd be next was appalling.
Cowering in front of the republicans gives them power. No wonder they are brazen with their words and actions.

jregueiro.bsky.social•35 days ago

Ask Venezuelans how demonstrations worked for them.

menopausedietplan.bsky.social•35 days ago

Time to take the gloves off and please, please, please stop showing up with a butter knife when the other side has a machete. Wake up, Dems!

sandraeb.bsky.social•36 days ago

If it had been led by a woman oh never mind

puppydelay.bsky.social•36 days ago

What do you suggest they do? I'm serious... I would like to know!

a-witty-twit.bsky.social•36 days ago

The only flash you'll need is -light & -suppressor...

#No47thReich #elbowsup #durisnonfrangor #sorrynotsorry

gerribrightwell.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yes!!!! Do something!

realmajority.bsky.social•36 days ago

I do declare Right On! Sanity.

hershellbryant.bsky.social•36 days ago

and yet, none of the do-somethings have decided what, exactly, should be done because only Democrats have agency, obviously

jgerardi.bsky.social•36 days ago

The Dems are cowardly when it comes to standing up for Canada. Someone like Whitmer should be tieing the greater sabotage going on.

hershellbryant.bsky.social•36 days ago

voters kept Dems from power...voters are not victims here, but the agents of their own pain...voters thought that their choice would hurt others

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