If I were an elected Dem today, here’s what I’d be doing:
- Not cooperating with anything administration wants to do. No bailing the GOP out. Shut it down.
- Daily fireside chats explaining how/why I’m fighting.
- Calling them fash.
- Attending protests. Calling for protests (at their homes?)
- Not cooperating with anything administration wants to do. No bailing the GOP out. Shut it down.
- Daily fireside chats explaining how/why I’m fighting.
- Calling them fash.
- Attending protests. Calling for protests (at their homes?)
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This is corruption. They’re trying to dismantle our country to rob us blind. They’re weakening us at the behest of billionaires. We can’t respond to crises because of them.
They don’t care about you.
What Jeffries and Schumer are offering ain’t it.
Stuff the GOP would never let happen. And I’d use that opposition as justification for opposing everything they want to do.
Reframe the conversation: They won’t help you. Only screw you
Fuck it.
As for the state of the union? Yell at the president. Call him a loser. Call him a liar. Call him a criminal. Shout him down. Boo him.
That’s the kind of disrespect we need.
“Attacks on DEI”=Resegregation
“Trans issues”=Human rights
“Waste, fraud, and abuse”=Elon and Trump’s business model.
Just keep hitting them. There’s nothing to be gained by being civil.
Punish them in the media every fucking day. Make them afraid of the public.
Then the story is about Dem behavior, not Trump's horrific policies, his idiotic attempts to justify it, and the sycophancy of the GOP
Being confrontational isn't the same as demonstrating arrested adolescence. I think the Dem women in the House know how to be smart. I trust them.
Why no bold action in rejection. They are not within norms of governing and the response, at very least, should be likewise.
Explaining to Dems that there's no points to be earned thru "bipartisanship" anymore would be great, but their heads so thick.
Agreed 100% that EVERY Dem in Congress needs to be out & about as much as fucking possible – in D.C. *and* back home. If they need to up their return trips for a while, so be it.
I think they are planning to vote with Republicans on budget without getting anything for it.
That said, I think the fireside chats might be best used to counter MAGA spin. Also, do constituents want to know their reps are fighting, or more rudimentary info like actual PLANS to prevent the worst.
Wait
But this has to be uncomfortable for them
They crossed it. They need to live in the world they’ve created.