Emergency Video: Dems are falling into GOP trap, plus all about what is happening in the Govt funding fight, and how dems can push back. This is your one chance to have some DOGE accountability, and on Ukraine. (link to full video in reply)
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@adamkinzinger.bsky.social One need to realize that the Democratic Party is doomed to become irrelevant. Need to start completely fresh with a multi-party system eliminating the power of the presidency. The 1776 American model & system is done.
How about patriotic Republicans? I have to believe there are still a few left who want to honor their oath to protect and defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, and would do so with the right combination of pressure and encouragement.
Adam Kinzinger is out.
Liz Cheney is out.
I know there used to be more, but I'm drawing a blank. The only other Republicans I can remember now are fascists and their bootlickers.
I just thought that this is so far beyond politics and deep into the existential realm at this point, the reality might shine a light bright enough for them to locate their spines. Apparently, behind the scenes they have been confiding their concerns to Dem colleagues.
Do you understand the extreme benefit beyond supporting world freedom the funding for Ukraine has given America?
America doesn’t give cash to Ukraine. America has given weapons & used the funding to pay US companies to build new weapons for the US
@aoc.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social team up with @adamkinzinger.bsky.social and between three, plus Chris Murphy, you need to talk some sense into the Democratic party about opposing this chaos. There are millions of people who are looking for an opposition voice right now. Give them one!
thoughts on fallout from doge cuts becoming conflated with gov shutdown? ie ss payments stop. seems like whoever loses the messaging will end up taking a lot of the blame.. deserved or not
Thank you for your analysis.
Dem MOC need to read the room (aka the American people) and refuse to aid the GOP in destroying our democracy. Do not support any Republican bill. Schumer/Jeffries, get your people in line. Listen to your constituents, and fight!
Insist.
Resist.
Persist.
If democrats need to message that republicans are in charge when republicans have said for the last 4 months how much they won the election by, the issue isn't messaging. The issue is that the american electorate are functionally brain damaged and there isn't much you can do to fix that.
The American People's eyes 👀, including most of Maga, are now open...woke...we clearly see 👀 the Repubs lies and garbage...no matter what the Repubs say...we see 👀 what they do!
The Democrats seem to be too goddamn lazy to do anything. They're on a retreat right now and then I'm sure there's some more vacation time coming up. You can't get anything done if you work less than 130 days a year. The Republicans suck ass and maybe you should talk to your old Buddies
One party that plays fair against a most evil collection of greed, gamesmanship, and perpetual deception. If only Republicans cared for the advancement of all, and not about dicks. It’s all about dicks. So that’s what they have become…dicks.
So should Democrats just become liars like Republicans? Hey Dems just start having lies flood out of your mouth like a never ending river. That will then make your “messaging” more like the awesome “messaging” of the Republican Party.
How about this: The Republican CONTROL the House of Representatives. That means they have final say in whether or not the government stays open. Democrats do not have that power.
Thank you ADAM!
~ this is an important message from a patriot who knows the GOP from the inside, a very courageous man who stood up to stop this fascism before it got so out of hand
Twice at rallies, once in the Oval Office (but in the Oval Office one, he probably MEANT that he won despite the efforts to rig it against him by whomever he blames without evidence; he just rambled in that sentence and was unclear).
Check YouTube: plenty available videos.
Republicans have the majority, The Democrats have no reason to help them in the slightest. Let them sink or swim shouldn't be a problem, after all Mike Johnson is about as popular as poison ivy motion lotion
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social are you aware that they (Republicans) WANT the shutdown? It gives them the opportunity to demolish many agencies (such as the Department of Education, Social Security, etc) and they pick/choose which ones to reopen and when (if ever). They hold ALL the cards! 😭
Bro, just run as a Democrat somewhere so we can have someone with a sack fighting for us! Signed- A registered Republican who voted for Kamala because there was no other choice.
EXACTLY! I would HAPPILY vote for a (R) *IF* they had a pro-Constitution, pro-American values, pro-working American platform against a (D) who did NOT...but the problem is that on 1/7/21, (R)s decided that the Constitution no longer mattered, & I have not seen ONE who rises against that desecration!
Yes, and they are no longer *IN* Congress BECAUSE they stood for AMERICA and our Constitution instead of for the MAGAT cult. This is part of the problem: ACTUAL Republicans cannot BE Republicans because of the MAGAT cult's infection of the party. THIS is a HUGE problem for MANY reasons.
Yes, I don't want it kept open by Democrats. Let the fascists crash and burn for all to see. Please stop calling them republicans. Fascist who with their leaders, pres. muck and jester trump, have embraced Putin and do his bidding. So embarrassed for Americans.
The repubs have already made that threat that they will pin this on the Dems but what don’t they pin on us unfairly bashing Dems is there M.O. Have you watched Fox State Media lately?
Is a potus allowed to promote private businesses at or in front of the White House? We have a lotus doing car commercials! Can anyone answer that question?
The flip side is they can still pin it on the Democrats if government fails because it's the "Biden Economy". They already are. Voting 'Yes' gives them buy in legislation they don't even own, and when it does fail the Republicans will say 'well the Democrats agreed with it.'
What I have noticed is that Hakeem Jeffries is very good at repeating and preaching the same thing over and over. I like him but it’s time to, “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America,” John Lewis. What exactly will it take..no name calling..action!
Can you please meet with the Dem leaders and council these men on how to handle Republicans. Because clearly they have no clue what the hell they are doing.
Agree!!! Stand back…let the GOP own what they’ve created. Only when this all reaches home to the bank accts of MAGA voters will this, perhaps, change course.
Democrats have to block it and say we have to stop Musk from controlling the government. Post videos of the White House turned into a Tesla dealership. Of course, Senator Kyrsten Fetterman is all in on giving our government to Musk. Big man, small balls.
Dems always fall into GOP traps because they are predictable and are still thinking inside the box. Dems really need more fighters and new blood. People who will stand up in mass and fight in unorthodox and outside the box ways. While the non-fighters work conservative town halls.
EVERY current or former Dem MOC, Cabinet member, or govt official at any level should be busting their butts to oppose the current shitstorm, in any form they can.
Don't worry about your future election chances - if you fail us in this that will be the least of your worries.
(Blue voter since 1976)
This article supports Adam's premise for Dem actions.
Key takeaway in the piece re: Dem typical replies to Trump...
.....what poll-driven, fear-based, irrationally risk-averse messaging looks like. It thrills no one. It changes no minds. It leaves your opponent’s story as the one everybody hears.
The government at present is being shut down by the Traitor in Chief, Muskovite and the Republicans in Congress. That is the message Dems should fire off now. What government does the GOP intend to leave us to be funded? We may be funding dead government agencies and you will call that waste.
Absolutely correct!! We need to talk about seniors losing their meds, being unable to eat, and starv8ng because the GOP's greed wants to stop Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
If someone is basically entirely reliant on their Social Security checks to survive, not having those checks means they starve. Or they get thrown out of their house because they can’t pay their property taxes. It’s dire.
Rep. Thomas Massie, tell your story—why does Trump want you out of the House? Don’t fear him. History will judge inaction. Honor your love for this country. Speak out on Bluesky.
I believe really the Orange man, Nazi Musk & MAGA top echelon knows what they are doing. They are trying to destabilize the US economy so there will unrest of the masses, their goal is to declare martial law and in doing so they have a hold of the press, the military and the orange man will be king.
You would be the perfect blue-dog Democrat @adamkinzinger.bsky.social - Please consider re-joining the political arena on the side of the sane, and add some much needed centrist perspective in the fight to build a better future for everyone (even us outside the U.S)
Guess what, you might be a Democrat. We come in many political stripes, we don’t always walk in lockstep but you’re not called a traitor because you don’t agree. And no matter what part of America you come from as long as you believe in democracy you’re always welcomed. It’s time you run for office.
The reason is simple they eat from the same horse trough as Republicans. You seen the stories of Jeffries meeting with billionaires in private. Then saying what can I do? Seriously we need a revolution an throw out our representatives not with violence but together with moderate Republicans.
When are you going to become a registered Democrat and take your place in leadership of our party? We need you! Can you imagine having a former Republican as a Democratic president!
Putin’s Bitch FELON-34 and his UNELECTED South African Oligarch sidekick fElon own this- in equal measure with their CORRUPT ENABLERS IN CONGRESS AND SCOTUS.
Democrats VOTE NO ON EVERYTHING
Drive the gov’t into a shutdown or default (No debt limit extension)
Being bipartisan is absurd when MAGAs Project 2025 on which they want to pretend being “bipartisan” involves shattering the rule of law & disassembling government.
I disagree. We are in desperate times. We must use every tool at our disposal to remove this cancer from our government once and for all before he destroys what’s left of it. Federal workers 🙏🏼 STOP CAPITULATING TO UNLAWFULL DECREES/EO’s! No legal right or authority to shutter entire gov depts!
I'll never understand how the Dems only seem to be able to REACT to anything and never take the initiative to put the messaging out there in advance of any event.
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social your own party hates you and you've been repping for the Dems, WE respect you. How about you join us as we form a new Democrat Party instead of saying we keep getting messaging wrong?? Actions over words sir. The stakes are too high. You know this is a coup we are fighting
Why are government employees being directed to burn documents at USAID right now?
It's an emergency- can you get some MOC to do something about it?
I'm a lawyer and not in DC. It will take me over 4 hours to get up there. Someone closer needs to do something. Once he's wiped and burned, it's gone
Can you go to the capital and have a damn talk with these dems. They have a problem with fighting back. Some are great, but the majority, not sure because they are too old, suck. They need some coaching here.
Emergency reply.
The budget and other things going on domestically are a distraction.
I understand why Trump thinks he can get his face on Mount Rushmore, and win the Pulitzer, all while causing a mess everywhere. It all makes sense when you realize it's about BRICS and the board game Risk.
Wouldn't matter to (R)s: they hate him for doing his job in the J6 committee & showing how 🍊🤡 attempted a coup, as with Liz Cheney. Because Kinzinger respects our Constitution, he is no longer a "(R)," as "Republicans" stopped upholding & defending our Constitution 1/7/2021, and still do not today.😔
So, Adam, declare yourself a Democrat and start screaming at your fellow Democrats! There’s not much we can do for you here on Bluesky! You are preaching to the damn choir! Start preaching to the people that matter! You know these people!
Democrats' message: one of our top priorities, when back in power, is to have Elon Musk's citizenship revoked due to the criminal lies he told on his immigration application. He is no better than Nazi John Demjanjuk, who lied to get his citizenship. He is an easy target. Fire away!
I’d argue that no one, regardless of party, should hide behind “wanting to keep the government open”. If it’s a bad deal for your constituents, do not vote for it. Coordinated an alternative proposal, even if there’s no way to bring it to a vote. At least present an alternative.
Exactly!
"Keeping the government open" - for what purpose? The Administration is methodically destroying it. We have had enough of the bi-partisan, both-sides rhetoric, we don't want to hear it.
(signed)
Your constituents - remember us?
In my opinion there should have been much more accountability by our government agencies all along. It is dumbfounding to most Americans to realize how much of our tax dollars are being wasted and how there seems to have been very little oversight by Congress.
Read the bill. It has 2 little goodies in it that are worth a shut down. 1: it allows the Pres to 'sequester' funds appropriated by Congress at his discretion. 2: it takes away any power Congress may have to adjust tarriffs with legislation.
my favorite depiction of the parties comes from Lewis Black: republicans are the party of bad ideas; democrats are the party of no ideas. dems fell like they need to shift right to gain votes. no. they need to shift leeeffft. Look at at the work Bernie is doing (visibly, not sure if it's actionable)
Adam, please convert to the Democratic Party! Please, please, please! We are looking for new leadership and the party needs you. A Blue Dog Democrat would be unstoppable!!
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social you are too polite, so let me say it on behalf of everyone who wants to save our country from a bunch of delusional techno-oligarchs
Um, a lot of us hate Trump, so figure out ways to take him out without taking those of us who hate him out? I favor something more like the French Resistance in WW2
Dems need to be a UNITED “NO” to this funding. What is wrong with you. No one wants cuts to Medicaid and other social benefits that care and feed a large portion of this country.
Plus for Dems: they aren’t in a mindless cult
Negative for Dems: mixed messaging is a disaster.
I loved Jim McGovern’s message of putting on your Mandate pants. That says it all
Though a little “why pass a CR to continue funding all the fraud & waste you insist exists?” wouldn’t be too bad either
For the first time in the history of the world, you can simply say or post "He's an idiot" and 90 % of the world's population will immediately know whom you are referring to!
Nope Adam! The last time I checked the Democrats majority is made of minorities we lost an election to mostly white MAGA and a few minorities. Please don’t blame the democrats
Be Adam! If this was a minority democrat running a muck on American & the majority of minorities supporting it. What would you do? Whatever it is is what y’all should be doing now! White people are the only folks who can truly stop this 💩💩!This party has been afforded luxuries most of us aren’t
Y’all were to afraid to allow the constitution to stop these people! Y’all came up with every excuse as to why DJT &his conspiring gang couldn’t be locked up,removed from ballots/congress,why courts appoints weren’t correct, why justice could rewrite laws,why justices couldn’t be impeached,etc.It’s
y’all time to come up with a way to STOP DJT.We tried by electing Pres Biden/VP Harris it wasn’t good enough.We tried by tell y’all who DJT was it changed nothing!Start saying Democrats are the reason there was healthcare, workforce protection,Vet Benefits, Infrastructure,gun laws,etc Stop blaming
Democrats because your neighbors & peers love a convicted adjudicated rapist insurrectionist conman lying felon & his posse. Thats not a democrat problem its an American historical issue. Y’all must push the TRUTH Democrats didn’t do this! https://youtu.be/hps6yHdfHZI Y’all were warned over and over again!
Adam thank you for showing conviction for your action but until the rest of white Americans stand up and show conviction as Mitt Romney did https://youtu.be/qS-aFfJe20U previously than Democrats will continue to fight from the sidelines because we’re not going back! We will always fight because we’ve always
Adam you are usually so well spoken. But this is a mess. Are you saying don’t shut the government down or do?
The democrats cannot allow business as usual with this government. It’s a no win situation but giving the president any leverage is beyond losing. It is losing America
He’s saying don’t frame the shut down as something the Dems can control. Don’t say you aren’t in favor of a government shut down because that makes it seem like Dems are responsible. He’s saying STOP PLAYING NICE.
Then he needs to just say that. Clearly many find it confusing.
I agree. Vote no on CR. And it would be better if they said ‘The rethuglicans are shutting down the government by putting a CR in play that they are not even sure their own members will vote for.’
So you are saying do it or don’t? You just gave his same mixed up answer. If you block the CR you have no control over republican messaging so what exactly are you doing besides trying to confuse people?
No on CR. Get it straight and stop message gagging.
They can’t control Republican messaging but they can control their own. “We can’t in good conscience vote to continue letting the government run in chaos the way it currently is. We need Republicans to start negotiating in good faith to do what is best for American citizens. We vote no on the CR.”
You... ore some of you made this all madness possible. All those crazy stuff pushed over and over made this madness possible. You need to wake up. People are dying , alliances are broken, wars are brewing.... damn. You need to wake up and get real.
Mike Johnson just released a press release basically framing the blame of a govt shutdown on Dems already just in case. You are so spot on. We need to understand the talking points to counter and preemptively do it too!
US Dems ran on "holy fuck, we're not them!!!" Which, while accurate, is not confidence-inspiring. That said, it's probably more inspiring today than 6 months ago, but I digress.
Dems need to put forward a platform that explains what they're going to do and when, not what they're not going to do.
Meanwhile, over on Facebook, an army of GOP trolls are chanting "waste, fraud, and abuse" in perfect unison, again and again and again. It's horrible, but that's how it's done: simplicity and repetition.
I just had this conversation with my gardener. Dems have got to stop playing nice. This isn’t the Congress of 20 or 30 years ago where you could get bipartisanship results. This is the new age of bully politics and it’s time Democrat politicians started fighting back instead of using “reasoning.”
It is absolutely wrong to vote in favor of this bill because then when they cut Medicaid they will say the Democrats supported people are upset with Democrats, not putting their foot down. Let the government shut down. Republicans are in office so it’s on them. Let them own it. Stand your ground!!
I was a rock solid dem before this election and the Dem response to this has legitimately made me hate them. I understand it now. I finally see why those pieces of shit hate them so much. Fuck.
Well anyway, God bless America and let’s fuck up the baddies whichever party ♥️🤍💙
Welcome to my world. The only reason I keep voting blue is that I know that greater evil is even worse. This is not a good reason, but it's better than nothing.
Adam, respectfully I don't understand your position - the only leverage the Dems have is their votes on funding. Why would they relinquish the only type of control they have left? Whatever happens, they'd still get blamed, as this has been the Orange Nitwit's MO every time we ask 4 accountabity.
I think we are past the times of focusing on specific subjects and cannot wait for fours years. Messaging is bad but the least of our problems now. Pitchfork time is coming up quickly.
But if we go on last year‘s budget that leaves no $$ for DOGE - correct? Take budget action to fund things that have been illegally cut/shut down by Trump and Musk! Congress makes $ decisions - no matter what the billionaire minions think, right? FY24 is better than what exists after Musk’s evil.
Every Demarcate needs to be a Bernie Sanders in every town hall in every district. We don't have that right now.
How do we get there when they're not listening?
America's democracy is crumbling under Trump's second term, and it’s not just a warning—it’s a crisis. The U.S. has been downgraded to a 'narrowed' democracy. What’s happening now is terrifying, but it’s not too late to fight back. Read why this matters NOW
America's democracy is crumbling under Trump's second term, and it’s not just a warning—it’s a crisis. The U.S. has been downgraded to a 'narrowed' democracy. What’s happening now is terrifying, but it’s not too late to fight back. Read why this matters NOW.
And you’re failing to comprehend overwhelming overt evidence that DictatorTrump is Putin’s Trojan horse and we are literally under attack. Ever hear of Occam’s Razor?
Shut it down. All of it. Let us all stew in our own juices for a while, until we come to our senses, take our government back from the plutocrats, and impose a marginal tax rate we had when America was great. And throw out all who cuck for money.
Since the Mump Administration is trying to destroy our government, a shutdown is the least of our worries.
Dems, DO NOT collaborate with the MAGA traitors.
We (the people) are watching, and we're pissed.
Mr K...So….can you please tell all 77,301,997 of you that voted for this faux king that the latest tariff mouth fart from him up to at least 50% on Canadian aluminium and steel coming into the US. is going to severely hit the US auto industry, US construction industry, US appliance industry.
90% of america’s aluminium comes from canada. NINETY…
The US alumimium industry clearly can not fulfil the need, yet faux king does this. Y’all have maga friends…do all of you think this trade war is working..?
auto industry…maga pickup trucks have just gone up $15 - $20k
ship building-military defence building…all going up in cost…US industry and consumers are paying this cost…
yes Canada will also enter a recession but we will come through, we will find new trading partners…US…enjoy the 4 years of pain while he gets richer...
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Ain't never, in this hell, gonna happen.
What we have is what we MUST work within.
There is no alternative except dissolution, which you are going to need entire states to support. Also No.
Adam Kinzinger is out.
Liz Cheney is out.
I know there used to be more, but I'm drawing a blank. The only other Republicans I can remember now are fascists and their bootlickers.
America doesn’t give cash to Ukraine. America has given weapons & used the funding to pay US companies to build new weapons for the US
https://tinyurl.com/4swjfpy3
Dem MOC need to read the room (aka the American people) and refuse to aid the GOP in destroying our democracy. Do not support any Republican bill. Schumer/Jeffries, get your people in line. Listen to your constituents, and fight!
Insist.
Resist.
Persist.
You personally know these people talk to them in person ! Bring the wife and kids!
There is power in knowledge!!
Just for completely different reasons.
~ this is an important message from a patriot who knows the GOP from the inside, a very courageous man who stood up to stop this fascism before it got so out of hand
Check YouTube: plenty available videos.
He’d make a good republican, which he was, until MAGA took over.
I think everyone wants a sane republican party, which we couldn’t be farther from at this point.
Damned either way.
Dem's need to make a plan that unifies / aligns.
Run a new play. Envision counter solutions. Make it so.
#makeaplan
Don't worry about your future election chances - if you fail us in this that will be the least of your worries.
(Blue voter since 1976)
Run for president
LETS GO
Key takeaway in the piece re: Dem typical replies to Trump...
.....what poll-driven, fear-based, irrationally risk-averse messaging looks like. It thrills no one. It changes no minds. It leaves your opponent’s story as the one everybody hears.
We need True good-willed politicians who put country over idealogy.
Freedom isn’t free and seldom painless.
Drive the gov’t into a shutdown or default (No debt limit extension)
Being bipartisan is absurd when MAGAs Project 2025 on which they want to pretend being “bipartisan” involves shattering the rule of law & disassembling government.
How long?
Be it against 'We the People or an American ally, how long will it take before Donald Trump and his team start an actual war?
It's an emergency- can you get some MOC to do something about it?
I'm a lawyer and not in DC. It will take me over 4 hours to get up there. Someone closer needs to do something. Once he's wiped and burned, it's gone
The budget and other things going on domestically are a distraction.
I understand why Trump thinks he can get his face on Mount Rushmore, and win the Pulitzer, all while causing a mess everywhere. It all makes sense when you realize it's about BRICS and the board game Risk.
You can warn them with signs, shout at them, shake them, ... they think they are oh-so-bright and clever and jump direct into it.
"Keeping the government open" - for what purpose? The Administration is methodically destroying it. We have had enough of the bi-partisan, both-sides rhetoric, we don't want to hear it.
(signed)
Your constituents - remember us?
Sincerely,
Everyone
NATO SHOULD DEFEND CANADA.
NATO SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ATTACK USA AND RUSSIA.
NATO SHOULD ADD UKRAINE TO NATO.
IF USA KEEPS THREATENING CANADA, NATO SHOULD BAN BUYING AND SELLING OF THINGS FROM USA, STOP ACCEPTING USA CURRENCY.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/canada-trump-statehood-attacks.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Negative for Dems: mixed messaging is a disaster.
I loved Jim McGovern’s message of putting on your Mandate pants. That says it all
Though a little “why pass a CR to continue funding all the fraud & waste you insist exists?” wouldn’t be too bad either
Try it (many, many times)...
The democrats cannot allow business as usual with this government. It’s a no win situation but giving the president any leverage is beyond losing. It is losing America
I agree. Vote no on CR. And it would be better if they said ‘The rethuglicans are shutting down the government by putting a CR in play that they are not even sure their own members will vote for.’
No ‘Dem’ in that sentence.
No on CR. Get it straight and stop message gagging.
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1562
Dems need to put forward a platform that explains what they're going to do and when, not what they're not going to do.
Dems! Heed the call. Listen to someone who knows how this works.
I truly think we're on our own.
Well anyway, God bless America and let’s fuck up the baddies whichever party ♥️🤍💙
And yes, Dems SUCK at messaging ATM
(full stop sthu)
Will it be before or after the midterms?
How do we get there when they're not listening?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/trumps-assault-on-democracy-why-the?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/trumps-assault-on-democracy-why-the?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios
Dems, DO NOT collaborate with the MAGA traitors.
We (the people) are watching, and we're pissed.
Did 77,301,997 sign up for this..?
90% of america’s aluminium comes from canada. NINETY…
The US alumimium industry clearly can not fulfil the need, yet faux king does this. Y’all have maga friends…do all of you think this trade war is working..?
ship building-military defence building…all going up in cost…US industry and consumers are paying this cost…