“If we don’t give him absolute power, he might try to seize absolute power,” cool cool cool. - ThreadSky

juliusgoat.bsky.social • 7 days ago

“If we don’t give him absolute power, he might try to seize absolute power,” cool cool cool.

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"

Something something in advance

www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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danepopfrippery.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fuckin useless

joshfrai.bsky.social•7 days ago

These guys would be afraid to be disrespectful to their own shadows.

joshfrai.bsky.social•7 days ago

More important, they would lose an election to those shadows.

mrcrickets.bsky.social•6 days ago

Cmon man! If we mean tweet enough, surely we will win!

steph1873.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is why every fundraising appeal from the DNC/DCCC/DSCCgets ripped up and tossed into the recycling can.

Those Vichy-esque assholes can fuck all the way off. They are betraying everything the veterans of the first half of the last century stood up for.

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hell, they're betraying everything THIS ARMY VETERAN stands for now!

petrovia.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why conflate not protesting with yielding power? If they have cards in their deck, by all means, play them. McConnell didn’t obstruct Obama by protesting IIRC

mitokandria.bsky.social•5 days ago

It is the duty of every American to protest authoritarianism/fascism then look them in the eyes and defy them to enact martial law.

We need to force their hand before they are ready. Letting the opposition choose the location and time isn't good.

mitokandria.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not suggesting violence or to risk violence against citizens, but if all we do is react then they will continue to control the field and dictate the terms and conditions for each engagement.

gar57.bsky.social•7 days ago

Consider this: mass protests at this point just would drive every onto their tribes. What if we just hold our powder until his own turn on him (which will happen),then march. Just a thought.

Or, fuck it. Burn it down. I dunno.

greenjoel.bsky.social•7 days ago

"don't surrender" means "come and take it" but it doesn't mean "I will let you"

etfromatlanta.bsky.social•7 days ago

Suppose he did call for ML under the pretense of threat from protestors. That just means he was always going to anyway. He’ll invent an excuse if he wants to do it.

ML won’t work in the USA though. Standing army of 1.3 mil vs 330 mil of the most armed civ’s in history? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

You've got a point...

etfromatlanta.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thanks man. I peeped your profile, you’re a veteran, so your perspective holds way more water than mine. Do you think military brass would be faithful enough to Trump to even go for ML? Much less the Pentagon? I just don’t see that happening here.

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

People in the military swear an allegiance to our Constitution, not the President. And you take an oath to defend our nation, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
In the end, I am choosing to believe in the character and patriotism of the American soldier. It's all I have.

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have wrestled with that question. I just don't know my friend. I am sure no one joined the military to attack our allies, or to be used against people in our own country, citizens or not.
It is abhorent to even imagine.
1/2

etfromatlanta.bsky.social•6 days ago

You ain’t kiddin Greenie, it’s a mess. It’s so chaotic it hurts my brain to think through the potential possibilities.

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

So you don't do anything like a bunch of damn cowards??
In case you didn't notice, he IS trying to seize absolute power!
This is the time for courage from our leaders! We will remember who stepped up!--and who didn't!

wipjenni.bsky.social•6 days ago

America is full of cowards - stupid cowards. The regime MUST be stopped BEFORE trump has installed corrupt military leaders. The more time they are allowed, the more people will die. Ffs, it really is that simple.

dulcedemon.bsky.social•7 days ago

Booker: "raising popular sentiment"

They want us to volunteer to be cannon fodder in that Trump will gladly order protestors killed. They squandered and bungled their every chance to prevent this. The least they could have done was cut us a few more stimulus checks while they had power.

smallupsetter.bsky.social•7 days ago

I have to wonder if CNN is publishing this to depress the opposition, I haven't trusted them in a long time.

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•7 days ago

The article doesn't match with the headline. It says there are some fears, but it doesn't say the Democratic plan is to give up. It does say some of them are unsure if their constituents want to push super hard, so we need to call, go to townhall etc and confirm that is what we want.

smallupsetter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Then that's an extremely irresponsible headline, and that's a best-case scenario!

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•7 days ago

Headlines are really terrible across the board. There's lots of room for improvement in Democratic messaging for sure, but I think it's wild that everyone is assuming the Democrats are against protest when the picture in the article is of a Democrat at a protest.

greenrod7.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't follow any major news organization, beyond NPR. I subscribe to the Guardian & get other resources from bluesky.
None of the major networks can be trusted as they have all settled with trump.

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