"It’s the principle that Democrats are wholly unwilling to fight on the same playing field as Republicans. It’s that we seem forever doomed to be the party that allows the parliamentarian to shut down our entire agenda, while the Republicans won’t even let the US Constitution shut down theirs."
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Not a dime of donations, not a minute of time to any Dem until then.
Deleted my Act Blue account last week.
No donations from me.
And I drove to a swing state to canvas, wrote letters to voters in other swing states, and donated loads of money during the campaign.
No more, until I see current Dem leadership replaced with competent fighters.
Since Reagan, democrats have never reversed anything that the republicans have done.
They never reversed a tax handout, didn't codify roe, increase the minimum wage, expand the Supreme Court, or anything else!
He folded, and then they stacked the deck. Biden should have expanded the Supreme Court on week one. after codifying roe, increasing the minimum wage, etc. everything bad that happened and is happening is on the DNC leadership!
She was told that she was going to lose, but her ego, or lust for corporate campaign money to keep flowing to the party leadership made her.
obama bailed out the banks instead of the working people
AND,,,, Worth remembering: when he was President, Obama had a supermajority in Congress and didn't codify abortion rights into national law
You are right. The current imbalance hearkens to Obama failing to take gloves off over Supreme Court nominees. He failed that test.
In a crisis like this, you need to be organized, willing to throw the first 'punch', and to shut things down, completely if needed.
As models I'd suggest A) street protesters of France, who repeatedly forced governments to cave & B) Lyndon Johnson.
LBJ was a miserable son of a bitch to deal with, but he was the Democrats' SOB, & he got things done.
https://youtu.be/kJzasJqOh90?si=Zom8tHeIzPtp0hpl
It would promote issues w/70%+ popularity and use relatable language, and youngish, diverse, and composed communicators. (Army of Petes)
Are they all completely incompetent, or simply complicit?
Where is the leadership?!?
You should lead by example!
Business hours are overs.
YOU ARE THE DEMOCRAT BRAWLER.
You MUST run for office.
YOU HAVE PASSION FOR JUSTICE, COMPASSION FOR THOSE STRUGGLING AND, IT CAN'T BE OVERSTATED, YOU ARE YOUNG.
YOU, AOC, Crockett, Buttigieg, Warnock, etc.
RISE from the ashes of this old bastards disaster.
#epsteinisland #elonsgift hate to say it but don’t want to wait 10-15 yrs for it to come out!! It’s in our face!!!
I'm waiting for their resignations.
They aren't up for it. They have no fight in them. They are letting democracy slip away as they plan book tours.
Worthless.
So, uh, YOU'RE JUST SUPPORTING MY POINT.
@schumer.senate.gov and Gillibrand asking them to resign so New Yorkers can pick their replacements in 2026 (assuming legit midterms happen). "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go.” #LeoAmery
How do You Deal with a Lunatic that has a Gun to Your Head?
There’s a question with more than one answer too…
"Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want." — Napoleon Hill
2nd new blood who are willing to fight the bully.
3rd Take notes ex the president of MX was able to silence the 🍊 bully.
Fight back he’s weak from every angle. If your name is blasted you’re doing a good thing. This is the time to shine.
always book a Book tour
that really sends a message- you care about me.
grrrrrrrrrrr
Unleash Green and AOC
LET THEM ATTACK LIKE THE ANGRY BADGERS THEY ARE FFS
Corporate dollars effectively captured both parties.
Give people 2 choices do something or don’t.
The trick is do something is always bad, but not obviously to the average voter.
And we're still doing it. We let them drive a wedge between us, and most of us seem not to have even noticed the fact.
Heather Cox Richardson, 3/14:
give me strategy, ideas, doable actions. jesus christ. pundits and prognosticators all analyze but where's the actual stuff to do?
1/ ex: coalition of states who provide asylum for anyone pardoned by Biden and tell Trump: don't even think about it
No go on EOs deemed illegal, unconstitutional or constrained by TROs.
actionable. concrete. fighting back.
and we may have allies in red states now.
in fact, congressional dems must form coalition with states, their legislators, governors, mayors, town councils, sheriffs, troopers, nat'l guard etc.
No arguments will resonate with them while they agree that welfare, social security, the VA, DEI, and everything needs to go.
They gave up on procedures and norms when they elected an adjudicated insurrectionist who has not been cleared by the required votes and has since compounded the situation by providing aid and pardons to both convicted and admitted insurrectionist
Well, he’s doing that on a regular basis, almost daily.
Arrest him.
All of you should be calling for his arrest.
START ACTING.
RISE UP AND MARCH.
WE DID IT TO END VIETNAM.
WE NEED TO DO THIS NOW TO END TRUMP AND HIS MAGA CRONIES.
More like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Walz please!
About 35% of the US is brainwashed by Fox and RW media. For an accurate poll, everyone must share the same facts.
Democrats must fight, and in a way they have not for a long time. That fight will be on a different playing field, but I am not sure it should be the same as the Republicans (immoral and broken).
We need to fight fire with extinguishers, not gas.
Way too many of them bringing plastic knives to the gun fights!
Heritage Foundation and project 2025 are the head of this snake, trump is just the tail.
If we remove trump, we have 1000s of others willing to take his place.
The 2nd Amendment has killed countless children just for going to school.
This is the moment in history it was meant for.
Don't let it be all for nothing.
It’s time to roll our sleeves up, jump in the mud and fight like hell.
Well we’ve got the law on our side now, and we’ve got the facts on our side now…
It’s time for the democrats to take the gloves off and fight like hell!
Republicans are playing to win.
It's a very frustrating time to be a progressive liberal with do-nothing representatives.
We keep bringing soccer balls to a rugby game and then we get tackled while carefully setting up a kick 🦵 ⚽️🏉
At some point people will throw in the towel and get in line behind the fighters.
The Dems want fighters who will be AGAINST Trump and Musk. Not idiots like Jared who fawn all over them and then censure their own for fighting back.
Democrats = Charlie Brown
Republicans = Lucy
Democracy = the football
Use this intro:
Senator you were elected to a national level office and your votes impact every person in the country. I am calling you as one of those citizens.
202.224.####
Use the last 4 digits in PHONE column
Call every day
Blow up VM
Side 1 believes in pluralism, process, and shared social spaces for competing ideas. Side 2 doesn’t.
Until Side 1 realizes Side 2 is fighting a different kind of war, they will lose battles.
And that requires entirely different tatics.
What I have been trying to highlight, though, is the dangers of complacency and extreme misunderstanding of the intentions and desired outcomes of the opposition.
Non-violent resistance en masse with the purposefully intent of exposing the violence and inhumanity of those we are opposing.
It was subsumed by the now ruling American Fascist Party, though the official name has not changed
The collapse began in 2016 and culminated with the comprehensive purge of constitutionalists after the 6 Jan Insurrection.
What I have been trying to highlight, though, is the dangers of decades of complacency and extreme misunderstanding of the intentions and desired outcomes of the opposition.
It’s not that no Democrats have understood the Republicans have been operating in bad faith for years, it is that the leadership by-and-large has not and so hasn’t changed tactics, as necessary.
Sanders fights tooth and nail alongside all of the Dems.
He takes up the slack for the dead weight in the party.
Your making something out of nothing.
Sanders FIGHTS FOR YOU.
I lost what little faith I had left in Big Democrat™️ when they threw women of color under the bus during the first Trump admin.
FU*#Tards! These monsters need to be dealt with. They’re barely human.
Sure, they're opposite teams, but they're going to the finals without us.
Establishment dems are still will benefit so they'll bitch and moan, all the way to the bank
I agree, we need fighters. But it's divisive slander to say Schumer's decision was to "cave."
The fight you want has to be taken to the GOP. But what we've got is Dems fighting each other. Make it stop.
We need active, aggressive, opposition-based LEADER.
NOW.
He truly believes that the Rs are OK with shutting down the government.
This unproven assumption places him in an intractable bargaining position. I.e. he doesn’t have anything to bargain with.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” ~Einstein
#AOCASAP