You want Dems to be on the news?
They’re doing that!
Do you want them to break House rules?
They are trying to censure @robertgarcia.bsky.social for calling EM a dick on the House floor
You want them to be doing fireside chats?
@schiff.senate.gov did an incredible one this week
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They’re doing that!
Do you want them to break House rules?
They are trying to censure @robertgarcia.bsky.social for calling EM a dick on the House floor
You want them to be doing fireside chats?
@schiff.senate.gov did an incredible one this week
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Fireside chats!!
Will there be tea?
How lovely.
THERE IS A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS HAPPENING.
WE ARE LOSING OUR COUNTRY!!!
Fuck a “A fireside chat.”
What
The
Actual
Fuck
-a nice snifter of good brandy,
-an imported cigar
-and a good, old fashioned fireside chat.
It’s so incredibly out of touch it’s terrifying.
A fireside chat.
WEEKS after this was announced.
WT fuuuuuuck.
https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert-for-genocide---united-states:-the-rise-of-the-nazi-salute
We already have enough #Fetterman to deal with, we don’t need #VichyDems
At this point they are acting way above any law and Constitution - they will only continue to disintegrate & destroy until stopped.
Take them down by force!
History shows how it's done with dictators.
https://bsky.app/profile/schiff.senate.gov/post/3li64zbf5dk2c
They’re happening!
You want progressive media?
We have it!
Whatever you want Democrats to be doing THEY’RE DOING IT. But the people saying they’re doing nothing are louder than the actual work being done.
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On the other hand, you might be looking at the wrong sources.
Otherwise, you’re totally right we should give up now because there is absolutely no hope.
It is impossible to succeed if nothing is good enough
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They can absolutely go viral and they can do it by doing things only they are capable of! The most viral posts are the ones where they announce concrete actions!
"I'm trying to figure out what leverage we actually have. What leverage do we have? Republicans ... control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It's their government."
That's a hard pass, dawg.
Here's a 2016 post explaining it in the Trump context:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-trumph-of-the-will
Ok. I read it. (Yet another article with no suggestion about how to deal with the big baby, but whatever)
The irony? You are acting just like him. Calling out others weaknesses as a power play.
Good grief. Was that your intention?
Rep Hakeem Jeffries to ABC:
“We were told that grocery prices would go down on day one, on January 20. Costs aren't lower, in fact, costs are increasing. The price of eggs is skyrocketing out of control”
I disagree that golf clapping during a coup is effective.
I’m with Merlie on this one. We’ve had months, if not several Heritage Foundation decades, to prepare for and prevent this moment. And Dem leadership is abysmally failing. Abysmally. Does that mean give up? No. Nobody’s saying give up. Nobody. We are screaming for the literal opposite of that.
The gist is, "Someone who can’t or won’t defend themselves certainly isn’t someone you can depend upon to defend you."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-trumph-of-the-will
And when you do make sure your telling Republicans that they are complicit
Fuck 'em both, but for entirely different reasons.
While most of my relatives are maga they haven't unfriended me and am getting good feedback from my Dem friends who didn't realize we are fighting back.
Legacy media isn't doing their jobs of reporting.
Democracy isn't just about holding a position; it's about every citizen being able to voice thoughtful concerns, vote, and hold elected officials accountable.
Not this horseshit that's ineffective.
This is why Democracy is doomed.
"Waahhh we had a press conference wahhh"
Hope is in @repjasmine.bsky.social being in LEADERSHIP
HOPE is in @repilhan.bsky.social being in LEADERSHIP!!
The Feeble Minded and Old MUST STEP ASIDE NOW!
This fight is too much for them, we need @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
The Senate and House Minority leaders refusing to call for the ouster of the crooked and traitorous Mayor of the city they both spent their entire lives in.
Roll up your damn sleeves. This isn’t left v right—
It’s the people v Doge and the hijacking of Congress
It’s the judiciary v the executive branch
I’m sorry to sound rude. Bellyaching doesn’t help anyone but Trump
to be reductive, while a gov't takeover continues as merely left v right is minimizing and unhelpful
you make my point
now disaffected trump voters losing jobs and benefits are hurting
we are so far beyond party fights
There's valid criticism of the DNC and by extension, Democrats of being a weak opposition party that places political careers above representing the people.
Only a single movement coalition will work at this stage and making it only Blue is a bad binary blunder.
I'm glad it's happening, I just want more people to know.
I SEE with my own eyes 👀 how @schumer.senate.gov sends Zingy Tweets about the price of eggs 🥚 and how tRump “lied”
I see @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social call for committee meetings to maybe consider doing something LATER
These men are scum, people are getting FIRED! Shut it down; and
2. No budget talks until Musk & Co. are all removed from all agencies, all access revoked, and Congress can hold some hearings to assess damage.
Not. Negotiable.
..but, other than milquetoast Hakeem Jefferies,..I , a 50+ year long Democrat..hear nothing other than little Girl AOC,..and sporadic nothingness.
It's NOT WORKING,..whatever they're trying.
c'mon,..I wanna see fangs, claws, etc.
This is a class war, and the Dems are on the same side as the Republicans.
You're all responsible.
Rep #JohnLewis was himself that kind of protestor.
This database has 1,200 examples of #peoplepower
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/
Kamala Harris said that she wouldn’t go silently in the good night and yet she is silent.
I feel abandoned by my party right now.
The rest are too busy enjoying their APAIC fundraisers…
2. Yeah, and if I weren't so cynical, I'd even expect them to not throw Garcia under the bus. Alas.
4. No, I'd like results and them to collectively stop playing reporter/PR head.
5. ...ok.
6. Their "work,' such as it is, is the kind of defeatist
The DNC embodying The Atlantic's blathering class isn't doing anyone any favors. Primary every single one of the cowardly fucks — because they're an affront to their position, their oath, and everything decent—
They'd do well to remember how history remembers those who play nice with authoritarians. Or how the French treated Pétain and Laval, after the war.
So yeah, fuck all that, fuck Schiff's little firesides, fuck Warren's finger-wagging, and may they all be primaried straight to hell.
To not expect the fucking press and the fucking voters to fix the problems that we, in fact, elect them specifically to fix.
They don't do that? Why are paying $174k a pop/yr? They chose this. They choose it every day. That's their job. So no, no sympathy.
thats more effective than schiff being useless, or jeffries being useless, or pelosi falling down, or schumer rotting before our eyes
we cant have the opposition party saying naughty words, can we? good heavens, the indecency of it all
This is a war, people are already dying
and they are responding with fireside chats
With the Democrats we don’t really know and it appears, whether this is true, or not, but they are about five steps behind what’s actually going on.
The ONLY hope you have is taking to the streets!
I think it's GOP fed subversive activity.
The same that funded Bernie and every 'Progressive' running for national office.
It's been the Republican Fascist playbook since Regan
21st Century Progressives are
Compromise is a necessity for a functioning society.
All or none thinking is on display with MAGA and will not endure be it from the left or the right.
That said, a lot of what people on social media are demanding Congress Democrats do is either impossible or would be unhelpful.
I just made a pack for these Dems that are fighting
https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/sample-ballots/2024/gen/Jackson-Sample.pdf
Even if they have to physically step in, even if they have to break laws.
jump the barricade, get arrested, get the private security blocking access to govt bldgs arrested, lock unauthorized users out of gov't websites electronically, call for a general strike, force the issue; impeach, enforce, sue
They can brand themselves as the party that saves Medicare, cancer research, pandemic responders… etc. feels like good politics to me
Protest arrests aren't the win you think it is.
This is where I get incredibly frustrated with the left- we're on the same damn team but spend time overanalyzing and infighting while Republicans steamroll our rights. Just DO SOMETHING.
is there also someone on comms to regularly counter misinfo narratives (ideally with lots of context)? i think ppl are so frustrated & hear the outcomes/losses, so are more primed to listen to anything to explain it
I hope to hell it’s not the Democrats - because thats what it sounds like.
Can you please clarify?
I mean, that's just horrible
As a caucus, the Dems fucking cowards bordering on collaborators.
Sorry about that.
I'm actually insulted that "Other" and "I Don't Know" are considered together on the same line
This. This. This. This. This.
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Also we disagree with what they could be doing so... There's that. Don't see them at any protests, speaking about fed workforce cuts, Musk
While Jeffreis holds Bible Study with MAGA Mike, she kicks his teeth in!
AOC is also a clear example of the fight - let them LEAD!!
The Musty Old Decrepit must RETIRE, this moment is too big for them. And we ALL see it!!
Schumer is not meeting the moment. His recently said His take is that the no. 1 issue 4 Americans is inflation. If he can't get that our no.1 concern is the coup currently being thrust onto all of us then we r seriously being lead by the wrong person.
Their may be
They CANNOT lead this fight, they CANNOT be effective
For the good of the country, they must
She’s strong loud smart and articulate
Of
THIS!!
Or at least Jasmine Crockett
There is the old guard, and there is the new guard, and the new guard should lead the country.
I'm not that rational. I don't care how old the leader is. They're our only hope, so I look up to them, for all the flaws they have.
Genocide in generations, gave billions to Ukraine,
Funded the police more
Than ever before and continued colonialism
Rabidly but sure yeah ok. The dems are complicit. Wake the fuck up,
Playing by "the old rules" isn't going to work. They need to step it up on new media and quit complying with this nonsense.
The GOP obviously isn't playing the same game anymore.
If the gov Shuts Down - you STOP THE FIRINGS, or expose the corruption
#DNC leadership CANNOT be this DUMB - but it can be this corrupt… where is AIPAC again?!?
In 2016, McConnell blocked a whole SC Justice nomination, and we have Dems casting "Yes" votes.
They're not playing the same game at all.
The Democrats could have lifted the filibuster. They could have expanded the courts. They could have granted statehood to PR.
There might not be much that they can do now but they could have done so much and didn't. And now republicans are running rough shod where democrats didn't.
But I never said they were doing nothing. However, I am claiming that they are not doing what a Minority Leader McConnell would do.
Step 2- Elect schatz or murphy, duckworth in senate
Step 3- Elect McGovern, Garcia, AOC, Swalwell, Crockett as the opposition in the house
Until then we are not happy @ariellaelm.bsky.social