I'm thinking letting these guards prevent US Senators from entering a public agency is a more chilling demonstration of the burgeoning fascist state than US Senators busting through the barricade and then wandering the halls lost because the DOGE traitors are in a secured server room.
Democrats let a parliamentarian stop them from increasing the minimum wage, obviously they’d let a rent a cop stop them from having a performative meeting with a fake govt dept
This is what I’m saying, let can’t either get a warrant from a judge — and push past these people non violently with a hoard of protestors behind them? It’s absolutely ludicrous
I agree. He could even do it in a dignified way. I appreciate the fight dems are showing, but this is time for theatrics to get attention and hopefully turn public opinion, and bring pressure towards repubs
An F-tier mall cop successfully intimidated them and barred them from entering. My dead grandma could beat that guy up. Just trample the fucker and get in! How fucking chickenshit do you have to be to be turned back by that clown playing dress-up?
If that dude is not a sleepy mall cop, he should be nominated for (and win) multiple Oscars. Because he looks like he has the fighting prowess of a bowl of expired ramen. Even if his company sends people to warzones, there's probably a reason he's not stationed there. That said, even if I'm wrong
that doesn't mean that a whole delegation couldn't get past him. And it would actually be MUCH better optics if that guy actually tried to attack/restrain them. In conclusion, my statement about the Dems exhibiting exceptional cowardice still stands.
To assault a Congress member is something Republicans will weaponize and use to villainize Democrats in the eyes of their voter base. We are teetering on the edge of civil war that their base wants to start.
Does anybody really believe that if the roles were reversed and the Republicans were being denied at the door, they would just say aw-shucks and turn around and walk out????
Democrats couldn't lead a Marine to a whorehouse in the Philippines. Could they be any more feckless? If we have to do this shit ourselves I'm down with it.
People who expect Dems to become violent and are completely unaware of everything else they are actually doing to stop this are attention seeking agitators as bad as Magats.
When reflecting on the comment you made, do you think you could have found a less offensive way of making your point?
I agree with your point, but I would just like to point out that if I were a Philippina or a Marine, I think your valuable point could get lost in the offense.
The problem is that the most effective segments of the civil rights movement were the ones in the south where they shot people and that Democrats and Republicans have spent 50 years both pretending like the movement was a success and that even the most benign actions from then are now going to far
The public display is what is needed. With half the senate in jail a much more powerful image is created and felt. Democrats have for far too long not been able to tell stories. It is the story that sells, not the wasted vote - wasted because votes like fact checks come far too late.
I agree. Really, they are trying. However, let's encourage them to let the younger crowd start taking the lead. I'm afraid Schumer is just unable to raise passion in others. And I'll say the same for the rest. Except Bernie, gotta live Bernie.
If the duly elected officials claiming to speak for my fine ass aren’t willing to be on the fucking front lines like this, then they don’t deserve their jobs. Sorry that you’re a fucking pussy, but yes, they do need to be willing to risk everything to save what is supposedly their country.
Your United States Senator and you're letting a fucking rent a cop who has no security clearance or any reason to be there push you around? When are you Democrats going to grow some balls and stop this bullshit?
Yeah. You need to understand that the people responsible for this private military contractor, standing in a federal security public servant’s role, reports to the same people that captured our Supreme Court and run almost half of the Red Statehouse in the country and are coming for everything.
Are you stupid? Private security can absolutely detain people and hold them for pickup.
In most areas they're operating on the same laws that allow citizen's arrest, which D.C. does have, but a lot of cities and special districts have additional powers granted (like open carry in 'gun free' zones).
Right! Let the Capitol Police come arrest the Dems. Force them to choose sides. Are they really going to aid and abet the real enemies of the state, MAGA? The Dems need to force everyone's hand, be it the Republicans, Judiciary, Law Enforcement and even the military.
Dem senators getting arrested is maybe one item down from a gas main exploding directly under your house on the list of things you shouldn't want right now.
Elon & his merry band of digital brownshirts. Yes, DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS! That's what is happening here, a deliberate attempt to destabilize our government so Trump can declare martial law. Fight back! Start with "EGGS FOR ELON." If you see him or his brownshirts, introduce them to an overpriced egg.
We need to stop calling Musk and Trump billionaires and start calling them what they really are: ROBBER BARRONS, thieves, criminals, psychopaths, and for Musk, certainly a Nazi. They're robbing every one of us blind, harming the most vulnerable people, and destroying our world.
Yeah our elected officials stand there deferring to a security guard is a real bad optic. On what legal basis are they denied entry while Musk’s techno goon squad is given free rein to invade offices, steal govt data and commit battery against employees? We the people deserve to know.
So what? Put on your big boy pants and push your way through. I promise, a public arrest n behalf of the constitution would bolster your political career for the next decade. If patriotism isn’t motivating, follow your self interest!
Ahh yes, the REBEL press conference.
The newly indoctrinated Right Wing mass media should help get the word out for you.
How about you bum rush the mother fuckers...ya know, like they're doing to US?
Throw a chair! Pull some hair! Mother F'ing tweets and press conference AIN'T WORKING!
BE BOLD!
Also, how many court cases have halted Muskrat? Why not have part of the order tell the Muskrat, he don’t own shyt in any government buildings and he cannot deny access.
The time for asking politely has ended. Gloves are off, it’s time to “fight like hell” (not in a Jan 6 insurrectionist way, of course). Time to get loud!
Senator Markey, perhaps it is time for our Democratic leaders in every state and every county to commit to a bigger show of solidarity with our nation.
While not working in DC, would you all consider please marching with our nation? Europe does it. We can too, sir.
So you had a prepped-show press conference already waiting outside so you could come out (right on schedule) and give a lil' speech once you were predictably told "no" by the rent-a-cop inside. You even had speakers lined up to warm up the mic for you.
This is private security from Triple Canopy, and they have no authority over you. They are not government employees. Stop letting these people push you around, right now!
they should. I just thought I'd chime in with where security get their authority. At most it's tresspass, which, you're not going to pursue against a US senator. You're just gonna keep asking them to leave "nicely"
Correct, Prince's Blackwater (war criminals) were too notorious -so he changed the name to Triple Canopy Security-see website.
Easy to get hired too.
Trump has installed his own Gestapo.
Illegal to keep Congress out of their own buildings.
Thank you for fighting for us. Now tell us what the plan is to get Elon Musk out of the treasury building and out of American people’s confidential data? We need him gone yesterday! How do you plan to remove him? We all need this answer!
Old people are scared of everything. Unsure of nothing. People 65+ will stop when told to stop. You need young energetic people with balls of steel. Young people are crazy enough to glue themselves to road to save endangered species of bugs. We need a bit of that energy in right direction.
Speak for yourself Sport. 72 & ready, willing & able to keep fighting Fascists. Elected officials though? You are spot-on. A bunch of chickenshit roll-overs here in the USA.
They need new blood to stand up to and stop trump & his fascist enablers, handlers, quisslings, traitors & criminal thugs.
Yeah. Kudos to you. It really wasn’t meant as insult to those who can. My mother (83) is so agile and active and traveling and so opinionated. It really is person to person. But if you look at average age of representatives and how they every week just RAISE CONSERNS and are opposed. I don’t know 🤷♂️
Generally speaking. Ffs 🤦🏽♂️. I’m 44 and I’m nowhere brave as in my 20. People do tend to calm down with age. There are patterns in human behaviour. But if your aim is to attack and prove your virtue more then understand the point I’m making so be it. There is reason why Elon gave the mission to young
Thank u💙🔥
Continue to SHUT down the Senate. STOP the coup!
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated."
Robert Jackson, Nuremberg Trials
Then they will be forced to tell about what they see and that might not give them the story they want to tell. This is a bunch of posturing to promote agendas by both sides. Despicable.
@repstansbury.bsky.social is ranking member on Doge oversight subcommittee--whatever that is. Why is she not meeting directly w/Musk? Find out if he signed conflict of interest paperwork & if so if he's following those standards. I'm betting the answer is no paperwork signed. That's illegal, right?
That dude has as much authority as a mall cop and the inventory control cops at the entrance at Walmart. Just walk past him, he has no authority over you.
Dude. You’re a United States Senator. You’re supposed to have power. There are 47 Democratic Senators. Who can deny you all entrance into a government building? Fight! We don’t want to hear what you were denied or what u are trying or what letters you wrote. You are 10 steps behind an ongoing coup.
are you purporting that these senators didnt have access to the EPA when right on its site, it states that anyone with a Fed ID, US passport, green card, foreign passport can all have access to the EPA building ??
Unless Elon canceled the contract and personally hired this company I have to assume these guys are the company that have held the government contract since Biden was in office and are simply doing their job.
You can be mad at DJT, Elon, DOGE but not everyone is purposely causing these issues
Honestly who they are doesn’t matter. Unless they have an appointment or are on the committee overseeing this department they’re just not authorized and would be trespassing.
They tried, security drew the line, that’s the most they can do physically
We're 2 weeks into an accelerating coup and have yet to see a single assertion of power or act of courage by an opposition leader or impacted government employee. Absolute failure to rise to the moment by the handful of people who might be able to do something about it.
The correct way to do this when you are a rich senator is you demand to be let in, you don’t ask and you don’t leave until they let you in or drag you away in handcuffs.
Show some goddamn leadership for once
🎯THIS! No cosplaying for cameras, US Senators shouldn't be giving away their power to private security in a US govt building where crimes are potentially happening. Get the relevant law enforcement down there asap & force them to choose if they're going to arrest a Senator today, or not.
Yes I do.I’ve seen it up close with my own eyes.
When a bunch of uniformed swastika flag waving swastika armband wearing Nazis attacked Detroit gay pride a couple years ago starting fights the crowd chased them out and cops protected the Nazis from the festival goers instead of the other way around.
No, they haven't been tested in a situation where it's arrest/don't arrest a sitting US elected politician. We need to know where the line is, if they're actually going to do it. And the public has to see it for ourselves & see if courts uphold any arrests. If so, our strategies will evolve.
They have ALREADY arrested members of congress and state level officials at protests on multiple occasions over the past 70 years. Read a fucking history book.
Why are you yelling at me, were on the same side. I know very well politicians have been arrested historically, why did you think so many of us are talking about it now? We need the public, politicians, LE & courts to see it for their own eyes in this CURRENT crisis, to see exactly where the line..
He’s blocking him under Federal Protective Service authority. They provide security at federal buildings all over the country and have done so for years under administrations of both parties. I’m all for standing up to Trump and Musk, but this guy likely is following the same rules as under Biden.
Yes they do. The problem lies with those in power. This guard is not that. He’s just tasked with allowing authorized people in and keeping unauthorized people out. He’s likely held that job during the Biden admin too. The senator knows this. The senator authorizes money to secure these buildings.
Yes and no. They are sometimes authorized to detain people depending on the situation and wait for local police or FPS to take over. But essentially yes.
To clarify - the whole thing is a travesty and immoral people are currently in power. I’m only speaking to the job of that guard which is established by FPS and funded by congress. He has post instructions that determine who comes in or not. I wish he had the power to stop musk, but he doesn’t.
And in my opinion most democrats have barely bothered to ask anything let alone say pretty please. They need to step up and quickly. But making the lone guard the subject of the rage doesn’t further anything. If anything it deflects from those actually responsible.
Nope. They need to be more forceful. I’m just saying that calling this guard a nazi isn’t focusing the rage where it actually needs to be focused. The rage should be at the person giving musk free rein. That’s Trump. This guy just checks access clearance. He can’t grant it or deny it.
No, he’s not. All security personnel are sworn to uphold laws, not accede to individuals. The security guards can be prosecuted (if we still gave a country) for protecting illegal entrants like Musk & the douche bags.
If the guard is the one who made the final decision to allow musk access, then yes. I’d argue it’s the administration and trumps decision to grant musk that access that is the bigger problem here. That guard has no power to stop someone who has been granted access is my only point.
Depends on the status of the person claiming authority. Musk gas no legal authority b/c the POTUS cannot arbitrarily create govt positions or appoint people to civil service jobs or made up positions. No one can grant permission to do illegal things.
And to clarify, I believe what musk and Trump are doing is illegal, unethical, immoral, etc. I just think blame is being placed on the guard who likely did the same job under Biden when the blame lies with those actually in charge.
I agree. But someone in the government had to authorize musk to have an access card to federal buildings. I assume that’s Trump. That’s what the guard is responsible for checking. He can’t grant the access. He can only check it. My point is solely related to the guard and what he can/can’t do.
I agree completely. I assume the immoral administration granted them credentials. I adamantly disagree that they should have ever been allowed in the building or near any of our government agencies.
"Well, my dude, since it's totally legal for me to enter this building and illegal for you to stop me, I am going to enter this building. If you pull your gun, my Secret Service detail will handle you." then proceed
2016 then Congressman John Lewis staged a #SIT-IN on the HOUSE FLOOR and was arrested. 40 times he was arrested in total over his life for #civildisobedience. Be like John Lewis. BRAVE
Right, so you ignore him and you walk your asses right the fuck inside. They aren't following the laws, but you feel like you should? Those rules don't apply anymore.
Because elected officials get most of their funding from publicly traded companies and from oligarchs. They take direction from their largest donors, not from the public.
Markey’s largest donors include Google, Apollo Management & Blackstone.
IGNORE THE FUCKING PRIVATE SECURITY FORCE ED. YOU’RE A FUCKING SENATOR ED. They CAN’T stop you from doing the goddamn job you were elected to do. At the very least, make it as DIFFICULT AS FUCKING POSSIBLE for them to move your ass out of there!!!!!!
Reality is, federal security guards are far more than mall cops, as far as authorities goes. They have been acting very erratic about exercising that authority since 2020, though
No. They’re security contractors who provide security at federal buildings across the country and have done for years. Way before Trump or Musk. They’re contractors for the Federal Protective Service and are authorized by FPS to provide security and screenings at federal buildings.
I have family who worked in the fed. I'm familiar with security contractors to this end to some extent. Never seen this uniform before. Google search did not identify the emblems on his hat or jacket.
They have certain emblems they need to wear as contractors and it doesn't seem to be on him.
The fact that you didn’t push past him makes me believe that you went there for them to stop you and not for you to stop what is happening. Did you credit Mike Pence after stealing his move?
We’re gonna need more than photo ops. I applaud this attempt but stand your ground - keep going. Can congress assemble their own security forces? Surely Congress’ security trumps this mall cop for hire in this photo??
Seriously, senator, what do you think they're gonna do if you don't obey--shoot an elected official? Barge on in. Stop taking no for an answer. Let them call the cops on you.
Just walk past him! How hard is this?! How can you defend not being willing to risk your comfort or safety when SO many of us with FAR less power and privilege are risking SO much more every damn day to try to resist this orchestrated attack? This is inexcusable! Don't ask permission - just ACT!
Why is security there keeping congressmen out? Can’t security / capitol police override them? How did the kids get in on day 1— did they fight capitol police & security? Did they just barge in past security? If they “forced their way in,” why can’t Congress force their way in?
I'm glad you guys are doing this and you should keep doing it, but you were denied entry by one guy? You're a senator. Go in anyway, and if they arrest you, make sure it's on camera and gets posted everywhere. DOGE is not a legit agency, so force them to look like the bad guys in a very public way.
The damage they are doing is happening as you stand there following dead norms
Force your way in already! Any officer that touches you will have their lives (legally) destroyed, for assaulting a senator. They can’t afford that, call the bluff!
That’s how R’s operate, and that’s why we Dems lose
make them arrest you all it's not that complicated we been out here getting arrested for years y'all cant do it when these goons are downloading our social security numbers
He's not doing anything. He's a senator and he just let a private contractor tell him to go away. This is the damn problem. Take some ownership and be a Senator Ffs.
Who has the authority to deny you entrance? Some guy in a uniform? Go in with a bunch of your friends and see how eager they are to arrest everybody...for walking into a public building with proper ID?
It's a security guard, not a cop. He doesn't have the authority to deny the senator entry and the senator knows this. He's just performing for the cameras.
Ah well, you planned to defend democracy but there was a very stern rent-a-cop with zero authority so you headed back home. At least you tried your very best!! 😃
Push past every time. Demand to be at every meeting. Shadow these people everywhere. Bring camera crews every time. They are counting on you folding and not forcing the issue and all of us are counting on you doing the opposite.
WTF. You had total authority to walk right past that security poser. What did you think would happen? You'd get arrested? That would have been better than running away to post this.
The other guys are behaving like meth head toddlers fighting over the last trash can hot dog.
Quit being so nice.
Quit being so polite.
It's time for some SPECTACLE.
GRRR!! #FERAL
You’re a sitting US Senator. He’s a random security officer. You don’t have to listen to him. They’re not playing by the rules - you shouldn’t either. Push through and go find them.
Security guard is just another name for a rent-a-cop. Shove him aside and do your duty. Will they shoot? No way, too much liability. Stop the sidewalk press talks and do something.
That is a rent-o-cop. He only has the power you allow him to have. You’re an elected official, stop being a wimp and stand up to these idiots and save our democracy.
So did you hear that the foreign interference investigation here in canada came up with "nothing"....meaning that the ball is already rolling and we also need to mobilize NOW
That's why Dougie is running this "canada not for sale" play
The democratic leaders in congress are far more comfortable having the title without the effort to deserve it. It's been this way for decades with the same terrible leaders. We have to push them, God I hope we get new leaders soon but it's hard to push the old guard out, they have no honor.
Reminds me of that scene in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Ford Prefect stops the Vogons by closing a 3ft high picket fence gate on them. "Dammit, he closed the gate. We gotta go the other way."
As an outsider, it feels like they crumble intentionally; the Democrats just enable the Republicans. They both serve their real master, the ultra wealthy.
Like, what? Private security cannot touch you! Literally, it is not allowed! I guarantee if they do, the sitting congress member has enough money to sue them and the company into oblivion.
I believe this. I also believe if Senators don't start ignoring rent a cops and getting Americans answers then they're complicit. Their hand-wringing is looking more and more performative. They need to start leading by example and putting themselves on the line.
That is going to be inevitable though. You can't kick the can down the road forever.
Our window of non-violent, democratic legal procedural justice ended when Scotus decided Trump had immunity. DOGE should have been met with physical force when they tried to steal government data.
Congress can enter any federal building and security can't touch them? Cite the statute. I'm not defending DOGE or any of these ghouls, but wtf. That's not a thing.
It absolutely is. They are not the buildings security. They are private security hired by Musk and can be sued for putting hands on anyone unduly. They are bound by property statutes. But basically if they touch you, you can sue them.
lmao, it’s all so shameful. fuck sued, these are top-ranking members of a government that claims the right to extrajudicial killing. I think that’s bad, sure. But where is their self-respect?
I lived in the US for the first Trump go around and so I empathize greatly with you guys. I've been disillusioned by the Dems for a while but seeing the inaction is horrifying.
It is. The world felt sorry for us the first time. Held their breath the second time. This time, the world is beefing up their military, while our senators and congressmen are scared to enter a damn building.
For God's sake man, have him arrested. You have a right to be there. With all due respect, we need you to act like this is a constitutional crisis because it is. Stand your ground and make him assault you if he dares. You are there with legal purpose.
They are attempting to make it so but by no means have they succeeded yet. Congress has a great deal of power if they will wield it. There are probably more than a few in he capital police force who will take direct orders from Congress. They must treat this like a coup because it basically is.
BS, these people need to be tested. Law enforcement needs to be forced to decide if they're going to arrest elected govt officials investigating crimes occurring in govt buildings. Everything else is hypothetical, we need to see where the actual line it NOW. Stop bootlicking & obeying in advance.
You see, that's where you show up with your own people whom have guns. If you get a couple hundred, they'll fold whether or not you're crowd has badges.
I really fucking hope for Americans behind the scenes the Dems and non-MAGAs Reps are organising with the law enforcement, the FBI and the military who are still loyal to the country and not Trump
Walk around them then, dare them to arrest you on live TV or your staffer record the exchange. Or tell them to show you where in the law it states they can prevent you from entering. Good on you all for trying though
I would really like to see the outcome of this. A high ranking employee of the United States government would like to enter a federal building, and someone *not* employed by the govt stops him??
100% thats the point. Arrest a sitting senator/congressman. Go On DARE THEM. If they do... well there's your national/international outrage. DO NOTHING #DEMS giving DOGE free reign
Private security?
Omfg!
Since when has the Treasury dept become a private property? Omfg!!!!
Hey folks, did you all hear that?
Musk needs to be locked up!!
Senator, a question. How can a rent a cop keep any MOC, or, for that matter, the local barista out of the EPA?Wouldn’t one of D.C.’s finest be sufficient to get you all in there? How hard could it be to get a warrant for access?
Explain it to us like we’re five, but (unlike MAGA) are genuinely 1/
Well, if you're going to tell a 78-year old Senator to push through security, just as the Democratic leadership starts to fight back, seems that you might ante up your credentials to insist that he should have done more in that moment
a) I believe that encouraging people who try to do right is better than swatting them b) whether you think we're a gerontocracy or not, living in a 78-year old body can be quite different than living in a 40-year old one
If he’s too fucking old to do his job he should step aside and let someone younger and with some balls do the job. And there are plenty of women out there with more courage and bigger balls.
DOGE has their own private security. I read somewhere that it cost $5 million to run DOGE for a week. That's a run rate of $260 million per year. That buys a lot of resources. But I agree, senators should not be intimidated by rent-a-cops when so much is at stake.
Why didn’t you just shove your way past them? It’s pathetic that you not only let a rent a cop block you but also you missed the obvious photo opp when he tried to restrain you.
If they couldn't stop Bobo from entering the halls of Congress while packing a piece, they can't stop you from entering a govt building. Tell the rent-a-cop to step aside, you're a Senator.
It’s Musk’s private army. That’s why we can’t just go in there and yank him out. He also uses children as human shields when entering buildings. It is sick. He is not human.
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“We are asking our FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE TO JOIN WITH US….blah blah blah “
Really pathetic.
If it weren't for their constituents telling them to do the right thing- they would literally committee themselves to death.
I agree with your point, but I would just like to point out that if I were a Philippina or a Marine, I think your valuable point could get lost in the offense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHTT_xeQYTI
"Some of you may die, but that's a chance I'm willing to take."
Show the world the level of violence.
This is a coup, Anymouse, this is not the time for cowards
Push past them.
You were stopped???
In most areas they're operating on the same laws that allow citizen's arrest, which D.C. does have, but a lot of cities and special districts have additional powers granted (like open carry in 'gun free' zones).
he isn't a real guard, he's just a guy they hired from a private firm
Chaos agents are a different group. They will raise hell, so those who work the system properly can do so for the right change.
But you get refused?
Senator. This a coup d'etat. Wake up.
Let them arrest you
Private citizens frequently get arrested fighting for our rights
✊🇺🇸
The newly indoctrinated Right Wing mass media should help get the word out for you.
How about you bum rush the mother fuckers...ya know, like they're doing to US?
Throw a chair! Pull some hair! Mother F'ing tweets and press conference AIN'T WORKING!
BE BOLD!
Fucking go out there and prove why you should represent us. (I know you are, but if we want to beat the fascists, we need to snowball fucking hard.)
done.
Grow some balls and do your job, or resign so somebody who can, will!
Also, how many court cases have halted Muskrat? Why not have part of the order tell the Muskrat, he don’t own shyt in any government buildings and he cannot deny access.
I’m so tired
While not working in DC, would you all consider please marching with our nation? Europe does it. We can too, sir.
https://bsky.app/profile/why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social/post/3lhnhkyar4s2q
Make them arrest you. Film it. Show our nation exactly what they are willing to do, turning away our own elected officials from government property.
Force the world to see the coup.
Well, Berners, what say you?
This was a setup. It's a show. A puff piece.
Judging by his donors, this is what they want.
Congressional Republicans are too scared of Musk to defend laws. Im glad you love the country enough to fight for us all.
For federal buildings, it would be the agency head. a US Senator can't just walk into, say FBI HQ and disrupt things.
but then, you'd think the security guard would be standing up to DOGE too... cuz.. yeah.
they should. I just thought I'd chime in with where security get their authority. At most it's tresspass, which, you're not going to pursue against a US senator. You're just gonna keep asking them to leave "nicely"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters
Easy to get hired too.
Trump has installed his own Gestapo.
Illegal to keep Congress out of their own buildings.
But if you want to become legendary
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/john-lewis-arrest-records-are-finally-uncovered-180961255/
https://creativeloafing.com/congressman-john-lewis-adds-arrest-no.-45---at-least---to-rap-sheet
Getting real fucking tired of feckless democrats ~
They need new blood to stand up to and stop trump & his fascist enablers, handlers, quisslings, traitors & criminal thugs.
Btw your ageism's showing
Continue to SHUT down the Senate. STOP the coup!
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated."
Robert Jackson, Nuremberg Trials
They don't get to tell you no.
Get in some 'good trouble,' Senators. And Reps.
This is ridiculous
Keep in mind most Federal government buildings have keycards and even a Senator doesn’t have an automatic authorization.
This is the show of force they can do. Anything else escalates and they “the Senators” know it.
You can be mad at DJT, Elon, DOGE but not everyone is purposely causing these issues
They tried, security drew the line, that’s the most they can do physically
Not like you guys will do anything about it.
Show some goddamn leadership for once
We will not see them helping representatives or senators.
When a bunch of uniformed swastika flag waving swastika armband wearing Nazis attacked Detroit gay pride a couple years ago starting fights the crowd chased them out and cops protected the Nazis from the festival goers instead of the other way around.
I mean it's literally just 100 senators. Are they too fuckin cheap to assign a security detail to each?
Senator Markey, THANK YOU!
Grow a pair and do something or get out of the way for someone younger that actually cares.
Force them to touch you and make headlines.
who is paying these security guards?
Markey’s largest donors include Google, Apollo Management & Blackstone.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ed-markey/contributors?cid=N00000270&cycle=2024
this is hired security
yall really need to spot the difference and tell some folks to suck it from the back and then walk on in
They have certain emblems they need to wear as contractors and it doesn't seem to be on him.
You’re a sitting US Senator.
You have jurisdiction. He does not.
WALK IN.
They have no fucking authority
You do
Use it for the fucking love of our democracy
Stop being wimps
We continue daily until he is REMOVED!
OUR SUSTAINED OPPOSITION IS:
#50PROTESTS #50CAPITALS DAILY AT NOON
#50/50/DAILY
Contact the media!
We continue daily until our demand is met!
Let's go!
He is Hitler 2.0.
Force your way in already! Any officer that touches you will have their lives (legally) destroyed, for assaulting a senator. They can’t afford that, call the bluff!
That’s how R’s operate, and that’s why we Dems lose
We are all depending on you to lead, stop acting like a polite “no” means anything and make that individual office assault a senator to stop you.
You can ruin that officers life, if he makes you, do it
If you're going to just post through it, so am I
God damn flex some muscle
...the question wud be, how cud anyone *not* think so.
Quit being so nice.
Quit being so polite.
It's time for some SPECTACLE.
GRRR!! #FERAL
This guy is NOT one of them.
Very strange.
But seriously, they have had a little trouble with the FBI and the Capital Police.
Senators: "They won't let us in."
Bruh.....
It’s just 🎯🔥🔥🔥🔥
I hope he and his staff actually read these comments.
Ask yourself whether Google, Apollo Management & Blackstone are paying him all of that money to save Democracy.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ed-markey/contributors?cid=N00000270&cycle=2024
This “possession of the entire government” bullshit needs to be shut the fuck down.
#ShutItDown
It's frankly shocking, from a Canadian standpoint, to see you guys crumble at every roadblock.
You should not be taking no for an answer.
Call the police immediately and get an escort. Move past this man. Sue him if he puts his hands on you.
Or the time last year Jagmeet Singh was ready to use his BJJ training to fold some right wing chud like laundry?
Good times
That's why Dougie is running this "canada not for sale" play
"Excuse me sir, I'd like to get past"
"No"
"Oh, erm, ok then" turns around and leaves.
Noooo. World democracy is at risk here. Stand your ground man!
Like, what? Private security cannot touch you! Literally, it is not allowed! I guarantee if they do, the sitting congress member has enough money to sue them and the company into oblivion.
Ffs
This will turn violent if they don't find their balls to do something
I don't see the Dem leadership as it currently exists doing jack shit.... they're weak and old and too slow
Our window of non-violent, democratic legal procedural justice ended when Scotus decided Trump had immunity. DOGE should have been met with physical force when they tried to steal government data.
Who has that power?
I don’t understand how people don’t realize that we live in a dictatorship now.
Dems have no power. Zero.
Trump has immunity for any illegal act he feels like dreaming up.
You live in a fascist country now.
everyone on this thread understands whatsup...
Get a group together and push on past these guys.
Senators have more authority than “special government employee” Musk.
#sarcasm
You have more right to be there then the tech Nazi shitbag nerds on Team Elon.
Make them arrest you.
We continue daily until he is REMOVED!
OUR SUSTAINED OPPOSITION IS:
#50PROTESTS #50CAPITALS DAILY AT NOON
#50/50/DAILY
Contact the media!
We continue daily until our demand is met!
Let's go!
Omfg!
Since when has the Treasury dept become a private property? Omfg!!!!
Hey folks, did you all hear that?
Musk needs to be locked up!!
Explain it to us like we’re five, but (unlike MAGA) are genuinely 1/
Markey is doing his job
ffs
So were the SS under Hitler. This guy can leave and get another job that doesn't involve selling his soul to demon Musk and destroying the country.
THIS
End DOGE!!
https://bsky.app/profile/davmicrot.bsky.social/post/3lhkkzzxbg22m
They have not authority to block a senators entrance. Show some strength @markey.senate.gov
Many in the country are showing incredible courage - now it's your turn. Stop playing defense!