This is horseshit. If you fear protests will lead to martial law then you already live under martial law — and you’re the one who declared it.
Plus, it *won’t* lead to a declaration of martial law and the fear misconstrues the nature of the threats we face.
Plus, it *won’t* lead to a declaration of martial law and the fear misconstrues the nature of the threats we face.
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Ann M. Lipton
"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...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
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Harvard researcher Erica Chenoweth: "Nonviolent protests...engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change":
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
or at least achieve clarity. Be there tomorrow.
excuse from Republican elected officials that they got death threats.
Don't let his hollow threats work, make him back them up & take the consequences. Or you're just a poodle.
Try these sites to find a local Protest for tomorrow February 17 they're updated frequently
https://www.nvunheard.org/protest-list...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtestFin...
I agree we have the right to defend ourselves.
Let’s hope they remain that way to fight back
How do you think one should properly construe the nature of the threats we face? What do you understand the threat to bge?
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STOP THE BELLINI MUSSOLINI!
Dems should deal with things as they are, not close their eyes & pretend it's ok
I can’t tell if it’s genuine or MAGA trolling to be honest. They insist we roll over. Fuck them
Protesting *against* Nazis? Not like, say, vandalizing a Jewish Children's Hospital? Where's the praxis in that?
Better stay home - for the cause!
People are marching in Washington and in front of Tesla sales offices.
Democratic AGs have file lawsuits.
Stop the negative Democratic party narrative.
House GOP has 5+ vote.
Any Dems missing means that it is easier for GOP to pass legislation🤣
a disaster for us and a gift for billionaires.
If you aren't willing to put yourself out there, they have already won.
Columbia was "devolved" only to the extent that people use present day meh protests as a ruler.
Reboot the sixties level protests, and the reality that the fascists lack the numbers will be abundantly clear.
Hopefully only hurting himself and no one else
This, to the nth degree. ☝️
Also them: maybe fall for it a little...
who are these activist leaders, how many of them are there, what exactly did they say ?
To paraphrase, "Those who would give up essential democracy, to purchase a little temporary comfort deserve neither democracy nor comfort."
VOTE!!
🚨 Have you started a local group yet?
✊🏼 Organize now!
🦋 It's going to take many groups to get to the millions that we need to fight this craziness.
#organize
#organizenow
#organizelocally
#fightback
#resist
#resistance
Asking for us lay people who haven’t yet thought much about this.
Nobody listened to Senator Sanders, and now we're going to pay for it. Bigtime.
Amy Klobuchar is about a billion times more effective at actually getting legislation PASSED that improves lives.
He was arrested!!!! So bring it on!!! 🫶🫵💪
The protesters who fought in the streets in the 1st term were unaffiliated.
To me, this insult of people for being unwilling to physically risk their safety is despicable.
the protests must be peaceful, and we must be prepared for saboteurs and provocateurs.
trump tried to exacerbate unrest while using it as a pretext to invoke emergency powers, during george floyd protests in spring of 2020
They will, I'm confident. If he insists, they must take him into custody, dissolve Congress, and impose a ministerial caretaker government until new elections can convene.
#lastditch
When you're hoping for a junta you KNOW things are bad
At this point their control of Congress is shaky, the FBI is in turmoil, and Wall St people are nervous about tariffs etc.
The point of a strike is to illustrate "this is the line in the sand" not a generic political march.
_Just start_
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Not sure about the second. could you expand?
I could absolutely see the Trump junta justifying martial law bc of large-scale protests.
he's already mused at length about deploying military domestically.
I hope that every single person heading to the streets tomorrow voted on 11 5.
If you did not. Stay home.
A person can't change their mind once they learn they were lied to repeatedly? Won't be welcomed among the other side? This purity testing is a major reason leftists remain fractured and can't seem to build coalitions.
We need COURAGE to get a NEW New Deal.
Outdated "wait your turn" decorum led to Hillary and Biden instead of Bernie. PLAN TO WIN.
Fire the fearful Obama-era consultants at the DNC who get paid no matter the outcome.
#NoRetreat
#EndOligarchy
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If we roll over in fear, it’s already too late.
The Project 2025 ppl might very well use provocateurs to incite unrest amidst a crowd of protesters or to act as looters.
Images of such incidents can very well be used to justify the introduction of martial law.
Keeping your head down.
Think about it.
Stand tall.
Fight back!
You won’t be any safer if you don’t fight.
As much as I hate slippery-slope arguments, there are contexts where they make sense.
This, however, makes no sense.
Obeying in advance, or obeying at all, strengthens him. Democrats are underestimating the unifying effect that worldwide condemnation and international outrage will have.
That's what our elected representatives are doing instead of protecting us. Bunch of fascist-loving weenies. 🙄
that they are expressed is not cowardice but being real
i know donny personally
my account is anonymous bc he’s a vicious bully who will retaliate using any means at his disposal
courage is not the absence of fear
& these leaders are right to fear retribution
During VN war there were protests every week. One was to shut down DC. Cars "stalled" on bridges, in intersections. Cops put a ring of old buses bumper to bumper around the WH, "circling the wagons"
Awesome visual!
Unless the military removes Trump and Elon by force, the courts and lawsuits won't accomplish much against oligarchs and their brainwashed peons.
The point is to undercut them, not strengthen them.
So tactical methodology does actually matter.
I get the concern, but find it slightly annoying that she would instinctively be so stand-offish.
This is why the revolutionaries in the 1700’s were seen as the heroes that they were.