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Ugh I love it

You can't argue for a military parade and also argue that symbology doesn't matter. Great, great thread.

Can someone link me to where the Dems are actually doing something now that they're being forcibly detained, arrested, and indicted? Now that the cities and states they represent are being invaded by "federal police" that refuse to identify themselves? Oh, they're still on trans rights? Okay thx

People. People. THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!! Monarchs in an autocracy display power by creating laws and rules that they themselves *do not adhere to* because that is the ultimate show of strength. They are above it. Pointing it out is not a "gotcha", it's just admiration from the peasants.

trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise

If you thought the "wedding cake bakery" wedge was a bullshit attempt to normalize discrimination against gay people, then you should feel the same way about the "trans athletes" wedge. It's called creating division and it's been the right-wing play since it got Nixon elected and destroyed the NDC.

The Dem strategy of saying one thing and doing another is alive and well, I see. You can't go on national TV and claim that our very essence as a nation is under attack by a fascist, authoritarian Republican cabal and then spend your office hours whipping votes against impeachment. It's not hard.

A daily reminder that social media isn't an efficient way to make friends because the person is curating what you see and know. You can meet someone in real life and know instinctively within a couple of weeks whether they're good humans. Online? It might take *years*. You might never find out.

The obviously stupid thing about making mail-in ballots "due" by election day is that the voter can't control what happens to the ballot after it's mailed. They can only control *when they mail it*. It's unreasonable to create a "due date" based on anything other than the postmark date.

The fundamental reason why most of our political leaders won't ever be able to empathize with the majority of America is because they're wealthy, and that insulates them from the lack of freedom that comes from being poor.

Dems don't need a top-down strategy, and in fact, that would be a strategic misstep. Instead, they need a foundation -- a set of principles, goals, and a vision of the future of the country -- and then they need to allow for decentralized resistance and action. They can do this *and* impeach 47.

Every moment you work with Trump, you're announcing who you are. It's that simple.

Political malfeasance is alive and well: Republicans will say anything to get into power and then do whatever the hell they want, while Democrats will commit to nothing in the hopes that you'll vote for them out of the goodness of your heart and then quietly bend the knee to the most oppressive.

The funny thing is that Republicans, in their quest to defeat Dems at the ballot box, adopted a strategy that was explicitly anti-democratic. They are, in fact, becoming the embodiment of an anti-democratic party. They're not fighting big-D Dems, but the institution of democracy itself.

You know who isn't suffering from all this economic chaos? The Trump family. You can bet your ass that they're going to walk out of this a hell of a lot richer than when they started.

Everything Trump does is about amassing power, in case you forgot. Norms in our government exist as the canary test; if someone broke them, it meant they were seeking to gain power at *the expense of democracy*. So far, Congress has been complicit. Will this change their minds? Press x to doubt