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I’ll note that as a newspaper for the owning class, their hard-news section is much more willing to plainly describe the coup against congress & constitution that’s going on than other outlets.
Edit: Indivisible is calling for people to make in-person visits to their congressmembers local offices
Everyone in the US. Call your representatives (https://5calls.org/ is a great resource for this). Explain to them, POLITELY (because you are talking to the equivalent of a CSR who has gotten screamed at all day), that you are their constituent and you do not feel represented. Explain that you understand their powers are limited but ask them why they are quietly and meekly rolling over. Beg them to be vocal before it is even too later. And leave your name and contact information.
There isn’t a lot that can be done but we can at least show our former allies that some of us care. And we can show those on the firing lines that they at least have a modicum of support.
Two of mine a MAGA Republicans. One of those participated in Jan 6.
Another is an alleged Democrat who’s had a stroke and bent the knee.
None of them care what I think, and have told me so with multiple letters when I’ve contacted them.
Same thing here. Mine is hardcore MAGA and vith Senators are 100% shills. Also no one in my area cares… they all think Trump is going to do a great job and save everything. There are two Democrats in Congress from my state but neither one is capable of fighting anything. I don’t know what to do but watch it burn.
The hooded Pennsylvania peter puffer!
It’s going to take an angry crowd showing up at their district office to make them care
No, they’ll just close their offices to people without approved appointments.
I know because one of mine is Scott Perry, who did exactly that.
Sooner or later they have to come out.
And they’ll have the pigs there to ensure they don’t see anyone who disagrees with them
Class traitors. Acab.
Some will do stuff like that, and ask cops to clear the crowd too. But we don’t need every Republican to do the right thing. Just enough that they can vote with the Democrats.
Scott Perry, and probably also Fetterman, will never vote with the Democrats.
Do you think Fetterman was a phony from the start or is his current positions and behavior a result of the stroke?
I think it was the stroke and I’m concerned for Gisele’s safety.
The problem is getting an angry crowd. If the majority support it where you are you’re just a lone “nut case”.
It’s whatever their corporate owners want
The corporate owners also didn’t expect the tariffs. I think an angry crowd could give them the reason to fight for the constitution they need.
The tariffs have the potential to create serious problems if they last any length of time. Especially for food and auto.
Yes. The majority of republicans and even some of the democrats are all just eager to get as many kickbacks as they can and then bail.
But that isn’t the entire government. There are still Democrats who actually give a shit about their constituents just like there are republicans who only want black people to get a little bit hurt. And, right now, the majority of them just hear silence.
The people who give a shit need to talk to the politicians who give a shit so that they will shout it from the rooftops and others might even know what is going on. How many stories were there about people who didn’t even realize biden had dropped out?
Because just look at the defunding of medicaid last week. There was pushback and it was dropped immediately.
Everyone in the US. Call your representatives
So they can mark me down as a dissident that needs to be purged?
“…A law effectively banning TikTok as of Jan. 19 passed Congress with overwhelming House and Senate majorities. Trump has delayed enforcement for 75 days, saying in a December court filing that his status as “one of the most powerful, prolific and influential” social media personalities gives him unique abilities to evaluate the app.”
I hate this asshole so much. Everything he says and does is somehow mind bogglingly stupid, arrogant, and evil.
I guess he could give himself a new title that goes well with president: chancellor.
Nah, he can give that to
ElonLeonHindenberg was a puppet, just like orange fuckface
A weird little detail in all this madness is that “Doge” as in an italian renaissance leader is related to the word “Duce” so I guess “Il Doge” would fit Muskolini perfectly?
Anticipated yesterday here :
https://lemmy.world/post/25005956
Nazification (also in USA ?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GleichschaltungNo shit
Hey America, what was all that bluster when now you are wimpier than the Germans of 1930s?
Wait, I’ll translate.
Why are you acting like the side that lost the 1939-1945 world war you joined in 1941? You sure like taking credit for the win. That’s stolen valor, by the way, because you were fucking waffling on the fence until someone hurt you. Anyway, what was all that stuff about freedom and strength when you deny it to your neighbour and get walked on?
Just because someone might actually read your nonsense post:
People should understand what WW2 actually was. Yeah, the US basically just sold guns and materials to the allies until Pearl Harbor. And we do very much take WAY too much credit in ways that marginalize how long the Brits (among others) held out for.
But basically everyone (except the aggressors) in WW2 only got involved when they were either under attack or very clearly next in line. That was mostly a response to how brutal WW1 was and how many countries resented being pulled in to one of the bloodiest wars in (modern) human history because of ink on a page.
Why does that matter? Because look at the war in Ukraine. Nobody is going to help anybody until it is clear they can “get away with it” or they have no other choice. NATO left Ukraine to die in that first few days and only stepped in once it was clear they weren’t going to be steamrolled and could bleed russia for a few months (now years).
Nobody is going to step in until trump’s america points the guns at them.
Also, I’ll just add on. If ANYONE thinks that people gave a shit about the horrific genocide before, during, and after WW2? Maybe look up how Europe and the US treated The Jews prior to the war. What Russia/Stalin did to… a shit ton of people after. Or how people STILL don’t give a fuck about what Imperial Japan did (and what American and Russian soldiers, in particular, did as well).
Finding the concentration camps was great for political capital for the various generals and politicians who wanted to have power post war. And while I would like to think the soldiers on the ground were horrified and motivated to “finish the fight” by seeing it… it had jack all to do with why they were out there in the first place.
For people who claim to love the Founding Fathers, the current US government sure is speedrunning the death of the Father’s vision of a nation free from religious control and without monarch levels of unchecked power.
To be fair, the country they created lasted 250 years… 🤷♂️
every member of congress, of any party affiliation, from the far left to the far right, should all be pissed off at the usurper; and they need to start voting like it.
A lot of the legislators who are helping Trump seize their power for himself are gonna be really surprised when they get the Saddam Hussein treatment eventually.
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Seriously, this seems like the advice that might be getting the most pertinent. Scary fucking times.
Be prepared enough to take out at least one cop before you are undeniably taken out yourself.
I feel terrible for people with children and families.
Those are the people who should step up and make the world good the kids and families…
They don’t care about their kids lol. They had them so someone was forced to love them, then they ignored them when it was too much work.
And I don’t give a shit about their kids, because they will probably be Nazis too. So, fuck this place. Stay off my lawn—or else.
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Shut up it’s not like they allow terrible things to happen at the schools, churches, and movie theaters non stop, time after time. Wait maybe people do hate their kids…
;)
He’s already signing decrees left and right so I don’t think you’ll feel any difference.
Something, something, dictator on day one…
Day 2 and on: also dictator.
Ahh, the sweet smell of Machtergreifung.
Welcome to The Crisis
The crisis was when he won the election. It’s too late. You and your loved ones will be lucky if you have food in 3 months.
Vive la resistance
is there anything we can do? as just … people? i have a hard time finding solid organization…
Revolt
Get together with a bunch of people you know, and show up in-person at your local congressman or senator’s office
