Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.
It’s remarkable that so many are blaming Democrats for what’s happening, instead of the Republicans doing the things, people who voted for the Republicans doing the things, and non-voters who decided they don’t care about Republicans doing the things.
No wonder your country is fucked.
I don’t blame democrats for the Republicans actions, but I do blame democrats for democrats not even trying to slow Republicans down. This has been American Legislation all my life, Republican gains office, immediately lowers taxes on the richest Americans while shifting the tax burden onto the middle class and poor, while cutting service and protection for average Americans, rides out 4-8 years destroying education, veteran services, and regulations stopping full on breakdown of the US as is. A Democrat gets elected, they get nothing at all done due to republican obstruction at every turn, rides out 4 years of the problems Republicans put in place having the bad outcomes everyone knew would come, Republicans presidential nom runs off ‘‘This democrats ruined everything! I’ll clean up the mess! And I hate immigrants!!’’ Republican is elected and immediately gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest- rinse and repeat.
Republicans arent showing up to hear the message, so let’s shit talk the dems.
You aren’t crazy. This shit is fucked up.
Be mad about it. Be frustrated. Figure out what you can do about it in your circle of influence.
It’s not just about shit talking to Dems because they show up to hear us shit talk to them. It’s about the fact that 10 Democratic senators just voted with the goddamn Republicans to strip Americans of basic needs in order to give a massive tax break to billionaires.
Those Democrats don’t represent me. And since one of them is from my own state I’m going to make damn sure he doesn’t get another chance.
As an Aussie watching what’s happening over there, all I’ve got to say is that the days of honourable dueling are gone - your leaders need to understand that you’re in a dirty street fight now!
My brother taught me there is no such thing as a fair fight.
Your brother is wise.
Your brother is correct
Ah yes, the tru endgame of “the highroad strategy”. Simply doing nothing as the fascists pillage the Government. At least the Dems are holding their noses high as everything burns around them!
I’m sure they’re excellent patrons of the arts, such as the fiddle
Whats the best wine pairing with fascist takeover?
Honestly instead of pushing me to the democrats, this has just gotten me to hate both sides, just hate one a little less.
We are alone in this. The dems are better, but they are at fault here too because their entire strategy is being better then the republican which allows Republicans to be as awful as they please
You need to do more than finger waggle, treat Republicans the way they treat us
I was thinking the other day, wondering, "What % of legal - born and raised - Americans seeth with hatred for the United States, and would actively hurt America, anyway they can. What % and what political stance they have, and of course, it’s the democratic party.
Lemme rephrase… Simply, if you’re American, but you also hate America and are politically active. 98%, you’re a democrat.
What one focus on in life will become a bigger part of one’s life. The left needs to ditch the hate. I’ll come back when “democrat” isn’t synonymous with hate.
Hey champ, here’s a tip; instead of writing, “lemme rephrase,” halfway through your comment, you can just delete the portion that’s poorly phrased! That way, instead of having to read (what I’ll generously call) a paragraph of word salad, people can start at the part that’s (again, generously) coherent! Also, you might want to look up, “what does a hyphen do,” or, “when to use commas vs. periods,” because you write like an AI that was trained exclusively by ESL students and stroke victims.
Being critical of the government vs oppressing criticism by calling it hate
Yeah I think I know what side I’m on
No, it’s not oppression, it’s calling an apple an apple. Democrats don’t usually mind expressing their hateful views about America. They are quite vocal about how they hate America.
You should try and figure out why you believe this. Clearly people here don’t agree, and it doesn’t ring true to me either. How many people do you actually know who seethe with hatred for the US?
Bigotry is so insidious in America that when you call it out for the poison that it is, bigots call you anti-American.
I say bigotry is unAmerican. All the best Americans fought against that shit
We are judged by actions, not words.
The GOP cosplay as patriots to confuse small minded fools that striving for a better life is un-American. As if our founding fathers weren’t looking for a better life.
You’re looking at the map upside down.
What would constitute fighting?
People keep complaining about Democrats not doing anything, but under current constraints there isn’t much they can do.
People seem to spend more time complaining about Democrats not opposing Republicans than they do complaining about Republicans destroying America.
For one, let the goverment shut down. The majority of people will blame the president no matter the circumstances.
Both sides seem to always act like the other side is tyrannical because the other side is doing things they don’t like. And unless they cheated, they are doing what they were voted in to do. (Unless they lied about what they were going to do.)
I hear you - I see plenty of outrage about Republican action though. What can Democrats really do but try to rely on Judges to do their jobs and campaign until midterms. Maybe they can rally enough people to march on Washington, but that may just speed up authoritarian gains.
The damage Trump and Musk can do is directly proportional to how fast they can speedrun fascism before they lose the House and maybe the Senate in the midterms. So the main lever that our elected Democratic reprentatives actually have is slowing down that effort in any way they can. That means filibustering, delaying votes, interrupting, shaking canes, getting escorted out, etc etc. Generally throwing sand in the gears of the administration. It’s not just performative, although that’s part of it. It’s to slow-roll the fascism so we have a better chance to fight it.
Chickens can at least peck a bit. These dems aren’t even that tough
A rooster can fuck you up.
people should just admit thier really right wing voters deep inside, there are plenty of people that votes as A D, but profess ideas and beliefs that of a republican, not necessarily a magat. there is a reason why we have so many DINOs in the DNC
Well holding signs and doing nothing didn’t work?
May I suggest a major and I mean major leaflet campaign?
Red Dwarf reference in the wild eh?
Guilty as charged… Wondered whether it would just slip through on a mostly US based site. Spangler maintained the ruse I think.
I did series re-watches every few months.
Now take this - https://youtu.be/Ar7u8zBbUJE
Steady on. Next you’ll be saying it’s time for the slogan t-shirts.
Nah, we need to bring in the big guns for this one. Stickers with slogans.
Are we allowed to glue the leaflets to bricks?
As long as it gets the message across.
Is an M67 a Leaflet?
In this timeline, sure.
Another constituent, Donya Williams, complained Ivey didn’t know the people in his district well enough — because he admitted earlier that he didn’t know who popular podcaster Joe Rogan was until the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.
This explains so much. They are as ignorant of the current state of things as the “apolitical” voters who thought Trump would be fine this time.
French aristocracy? Who ordered French aristocracy?
I think we may may finally be getting our message across. Here’s why:
Last night, Adam Schiff, one of the Democratic lawmakers I respect the most, was on Kimmel, and was very rough not just on the HitlerPig Crime Family, but also Chuck Schumer.
But what really struck me, was that the very honorable, polite, and respectful Adam Schiff took the opportunity to basically say “Fuck You” directly to the president - TWICE!
Kimmel asked him if he had said thank you to HitlerPig, and Schiff said he used a different two-word phrase, but one of the words was “You,” and everyone got it and laughed. At the end of his interview, he made another joke that was another very obvious disguised “Fuck You.”
They were obviously baiting HitlerPig into a tirade, but seeing Schiff go on national TV and saying Fuck You to HitlerPig twice marks a very new direction in messaging for the Democratic party. I hope this is the beginning of pivoting from appeasement to Hard Ball.
That’s awesome. I’ve started to get some social media feeds on YouTube from Adam Schiff and they’ve been pretty provocative and direct, which is desperately needed.
Schumer and Pelosi don’t have street fighting skills, they are from the era where Republicans weren’t all violent dixiecrat trash.
Schiff and the newer ones don’t bring harsh words to gunfights.
They’re boomers. They never had to fight dirty. Theyre part of the Democrat gameplan to compromise on everythin
They did have to and chose not to.
“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.”- The Democratic Party
“But please donate to my campaign to STOP this. We will soon, I promise”
Here’s a 100 texts from candidates running for city commissioner in TN and you live on the west coast.
My god I am so sick of the emails.
I used to get emails like “Contribute to X because I will fight to keep our schools providing school lunches!” And I’d donate.
Now, the emails are just “Donald wants to kill education. GIVE ME MONEY.”
So you can use that money to buy another sign that says “Pweeze stop”?
The amount of “gib monies plz” messages I got infuriated me. Like you aren’t doing diddly squat why would I ?!?
I think our society is ducked up enough that economically it makes better sense to have a loyal audience of easy marks than a wide audience of fickle donors. Donald Trump figures this out years ago and has been cultivating/brainwashing that audience since.
Idk how to counter it except that maybe if we gave people cheaper/free essential goods (housing, school lunches etc) they’d be less inclined to go insane and support scammers like trump or the modern democratic party.
We got a make them actually work for their money. If they want us to donate then they should do something they said they would do.
yeah, they have gotten so much fucking money. I could have done more good just spending that same amount on potatoes, or paying people to dance.
Like, I think someone in the DNC should be out there, putting out answers. What did they do with the money they got? Where did it go? Time for an audit.
Most expensive concert tour ever.
I think we know they wasted it all on ridiculous useless bullshit, and even if they had won, it would have been more useful to spend it on potatoes.
Pretty much exactly the answer I’ve gotten from all my reps.
