@hacks4pancakes hear hear!

The academics trying to think their way around the norms with this are doing my fucking head in, all while people are actually being harmed

@hacks4pancakes It’s weird how when the Republicans were the minority, the democrats said their hands were tied.

And now the democrat minority leader is saying “it’s the republican’s government, now!” Seems like it was before, too. And now they just are glad they can get back to insider trading because *they* will be rich and okay, even if their constituents will suffer.

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I was at a Superbowl party yesterday and said, sort of rhetorically, "what do we do?" Rhetorically because almost everyone there are Dems. The answer I received from the most demmy Dem was "we wait two years and take the house and the Senate." I responded, "if the Dems don't do something soon, they'll lose again in two years."

I don't have enough characters to put the rest of the very vbnmw discussion. But my favorite answer was, "we need to do our version of the IRA."
Yes!

@hacks4pancakes I lost faith in the DNC when they fucked over Bernie Sanders from the nomination the people voted him
In for.

He blew everyone else out of the water in primaries in WA. I was an area delegate and we had 11 of us for Bernie, one Hillary in West Seattle.

Patty Murray straight up told us she knew what was best for the country and wouldn’t be voting for Bernie as we stated we wanted her too with our votes.

Look where we are now.

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"We did not have to swear allegiance to their god, but only live as if we had."
SearingTruth

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Yep.

@hacks4pancakes Here's a plan. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/blunting-their-attacks

"Democratic voters can get behind this plan, too, by urging their representatives and senators to use the power of non-cooperation and defiance at every turn to help save our democracy. Trump and his billionaire buddies want to pass extensions of the Trump tax cuts, but they can’t do it with such a fractured GOP Congress."

More importantly and broadly, this.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-somebody-doing-something

@hacks4pancakes My next step is to contact my city council member and ask what we are doing locally to resist and throw sand in the gears of the Feds and the fascists at the local level.

If the leadership won't lead, make them follow. I need to put in some work but it's mostly pointless if I'm doing it alone. I have leverage that into getting someone else off their ass and working beside me. Multiply it and keep multiplying it. But don't wait a second for leadership to come from those in power that refuse to lead.

Oh, and for god's sake never argue with the i-took-the-principled-stand-of-doing-nothing-and-watching-the-world-burn-because-the-fire-truck-was-the-wrong-shade-of-red jagoffs. Ain't nobody has time for that adolescent flounce, especially right now.

@hacks4pancakes I normally don't respond to blasts either. I have been responding with rational criticism and questions to the congressional rep's newsletter for the rural area I'm in. I'm rationally calling out nonsense without using personal attacks and checking the box for "I want a response".

Getting nothing. Not feeling represented by my representative.

Civil discourse isn't working as intended.