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Spineless cowards. There are amateur stand up comedians living in their cars and working for beer money who handle hecklers better than these professional public speakers with lifetime Healthcare.
Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.
What a pathetic state of affairs.
Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.
I love this as it's such a power move.
It really is. Her and a few others need to form a coalition and take over the party. Give Pelosi and Schumer the boot and pivot hard to the Left for the working class.
It may already be happening, she polls better than anyone else in her party
Yeah I've been hoping for it for a while now, but it's crazy how much power people like Pelosi have over the party as a whole. Maybe with the absolute madness of the second Trump administration, that'll weaken as people realize how useless the Democratic Old Guard is.
lol and watch them vote for these cowards over and over again. 🤦🏽♀️
This chant brought to you by the people who voted explicitly to tax the poor in order to give money to the rich. Just two brain cells in the entire goddamn party.
How do people not realize that they are the poor people that rich people hate
They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
How do you know it was republicans chanting?
Fair point, but I suppose that's the majority of the population in Columbus Nebraska
Nebraska is actually more blue than you might think. Also, it’s pretty assured that Democrats are showing up to town halls and making their voices heard. They’re EVERYONE’S rep no matter their party affiliation.
tax the rich! tax the rich!
Tax or trebuchet. I'm okay with either.
"Tax or trebuchet, I'm ok with either way"
It says the same thing but has good meter and rhymes. Great for chanting.
Tax everyone, balance the budget.
GOP voters actually advocating for something that would be good for them? I feel like I woke up in a different timeline.
Oh honey... They'll just vote Republican anyway. Maybe if the Democratic party disbanded and a new party with a new name came out of it... otherwise, they will never vote D.
They advocate for all kinds of reasonable things, but they never actually vote for them.
And this is the curse of the two party system in action. In reality, we have more in common with one another than we think, save for those solely driven by bigotry and fear(and there’s a lot of those)
It seems like when given the choice to lose all Medicare and social security or to tax billionaires a little bit, they are finally understanding the right decision ....
It's just too bad like always, it doesn't seem to bother them until it directly affects them.
Let's see if the Americans actually have teeth to bare. My guess is no.
Satisfied keyboard warriors everywhere agree.
At the beginning of March, Johnson advised his Republican colleagues not to hold town hall meetings, claiming they were giving a "forum" to "professional protesters."
These idiots are going to find out why peaceful protest exists. The alternative is not very friendly to say the least.
Its looking more and more like thats the GOP plan. Incite an uprising, then they declare martial law where they are free from any check on their power by the courts.
Whats going to be the lynchpin is the GOP will have an army willing to put down Americans en masse.
Or the military command structure fractures and now they have several warring regional or state fractions/civil war, or the military leadership enacts a coup when given illegal orders and either holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.
They are unable to see any of these unintended possible consequences of their actions, the same way they are unable to identify irony, or have empathy, or entertain hypotheticals.
There's a conflict of interest between EU and USA that is becoming a real problem.
Preamble: European States and companies widely use cloud services run by US companies. In the EU data protection is considered a human right, whereas in the US it's a citizen's right.
That means, if an intelligence service in the eu want to look at my data, they need a warrant. If an intelligence service in the US want to look at a US citizen's data, they need a warrant. Ø
But if a US intelligence service want to look at my data, a US company will just have to hand it over. I have no protection, not being a US citizen.
A few legal exercises has been made to deal with this. After all, the amounts earned by Azure, Google Cloud and AWS are noteworthy. Twice the EU court of Law has deemed these exercises wanting, and the problem has been huge enough that Biden and EU Commission head van der Layen made a joint pressemøde conference to annonce that it had been solved - latest in october 2022 by executive order 14086.
End of preamble.
So. The US has this peaceful group of nations across the atlantic that very much just want to pump billions into the US digital economy. As long as the US at least pretends that they respect EU data privacy laws more or less on the level that US citizens are protected. Because building our own similar services is one hell of a pain.
It's a pipeline of free money. And even though we complain at every price hike, we can't seem to move towards the exit.
Project 2025 language on this? It's all an evil plot by scheming europeans in Brussels to nerf US intelligence, and EO14086 is another weak decision by weak biden. It should be cancelled and Brussels should told to piss off.
Billions. Literally billions of dollars every year flowing from companies and taxpayers all over EU towards US Big Tech bank accounts. And the p2025 nutcases want to fuck it up, because setting a tiny privacy footnote on billions of tech dollars make america look weak.
Sorry. We can't trust you Guys.
If you have to advise all of your colleagues to hide from protesters instead of holding a dialogue with the people you represent... maybe you're the baddies?
So, let's get this straight.
Protestors make noise and cause a ruckus to draw attention to any number of social issues they feel need addressed. If they're successful, laws/perceptions change to more closely reflect their ideal.
Professional protestors are those that get paid to do that.
Ergo, politicians are the "paid protestors", and the people you are avoiding are just garden-variety protestors.
My question to Republicans is how the fuck are paid protesters any different than paid lobbyists?!
Republicans are the Nazi party in America.
I saw an ad for a trump youth podcast. Nothing alarming about that.
MAGA youth parades. Time to get these kids reporting on their parents and reporting to our glorious leader.
This is just factual, and it never fails to blow my mind.
It doesn't help they seem to have a few Vichy-type collaborators on the "opposing" team.
The thing is even more ridiculous because the Republicans warned him not to have the town hall and have told their members to only have online town halls or "moderated" chats. So they can keep any dissenting voices out and project an image of everyone loving what they are doing.
Now they are just relegated to calling things like this "democratic operatives" trying to disrupt civil Republican discourse. This isn't gonna work as well as they think because people know who is hurting them since the Republicans own all the branches right now.
They owned all the branches during trump's first term too. Republican voters won't learn, they're too stupid to understand
They also had all branches during W's term when he crashed the economy and started two never ending wars.
The Republican voter is dumber than a bag of rocks. Hell, even a bag of rocks would learn faster than a Republican voter.
It's as if the more a population is restricted, the harder it will resist. It's taking a while for the american people to be roused, but I have hope that it gathers speed and power, not unlike a boulder hurdling down a hill towards a village.
As a nebraskan I am finally proud of one thing in this corn packed hellhole. At least the people in this district are finally fucking realizing who to blame for their poverty
Doubt
You love to see it.
Video cut out before he no doubt retorted with some facile, bullshit strawman argument. But you just know that happened.
Yes. Basically his argument was that Biden proposed a millionaire tax, but even that tax (which didn't pass) would not have solved the problem. So might as well not try or something like that. The question begins at around the 23 minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/live/GW2hRMYVhjQ