Summary
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski revealed the U.S. Senate is receiving an unprecedented 1,600 calls per minute, overwhelming its phone system.
The surge follows Trump’s aggressive policy moves, including dismantling DEI initiatives and enlisting Elon Musk in government operations.
Many calls demand Democrats “fight harder” despite their limited power in a Republican-controlled Congress.
Lawmakers compare the volume to past crises like the Oct. 7 attack, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, and Trump’s impeachments.
past crises like the Oct. 7 attack, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, and Trump’s impeachments.
This is far, far worse.
All the goofs that were making absurd blanket statements about how “Congress so old” and “Biden so old” and wishing baby boomers all just retire and/or die off? I wonder where they are now that we have idiotic 19 year olds being given the keys to the kingdom and told to just go nuts.
Maybe, just maybe - it’s possible that being old is not an unqualified bad thing in of itself? Same thing for being young? Maybe not an unqualified good, either?
At least the baby boomers have some competency and quite a few have some wisdom…Bernie is even older than the baby boomers and knows the score and is still very sharp. I’d sure listen to him over a fucking young dipshit like “big balls” or his cohorts.
Yes a little known part of WW2 history was when Hitler was defeated by angry phone calls, which drove him into despair and suicide.
You are kidding, but it does seem that fElon spiraled after getting booed.
Calling is the best way to be heard by your members of Congress. I’ve heard staffers say they assume that, for every one phone call they get, there are at least 1,000 voters who share that viewpoint. It’s certainly not a magic solution, but you should absolutely be calling your Senators and Congressman every day and telling them you want them to do everything they can to resist this attempt at state capture.
From here on, Elon should only be referred to as “self described nazi, Elon Musk”
Tesla are now known as swasticars
do they answer all of them
Just the ones on the private investor line
Wow I never knew about this utility! I downloaded one for my smartphone and it’s extremely straightforward. You can even set up reminders so that it’ll notify you when you should spend 5 minutes calling your reps.
I’ll have to verify the scripts that I see, but it looks like it’s as simple as giving you the name of the rep, a script to read, a phone number to click so you can call them, and a logging utility so that you can just click the Next button and move on to the next rep. Makes it stupid easy to let your reps hear your voice and stance. Definitely going to try this out as I’ve been feeling so powerless and overwhelmed by the onslaught of these racists in power.
Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea it was this easy to track everything and make it simpler for me to try to fight back.
Edit: on mobile so fixed some typos
Might want to look into resistbot as well. You can even nefariously FAX your representative for maximum annoyance!
This is also great but I don’t believe faxes or emails are logged. Phone calls are and count for more.
If you don’t like calling, send an email. Or a letter. Although with snail mail there’s a risk Trump’s blitzkrieg will leave your issues behind before it arrives. But you can always update with another.
Getting 1600 calla, or are they SLAMMED with calls? Well I guess we’ll know whether calls matter after this.
Whining like this makes me fervently wish that all headlines include the word “slammed” until the end of time.
Lawmakers compare the volume to past crises like the Oct. 7 attack, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, and Trump’s impeachments.
And those all turned out so well, too. /s
