Summary
Protesters at a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall in Idaho were forcibly removed after criticizing Trump policies, including the Elon Musk-led DOGE.
Event organizers dismissed their concerns, with one emcee saying, “Your voice is meaningless.”
Similar protests occurred in Georgia and Oklahoma, where Republicans faced criticism over mass layoffs.
Lawsuits have been filed against the administration over the legality of these dismissals.
Sounds like what they’re saying is that the normal methods of voicing dissatisfaction are not going to be effective, and we need to shift focus to other, more extreme, extrajudicial solutions, instead?
❌ Soap Box
❌ Ballot Box
🔳 Jury Box
🔳 Ammo Box- free Luigi
- wreck shit
i am pretty sure the jury box is pointless at this point. how many crimes has VP trump been convicted for?
As of now, they’re still (allegedly) obeying court orders and at least giving lip-service to the idea that courts are to be respected.
At some point, they’ll openly defy courts without even pretending to follow them.
They are openly defying court orders
“We’re going to have to look at judges.”
Over thirty. But of course was not punished for them because reasons.
Reason: Rich White Guy.
The judiciary has already failed.
🔳 time clock box. unionize and strike immediately. or at least before resorting to violence
I feel that falls under “soap box”: using a platform to convince others that your cause is morally right and the government should listen to you.
incorrect. that would be indirect action. you should instead be using the direct actions of nonviolent sabotage and economic coercion
Sounds like it to me.
John F. Kennedy: ‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’
Ironic.
Has there ever been a peaceful revolution? I can’t think of any. Rights are taken from the oppressors, not given by them.
Has there ever been a peaceful revolution? I can’t think of any.
Well, yes there has been. It was so peaceful its historically even called the “Velvet Revolution” where the people of Czechoslovakia decided equally and peacefull to split into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Slovakia). source
Notable mostly because it was peaceful.
Ghandi. MLK Civil Rights. Rosa Park.
Gandhi, murdered. MLK, murdered. Bobby Kennedy, murdered. Medgar Evers, murdered. Need I go on?
Of those, only Gandhi was associated with a revolution, and even in his case it seems like the way it played out (with the partition into India and Pakistan as separate countries) was much more along the lines of what some of the less non-violent revolutionaries wanted.
Yes. Famous ones.
Ehh, they’re laying off the entire administrative side of the government. Should make it relatively easy to set up parallel power structures. What are they gonna do, send the cops they didn’t pay this month to arrest you and your collaborators?
Yeah, they dont care about any of you. They have been elected. They dont plan on having other elections in the future. Your voice is meaningless
“Fascist refuses to listen to anything the public says or wants, news at 11.”
You voted Trump in to screw yourselves, now scram! - Republicans
I’m expecting this to be said out loud soon
“Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” -JFK
“Riots are the voice of the unheard.” -MLK
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People who protested Democrats are now telling protesters their protests are meaningless?
Who would’ve thought that the fascist wouldn’t allow protests… remember though the dems are just as bad…cause gaza.
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And famously never arrested them either! Or set up “Free speech zones” outside of rallies!
Bejarana then defended the removal, accusing protesters of attempting to “filibuster” the event as he continued talking about DOGE. “We’ve got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here,” he said. “Your voice is meaningless right now.…I can talk over all of you.”
Newsweek has reached out to Bejarana via for comment on Sunday.
The confrontational approach drew criticism from many in attendance. “Is this a town hall or a lecture?” one woman yelled amid the uproar, according to Coeur d’Alene Press.
While it’s unclear what exactly the protesters were opposing, KCRCC has since posted a statement to Facebook explaining that Borrenpohl, who allegedly belongs to Save NIC, a social welfare nonprofit organization, “alongside at least five other recognized activists from local progressive circles—including two fellow ‘Save NIC’ members—shouted down legislators with insults like ‘bigots’ and ‘liars’ throughout the meeting, drowning out attempts at dialogue.”
“attempts at dialogue”. Right.
Oh wow, the predictable thing is happening? But I was told the Republican voters just needed to get angry and call their representatives! Don’t worry guys, I’m sure the next plan to electorally save ourselves from fascism will work!
If this were true, they would simply be ignored.
One of these days, these guys are going to get their cunts kicked in.
They should be used to it. It’s what democrats have been saying to progressives for decades.
“I’m speaking.”
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Massive difference between “I’m speaking, you get to talk afterwards” vs “You never get to speak”.
How many spoke at the convention? “We pretended to listen to you behind closed doors and we’re never going to address your concerns” is functionally the same thing as “you never get to speak.”
The voice of Dick Cheney carried greater weight. It should have carried none.
How many spoke at the convention?
Zero. And they act like they’re somehow the better choice at the lives of brown people they bomb.
Yes, it’s called demoralization.
I’ve voted neoliberal in every general after fighting for democratic socialists in primaries, hating myself as I did, a vote for quiet slaughter over loud, braggadocious slaughter, not peace, my entire life.
After a lot, lot, lot, lot O pain, turns out the accelerationists might be right. Giving the capitalists/fascists a long enough rope to force hot revolution might be the only possible path to a society and not the murder for profit exploitation camp we’ve all been living under. Neoliberals just let the frog of capitalist cruelty simmer as capitalists murder us for profit and our neighbors die in homeless tent cities through no fault of their own, but you know, with affirmation ribbons instead of scapegoating. They support your right to love who you love and be who you are… in a cardboard box under a freeway as you die of exposure, sorry, market forces fam 🤷
I just hope when the revolution starts, Americans remember their enemy largely isn’t in DC, those are middle managers with the exception of Trump and his cabinet who’ve cut out the well bribed middleman in the executive branch, they’re on Wall Street, in guard gated communities and towers, on golf courses, and in mega yacht supporting ports.
As in all of civilization’s history, one need only identify those holding the largest
bags of cashasset portfolios as a result of all the carnage to know who is most responsible.with one emcee
Did they mean MC? The abbreviation for “Master of Ceremonies?” Was this written by AI?
Edit: NVM I just forgot about the abbreviation policy! Silly me.
“emcee” is a perfectly cromulent word
Much crom
Whatever you say mr cromulent…
This embiggens the smallest man
