You can discuss all you want, they can be members of Congress or what ever but unfortunately we don't have a Congress and we are already in a dictatorship, even if you brand it as fascism. I saw the video posted by Hasan Piker. If you listen carefully the question he was asked to answer by customs agents it shows we're in a dictatorship.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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After watching that video, there already is a problem. Assaulting an elected official is a felony and the ICE officer that did this needs to be up on charges.
What? You don't have a problem already? Stop drawing lines. They've already crossed enough of them.
The Democrats have shown that they intend to continue to lose and will not take meaningful action to protect the public, it’s pathetic
Ma'am, with the greatest and utmost possible respect, the rest of the world submits that you people already have several problems.
There are going to be so many furrowed brows.
I hope they don’t need to write another Strongly Worded Letter!
I’m honestly more mad at the Dems at this point for just continuing to do nothing while the right runs roughshod over the law and the people.
Yeah! Don't touch our members of congress! Throw everyone else in jail, but not our most passionate public servants! /s
If you come for my constituents, stop no...
If you come for our mayors, that's unfortunate.
Threaten our governors? So sad, horrible, can nothing be done?
Come for me? We're going to have a problem.
None fo the Dems are going to do shit until they come for them directly, a year after it's too late to do shit.
dude we should all be rioting at this point. shit is so fucked.
The oligarchs have the population exactly where they want them to be: poor, unhealthy, divided and unable to mount a concrete unified resistance.
the whole US population has been indoctrinated to believe non-violent action is effective and the only thing thats acceptable. fucking strange for a country that is so hardcore 2a.
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Do something that would warrent the GOP being hostile tward you, maybe.
Hold up - they participated in the protest? Or they showed up and required a tour of the facility, which is their right as federal lawmakers?
What I saw indicated only the latter? Did they actually participate in the protest?
I have no idea but whether they did or not is irrelevant.
Protesting is constitutionally protected speech even for lawmakers, and has no bearing on their rights as elected officials to tour those facilities.
Tell me, did she also sLaM him? I'm fucking sick of this posturing, do something already
Ugh there's so much of this obnoxious shit on YouTube. "Person A DEMOLISHES Trump in front of Setting B!" And then the video is literally just someone saying the same shit everyone is saying and Trump isn't even there. Or like "Watch Republican mortified as they realize they screwed themselves by electing Trump" and there's literally zero self reflection or regret.
There are so many videos and headlines that are literally just feeding on the clickbait potential of people waiting for a substantial response to this complete mess. Hypothetical dunking on people who aren't even in the room or don't react at all isn't the victory people seem to like to advertise it as.
And then they like fully miss an actual town hall in a Republican district booing the shit out of some MAGA toolbox.
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If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.
If the trump admin goes after congress members, they're going after the Squad first so most democrats will be on board.
Democrats are the Leopards Eating Faces Party, Republicans are Let Leopards Run Free Without Regulation Party.
Every time they give Republicans an inch, they'll take a mile. And then publicly cry "Giving them a mile was a mistake, we wanna walk back a foot!"
If AOC is targeted, wanna bet enough Democrats vote yes to remove/arrest her in appeasement of Trump, thinking they'll be saved?
Oh a big problem!? Like what exactly? What are going to do against a group of people who laugh at the supreme court and dont follow court orders? All they can do is send a strongly worded letter and say "Shame shame". We are already a dictatorship these other branches have no power other than for optics.
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