Summary
House Republicans face heated town halls as voters protest Trump and Elon Musk’s government cuts, echoing past backlashes in 2009 and 2017.
While GOP leaders downplay the outrage, some members consider avoiding town halls or controlling the format.
Activist groups like Indivisible are mobilizing, pushing Democrats to engage and staging “empty chair” events if Republicans refuse to meet voters.
Despite mixed public opinion on Musk’s reforms, GOP strategists aim to sell their policies, hoping the protests subside before the next election cycle.
They don’t have a “town hall problem”, they have a fascism problem.
We have a word for it.
Maybe they should get a handle on their Nazi problem
Just don’t have town halls, and don’t meet with constituents without vetting them first. That’s what my representative did.
Yup, my R representative hasn’t held a general town hall since 2016, but people keep voting him in! Must not be much to talk about.
Mine will stand at his window watching people protesting him a few floors down.
Fuck Scott Perry. What an asshole.
And because I’m surrounded by idiots he’ll be my representative until I move.
At his window, you say…
These mother fuckers never learn.
They pay no consequences, and most districts are gerrymandered. What lesson should they learn?
They’re paid not to learn. Citizens United would have to go before they listen to their constituents.
For years, Social Security was considered ‘the third rail’ of American politics. No candidate wanted to be associated with denying people money that they’d paid into the program. Trump is the new third rail, because the GOPs know that he’s never going to forgive anyone who crosses him.
I’ve been waiting since 2015 for the GOP to start going after Trump. Let’s see if this is the final straw.
Lol. Trump and Vance just sucked Putins cock for the world to see last week, while cancelling US Farmers contracts to USAID and mass firing USDA during a bird flu pandemic destroying our egg supply.
There is no final straw. This is what we got.
I’m not saying we need to take action immediately. Letting this toxicity stew for a few months is to the Democrats advantage. But the vast, vast majority of conservatives are brainwashed peasants who will not change their opinion.
GOPs explicit goal is to seek control of the majority of the majority of voters, which is only like 16% of people. (60% voters best case, 30% Republicans, only 16% of hardcore Republicans to keep in check). That’s all they need to continue to stay in power.
What we can do is try to split that 16% group explicitly and try to turn them against each other. Farmers who lose government contracts, hawks who don’t want to work with Russia, etc. etc. it’s all microscopic fractions of a fraction of people but it adds up.
Letting this toxicity stew for a few months is to the Democrats advantage.
This view is naive. Trump isn’t doing a terrific job dismantling US democracy, but he’s still making headway. Wait a few months and some of those democrats might be in ICE prison camps.
The prison camps will take years to build. The current plan is to send people to Guantanamo Bay, which literally doesn’t have enough room to make a dent in our protests.
The ideal is to wait long enough to convince the maximum number of dumbass MAGAts that they’ve been tricked by Trump. This number is smaller than people expect, but its not 0%. I’m already seeing some questions being posed in my Republican circles (ie: “Why isn’t Trump more focused on these Federal cuts?”) but not the right questions (ex: “Why is Trump so dumb??”).
So the current environment is to our political advantage. We need to move before things reach the concentration camp or authoritarian stages of course, but we have some degree of time to work with.
The prison camps will take years to build.
The prison camps will take years to build (or not; never underestimate humanity’s capacity for cruelty), but they don’t need to be there for the new Gestapo to wreak havoc on Americans. Hitler definitely didn’t need to wait for years.
Hitler relied upon the Reichstag fire to sieze power.
The Nazis were the specific kind of political entity to judo-reverse protesters and “prove” to the public that it was the Communist opposition who were truly the enemy. As the German public demonized the Communists, the Fascists gained in power weeks after Hitler took power.
The opposite is happening here: ever so slightly, public opinion is turning against Elon Musk (maybe not Trump yet, but DOGE is becoming a toxic word right now). A leftist “attack” in these times could consolidate the right much like the Reichstag fire did (or for a more American example: the two assassination attempts on Trump only allowed his side to grow stronger).
Nope as long as they have Soviet money faucet there will keep sucking him off
“Try To Get A Handle On Their Town Hall Problem”…
Maybe stop being misogynistic dickholes, xenophobic returds, climate denying pigfarts, and white nationalistic snowflake narcissistic babies.
Just a thought.
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