Basically I want him to quit the bullshit. He needs to make every word, every possible public action, and every working moment as a public representative a direct push to remove the entire administration.
I’m all for holding Democrats accountable, genuinely, but it has to start from an honest assessment of where power actually is. Right now, they don’t have it. You can’t hold someone accountable for stopping something they don’t control.
What’s frustrating is watching people correctly identify that the system is rigged against leftist movements, and then somehow translate that into: “The system is irredeemable, so anyone engaging with it is complicit, and I’m morally superior for standing outside it.”
It functions as carte blanche to feel righteous without requiring the hard work of actually preventing the worst actors from burning things down.
Yes, protest. Riot if that’s your lane. Grassroots organize. Build dual power. Do all of it.
But in the meantime? We have to work with the system where we can, while trying to tear it down where we can’t. They’re not mutually exclusive. One preserves the space to do the other.
Genuinely asking, what does “every possible public action” look like on Monday morning that wouldn’t get him, and the platform he’s built, completely sidelined?
They have power, they just refuse to use it. Filibuster. Refuse to show up and thus break quorum. Move and second a motion to adjourn immediately at the session opening if they do show up. Continue to do it until every Democrat has called to adjourn. Continue to propose amendments and make secondary motions to anything that’s ever been touched by a Republican that would undo everything their motion/bill asks. Refuse to close discussion.
The Democrats do have power.
What they lack is a spine or conviction. They’re too worried about their donors.
The modern version of “Carthago delenda est” - everything he says should end in a call to remove the administration as traitors.
Filibuster - shut down the government so that no vote can be taken until they’re ready to do what needs to be done - not just until the question is put before them, but browbeat the entire Senate until either they do what’s needed, or go for a full shutdown.
Stop worrying about what the problems are, and only discuss the only reasonable solution. Netanyahu and his people, Putin and his people, the trade stupidity, whatever it is, they’re just problems outside the scope. Focus on what we can fix here in the USA. Article II, Section 4 removal is the only way we can fix it. Bang that drum every day and keep up the constant messaging.
Basically I want him to quit the bullshit. He needs to make every word, every possible public action, and every working moment as a public representative a direct push to remove the entire administration.
I’m all for holding Democrats accountable, genuinely, but it has to start from an honest assessment of where power actually is. Right now, they don’t have it. You can’t hold someone accountable for stopping something they don’t control.
What’s frustrating is watching people correctly identify that the system is rigged against leftist movements, and then somehow translate that into: “The system is irredeemable, so anyone engaging with it is complicit, and I’m morally superior for standing outside it.”
It functions as carte blanche to feel righteous without requiring the hard work of actually preventing the worst actors from burning things down.
Yes, protest. Riot if that’s your lane. Grassroots organize. Build dual power. Do all of it.
But in the meantime? We have to work with the system where we can, while trying to tear it down where we can’t. They’re not mutually exclusive. One preserves the space to do the other.
Genuinely asking, what does “every possible public action” look like on Monday morning that wouldn’t get him, and the platform he’s built, completely sidelined?
They have power, they just refuse to use it. Filibuster. Refuse to show up and thus break quorum. Move and second a motion to adjourn immediately at the session opening if they do show up. Continue to do it until every Democrat has called to adjourn. Continue to propose amendments and make secondary motions to anything that’s ever been touched by a Republican that would undo everything their motion/bill asks. Refuse to close discussion.
The Democrats do have power.
What they lack is a spine or conviction. They’re too worried about their donors.
You switched from Bernie Sanders to the Democrats there.
What specifically do you want him to actually do in this push?
The modern version of “Carthago delenda est” - everything he says should end in a call to remove the administration as traitors.
Filibuster - shut down the government so that no vote can be taken until they’re ready to do what needs to be done - not just until the question is put before them, but browbeat the entire Senate until either they do what’s needed, or go for a full shutdown.
Stop worrying about what the problems are, and only discuss the only reasonable solution. Netanyahu and his people, Putin and his people, the trade stupidity, whatever it is, they’re just problems outside the scope. Focus on what we can fix here in the USA. Article II, Section 4 removal is the only way we can fix it. Bang that drum every day and keep up the constant messaging.