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20 minutes ago, troph said:

I texted and texted my relationships not some campaign text banking shift but texting those I know and for the first time felt like I was actually effective in moving the needle (and I’ve done plenty of phone banking). Organic, community led accountability is what will truly lead to saving this country. 

This can’t be stressed enough. I have a list of people (neighbors, friends) that I know are like minded politically, but aren’t as engaged as I am and might not even know there’s an election going on because there are a ton of elections. I text these folks to remind them about the election and send them the voter guide that I put together. I’ve had exceptional feedback from doing this. In one particular low turnout election, the state senator in my district was elected by a differential of 50ish votes. After the election I was talking to a buddy, who also happens to be the precinct chair where I live, and we were able to account for the entire differential from our personal texting efforts based on the feedback that we each received. Whenever I get down about national and statewide elections, I think back to this example of how we can still impact outcomes in our own communities.

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9 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Maybe start communicating with Democrats in Congress that millions of Americans were ready to fight tyranny on June 14th and they need to get the message and start becoming a very vocal opposition force. Call out the media for not covering this regime truthfully. Call out all of the trump unconstitutional bullshit. Look to muck it up for Republicans at every possible opportunity. But it needs to be very visible and very vocal. Be the leadership this country can rally behind. Stop treating this like politics and start fighting for the American people.

Democrat politicians have just come off so fake, cowardly, and regimented in the face of this attack on our way of life and government. 

Because in the end this country will need people to vote for to get these fascists out. And people to fight tooth and nail to make sure we get that opportunity to vote fairly. 

Believe me, I've communicated more in the past four months with my elected representatives than I did in the past 20+ years combined.  And I agree with you that the Democrats need to be more vocal and aggressive in confronting the illegal and/or unconstitutional actions of the Trump Administration.  But at the end of the day, given that the Republicans control the House, the Democrats aren't doing enough to curb Trump, and the non-MAGA Republicans don't have the spines to confront and take positions contrary to their MAGA brethren, I think the next 3.5 years are going to depend in large part on courts being used to thwart Trump and the willingness/ability of judges to be non-partisan in deciding legal issues.

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17 minutes ago, royiv said:

This can’t be stressed enough. I have a list of people (neighbors, friends) that I know are like minded politically, but aren’t as engaged as I am and might not even know there’s an election going on because there are a ton of elections. I text these folks to remind them about the election and send them the voter guide that I put together. I’ve had exceptional feedback from doing this. In one particular low turnout election, the state senator in my district was elected by a differential of 50ish votes. After the election I was talking to a buddy, who also happens to be the precinct chair where I live, and we were able to account for the entire differential from our personal texting efforts based on the feedback that we each received. Whenever I get down about national and statewide elections, I think back to this example of how we can still impact outcomes in our own communities.

this is absolutely the way. maybe the only sure way.

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28 minutes ago, royiv said:

This can’t be stressed enough. I have a list of people (neighbors, friends) that I know are like minded politically, but aren’t as engaged as I am and might not even know there’s an election going on because there are a ton of elections. I text these folks to remind them about the election and send them the voter guide that I put together. I’ve had exceptional feedback from doing this. In one particular low turnout election, the state senator in my district was elected by a differential of 50ish votes. After the election I was talking to a buddy, who also happens to be the precinct chair where I live, and we were able to account for the entire differential from our personal texting efforts based on the feedback that we each received. Whenever I get down about national and statewide elections, I think back to this example of how we can still impact outcomes in our own communities.

During the pandemic, I went to my state representative’s office to request a meeting to discuss concerns. I was dressed professional out of respect. There was one person in the office; I expect he was probably an intern. I respectfully requested the meeting. He said he would pass along the request.

I did hear back, and the rep actually did help me out.

The intern had a look of terror in his eyes as I spoke with him. Again, I was as non- threatening as I could possibly be: polite, clear in my request, pleasant.

To the point, I think a presence at your local rep’s office would get their attention. Nothing insulting. Nothing about a specific policy point. At this point, it should be a bipartisan effort to fight tyranny. This point is not debatable.

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NSIAP ...  This KVUE shot is the first aerial shot I've been able to find. The crowd was actually even bigger than I thought. And what you can't see is that there were thousands of people under the huge old oak trees due to the heat. Several people suffered heat-related medical emergencies. Kudos to the volunteer medics and the DPS officers who helped them out.

Crazy about the threats from the ahole in the little shack outside La Grange.

 

 

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2 hours ago, wood said:

Crazy about the threats from the ahole in the little shack outside La Grange.

What was Abbott doing in La Grange?

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Not to pour cold water on all this, but I’m not taking much stock in the turnout for the protests and the lack of turnout in DC. Reminds me of all the pre-election buzz about how small his rallies were and how well Kamala was doing. Then it all went to shit on election night. 
 

His cult turns out to vote. And so do a shit ton of shitty Americans. I’ll believe it when I see it I guess. 

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Not to pour cold water on all this, but I’m not taking much stock in the turnout for the protests and the lack of turnout in DC. Reminds me of all the pre-election buzz about how small his rallies were and how well Kamala was doing. Then it all went to shit on election night. 
 
His cult turns out to vote. And so do a shit ton of shitty Americans. I’ll believe it when I see it I guess. 

You’re not wrong.
But the foundation for action is energy. Most fires start with a match. The opposition has needed some broad-based spark for a long time. Now, to get that into leadership…that was the cautionary part for me. The speeches I heard? They were…fine. As I was listening, I kept thinking over and over “FFS, I could do this much better.” The movement needs passion, voices that shout real, broad calls to action, that ignite fires, that get people to want to run through fucking walls for this. The best moments that I heard yesterday were maybe a B+ in that regard.
The opposition needs voices that can send people out into the world with passion, determination, and fervor. I don’t think we have those yet.
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Posted
9 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Cult = Elon. Elon or his minions rigged the election. 

Statistically impossible for him to have won all swing states. 

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and almost immediately this popped up in my feed

 

the tldr is it seems unlikely to have been a troll, they're just clueless

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Not to pour cold water on all this, but I’m not taking much stock in the turnout for the protests and the lack of turnout in DC. Reminds me of all the pre-election buzz about how small his rallies were and how well Kamala was doing. Then it all went to shit on election night. 
 

His cult turns out to vote. And so do a shit ton of shitty Americans. I’ll believe it when I see it I guess. 

It’s my understanding that no demonstrations were planned for DC because of the military parade and that any protest(s) that happened there was/were truly spontaneous. 

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Posted
20 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

He's come a long way from doing blackface and having to tolerate Adam Carolla

Some things never leave you.

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24 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

He's come a long way from doing blackface and having to tolerate Adam Carolla

It’s wild how far their paths diverged.

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54 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Kimmel is great!

I don't know him, but we have a mutual friend (since childhood for the two of them) and I've heard nothing to the contrary.  Kimmel is a big NFL fan and has a dozen or more friends over to his house every sunday, and Jimmy does all the cooking for everybody. 

BTW, my friend is an electrician, not a hollywood guy. He was the electrician that was on that Carolla reality construction show.

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

It’s my understanding that no demonstrations were planned for DC because of the military parade and that any protest(s) that happened there was/were truly spontaneous. 

Yes, I was referring to lack of turnout for dotard’s dictator parade. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

$100 fine, time served, and a pat on the back from the judge probably.

Yeah, especially in that part of CO.



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