Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
You must log in or # to comment.
Started as a cover for not swearing in our new Congresswoman from Arizona, spun out of control.
We need to stop talking TRUMP. We need to start talking REPUBLICANS did this. Want lasting change? Stop aiming for the dementia patient cult leader. He’ll die soon enough and blame will shift. Stop aiming at individual targets and shotgun this thing.
Stop talking “conservatives”. Both anti-Trump and anti-conservative messaging is a personal attack, and they’ll resist. Say, “The REPUBLICANS did this. REPUBLICANS are to blame.”
These people have no loyalty to “Republicans”. Hit them where they can fold up and agree. “I’m not the bad guy. My guy isn’t the bad guy. It’s those damned Republicans! If it weren’t for those meddling kids!”
The Epstein files are the distraction. Republicans dismantle democracy while people fight over the files.
Imagine doing something so horrible that you underage prostitutes as a smokescreen.
It’s kind of all interwoven. They are pedophiles, who are dismantling democracy, while stealing unprecedented amounts of wealth in human history, while persecuting minorities, while praising god.
Not “underage prostitutes”, like they had any real agency is getting groomed and traded by billionaires, but children. He fucked children.
Raped. He raped children.
I’ve been saying this because I started to feel a rising sense of hopeless frustration every time the administration or Miller has destroyed some sacred institution or started scooping cash from needy families, you would invariably see someone, especially on Lemmy start spamming memes about “That’s cool bro, what about the epstein files?” as if anyone still cares when they’re starving and jobless or healthcare premiums have been driven up to a thousand dollars a month for someone on minimum wage.
We are truly in the scummiest, stupidest timeline when an authoritarian can shield himself from accountability just by having child sex crimes hanging over him.
A sex felon.
Wow it kind of made me vomit a little saying that.
Releasing the files would give a lot of evidence to jail the people destroying democracy. They go hand-in-hand because it’s the same people.
It also focuses rage. It’s something everybody can agree on.
What a fucking legend lmao
This needs to replace the template with Crowder
Just want to mention that I had 2 seconds of thinking crowder was the guy whose ideology ended bleeding out of his neck bc all these shitty con grifters are pretty much the same people and end up being interchangeable in my memory meat.
Wonder if his college tour schedule has changed much in the past couple months
Is he still refusing to swear her in
Did you know Mr. Johnson’s nickname in high school was ‘Tiny’?
They called him Tiny Johnson?
That’s a dick move
Would releasing the Epstein files matter in anyway for Trump? Everyone that can be swayed by evidence already knows Trump is in there…
And the stuff the republicans are doing is terrible in it’s own rights, saying “don’t care, release the Epstein files” seems to be downplaying the situation.
I am open to being taught like a five year old, how continued focus on the Epstein files is a good progressive strategy.
Well, even if trump himself can weather that storm, the rest of the powerful people in there might not. Either that or it’s just a distraction.
There are always new fascists to replenish the ranks until the war is won. In a sense, ironically, it’s social darwinism. “The last guy couldn’t cut it. Are YOU fascist enough to get the job done?”, and soon enough they have Mengele running the Department of Health
Honestly, from most of my experience in dealing with fox news poisoned people who are not total wastes irl : pedophillia is an actual hard line. Most of them have this fantasy of if they found a child predator that they would beat their face in. It is the act inexcusable.
They also are quite fond of the language of conspiracy theories and just the implication has gotten some of them to start thinking.
Will actual hard proof and just hearsay of not just Trump but a number of his people hit some of them like a truck? Yes. Will it sway every Republican? No. But considering how much of their power is based off the Evengelical idea that they are morally on high I would expect a shockwave. His support is already diminishing but add in the firey rage of having a known pedo in that holy of holy offices valued so intensely by the American-supremacists of the crowd and some frozen gears will start moving and every little bit helps.
Thank you for your assessement
Here’s the thing, I don’t think Trump can weather this storm.
What he can do, is weather the doubt. But as soon as that doubt vanishes, he and a bunch of his associates will lose support from all but the most rabid of MAGA, and that’s not enough support to remain in office.
We need to plan ahead. He is going to be gone at some point, and so bless the lord may that day come soon, and we need to prepare for what they’ve got in store then, because they are most certainly aware and have contingency plan upon contingency plan. No doubt they already have a candidate that they will push through their propaganda network, and don’t worry, the MAGA crowd will vote for him, because they have nowhere else to turn to.
It’s a good strategy because you have to push where they’re weak. Where they have no response
They don’t have a reasonable sounding excuse, and most of the country wants the files released. Every time it gets brought up, they look both weak and guilty
A lot of MAGA just wants to be on the winning team. It’s stupid, but making them look weak chips at their base
Can you IMAGINE the fucking spin they’d put on anything coming out of an actual release of the files? They will grind that shit down and feed their millions of minions the Party Line and then Trump will take a shit on the floor of the UN and everyone will move on. Fascism is coming, no files are going to change that. It’s actually kind of the cause it’s coming.
I love what Newsome inspired from candidates
I like it.
But I wish these Democrats were good for something more than performative bullshit.
They’ve shut down the government for more than a month holding out for healthcare, that’s not exactly form over function.
Yeah, after letting Donald do absolutely everything he wanted for eight.
I’ll believe they mean business when they actually do something.
“No, that doing something doesn’t count”
JFC I shouldn’t need to defend the dems, there’s so much valid criticism out there. But saying they’re not doing something as a way to dismiss the #1 example of them doing something is kinda… unreasonable.
It’s not like they can just shut down the government any time they want. It’s down because there is no budget agreement, which only happens once a year. For the previous 8 months, every court has bent the knee to Trump.
They’re doing something right now. Now is the time to be hopeful, and use that hope to further steps into the right direction. Go donate to a food co-op or something instead of doomposting on lemmy
For starters, I did.
It’s not like they can just shut down the government any time they want.
Sure, but they could have done this in May, and they decided to give Donald license to do another summer of fascism AND helped ease the passage of the BBB, after spending the first four months of the year destroying the country. Again, I will give them credit when they do something meaningful.
They’re only acting now out of self-interest and nothing else. Definitely glad to see them doing the bare minimum even if it’s for selfish reasons, but let’s be clear, this is the bare minimum.
You agree they can’t shut the government down any time they want, and then you want them to do exactly that…
This is great and all but…You are an elected official with an office budget. Get a sign professionally made or have a friend with nice penmanship draw the sign FFS. Going up against such sloppy thinking opponents doesn’t mean you make sloppy signs. Do better so as to look better and be thought of better and,dare I say, professional and serious.
Nah, its exactly as much respect as is due to the original “change my mind” meme.
It is amazing how completely this comment misses the point, the joke, the meme, shitposting, trolling, just absolutely every nuance of context.
i don’t think she has an ‘office budget’ yet. she hasn’t been sworn-in and seated because tiny mike johnson refuses to allow it since she represents the vote needed to force a house vote on the pedo files.
Whilst she makes a real and serious point, if she belabors it by dressing it up as something official, then she weakens whatever authenticity she has with the people that see it.
Making it as ad-hoc and sloppy as possible, genuinely sells the idea that it was done on the spot, without AI fakery, and leaves it open to debate on whether or not this is an official position of the Democrats.
I hear you, but I think the way she did it was absolutely perfect all things in consideration
How about don’t waste taxpayer money on doing a meme professionally before you’ve even been sworn into office? Thanks
deleted by creator
Using state resources for something like this is unethical, and would get a pleb fired.
Is this real?
If so, that woman is a fucking legend.
That lady is indeed a legend.
It’s real, and she is a fucking legend 🥂
Mike Johnson downvoted this.
Mike Johnson once downvoted picture of a cute kitten peeking out of a box… on c/cats, no.less!
Fucking badass. This is the attitude we need from our representatives.
Is this hope I keep tasting the last few days?
Mamdani wins, Pelosi stepping down, dems winning multiple races, reps doing things like this…
