House Speaker Mike Johnson has advised his Republican colleagues to stop hosting town-hall meetings.
  • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Spineless cowards. There are amateur stand up comedians living in their cars and working for beer money who handle hecklers better than these professional public speakers with lifetime Healthcare.

    Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.

    What a pathetic state of affairs.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.

      I love this as it’s such a power move.

      • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It really is. Her and a few others need to form a coalition and take over the party. Give Pelosi and Schumer the boot and pivot hard to the Left for the working class.

          • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            Yeah I’ve been hoping for it for a while now, but it’s crazy how much power people like Pelosi have over the party as a whole. Maybe with the absolute madness of the second Trump administration, that’ll weaken as people realize how useless the Democratic Old Guard is.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Video cut out before he no doubt retorted with some facile, bullshit strawman argument. But you just know that happened.

  • teft@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    At the beginning of March, Johnson advised his Republican colleagues not to hold town hall meetings, claiming they were giving a “forum” to “professional protesters.”

    These idiots are going to find out why peaceful protest exists. The alternative is not very friendly to say the least.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Its looking more and more like thats the GOP plan. Incite an uprising, then they declare martial law where they are free from any check on their power by the courts.

      Whats going to be the lynchpin is the GOP will have an army willing to put down Americans en masse.

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Or the military command structure fractures and now they have several warring regional or state fractions/civil war, or the military leadership enacts a coup when given illegal orders and either holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.

        They are unable to see any of these unintended possible consequences of their actions, the same way they are unable to identify irony, or have empathy, or entertain hypotheticals.

        • Rockbear@feddit.dk
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          3 days ago

          There’s a conflict of interest between EU and USA that is becoming a real problem.

          Preamble: European States and companies widely use cloud services run by US companies. In the EU data protection is considered a human right, whereas in the US it’s a citizen’s right.

          That means, if an intelligence service in the eu want to look at my data, they need a warrant. If an intelligence service in the US want to look at a US citizen’s data, they need a warrant. Ø

          But if a US intelligence service want to look at my data, a US company will just have to hand it over. I have no protection, not being a US citizen.

          A few legal exercises has been made to deal with this. After all, the amounts earned by Azure, Google Cloud and AWS are noteworthy. Twice the EU court of Law has deemed these exercises wanting, and the problem has been huge enough that Biden and EU Commission head van der Layen made a joint pressemøde conference to annonce that it had been solved - latest in october 2022 by executive order 14086.

          End of preamble.

          So. The US has this peaceful group of nations across the atlantic that very much just want to pump billions into the US digital economy. As long as the US at least pretends that they respect EU data privacy laws more or less on the level that US citizens are protected. Because building our own similar services is one hell of a pain.

          It’s a pipeline of free money. And even though we complain at every price hike, we can’t seem to move towards the exit.

          Project 2025 language on this? It’s all an evil plot by scheming europeans in Brussels to nerf US intelligence, and EO14086 is another weak decision by weak biden. It should be cancelled and Brussels should told to piss off.

          Billions. Literally billions of dollars every year flowing from companies and taxpayers all over EU towards US Big Tech bank accounts. And the p2025 nutcases want to fuck it up, because setting a tiny privacy footnote on billions of tech dollars make america look weak.

          Sorry. We can’t trust you Guys.

  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This chant brought to you by the people who voted explicitly to tax the poor in order to give money to the rich. Just two brain cells in the entire goddamn party.