Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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    5 months ago

    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!”

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    No one can change her mind. Reality is reality.

    Republicans are the party of pedophiles.

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      5 months ago

      They’ve shut down the government for more than a month holding out for healthcare, that’s not exactly form over function.

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        Yeah, after letting Donald do absolutely everything he wanted for eight.

        I’ll believe they mean business when they actually do something.

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          “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.

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    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      Not “underage prostitutes”, like they had any real agency is getting groomed and traded by billionaires, but children. He fucked children.

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    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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      5 months ago

      How about don’t waste taxpayer money on doing a meme professionally before you’ve even been sworn into office? Thanks

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      5 months ago

      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