If Paul Weiss won’t stand up, who will?
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Anonymous
Or maybe they're all just realizing what side their bread is buttered on? This isn't the first time that big business and academia have catered to the person in the White House, and it won't be the last. |
Anonymous
PP, I hear you. There is no magic fix. Our “opposition “party, ah hem, the Democrats, completely lack any sort of spine. We should be calling them every, single day and demanding they use the tools they have to stop this. Be specific. For example, ask your Democratic senators to deny unanimous consent at every opportunity. Not just once but every time. Had one senator pulled a Tommy Tuberville Linda McBride would not yet be secretary of education. Call your House rep and demand they call for impeachment. Yes I know Republicans won’t let this happen. But is getting the conversation out there and putting pressure on the reps to start thinking of this as an option. Think of it as a messaging call. When your reps do something good call and praise them. That could be a 30 second call and it really, really . We need to be very specific in our asks for members. Each call should have one issue call. “ I’m calling X and asking them to do X. Will they do X? I would like a response. “ Keep talking to friends, family, neighbors -anyone that you think disagrees with the corrupt and illegal actions of this regime. Get them to call their representatives. Attend protests. It’s really important that we the people are out on the streets showing that we are not “antifa“ but rather many of us are middle aged professionals who are outraged. Two protest to definitely attend. March 29 - worldwide Tesla takedown rallies. Just Google Tesla Takedown and you’ll find locations where they’re at. You do not have to sign up you can just show up. April 5 there’s also going to be a massive day of action. Again you can Google “ April 5 “hands off“ Now imagine you have 10 friends doing everything I just mentioned and they tell 10 friends and they tell 10 friends. There is no Calvary coming to save us. We are on our own. But we can do this. We’ve done hard things in the past and we can do this. Good luck and be well. |
Anonymous
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[You might be right but if so how awful is it that so many people are black mailable? I can’t think of a single secret someone could blackmail me about. People should be more boring!]
I think that many/most people who have powerful jobs have something they don't want others to know about. However, we don't know if this is going farther than that - threatening them or their family members with actual harm. Like other posters are saying, too many powerful people are rolling over. Paul Weiss is going even father and actually giving $40 million in services! This is not normal. And where is the organized resistance? Maybe those efforts are being thwarted, too. It's time for a figurehead to rise - an MLK, a Cesar Chavez, a Frederick Douglass. We see the need, there is a great desire to be on the right side of history this time, to show that we are not the Germany of the 1930s. But we're still unorganized, desperate for someone to step forward and loudly tell us what to do, where to go, how to gather our might. |
Anonymous
It's not enough but it's a start. Now the important thing is to keep it going, like when you're building a snowman and you roll it around the yard and keep picking up more snow and solidifying it. I hear you, it is frustrating. I'm frustrated. I'm a lawyer too and the open attack on the Constitution and the courts, and Congress's complete abnegation of its duties - and worse, its complicity -- drives me insane. But I never expected much from politicians. Most modern politicians are cowards. This isn't 1864, where people had true beliefs and would speak out and vote and die for them. Not this Congress, anyway. But the important thing is the long haul. You can't go crazy and burn yourself out in the beginning. These are the opening battles in what promises to be a long, long war. The more the administration does, the more they reveal their true character to those who up til now didn't believe they'd really be "so bad." The more power grabs they engage in, the more they denigrate judges, the more they abuse the law, the more they lose the public and the higher the likelihood the Supreme Court will rule against them. Trump and co. spent 4 years planning all of this. It's unrealistic to think it will be squashed in a couple of months, particularly with his grip on Congress. I choose to be encouraged that resistance is swelling and that it is organic. It will keep rising and growing and organizing, as the depredations get worse and the lawsuits continue. But it will die an early death if people give up. Don't give up. Do what you can and continue to encourage others to do the same. I know I couldn't sleep at night if I hadn't, no matter the outcome. When my young children are grown, I want to be able to tell them I joined the fight and won. And if we don't win, at least I want to be able to tell them that I fought. Not that I turned aside for the sake of my bank account. |
Anonymous
Right. We are doing this. But it’s not really yielding results fro leaders on the Hill, and it certainly doesn’t matter to the administration. You know what did? Remember the memo that basically stopped all federal funding…and then it was rescinded within a day or two? It was rescinded because elected officials from Red states/cities/counties pushed back quickly and bigly. ^^^ We need more of that. Their voices matter more than those from solidly blue states. Why hasn’t the DNC tapped its ginormous piggybank to mount a campaign against this administration…now? It would serve the dual purpose of messaging for midterms as well as launching a mutiny now. |
Anonymous
Yeah, until someone spots a spider, then you all run & hide. |
Anonymous
| The truth is we are done. The people who didn’t vote would have voted for Trump anyway. We are in denial. We spent too little time and effort on solid public education in every state and too much time on getting rich and leaving the poor behind. Now we are mad they were too dumb to vote for democracy. Lip service got us here. A hypocritical society falls. |
Anonymous
Noticing that everyone who walks out of a room with trump looks scared , does an 360 on their behavior and values, debases themselves, and immediately does exactly what he wants isn’t a “conspiracy”. Trump has threatened people his whole life to get his way. Extortion IS the simple answer. |
Anonymous
It's appalling that she uses statistical logic? Over half of white women voted for Trump. So much fragility on your part. Do you know how many assumptions people make about black women every day? |
Anonymous
90 million people didn’t vote at all. You can’t even assume someone voted. |
Anonymous
That's a lovely sentiment, but why do white womens' voting patterns repeatedly support a racist rapist over the course of three presidential elections? Why do black women consistently vote for the more pro-democracy candidate even when they reap less rewards within a democratic society? Could there be a values gap amongst us? |
Anonymous
DP I think a lot of people are misinterpreting or exaggerating voting data. The reality is the vast majority of black people don’t bother to vote. Those who do show up skew liberal (at least the women). ICYMI: the for-profit media crafted a narrative using race and shockingly cherry-picked data they misinterpreted. |
Anonymous
Well isn't that a betrayal too? With the stakes this high, not voting shows you don't care about the marginalized. |
Anonymous
How is all this sniping remotely helpful? All this vote/ no vote or black/white women complaining sounds like my elementary schoolers. Way to miss the bigger issue here folks. You don’t need 100 percent or even 50 percent ideological alignment to work to stop the rape of our Constitution and laws. Do that first and then there will be time to quibble about voting patterns and degrees of oppression. |
Anonymous
There are two problems with your point. (1) it assumes PW has the personal connections with the Trumpsters at DOJ in charge of the legal matter. That is what gets your hired. This settlement does not do that. (2) it assumes that this new DOJ is actually going to regulate and bring cases against major corporations. For most corporations, not all, the majority of their legal budget is not for government investigations/litigation. |