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Anonymous wrote:We haven't had effective protests in the US since the Vietnam era. These days, street protests are associated with Gaza and BLM. The vast majority of people who are appalled by Trump don't want to be associated with progressive activists. It's a problem. Most Americans don't care for the looting and burning and pro-terrorism slogans that progressives tend to bring. And progressive looters and nihilists will take over any march. So those street protests tend to work in favor of Republicans - see the Gaza and BLM protests. It's not effective.

I agree protests aren’t effective or won’t be right now. look, Trump already tried to call out the national guard on protests in his last Presidency. He is more than willing to harm citizens. I think mass protests like that will only hope their agenda and have bring on martial law. We believe in the constitution and that the judicial branch will be listened to. I see more protests on street corners and at Tesla dealerships than ever.

This is an insane take
They can’t arrest legal American citizens protesting. They can’t legally, they can’t logistically.
The idea that we shouldn’t take to the streets and demand an end to this insanity bc of random spurious reasons is beyond ridiculous. Grow a pair

They already have arrested legal American citizens.

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

I guess my first question is

Why is the government using our cell phones to monitor our movements?

Without a warrant I don’t think they can.

So the GPS info in the article is probably false.

And how many times are they going to claim Dems bus people in? And something, if true, they do as well.

Anonymous wrote:There is no protesting because most of the American people want this. Simple.

Nope. Not nearly as simple as you would like it to be. Facts Matter.

There is no protesting because most of the American people want this. Simple.

POC here. In my subculture there is a large group of activists that are choosing to intentionally stand down and protest differently. Why? Too much race baiting and attempts to get us into the streets. There is concern that Trump would enact martial law or abuse some sort of power to punish protesters and honestly we are sick and tired of fighting after we showed up to the polls and people still showed us who they were. We aren't going into the streets, except for those in our own community to build coalitions at the local level.

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?

The Clinton administration undertook a massive reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy. The goal is debatable. The DOGE approach is reprehensible.

The DOGE approach is being used precisely BECAUSE Democrats want to fight all staff and cost reductions by any means necessary. Demands by Dems for “process” are really demands by Dems for opportunities to block spending cuts or staff reductions. It’s the government worker party vs the private sector taxpayer party nowadays.

I call BS. Rs control both houses, the executive branch, AND the judiciary. The extralegal measures mean that the Rs haven't built consensus. Lazy politics. Compromise is not a four letter word the last time I checked. Time to get to work building bridges.

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?

The Clinton administration undertook a massive reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy. The goal is debatable. The DOGE approach is reprehensible.

I didn't remember that initiative but I looked it up and you are correct. Some highlights below from an article describing the initiative and comparing it to DOGE. Bottom line: Clinton did it first and did it better, without disrupting government services or maligning govt employees. He's also the last president to deliver a balance federal budget.

The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, or REGO as it was known, was spearheaded by Al Gore and aimed at streamlining processes and cutting red tape. The initiative was recognized as successful, having delivered four consecutive budget surpluses — the last time there was a balanced federal budget. Touting its success, President Clinton said in his 1996 State of the Union address: "We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over."

The cuts that Clinton made to the federal workforce followed a six-month period called the National Performance Review, launched in March 1993, soon after he took office. The review process ended in September of that year with a report that found nearly 400 recommendations, which Clinton then implemented gradually so that essential services were not interrupted even as the workforce shrank considerably.

The Clinton administration ended up making sizable cuts to the federal workforce with REGO, reducing headcount by 20 percent — some 351,000 positions — though Winogard recalled that only 10 percent of those layoffs were involuntary.

How Bill Clinton Shrunk the Federal Government 30 Years Before DOGE
https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-government-30-years-before-doge-2032893

There are lots of protests but the media isn't covering them.

I'm seeing lots of protest footage on social media and nothing on our local news here in the DMV area. I saw 2 big protests yesterday that I had no idea was happening! Is there a centralized area to find when these protests are happening on the weekend?

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?

The Clinton administration undertook a massive reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy. The goal is debatable. The DOGE approach is reprehensible.

The DOGE approach is being used precisely BECAUSE Democrats want to fight all staff and cost reductions by any means necessary. Demands by Dems for “process” are really demands by Dems for opportunities to block spending cuts or staff reductions. It’s the government worker party vs the private sector taxpayer party nowadays.

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

They think they SHOULD have lifetime employment. They are VERY upset about actual layoffs, possible layoffs, having to send emails about what they do at work, having to come into the office after five years of working from home, etc. They know they don’t have a legal RIGHT to tenure, but they got used to the idea after 30 years without any federal government layoffs

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?

The Clinton administration undertook a massive reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy. The goal is debatable. The DOGE approach is reprehensible.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

People are protesting. Tell your European friends that the real issue is: Why aren’t media reporting the protests.
Tell them too, that in the US, many police are militarized, all are armed, and many of us are particularly vulnerable— especially POC.

This.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

People are protesting. Tell your European friends that the real issue is: Why aren’t media reporting the protests.
Tell them too, that in the US, many police are militarized, all are armed, and many of us are particularly vulnerable— especially POC.

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Anonymous wrote:Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20.

You’re probably right. It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense.

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.

Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We haven't had effective protests in the US since the Vietnam era. These days, street protests are associated with Gaza and BLM. The vast majority of people who are appalled by Trump don't want to be associated with progressive activists. It's a problem. Most Americans don't care for the looting and burning and pro-terrorism slogans that progressives tend to bring. And progressive looters and nihilists will take over any march. So those street protests tend to work in favor of Republicans - see the Gaza and BLM protests. It's not effective.

I agree protests aren’t effective or won’t be right now. look, Trump already tried to call out the national guard on protests in his last Presidency. He is more than willing to harm citizens. I think mass protests like that will only hope their agenda and have bring on martial law. We believe in the constitution and that the judicial branch will be listened to. I see more protests on street corners and at Tesla dealerships than ever.

This is an insane take
They can’t arrest legal American citizens protesting. They can’t legally, they can’t logistically.
The idea that we shouldn’t take to the streets and demand an end to this insanity bc of random spurious reasons is beyond ridiculous. Grow a pair

Of course they can. I guess you missed the chance to learn about the Civil Rights movement? Dogs, water hoses, arrests…. Remember? Read Dr. King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail. Then tell us how he ended up in jail. NP