Another day another coup
SOMEBODY! ANYBODY!
I believe in nonviolence, in debate, in figuring shit out w/o resorting to what #Trump did #Jan6. I don’t want to abandon my values. Where are the MOTHERFUCKING SAFEGUARDS the aspirationally pacific founders put into place to avert this shite?
Right…SCOTUS
#SCOTUS allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators
Trump admin fired 3 Democratic members of the #CPSC as part of its effort to consolidate #power.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-consumer-product-safety-commissioners-now-2025-07-23/
No, that gets it exactly backwards. It's not that institutions like Congress fold but rather that they act! The people that we elect--the people that we actively put into office--act on our behalfs to enable these policies.
They don't fold, they set this up after we elect and reelect them!
Safeguard? We are choosing this with our votes!
No it's not quite that our current Congress is complicit. It's that our current Congress is actively engaged in this, actively going out of its way to enable this, because these are the people we voted into Congress.
We voted for this. We voted for these congresspeople.
They aren't complicit, we voted in the people who are making this happen.
We elected and re-elected these people to Congress to make this happen.
I know so many people who not only supported but actually campaigned for congresspeople that move against their own causes. Well? Okay then.
We voted for this by electing and reelecting cruddy congresspeople.
We have ourselves to blame, and we can stop at any point, but we keep choosing this.
The reason I don't think that's right is because so many of these people that were reelected are just doing the same stuff they've always done, and I see so many that are cheering on representatives that are enabling it.
We do know that votes will count for something. We can look right now and see that our votes counted for something, we voted for this. We elected these people, and I see no indication that we are going to stop reelecting them. Approval levels remain high among voters for their own representatives, so looks like we're just going to keep reelecting this.
To put it a different way, yes our votes are going to count for something, just as they counted for this, and that might be a bad thing, outside of that whole democracy philosophy.
We did vote for this by voting for these congresspeople. And I am very sure that we are going to keep voting for these congresspeople. Our votes for these congresspeople will count and will maintain this level of horribleness.
Unless we choose to change, which I don't think we will.
Oh no, don't let people escape accountability by bringing up boogeyman like Heritage Foundation.
Right now, today, I see on Facebook a whole lot of Democratic politicians who are failing to counter the administration trying to point fingers like that. They need to be replaced. That's not Heritage Foundation, that's the DNC.
I have friends who consider themselves prototypical liberal, even outright Marxist, who are beating the drum to get congresspeople reelected even after they have so thoroughly failed us, voting against their own interests. Again, that's not Heritage Foundation, that's coming from folks ranging from Brookings on the academic side through the Communist Party on the grassroots side.
No, don't let them point fingers and shift blame to Heritage.
We need to stop reelecting these people to Congress when they have such a long track record of enabling stuff that we don't want to happen.
It infuriates me to watch this happen year after year for decades. The very politicians that fail us point fingers at boogeiemen to escape accountability and get reelected, and who can blame them when it works?
If you really want a culprit to represent the problem, don't look at Heritage, look at the DNC. And never vote for any of these incumbents again.
@volkris @Nonilex I won’t say the DNC doesn’t have a major role in why we are here - but I’m also not going to ignore The Heritage Foundation’s decades long siege of propaganda and policy making through proxies.
From Reagan to Gingrich to Trunp - they’ve deliberately manipulated the public and created the conditions for their soft coup that history told them would work.
I look squarely at them.
