DC #NoKings speaker being broadcast on #C-SPAN:
They say we are living in an echo chamber, but [goes on to say a bunch of ignorant stuff proving that he is living in an echo chamber]
This is why the whole event is so silly. It is an expression of the echo chamber, really proving the point and buttressing the arguments of their opposition. They are playing into the hands of their opposition.
@volkris (I don't live in the US but have a connection to there through family and passport)
Do you deny that the Trump admin deported people without due process?
@light No it looks to me like he absolutely did!
That doesn't make him a king, though, because he's still subject to oversight from the people that we elect to Congress. We elected and reelected and reelected a bunch of congresspeople that backed his move.
That doesn't mean he's a king; that means we elected a bunch of people we should not have elected, and we need to stop reelecting those people.
A lot of these people going out to these stupid protests are going to go ahead and reelect the exact congresspeople who are supporting Trump's illegal actions.
So what's the point.
Meanwhile, Trump supporters are going to use optics from these protests in their campaigns to win over voters to their side.
Yeah, Trump is violating laws like so many presidents do. It's up to us to elect congresspeople that will will stand up to him, we don't, so we get what we voted for.
We need to change. These protests are if anything promoting this really bad status quo.
@volkris
>Meanwhile, Trump supporters are going to use optics from these protests in their campaigns to win over voters to their side.
How? Is there anything optically bad about them?
@light Oh yes, quite a lot!
And it's already been happening.
Already for the last week Trump supporters have been talking about these upcoming protests as illustrating how out of touch their opponents are (their words, not mine) and how generally irresponsible they are.
Today I'm listening to numerous speakers saying things that are going to be used in sound bites for upcoming campaigns, everything from standing politicians not seeming to know what the laws in front of them are through general notions of priorities of the left that don't really resonate with most of the country.
There is going to be videos of people in inflated costumes with political candidates saying, is this really how you want your country governed? With the sense that these protests show non-seriousness of democratic candidates.
And to be clear a lot of it will be dishonest. I imagine even this week there will be politicians from the right floating stupid ideas like, we had to spend a ton of money to pay for security for these protests. But, that kind of messaging resonates with a lot of people.
Yes, there is a ton that is optically bad.
These protests might have felt really good to the participants, they might have been a great party, but on the whole I expect that they will have worked against their cause.
