Lots of protests are happening with a big 50 state one scheduled for the 5th. The cowed media just isn’t covering them.
Yes I still stand behind my OP which has been misinterpreted to mean that I didn’t think that Trump would get away with a lot or even with everything. I still think that it is a dead-end argument, that basically argues for the replacement of the P&E forum with a one sentence sticky.
As to my opinion about my feelings regarding the Trump administration now versus when I started the OP, what has happened was at the high end (maybe upper 20%) in terms of how little push back there would be, and I definitely didn’t think that it would happen so fast, but there is still a lot of wait and see. Some of his big initiatives did get stuck in the courts, and we will have to wait and see how the Supremes come down on those. We will also have to wait and see what happens when his tradewars start hitting home. He ran on beating inflation and if it sky rockets he may feel the need to pullback. Some of the other claims that were made such as canceling elections and concentration camps for critics haven’t been proposed yet, although there is still 4 years yet so again we shall see. I don’t think those will happen but I’m not saying they won’t. All I am saying is that just repeating the mantra we are all doomed and nothing can be done ad nauseum, is not my view of an interesting debate even if it ends up being true.
Too bad the Democrats that didn’t vote in swing states didn’t listen.
I think I might join a protest if there’s one in Seattle. Any idea where I can get info, other than reddit, which I don’t really understand
They seem to be aiming for protests in every state capital on Feb 5th, so Olympia for Washington. Not sure if there will be any ancillary protest in Seattle from what I can find.
“Scheduled for the 5th?”
Have you ever seen French railroad workers “schedule” a protest?
Now compare your pension, healthcare, paid sick days, paid vacation, hours, number of arrested and locked up presidents… to theirs.
You don’t schedule a protest. You protest.
Assuming by workers’ protest, you mean a strike, this happens all the time with European unions. Here’s an example of a Belgian union announcing an action almost two weeks in advance.
The point is not to disrupt unexpectedly, but to prove that the unions can disrupt with appropriate planning, organization, and sufficient worker buy-in. It’s leverage, not chaos.
If you’re saying something different, I apologize.
This ain’t boring.
Terrifying, to some, not not boring.
Yeah, he’s only proposed a concentration camp for immigrants. His critics, on the other hand, are being intimidated and oppressed by other means.
And he’s only been in office two weeks.
If you think those French protests aren’t coordinated, I don’t know what to tell you. Feel free to tell us about the ad hoc protesting you’ve been doing, though, and we’ll see if we can get more people to show up with you.
Sure, the French are not protesting ad-hoc.
But all over the world people are more willing to stand up and be counted than you guys.
Here the Belgians are protesting the idea that someone discussed the possibility of pension reform during coalition negotiations.
These people know that the people in Brussels work for them, sure as fuck not the other way around.
Trump is just firing half the federal government and nary a peep.
The elections in Georgia were sus, the people are still in the streets. People in Serbia are protesting ineffective building inspections, so far the prime-minister offered his resignation, that wasn’t enough.
Protesting works, if enough people stand outside of your office telling you to fuck off, most people will just do that.
The current crop of “officials” appointed by Donald don’t strike me as steely eyed or blessed with much of a spine. So pick a couple an d make their life hell.
Especially in Canada. I never expected something like this to happen from the US, but here were are.
On the issue of “The Courts Will Stop Him!”, we have this:
Basically, their argument boils down to, “We made the issue so confusing with multiple orders, memos, and rescinded communications that the Court Order doesn’t apply to us!”
The order also stated if the White House engages in the “indentifi[cation] and review” of federal programs, “as identified in the OMB directive,” they can’t freeze federal funds in the process. It also prohibited the administration from implementing the directive under another name or format, like in Leavitt’s social media post.
Trump’s DOJ responded Monday to the order saying that since the Democratic states “only challenged the OMB memorandum,” the administration doesn’t “read the Order to prevent the President or his advisors from communicating with federal agencies or the public about the President’s priorities regarding federal spending.”
No doubt Trump will cry “now let them enforce it” and question how many divisions the Pope has. But some serious recent moves are of pretty dubious legality, and although Congress seems recalcitrant the numerical advantage is small. Under what conditions can state attorneys-general speak up on federal matters?
Nary a peep of protest or any kind of demonstration.
Good.
Now make it so it is the only news.
Protest news is not making it to most news sites. NYTimes, CNN, NPR, Google News aggregator, obviously Fox News, etc. The ONLY site I checked that you could locate “protest” on the main page was BBC and it was a story about the LA protest blocking the freeway.
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic”
- Dan Rather
Only problem is you have to go to a UK website to find the news.
We have our own blindspots currently with how farage and the like get covered.
But it’s true that US news at least is unfiltered.