Summary
Protesters at a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall in Idaho were forcibly removed after criticizing Trump policies, including the Elon Musk-led DOGE.
Event organizers dismissed their concerns, with one emcee saying, “Your voice is meaningless.”
Similar protests occurred in Georgia and Oklahoma, where Republicans faced criticism over mass layoffs.
Lawsuits have been filed against the administration over the legality of these dismissals.
I’ve voted neoliberal in every general after fighting for democratic socialists in primaries, hating myself as I did, a vote for quiet slaughter over loud, braggadocious slaughter, not peace, my entire life.
After a lot, lot, lot, lot O pain, turns out the accelerationists might be right. Giving the capitalists/fascists a long enough rope to force hot revolution might be the only possible path to a society and not the murder for profit exploitation camp we’ve all been living under. Neoliberals just let the frog of capitalist cruelty simmer as capitalists murder us for profit and our neighbors die in homeless tent cities through no fault of their own, but you know, with affirmation ribbons instead of scapegoating. They support your right to love who you love and be who you are… in a cardboard box under a freeway as you die of exposure, sorry, market forces fam 🤷
I just hope when the revolution starts, Americans remember their enemy largely isn’t in DC, those are middle managers with the exception of Trump and his cabinet who’ve cut out the well bribed middleman in the executive branch, they’re on Wall Street, in guard gated communities and towers, on golf courses, and in mega yacht supporting ports.
As in all of civilization’s history, one need only identify those holding the largest
bags of cashasset portfolios as a result of all the carnage to know who is most responsible.“Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” -JFK
“Riots are the voice of the unheard.” -MLK
Sounds like what they’re saying is that the normal methods of voicing dissatisfaction are not going to be effective, and we need to shift focus to other, more extreme, extrajudicial solutions, instead?
❌ Soap Box
❌ Ballot Box
🔳 Jury Box
🔳 Ammo Box- free Luigi
- wreck shit
i am pretty sure the jury box is pointless at this point. how many crimes has VP trump been convicted for?
Over thirty. But of course was not punished for them because reasons.
Reason: Rich White Guy.
As of now, they’re still (allegedly) obeying court orders and at least giving lip-service to the idea that courts are to be respected.
At some point, they’ll openly defy courts without even pretending to follow them.
They are openly defying court orders
“We’re going to have to look at judges.”
The judiciary has already failed.
🔳 time clock box. unionize and strike immediately. or at least before resorting to violence
I feel that falls under “soap box”: using a platform to convince others that your cause is morally right and the government should listen to you.
incorrect. that would be indirect action. you should instead be using the direct actions of nonviolent sabotage and economic coercion
Sounds like it to me.
John F. Kennedy: ‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’
Ironic.
Has there ever been a peaceful revolution? I can’t think of any. Rights are taken from the oppressors, not given by them.
Has there ever been a peaceful revolution? I can’t think of any.
Well, yes there has been. It was so peaceful its historically even called the “Velvet Revolution” where the people of Czechoslovakia decided equally and peacefull to split into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Slovakia). source
Notable mostly because it was peaceful.
Ghandi. MLK Civil Rights. Rosa Park.
Gandhi, murdered. MLK, murdered. Bobby Kennedy, murdered. Medgar Evers, murdered. Need I go on?
Of those, only Gandhi was associated with a revolution, and even in his case it seems like the way it played out (with the partition into India and Pakistan as separate countries) was much more along the lines of what some of the less non-violent revolutionaries wanted.
Yes. Famous ones.
Ehh, they’re laying off the entire administrative side of the government. Should make it relatively easy to set up parallel power structures. What are they gonna do, send the cops they didn’t pay this month to arrest you and your collaborators?
I’ma Luigi. I’ma number one.
Don’t you see that this is exactly what they want to impose violent crackdowns on violent protesters?
Right now is basically ride it out until the 2026 midterms and hope people actually show up to vote this time.
If you believe they’re going to let an election happen without it being rigged to hell and back, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
I like bridges!
Which one is it?
2026 midterm won’t happen without a violent revolution and the longuer it’s take to start the more violent it’s going to be.
US are a the point where only a civil war will get thing back on track
Violence is never the answer.
Tell that to those rescued from the Nazi death camps, and the enslaved people freed from bondage by the Civil War.
Remember it used to be the rule that the conversation was over once someone mentioned Nazis?
No? Why wouldn’t we be allowed to talk about the filthy nazis who are destroying the United States as we speak?
I was referring to Godwin’s law not the government that the majority of American voters elected.
If you don’t want people coming up with the easiest counterexample, don’t say “never”.
It sure got rid of the nazis last time.
World War II had fifty to eighty-five million fatalities with just over four million dead Nazis.
Clearly we should have just caved to hitler, since violence is never the answer.
Caving to the right is always the centrist answer.
If world war two got rid of all the Nazis why are we still battling them?
I agree violence should never be the answer but when the people in charge control everything from justice to every part of gouvernement little choice remain
How many guns do you have where you think you can take on ‘every part of the government?’.
Violence isn’t the answer but voting the next chance you have is.
More people should have voted in 2024 and this wouldn’t be a problem.
You don’t take on every part of the government dumbass. Insurgencies aren’t like that.
I agree violence should never be the answer but when the people in charge control everything from justice to every part of gouvernement little choice remain
This is the comment I was replying to.
Should have voted last time.
Hope the elections will be reasonably free and reasonably fair.
“Fascist refuses to listen to anything the public says or wants, news at 11.”
Yeah, they dont care about any of you. They have been elected. They dont plan on having other elections in the future. Your voice is meaningless
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If this were true, they would simply be ignored.
Not necessarily, sometimes a good show does wonder for the public image
Yes, it’s called demoralization.
You voted Trump in to screw yourselves, now scram! - Republicans
I’m expecting this to be said out loud soon
These people just don’t know when to quit. We used to show up to the owner classes house in the middle of the night and bludgeon them to death with an angry mob. They seem to forget this was the deal for people to stop doing that.
“See, in the good old days this doesn’t happen, because they used to treat them very, very rough. And when they protested once, you know, they would not do it again so easily. But today they walk in and they put their hand up and they put the wrong finger in the air at everybody and they get away with murder because we’ve become weak, we’ve become weak." - Trump
Well to be fair, hard men get hot drinks with their dinner.
People who protested Democrats are now telling protesters their protests are meaningless?
Who would’ve thought that the fascist wouldn’t allow protests… remember though the dems are just as bad…cause gaza.
Yeah, the blue team never would have told protesters to shut up.
And famously never arrested them either! Or set up “Free speech zones” outside of rallies!
Bejarana then defended the removal, accusing protesters of attempting to “filibuster” the event as he continued talking about DOGE. “We’ve got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here,” he said. “Your voice is meaningless right now.…I can talk over all of you.”
Newsweek has reached out to Bejarana via for comment on Sunday.
The confrontational approach drew criticism from many in attendance. “Is this a town hall or a lecture?” one woman yelled amid the uproar, according to Coeur d’Alene Press.
While it’s unclear what exactly the protesters were opposing, KCRCC has since posted a statement to Facebook explaining that Borrenpohl, who allegedly belongs to Save NIC, a social welfare nonprofit organization, “alongside at least five other recognized activists from local progressive circles—including two fellow ‘Save NIC’ members—shouted down legislators with insults like ‘bigots’ and ‘liars’ throughout the meeting, drowning out attempts at dialogue.”
“attempts at dialogue”. Right.
time to organize
Oh wow, the predictable thing is happening? But I was told the Republican voters just needed to get angry and call their representatives! Don’t worry guys, I’m sure the next plan to electorally save ourselves from fascism will work!
What republican voters?
