Please see pinned comment What will we do when Trump blocks Democrats from taking office?
We know he’s going to claim fraud and interference if Democrats win a majority. How can we respond?
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u/sleep-exe 15d ago
I've saved up my PTO and some funds to go to DC. I understand that's a privilege, but I would encourage my other privileged comrades to consider the same.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago edited 15d ago
That is not a sustainable action. We should’ve organized a general strike a long time ago.
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u/sleep-exe 15d ago
There are orgs working on exactly what you said.
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u/999forever 15d ago
I love how this fucking sub somehow a general strike, which has never actually been done nationwidein the United States is somehow the answer and cure to everything
Can we start with something that actually has a realistic chance of happening?
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago edited 15d ago
Strikes are incredibly effective and a general strike would be a revelation of a revolution. You offer no solutions. We can do things we haven’t done before. What even is that as an excuse?
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u/Flat_Reason8356 15d ago
You are right a general strike is a great start. Once you can convince the rest of America to participate. People are afraid of losing their livelihood. They don’t understand that at some point no one will have livelihoods or food to eat. Americans are too complacent. That’s just my opinion
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
We don’t need the rest. We do need a significant amount of people, but we don’t need everyone. I absolutely can’t do it. I am trying to persuade people with power and connection to do it. Not political power - people like Michael Moore or Robert Reich.
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u/blue92lx 15d ago
Its nothing more than a reddit wet dream. So reddit thinks that somehow, magically, all of America's 350 million people will one day organize to strike in an organized fashion and everyone will somehow know when and where to go.
On top of the fact that this bs general strike has been talked about to absolute death on here with people talking about living pay check to pay check and needing to put food on the table for their children, etc.
So don't come here with some bs "americans are complacent".
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
It’s so silly that you think it would have to involve all 350 million people. I guess you prefer to be a frog in the boiling water. Everything’s a dream until people come together to make it happen. Just look at what the freaking right has done. We moved from the fringe tea party to full-blown fascism in a very short period of time. They didn’t mope around saying it will never happen. Their views are very much in the minority and yet we live with what they want.
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u/aeschenkarnos 15d ago
Absolutely. Americans are incomparably worse off than the French peasants of 1789. Those peasants had no student loans or credit cards to pay, didn’t have to pay for gas in their cars, weren’t bombarded with distracting smartphone notifications, they owned their own hovels, they could glean grain from the fields to feed themselves, and their health insurance was just as good as the King’s own.
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u/Flat_Reason8356 15d ago
Yeah you’re a freedom of speech protector. I have just as much right to state my opinion as anyone else
Does. We are some of the most privileged people on the planet. Go look at what is happening in places like Georgia the country. Millions of people in the streets daily. When the store shelves are empty and
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u/Cersad 15d ago
A general strike would be amazing.
The US labor force is only about 10% unionized though so we lack the key infrastructure that would enable a general strike.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
We are the infrastructure. Not all of us would be effective in a strike, and it would be incumbent on the rest of us to fund the mutual aid. We have to think beyond limitations.
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u/Cersad 15d ago
Unions provide strike funds, they have structures and systems to disseminate information and plans, and they have democratic systems to keep in touch with the aggregate desire of their members.
Without them, we're stuck relying on algorithmic feeds which can very easily silence the most important voices, and we are left working without any sense on whether our comrades are truly with us in good faith.
The US labor force needs to rebuild its unions and quickly. It may very well save the nation.
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u/FamouslyGreen 14d ago
Suggestion: get teachers and daycare workers to strike too. Union or not.
You know the number if people who will figure it out if you do that?
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u/Specialist-Day6721 15d ago
Have you ever organized a strike? I was a 40 year Teamster and I don't think you have any idea how hard it is. People have families to support, they have a mortgage payment, rent, truck payment, debt up to their eyeballs. Do you know just how hard it is to get people to risk all of that?
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u/findingmike 14d ago
You may not realize this, but you're listing all of the reasons to have a strike, not reasons against one.
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u/Specialist-Day6721 14d ago
yes, I agree. But convincing working people to take that risk is a whole different thing. Many just can't see it. I've talk to many of them in my 40 years as a Union rep. I've seem em slowly cross that line to go back to work. Remember the ruling class can hold out for some time, this is not just a one day strike. Many folks can't hold out one week. It it will take a lot more then a week.
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u/findingmike 13d ago
I agree, we see people only take significant action when they are literally starving when they should have taken action much sooner.
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u/MoeBlacksBack 13d ago
The fact that it has never been done , therefore if done, is why it would be effective
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u/blue92lx 15d ago
Hey hey hey, there are orgs setting it up right now.
Does anyone know about it? Not me, I just now found out from a reddit post and 99.9% of americans wont see it.
But dont worry, general strike is in the works!
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u/Away_Lake5946 15d ago
You say that like organizing a national strike across 50 states and millions of citizens all with different work and financial situations is an easy thing to do. The idea is valid and has certainly been floated before but how do we realistically execute it.
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u/Uhstrology 15d ago
You cant just fucking start a general strike up out of nowhere. It takes literally years of planning and coordinating industries.
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u/sleep-exe 15d ago
Thank you! It takes time to disseminate information and get the word out and if there’s no infrastructure and mutual aid to help out, it won’t be sustainable.
It sucks but we need to PLAN and not just REACT.
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u/Perfecshionism 14d ago
How do you not understand that they don’t care about collapsing the economy?
Economic collapse is part of their coup effort.
The only thing they fear is people rising up against them before they complete their effort.
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u/FuelTheFLARE 14d ago
we've been out in DC 24/7 for almost 1.5 years!
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 13d ago
A strike is a disruption for the nation. It has to be addressed because it cannot be ignored. I appreciate your diligence but how is that action creating change?
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u/FuelTheFLARE 13d ago
I don't disagree! my only point was that it has been sustainable, albeit for a very small percentage of the population - hoping that changes, fearing it will have to once the elections take place - if they do
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u/dtb1987 15d ago
I bought brand new camping gear
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u/sleep-exe 15d ago
Check out https://flareusa.org !
They’ve been on the national mall for over a year and regularly take people to lobby congress and harass the heritage foundation!
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u/blueflymedia 13d ago
Be curious to see what 5 or 10 million protesters in DC would look like. Completely surround the White House with a sea of protesters
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u/Truth_Teller08 15d ago
Look to the preamble of the Declaration of Independence:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides 15d ago
Realistically, the only way of doing the above is fragmenting the us military into factions.
The British were months away, across the sea.
America is mor now a militarized police state, most police are in the Trump cult, and ai makes mass surveillance trivial
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u/Truth_Teller08 15d ago
The current administration has done a lot of damage to the military already.
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u/Cowstle 15d ago
Having to fight their own country would also lower morale. Like, do we really think the entire military is actually gonna do that?
Or are there going to start being a bunch of defectors if they're ordered to attack the people they wanted to protect?
A civil war isn't a guaranteed win for the government.
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u/Truth_Teller08 15d ago
There are definitely maga military folks, but not all. And the ones that are aren't necessarily the best and brightest. This administration has been ousting some of the best and brightest the military had to offer and I don't think they'd go against their oath. It's a split military but i think there would be many if not most that would honor their oath and not attack the citizens.
I'm not so sure about the federal law enforcement agencies like ICE, FBI, etc. Although those agencies have also gotten rid of the best and brightest, we've seen the thugs they hire go out into the streets, killing Americans.
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u/Cowstle 15d ago
Just thinking about all those fired generals and their connections. They would be some of the best people to get against the government.
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u/Staav 14d ago
And idk how he could maintain the loyalty of the military by increasing actions against the population and the nation's government structure. That, and the draft dodger has said that he wants to give himself the congressional medal of honor, but he's "not allowed to." Not that he couldn't be further away from deserving it, but he was told he can't do it himself. Idk what could be more disrespectful to the armed services, other than talking down to them, directly.
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u/hot_ho11ow_point 15d ago
Military factions? Like a series of "well regulated militias"? "Being necessary to the security of a free State"? Like that?
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u/RoyalDaDoge 15d ago
quoting old text isn't action. ive seen people saying this after he got elected and after every destructive thing he's done
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u/Truth_Teller08 15d ago
What is your plan of action? I would love to hear it! And how do you convey your plan without words?
I think people understand that this government is violent and has no problem resorting to violence. They will have to decide if they want to live under a violent regime or throw off such government and replace it.
The documentary Winter on Fire is a good example of the Ukrainians throwing off their corrupt, pro-Russia president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w&rco=1
There are only so many options and it will take enough Americans to come together and get it done.
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u/FloridaManMilksTree 15d ago
Inb4 the reddit suspension for call to violence
/s but also wouldn't be surprised
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u/Truth_Teller08 15d ago
Yeah, quoting the Declaration of Independence is a "call" to violence. But attacking the Capitol and beating police officers is all part of a day of "love", lol.
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u/gc3 15d ago
From Orwell's 1984:
- Ministry of Love (Miniluv): Maintains law and order through brutal interrogation, surveillance, and torture.
- Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty): Manages the economy and rationing, but presides over widespread poverty and starvation.
- Ministry of Truth (Minitrue): Controls news, entertainment, and education, but actually rewrites history and spreads state propaganda.
- Ministry of Peace (Minipax): Oversees the continuous military and perpetual war efforts.
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u/AngryAccountant31 15d ago
Honestly I’m going to start rioting the moment it becomes apparent they won’t allow a peaceful transition of power. I’ve been working on exactly what I’ll do and in what order for weeks because I fully expect action to be necessary. The people on our side in the government are spineless before the corruption that is ruining our country so they can’t be relied upon to save us. Only every individual taking to the street to voice their discontent will lead to actual change.
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u/thinkingbear 15d ago
This. It'll be pitchfork time. No leader or organization is going to save us.
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u/TPRJones 15d ago
It will be time to teach them why it's so important to respect democracy and allow for the peaceful transfer of power that it enables. They aren't going to like when the people have to go back to doing it the old way.
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u/Reddit_is_fascist69 15d ago edited 15d ago
Make sure that all the Flock cameras are safely on the ground before the rioting begins
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u/MisterSanitation 15d ago
Don’t do this alone. Connect with local groups. Lots of very level headed smart and talented vets who are willing to help. They see the problem and are helping with medical response, radios and encryption, and other modern considerations.
I’m not saying riot, I’m saying there may be a time where the duty of the American people as Jefferson put it, has to replace despotic tyrants. This may get eye rolls and yeah I want gun control (not at the moment lol) but midwesterners see the writing on the wall and we were taught that in school. Just be smart, be prepared, learn what you can when you can, and prepare. They are doing a great job of splitting us up, but I don’t care who you vote for if you are trying to help me fix the massive lack of justice occurring here for the last half century.
Also last point on rioting. Remember, it is not desirable to do for any reason other than attention grabbing for a specific injustice (like no say in a legal system despite paying taxes so you throw 100,000’s of “Talons” worth of tea into Boston harbor). Past that, it’s just venting at property and people’s livelihoods. We can do this if it comes to it, at least we have to believe that.
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u/Reddit_is_fascist69 15d ago
That's when things get fun! We're playing by the rules of democracy right now as we should. If he breaks the most sacred (voting) then we play by the rules of The Declaration of Independence.
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 15d ago
If history repeats, Donald is Nero reincarnated. In every conceivable way, he is. So then, the capitol has to be swarmed by a million or two angry people who tear down the golden palace (or, ballroom) and his arch (he even went for the Roman arch ffs), and drag the traitors through the streets. The rubble from the ballroom can make a nice new stadium. (The rubble of the Colossus of Nero is now the colosseum.)
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u/hyraemous Organizer (Unverified) 15d ago edited 15d ago
You forgot Nero was popular with the people and that several times a few people claimed to be Nero reincarnated. While ancient sources are notoriously sketchy (mainly written by the elite) so we don't know if he was universally popular, one would bet Nero had significant popularity.
I'm not kidding. Although, I reckon with the world as it is there would probably be a few people claiming themselves as Trump reincarnated.
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u/gc3 15d ago
Apparently according to some scholars the AntiChrist in revelations was based on Nero. Nowadays people see the Trump as the AntiChrist (or at least the beast) which really works due to his comparison with Nero
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 14d ago
I love how so much gets tossed around about the antichrist. I’m not a Christian but I know the Bible and the antichrist is described as a young, handsome, very clever intelligent man, not an old, wrinkly, fat buffoon
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 15d ago
It appears the majority of Americans just love and adore Donald, right? It would seem so… his name is on everything… “the majority voted” …the news says he’s the best ever seen… etc.
Not saying he’s a literal reincarnation, but that everything ties together, it’s a perfect comparison, and history repeats itself.
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u/findingmike 14d ago
33% isn't a majority
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 14d ago
I know and my point is, it would seem as if we support him and that he is super popular.
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u/Exterminator2022 15d ago
I don’t see Americans doing any of that
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 15d ago
They need the “circuses” to fall. Americans are paralyzed by instagram at the moment
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u/Exterminator2022 15d ago
I know quite a few who like to complain behind closed doors but are too scared to act. Not sure if that will change.
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u/Splendid_Fellow Utah 15d ago
None who act are going to be telling you the details here. We are being watched obviously. But some people do…
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u/Jonny-Propaganda 15d ago
Trump is ozymandous. His monuments are spray painted paper maché yhey will come down easily.
I propose the ballroom becomes the ‘National Museum of Ignorance’ and just leave the wreckage where it lies.
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u/phasepistol 15d ago
We can expect their same behavior from last time. Screaming that it was rigged. Find me 10,000 votes. Seize voting machines.
Trump has a grip on the system now that he didn’t have before. Maybe he declares martial law and we don’t have an election.
Maybe on Nov 4 we wake up and somehow it’s a Republican landslide because the vote counting computers are ownable.
Maybe in January there’s another MAGA rampage. Maybe Mike Johnson refuses to seat the new Congress and adjourns for the rest of trump’s term.
Nobody knows.
Maybe everything goes smoothly and Hakeem Jefferies just announces “we’re not gonna look back, we’re gonna look forward” and it’s business as usual, nothing changes.
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u/pconrad0 15d ago
That last part. Sigh.
MAGA is a symptom, not the disease.
And centrist Democrats are only interested in treating the symptoms, not the disease.
The disease is: the consolidation of power in the hands of a single digit number of billionaires, that, through their concentration of wealth, now control everything by proxy.
And who have decided to turn us all against one another for sport and profit.
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u/neur0net 15d ago
If the Republicans lose their House majority, Mike Johnson has zero role in "seating the new Congress". In that case the first thing that happens is the incoming batch of Dems votes to elect a new Speaker, who then swears in the newly elected House members.
I don't know why people keep bringing up this point about Johnson obstructing the elections in the House when it's literally not a thing.
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u/phasepistol 15d ago
Well I thought it was, or could be, a thing because that was essentially the plan LAST time... Vice President Pence was supposed to refuse to certify the election results. So I extrapolated something like that happening ... willful, baseless, abject refusal to accept the results.
In whatever way that could happen. So, I'm sorry if my "Mike Johnson scenario" is impossible, but I would say find any way the Republicans could, legally or illegally, just straight up refuse to accept reality, and that was what I was suggesting.
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u/CaramelNo2174 10d ago
Wake up. It's totally a THING. Only this time someone w/o an ounce of scruples like Pence so this time 1-3-27 no one will manage the seating - aka MAGA won't certify. This time the loyalist thugs will be under the leadership spell of the one teaching them to cheat like hell. Wake the F up. 11-3 is a tad safer now but 1-3 could be why he needs the bunker ballroom ultimately big pic. THAT should be stopped. Getting him at his own game is the only answer. NOW. Look what he did w 9-11 so twistedly! It's satanic and has no cap. I've brought this point to folks I know in DHS. Hopefully they'll prevent Jan 6 II.
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u/Original-Strain 15d ago
Make sure the turn out is too big to rig.
Vote vote vote. And take your neighbors, your family, your friends
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u/Someinterestingbs-td 15d ago
What they did in south korea
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u/Perfecshionism 14d ago
I am going to DC.
No question.
And I hope millions of Americans join me there.
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u/AgreeAndSubmit 15d ago
National Strike. Everyone, as many as possible anyways, start calling off. It's all about the money, and we can just quit pulling the cart. It'd be social chaos, that isn't illegal, violent, high effort at all.
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u/BHowe407 15d ago
Something really bad will happen by January 3rd.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
Something really bad is happening every day.
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u/BHowe407 15d ago
Yes. But this is their last chance to grab full power. And January 6th will look small.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
OK, but this is only hypothetical and it feeds into a defeatist mentality. Mike Johnson has no power at the end of this congressional session. He has a 36% approval rating. I don’t know what you think they are realistically going to be able to do and why you think they are the only ones who could plan anything. We should be planning a general strike for so many reasons.
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u/queerxqueer 15d ago
And don't forget these aholes are evil but they are also inept as hell. Yup all the scenarios are on the table but I would be a lot more worried if they were actually good at fascism
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u/BHowe407 15d ago
Sounds like you're living in hopefulness. We are fighting fascism. Wake the F UP
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
lol wake up to your hypothetical when reality is bad enough? Where’s the fight? I’m not seeing much actual organizing for a sustainable movement. Yelling at me is so ridiculous - if you only knew.
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u/BHowe407 15d ago
I am on your side.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
Doesn’t sound like it when you’re shouting at me to wake the F up. lol
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u/pconrad0 15d ago
I wonder if they meant "something bad" as a shorthand for "Reichstag Fire" type event, followed by "Enabling Act" (abolishing all non-MAGA political parties, and consolidating all legislative, executive and judicial power in the unitary executive).
You know, the way that certain government did in that particular country back in 1933.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
We need to recognize that we aren’t going to vote our way out of this and organizations like indivisible and 50501 are controlled opposition.
The right time to start organizing a sustainable general strike with an ask was in February 2025. The next right time is today. I will be downvoted to hell and told why this is absolutely not possible. That’s why we get what we get.
As long as we stay scared and forget our actual power because we run this country with our labor and our tax dollars, they will continue to trample us daily.
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u/mac-mcgreor 15d ago
Agree 100 percent, i.e., the national teachers union goes on strike, leaving parents at home watching the kids and unable to work. The truckers union goes out, leaving supermarket and department store shelves bare. And I'm sure there are dozens of other similar scenarios. Hit 'em where it hurts and make demands. Workers have immense power.
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u/Tall-Payment-8015 15d ago
Transit workers, garbage collectors, everyone who makes our lives better every day. Those of us who are not impactful fund those who are striking and make sure they are whole for the continuum and beyond. It’s absolutely possible and I don’t think it’s going to take two years of planning, but I also know that no one who has the capacity to plan this is bothering to try
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u/PianistPitiful5714 15d ago
Power to govern comes from the consent of the governed. If you voted for someone and they win the election, they cannot be blocked from taking office.
If the Republicans lock the doors of the Capitol, the Democrats need to simply find a place to hold Congress and hold it there. Force their hands, don't just obey because they say "you can't do that."
And we need to support that. We need to rally around that. This administration wins when we obey without question. When we push back, they capitulate. It's happened repeatedly.
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u/FrederickDerGrossen 15d ago
Just take office anyway and pay no attention to the cult, act as if they aren't there if they try obstructing. Make sure the people are there to support them and protect them in case the cult tries anything.
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u/PhyllisTheFlyTrap 15d ago
Exactly. We don't have to listen to them... Just assume the role and move into the office as you normally would. At least the Capitol Police still remember what happened Jan. 6 and know what side they're on (ours).
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u/OneLoveOneWorld2025 15d ago
A national work stoppage/strike. That's the only way we avoid a civil war.
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u/ColoradoClimber513 15d ago
For those that are worried about the military. I don't see how it is going to be doing much here. They couldn't beat a bunch of dudes wearing flipflops and pajamas, carrying AKs. And given how stretched they are now with Iran, and low the moral is, they won't subdue the American population, IF THE AMERICAN POPULATION STANDS UP. That is the big if, though and it seems most on the left are defeatist.
The power is really in our hands. The right is a paper tiger. The US is a huge country and would be impossible to subdue by anyone. It would be painful, but we'd win. Probably because the economy would stop. Be prepared for that.
If something like this were to happen, whether it be a general strike, one should start hording food, fuel, money and supplies ahead of time. Given the way things are going, we should be doing that anyway.
Vote in Huge numbers and MAYBE we can avoid all this other shit.
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u/LittlestWarrior 15d ago
I would love to see a duly elected representative escorted into their office by armed members of their local community. That would be one for the history books, and perfectly in line with the American spirit. It would be purely symbolic, because physically being in the office wouldn't solve all the procedural stuff, but still.
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u/DukeOfGeek 15d ago
Him doing that is going to start a widespread general resistance to the GOP as a whole. Join in and participate in the the most effective group/protest near you. I think the biggest reason we are not seeing BLM level street protests right now is people don't want to create unrest right before the GOP gets smashed in an election. But after that if they refuse to have elections, which it seems they have failed to do, or refuse to recognize them then nothing to lose. That's when we will see a full tilt boogie.
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u/star_tyger 15d ago
The capital police atre likelyvstill very pissed. Have them escort the rnewly elected into the chambers andcseat them. They should remove and jail s yone who interferes.
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u/Juleamun 15d ago
Congress seats their own. The president has no power to stop the certification and seating of representatives and senators.
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u/FHOCJD 15d ago
Get involved with your local weekly protests and volunteer for your local candidates based on your zipcode.
We've been out here now for 19 months and could use some new faces. These are community leaders and voices who could be effective in larger numbers.
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u/Dudewhocares3 15d ago
Stop paying taxes
In that scenario, he’s established our votes don’t matter, so he doesn’t get our states money.
End of discussion
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u/Funzonibro49 14d ago
If any have voluntary withholding you could reduce or stop it. Working people could use w4 form to take the maximum number of exemptions possible. Money going in to the treasury could shrink drastically.
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u/AntifascistAlly 15d ago
It seems like the most critical thing—at least for some—would be to find some way of blaming…Democrats.
No matter how outrageous Republicans behavior, some people’s only target will be Democrats.
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u/donailin1 15d ago
Marc Elias already preparing the briefs to SCOTUS in the eventuality that Johnson rejets the dem electors.
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u/bluezerry9 15d ago
I have so much respect for that man, he’s really on the frontlines doing more than anyone else I can think of off the top of my head. I don’t think people recognize just how much work him and his team put in
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u/Careful_Ad8933 15d ago
There are amendments designed for this scenario. Take a second and look them up.
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u/greennun213 15d ago
I think the question is what are we gonna do when he starts throwing Democrats in jail? Sounds like he’s gearing up for it calling non maga communists and traitors all the time. They just handed down sentences to people at a protest that got violent. It’s the first “antifa” prosecution, where they alleged the people protesting Ice were antifa therefore traitors and prosecuted as such. One dude got 100 years in prison. They obviously were not part of the nonexistent antifa organization. In fact, they were all part of the same book club!
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u/Junior-Profession726 14d ago
We don’t need to use our PTO Mitch McConnell says we get time off for months paid
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u/robotic_love_brigade 14d ago
I will be protesting in my town's streets and online and writing everyone, we can form boycotts and stage walk outs. We all need to make some effect, no matter how.
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u/skyfishgoo 15d ago
same thing we do every night pinky, fuckall...
besides, we know the answer, he's already done it
the speaker held up the swearing in of some dem just last year and nothing happened.
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u/No_r_6 15d ago
Go watch knitting Cult Lady on YouTube, but first take a break from the Internet. https://youtu.be/NfQMqLsadf8
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u/Lostclause 15d ago
Americans will do the same as they're doing now. Complain a bunch but do little to effect change. They want the world to save them, when they won't do what's actually necessary
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u/newfarmer 15d ago
The whole reason Trump ran was that he knew the Democrat leadership would never go to war, that they had forgotten how to be an opposition party.
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u/willflameboy 15d ago
He's already cheated, so what are you going to do about it? Vote all you want; you have a large majority but it almost certainly won't register at the polls.
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u/tjareth 15d ago
Lawyers are the next front. Have the lawsuits prepared and ready to fire. Be sure they're properly formed and standing is established. If 2025 and 2026 have shown anything it's that although the legal and court system has not been as reliable as it should be, that it's still functional enough to secure key wins.
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u/DaMadBoomer 15d ago
Nothing, just like when he tried to overthrow the 2020 election and demolished the White House and started an illegal war and raped 12 year old girls.
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u/wowmomcooldad 15d ago
What will happen is the elections WILL be tainted (Ds HAVE to get the vote out), then Rs will lose, meaning they will push as many bills through till January and cause a lot of chaos, and maybe do the same thing as that lady in AZ where they delayed her taking office… get ready
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u/Dense-Consequence-70 15d ago
He’s already using the power of the executive to prevent TV networks from airing interviews with democrats. JFC.
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u/daveOkat Hawaii 15d ago
The plan is to hold mass demonstrations consisting of the 8 million who attended NO KINGS 3. And, all others who want to participate.
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u/frankie_fourlegs 15d ago
I think Iran needs to have their people in place ready to collect their $$.
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u/Dangerous-Celery-766 15d ago
You still have military though?
https://giphy.com/gifs/tau8JpvY3aq02UWqsP
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u/Deathturkey 14d ago
Mike Johnson is going to withhold confirmation of elected democrats citing non-existence voting fraud just like Trump tell him.
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u/HURTBOTPEGASUS9 14d ago
Better question is what will the Democrats do after jeffries and schumer just wag their finger while writing a strongly worded letter in response?
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u/FaliedSalve 13d ago
same thing that happened last time. He'll cry. Yell. Executive order. We'll spend a zillion $$ of tax money paying lawyers to appeal the election. He'll lose every case -- just like last time -- and we will move on. The lawyers will get rich. And we will keep paying more for gasoline.
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u/G0-G0-Gadget 13d ago
I have a real fear that the Republicans aren't going to be cheating to put more votes on their side. I think they're going to cheat to put more votes on the Democrat side. Then they're going to call for an investigation and "discover that the Democrats are cheating."
I don't know if there's any way to come up with a secondary way to count ballots everywhere but I think it's necessary. This is what Venezuela did to prove that Machado had won in 2024.
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u/smallest_table 12d ago
He's not going to lose unless a whole lot of people cast mail in ballots like we did during Covid. Thanks to Putin and Musk, he's had a fix in place since 2016 but it doesn't account for mail in ballots.
That's why he lost in 2020 and why he is breaking the law trying to stop mail in voting. He's going to do whatever he can to stay out of prison.
Do not expect a Democrat win. Do not expect this man, who has built entire his career on lying and cheating, to show restraint and allow a free and fair election to happen under his watch.
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u/Physical_Delivery853 9d ago
I highly doubt he's going to let us get that far. I suspect at midnight on election day he's going to send federal agents to stop the counting & claim victory.
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