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After another week saw leading Republicans accosted in public places, many on the left are arguing that harassment is legitimateSam Wolfson Wed 11 Jul 2018 07.00 EDT
Lets make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, she said to cheers from the crowd. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere.
Over the weekend, Steve Bannon was called a piece of trash by a heckler at a bookstore; a bartender gave Stephen Miller the middle finger, apparently causing Miller to throw away $80 of sushi hed just bought in disgust; and Mitch McConnell was chased out of a restaurant in Kentucky by protesters, who followed him to this car yelling turtle head and we know where you live.
These follow similar encounters for other members of Trumps top team. The homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, was confronted by protesters chanting shame while she ate at a Mexican restaurant. Last week, Scott Pruitt was accosted by Kristin Mink while he was eating lunch. Mink, a teacher, held her two-year-old child as she asked him to resign before your scandals push you out. Days later, Pruitt did resign, and although he was probably asked to do so by Trump, in his letter he cited the unrelenting attacks on me as his reason for leaving.
Public shaming of Trump regime officials isnt just useful, its a moral imperative in these difficult times, says Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos and the author of last years The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump, which offers practical advice for protesters and advocacy groups. We have a Republican party that has surrendered to the Russians, encourages white supremacists and Nazis, separates families, and locks up children in cages, and were supposed to treat these people as respected members of society? We have no choice but to turn them all into pariahs, now and forever into the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/11/trump-protest-harassment-public-sarah-sanders
brush
(53,759 posts)Let's keep shaming these Russian sellouts.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)There is no normalizing people that are carrying out the separation of BABIES from their parents and locking them up in CAGES!
The deserve NO PEACE in their evil lives ever, anywhere, anytime!
These Trump minions are nazi bastards! Not only that they are attacking sick children, old folks and all PoC in this country!
We must resist this evil everywhere!
mythology
(9,527 posts)No seriously what exactly is this supposed to accomplish? Is it supposed to make them support different policie? Is it supposed to decrease their odds of being reelected?
brush
(53,759 posts)about hsi popularity and getting re-elected after getting run out of two restaurants in two days?
Resistance to these nazi, white supremacist bastards has to come from as many avenues we can wage it from.
And the most important part, which you apparently aren't aware of, is resistance is a marathon not a sprint.
We have to keep at it (see the Civil Rights movement).
JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)I don't understand the "pretty please with sugar on top" approach. I understand/get that people are different - but for me - that would be weakness.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)fighting back and winning on some level now!4
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Ever since some asshole got in my face in a car dealership service waiting room...shooting his fat mouth off about Chuck Schumer on the TV...I felt assualted. The fucker just started spewing at me...I gave it back to him 10 fold and told myself...never again.
They use bullying tactics? We bully them right the fuck back.
PROGRESSIVE DOES NOT EQUAL DOORMAT.
I've dealt with bullying, lying and cheating when I was younger. The ONLY way to get their attention is to use their same nasty tactics and put the fear right back into them, just like they are doing to us.
malaise
(268,846 posts)K & R
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So the American people are engaging with individuals in the Administration. When was the last time Trump held a press conference?
I know the schoolmarms and the pitty-pats are just overcome by the incivility of it all, but when elected officials won't meet with their constituents, this is the first, most logical step. And if you're alarmed or concerned about public officials being accosted by the public in public, you're really not going to like the next steps if our public servants continue to ignore the people.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Never I think.
Shitler spews his hate and lies via twitter and calls that a "press conference".
If for no other reason, we must show people in other nations that what Trump is doing is not approved of by the majority of the American people.
A hateful, lawless, racist and traitorous cabal has seized control of our government.
They DO NOT represent us AT ALL!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But since then? Well . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/trumps-last-press-conference/2140/
It's been about 510 days.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Imagine the OUTRAGE by the main stream media if President Obama or a President HRC refused to give a damn press conference for 510 days!!!!!!
It would be all they would be talking about 24/7 and yet the rich, white racist prick GOP President gets ZERO push back from them for it!!
And that's just one thing the media covers up for Shitler!!!
LisaM
(27,800 posts)I have some mixed feelings about how to carry out these protests, but it's abundantly true that the members of Trump's cabinet have no interest in serving the people they were elected to represent.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,400 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)so yes, it's working. It probably won't change their behavior but it's showing their evil to the world.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Edmund Burke
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,400 posts)Not entirely sure that this is the *best* strategy but, frankly, not shedding any tears for any of them.
Rebl2
(13,481 posts)All I see this doing is rallying his base.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,400 posts)I get that this may be emotionally satisfying/cathartic for us and I don't blame people for being outraged and upset at everything going on being done by the Trump (mis-)Administrations, but, by the same token, I want what we do in response to be an actual, winning strategy for changing people's minds/weakening support for Trump.
Their base isnt as large as the rest of us.
Hekate
(90,616 posts)Shipwack
(2,161 posts)High ranking Republicans are beyond shame.
The object is to show other people that the administration is not accepted as being decent human beings.
If no one says or does anything, everyone thinks that theyre alone, or that their friend or relative is the aberration. This shows that opposition to these people is widespread, and more importantly, motivated.
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)Aristus
(66,307 posts)hear.
Ponietz
(2,956 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Evildoers cannot rest until they do evil. We cannot rest until they are out of power.
aikoaiko
(34,165 posts)Because what is good for the goose is good for the gander and I wouldn't want the deplorables to say or do things to our folks that we are doing to their "leaders"
I support the polite, but assertive decision by Red Hen to not serve and Kristen Mink's direct confrontation of Pruitt was honorable.
Some of the other instances, I wouldn't want our side to endure. But it will happen now anyway so maybe it doesn't matter.
Its kind of like peaceful disobedience versus rioting.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)And I wouldn't be surprised if the ante gets upped, as well. People have to understand that they have little to no control of the Genie once it's out of the bottle.
The Mouth
(3,145 posts)of how stupid that would be *when* it came back to bite us..
Oh, wait... snap!
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)uponit7771
(90,323 posts)... the difference is their numbers are smaller and more concentrated.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They've already set the example of how they treat others.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,714 posts)Great meme!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Spread it to all your family and friends, the American people have had ENOUGH!
CTyankee
(63,899 posts)it sounds to me like a threat.
So keep shaming but cut out what sounds ominously like we'll come to your house and do something horrible to them...
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)since many of these Republican congressmen and appointees are either not making themselves available to their constituents, it is perfectly legitimate to confront them in public.
If they start making themselves available to constituents and groups of constituents then confronting them in public wouldn't be necessary.