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Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
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This is a photo op. Sorry they are legislators using tax payer money to take a photo. These trips yeild no results in preventing further people to be deported. Nice try tho!
The republicans are showing videos from inside CECOT. They also came down for photo ops, their voters love it. Your not changing any minds, its a photo op for your side. You're still going to the camp. Take a photo when you get there this fall.
What is your suggestion? Van Hollen got them to crack just by holding a press conference. I'm suggesting they continue this line of attack, but to a greater magnitude.
Get a list of everyone that's been sent down there and get every Democrat who represents all 300+ of them in Congress, every single Democratic Representative and Senator from their states/districts. All of them go down and insist on seeing all of their constituents. Do what Van Hollen did, but on a larger scale.
What's your suggestion? Stay at home and try the same thing they've been doing for the past decade?
Here’s a wild idea. How about he uses his massive platform to organize some protests and stand in the front line with the rest of us?
And how will that accomplish more than his trip to El Salvador did?
Because organizing voters and creating policy and helping it get passed is his actual job? I’m not sure to be honest. Just seems like sending 40 people to release one prisoner while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights is a bigger picture issue. What does freeing this one citizen really do in the grand scheme of things? Just let him get kidnapped in the middle of the night and go through it all over again once he’s back?
I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?
Who ever said anything about ignoring anything?
Freeing one guy is the start. It proves that getting sent to these concentration camps isn't a one-way ticket. And it gives him the opportunity to go public with the conditions there and how he was treated. That's going to motivate people organizing a hell of a lot more than a Senator giving a speech at a rally ever would.
Why are you pretending like this is about just saving one guy?
No, that doesn't resonate with me in the slightest. I feel like you're trying to justify your own inaction by pretending like a Senator sitting in his office writing legislation nobody will ever read has some kind of impact on anything.
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Heres a guy with a couple of ideas that seem to be better than photo ops! It would be nice to see a coherent strategy that brought people together. Taking pictures and pretending to resist is not it chief. It's exactly how we got here in the first place. Would love to see a few ideas from this guy come to life. Dragging the ICC into investigate. Starting a civil investigation outside of congress, preparing evidence for prosecution. There are plenty of ideas floating around. I was inspired by Bookers filibuster, i watched for 14 hours. There was no follow up. If you're serious about the fascists and you think that the media is going to suddenly wake people up against them, I have some really disappointing news about media: social, art, and news.
How much oppression do you need before photo ops feel underwhelming? I guess i just have to wait for the hunger to take hold, won't be long now that we've disrupted our agriculture and food imports. big angry hungry mob knows what to do with congressmen who violate their oaths and everyones rights. Democrats are not working to solve this issue. this doesn't go away with Trump. If trump loses Fox news, that doesn't mean fox news is done with this plan. It means their plan got away from them and they need a quiet reset. We can't let this societal rot continue, but it seems we will. As long as the dems can feed you enough false hope through photo ops.
The republicans always lead a good opposition party because they know how to get people pissed, and get the pissed off people involved. We're not doing either lol. Organize more marches, protests boycotts, I want to see more civil rights movement protests, I'd like to see lawmakers organizing those not speeches for the press. Go to republican states, find the republicans who are losing benefits, jobs, houses farms, turn them against republicans. Stop with the TV bullshit, more people watch joe rogan than all of cable news you goobers. its a new world and we let joe rogan hand 15% of trumps voters directly to him. You want a CNN clip. Bro get with le Times.
Ya if I was a senator, I would probably be visiting my republican colleagues districts. I encourage people to bring the protests directly to their representatives houses. Protest their free movement.
My protest sign is a picture of the Jan 6 gallows. I am calling up my Republican senator every day and letting him know that we are very angry and aware of what’s going on.
I want my legislatures legislating that’s my idea. I want them forming voting coalition in the house of Congress to stop this madness. They are not that many votes. There is no chance in hell that all 300+ Republican Congress people are in on this grift. there’s no way they have the strength to continue this grift if their houses are under siege by angry mobs
This is a rather naive understanding of American politics. Yes, they're all in on it. Stopping hoping for the nice Republicans. They don't exist. They're all fascists.
Your suggestion is to keep trying to appeal to the better nature of Republicans. That's exactly what the Democrats have been doing for the past decade. Hell, it's what they've been doing since 2009. It doesn't work. They don't have a better nature. They want the fascism.
There is NOTHING Democrats can do in Congress. Trying to protest to Republican politicians directly isn't going to get them to change their minds. Van Hollen did more in a single trip to El Salvador to resist the fascists than anyone has done in Congress in 10+ years.
Well, if they’re all fascist, then the 70% of Americans who did not vote for this shit need to drag them out of their office and hire someone who’s not a fascist. They are not afraid of the people who are in the communities they represent. And look at you you don’t instill much fucking fear. So maybe we should be focused on targeting the fascist where they live and work. Instead of ya know what ever it is we’re doing to make the next feel good headline about how we’ve slowed the fascist onslaught by a couple inches hooray
You are really just completely missing the point here. Motivating people to get out and join me in the streets is exactly what all of this is about.
no I think you’re missing my point when you guys are done taking pictures. Let me know when it’s time to do a totally legal and patriotic January 6 event. I agree with most of your sentiment and words. I just don’t agree with the action behind them. I want more.