Morning, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. I have no idea what a morning without coffee looks like. Black.
Shut it down.
Actions, not words. The country is on fire because of a gasoline dump. It’s not a leak. It’s a full blown disaster and it has a name: the US government. Shut it down.
A few of our elected officials are calling it like it is and acting boldly but their colleagues are still marinating in delusions of bipartisanship. The bipartisanship with fascists that can only be described as collaboration. I understand we need to explore all avenues but not that one. I already called for a shadow cabinet and legislature and FINALLY Democrats are holding informal hearings to expose the criminal activities of this administration. Good. Go ahead and start legislating.
And by that I mean creating a real project based not on ideas, like P2025, but bills ready to go on day one after this shitshow is over. Some, like the Voting Rights Act, are already there; we need more: draft legislation on Healthcare, Women’s Rights, Gun Control. Create bills reinforcing Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. And don’t forget Judicial Reform and Citizens United. Do it. A real project you can run on.
And don’t tell me you can’t do that at the same time you take other bills to the floor to stall Congress, or filibuster the hell out of everything, or conduct the informal hearings, or get in touch with your constituents. Stop fundraising. There. You got an extra 12 hours a day, just by doing that. Fuck fundraising. There’s 260 of you in Congress. 260!! Get to work. No excuses.
Each time a new fire starts to add to the inferno our country is becoming you need to expose and address it. Try to block it, delay it, obstruct it. We all get that. But there’s nothing like cutting off the main flow of gasoline feeding the firestorm. Government. Stop whining about leverage when their “mandated majority” in the House is defined by 3 votes. You have all the leverage in the world.
The opportunities to make it stop are approaching and you need to take them. There’s a $4 Trillion debt ceiling increase on the table. Crush it. And when they propose a half assed continuing resolution to temporarily allow this government to go on killing people do not allow it. Shut it all down. They will accuse you of throwing the country into a crisis. Stand up to speak and read back to them the names of those they killed and how they did it. Don’t waste time with empty rhetoric.
Read the names of the dead. The list is long and it’s getting bigger. “Why are you not allowing the government to work while we talk this through?” they will ask. “Because each day this government is working you are killing people.” is the right answer. Once you get through the list of the dead you can pick up on the unthinkable damage caused to tens of thousands, including thousands of Americans. You have material for months.
TFG and his minions will lose their shit and probably try to dissolve Congress. Good. You think they wouldn’t if you keep voting for their nominees and whimpering for bipartisanship? Congress will be dissolved, you can count on it. It’s, as they like to say, “a waste of taxpayer dollars and a DEI liability.” Are you preparing for that? Are you preparing for Martial Law? Or will you create some panels to think about it after the fact, like you are doing now.
It’s too soon to talk about it? Like it was too soon to make plans for this treasonous crap between November 6 and January 19? Is that why you sat on your hands back then? Cause it was too soon? There’s an image that is burnt on my mind forever. It was burnt on January 20. Amy Klobuchar smiling and clapping her hands at fascism. The face of collaboration. Myself and millions of other Americans are sick of it. Shut it down.
There shouldn’t have been a single Democrat at that inauguration, better called usurpation. Those who thought of decorum back then and those who keep willingly underestimating what is happening to our country are the ones who lost their souls long ago. The ones who spend the time they should be working for us on the phone, grovelling for a few crumbs from the rich: the only trickle down there ever was. At this point that’s its own brand of treason.
They are destroying our nation. Stop worrying about having the government closed. It’s not a bad thing at all, considering what it’s doing while open for business. We will have your backs on the streets. We will go out by the millions to support you. Do your part and we will do ours. No fear. Just shut the whole thing down. Be prepared to act during the shutdown and know how to end it. Expose their crimes, one by one. Stop this. Shut it down.
Resist & Oppose!
