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Democrats, here's your chance. Host Where's Your (R) Senator and House Rep When You Need Them Most Town Halls in red states, stat.
Assuming free and fair elections are happening in 2 years, you need to build rapport with your constituency, ask and answer the questions Trump acolytes will be silent or openly lie about.
“That’s a shame,” Walz said, responding to the GOP news. “If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will.”
“Hell, maybe I will,” he continued in a post on social platform X. “If you congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5175410-tim-walz-gop-town-hall-events/
But how would that raise funds from big corporate donors???
Cowards
Honestly good, though. If they were brave enough to host them then it would help their image just a bit.
I disagree. Having a platform in right wing echo chambers helps them considerably, but having reasonable, unhappy constituents publicly ask questions and get unsatisfying answers is disastrous for them. Right now, even lifelong conservative voters are asking how firing veterans and taking away any hope of retiring is helping them, and there's really no believable answer to that. They're starting to wake up because of these town halls. Anybody else there looking for answers hears that question and thinks "hey, yeah. I want to know that too" and then sees their cowardly rep offer panicked platitudes at best or abruptly end the town hall and run away at worst. They're seeing the mask fracture and they're getting a glimpse of the devil underneath.
It's important to help these people understand that they're not dumb; it's just that their trust was violated. They believed conmen who actively sought to trick them. They were betrayed, and their betrayers got so comfortable and lazy that they pushed things that hurt so egregiously that it became obvious that there's no real explanation beyond having knowingly lied to them for personal gain. I would love to say "we told you so" but they're looking to be welcomed into a group, and smugness will just chase them toward the next predatory grift.
I've yet to see that level of intelligence from them at all. The more rowdy things get, the more yelling matches people get into, the more empowered they feel.
They will notice when they get ignored and when the constant feed of bullshit gets throttled.
I'm of two minds on that... On one hand, yes, this is closing one of the final relief valves
On the other hand, this is a powerful way to manufacture consent... They get to control what people get to talk and what they hear. They can put their plants to ask questions, and a lot of people will buy that the majority supports Trump and Musk, which was never really true and will only become less true
So protest outside their houses. Easy solution and its still nonviolent.
Cars, offices, walking the dog, shopping, vacations in Vermont. The opportunities are endless!
Talking to voters is so 2024,
‘Thanks for your vote, cattle. Now get fucked’
Thanks for your moos now get on the fucking conveyor belt!
Cowardly, without doubt, but smart strategy, there's no optical upside for Republicans with all the cuts to services, job losses and treason on full display, and these town hall video's only serve to bolster the resistance, so, yeah, of course they're going to do this
It only works because the democrats are even bigger cowards who won't exploit the silence to push their agenda.
What, you don't think Chuck Schumer's plan of "Let's just beg and plead with a few New York republican house members to play nice with us." strategy is going to work?
depends on your definition of 'work', I suppose. by mine? and probably most honest people right now... nope. Schumer might be playing a different game, though.
Imagine just telling your boss you won’t be coming to meetings anymore. If there’s any better proof that republicans aren’t held accountable in America, I haven’t seen it.
This has "if we don't test, we won't have any cases" vibes
And when people start asking questions, just start shouting out random numbers with absolutely no context.
"Your numbers are totally wrong. The numbers I got from my people are uh....62. And 79. And uhhhh I think in one place 103. Nobody's ever seen numbers like these."
Start protesting at their houses or wherever they’re taking the meetings?
if you're too fucking scared to face the voters that put you into office...
maybe, err, rather--most likely, you're a fucking moron that dun did something beyond the stupid.
Time to show up where they live
And they say the republicans listen to the people. Lol. They use the people and discard them when they become inconvenient. Didn't they learn anything from turnips first term?
make an effigy of the rep and have a town hall anyway. Stream it.
I hear Clint Eastwood’s empty chair is looking for work
The party of chickenshits are too afraid to face the people they rule.
Have they never heard of Twitch stream raids?
Because they will soon.