Hey BJ Peeps,
You guys keep coming through, so let’s see if some of you can help out today.
Republicans are attacking democracy on every front,
so we have to fight back with every tool we have.
Here’s the TINY ASK for today. Make a list every high school senior you know.
– Ask them to register to vote. Offer to help them get registered.
– Make a list of every educator, administrator, parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle and coach you know, and talk to them, let them know about this campaign.
– Read about the new campaign: Class of 2022 Ready to Vote Challenge. They will even send you 10 free stickers.
3 million high school seniors become eligible to vote every year, but less than 20% – just over half a million – register to vote.
If we double that this year, that’s 500,000 more young people who could vote.
I’m sure all the Young Republicans are already registered; can we do our part to help balance that out?
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Oh, and big thanks to everyone who followed us @Actual_Citizens on twitter!
Our twitter name is @Actual_Citizens (note the “s”)
If you tweet or retweet or quote tweet related related to our efforts, it’s super helpful if you use this hashtag in every tweet:
#ActualCitizensUnited
And if you’re willing, please jump onto the “If Republicans…” twitter effort.
I started it off with: If Republicans cared so much about freedom, they wouldn’t try so hard to restrict it.
One of the great replies was: If republicans really cared about freedom of speech, they wouldn’t call the cops on sidewalk chalk.
I loved that one!
Just please remember 2 things:
1) use the #IfRepublicans hashtag along with #ActualCitizensUnited
2) please don’t reference Brandon or pedophiles are anything else that is part of Republican propaganda, that just pushes those things higher on the twitter algorithm and ensures that their lies get promoted.
If you have any questions about our social media initiative, just ask!
Otherwise, totally open thread.
NotMax
If Republicans wanted to make things better, they wouldn’t be Republicans.
Alison Rose ???
If Republicans cared about children so much, they wouldn’t want them born to parents who don’t want them or aren’t able to care for them.
SpaceUnit
Below is the list you requested of every high school senior I know:
You’re welcome.
Ruckus ??
@SpaceUnit:
I’m in that same large boat.
The only almost school age human I know is one of my neighbor’s great grandsons. He starts school in August. He’s 5.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: Is that the same as the other list?
WaterGirl
@Ruckus ??: It’s never too early to get started. :-)
SpaceUnit
I suppose I could wander down to the local Kinder Care with a soap box and a bullhorn.
Ruckus ??
@Alison Rose ???:
As you very likely realize, they don’t give a damn about children. Possibly their own but even that is doubtful. Because if the did they would want an actual reasonable world around them. They don’t. And a lot of what they scream about is because we, liberals, want it and it wasn’t the way it was 240+ yrs ago. Countries, like everything else in this world get older and are supposed to grow the hell up. Be adults, learn from their forebears. They want to be them and that’s not possible or realistic. It isn’t close to the same country, time or humans it was when it was founded. It has changed, we waged a war over slavery. We lived another 100 yrs still treating many US citizens as
secondfourth class possessions. Now the conservative assholes want to regress at least 100 yrs worth of growth and actual fucking freedom. We’ve had almost 600,000 citizens die in wars against people trying to do the basically same thing to us that conservatives are trying to do, make a fake, untenable world that refuses to take modern medicine, human conditions, reality, actual freedom into account. I didn’t enlist in the military in a war to protect the citizens of this country from actual freedom, actual intelligence, actual growth of humanity. I did it because it might have helped actually achieve those things.It seems like it had no impact whatsofuckingever.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: That might get you arrested.
SpaceUnit
@WaterGirl:
Again.
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: You should have learned the first time! :-)
eclare
@SpaceUnit: Same here.
Gin & Tonic
Stupid motherfucker Rand Paul has blocked the Ukraine aid bill.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: oh no I’d say corrupt
Sure Lurkalot
Next year my 1st great (nephew, in this case) will be eligible to vote, he turns 18 this Christmas. His mama will be all over this. Another D vote in Texas (at least for now he hasn’t turned to the dark side).
If Republicans cared about the republic, they wouldn’t prostrate themselves before a would-be tyrant whose previous gig was a reality TV performer,
If Republicans love this country, I wouldn’t want to see what it would look like if they hated it.
I’m not good at this.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Ukraine should make his neighbor a lieutenant in their foreign legion.
debbie
@Baud:
Or send Patron after him.
Reverse tool order
Maybe not especially relevant, I put this on the end of a mea culpa email just now:
“PS At least not being Sammy Supremo. Not needing my infrared thermometer to detect responses to that bunch, either.”
Entering the visible spectrum, we are. Hammer and tongs, grabbing ahold and swinging, can work that hot iron.
I think it’s going to get quite cozy and loud in the USA shop.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Corrupt stupid motherfucker.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Not a lieutenant. Everyone mocks or hates them. Or both. Ask me how I know.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: hate him
Alison Rose ???
@Ruckus ??: Well, yes. That was sort of the underlying point–IF they cared about children, which they never have in any meaningful way. But of course they claim to care about children oh so much, which is why they hate abortion and gay people. Because that makes sense in their minds.
Alison Rose ???
@Gin & Tonic: God, I’d love to pummel that man’s face in. What a fucking monster.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: How can he do that? That’s evil. Surely there were enough votes without him?
Alison Rose ???
@Gin & Tonic: He’s a total pickme for Putin and it’s repugnant.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: they’ll get around him but it will take days
Alison Rose ???
@WaterGirl:
From https://thehill.com/news/senate/3486654-rand-paul-objection-delays-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package/
The Senate rules are garbage.
debbie
@Alison Rose ???:
Reading Twitter, he says he wants an inspector general appointed to monitor the spending. There will be another vote next week.
UncleEbeneezer
BREAKING: Federal grand jury has been empaneled by DOJ on Trump illegally taking classified material to Mar-a-Lago.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose ???: Then why the hell didn’t we do that for every fucking bill the Rs passed when they were in the majority?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
How do you know we didn’t?
Spanky
I’m pretty sure Rand Paul’s papa was a paid russian stooge. Wouldn’t surprise me if they sucked in Randy too.
debbie
@Spanky:
McCain said Rand was a Russian asset.
Sure Lurkalot
@Alison Rose ???:
Charlie Pierce exhorts us to cherish our democracy but how can you cherish something so jerry-rigged to break at critical moments?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Plus the Rs didn’t pass that many bills because of the filibuster. They passed their tax cuts through reconciliation.
Sure Lurkalot
@debbie:
And Steve Schmidt says McCain was so distracted by his infidelity and fear of it being outed that he failed to notice his campaign staff were Russian assets.
What a fucking country.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I figured we would have heard about it if we did that. Bad assumption?
Calouste
@Alison Rose ???:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
Unsurprisingly, the main foreign power doing the bribing was Russia.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: I might have to read those articles again, because I came away feeling like McCain absolutely was compromised, that the Russian stooges were holding the not-so-secret affair over McCain.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Probably. The stunt delays things for 48 hours or so. No real reason we would have heard about the Dems doing it.
Baud
@Calouste:
Yeah that sounds much worse than even our Senate rules.
JWR
Deleted. Moved to new thread.
Calouste
@Sure Lurkalot: The first step in addressing a problem is admitting you have one: the US is not, and has never been, a real democracy. It might look like one on paper, but that’s an illusion.
Even if there wasn’t such an effort to prevent people from voting, the unrepresentativeness of the Senate and an electoral system that practically, although usually not theoretically, prevents a challenge to the established parties, account for that.
Ruckus ??
@Alison Rose ???:
Something makes sense in their minds????
The following is repeating in my head, please make it stop….
Does not compute, Does not compute, Does not compute….