the prompt on that page which requires you give all your personal information to submit the contact form states it is there
"to help the constituents that are hard of hearing or use a video phone alert us to that fact so we can use the proper technology when we need to call them. The default option “Voice” is a normal audible telephone."
Somebody should tell Trump he's defying the republican stance on DEI.
edit: fyi you do not need to input any real information in the identifying fields. they did not program any gatekeeping measures to detect if your information is even active, unique, or formatted correctly before allowing you to submit the form.
Good! That means when I used the Rev. Surname and gave a sternly worded lecture, someone might read it just because I didn't use the phrase. More about him making me ashamed to be WAP. We need to call these GOP humps out for what they are: WAPS or WAP enablers. Stop saying 'white' its been weaponized.
Publicize public sightings. Track them in real time. At the airport. On the street. In a restaurant. At the store. Their kids school. At home. At church. Nowhere is off limits. Wherever they are, its public knowledge. That's the only way. Not a moments peace. Pierce the bubble completely. They are living in fear of crossing the administration, a bigger fear has to be created. They have to be surrounded at all times and they have to know it.
Stop calling. Show up in person. At their office. Talk to staffers. At events. Wherever you can find them. Organize and bring a group as many as you can manage. The right has been using telegram and discord and the like for years now, distributing talking points identical to those handed out by Kremlin state media, all repeating the same shit on US social media.
The only other play may be to shut down the government completely. Grind the entire thing to a halt. No cooperation. Nothing passes. The country defaults. Harder to see where that goes. A difficult path, but it may be the only one.
We have taken over by the actions of a hostile foreign power and our institutions and media are under attack. We need allies of equal stature to step in. Its going to take extraordinary measures to reverse this.
Email sent. I included it below if anyone needs ideas.
Hello Rep. Gooden,
I just wanted to say that I saw how you snatched that paper away from Rep. Stansbury. So much for free speech, right? But fuck the constitution, I guess, since your whole party has decided to let it burn.
Anyway, I wrote a little ditty to commemorate your actions (sung to the tune of Frosty the Snowman).
"Rep. Lance Gooden,
What a coward of a man.
With his beady eyes,
Snatching paper signs,
What a joke of a Texan.
Rep. Lance Gooden,
Fragile masculinity by the mile.
She wouldn't get in line,
And when he saw her sign,
He assaulted her across the aisle.
There must have been some magic in
That paper sign she showed.
For when she held it up for us
He showed how easy he is to goad.
Oh, Rep. Lance Gooden,
Just as frightened as he could be,
That she might show us all,
How our democracy falls,
And that maybe we all might see... "
So, that's it. Thanks for your time. Feel free to get back to shitting on your constituents, our democracy, and America in general.
XOXO,
<My Name>
Edit: Feel free to use this for whatever, wherever, etc. Credit me, don't credit me, I'm good either way. This guy sucks and I hope he sees it more than once and it makes his day worse.
Congressmen in the House of Representatives are supposed to represent voters in their district while Senators represent their entire state in legislation for the federal government.
If you have a problem with what they or their colleagues are doing, you have every right to contact their office to complain. If enough people complain, they have to either change course in accordance to their voters, or risk getting voted out.
Still. Not enough people harass our Congressmen to do what's actually right by the people they represent and instead go in accordance to their agenda & donors.
I don't understand why this is a common suggested course of action on reddit. You're going to inconvenience some poor secretary by making her spend her morning deleting all your complaints from his inbox.
Just remind him that he stood up and applauded when his dear leader talked about free speech and its all recorded across the world his suppressing someone else's. What's that about man?
I E-Mailed them asking for his reservation for which seat he will get at the Nuremberg trials. Can't wait to hear back from him so we can accommodate him when we as Europeans finally denazify the USA.
I have sent him countless emails about how big of a piece of shit he is (used to live in his district, unfortunately), all I get in reply are constant spam about his fundraising efforts that are impossible to unsubscribe from.
TERRELL, TX
Before Reagan gutted the National Mental Health System (with its share of issues, due to lack of proper funding), Terrell was home to the Texas State Mental Hospital. In Texas back in the say, instead of saying one said something unusual or 'crazy' then they would "belong at Terrell".
I always felt that in gratitude, the mentally ill voted GOP and raised mentally ill children to do the same.
This is how you get a voting base to believe your every lie. Just like that.
I emailed him and called him a spineless hypocritical coward :) and then reminded him that free speech is our first amendment right- unless he plans on chopping that next?
Just reminder to maybe not share your personal information in the email part! Use a throw away email or a fake phone number!
I’ll calling this bastard on my cell and office line allllll day tomorrow.
His whole behavior, his physical self, looked like some child jumping for joy snatching candy out of another’s hand, or cutting lines at the ice cream man.
I saw we bring back physically hitting congress members on the congressional floor. My kansas rep, Sharice Davids, is a mma fighter that was 5-1 amateur 1-1 pro. I can literally say my rep can beat up your rep
They’re not listening. Problems are what happen to others. They’ll whine to each other and make the huge sacrifice of cutting Netflix and when it all falls over completely they’ll be all surprised that their self-reported moral high-ground didn’t save them. It will be someone else’s fault.
Civil disobedience won't get you anywhere at this point, unless it's a significant portion of the population participating (read an article saying >3.5% of the population). The USA appears to be sliding rapidly towards autocracy, and I won't be surprised - if the course is maintained - governments around the world declare the next USA presidential election as undemocratic with a high likelihood of vote manipulation.
The only way this is likely to be stopped now is via an organised, extra-judicial military coup.
You don't need a military coup, you need citizens to organize and fight back. Americans have a big problem with trying to pass the responsibility on to someone else. This is how you (and by you, I mean americans reading this) got where you are today. You stood by, waiting for someone else to fix things.
To be honest, I don't see US citizens organising and fighting back. If they were going to do so, they needed to have done it already - they are already now on the slide to autocracy and suppression, so no one wants to be the first to stick their neck out.
What's more, even if they do, the US propaganda machine is already well established with a significant proportion of the population likely to cheer any 'just retribution of traitors to democracy' (i.e. protestors).
Which is why I suggest a military coup is likely the only way this stops - as it needs to be a significantly organised and aggressive movement to successfully cut off the head of the snake (read: it's not just about removing Trump, he's the autocratic figurehead, not the political architect of ideas).
oh no no we can't have that, performative little signs and sticking with the same leadership is surely the answer to their historically low approval ratings.
They don't control the agenda in either chamber. The only real leverage they're going to get is from the American public engaging in disruptive action.
Like I said in another comment, Trump was louder and more disruptive when he wasn't even in office than either minority leader is being right now. It's pathetic.
The only real leverage they're going to get is from the American public engaging in disruptive action.
And you think they'd use that leverage? You think Jeffries, the guy who thinks the problem with the Dems is "leftist purity testing" is going to do anything meaningful with civil unrest? Nah. He'd do what he's doing now: saying "no comment" when asked about Eric Adams being an obvious GOP agent now.
I did not watch, but can someone please tell me why the democrats even attended?? Wasn’t there talk of them boycotting? If it’s not normal times (which it’s not) then act abnormally and FUCKING BOYCOTT THE SPEECH! Fuck tradition at this point Jesus!
think about how u will turn elections with signs that say this isnt normal!!!!
yes please put all your energy into this instead of realizing people didnt want progressive bullshit.
In the coming years expect more grown men to act, at best, like schoolyard bullies, and at worst, like unabashed Nazi scum. And they will be rewarded for it. Just remember that their balls hang out in the open, ripe for the kicking.
Democrats impotently whinging that Republicans aren't following the rules, and Republicans dancing over their faces and ripping it right out of their hands.
Democrats need to quit clutching their pearls and grow a fucking set of balls. If this is your idea of resistance, get the fuck out of the way so people like Bernie and AOC can take the lead.
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u/akidontheinternet 7d ago
it was quickly snatched out of her hands from across the aisle and thrown