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That's funny I literally emailed my congresscritter yesterday asking them what they thought of Trump making their seat in Congress useless. And I asked if they were just there to make money off of the lack of insider trader rules with congresscritters.
Incite some shit back, my fellow US Americans.
Some low level worker read that and deleted it.
Do you think they hire someone to hit the delete button on their inbox? Their job is to summarize who is trying to contact them and why. If suddenly thousands of people are calling and emailing every day, they’re not going to keep it to themselves. And these aren’t jobs you get by accident, so don’t feel bad for them.
If your senator or rep doesn’t care, cool, their voicemail just became your personal therapy box. As long as you’re not threatening violence or calling dozens of times per day, you can say anything you want about them. If you think it doesn’t feel good to leave a voicemail telling a member of Congress they’re a spineless piece of shit who couldn’t find their own ass with a flashlight and two hands, I have to assume it’s because you haven’t tried it.
Act like you can engage in psychological warfare here, because you can.
Do you think they hire someone to hit the delete button on their inbox?
Just a while ago the news was that the DNC would do just that for anything Gaza related.
I guarantee certain emails are discarded outright for being overly hostile, the line for which is up to the reader's judgement. It's not likely someone's being paid to do it, more like interns hoping to one day work in government.
Yes.
Do you think their job is to listen to constituents over lobbyists or their bosses? You are not important to them.
If suddenly thousands of people are calling and complaining about something Trump is doing they’re going to go with what Trump wants.
And why is this a reason to not make them miserable by relentlessly hounding them with demands to do the actual job they were elected to do?
Do you think yelling at the cashier at McDonalds would stop the CEO?
If you’re at the point of comparing the most powerful elected individuals in the country to minimum wage workers then we’re not having a reality based conversation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you don’t want to do anything nobody can make you want that, but when what you want is to tell everyone to not take action that starts to be counterproductive.
My point is the person reading the emails and taking the calls isn’t the one you need to speak to it’s their boss who will never hear you.
And please don’t think that counts as action, that’s cope. Action is what Luigi did.
I’d love to, but one of my senators is crackpot trumpy republican and won’t care (cus he won’t for sure) and the other is a dem who has always been vociferously opposed to all regressive stuff because she’s a lesbian. Whether or not she’s useful, ehh.. she’s got a good and long-term track record for the state..
Frankly I’m too tired to keep playing these games when it quite clearly doesn’t matter. If we weren’t so heavily gerrymandered we’d have mostly blue state reps, but we got hit with the ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-gerybomb decades back and have no clear path to fair electoral maps so we stay solidly swingy.
how apropos
American politics is fucking wild.
Yep. No more money for the dems from me. Tired of the ridiculous spam. You can type “stop” but you just get another spammy text from them the next day from a different number.
I report as spam, but nothing stops them. Never making another political donation again. I only donated back in 2016 and this has gone on since 🤬
I’m saddened that replying “fuck off” doesn’t work as well as typing “stop”.
you’ll get the same “removed from list” msg. It’s equally ineffective
Is this real...?
100%. Only cropped
The meme-ification of politics has been a disaster for the human race.
Id say money in politics is the problem.
Memeification...monification....tomato tomato.
Yeah, but that's an ages old problem we haven't solved since the Greeks, so I don't think that's going away anytime soon 🙃
Did you know that lobbying was at one time illegal in the United States?
Of course I know that. But corporate lobbyists are not the ONLY money in politics, and it is simplistic to think that.
For one example, when most of our higher up/nationally visible politicians come from Ivy universities and other old money institutions, it makes you wonder exactly what "friends from their college days" they have that they give advantages to. No direct money is exchanged, but you have to have money to enter these institutions.
I would also argue something like the Reagan tax cuts on the uppermost earners of the country is an example of the interplay of money and politics. That didn't just come from nowhere.
Citizens United made it so that these same "captains of industry" could bribe whoever they wanted legally with no upper limit, effectively outspending any citizen groups or individuals. But money has been infecting politicians long before that, and it's a bit naive to think it wasn't.
The DNC neoliberals are fine with losing, the pendulum is part of the grift, what they aren't fine with is losing their half of that bipartisan oligarch gravy train. Our capitalists don't bribe both parties to have those parties stand against economic metastasis at all human cost.
We can have affirmation ribbons and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, or we can have scapegoating and be sucked dry by the oligarchs, that is the extent of our "freedom." Reagan and Kemp saw to that by getting their former opposition on the take.
Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’ https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775
Pelosi working to undermine AOC's bid for top Oversight Committee role https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/pelosi-working-to-undermine-aocs-bid-for-top-oversight-committee-role-report-says-nancy-pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-oversight-committee-james-comer-gerry-connolly-jamie-raskin
A leftist populist either needs to steal the DNC like Trump did the RNC, or a 3rd party must be taken seriously failing that, because NOTHING CAN IMPROVE with neoliberals and Fascists playing good cop bad cop on social issues while their highest priority remains cooperatively defending this oligarch economy that's killing us for profit from us.
