I apologize for being absent from DKos. I am recovering from a TBI symptoms that flared as I listened to SOTU, just got more active on Bluesky and have neglected the handful of people who stop by and read my posts here. I am deeply grateful to those intrepid souls who read my diaries. And, I intend to continue posting here.
The Resistance is working. We have the collaborators on the run, Krasnov is becoming more untethered, Musk is musking, DOGE is still not a real thing.
The Dems missed a huge opportunity to completely unravel Krasnov as he gave his soliloquy. Rep. Al Green’s disruption knocked the coup leader off his game. Dems should have blocked the doors and made a ruckus. Krasnov would have cracked completely. Best way to stand up to a bully is to completely untether him from his sense of power. Dems should have made the Sgt-at-arms work a lot more.
As far as that old canard being quacked out by Dem leadership: decorum has been dead since Obama’s first SOTU. If you are unwilling to play the new game as opposition leaders, kindly step aside and let the women who have been the best examples of opposition do the job. Decorum is dead. Bipartisanship is dead. The Resistance needs strong voices and more direct action that the stale milquetoast you are peddling. Your constituents don’t want you in leadership because you are failing to lead.
Also, a note for future actions by the quiet Dems who crept away during SOTU: make noise on the way out. There were a lot of your constituents who could not watch the tv. A lot of us listen via radio, streaming services or other ways. We needed you to stand up, announce loudly why you were standing up and leaving, give us running commentary as you exit. Think of it like the radio shows of old, complete with sound effects.
Next, you know we have the collaborators running scared when they refuse to meet with their constituents. Take this opportunity to meet with those constituents. Take the initiative to do grassroots organizing. Build our base by reaching out, listening and giving them options aside from voting for collaborators. Be courageous, single-issue voters’ votes count just the same as dyed-in-the-wool Dem supporters.
Remember: DOGE was never, is still not and will never be a real thing. Make DOGE go to court to enforce everything it says it wants to do. Make DOGE physically remove government workers from their offices. Make DOGE physically defend it’s ending of leases on government offices across the nation. Make DOGE defend it’s coup d’état in public each and every time DOGE says it’s a real thing.
Know how we are winning? Krasnov is threatening to ‘sue everyone.’ Shyeah, like he has enough attorneys to do that. Musk is threatening more nonsense stuff because DOGE isn’t real and Musk has no power. His companies are failing, his stocks are dropping like plomb bobs and he is panicking.
How do we know the bullies are feeling the pain? Look at all their floundering in their public statements. Their salesman patter is halting and they are saying the quiet part out loud. They’ve lost and they know it.
Now is the time to step up the pressure, keep hitting them where is hurts and making a lot more noise.
Do not obey.
Illegitimi non carborundum.