Looks like outside the White House today...
Why are people still shitting on the people protesting genocide now that Biden isn't in charge?
I thought it was blind loyalty to the letter D, but if that was the case you'd be against genocide now...
Verbiage is confusing, but there's no way 100% are eligible for a buyout.
Even if you combine VSIP and VERA, to fall under "buyout", not every fed is going to be eligible, and definitely not every CIA employee.
But we don't even have a budget, we're still on a CR, there's literally no money allocated for any of this and very few feds are dumb enough to just take Trump's admin at their word.
Current scuttlebutt is this has been less than a 1/10th as effective as Clinton's reduction in force, and isn't even beating normal retirement numbers.
If trump had just done buyouts and VERA from the start thru official channels, he might have gotten close to doing as much harm as neoliberals did 30 years ago to the federal workforce
But no one trusts it after how it started.
if what they are doing is not hitting ANY news outlets (even informal ones or their own sites)
That's a hypothetical....
Just stop putting important stuff on the cloud...
Like. You're asking the best way to safely secure the $100 bill you taped to the sidewalk outside your house.
There's measures you can take, but at the end of the day why are you so set on taping a Benjamin to the sidewalk?
it is vital that they see the important truth that there is no going back to the status quo
The status quo was already shit and widely unpopular with everyone except the wealthiest...
It wasn't enough to motivate more people to vote for a moderate than trump.
We shouldn't be focused on trying to bring back the status quo we had under Biden. Because if we do, we'll lose another election
There's always a next time.
It might not be at the regularly scheduled time, there might be a bunch of extra bullshit, it might take much longer...
But there's always a next time.
The alternative is giving up for good, and if that's what you want to do, that's your choice.
But there's no reason for you to hang around and convince people there's no next time and they should also give up for good.
Unless you want to maintain the new trump status quo, which hopefully isn't your goal here.
There are primary elections
Right...
Are you saying your happy with the level of primary we got last election?
You think the DNC declaring it over before states that vote reaches double digits is enough?
Because if it was, we wouldn't be talking about how to get trump out of office right now.
We tried forcing a candidate more conservative than Dem voters want, and it failed.
What’s your alternative to the Dems?
Better Dems...
Why do you think the baby needs thrown out with the bathwater?
If our only standard is the letter by a name, that's going to end up with us being represented by people we do t agree with.
That hurts Dem turnout.
That lets republicans have political power.
I just don't get why "Dems should run candidates dem voters agree with" is always treated as some crazy idea and it would destroy the party.
Like, why change every voter instead of changing the politicians?
Maybe this time at least people will care if/when the president goes around Congress to fund a genocide in violation of the Lehay Act....
Because I still can't get over no one caring when Biden did it.
This is why not protesting when a Dem is president never made sense.
trump won't care, so the last four years we should have been protesting Biden's inaction (on so many different issues) which would have at least got him to acknowledge the left and would have likely stopped Trump from winning
But Biden had a D by his name, so the screechers kept calling anyone that didn't agree with Biden 100% a Russian.
Biden felt no pressure from the left, which made him and Kamala move too far right and lose what should have been another incredibly easy election.
And like we saw at the inauguration, Biden doesn't even care, we're the ones that have to deal with consequences while Biden apparently goes into acting without a care in the world
They're literally at the White House as we speak lol....
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale
The real question is why is OP still supporting a genocide now that it's trump in office and not Biden.
Like, it apparently wasn't about blind loyalty to Biden, they just authentically support genocide.