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Summary

Protesters at a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall in Idaho were forcibly removed after criticizing Trump policies, including the Elon Musk-led DOGE.

Event organizers dismissed their concerns, with one emcee saying, "Your voice is meaningless."

Similar protests occurred in Georgia and Oklahoma, where Republicans faced criticism over mass layoffs.

Lawsuits have been filed against the administration over the legality of these dismissals.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 188 points 1 week ago

Sounds like what they're saying is that the normal methods of voicing dissatisfaction are not going to be effective, and we need to shift focus to other, more extreme, extrajudicial solutions, instead?

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 158 points 1 week ago

❌ Soap Box
❌ Ballot Box
🔳 Jury Box
🔳 Ammo Box

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago
  1. free Luigi
  2. wreck shit
[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

i am pretty sure the jury box is pointless at this point. how many crimes has VP trump been convicted for?

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Over thirty. But of course was not punished for them because reasons.

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[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

As of now, they're still (allegedly) obeying court orders and at least giving lip-service to the idea that courts are to be respected.

At some point, they'll openly defy courts without even pretending to follow them.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

They are openly defying court orders

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

“We’re going to have to look at judges.”

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

The judiciary has already failed.

[-] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

🔳 time clock box. unionize and strike immediately. or at least before resorting to violence

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I feel that falls under "soap box": using a platform to convince others that your cause is morally right and the government should listen to you.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago

Sounds like it to me.

John F. Kennedy: 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.'

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago
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[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ehh, they're laying off the entire administrative side of the government. Should make it relatively easy to set up parallel power structures. What are they gonna do, send the cops they didn't pay this month to arrest you and your collaborators?

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'ma Luigi. I'ma number one.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago

"Fascist refuses to listen to anything the public says or wants, news at 11."

[-] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they dont care about any of you. They have been elected. They dont plan on having other elections in the future. Your voice is meaningless

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

"Riots are the voice of the unheard." -MLK

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These people just don't know when to quit. We used to show up to the owner classes house in the middle of the night and bludgeon them to death with an angry mob. They seem to forget this was the deal for people to stop doing that.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

You voted Trump in to screw yourselves, now scram! - Republicans

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

I'm expecting this to be said out loud soon

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Bejarana then defended the removal, accusing protesters of attempting to "filibuster" the event as he continued talking about DOGE. "We've got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here," he said. "Your voice is meaningless right now...I can talk over all of you."

Newsweek has reached out to Bejarana via for comment on Sunday.

The confrontational approach drew criticism from many in attendance. "Is this a town hall or a lecture?" one woman yelled amid the uproar, according to Coeur d'Alene Press.

While it's unclear what exactly the protesters were opposing, KCRCC has since posted a statement to Facebook explaining that Borrenpohl, who allegedly belongs to Save NIC, a social welfare nonprofit organization, "alongside at least five other recognized activists from local progressive circles—including two fellow 'Save NIC' members—shouted down legislators with insults like 'bigots' and 'liars' throughout the meeting, drowning out attempts at dialogue."

“attempts at dialogue”. Right.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago

People who protested Democrats are now telling protesters their protests are meaningless?

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Who would've thought that the fascist wouldn't allow protests... remember though the dems are just as bad...cause gaza.

[-] 3x7x37@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, the blue team never would have told protesters to shut up.

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[-] kaotic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

If this were true, they would simply be ignored.

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[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's called demoralization.

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, the predictable thing is happening? But I was told the Republican voters just needed to get angry and call their representatives! Don't worry guys, I'm sure the next plan to electorally save ourselves from fascism will work!

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

One of these days, these guys are going to get their cunts kicked in.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've voted neoliberal in every general after fighting for democratic socialists in primaries, hating myself as I did, a vote for quiet slaughter over loud, braggadocious slaughter, not peace, my entire life.

After a lot, lot, lot, lot O pain, turns out the accelerationists might be right. Giving the capitalists/fascists a long enough rope to force hot revolution might be the only possible path to a society and not the murder for profit exploitation camp we've all been living under. Neoliberals just let the frog of capitalist cruelty simmer as capitalists murder us for profit and our neighbors die in homeless tent cities through no fault of their own, but you know, with affirmation ribbons instead of scapegoating. They support your right to love who you love and be who you are... in a cardboard box under a freeway as you die of exposure, sorry, market forces fam 🤷

I just hope when the revolution starts, Americans remember their enemy largely isn't in DC, those are middle managers with the exception of Trump and his cabinet who've cut out the well bribed middleman in the executive branch, they're on Wall Street, in guard gated communities and towers, on golf courses, and in mega yacht supporting ports.

As in all of civilization's history, one need only identify those holding the largest ~~bags of cash~~ asset portfolios as a result of all the carnage to know who is most responsible.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“See, in the good old days this doesn’t happen, because they used to treat them very, very rough. And when they protested once, you know, they would not do it again so easily. But today they walk in and they put their hand up and they put the wrong finger in the air at everybody and they get away with murder because we’ve become weak, we’ve become weak." - Trump

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/trumps-good-old-days-when-battering-protesters-was-celebrated-in-the-white-house/

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[-] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

time to organize

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