Democracies use government as an instrument for the common good. Using a tax bill to destroy and deny health care for 17 million of our people is a sign of authoritarianism.
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Shut up and do your fucking job
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a sign that our government has failed us and we the people must bear arms against it that's what it is you have all fail us and some of you are all in dereliction of your duty and some of you have committed outright treason and you know that sir by the Constitution
jul 2, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not a “sign,” it’s here. When will the dems step up, help to organize the resistance so WE THE PEOPLE can remove/replace this faux authoritarian regime?!
jul 2, 2025, 2:34 pm • 19 5 • view
jul 2, 2025, 3:41 pm • 2 0 • view
What ever happened to "We don't negotiate with terrorists" ?? The "gop" is a criminal enterprise and international/domestic terrorist organization, but let's have a sit-down with them? Oh, fk that noise...
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This Trumpwardian Regime's oppression will not be tolerated. Americans know their 1st amendment rights and #WeShallOvercome
jul 2, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
We need to accept that we're living in an autocratic regime. youtu.be/KD8GIio8np4
jul 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 7 1 • view
I accepted it when he stole the election in November 2024.
jul 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 7 1 • view
Impeach now! The domestic terrorists have occupied your government.
jul 2, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m the meantime, the gop has ceded their perennial top campaign message-the deficit. Dems should take it up and hammer the gop for fiscal recklessness. The deficit as a campaign issue is up for grabs. Pick it up and run with it. Added benefit, reducing the deficit is the right thing to do.
jul 2, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
And rounding up 3,000 of us a day and eliminating us is another warning sign.
jul 2, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
They do understand that a yes vote on this bill, will probably raise the human rights watch from 2nd highest to highest level & dt sanctions on the lead prosecuter at the International Criminal Court will be lifted, as Biden did.. A yes vote will eventually lead to The Hague...
jul 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
A sign. Really? Thanks Jamie. We're well past signs and we've had enough.
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 pm • 6 1 • view
No Congressman Raskin; it's not a "sign". The Legislative Branch has acquiesced to the Executive Branch. The Supreme Court has turned over the Judicial Branch to them. The President/Executive Branch has all the power. Fascism is here.
jul 2, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure if you missed it but Trump just threatened his political rivals with state-sanctioned violence.
jul 2, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
We need a revolution - where are all the former powers that be?
jul 2, 2025, 2:12 pm • 7 0 • view
You, Jamie Raskin, what concrete things are you doing to kick Trump out of the Oval Office. Only blablablabla
jul 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 2 • view
VACATIONS, bro. Vacations will get the job done.
jul 2, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Plus, the Constitution requires that government officials work for the common good.
jul 2, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans have NOTHING to offer the american people except more pain & suffering. There are 220 republicans in the House & 20 in the Senate up for reelection. DECIMATE their numbers at the voting booth on 11/03/26. Leave THEM with NO SAY for 2 WHOLE yrs. Roe v Wade Voting rights Impeachment
jul 2, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 1 • view
Fascism.. People are going to die... people are dying from the killing of USAID.. will die from cancers that could be treated.. from diseases that could be treated... from a lack of trauma treatment... this is death... and worse..
jul 2, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Go be more like Jasmine Crockett, FFS.
jul 2, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, because swearing and saying "ain't" does exactly nothing, but it's more fun, right? She's just another oath betraying coward flapping her jaws louder.
jul 2, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Why did this congress allow insurrectionists to keep their seats on the congress? Why did you all break the 14th Amendment to seat an insurrectionist, despite questionable election numbers? How do we KNOW you're not all in on this?
jul 2, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Republicans institute authoritarianism. Democrats wring their hands, futile to ever stop them, even with a full boat government. Where was your fight from 2020-2024? Merrick Garland? We screamed at you all about him. You ignored us.
jul 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
FUCK YOU ....YOU voted to table his impeachment and YOU should be primaried too!
jul 2, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not a sign, it is authoritarianism!
jul 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
You've done nothing to curb real estate and auto prices, let credit card interest rates rise to double formerly usury rates, and have done everything in your power to suppress coverage of Progressives. You are caught up in a game of having to raise money to run for office because of Citizens United.
jul 2, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Increase tax incentives for charitable contributions to medical charities?
jul 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 6:07 pm • 8 2 • view
jul 2, 2025, 4:50 pm • 8 2 • view
Jamie, please post on Facebook, too. (Thank you).
jul 2, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
A sign?!?!? Wake the fuck up!!!!!
jul 2, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
@raskin.house.gov ... WORDS are NO longer enough, Sir! ... They won't take away Fascism and Cruelty that have now overtaken our government!.. What are Dems going to do to remove it? ... W.H.A.T.????
jul 2, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
An understatement from someone not known for understatements. What this bill is, is a death sentence for millions of senior citizens and children. Pure and simple. Without proper health care, these people are going to die.
jul 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 14 3 • view
They aren't of any value as "working stock" so yeah, they don't care. Kids not healthy enough to swing a pick axe in a coal mine should just go and die. RFK approved this message.
jul 2, 2025, 2:17 pm • 12 1 • view
Democrats, proving every day they are just better liars than Republicans.
jul 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not a “sign”, it’s confirmation. It’s obvious that republicans have one purpose and that is to steal everything they can from the American worker. Elect a rapist, expect to be raped.
jul 2, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
That is exactly what he said he was going to do. I am not surprised at all.
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Using the tax bill to fund trump's Gestapo is a sign of authoritarianism.
jul 2, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 4:40 pm • 4 1 • view
Sign????? FFS Jamie, authoritarianism is already here and has been for awhile now. Leave some blood and teeth on the floor before you’re done, eh??
jul 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 3 1 • view
But but but ....paid time off. SO MUCH paid time off.
jul 2, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
A sign? Your POTUS was bragging about feeding brown people to alligators yesterday.
jul 2, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 1 • view
Not a bar for impeachment - it'll cut into their next vacation or book signing.
jul 2, 2025, 3:07 pm • 2 1 • view
A sign? JFC! How long do we have to put up with this nonsense? Hit the streets 4th of July!
jul 2, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for letting us know.
jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta also throw the climate in there. ALL of us, even if you are a selfish bastard who doesn't care about the suffering of others, will suffer the effects of rapid climate change. This bill does everything possible to make us lose the fight of our lifetimes and pay higher prices. #voteclimate
jul 2, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Really? Not the fucking millions ICE will get? This bill from hell is the demise of democracy.
jul 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Honestly, I don't F&@*! care anymore since I became A spiteful person who sees that humans are too greedy, selfish, ignorant & stupid to do anything right thanks to what they did on Nov. 5th 2024
jul 2, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
A Sign??? What about a BILLBOARD
jul 2, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 0 • view
So is the ICE budget. You all need to talk about it more. Only bad people like it.
jul 2, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
... And of pathologically sociopathic cosplayers
jul 2, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Jesus taught us to feed the poor. Republican Jesus says, “kill ‘em.”
jul 2, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
No shit. We’ve been saying it for six months as you’ve all been playing possum. Build the guillotines because you cannot litigate and legislate your way out of dictatorship. It’s a design feature. If you could it would be a functioning govt.
jul 2, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
How is insider trading and corporate bribes good for America? This statement is just factually not true.
jul 2, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
So a friend was raging against “socialized medicine” and I steered the conversation to how much we enjoy our Medicare benefits. He was raving about how great it is, having been n a marketplace plan prior to reaching 65. It kind of hung him up when I pointed out that Medicare is “socialized medicine”
jul 2, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not just a sign
jul 2, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Not to mention using it to build and fill concentration camps!
jul 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 2 0 • view
The axing of clean energy initiatives is extraordinarily stupid and we can’t afford higher energy costs & dirty energy. Especially with costs of healthcare, food, and essentials rising and jobs getting scarce. Did the GOP offer any brilliant assistance for people to get jobs as part of their plan?
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It is AUTHORITARIANISM!
jul 2, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
When a convicted felon is allowed to be POTUS because GOP legislators play along & pretend his 34 convictions are "fake" & were "weaponization" EXPECT MORE OF THIS. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS NOW FRANTICALLY RUNNING THROUGH WALLS IN THE BUILDING.🙄
jul 2, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 1 • view
The GOP elephant is dead. That's just a carcass filled with MAGAts at the helm.
jul 2, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 1 • view
It’s not just a sign. That’s exactly what it is. There’s no need to mince words here.
jul 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 14 1 • view
Absofuckinglutely 🧌
jul 2, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s more than a sign. It’s a fact.
jul 2, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Nothing could be more serious...
jul 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
& hate-filled vicious cruelty & slow death to the masses. Isn’t mass murder a BIG Crime?
jul 2, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Not even good authoritarianism. Right now authoritarians in Singapore are underwriting cost of living subsidies and heavy support for medical care. And on top of that, having plans for a popular, well attended military parade in August.
jul 3, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
Mr. Raskin, I appreciate your words, but it's time to drop the use "sign of" and call it out as IT IS AUTHORITARIANISM.
jul 2, 2025, 2:30 pm • 11 1 • view
The other word is - "Cowards."
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Why are we paying taxes if they aren’t giving us services anymore?
jul 2, 2025, 1:53 pm • 4 1 • view
Exactly!
jul 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
It may be a hard lesson to learn but the proletariat were told repeatedly what would happen if they elected Trump and they still voted for him. Maybe they'll think before voting the next time if they are ever allowed to vote again.
jul 2, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
We did not elect Trump. He stole the elections and Democrats let him.
jul 2, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
HELPED him.
jul 2, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not a sign…they are authoritarian.
jul 2, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for stating it plainly. It's disturbing to see media and pundits still discussing the bill in traditional, quaint terms of polling, impact on the budget, etc - instead of what it is at its core. This is the replacement of a democracy with an authoritarian, white-supremacist regime.
jul 2, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Too many of your colleagues believe that the only citizens worthy of any "good" at the hands of government are the 1% wealthiest. The rest of us are worthless scum who don't deserve clean air & water, education, fair wages, national parks & recreation let alone life sustaining healthcare & food.
jul 2, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Also a sign of the Republican party’s constant guiding ethos since I was born in the late ‘70s!
jul 2, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Then do something. No one is playing by the rules. Why should the Dems?
jul 2, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
You can just delete the “a sign of” part. It is pure authoritarianism.
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Next time work harder at getting a billionaire who has some decency to support America. They have destroyed this country.
jul 2, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this the opening round 4 declaring war on "the rest of us"? The rich have too often had this "the others" attitude abt anyone who was not like them Now they daydream that we are impediments 2 their best lives General Strike, cut them off at the ankles Let them fetch their own damn drinks
jul 2, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
No kidding. 🙄
jul 2, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
And a sign of a control freak!!🤡
jul 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Wake up, that ship has sailed, the one called democracy.
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Said it before. I'll say it again. Republican fascists want to rule, not govern.
jul 2, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
They lie to our faces repeatedly. They think we are helpless fools. They are stealing us blind while destroying our country. We MUST fight back.
jul 2, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not *a sign* We now live in an authoritarian police state where ANYONE can be kidnapped, stripped of their citizenship, and deported to a gulag.
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 pm • 16 3 • view
Can democrats at least start planning on how Americans can permanently leave the country for their safety? What countries will allow American refugees? Maybe you all can get a program going for us. We will need a safe escape plan from Tr*mp’s fascist regime takeover.
jul 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I want to know this too. We are now a country under terrorist tyranny, and we will need asylum elsewhere.
jul 2, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly, we might all need to flee for safety without much preparation or warning.
jul 2, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
No. We need to literally fight back. I’m not going to abandon my country. I’m not going down without taking out a bunch of fascists on the way.
jul 2, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It's safe to say that we are under an authoritarian regime now. I won't kid myself or anyone else differently. I think it would be beneficial for you to do the same. I do thank you for all you tried to do for us. Democrats really got fired up for the first time and it is a good look for you guys!
jul 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the Nazi and Confederate flags, dehumanization, masked men kidnapping people off the street, police firing rubber bullets at reporters, beat downs of Marines' fathers, sanctioned rapes, threats to deport political opponents and denial of due process are all signs of authoritarianism.
jul 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 1 • view
A sign?? A SIGN??!! We ARE already under authoritarian rule and you are not out there screaming for the rest of your colleagues to get some balls and put the country first, to fight like there's no tomorrow. You all should be on podcasts every single day!
jul 2, 2025, 5:12 pm • 2 1 • view
And a MSM evening news ad to show white MAGA seniors what they voted for to appease their racism.
jul 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It is authoritarianism. We need to stop speaking so carefully and call it what it is. It's certainly not government for the people by the people.
jul 2, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It's an authoritarian eugenics practice known as "wild euthenasia". Look up the name Gerhard Herbert Kretschmar
jul 2, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
What this really is is an attempt to disproportionately kill off more Democratic-leaning voters than Republican ones. It’s targeted neglect—selective extermination by policy. Just call it what it is.
jul 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
The rule(s) of law are only as strong and effective as the integrity of the people we trust to enforce them. Roughly thirty-five percent of registered voters didn't care enough to bother to vote. We should always set the bar high. We didn't. A lesson learned is a lesson earned (?).
jul 2, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The only thing you all do is talk. DO SOMETHING!
jul 2, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
We crossed that chasm long ago…
jul 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 7 2 • view
Congress was busy being on vacations again, still, always.
jul 2, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
💯
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
You guys need to stop pussyfooting around with the word authoritarianism because this is not some academic debate any longer. This is fascism and trump and the members of his government are Nazis. We've had a fascist takeover of this country and we're not going to stop it with debates.
jul 2, 2025, 3:34 pm • 24 3 • view
"a sign" none of you are up for this, jfc
jul 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 4 1 • view
#WorstCongressInHumanHistory #LazyMotherfukers
jul 2, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
The evidence is out in the open. No need for proof beyond reasonable doubt at the upcoming 21st century version of the 1945/1946 Nuremberg Tribunal Trials prosecuting crimes against humanity and democracy.
jul 2, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
64 yr old here. Worked my whole life contributing taxes & my gov't is paying my HC, dental, & when I'm 65, I'll be getting pharma & eyecare covered as well. A gov't that cares for it's people. I thank my parents every day they chose Canada & not USA when they decided to emigrate. Shame on USA.
jul 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s absurb that our leaders are doing NOTHING to stop FatHitler. What stupid people we have here. It’s embarrassing.
jul 2, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Sign... 🤣🤣🤣
jul 2, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting. Trump was elected with a 51% majority. All of the congress people who are voting were elected. Yet they are producing something which the great majority of the country thinks is NOT good. Democracy itself seems to have a flaw.
jul 2, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Please fucking stop saying signs. We’re far beyond signs. Say it clearly, it is authoritarian. Say it from your chest.
jul 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Precisely. The "signs" were all prior to the election. They were ALL there. This is overt, blatant authoritarianism.
jul 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
A “sign”? Dude, we have been in a fascist dictatorship since January 20. Every senate seat is about to be flipped, because every traitorous senator voted to certify the election of a convicted felon, rapist and insurrectionist
jul 2, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Make sure to offer up some amendments to the Ugly Bill if that option comes up. Make Mike Johnson and the rest of the House work through the Holiday. Many Americans have to work on Holidays. Congresspeople should too.
jul 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Always facilitated by limp opponents who side with the authoritarians on certain issues like foreign policy or immigration and then want to cry foul when those policies are widened to include citizens.
jul 2, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
#DemocratsLie
jul 2, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
This sort of posting helps your re election campaign But I don't see how it helps stop the bill in the house
jul 2, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, I thought it was the ease at which they destroy others generally was the tip off
jul 2, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Sedition, dismantling Government,pay for play representatives,kowtowing to Russia,it’s here. It’s been here. We need Zelenskyy level courage. Maryland should run background checks on all GOP that reside there, if there are any outstanding warrants, arrest them. They canPlead the 4th to SCOTUS
jul 2, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I have a suggestion for you and every other sitting democrat. Have a rolling death counter just like your country's debt counter. Attribute it to ICE action. Show it beside you every single time any one of you speaks in front of a camera. Bring pictures if possible. Make their cruelty be seen.
jul 2, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Ice action, funding cuts, safety regulation cuts - the list could go on. The deaths will reach millions sooner than anyone realizes.
jul 2, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I think yall are way past the "signs". He built a concentration camp and was delighted at the idea of reptiles eating humans about it. You are all way behind the curve. This isn't a "We can win it back in the midterms!" moment. You are in the leadup to horrors upon horrors. Do something. Please.
jul 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 74 10 • view
They are not FkN livid like they should be, they aren’t calling for citizens to organize against Tyranny, blatant fascism or calling out SCOTUS on its unconstitutional decisions empowering the most criminally corrupt administrations in history destroying 🇺🇸! No more establishment democrats, I’m done!
jul 2, 2025, 3:50 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean - they have another vacation coming up.
jul 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Great time for it.
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s literally an oven in the Florida Everglades. Surrounded by snakes and alligators. It’s gives Bond evil villain/ dictator vibes.
jul 2, 2025, 4:53 pm • 6 0 • view
Because it is that. That's why it gives it.
jul 2, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It'll be an oven until the first hurricane hits, anyway.
jul 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Elected officials, at least elected officials in the opposition side, aren’t going to publicly call for what is needed in that circumstance. It’s up to all of us as citizens to discuss those sorts of steps amongst ourselves. Discreetly.
jul 2, 2025, 2:09 pm • 13 1 • view
They don't have to incite violence. Every Dem in Congress should be talking until they're incapable of talking anymore, for every Nazi Republican bill for which they're legally permitted to do so. The DNC should be backing primary challenges against any Dem who colludes with the NRP in any way.
jul 2, 2025, 3:59 pm • 3 0 • view
better wording: "to kill or delay every Nazi Republican bill"
jul 2, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think anybody on the left should be talking about “inciting violence.” But I firmly believe that all of us should be getting physically & mentally prepared to use it if we are attacked. We should NEVER initiate violence, but we should make sure we’re capable of self-defense.
jul 3, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed!
jul 3, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
So you don't think they're already using violence against everyone? 🤔 How many people have died and will die from the collapse of USAID. How many have already died in ICE detention? Neoliberalism par excellence in your reply above.
jul 3, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they're already using violence against everyone. Are you aware that by doing violence as protestors, we give them sweeping and legal abilities to escalate their tactics? This is what we need, and it needs to be now. Without a workforce, they have no power. generalstrikeus.com
jul 3, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I have yet to suggest actual violence. This is a thing you have inserted into the dialogue yourself. That said? It is perhaps the time to do aggressive general strikes and stand in front of bank doors and govt buildings so nobody can enter. Throw your body on the gears and wheels until it stops.
jul 3, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel the same way, Jonny. Something needs. To be done. They just don’t care if there were 13.1 peaceful protesters.
jul 2, 2025, 2:04 pm • 4 0 • view
You need to meet ASAFP with Gov. Moore; MD State Police Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., Superintendent; MD Sheriffs' Association President Jim DeWees & MD Chiefs of Police Association President, Chief Malik Aziz, to establish what law enforcement will do to protect Marylanders from masked kidnappers.
jul 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Sign of? Just look around. We are being ruled by tweet by a mad man who thinks he is a king. We are smack dab in the middle of a fascist takeover of our country.
jul 2, 2025, 3:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Why are we paying taxes to a government that doesn't use them for the common good?
jul 3, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya think?
jul 2, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
A sign? It IS authoritarianism. We tax payers just built a concentration camp. Miami has postponed 2026 elections. SCOTUS just cleared away any Constitutional chance to rid ourselves of this kakistocracy before their tax paid vacation. The felon is about to EO a new definition of "constitutional"
jul 2, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
again this just makes you even more of a POS for voting against impeachment Fuck you dude do better
jul 2, 2025, 2:05 pm • 9 1 • view
Fuck every last one of these cocksucker millionaires.
jul 2, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t forget the huge funding increase to ICE so they can put humans in our homegrown concentration camps
jul 2, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Y'all should have focused more on the ICE budget along with the huge increase for Concentration Prisons.Fascism is here and all y'all could talk about was how many ppl would lose Medicaid.We'll all lose everything, not just Medicaid. I'm beyond livid.
jul 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes sir and I have the utmost respect for you. But we knew this and saw this 6 months ago. Nothing new here.
jul 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Is the Common Good allowing taxes to increase on All Americans? Tax increases disproportionately affect lower & middle income people & families.
jul 2, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Look, your talking points are stale and people tune out. Trump is concentrating power in the executive branch, kidnapping, trafficking and jailing people, and this bill provides millions to build prisons in every city.
jul 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The 2015 run was a sign of authoritarianism. This is just full on authoritarianism now. You're in it, congrats.
jul 2, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Decades ago when I worked w/ Citizen Action / Greenpeace we opposed Christian Coalition abortion protests when they inspired Heritage Foundation idiots we fight today. Dem leadership mocked progs back then as extremists using radical language for saying theocratic fascism. How's that working out?
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
My kkkongres"man" might shoot me so if i vanish, tough love y'all. signed gray antifas who can actually say that y'all sent dogs after us at greenpeace decades ago thanks. wonderful. awesomesauce. welcome to the war, evidently America
jul 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
this motherfuckkker held a gun to his ex wife's head and is running for reelection how about a little help after the finish line? thanks. wonderful. y'all are such a timely party, democrats after the finish line frantic proves who you are
jul 2, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 1 • view
A SIGN?
jul 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 1 • view
Thank you Jamie for your observation.
jul 2, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
It's also very short sighted unless your goal is a large, protracted, & violent civil war.
jul 2, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
It was their goal since they let congress' J6 plotters cop a walk.
jul 2, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop hedging words. Speak the truth. We're an autocracy now. Innocent people disappear to foreign countries and concentration camps, we aren't a democracy. Democrats must risk their jobs and lives to save us. Voters aren't seeing that. If there's another election, the useless Dems will be voted out.
jul 2, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
It is authoritarianism
jul 2, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Why aren’t we calling this what it is? It’s a dictatorship. Authoritarianism is too mild a word to describe what we are becoming.
jul 2, 2025, 1:56 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s atrocity funding. It’s human rights violation funding. It’s sadistic psychopath funding. Fundamentally, this bill is morally wrong. #TaxStrike change your W2 and let the non existent IRS come take your money - we cannot tacitly agree to pay for this.
jul 2, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Agree. Highly immoral.
jul 3, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Inhumanity. Greed.
jul 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 1 • view
its awful man
jul 2, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Openly using health care as a tool of extortion and control over political rivals is unapologetic authoritarianism and a betrayal of the oath taken to support and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America
jul 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Also it's just plain mean.
jul 2, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
We kind of want our elected representatives to put their lives on the line to protect us from fascism, not just their jobs. Can you please lead a general strike, at the least?
jul 2, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
But they've got so many people brainwashed into thinking that's OK. This is why we can't have nice things.
jul 2, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
No, Jamie. It's a sign of an evil regime run by people who used to torture animals in childhood and as adults have upped their game to do the same to human beings.
jul 2, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
US is no longer a real democracy. Too much authoritarianism and not nearly enough push back.
jul 3, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
The chance to fix our broken nation, is quickly slipping away. DNC is the GATEKEEPER, right? Not MAGA.
jul 2, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats? They reached peak resistance already. They renamed the bill, so it won't be the Big Beautiful Bill that kills us.
jul 3, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
You realize we have an established 2-party system here, right? I'm happy to hear any functional plans, though ...not really interested in any "call the X-men to overthrow the establishment then let Occupy Wall Street up and down a Utopia with their fingers" plan 🙌🤲🙌 Democrat Party sucks It's all
jul 3, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
And giving all of that "savings" to billionaires is a sign we have an oligarchy, not a democracy.
jul 2, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
It is not a sign of authoritarianism, it is HERE, we are in it! Keep fighting, and thank you for your service.
jul 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Sedition, Jamie. Go after the seditionists.
jul 2, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I wish the Dems would talk more about the timeline of when these cuts are going to hit. From what I’ve read, the Medicaid cuts will not hit until after the midterms…how convenient. 🙄 so prepare for Maga GOP to say “see libs no big deal.”
jul 2, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
So is building concentration camps.
jul 2, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 2, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 2 • view
it's not "A Sign" of authoritarianism,Jamie. IT IS AUTHORITARIANISM!!!!! Call it as it is! Stop pussy footing around, god damnit!!!!
jul 2, 2025, 2:22 pm • 4 3 • view
How else can they collaborate with our oppressors and profit from it?
jul 2, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Pointing that out has absolutely zero effect on Russell, the killer of millions, and he swears he's a Christian. Have you read Project 2025, and this is the best you have? 45 billion to ice, outdoing the Marine Corps budget. And we do absolutely nothing, do we not have any democrats w a backbone?
jul 2, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not a “sign”. It IS AUTHORITARIANISM! Come on @raskin.house.gov You are better than this.
jul 2, 2025, 2:08 pm • 4 2 • view
It's a sign our government no longer works for the people.
jul 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Show me your tax code and I’ll tell you your societal values. Our values have devolved to the point where we look more like an ancient feudal society than a modern democracy. But I guess that’s the GOP’s.
jul 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Only the heartless, greedy and fanatical @GOP will do this.
jul 2, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
That's one sign. Unfortunately, this regime is throwing up dozens of signs daily
jul 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, also cruelty and breech of duty to their constituents.
jul 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 1 • view
We used to have laws about that. Congressmen used to lose their jobs.
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Jamie, tell us there’s a plan, among constitutionalist leadership, to depose the orange menace. Otherwise, it’s all blah, blah, blah, ineffectual hand-wringing…
jul 2, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I can’t name a single bill that Republicans have ever generated that have helped 90% of this country And now they’re not even pretending They want an oligarch authoritarian regime like Hungary CPAC even had their clown show in Hungary to show how American they were
jul 3, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Not a sign, the authoritarianism has been there since Trump came down the staircase. The stairway to hell.......
jul 2, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. Our attention now turns to our individual Congressional Districts. We don't need many to vote NO. Its only grown more unpopular. Call. ☎️ Call satellite offices of your Rep. Use @5calls.org for phone scripts I offer this @resist.bot petition to sign and send. resist.bot/petitions/PD...
jul 2, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 3 • view
It’s about time you and the “leadership” started acting like you’re “for the people” instead of saying the words and glad-handing the oligarchs
jul 2, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s up the rhetoric a little. How’s this: the devolving GQP, which worships a genocidal madman, doubles down on overt cruelty, ignoring their own constituents and fueling more obscene and undeserved wealth to the ultra-rich.
jul 2, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 1 • view
DESPOTISM
jul 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 1 • view
And this 👇 Thanks Trump 😡 The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973 - The New York Times share.google/RJAtHUh3vS8r...
jul 2, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Jesus CHRIST. no WONDER you fucks are so pathetic. You're not even PRETENDING to try.
jul 2, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 1 • view
No - they just want that next vacation.
jul 2, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks, Captain Obvious. Our hard earned tax dollars and votes in action right here, people.
jul 2, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 1 • view
Maybe the Democrats could have hammered that home last election instead of running on *vibes*. 🤷♂️
jul 2, 2025, 2:19 pm • 6 1 • view
They could have prosecuted this insurrection but they thought the confederates wanted peace.
jul 2, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
U think? The dictatorship thing ? We r probably there already , but we just can't admit it YET It will probably become much clearer soon
jul 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s not forget where the money is going: ICE. Concentration camps. A government crazed for incarceration smells like fascism.
jul 2, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
What happens to all if the taxes that we currently pay into for the things they are stripping away? Will we all see a refund? I’ll bet, not.
jul 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 1 • view
getting kind of tired of the sound bites Jamie. what the fuck are you going to do today to stop it?
jul 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
The damage to our healthcare system is awful Jamie, but the damage to our democracy by giving Trump boundless power to fuck everybody is even worse We need a revolution
jul 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 18 0 • view
This lazy ass government hates that we don't want to be slaves.
jul 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 8 0 • view
Oh, not only are we not gonna be slaves but I’m gonna have the whip in my hand
jul 2, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Jamie: we are there-- we need no more signs. We know what they are doing-- we just have nothing to stop them with. (Big fan, by the way--)
jul 2, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
💯 Everything he does either undermines the Constitution, public good, or enriches himself. Often all at once.
jul 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
🥵
jul 2, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
We are ALREADY there & have passed the signs! & NONE of you are doing anything to prepare for midterms IF they even happen. Rockland NY case will show massive fraud in 2024 election. Massive update on all election machines pre 2024 w ZERO oversight! PAPER BALLOTS ONLY OR WE LOSE AGAIN! DO SOMETHING!
jul 2, 2025, 2:10 pm • 4 3 • view
There is a deep and profound evil working here. MAGA is attacking America.
jul 2, 2025, 3:23 pm • 3 0 • view
That's why they are going to pass it. They are ALL in trouble with us.
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 3 1 • view
They will get destroyed in fair elections, they won’t have it! We are at 💯 full on fascism and most I know can’t be bothered to GAF!
jul 2, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Lying about it and saying that it will not create a deficit - which is the GOP line - is definitely authoritarianism.
jul 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
URGENT AND PATRIOTIC! Send J.D. over to Congress to insist that they include: Trump’s $500 Billion PLATINUM PLAN For Black America in the current budget. www.forbes.com/sites/sethco... www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
jul 2, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 4 1 • view
Agreed....how about all house and senate dems organize a mass protest on the Capitol steps, and voice this? Except for a very few, all we see is talk and social media postings. Time to get mean and nasty and fight back with more than words.
jul 2, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s also a sign of evil and cruelty.
jul 2, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sorry. But this is all you have to say? Repeat. Repeat. Repeat....yawn.
jul 2, 2025, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe Republican voters across this nation need to feel the consequences of their votes/non-votes. Also, @raskin.house.gov remind the public of repeat that it will cost us, not save...by the trillions.
jul 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
its not a sign! its a damn declaration
jul 2, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Weimar was a government and so is Russia. As Gary Wills has noted, governments are a necessary evil. teachingamericanhistory.org/resource/ell... Elliot's Debates: Volume 2 | Teaching American History
jul 2, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
The Lying King now has total control, SCOTUS, Congress, and the Law are all in his fold! Now he says US citizens are next to go! Unless you’re in his cult, that mofo! What’s next up I hear you say? Of course he will take elections away! Dictatorship is here, Now we know FDR, What we have to fear!
jul 2, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
If there is not going to be federal funding then Taxes should go to the states, NO MORE FEDERAL TAXES
jul 2, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, we know. What we don’t know is what the Dems are going to DO about it! Thoughts and prayers? Strong letters? Maybe a couple of the MAGA coup members will ‘come around’?
jul 2, 2025, 3:27 pm • 5 0 • view