I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
@petergleick This *is* them finding a backbone. This is what they want.
@petergleick they have only two backbones between them, they pass the backbones around and pretend to take moral stands in insufficient numbers to do anything
the backbones are made out of stale peeps, so still not very stiff
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@petergleick honestly at this point I'd be happy for just all of the Democrats.
Unfortunately I live in an area where the gop has saturated the system.
The Steube, could give a crap what my opinion as he is safe , same with Rick Scott. Ashley Moody thinks she is safe and I'm hoping she is wrong. I'm donating to both the early entrants on the Democrat side for how.
Those of you who live in areas that could swing either way have a chance. If enough of you call that gop critter and he or she does the math and realizes that trump getting mad at them are the least of their worries. I called Ashley Moody's office , probably was a waste of time but I can hope.
For me for now best I can do is donate money to try to get some of them knocked off their perches
It's partly because the hard right realised some time ago that if democracy continued, they'd be losing elections forever, so when an opportunity to sideline democracy comes up, they seize it
@petergleick and if people withdrew their data so MAGA's surveillance state project wouldn't work.
Get yourself away from big tech's surveillance here:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
Exactly and that is not even likely to happen... unbelievable and shameful...
That says way more about the elected "Christians" in the House and Senate, than anything else. A Christian Nation, indeed.
GOP billionaires own & operate the entire Republican political apparatus.
The billionaires have achieved their kleptocracy & are no longer in the business of democracy & governance.
They are in the business of manipulating the subjects of a #MadKing
They are not in the business of serving voters, citizens, or American interests.
@petergleick Which'd only get rid of the current fascists, it wouldn't take the fascists out of power altogether. You're looking for a much more fundamental stripping down here, this is the black mould in the framework.
@petergleick yet so many democratic politicians still wants to roll over, negotiate and work with that lot...
@petergleick so is the search for the six least corrupt, fearful, malevolent, republicans in office under way?
Dennis Skinner MP, the Beast of Bolsover, had a useful exchange in the Commons.
@petergleick either they really want it all, and feel safe with their rôle, or they are subject to sufficiently dire and potent threats.
Who are the threateners?
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What if they have a backbone, and its just the will of the people itself that they are standing against?
sure it would but there is no decent GOP, much less a handful of GOPs, they've worked tirelessly for fascism since Ronald Reagan, over 40 years, they are not going to quit now with the goal in reach
@petergleick I feel like it's not so much a lack of backbone. I think they think they will reap some benefits of this.
@petergleick It's incredibly dumb of them. If Republicans actually want to ensure their hold on the government (which of course I don't want them to do, but if I were their strategist), they should come out against Trump as a guy who wants to take your guns, and oust him from office. It would humiliate Democrats and likely split the party. They should rally around a "good guy with a gun" and prove they are the law and order party who fights tyranny. They would win. But they're dumb.
@petergleick Yes yes; an overextended duopoly, deeply entrenched by the fossil fuels industry, is that easily uprooted.
Industrial Age, all systems go. Fossil fuels #broligarchy, profit on!
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At this point, I think one should assume this fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise is something they actually WANT.
@petergleick could you provide a list with 6-7 names, which ones would be most likely to turn around?
I don't know much about US-Senators and House Representives. But I'd like to write letters to appeal to reason and humanity to those, who might just need a nudge from abroad and within. We all could try to talk reason. It might work, who knows?!
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They don't
They won't
They are complicit
All of them
Every single republican (plus some Dems)
@petergleick @schwa The MAGA movement crucified Adam Kinsinger and Liz Cheney for going up against them, so I imagine that was effective at scaring any others from trying to resist them.
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The problem is that they don't care. They are there for the lobby money and stock trading. The hard core MAGAts love this.
@petergleick The men are hopeless, but if some of the Dem women could sit down with their Rep sisters and talk about shit, …
Men been running the show since forever, and it ain’t working, we're killing the planet.
@petergleick maybe if we in maga controlled states, totally deprived of all leftish national support because we were just fly over states, -- maybe if we had some back up so we aren't just taking turns dying uninvestigated deaths , we could force our maga legislators into a corner for once and for all. maga have funding, leftish efforts here get NOTHING.
The whole conservative movement has led to this moment. This is their payoff. They're fascists or in bed with fascists. Are they likely to knife their partners in their sleep? Are their dreams thus arming them? Or are the blades all pointing outwards?
Maybe you could crowdfund them to do it? Money seems to be their only love...
