5mo ago

Protesters at Republican event told "your voice is meaningless"

www.newsweek.com /protesters-republican-event-told-voice-meaningless-idaho-2035020

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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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?
- ❌ Soap Box
  ❌ Ballot Box
  🔳 Jury Box
  🔳 Ammo Box
  
  free Luigi
  wreck shit
  
  i am pretty sure the jury box is pointless at this point. how many crimes has VP trump been convicted for?
  
  The judiciary has already failed.
  
  🔳 time clock box. unionize and strike immediately. or at least before resorting to violence
- Ironic.
  
  Has there ever been a peaceful revolution? I can't think of any. Rights are taken from the oppressors, not given by them.
- 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?
- I'ma Luigi. I'ma number one.
- Don’t you see that this is exactly what they want to impose violent crackdowns on violent protesters?
  Right now is basically ride it out until the 2026 midterms and hope people actually show up to vote this time.
  
  If you believe they're going to let an election happen without it being rigged to hell and back, I've got a bridge to sell you.
  
  2026 midterm won't happen without a violent revolution and the longuer it's take to start the more violent it's going to be.
  US are a the point where only a civil war will get thing back on track
  
  Hope the elections will be reasonably free and reasonably fair.
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
"Fascist refuses to listen to anything the public says or wants, news at 11."
You voted Trump in to screw yourselves, now scram! - Republicans
- I'm expecting this to be said out loud soon
"Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
"Riots are the voice of the unheard." -MLK
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.
People who protested Democrats are now telling protesters their protests are meaningless?
- Who would've thought that the fascist wouldn't allow protests... remember though the dems are just as bad...cause gaza.
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.
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!
- What republican voters?
If this were true, they would simply be ignored.
- Not necessarily, sometimes a good show does wonder for the public image
“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/
- Well to be fair, hard men get hot drinks with their dinner.
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.
with one emcee
Did they mean MC? The abbreviation for "Master of Ceremonies?" Was this written by AI?
Edit: NVM I just forgot about the abbreviation policy! Silly me.
- "emcee" is a perfectly cromulent word
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emcee
  
  Whatever you say mr cromulent…
  
  Much crom
  
  This embiggens the smallest man
time to organize
Lol
They should be used to it. It's what democrats have been saying to progressives for decades.
- "I'm speaking."
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."
So let me get this straight
This woman and group, who are clearly against Trump, and obviously not Republicans , but highly probably are Democrats, are protesting against "something", which as per the article is "still unclear"
But let's say they are protesting against Trump EOs and against Elon for the sake of argument
So first thing, the title and framing of this post makes it looks like it is "Republicans" protesting against Trump, when it is clearly not the case
Second, what were they expecting? Protesting now, specifically after the elections are done and none of their executive actions has had any real world effect is meaningless, at least for them.
In their eyes, and particularly on the eyes of the law, the victory gives them every right to dismiss their opposition's concerns.
After all they are their opposition. They certainly don't expect any leeway from them
Demoralizing? Sure! Were they expecting to be cheered on by the guy they are protesting against? Poppycock!
- one of their executive actions has had any real world effect is
  I agree with all except this part. Many people have lost their jobs already.

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