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libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:31 PM Jan 2018

How do we stop the fucking traitors?

They are going to make sure any of the truths of how they cheated and stole 2016 are silenced.
If there was even a hair of or democracy still holding on it will end if they get away with the abuse of power but what is going to stop them now?

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Vinyasa Guy

(24 posts)
4. That worries me too.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:34 PM
Jan 2018

1) They mess with the system to get in office

2) They crash that system and at the same time destroy the evidence

3) They create their system

4) We are slaves

Squinch

(50,987 posts)
6. They are terrified of angry phone calls. No kidding. When their phone lines light up,
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:38 PM
Jan 2018

they pay attention. Call. Daily. Yell at them.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
9. Forthcoming book "How Democracies Die"
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:46 PM
Jan 2018

I plan to read it. Buy one for yourself and send another to your congressman.

tosh

(4,424 posts)
10. Thank you!!
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 04:48 PM
Jan 2018

I have been obsessing over this very question all day!

I just feel we need some very smart and tough strategists working on this right now.

My optimism is waning and today I don't think we can wait until November.

Initech

(100,093 posts)
11. Start prosecuting and holding them accountable.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 07:12 PM
Jan 2018

They think they are above the law because they have no one to challenge their actions. Which is why they percieve us as being weak. If we start throwing their asses in jail for the crimes they have committed, maybe that might force the rest of them to start playing nice.

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