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[–] varnia@lemm.ee 75 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Are she and Sanders the only politicians in the United States actively opposing Trump? I keep searching for news of others taking a stand, but it appears only those two are doing so openly.

Trump has crossed so many lines but I really do not see any outcry, mass resistance or opposition?

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Illinois governor JB Pritzker is openly opposing through legislation and trolling. He held a mock press conference stating that Lake Michigan was now Lake Illinois and went to the zoo to negotiate with penguins on tariffs. California governor Gavin Newsom is suing the Trump admin over tariffs.

There were also coordinated protests across the US a couple weeks ago. Every town hall held by Republicans is a complete zoo, so much so that certain reps fear for their life and have stopped holding them.

Federal workers are leaking musk directives and doing their best to stall the doge squad.

Just because Trump hasn't been removed one way or another from office doesn't mean that people are doing nothing.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I really want to see more headlines like these, it's easy to feel like nothing is being done.

[–] SabinStargem 33 points 5 days ago

Al Greene, Jasmine Crockett, Tim Walz, and Saikat Chakrabarti. When Trump starts to openly murder American citizens, I expect many fired military leaders will suddenly be leading National Guards.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump has crossed so many lines but I really do not see any outcry, mass resistance or opposition?

Be mindful not to mistake suppression of dissent with lack of dissent. News media is actively avoiding protests. We’re out there, even if the news cameras aren’t.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

We are all aware the media/news companies are owned by the billionaires who want to control the narrative, why do ppl forget that and start saying stuff doesnt matter because it hasnt hit the news

[–] penthan@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also Jasmine Crockett, though she doesn’t have the name notoriety AOC and Sanders do.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

She's brilliant & one of the best communicators I've seen in years.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

That's because he controls the media.

The guy from the Circle Jerks just called for an army of Luigi Mangionis while on stage at Coachella, so there's that

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Check out Al Green and Cory Booker.

[–] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Exactly how are they "opposing Trump."

Bernie voting yes on Marco Rubio should be all anyone needs to know about Trump's "opposition."

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

Seems that way, yes people are starting to protest but not nearly enough, and as another commenter mentioned the media is not covering it, which should surprise no one.

The Democratic party needs to be laying out the facts when the CiC lies to the people, but nope they seem to be just sitting back sulking saying "see we told you this would happen and since you didn't vote us in we're not going to do shit"