re: #19 Interesting Times

I hope the “just trust Mueller/Pelosi” types snap out of their silliness and pay attention to how the Puerto Ricans got it done (Hong Kong too…hell, even the anti-Boris-Johnson protests).

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹

People need to be in the streets striking for the Republic as they have done in San Juan. Puerto Ricans are showing how it’s done.

People with Democratic representatives and senators need to be burning up the phones to their representatives; if you can’t get through, call their local offices. (My rep and senators have my phone number blocked or something because I get disconnected.)

Here’s my worry about this all: The number of Puerto Ricans protesting relative to their total population was astronomical, but on top of that, it was a very well self contained demonstration just by the general size of PR itself.

Meanwhile, look at the large scale protests we’ve had in the US, city by city and across the entire country….and look how massively they fizzled despite the numbers. Even with the total numbers both in each city and total nationwide, they couldn’t come close to the amount of participation per capita PR’s did. This is on top of the fact that media did its whole damnedest to ensure that not only the number of protesters was downplayed by factors of at least 100 (turning literal millions of protesters into mere ‘thousands’), but did their best to ensure that whatever message sent was diluted, either through amplifying agent provocateurs, but also through sheer misrepresentation and mockery of the actual message itself.

We’re still at the entire mercy of a media apparatus that will ensure that the rest of the country sees a sideshow, no matter how many hundreds of thousands crush DC with protests repeatedly.

TL;DR - PR’s size and collective shared suffering made these protests much harder to ignore than anything we could do, and the history of our mass protests have been at the whim of adversarial media per always.