A protester at an Idaho town hall hosted by a Republican committee made remarks from the audience to several legislative members on stage.

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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 days ago

    I’ve heard the ‘they stole the vote’ line from the republicans too ever since Biden won.

    They didn’t fuck with the vote, eighty million people decided they didn’t care if Trump won so they sat on their asses on Election Day.

    I’m not the one you should be mad at.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      They didn’t fuck with the vote

      They certainly did fuck with the voters, though - there was an absurd amount of well documented disenfranchisement leading up to this election. You can believe what you want to believe, but I choose to believe that if everyone who in previous elections had been eligible to vote had been allowed to this time, too, the result would have been different.

            • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, absolutely, but that’s propaganda, not voter suppression. I wasn’t even mentioning the propaganda, of which there was a vast amount of both for Trump and against Harris.

                • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  1 day ago

                  There’s a difference between propaganda convincing people not to vote vs. voter suppression legally preventing them from doing so. Like it or not, I think propaganda is an inescapable reality of the world we live in, and I don’t see any way to stop it without also suppressing speech. Truth in reporting laws would certainly help, but a huge amount of it is disseminated via social media by users.

                  Laws removing the ability to vote from a population that disproportionately skews politically in one direction or who are disproportionately of specific ethnicities is far more insidious and should be preventable.

                  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    1 day ago

                    Laws removing the ability to vote from a population that disproportionately skews politically in one direction or who are disproportionately of specific ethnicities is far more insidious and should be preventable.

                    I have no proof or sources to back me up but I feel voter suppressing propaganda is as big of a problem but nevertheless eighty million eligible votes didn’t exercise their rights to do so and that’s almost inexcusable.