Paul Cantrell
If you have a Republican Senator and/or House Rep, congratulations: today is your day!!
They can stop these mush-brained tariffs any time they want. They have that power. CALL THEM, relentlessly, and ask why they’re not doing that.
Pit Republicans against their president. Pit them against each other. Shake the jar and make them fight. This is a •huge• fracture point in the MAGA coalition. Stick dynamite in it and blow it up.
Paul Cantrell
I wrote here about exploiting coalition fracture points as a strategy, and about how the right wing has had wild success doing it to the left for decades now:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113677136466245186
We need to wise up and seize this strategy in moments when it is viable. Now is such a moment.
Paul Cantrell
Facts are on our side here: there tariffs really are a disaster, Congressional Republicans really could stop them any minute of any day here, and Republicans really are split about them. Seize this moment. Shake the jar and make them fight each other.
Michael Dekker
@inthehands I just contacted my Senators and asked them to extract concessions from GOP in exchange for a tariff vote. My focus was on return of prisoners illegally removed to el salvador and international students kidnapped by ICE.
Paul Cantrell
@dekk
I like this. I’m not sure that’s a bargaining chip yet — it’s unclear to me any Republicans want a tariff vote — but plant the seed now I guess!
Paul Cantrell
@girander
Encourage them to do that!
Erik Andersen
@inthehands would probably be better if they separated from the Republicans and formed a new party.
Paul Cantrell
@FranceskaMann
Is that the experience you’re having with your own representative? Seems like something that would profit from being called out, on social media and in the press. Lots of ways to light a fire under these numnuts .
Franceska Mann
The thing about calling your Republican representative is they don't answer the phone. It rings and rings.
Paul Cantrell
@FranceskaMann
Ugh, Emmer is the worst, what a schmuck.
He won’t listen, but well worth your time if you can find places and times where you can •publicly• ask this — even if those places and times are just the local coffee shop or whatever.
Franceska Mann
Yeah, my rep is Tom Emmer. He's a piece of shit crypto Mogul who loves Trump. He has done a couple of town halls, a while ago, where he was skewered, after Governor Tim Walz has called him out specifically.
My neck of the woods needs stronger collective organizing. I wanted to start an SURJ chapter here but they're not interested. Collective action needs more bodies than just me.
Paul Cantrell
@John_Loader
I mean, that •is• what tariffs are, yes
John_Loader
@inthehands they are wrongly described as tariffs. They are an additional sales tax on anything imported. A consumer tax designed to force Americans to give up products they have bought for years or pay a massive tax on them
rjohnsonmn
@inthehands Called the DC office of my MAGA rep in CA 01 (Rep. La Malfa) and actually talked to a real person, who said that he has no position on tariffs or any legislative effort to force oversight 🤷🏻♂️ The fact that I talked to a real person means that not nearly enough people are calling! I’m going to keep calling until he takes a side.
piebob ✨
@inthehands in case it makes calling easier:
https://5calls.org/issue/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico/
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’
@inthehands My rep is a Dem, so I called the next closest one and gave his staffer an earful. She kept trying to stop me to ask me to identify myself so I gave her an alias and kept talking.
They should hear from everyone!
Paul Cantrell
@grammasaurus
Harangue the Dems too. They should be making even more noise about this than they are!
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