Strongly recommend calling your reps and freaking out on the phone, both as a self care practice and so they can know that their normally chill constituents are saying things like “I guess if I can’t teach kindergarten teachers to be nicer anymore I shall have to become a bonus army”
A helpful reminder that your average Republican politician still quakes with fear when large numbers of people start asking things like “where’s my/my mom/my grandma’s social security and what are you doing to protect it?” It would be genuinely less scary for you to threaten them with violence than to politely state that you are concerned that your Korea War Veteran grandpa might not get his social security on time.
“Hi, I’m calling on behalf of a extremely sympathetic and socially conservative demographic that always votes, doesn’t have a day job and that cops cannot shoot to see if you are going to prevent them from having groceries. Thanks and have great day!” It’s like firebombing their office but totally legal and can be done from bed.
In response to this nonsense, my 70 year old mother told John Moolenaar (MI-2) or his office staff, “I want you to know that if my or my husbands social security check is ever even five minutes late, you will hear from me. You will hear from me so loudly and so often that you’ll want to get my phone number tattooed on the inside of you eyelids!”
Does that make sense? No. Do I have any idea what she’s talking about? No. But it’s very gruesome yet entirely non-violent threat so the vibe is right. Maybe we could make this phrase a thing? Try it out with https://5calls.org . See how it feels to say, “you’re going to wish you had my phone number tattooed inside your eyeballs, Mike Johnson.” Maybe it can be a thing.
These are cowards. We can torment them relentlessly for the next 19 months then beat them. It’s going to be so great. They’re going to wish they had our phone numbers tattooed inside their eyeballs for some reason, maybe just because they are freaks.
amhrancas 