many vets and government employees getting stung. This is gonna be one hell of a wake up call. One month in and it’s going up in flames. I can’t even imagine the 4 years ahead. Oh boy.
I don't see any Trump supporters criticizing him on this thread, just the same group of defeated liberals that opposed him in the first place.
give it time, one month is all we’ve had to endure and it’s getting ugly. Even after time I don’t think any of you will criticize him as that would mean you were wrong. You guys will just fade or change your name or just STFU lol. Looks like even those town hall meetings are going south quick. Maybe they are fake right.
The Republicans are trying to deflect their angry voters by blaming it all on liberals, gays, "paid protestors" and anyone else they point to. They never address their worship for the Great King Donald Trump and all the issues Musk & him have caused -- as they rush to cancel any future town hall meetings with their own angry MAGA voters. How the GOP is trying to spin their angry voters https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/2/2306845/-How-the-GOP-is-trying-to-spin-their-angry-voters Even as voters have begun to flood Republican town hall meetings to voice their anger at the chaos Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have unleashed upon the United States with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Republican lawmakers are still refusing to criticize Dear Leader Don. Rather than promise to end the destruction the two men are inflicting upon the country and the economy, GOP lawmakers this week publicly defended Trump and Musk and are writing the show of anger off as an astroturf effort by Democratic groups. "The videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in an appearance on CNN, which is a lie. “These are Democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.” In fact, Johnson told The Washington Post that Americans should be thanking Musk for his work—which has led to the firing of thousands of federal workers, including ones that were let go by mistake. “Elon has said in recent weeks and told me in his office a couple weeks ago, [that] he thinks it’s very possible this year to identify and eliminate a trillion dollars of waste of your taxpayer dollars,” Johnson told the Post. “You ought to be standing up and applauding.” Because of the embarrassing headlines targeting Republicans as a result of the town halls, GOP leaders are now urging their members to not hold town halls at all—a directive lawmakers seem to be heeding. For example, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a Republican who represents a competitive district in Wisconsin, canceled a planned town hall with his staff when he heard that a large crowd planned to show up. And constituents of Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks have resorted to protesting at her offices because she has not made herself available at town hall events. It’s not just Johnson whining about having to answer for Trump and Musk’s destructive actions. “It’s unfortunate that the other party’s chosen to turn this into a political stunt,” Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte of California told Politico of the pushback he got at a town hall in his district. Meanwhile, Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan criticized the angry voters instead of addressing their concerns. “Seventy-seven million voices outweigh those voices at the town halls,” McClain said at a Tuesday news conference on Capitol Hill, adding that “people that hijacked those town halls are happy with the bloated status quo.” Republicans who faced angry voters took Musk's side as well. “The fact that Elon Musk is there, he will be able to raise questions, and because of his fame and financial success, I think … he is going to be able to force Congress to look at things like bureaucrats,” Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin said as his constituents booed, jeered, and laughed at his statement. Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri showed little sympathy for his constituents who lost their jobs due to Trump and Musk's federal worker purge, telling one laid off worker that "God has a plan and purpose for your life." Other GOP lawmakers are also publicly lauding Musk’s DOGE efforts. "If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower," Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas said in an appearance on Newsmax. "Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people, he changed the name of it, and now today it is worth twice as much as it was before." But Republicans ignore voter criticism at their own peril. Polling shows Musk and DOGE are unpopular, with majorities of voters believing Musk has too much power. A YouGov/Economist poll found that a plurality of voters want Musk to have less influence in the Trump administration.
Look who is running scared from their voters. No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans Rep. Richard Hudson issued the edict after a spate of testy episodes. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/congress/gop-town-halls-richard-hudson-00210024
Oh look, they are all running away and hiding from their constituents. Scaredy Cats. Republicans would rather hide from their voters than face them and defend Trump GOP lawmakers holding town halls nationwide are having to answer for Trump and Musk. Instead of facing those criticisms head on, Republicans have decided to hide. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ican-town-halls-anger-trump-musk/80865368007/
Let's see what a Republican Congressman is saying about his Trump voting constituents. Oh, only Communists and Nazis would protest their lawmakers and dissent against the great Donald Trump's agenda. And all of these Trump voters should be tossed in jail for daring to dissent. Good to know. Now "shut up and be good little sheep while we place you in the concentration camps". Republican Congressman Compares Town Hall Protesters to Nazis Representative Derrick Van Orden lobbed the bonkers comparison at his own constituents. https://newrepublic.com/post/192306/republican-derrick-van-orden-town-hall-protesters-nazis Once again, Republicans are asking the American public to forgo the evidence of their eyes and ears. Republican lawmakers were met with fire and fury over the weekend as their constituents hounded them for failing to intervene in a budget resolution that will result in billions in cuts to Medicaid, as well as refusing to speak out against Elon Musk’s unchecked dissolution of federal agencies and, with it, thousands of federal jobs and popular social programs. But at least one Republican has decided the best option is to threaten criminal charges for Americans who dare to dissent against Donald Trump’s agenda. Speaking with the Meg Ellefson Show on Friday, Wisconsin Representative Derrick Van Orden likened his constituents to Nazis, claiming that only Communists and fascists would protest their lawmakers. “People who associated with the Communist movement and the National Socialism movement used to get their way politically, is—they would do stuff like this, and they were called agitators,” Van Orden told the podcast. Fact check: It was notoriously unsafe to speak out against the government in Soviet Russia, as well as in Nazi Germany. Under the Nazi regime, Germany shuttered anti-Nazi newspapers, controlled what media appeared in newspapers and on the radio, banned books that the Third Reich determined were “un-German,” and by 1934 had made it officially illegal to criticize the Nazi government, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Freedom of speech and the right to protest, on the other hand, have been cornerstones of American democracy since the country was founded. Van Orden then said that if protesters came to his town halls and acted “in an unlawful manner,” or if they were “disrupting or refusing to leave a venue,” then he would have them “arrested and charged with a class B misdemeanor.” Van Orden’s outlandish comments preceded instructions by the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who on Tuesday directed party members to stop holding in-person town halls to avoid the backlash. House Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed the order later Tuesday, washing his hands of lawmakers’ upset constituents by watering them down as “professional protesters.” Meanwhile, Trump explicitly threatened to violate the Constitution on Tuesday, pledging to prosecute protesters and withhold federal funding from universities or schools if attendees choose to express their First Amendment rights.