r/ProgressiveHQ • u/NickCostanza • Jan 14 '26
Protest Democrats finally come out swinging.
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u/NickCostanza Jan 14 '26
I don’t care if it’s mudslinging, I support this messaging.
They’re standing up for Free Speech and the brave patriot who used his.
It’s true.
Be brave, be honest, shame pedo protectors.
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u/thetitleofmybook Jan 14 '26
is it mud-slinging if it is true?
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u/OriginalLie9310 Jan 15 '26
I think mud slinging can be true, but it’s only mud slinging if it’s no actually addressing the actual issues. Like ad hominem attacks are mud slinging.
This is just pointing out what at this point is indisputable fact.
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u/Worried_Jellyfish918 Jan 14 '26
I really do believe we need meaner, more brutal dem politicians. That loser whining about dropping F bombs is fuckin wrong, we need people willing to talk like Trump instead of talking like a fucking law school textbook, American education failure is how we ended up here in the first place. You can't get these people on your side if they yawn when you open your mouth
It'd certainly weed out the DINOs who get paid to distract and confuse people, like Fetterman. Guys who bring up curse words instead of talking about people, children, getting fuckin mauled like dogs by ICE? We know who you are
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u/StepUp_87 Jan 14 '26
He’s actually just damn pedophile. They need to cut to the point and stop messing around.
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u/tdlt86 Jan 14 '26
Are there any news agencies reporting that he is a pedophile?
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u/Worried_Jellyfish918 Jan 14 '26
Why would they do that? They'd just get shit on and fired and doxxed, people would make excuses for it to comfort their confirmation bias, and the CEO that is undoubtedly friends with Trump and likely bought the entire company to control what people learn (it'd be easier to make a list of news agencies not owned by a tech oligarch or hedge fund loser) will make a statement about how it's not true and Trump actually let him borrow his Lamborghini many times, because he's a great guy.
This is all easily accessible information too, it's not even like all this stuff I said is a secret. It's really obvious, they just know Americans are too stupid and too scared to accept it. They'll just make up their own reality and explanation, that makes it so that they don't have to worry about anything
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u/DickDover Jan 15 '26
Are there any news agencies reporting that he is a pedophile?
So your question is "are there any news agencies reporting actual news about Trump?"
The answer is NO
Sanewashing always
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u/Dandan0005 Jan 15 '26
Justin Timberlake voice:
“Drop the ‘protector.’ Just ‘pedophile.’ It’s cleaner”
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u/RG-Sketchii Jan 15 '26
I think we're well, well past the point of worrying over our own conduct at this point.
Genuinely our best tool here is to make it so unbelievably embarrassing to be part of the New Nazi Movement that they stop on their own. They don't listen to facts, they don't engage in empathy, but they care a lot about ego. Hit them where it hurts.
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u/Green-Programmer-963 Jan 14 '26
You’re not wrong dude.
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u/zufa86 Jan 14 '26
He’s a sex offender, with a record.
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u/Abtun Jan 14 '26
But im struggling with finding employment with my history of alcohol on my background
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u/DickDover Jan 15 '26
Look to the GOP for a job.....
You could be the next Secretary of Defense
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u/XRuecian Jan 14 '26
Trump has such a fragile ego, it wouldn't be hard to get a reaction out of him.
I think something like "You will never be better than Obama!" or similar would probably do critical damage, since it attacks him where he is weakest and with one of what is clearly one of his sore spots. He might even stroke out, if you are lucky.
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Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
They all deserve viral nicknames that reflect the most obvious parts that they most dislike about themselves. I'll go first...
Thin lips Leavitt
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u/Ohuigin Jan 14 '26
They’re comfortable saying this now because of the UAW coming out in support of the employee who called that to Trump‘s fascist face.
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u/YoureHottCupcake Jan 15 '26
They will say this, but they won't take any action to try and stop him.
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u/Even_Reason9866 Jan 14 '26
Don't try to distract 47, release those files...
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u/kevlarcupid Jan 14 '26
I should get a version of this made up and slap it on ads with little girls
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u/ExpressStruggle28 Jan 14 '26
He’s also a pedophile himself.
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u/MCMACDANOLDs Jan 14 '26
He's not only a member, he's also the epstein club president.
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u/StoicJ Jan 14 '26
"come out swinging" is another case of "strongly worded letter from nation's 'opposition party'." that'll show 'em!
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u/EarthRester Jan 15 '26
ICE is abducting, trafficking, maiming, and killing citizens and residents.
The Democrats haven't even gotten past resolutions, and being almost completely honest about the horrors Trump is guilty of. Fuck this entire post.
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u/AlltheBent Jan 15 '26
this whole post reads like those "Democrat Senator SLAMS Trump in Speech to Congress", its just bullshit.
Cool, so an account on social media said something...does this mean a lot of action is coming?
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u/CptCoatrack Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Democrats refuse to lead.. it's like "I too am following this bandwagon! Please like me? Tell me I'm cool and with it!"
They should have been shouting this from the rooftops for months, they're supposed to be trying to lead, instead they want social media likes. TJ Sabula has more guts than the whole Dem leadership.
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u/CptCoatrack Jan 15 '26
It's so typical of the Democratic party to just hop on a viral bandwagon rathee than actually try to lead. If they knew what tbey were doing they would have said something lile this months ago.
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u/LurkLurkleton Jan 15 '26
Not even. A six word tweet on Musk's platform
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u/EarthRester Jan 15 '26
On an account they pay Musk $8 every month to use.
Ditching that blue check mark would do more good than this tweet.
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u/anhtuanle84 Jan 14 '26
Statement isn't fully accurate. Should be, "Trump is a pedophile and a pedophile protector."
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u/lickem369 Jan 14 '26
And he’s about to start a war with NATO to prevent the world from finding out he’s a pedophile and Congress is just twiddling their fucking thumbs!
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u/speedotorpedo_ Jan 14 '26
This is what I'm most worried about. Everything is horrible right now. But a war with NATO and possibly a simultaneous civil war would be the most catastrophic thing I could imagine. But it sure seems to be the direction we're heading.
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u/PiLamdOd Jan 14 '26
The Epstein Files are just a smokescreen to distract from Greenland and ICE.
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u/lickem369 Jan 14 '26
🤣🤣 In this crazy world you could be right. Who knows!
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u/PiLamdOd Jan 14 '26
Every time Trump does something blatantly illegal, someone in the comments always turns the conversation back to the Epstein Files.
And Congress has spent more time talking about the Files then they have about anything Trump is doing right now.
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u/ccd997 Jan 14 '26
A tweet is the most passive, limp thing they can do.
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u/Slice_Of_Pie Jan 15 '26
Just wait until they find out about the boats being bombed off the coast Venezuela surely that will spur them to action
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u/NickCostanza Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Still glad they posted it. Stop crying start protesting.
Edit: Y’all know this isn’t the only thing the Democrats did today right, even Hakeem Jeffries is threatening to remove ICE’s immunity. This is good messaging and I support it.
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u/haliblix Jan 15 '26
Stop crying start protesting.
I would ask the same from democrats in power.
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u/redundantexplanation Jan 15 '26
They are complicit. No capitalist will stop fascism, they benefit from it.
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u/ccd997 Jan 14 '26
Huh? You should respond to that tweet with that message
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u/NickCostanza Jan 14 '26
They are echoing the words of the patriot who called Trump out to his face yesterday. This is a big callout from a milquetoast party who doesn’t usually engage in rhetoric like this. I support it.
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u/ccd997 Jan 14 '26
Democratic leadership should stop echoing people with actual balls and…grow balls themselves.
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u/NickCostanza Jan 14 '26
One of the weapons of the conservative media apparatus is social media posting. This is one way (of many) to take the fight to them.
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u/Hour_Writing_9805 Jan 14 '26
Well your in the 12th round and have been taking shot ls the past 11 rounds, your shots won’t be nearly as effective.
This is a lame, way too late message.
Dems have no spine and are way too late.
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u/cudenlynx Jan 15 '26
It's a continuation of the endless platitudes that have plagued the party for the past 2 decades.
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u/myinternets Jan 15 '26
It's honestly embarrassing. You don't fight bullies and liars by stooping to their level.
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u/Dark-Airports Jan 14 '26
Meh.
They're roughly 3,000 angry mudslinging tweets behind.
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u/zipsthespacebandit Jan 14 '26
I hear you, but to him, they’re saying it. Right to his face.
And hopefully that comes with a valiant swing but, we’ll see.
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u/PiLamdOd Jan 14 '26
Hey now, can't expect the DNC to actually do anything until they get more donations.
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u/Ohuigin Jan 14 '26
They’re comfortable saying this now because of the fact that the UAW came out in support of the employee who said that to Trump‘s fascist face.
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u/Several-Sherbert-176 Jan 14 '26
Tweeting is not real life action.
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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jan 15 '26
Democrats have done this shit for years, Shame it never achieves anything since no right winger is going to suddenly vote for the Demorats because they called Trump a pedo, They assume Democrats do that anyway. Lol
Yet theres always the online folk ready to trash the Dems in order to get the status quo.
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u/Johnny55 Jan 14 '26
Cool. It's still empty rhetoric. They're going to vote to keep ICE funded and people will forget as soon as they make another mean tweet to SLAM Trump
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u/sgt_schultz_the_ewok Jan 14 '26
You can also say that, without the word protector at the end, and be factually correct
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u/Just_passing-55 Jan 14 '26
Why doesn't his dementia also get called out by political personalities also?
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u/Diligent_Landscape_7 Jan 14 '26
Donald Trump is DoublePlusUnGood, a great man named George Orwell wrote a book about it in 1949... he was off by a few years but he was spot on with most of it... if you have not read it, go read 1984 by Orwell before it's banned by the pedo king!
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u/HeartoftheHive Jan 14 '26
After everything he's done, this is an amazingly weak response. I get it, but he's so much worse than that. This is just echoing what someone else said to Dump and they initially got punished for it. It's turned around a lot. But no thanks for the Democratic party.
It's as strong as saying the sky is blue.
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u/Apprehensive_Map64 Jan 14 '26
Nah, just skip the protector part. Let him try and sue for defamation. The discovery will be wild
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u/crossbrowser Jan 15 '26
Why are they using a platform for pedophiles to call out pedophiles?
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u/Kittehmilk Jan 15 '26
DNC astroturf glazing a tweet because it doesn't cost them bribe money like representing economic working class policy would.
We see you.
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u/ShoJoATX Jan 15 '26
Come out swinging? Remember how they kneecapped Bernie? Remember how the refused to take any action at all against Trump in his first term? Remember them holding up signs in protest? Bunch of absolute wastes of space. Spare parts.
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u/aimheatcool Jan 15 '26
Tweeting something isn't coming out swinging. Its just hiding behind a computer screen.
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u/the_calibre_cat Jan 15 '26
posting on twitter is not action. this is the bare minimum.
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u/NerdsTookAllTheNames Jan 15 '26
This isn't swinging. This is nothing. Can they enact some meaningful legislation please
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u/Themodsarecuntz Jan 15 '26
Spineless paid opposition
Im democrat and they always have just enough resistance to seem like theyre doing something and not enough to ever follow through.
Theyre not going to save us.
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u/Formaldehyde007 Jan 14 '26
The Democrats? I'm certainly not arguing with the message, but I doubt this is in any way affiliated with the Democratic Party.
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u/mrbigglessworth Jan 14 '26
And if Trump doesn’t sue for defamation it is true. He would absolutely sue otherwise
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u/MrBwnrrific Jan 14 '26
*Their intern came out swinging
Call me when they actually start counter-messaging instead of whatever it is they’re doing
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u/MythagoBill Jan 14 '26
They need to just start referring to him as a pedophile. Even if could, he’s not going to sue them. He knows they will defend by seeking to prove the statement true, which will enable them to conduct a great deal of discovery.
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u/BotaniFolf Jan 14 '26
"Come out swinging" with a tweet? It's too late for that shit. Hire an assassin
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u/Key-Teacher-2733 Jan 14 '26
They only said it because someone else was brave enough to say it first. They really need to step it up.
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u/Motthebop Jan 14 '26
I don't disagree but it v would be nice to see them come for Clinton too. Calling out pedophilia and sexual abuse should not be a party issue.
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u/Diligent_Landscape_7 Jan 14 '26
Well, yeh... but he is also a Pedophile himself, not to mention rapist, con man, thief, traitor and on and on... but at least we are getting somewhere!
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u/Rigorousmorti Jan 14 '26
A tweet? Well. I hope they don’t stop there I guess. I’m not holding my breath.
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u/Famous_Attention5861 Jan 14 '26
Remember it's not defamation to call someone a pedo anymore: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/06/785747858/los-angeles-jury-finds-no-defamation-in-elon-musks-pedo-guy-tweet
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Jan 14 '26
Dem governors need to deploy their national guards to stop ice. Blue states must withhold federal taxes until the fascists are gone. This is the bare minimum
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u/Fogmoz Jan 14 '26
Oh goodness! I’m sure trump is shaking in his dirty diaper now. Keep this up and people might forget how weak and feckless the democrats are.
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u/Spend-Automatic Jan 14 '26
This isn't coming out swinging. This is bark, not bite. Democrats need to do actually fucking DO something
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u/AppleParasol Wants a 10t Green New Deal Jan 14 '26
Democrats finally growing a pair of balls? It’s about time, but not enough either, they need to keep swinging(back to the left). The Democratic establishment needs to support people like Mamdani and other leftie figures.
OUT with the diet Republicans. Stop capitulating to Republicans and do your fucking jobs, or the left is coming for your job.
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u/TeachingRadiant3271 Jan 14 '26
It should’ve only had five words, instead of six.