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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are scared AF about #NoKings Day -- calling it a "Hate America Rally" a bunch of "radical left terrorists" lol

So, let's be sure we show the communities we gather in that WE LOVE AMERICA and that's why we are taking it to the streets

Bring flags 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@indivisible.org

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 3h

Also per Kimmel:
#ShowMeYourHellhole

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 3h

Per Kimmel:
#ShowMeYourHellhole

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 3h

Per Kimmel
#ShowMeYourHellhole

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 3h

FYI Jimmy Kimmel said (on-air) tag vids w/
#ShowMeYourHellhole
so staff can screen and possibly use/broadcast

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 7h

Per Kimmel:
#ShowMeYourHellhole

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 7h

per Kimmel’s request:
#ShowMeYourHellhole

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 8h

And Primary Charge #1 is Violation of Asymmetrical Double-Hoop Earrings, Penal code 246.06

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 8h

I especially ❤️ the patches on the chair arm.
Been around the block together a few times, huh?

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 8h

They are! the most mine do with <mouse-size things is intently look at and visually track them…which at least gives me clues about where to go with the swatter or lizard-catcher 🫤

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h

Trump and Stephen Miller want us afraid, but we’re not backing down. We will see you in the streets on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 13h

Just picture a swaying sea of inflatable critters holding their phone flashlights in the air
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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 13h

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We also need slow, earnest anthems (a la ‘we shall overcome’).

How about “it’s Not Easy Being Green”?
capped off with ‘The Rainbow Connection”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

Or like

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

Group cohesion forces also important here; shared expressed rage can be a strong glue, but ganging up in boisterous mockery very easily taps into deep-seated impulses from childhood 😝

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

…and perhaps best of both (rhetorical) worlds is when regime uses gratuitous force against absurdist non-violent citizens —as when an agent sprayed pepper spray directly into PDX-Frog’s air vent

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

brilliant work

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1d

Social media users love how protesters in Portland, Oregon, are countering ICE and the Trump administration's fearmongering with weirdness.

Anti-ICE Protesters Mock Trump’s Claim That Portland Is A ‘War Zone’ In Silliest Way Possible

Social media users love how protesters in Portland, Oregon, are countering ICE and the Trump administration's fearmongering with weirdness.

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

💯 Even pre-PDX Frog, we proponents of a United Dance Party Front (or similar) r not just working from some hopelessly naive boomer playbook.

Absurdist non-violent mockery —with boisterous energy *shared with one another*—exposes Regime lies and reduces storm-troopers to ridiculous superfluous puds

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

💯💯💯💯

smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 1d

Plus..um…studies don’t “make the proof” 🧐