A protester at an Idaho town hall hosted by a Republican committee made remarks from the audience to several legislative members on stage.

Summary

Protesters at a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee town hall in Idaho were forcibly removed after criticizing Trump policies, including the Elon Musk-led DOGE.

Event organizers dismissed their concerns, with one emcee saying, “Your voice is meaningless.”

Similar protests occurred in Georgia and Oklahoma, where Republicans faced criticism over mass layoffs.

Lawsuits have been filed against the administration over the legality of these dismissals.

  • KoboldCoterieEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    They didn’t fuck with the vote

    They certainly did fuck with the voters, though - there was an absurd amount of well documented disenfranchisement leading up to this election. You can believe what you want to believe, but I choose to believe that if everyone who in previous elections had been eligible to vote had been allowed to this time, too, the result would have been different.

          • KoboldCoterieEnglish
            3·
            20 hours ago

            Yeah, absolutely, but that’s propaganda, not voter suppression. I wasn’t even mentioning the propaganda, of which there was a vast amount of both for Trump and against Harris.

              • KoboldCoterieEnglish
                3·
                20 hours ago

                There’s a difference between propaganda convincing people not to vote vs. voter suppression legally preventing them from doing so. Like it or not, I think propaganda is an inescapable reality of the world we live in, and I don’t see any way to stop it without also suppressing speech. Truth in reporting laws would certainly help, but a huge amount of it is disseminated via social media by users.

                Laws removing the ability to vote from a population that disproportionately skews politically in one direction or who are disproportionately of specific ethnicities is far more insidious and should be preventable.

                • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  20 hours ago

                  Laws removing the ability to vote from a population that disproportionately skews politically in one direction or who are disproportionately of specific ethnicities is far more insidious and should be preventable.

                  I have no proof or sources to back me up but I feel voter suppressing propaganda is as big of a problem but nevertheless eighty million eligible votes didn’t exercise their rights to do so and that’s almost inexcusable.

                  • KoboldCoterieEnglish
                    3·
                    20 hours ago

                    I feel voter suppressing propaganda is as big of a problem

                    I agree with you that it’s a huge problem; I’m just not sure we have a simple / viable solution. Elon Musk can post something on Twitter that’s verifiably, indisputably wrong, and you can have 100,000 people posting hard evidence proving that it’s wrong, but Elon’s reach is greater than all 100k of them combined. It’s essentially impossible to counter social media propaganda as a result, and that was the case even before he owned the platform it’s being disseminated on.