Congressional Democrats were barred from entering the Department of Education’s headquarters on Friday morning as they tried investigate billionaire Elon Musk’s “DOGE” takeover of sensitive data within.

“They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education,” Frost wrote in another post to Bluesky. “This is an authoritarian regime.”

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    Not sure how it’s legal to bar a congressmember from most government buildings. Perhaps they should bring an armed military person or two with them the next time they come for a visit.

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    All I’m saying is that if they’re already at the point of whining about it right now, they are going to be completely and totally unprepared when it actually becomes a full-on authoritarian regime.

    The only thing that bullies understand is raw power. If they don’t flex their raw power, it will be taken away from them.

    They are the people literally appointed by us to do this. They need to get going.

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      Was thinking this this morning. They don’t need to stand around and whine with 40 congress people in front of the DOE, they need to call up David Hogg (new DNC vice chair btw) and get 40,000 of his closest friends to show up and raise a goddamn ruckus.

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        If they had spines, they would understand that the best way to prevent this kind of shit from happening is to stand up in full force and make it painful and uncomfortable for the bullies to continue while broadcasting all of their actions on every news platform and media station that they can get a hold of.

        I want them to have spines. This is an exhortation for their spinal columns to stiffen up.

        Democratic politicians need to fucking stand up and start kicking ass and getting violent, if need be, in order to protect America.

        The ones that don’t need to get axed and replaced by younger blood that wants to prove itself.