true but impetus of the Genius Act ... (that which was voted on today) was egged on by cryptos fav kleptocrats, investors... and protectors Pelosi and Schumer
Booker read out letters of the vulnerable into congressional record then votes to elevate a billionaire felon tied to political mafioso. Will Charles Kushner represent the American poor or reinforce the power of those who silence them? Selective morality is performance not principle! Too bad!
It says a lot when we keep focusing on Senator Booker, a Black man voting the way he did instead of the Nazi Republicans that did the same fucking thing. Every fucking time.
One way to send a message to the Democrats would be for large numbers of people to change their voter registration from Democrat to no party affiliation.
Dems are so pathetic. They just roll over like a whore in the grass. GOP just laughs and has their way with them. C’mon Dems grow some hair and fight back. Give them nothing. Vote against them for anything. FFS !
I’m not sure where my vote or voice will be heard! The democrats have gone mute and let this administration go to hell in a hand basket in little more than 100 days doing nothing! I’m damn sure not voting republican!
I didn't used to believe it, but I've come around. By and large American politics are a two-party con game. Oligarchs buy enough influence on "both sides of the aisle" to ensure the government is perpetually running towards the right wing.
I see we at the post-Reichstag fire stage in 1933. Arresting Reichstag members who disagreed with the Nazi party, but the difference in this case, being the Reichstag members in opposition voting along with the Nazis.
Puzzling. Do they think this is what their constituents want to see or that a meaningful # of their constituents aren’t paying attention so their free to pass this legislation because…uhh…well
The senate is a lost cause. Period. Look at what happened with the bill a few months ago where the entire house dems voted against it then the senate just let it pass. The house is at least doing something the senate is destroyed.
Yes but I was told not supporting these democrats makes me a Trump supporter so I guess this is a good thing 🙃. This is what fighting fascism looks like!
I mean, this isn't even within the bounds of self-interest at this point, since it's pretty clear that Trump will have them arrested if he can at all get away with it, no matter how much money they're making.
They're all victims in a Halloween movie going through the motions of doing stupid shit until Michael puts them out of their misery. I honestly can't figure what else this is.
At what point do we start to understand that Dems in congress are rich and only out for themselves? We cannot rely on Dems to save us or the government. If we want something better, we have to remove them from the party and run progressive candidates who will stand up to Trump and the GOP.
Show the evidence???!!! Educate Yourself or stay out of the conversation! Some Senate Dems have been voting for Republican legislation and confirming Trump’s incompetent cabinet picks for months - since day 1! Your ignorance is astounding!
The Senate voted for cloture on the Genius Act. They could not have done it without Democratic help.
He's talking about legislation and what has passed, he is not talking about Booker and the nomination, nominations are not legislation. OMG!
If you’re referring to the crypto regulatory bill, I’m not sure that’s as damning as you infer.
I agree Dems should be blocking all appointments, all bills that undercut democracy, all cuts to Medicare & Trump’s budget in general — but we DO need crypto regulation
Getting a new party is almost impossible in a corrupt two-party system, and there's also resistance grifters who obviously aren't helping.
Not to mention the weird nerds of Silicon Valley dryhumping AI on top of it just to keep Web3 on life support. Economic failure? Autocracy, apparently.
I still don't see why Stapleton is any better than regular currency, unless you are doing something illegal.
Why would anyone abandon currency for some crypto?
I don't see myself ever using cryptocurrency
Nothing in economy to date is based on crypto. It’s based on the dollar. Until that happens we’ll be using the dollar. But if they’re able to lock out middle class and poor people from using dollars and things shift to crypto we’re in a lot of trouble.
He’s a pro-Israel genocide supporter pretending to be a vegan zen guy. Big facade for an empty soul. Welcome to the “we see you, Mr. Charlatan Poser” club.
#SchumerNeedsToGo and those who continue to work across an aisle that doesn't exist needs to go. Its very simple. This is why David Hogg is actively looking for fighting Progressives/Democrats… there is NO AISLE WITH FASCISTS! 😡😡😡
🚨ATTENTION SCOTUS🚨
Now, he's arresting Democratic members of Congress. Please, you have to reverse your decision on his presidential immunity. He's coming for them, and it could easily be you next.
To wit, Bernie is not even a Democrat! He's an independent who caucuses with them, and we are going to need to see a LOT more electeds in that same mold if we're ever going to shake ourselves free of this pathetic "opposition" party and make progress.
Remember all the things Democrats said they’d couldn’t do because Republicans might later do the same? Like arresting members of Congress who participated in the Jan 6 coup, refusing to confirm ridiculous presidential nominees, etc.
It is infuriating. However, the few Dems speaking out forcefully are not being covered in the traditional media. The rallies, the protests, don't get any coverage. No stories about Trump's obvious mental decline, yet they push Jake Tapper's book. CBS bowed down. Journalism is dead.
Don’t know about anyone else, but that excuse has always rung hollow. It’s not the first time during my life that it was used, either. I don’t care what your political standing is. If you break the law, you reap the consequences. Nixon should never have been pardoned.
What makes it wild is LBJ found out Kissinger & Nixon were sabotaging peace deals in Vietnam so he Nixon could win the election. Instead of charging them w/ treason, he let them pass so the nation could "heal"
No point, just absolute stupidity. And I never ever wanna hear any of them say ever again that they can't do something cause it looks political. We have moved waaayyy past politics now.
These so called "Democrats" need to be primaried — as they have willfully 'misundetstood' a very significant assignment. Fuck these DINO's/Democrats In Name Only!
Puerto rican statehood is a grift not a real movement. It's merely used by corrupt politicians to maintain power and enrich themselves at the expense of the populace
The people of DC generally don't want to be part of MD. They're fairly distinct in their local culture and politics, and as such want their *own* statehood.
Wyoming has never made it past 1/10 of 1% of US population so that rules that out.
Besides, Statehood isn’t based on straight population numbers, it is a complex process and can’t be simply turned on and off like a switch.
The plain fact of the matter is that the Senate is past its sell-by date and makes a mockery of “democracy”. The only objection to killing it dead is the prospect of re-opening the deal in general, and even that is iffy now since the deal isn’t worth the paper it’s written on
Example tweet pro #JimCrowPlanB annihilation of courts DC, laws, contracts, law bar so firing all lawyers DC, forcing DC to let poorer MD loot DC taxbase forever, etc, to steal 2 more of DC's EC votes for US President,
usually demanded as revenge for DC seeking fair & speedy democracy & equality.
It makes one wonder what’s wrong with Congressional Democrats. They seem to not understand the gravity of the situation, or they have atrocious inductive reasoning skills.
Democrats need to lock the eff in. This administration is not one we can “negotiate” with. They will arrest all of you eventually if you don’t stand up now.
Crypto bros helped Trump win and certain Senate Dems don't want those people to spend millions against them. It's not strange or sinister, it's just (amoral) logic.
I don't buy into the Dave Troy stuff claiming that Trump and Elon are secretly trying to crash the dollar and replace it with crypto. Especially b/c the crypto industry's value is tied to the dollar just as much as EVERY OTHER industry.
I should have followed my own words. "If you don't know how anything works, you think everything is broken." I don't know anything about connections to crypto, so there's something "weird" going on when it's just the usual
And that is our problem. If Dem members of Congress won't stand up for each other to fight against this regime, they certainly won't stand up for us. Most Dems have zero interest in fighting Trump. Nor do they have the courage to stand up for a black woman.
A lot of Dems actually voted for Kamala Harris while a lot of "progressives and leftists" choose to sit the election out then those same people have the temerity to whine about the election results.
People need to realize that Congress fell. There are not enough Bookers n Crockets to save the us. There R 2 many dirty politicians ON BOTH SIDES The only way this ends is if People STAND and DEMAND an ALL STOP ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Before he has the rest of his gestapo in place
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(i mean of course he did, but LOL)
shit like this just undermines your filibuster and any other resistance rhetoric you spew.....seriously.
BTW Joe Biden had this stuff regulated.
Hopefully Marc Egghead goes the way of S.B.F., A.S.A.P.
Say it ain't so, @booker.senate.gov
STOP THIS. They are NAZIS.
and that seems to be a lot of the time.
They are chasing large donors dollars and selling us out.
There is zero leadership.
Feels like a faction of the democratic party are collaborators to the authoritarian takeover
That sounds about right.
We get blamed every time Democrats lose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/new-jersey-congress-ice-charges.html
Shall I go on troll boy?
Stopping fascism is not a fucking weekend protest...
AOC
Katie Porter-leave them!
Pritzker
He's talking about legislation and what has passed, he is not talking about Booker and the nomination, nominations are not legislation. OMG!
Thought you were talking about the budget bill, BTW. Wasn't my intention to argue against your point.
I agree Dems should be blocking all appointments, all bills that undercut democracy, all cuts to Medicare & Trump’s budget in general — but we DO need crypto regulation
Most of the people responsible have been fired and replaced with loyalists.
Not to mention the weird nerds of Silicon Valley dryhumping AI on top of it just to keep Web3 on life support. Economic failure? Autocracy, apparently.
Maybe all of them.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/know-genius-act-crypto-regulation-182057460.html
Why would anyone abandon currency for some crypto?
I don't see myself ever using cryptocurrency
If the democrats won't save themselves
They sure as shit aren't going to save you
It's time for actual resistance white liberals
Now, he's arresting Democratic members of Congress. Please, you have to reverse your decision on his presidential immunity. He's coming for them, and it could easily be you next.
The resistance has spent four months thinking they could change them instead of supporting orgs that were really fighting for us.
No exceptions. No excuses.
What was the point of Democrats “playing nice”?
Besides, Statehood isn’t based on straight population numbers, it is a complex process and can’t be simply turned on and off like a switch.
Doing that would make the Article I branch of the Federal government function like our state legislature here in Texas.
Just to provide some context. A bill is about to be delivered to the governor's desk that will *require* the 10 commandments in classrooms.
usually demanded as revenge for DC seeking fair & speedy democracy & equality.
Been seeing this feigned helplessness for way too long.
have no fight in them.
We must lead the way.
Enough of that vanilla crap,
It is time to throw stones.
Fascist don’t surrender power, it has to be taken from them.
I don't buy into the Dave Troy stuff claiming that Trump and Elon are secretly trying to crash the dollar and replace it with crypto. Especially b/c the crypto industry's value is tied to the dollar just as much as EVERY OTHER industry.
Some of them got paid millions by crypto bros and they want to make sure that doesn’t go anywhere
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