Thank you for challenging me on this point. I’ve been looking up some info on how the minority party can influence congress and, while the options are limited, options do exist. Might write a thread on this.
Republicans barely have a majority in the house and Dems only need to convince a few of them to go against the tide and ground the legislative agenda to a halt.
Obviously as you point out this won’t stop trump’s EOs but any retrograde action against the maga nationalist agenda is a good step
He did that with filibusters. You can't pass laws with a filibuster you can only block them. Right now there are not laws to block with a filibuster and they have no power over executive orders otherwise than to take them to court which dems are doing.
We'll see how they do on the most controversial of them, they all voted against Hegseth. If any vote for Bondi, Gabbard or Kennedy then I will pissed. I think Rubio should have got more pushback but at least he's "qualified". It doesn't matter much if Trump gets his impoundment powers though.
That really pisses me off when they do that. If they’re going to confirm… which they will regardless of Democratic votes, don’t give them to cover of bipartisanship.
Agree. We can’t change the outcome but at least we don’t normalize this atrocity.
They’ve had months to prep for this, and it appears that they did nothing beyond some preemptive pardons. Why is there no plan beyond posting descriptions on social of problems we can see with our own two eyes?
“Um, geez, this sure looks bad, guys. Someone should do something!”
The Democrats are handcuffed but they persist despite their limitations. Republicans are actively supporting efforts for an orange takeover of our government. Elections have consequences.
Republicans in Congress are scared of Trump but also Elon’s threat to personally fund a primary challenger if the get out of line. Dems don’t have the numbers
Well the Republicans have the majority of both houses and they are up Trump’s ass. The Dems are in the minority and other than rhetoric and lawsuits, their options are quite limited.
That said, I think Dems could and should all be working weekends right now...
To avoid the obvious growing mass assumption they’re doing nothing, a good idea would be to take a single moment to let people know what they ARE doing though. It’s remiss of them to think there is a trust built.
The woman who used to run the Wendy’s twitter account offered to run Democratic social media for free. They’re idiots if they don’t call her. Grandpas Schumer, Jeffries and Booker don’t know what the hell they’re doing.
They’re tweeting what they are doing. We’re aware they took a long weekend.. and aware they are litigating what they can. No real Twitter help needed, Congress can’t actually do more, so nothing more to tweet.
Someone like Dan Rather needs to penetrate legacy media who don’t print truth to America.
Some are on the weekend shows saying they had no idea any of this was going to be this bad. No path on how to stop it, no plan on halting congressional work until the unconstitutional power grabs stop. NOTHING just plausible deniability all around. THEY TOLD US THE WHOLE TIME WHAT THEY HAD PLANNED!
The MAGA GOP kissing his ass, the Old School Democrats, plotting their path to power. The checks and balances were only as strong as the people we elected and we elected, for the most part, political cowards. No more Mr Smith.
congress sets laws and as such moves slower than the executive branch
yet more importantly, right now, the Republicans control ALL THREE branches of the US government. Therefore you cannot complain about any Democrat actions, because they cannot take any actions.
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We need to come to terms with the fact that we are alone in this
The people voted for MAGAts. Thats what they got. If you aren’t happy with that; vote harder next time.
There is not much they can do besides help people see the error of their ways.
Other than the deplorables, the abject chaos we are seeing in dc is not what people voted for…they voted for lower grocery prices first foremost.
Obviously as you point out this won’t stop trump’s EOs but any retrograde action against the maga nationalist agenda is a good step
You’d think they would whip out the wallet and buy a couple fucking republicans.
It really is that easy. They respond to money .. but a few and get this fixed.
Besides amplifying the shit show, doing better with social media, and putting money into local or state races, I don’t see a lot of options
There are my suggestions.
Oh, and Dems showing up to vote might help.
This would be a good start and I don’t see them doing even half of that.
Beyond these actions I’m honestly not sure what can be done but I’m also not…
Agree. We can’t change the outcome but at least we don’t normalize this atrocity.
The time to act is when you have the majority. To unify and stop playing the “we need bipartisanship” bullshit.
We have not learned that lesson.
“Um, geez, this sure looks bad, guys. Someone should do something!”
Thanks, Chuck.
Call your congressional representatives.
Flood their inboxes.
That said, I think Dems could and should all be working weekends right now...
Someone like Dan Rather needs to penetrate legacy media who don’t print truth to America.
But prying folks away who went there every day is like getting ants to change direction.
That Dan Rather IS now officially indie is great. He’s the guy all those MSM addicted folks went there to trust.
Makes him a great source when talking to them
Still.
Congress 🙏
Carney has form in speaking truth to Useful Idiots when he was Governor of the Bank of England and the Putin Puppet Tories brought in Brexit.
I hope he makes it to Prime Minister in March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV101ei8mu8
The congress men/women get rich from the oligarchs not the voters
It’s time we realize both sides are in debt to the rich
yet more importantly, right now, the Republicans control ALL THREE branches of the US government. Therefore you cannot complain about any Democrat actions, because they cannot take any actions.
But all the world is seeing is them virtually bowing to Trump and his cronies, with very few exceptions.
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