genuinely baffling how many Dems continue to behave as if anyone in this administration will follow the law in any capacity look at fucking Rubio, you’re all going to be making public mea culpas on this vote within a week save yourselves the trouble and vote no on every single thing - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

rincewind.run • 1 day ago

genuinely baffling how many Dems continue to behave as if anyone in this administration will follow the law in any capacity

look at fucking Rubio, you’re all going to be making public mea culpas on this vote within a week

save yourselves the trouble and vote no on every single thing

Reposted from Matt Novak

The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, which means a lot of Dems voted for her. During a fucking constitutional crisis.

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dramaticowl.bsky.social•1 day ago

i hate them

socialistboghag.bsky.social•1 day ago

All they care about is their stock portfolios. Which progressives have been saying for well over a decade at this point.

blankwillbur.bsky.social•1 day ago

Occam's Razor: This is what they, or rather their employers, want.

IMHO, pleading with the DNC Fascists to not do what they are being paid to do is a waste of our time. It's time to just lump them in with their fellow fascists and remove them all.

bozocomo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It shouldn't be baffling, based on the last forty years of Democrats. They're not your allies.

russ741.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The Teamsters (yuck) and AFL-CIO are happy about this pick. If she turns around and stabs them (us) in the back - and she probably will - then maybe that'll get the Teamsters (yuck) to smarten up.

colind.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only thing I want to hear about Democrats in congress voting yes on is Impeachment, and removal. I want them to bring it up every time someone puts a microphone in front of them. Because at this point it’s either that or much worse.

winterpancake.bsky.social•1 day ago

If they wanted to they would

malatesting.bsky.social•1 day ago

are we certain they have developed object permanence?

brokenwing.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Not in the least baffling if they’re complicit.

jessisamess.gay•1 day ago

like what do they imagine is gonna happen if they vote no on all these? do they think someone at a town hall is gonna be like, "how COULD you vote against confirming so-and-so??"

it's not gonna happen and if it did just say "yeah i voted against President Hitler's cabinet of Hitler Juniors, and?"

1981photo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Simple! Everyone who wants to serve under Trump is disqualified on the basis of their wanting to serve under Trump.

elimgarak240b.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry but chuck schumer told me we need to maintain decorum and be polite to republicans

meh333.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Ronald Regan’s spirit of comity and morality might tsk tsk their consciences.

judination.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now we're going to find out how many democrats Putin owns.

millhousebooty.bsky.social•1 day ago

as predictable as the sunrise https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/politics/video/murphy-intv-rubio-trump-digvid

texaskrusty.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are so fucking wedded to being seen as defenders of the system that they engage in bullshit bipartisanship like this rather than fight against the actual threats to those systems is galling.

We don’t need a responsible party. We need an utterly destroyed GOP.

Stop helping them look normal.

rokkitmaam.com•22 hours ago

This is what I do not understand. How short are their memories? Trump told us what he’s planning and there is no compromise. Capitulation to fascism just accelerates it.

dahoovster.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re just not gonna get it, are they? I’m leaning more and more to the “primary them all” camp

baj.bsky.social•1 day ago

They imagine someone will come after them saying "Your Dem senator is so extreme they voted 'no' on Lori Chavez-DeRemer!" as though any of their constituents will ever hear the name "Lori Chavez-DeRemer" again after today or, for some reason, commit it to memory.

bevjo88.bsky.social•16 hours ago

@indivisible.org

Yup. Here are the ones who did. Call them. Demand answers.

AZ Gallego
AZ Kelly
CA Schiff
CO Bennet
CO Hickenlooper
GA Warnock
GA Ossoff
MI Peters
MI Slotkin
MN Klobuchar
NH Hassan
NH Shaheen
NV Cortez Masto
NV Rosen
PA Fetterman - did not vote
RI Whitehouse
VA Kaine
VA Warner

integratedself.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Notice the Oregon Dems- where Chavez-DeRemer is from- did not vote for her.

tylerontheinternet.bsky.social•23 hours ago

or, what's more, that anyone would be offended that the Democratic senator would vote against a GOP pick or, especially, one in this administration. otherwise, what the fuck are the democrats even banking on anymore? that enough people trip on their shoelaces in the booth and pick D accidentally?

veryrealbatman.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I just assume they're completely compromised at all leadership levels by powerful monied interests who are trying to pretend things are fine. It makes their inertia a lot more understandable. Both parties need to be destroyed.

bevjo88.bsky.social•16 hours ago

@indivisible.org

Yup. Here are the ones who did. Call them. Demand answers.

AZ Gallego
AZ Kelly
CA Schiff
CO Bennet
CO Hickenlooper
GA Warnock
GA Ossoff
MI Peters
MI Slotkin
MN Klobuchar
NH Hassan
NH Shaheen
NV Cortez Masto
NV Rosen
PA Fetterman - did not vote
RI Whitehouse
VA Kaine
VA Warner

markshatraw.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remain befuddled by that Rubio vote. Even he's a combination of Superman and Captain America behind closed doors, what makes you think that he'll be anything more than a spineless jellyfish in the execution of his job?

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s one of them, someone they know and have spoken with, a colleague. Some of them who might maybe have a little bit of spine probably thought he was as good as these Trump picks were going to get.

worldofcardboard.bsky.social•1 day ago

If he wasn’t gonna do exactly what Trump wanted, he wouldn't be getting the nom. This man would not tolerate a news org calling it the gulf of Mexico. Does anyone seriously think he demands less fealty from his cabinet?

rob1946.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s that goddamned congressional collegiality, aka back-scratching, aka horse-trading. Which sort of works when good faith rules. We’re way beyond that.

lukemiguez.bsky.social•1 day ago

Really weird that they're willing to vote in favour of Trump's Labor Secretary as well. What do they think they'll spend their time doing other than attacking a core Democratic political constituency?

liam1313.bsky.social•1 day ago

I vote... 👉💥💥💥 🟠💩. 👋

schroedinger.bsky.social•1 day ago

liam1313.bsky.social•1 day ago

Saving Pfc Ryan... 👉💥💥💥 🟠💩.🫡💯

trexcapades.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's Al Green or gtfo Democrats. We really need you to get your shit together. Engage the public on a massive scale.

Amplify the corruption and horror of the Trump administration every single day. This nation is hanging by a thread dangling over a powder keg!

SEIZE IT!

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mrdoublev.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely convinced that whatever leadership emerges in the party in the near future isn’t going to come from the senate.

anagramdoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

but in the midterms the survivors scrounging for scraps in the wasteland will need to vote for Democrats and they're going to want decorum

justanotherdummy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you!

For me, I like Warren, Merkley, Smith, a few others, but they're all dead to me now with that vote for Rubio. Even the fighters put Senate comity over their obligations to the country. One "yeah" for Trump is too much.

Once I valued bipartisanship but fuck these guys. No w's for R's.

not-lain.bsky.social•22 hours ago

lmao Warren the woman who stole from native education funds and slandered Bernie Sanders? You JUST NOW find out she's a captured politician? Jesus christ it must really be bad

rincewind.run•1 day ago

there are, very occasionally, specific votes that will get hung around someone’s neck in campaign ads (though even that is often overblown)

not once has one of those votes been for a cabinet member

lfillingham.bsky.social•1 day ago

We could hang it around their necks for Yes votes. For the numbers of Yes votes for Trump's cabinet. That should matter more.

evpd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also the margin is still narrow enough they could theoretically make it vulnerable Rs' problem to explain, and/or occasionally force Vance's sorry ass to have to show up.

It's not just neutrally worthless it's actively harmful

rinkuraku.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dems do not fucking get it. They're too far into the it can't happen here BS. It can and is happening here, and the people who might be able to stop it, or at least slow it down so the American people can stop it have their heads up their ass.

serenitymoon.beer•1 day ago

This is probably the only time I'll be mildly grateful for my shit senators. They vote exactly as expected and my expectations are very very under the floor
... Jesus

patrickkingart.com•1 day ago

I wish they'd borrow a page from the GOP playbook about being the minority party and just gum up the works at every turn like the Republicans did in 2010, instead of all this embarrassing spinelessness

bonerkuwanger.bsky.social•16 hours ago

eventually you have to conclude that the spinelessness is on purpose and a feature of their party, not a bug

blackstarflame.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We really need a new party in America. The Democrats ain't it and never will be.

masmith78.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seriously. Why the fuck do they keep acting like shit going on is just a normal political disagreement!

tinmanbs.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Just remember, #CooperationIsCollaboration

winterpancake.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unless this is what they want

mysteriousgrayart.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's one hell of a humiliation that the people least willing to perform any kind of resistance against an obviously corrupt and evil president, are the ones with the most power to cause real problems. Not unexpected, but no less embarrassing.