Great summary. The dems need to be talking about this stuff 24/7. I heard about the filibuster and data protection act via Bluesky. The others I am just now hearing about. Fire up the propaganda machine.
Btw. It’s too late to protect people’s data. To steal the whole database they needed just hours. They had 6 days of unrestricted access. Plenty of time to copy it all, insert code to stop/alter any transaction to citizen/agencies and live surveillance. It’s the biggest security breach in history.
Senate still voted in Russell Vought. Democrats introducing bills, will most likely not pass a vote in Congress. The firewall has been the judges to challenge Trump/Musk's fuckery.
Its all political theater. The true defenders are behind the scenes, not this showboat circus of a spineless rubes.
So, in reality, they did nothing that will amount to anything. Voight still got confirmed. Patel will also eventually get confirmed. Any bills introduced by House Democrats are dead on arrival. Letters sent to any members of Trump's cabinet are worthless. And nobody cares about investigations.
Fair summary. Octogenarian multi-millionaire DEMs irrelevant now. Self coup in progress. Courts making orders useless, regime is ignoring law & US Marshalls under control of POTUS. Game over. Only #PeoplePower can reset the game now. #GeneralStrike https://generalstrikeus.com/
Yes, elections have consequences. But why in the hell are Democrats playing nice with the goddamn Republicans? Democrats need to copy from the Republican playbook and slow everything down to a grinding pace. Throw as many fucking wrenches in the gears as possible!
Over half of the membership couldn’t be bothered to add their names to the letter. Its either a failure of leadership or these dems need to be challenged in the next primary.
But then change the emails. All they do is beg for money and don't say what you are doing. An email detailing what is being done and why the money is needed to get things done will be more effective than just hand wringing.
Do you follow AOC or your representatives? Have you ever distributed campaign literature, knocked on doors, made phone calls, mailed post cards, or put up signs? Get in touch with your local campaign office and volunteer instead of bitching about what you perceive what you think others r not doing.
In 2004, I asked the local Democratic Committee Chair if I could help and was refused. Refused with threats if I tried to join. Years ago, I did do all the things you said, but don't feel welcome to do it now where I lived.
Dems are a 19 th century party that is lost in 21 st century politics. So are Republicans but while MAGA wants to return to the early 19th century or before, Dems can’t escape the Civil War, Cold War, or baby Bush’s War on Terror. Dems are too desperate for cash to lead.
Dems are complicit, complicit with the wars, complicit with the military industrial complex, complicit with health insurance companies, complicit with the patriot act. This is what THEY want
Great start to point out FOTUS illegal Constitutional overreach. Dems need to confront the GOP traitors head-on in order to be proactive.
Expose the Dead GOP who abdicated their free power to Elon & FOTUS. They must be removed; they're traitors. Democrats must be one unified & United team to win!
If i had any problem.. i would proabbly say they needed to simplify it. Project 25 doesn't instantly click and people dont stick around for explanations. But theres so much in project 25...
How come these 80 year old GOPlins behave instead as if they were a freshly immigrated muskrat who knows nothing about US political culture? I do not understand any of them
OK You poorly educated Americans, here's a video of the last guy to try & appease a fascist regime...now class can any of you tell me what happened next..the list above is a list of abject failures
Yes, but what actually happened to stop trump and musk from doing what they re doing? A lot of talk and bills doesn't seem to stop musk taking a chainsaw to the literal workings of government.
If it's ok for Republicans to break the law and STEAL America's Treasury, would it be okay if Democrats just ignore the fuck out of the GOP unlawfulness and force The Constitution and have local law enforcement ARREST the TRAITOR'S???
If the US had followed in the steps of the EU by creating its own GDPR equivalent I.e Data Protection rules- perhaps, this whole DOGE data breach could’ve been avoided.
The goal of the Party has to be about protecting people against corporate and powerful interests.
I hope they have this on their radar still. It will surely resurface. Also hope they have endurance because the administration is doing its best to wear them down so crazy shit can slide through. They’ve tried this before and will try again.
So actually ZERO real, substantial accomplishments. Always the same old bloviating on the Senate floor and useless harshly worded letters. They fail to understand that to have power you have to use power, not rely on norms, guardrails or decorum.
Read my other response about squandering power WHEN they had it. They failed miserably and continue to perpetuate it by stiff arming the firebrands that we need in leadership. F’k Schumer, Blumenthal, Wyden and all the old bloviators. I stand with my college motto Acta Non Verba!
If Republicans went to any of the compromised agencies and were stopped by security, they’d break in and start a fight within seconds, calling on thousands of people to join them. They might even bring buckets of shit to smear all over the so-called security. At this point, the rules don’t matter.
If Musk’s data hackers are found to have downloaded any of the data at request and direction of Musk, this should. E considered serious illegal breach thus should be prosecuted by the Feds and State Lawyers to the fullest degree!!!!
The “read only” press release was a Trump ordered release.
Not enough. Arrest Elon and his minions. They have violated our national security. They do not have immunity. Give them the Reality Winner/Jack Texeira treatment. No bail. Make them prove their cases in court. They are all a threat to our country.
The RepubliCONs will push all of trumpz cabinet choices through. Trump's criminals run their party completely. GOP in congress are complicit in approval of the coup. Or just chickenshit afraid of trump doxxing them & their families. They protected him thru 2 impeachments, J-6, Stolen docs etc.
Is this a list of failures or successes. I honestly can’t tell. Vought was approved. “Sent a letter” - sounds like Democrats. I bet it was strongly worded, too?
Democrats failed to 'properly frame' the significance of Project 2025 during campaign. They neglected to emphasize the existential threat to democracy.
In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, Democratic Leadership/Messaging is failing again.
Actually, you cannot fight a system with system-immanent tools, as they already have the tools to fight back. You need much much more creativity and cleverness to fight this coup back.
You’re wrong to give in with sarcasm.
trump lied for a dozen years.
Too many people gave up.
This week protests began.
People are not going to go so quietly as you seem to think we are.
I get it.
I'll err on the side of Democrats always.
By that I mean conservatism is not the way forward nationally.
That's a personal decision.
Try to always work looking ahead.
A group of us just today met for the first time to create an organization in Arizona.
Begin that in your area.
Cheers.
I’m really happy to hear that! And yes, I’m looking into the same things here.
Cheers to you, too. And good luck to us all. I think we’re gonna need it.
All the best!
Oooh you need a safe avenue do you...guess what you don't fight Fascist regimes through "safe avenues" you get out on the street, you march, you protest...safe avenue indeed, you are a coward
Cool cool cool, but they are still STILL playing by the rules and getting beaten. The enemy isn’t playing by the rules. The rules literally don’t matter anymore. Time to change tactics and start getting dirty.
The problem I'm seeing (and correct me if I'm wrong here) is that they are acting within the normal bounds of governmental practices. The other side is not. They are, in essence, bringing an ice cream cone to a gun fight.
Or Dems could have stepped up three years ago when women started dying in miscarriage. That’s when rights and due process died in the U.S. and Dems did nothing but bring it to SCOTUS. Guess how SCOTUS ruled? That rights, bodily autonomy, privacy and due process can be suspended for groups of people.
We the people across the 50 states did more than that yesterday. If we want this situation resolved, we need to organize and take matters into our own hands. Dem leadership is welcome to join us.
It’s cute that Democrats still think that operating within the rules, norms, and procedures is commendable. The house is on fire and they’re busy trying to adjust the thermostat to energy-saving mode. Good for them!
oh that's a hard one, let me see what did they do in Romania & East Germany, what are they doing in Serbia, what are they doing in Germany? If there's one thing putting this fascist regime in power has proven, it's that Americans are clueless cowards when it comes to protesting
Do you think the people in those locations I gave had a set of instructions, what do you want?
1. Get dressed
2. Turn off PC
3. Go outside
4. Talk to other people
No don't, you're a coward who wants promises nothing nasty will happen to you..well tough facing down fascists isn't like that
Unfortunately it will be settled by other leaders on the streets. Dems don’t seem to be able to grasp that democracy is gone at this time. Either Dems are out of touch with reality or it looks like they want to try to protect their place at the trough as well. If so they will bow to this.
So, you continued the charade of business as usual. You're not raising an army, you're not organizing a revolt, you're not obstructing them using literally EVERY means at your disposal. You're TALKING. We are being conquered, not eventually, but now, and you're TALKING. Whatever, Vichy.
And yet as a Tg person here in the US I still fear for my & my Tg siblings right to exist. I feel as if my comm will be thrown under the bus again bc I know many in the Dem party think of Tg issues as a “culture war issue” that was one of the reasons we lost the election.
So very true. And I totally agree, it was stolen. The truth must come out of Musk involvement in the swing states like mine, Pennsylvania and how our Supreme Court here allowed him to basically buy votes.
I’m worried about not having allies around when, not if, this admin makes being Tg illegal. I’m worried the only ppl who will be standing up along side my Tg siblings and I are only going to be Tg ppl. That some Dems will use Tg ppl as a bargaining chip as they have in the past for “other ….
They have limited power with the gop in control, but they will probably do what they can. And they will probably expect a vote for them, as that just means they can do more to protect.
We see the gop stripping out all the work that has been done.
Better than nothing I suppose.
You'd think this would be easier for them since everything Trump and Musk have done seems illegal and un-Constitutional.
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Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Democrats: doing the bare minimum, 6 months after it would have made a difference.
Its all political theater. The true defenders are behind the scenes, not this showboat circus of a spineless rubes.
Democrats: doing the bare minimum, 6 months after it would have made a difference.
A-hem!
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Sen. Grassley believes no private information has been compromised.
The need to be doing something NOW.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/trump-musk-election-voter-fraud-misinformation
This is all a great civics lesson, if we have any civics left.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Expose the Dead GOP who abdicated their free power to Elon & FOTUS. They must be removed; they're traitors. Democrats must be one unified & United team to win!
We screamed about this for a year once p2025 was revealed
We knew it was Bad we then found out what the Playbook laid out
Control of America
Fourth Reich stuff
They forced trump to even confront it.
If folks believed those obvious lies.. what can you do?
clearly it didn't sink in with enough independents.
# 47s tax cuts are projected to cost the Treasury $7 trillion to as high as $11 trillion
but Republicans pounded on the price of eggs and won
we are one dumb knuckle dragging country
eeesh
Shut it all down
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
The apathy is deafening.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
How come these 80 year old GOPlins behave instead as if they were a freshly immigrated muskrat who knows nothing about US political culture? I do not understand any of them
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have. They had to have the gop help to delay patel.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
and other decent members
of the Republic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetNFqcayeA&t=65s
That'd be GREAT!
Tell maga what great is.
please be ready.
The goal of the Party has to be about protecting people against corporate and powerful interests.
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/save-act-married-women-changed-name-vote-registration/536-b81d0bd5-972a-40f5-99c1-47d7513a6751
- Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
- Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
This isnt magic. You have to vote... massively. Consistently. And win every election decisvely.
And if you fail to do one of those, you get ZERO big change.
The “read only” press release was a Trump ordered release.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have. They had to have gop help to delay patel.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Democrats: doing the bare minimum, 6 months after it would have made a difference.
"I'm gonna unite you all"
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Here are two:
- Denied a U.S Senator (Ed Markey) the right to enter the EPA building.
- Approved the Nomination of Russell Vought as Dir. of OMB.
Think Elected Democrats going to stop Radical Republicans?
🔽🔽
https://executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-executive-orders-as-radical
In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, Democratic Leadership/Messaging is failing again.
Democratic Leaders must confront/engage.
#StrongerTogether
2) Musk’s actions are already illegal and this law will never pass. It’s something that needed to be done, but not impressive
3) Translation: fewer than half Dem Reps sent strongly worded letter. Oh my!
4) Good!
5) Again necessary, but a small drop in a large ocean
Was hoping for more
Too late.
Good luck with that.
It won’t matter.
Good luck with that.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
trump lied for a dozen years.
Too many people gave up.
This week protests began.
People are not going to go so quietly as you seem to think we are.
I'll err on the side of Democrats always.
By that I mean conservatism is not the way forward nationally.
That's a personal decision.
Try to always work looking ahead.
A group of us just today met for the first time to create an organization in Arizona.
Begin that in your area.
Cheers.
Cheers to you, too. And good luck to us all. I think we’re gonna need it.
All the best!
You can't sue or write letters to remove fascists
🤦♀️
Sounds like a full day for Democrats under Pelosi and Schumer’s control.
PLEASE, Sen. Warren, replace the clueless, inept Schumer, before he surrenders democracy permanently.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
**not my photo but it’s fucking awesome
1. Get dressed
2. Turn off PC
3. Go outside
4. Talk to other people
No don't, you're a coward who wants promises nothing nasty will happen to you..well tough facing down fascists isn't like that
Such wise council.
Make use of the House Democratic Caucus Bluesky account @housedemocrats.bsky.social to post this. WHY NOT?
Procedural and performative measures are about the best they have.
THAT'S WHY ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT.
🙏 <~~ These are high fives.
⚔️🔥⚔️
Now?
Pg1
…issues.” Just like they have done in the past. I’m not worried about messaging.
We see the gop stripping out all the work that has been done.
You'd think this would be easier for them since everything Trump and Musk have done seems illegal and un-Constitutional.