Deliriously misplaced hopes if this comes down to Republicans in Congress; they crumble under gun lobby pressure, fossil fuel lobby pressure, banking lobby pressure, and under Musk’s threat to fund primary challenges against them if they don’t kiss Trump’s ass
but, politicians get benefits from lobbyists politicians get the huge tax cuts for the uber wealthy and politicians have stocks so they benefit from the RECORD PROFITS while the working class struggles remember that this is a class war permanently tie minimum wage to the cost of living to fix it
Senator Bernie Sanders should be enjoying a well earned retirement (from our presidency), but this statesman is as passionate as ever. He does not mince words with the US Congress as only he, with his forty years of standing up to bullies can deliver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTO3XDt2gUs
I do not think anyone will want to do anything to stop anything at this point. We are definitely in scary times. And it's head scratching, watching all the people who voted RED hoping to get a check or something. Give them a towel to wipe the yoke off their faces. God Bless.
I fear that the alacrity with which the Republicans in this Congress have approved unqualified Cabinet nominees will make it unlikely that they will do anything to change the flow of cascading destruction.
When are Republicans going to rein him in? All the criticism is directed at Dems., much of it is well deserved, but Republicans have the power to do something and they're cowering.
The GQP has been fully taken over by the MagaQ cult...we have half a Congress and they have no real power to thwart this successful coup...the courts are fighting back but like Vance insinuates...they don't have the DOJ or an army to uphold their rulings...dmango will ignore them...
Everyone should go watch the video where our most powerful governor of Maine told Mr. poopy pants to go pound sand! The rest of the governors of this world should grow a spine!
Congress is basically dead. There is no legislative branch left. What is left, totally on its own, is public opinion and the voices and actions of citizens. We are it! There is no Calvary coming to the rescue from the trump regime. We are the only answer. Speak up, stand up, move forward!
Agreed and this Congress can pass all the Bills it wants. It takes 2/3 of each House to override a Veto. The next Congress is sworn in 1/1/27. More the reason that Congress, both Parties, NEED to find a way. The American people should not have to rely only on Federal Courts.
Well, so far, congress has not had the gop members with enough backbone to keep Gabbard, Patel or RFK Jr out of OUR house. Even McConnell who has nothing to lose couldn't stand up to Trump this last month.
Look into HOW DOGE is getting its data!!Are they using AI to provide suggestions on cost savings.They are sweeping departments quickly & I do not see any other way they are doing this.AI is still very inaccurate and can make stuff up like how money is being spent!Not to mention a huge security risk.
I’m not sure the cowardly Republicans will do anything but go along with everything. My last hope for them was Patel and they still did it and I’m sorry but the couple that said no it was too little too late.
If you’re waiting on this Congress gonna be cold a day in hell for them to do anything.Keep hearing they’re scared of his base they keep getting threats and there money people are waiting on there pay from you for the reason they pay you for services.
Rachel, all you been stating is that Senators, House members have the power to slow or stop Trump destruction
You should report on something else, your wasting viewers time. No elected official will buck Trump, but will let him continue to F--K AMERICA & AMERICANS OVER! as long they keep their jobs
Trump is a good friend of PUTIN because Russia is his latest provider of under age girls to have sex with
First was Epstein then Tony Lazzaro and later Madison Cawthorn talked about and Alex Jones and Roger Stone confirmed sex parties when Matt Gaetz was a customer
“The Congress that the https://NewYorkTimes.com is referring to is in the wood chipper of desensitization and a metastasizing, denial of public service! The fear mongering short trip to the ‘White Nationalistic’ wood shed, is all it took! It appears the Republican’s have given into a ‘Nazi Fatherland!”
Rachel, I love you. I have followed you and respect you. Why aren't you saying that Russia stole our election? Our elections are no longer safe. Why the fuck are we waiting for a midterm? they're just going to rig that as well. You're brave, please be braver. Now I'll go back to hiding online.
Folks you are still missing the biggest part of this story Trump and the GOP, they are already guilty of KILLING Americans. How many more must suffer! They have taken monies from food programs in Africa and people there are one meal away from death, and many have died. Gaza, no Carolina. Puerto rico
Yes, it is utter madness & so maddening to have to stand by while E-lawn has his way. I am absolutely flabbergasted that no one appears to be doing anything to stop him!
The way to fire people up is NOT to hinge your argument on foreign aid.
Some people are seeing this as potentially giving money back to them personally.
How about cutting the space program. Going to Mars shouldn’t be a priority at this time. Oh, we can’t do this because we know who benefits. Why is cutting billions of dollars on space program not being discussed?
Under hostile occupation, DC is not following the constitution. Trump didn’t even touch that Bible. Nothing he’s said since occupying the office where former honorable presidents sat, has been supporting our founding principles #DChasfallen #MagatOccupation
Congress, like every other politician, police, military & judge, better honor their OATH to The CONSTITUTION and not to the wannabe king of America!! Grow a pair ffs.
When it’s a coup with members of Congress participating, who can counter that if Congress is the body that can counter attacks by treasonous, felonious actors, one of them being the president and the other being a total outsider of which they a part. It’s a loop. Who can cut the loop?
Aziz from the Milwaukee County Zoo would be a better president of course. the world would love him more.
his beautiful smile predict that his children would do less demage to the americans then musk kids are doing.
therefore Aziz for president !
What you don't understand but Trump does, when people are having a hard time breaking even, they think, we deserve that aid, we paid for it.
2 fat fuck billionaires understand that.
We need to remember there are three House of Representative seats coming up in the next few months we need to pour money and commercials into those districts and make sure everybody gets out to vote
Unfortunately the time has passed when Congress and the Courts have any power over Trump and Musk. They know it too so they will run over any law or person who gets in their way. Thank you Republicans, SCOTUS and Garland who failed to hold Trump accountable since January 6th and before.
I keep hearing this. Does anyone actually understand what taking the gloves off means in this context? And is anyone of substance and skill willing to take such steps?
No cooperation on budget or debt ceiling, no unanimous consent, quorum calls on everything, no votes for nominees or any bills. Full court press in the media with a named shadow cabinet. Show up, force the brownshirts to stop you, get arrested if your vote can be spared. Musk goes or nothing's done.
Voting is becoming more and more irrelevant every day in the US. Once the chump maggots get through decimating the US government operations and dropping parts of the constitution they find troublesome ... voting will be the least of what Americans have to reclaim.
I believe you 100%.
In 32 days look what damage he's done.
By next election cycle i see
Real I.D.'s mandatory and we must re-register to be eligible to vote!!
We will be going for ours next week before the deadline.
Real ID will become more troublesome to receive after April.
I think it'll be far worse ... the power of AI is ubiquitous and quiet as to what damage it is and will produce with no one really knowing the exact outcome. Voting will be near nothing but memory. A clue to America should be taking over the PO and all government communications networks by muskrat
I see where your coming from.
There's no real plan to fight what the founding fathers were concerned with.
Artificial Intelligence, AR-15 and attacks on Our Public Education was not in that future.
I'm 72 and always been overly optimistic.
Now Pessimistic for America recovering from Trumpisim!
Indeed it seems we see the same light at the end of the tunnel. Problem is that the chump maggot tunnel is being made so long we can't tell if the light is good or just more chump maggot shit.
Dear @gluesenkampperez.house.gov remember when President Biden gave our district $1.6 Billion Dollars and you thanked him by publicly asking him to resign? Are you sure we're still going to get that $?
Rachel, you give me hope that we can come out the other side of this, battered and bruised, but hopefully, still intact. If enough people who voted for him express "buyer's remorse," maybe , just maybe, there is a way.
If musk is an employee of the government or have a contracted to run doge, where are his HR approvals and FBI check and all the other credentials to make him an official employee? If hes not and hasn’t been while this is going on, shouldn’t we be able to sue him?
He’s still my Senator, and I will not let him off the hook for allowing Trump/Musk to destroy the government and the economy while Congress sits on their hands. @johnfetterman.com
Congress has successively ceded power to POTUS & SCOTUS over the course of the last 40 years.
Representatives avoid responsibility & accountability to all but their wealthy donors.
They abandoned our government's foundation.
Slowly, we lost our democratic republic.
Quietly, we became an oligarchy
Republicans want Republican One Party Rule forever. That was Roger Ailes and Ronald Reagan's dream. Every single thing they are doing was in the Koch Family's Libertarian Platform in 1980. That's how you play a long-game.
They don't want this to stop. Congress = Republicans. End of story.
We already know the answer. The GOP have crowned Trump king and with his handpicked Supreme Court, there is noting to stop him.
We are witnessing the death of America and the fall of world order. The 1930/40s were never this bleak.
But yes, l fear you are correct & we are indeed witnessing the fall of democracy in America. I just can't believe there aren't more Dems taking this deadly seriously & giving back as good as they get!! GLOVES OFF FFS!
Well, we weren't there & the reality is, in far too many parts of the world, they were either exactly this bleak or far effing worse☹️ It's just fortunate for the US that we were spared for the most part of the ugliness of war on our own soil, beside the tragedy of Pearl Harbor.
You really think that's gonna happen? The republicans including Fetterman don't have the cojones to go against trump and musk. They have shown us that every day since trump got elected. Look at the cabinet they've approved because they're too scared to say no to any of trump's picks.
The problem is simply that a law is only as impactful as the will to enforce it. And as it happens there is zero interest in stopping Elon right now but those in power. So it doesn't matter whether he is acting legally or not. Until someone that has the actual power to force him to stop he will not.
Thank you .. well said. Hopefully people will recognize that wishin' and hopin' that a generally corrupt congress and legal system will come like a "white" knight and save us is just bull squirt. Best hope IMO is to focus on grass roots for mid-terms and turn the non-voters
I figure it is going to be a multifaceted effort. The initial forces will be the legal attempts to stop him. They won't but it will harass him. Given We The People time to organize until we can apply the force of 3.5% of the population bringing the nation to a halt until trump is removed.
Keep attending the various protests. Thats organizing people and getting them ready for what is to come. Once we pull the trigger on a General Strike things get real. There will be all sorts of push back to try to end it. Economic, legal, and outright violence will be brought. We hold strong we win.
Democrats don't have the power and the G(ang) O(f) P(utin), the Gang, are either power-hungry opportunists, afraid of being bullied from on-high, afraid of being primaried, afraid of their peers, afraid of an on-line street mob, or afraid of violent lone wolves...Congress will do nothing...
There is a quintessential question here: is he an “advisor” or an “employee”? If an advisor, only Trump has to listen and agree. All of these federal actions are under Trump’s signature. If that’s the case Trump is 100% accountable. If an “employee” Musk is liable for conflicts of interest, etc.
Rich McCormick’s responses to questions at his townhall show this pushback from Congress will not happen. True Republicans have been replaced by MAGA reps and have sworn secret oath to the king vs the constitution. They are responsible for allowing Trump and Musk to do what they want unfettered.
Departments can only be created & funded by Congress. DOGE is not a department created or funded by Congress. Questions: Where is the DOGE funding coming from? What is their legal basis for existing at all? How can they enforce any of their actions if they don't legally exist?
I don't think we can say all the people at all the agencies in receipt of these at-best questionably "legal" firings who followed them & let staff go were republicans
DOGE funding is coming from the White House budget. Their legal basis is shakey, but the President may appoint commissions to advise him. But their power to fire people? That's highly questionable and likey unconstitutional.
But only mass action in the streets will ultimately prevail against oligarchic fascism. We must forge a united front vs fascism nation wide with street actions building and building in size.
How much do these crackers hate minorities that they want to destroy the country and set up a backwater religious shithole? Because backwater religious shitholes are always regressive and decades or centuries behind.
Please stop using the NYT for links....they hide behind a paywall....so most of us can't even read it....so you are wasting your time and bandwidth....
The thieves have kicked in the door, kicked your ass, and taken all of your shit. These are guys who have built careers out of delaying, sidestepping, and bribing away any prosecution against them. Any litigation against them is already too late to prevent the damage they have done.
Republicans are screaming STOP in a lot of town hall meetings. I watched one from Georgia of all places. This bullshit is popular with no one. Musk is on a power trip and Trump is too stupid to know what to do. It's a mess.
It's not that🍊🤡is too stupid to know what to do. It's that he owes E-lawn bigly for getting him back into the WH & they're both on this absurdly enormous power trip & 🍊🤡doesn't give any fcks as long as the billionaires aren't complaining. Burning it all down appear to be NBD☹️for those with💰
His Executive Orders are supposed to be in compliance with The Presidential Records act. One thing the adults in the room tried to abide by in his first term. This time the children are playing to his fantasies.
...and asking for ROOT on servers, points to Total Incompetence in Security.
Are there no Business Analysts that can discuss his data needs and build a Query/Report? How does he need access and ability to modify server SECURITY SETTING?
Separation of Duties, Need to Know.
Democrats need to put pressure on Republicans in both houses. Call them out in all local media and tell informed their constituencies what they will loose if they do not stop the MuskTrump train trackage. Their people will be the ones to loose the most by federal job cuts and health benefits!
Rachel we have watched you since your 1st day! Your encouragement gives us hope that maybe rainbows will reign in the skies once again. You are the best of the best👍🏼
My heart is so hardened to the Trump voters. I will never forgive or trust them again. I do not want to exist in a country with them. I realized today that I am ok with the USA being done as long as we can be part of a new country without a single member of the GOP. Like fuck em, fuck em forever.
Musk broke the law 11/5/24 $ was paid to get Don the felon where he is sitting at a desk signing shit. Until they prove me wrong I will assume just this. Since 1/20/25 many laws been broken. Evict the felons!!!
Wait till the proposed cuts to Medicaire and Social Security hit the red areas. Not to mention the gutting of the Post Office. The PO is invaluable in red areas. And it's literally in the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. It doesn't the executive branch it says Congress.
The gutting of the post office scares me the most. Particularly because of voter registration. And mail in ballots. If there is no post office, we are at the mercy of private companies for that party of our voting system.
Democrats are under MAGA nut threat too yet they are at least trying. Chris Murphy has been great. AOC. Elizabeth Warren. Quite a few others. Aren’t they under threat?
Both Trump and Musk operate outside of lawful or congressional process. They push, and break, the limits until someone stops them. I said, before Trump became president, that he would try to run circles around the Constitution. And now he has a henchman to help him do that.
That's just sad..man o man it's gonna have to get real fkn ugly before enough people are as enraged as I am
It does not feel good to let it build but I'm staying mad as hell until I see a glimmer of hope that there are more like me
There are a LOT more like you, we are just too fractured & spread out & disorganized & unsure of how to handle when our elected "leaders" are either all in on this, caving & capitulating, or simply wringing their hands & doing fck-all. We are all being MASSIVELY screwed & on our own & not unified.
We need a smart leader to provide guidance & to effing LEAD ffs & to unite a strong, organized resistance, & l for one don't know how to facilitate this.
I have little faith that our republic will survive this. It's my pessimistic view that the rule of law is dead in America. And our few wretched remaining rags of freedom will be dictated to us by an evil cabal of fools.
Congress intervene? Republicans grow some spine? Not likely. Republicans have forgotten their responsibilities in a Democracy. They want power to enrich the upper class.
Congress could act to save the crumbs of what's left of US democracy, but (excepting a few brave souls!) they are a worthless group of useless lazy paper pushers sitting on their a*s watching the destruction of a nation and its Constitution without lifting a finger to stop it. Disgusting creatures!
Join Bernie. Spread the word. Viral. Every day. Report!!!Rally in NE yesterday. Today, Iowa City. Going to every corner of the USA because he says Trumpisim will not be defeated inside of DC, but, by the people. Defeat the bill. 2 Republicans needed. We can beat that bill. https://Berniesanders.com
We have to submit every single complaint possible, file every lawsuit we can, leave bad reviews on corporations who donated to this, boycott those companies as well, don’t be afraid to file international complaints, make posters and post them everywhere, write postcards and send them to rural areas.
Sadly, the laws of our country no longer matter. They were not enforced. Now, 🍊 man and Bondibitch get to declare law, interpret law, and chose the enforcement. Done. Game over... unless We The People get off our duffs!!! En masse!
There aren’t any laws on the books that directed money to these specific programs and that’s the issue, they just toss it into a slush fund for bureaucrats to allocate in most cases thus they can change those allocations.
You are incorrect. It's not a slush fund. A budget is law. The items in that budget are detailed. Continuing resolutions are law to continue the previous budget. Departments and programs are created by laws. Pages and pages of detail are in those laws. There is no slush fund.
Ok so show me in the budget where $20 million to Iraq Sesame Street was or NIH grants to eco alliance which funded the Wuhan lab or $500 million to an abandoned CA building called Internews.
You won’t find it because the money gets dolled out from a slush fund.
You can look these things up yourself. I can see why you'd think there's a slush fund. But the detailed minutia
of Congressional bills is in the National Archives, the Congressional Record, and there's a website that will show you the actual language of bills under consideration.
Fk'g cowardly Republicans. Hey Republicans, I hope your parents, your wife or husband are appalled at your cowardice. Your children and grandchildren will no doubt hate you and be embarrassed to acknowledge that you're their parent. But keeping your seat and power is worth it, right? 🖕
Dems are doing fck-all also! Mine voted to confirm at least some of the unqualified idiots in the 🤡🚗 that🍊🤡calls a cabinet & l couldn't believe it! Where tf was the obstruction & pushback?
Which is great, but Im not sure how it does anything meaningful, leads to meaningful change, although at least those ppl get to blow off some steam l suppose.
@maddow.msnbc.com , you are the info queen as far as I am concerned (was listening to Air America during the Bush Presidency). I want to hip you listening holes to this, if you haven’t heard. Love you:
What's not getting a lot of coverage are the contract terminations being done by the DOGEttes who have NO authority & who fail to realize that those contractors are now due termination costs, including legal fees. See FAR part 49 which governs terminations. This is a nightmare! Happy to discuss.
Senator John Cornyn just said that it was all up to the courts. The impotent Senate Republicans will do nothing to exercise their due responsibilities.
With the R’s currently in a state of fear concerning trump, I don’t see anything passing either chamber, regardless of what Democrats propose. Unless some of them grow a spine and do the right thing, nothing will pass, nothing will change. Praying for some sanity! 🙏🏼🧠👀
Where are the rational GOP. The Congressional GOP seems to consist of two types, Trump sycophants and outright cowards. In other words, no help at all. Civil disobedience and passive resistance on a massive scale are called for nationwide.
Congress especially Democrats need to play hardball with their gop coworkers across the aisle. This is not going to be easy but it's a fight worth have...
Hey Rachel, where's your disdain for the unlawful process where Musk, (as an illegal alien who lied on his student visas and citizenship application) is fucking up the economy for YOU and the American people.
It will also depend on if Trump continues the courts and he will certainly ignore Congress. He will push for full dictatorship unless Republicans step up and impeach him.
That's the only way it can happen. The Republicans seem to think their base will primary them if they don't do trump's bidding. The conclusion is that the base needs to let those Republicans know they will primary them if they continue to do trump's bidding. Which isn't going to happen...
Don’t share articles from our failed media. Leave the failed media source and do some actual media things. I mean it’s too late and it would be too little but whatever.
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Stop the illegal acts!
🤔 Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security…
Naw, They wouldn’t do that 😂jk
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-34726995
Nothing.
You should report on something else, your wasting viewers time. No elected official will buck Trump, but will let him continue to F--K AMERICA & AMERICANS OVER! as long they keep their jobs
First was Epstein then Tony Lazzaro and later Madison Cawthorn talked about and Alex Jones and Roger Stone confirmed sex parties when Matt Gaetz was a customer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s54C-z_qbFo
Some people are seeing this as potentially giving money back to them personally.
But those in power don't have the spine to do anything about his unlawful behavior.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/21/trumps-re-election-to-boost-uk-universities-as-fewer-students-choose-us
I know it sounds like a pipe dream right now, but he’s gonna to hurt a lot of red states and a lot or Republicans voters, and they’re gonna be pissed.
his beautiful smile predict that his children would do less demage to the americans then musk kids are doing.
therefore Aziz for president !
2 fat fuck billionaires understand that.
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tishetsky/posts/9195432563868868?ref=embed_post
Wonder who will "Head" at the end 😉😂
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305268/nbc-settles-lawsuit-ice-doctor-msnbc-maddow-georgia-detainee
Overload all Algos! "This is happening, Pay the Fuck attention"
Start a Protest, Create a Meme, Share a Meme, Start a protest!
Let's people know this is very real
#fiftyfiftyone #3E
The GOP electeds can't get their heads far enough up his ass.
Cowards and traitors to the oath of office they all took.
Since there is no bottom - they will just go further and further into the evil black hole they created and yearned for.
From the very rag that normalized every Trump act
🤣🤣🤣
Nice try NYT. You apparently are the only ones not expecting this 🙄
Do they not care for thier elected positions or know the next elections will be fixed?
In 32 days look what damage he's done.
By next election cycle i see
Real I.D.'s mandatory and we must re-register to be eligible to vote!!
We will be going for ours next week before the deadline.
Real ID will become more troublesome to receive after April.
There's no real plan to fight what the founding fathers were concerned with.
Artificial Intelligence, AR-15 and attacks on Our Public Education was not in that future.
I'm 72 and always been overly optimistic.
Now Pessimistic for America recovering from Trumpisim!
Representatives avoid responsibility & accountability to all but their wealthy donors.
They abandoned our government's foundation.
Slowly, we lost our democratic republic.
Quietly, we became an oligarchy
They don't want this to stop. Congress = Republicans. End of story.
We are witnessing the death of America and the fall of world order. The 1930/40s were never this bleak.
Maybe the public will understand that American democracy, its institutions, and its reputation are being destroyed by two immigrants.
Too many just believed FElon was vested w/ powers by FOTUS w/o realizing there was nothing legal behind it
But people's fear, ignorance, &/or laziness *allowed FElon* to get away w/ it
People need to push back, question, & stop obeying in advance!
Unfortunately, this failing was non-partisan
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Good luck with that
Are there no Business Analysts that can discuss his data needs and build a Query/Report? How does he need access and ability to modify server SECURITY SETTING?
Separation of Duties, Need to Know.
Only some of his voters will speak out against him and it will take a while for them to realize he is not coming to save them.
It will be ripe with fraud and they will be in total control of it all.
They want people to feel that their vote does not matter and Dems will need to work OT to make sure people vote.
It does not feel good to let it build but I'm staying mad as hell until I see a glimmer of hope that there are more like me
DOWN. Boycott X and all things muskrat and tRump
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna193262
That’s not what Congress does for the most part, they say we’re tossing $50 billion in a slush fund.
You won’t find it because the money gets dolled out from a slush fund.
of Congressional bills is in the National Archives, the Congressional Record, and there's a website that will show you the actual language of bills under consideration.
Same with layoffs, Congress doesn’t say the USAID needs to have 10,000 employees. He can go down to 1 and stay within the guard rails.
How do we stop him?
https://youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo?si=1dIbQGvd9c_fiMMV
It's like giving a monkey a cell phone
Related: do we file taxes this year?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/benjamen-walkers-theory-of-everything/id646537599?i=1000519118820
None are too blind than those who can't see.
Please repost to bring some sight to Rachel.
None that I can see.