With or without their vote, Duffy would have been confirmed. Want a different transportation secretary? That option was defeated in November. The GOP hold the power. Make them accountable. - ThreadSky

petradeasis.bsky.social • 3 days ago

With or without their vote, Duffy would have been confirmed.

Want a different transportation secretary? That option was defeated in November. The GOP hold the power. Make them accountable.

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thesquidproquo.com•3 days ago

Sure they should just vote yes on all the unqualified dangerous Trump-sycophants because losing is inevitable and let’s just speed the process along. What an incredibly stupid idea.

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Time, energy, resources are not unlimited. They are choosing and prioritizing their fight — though this fight remains symbolic. On the other hand, pressuring the GOP might yield actual results. Their constituents are already demanding answers.

https://bsky.app/profile/demcastusa.bsky.social/post/3lihilbmofk2y

thesquidproquo.com•3 days ago

How does a no vote for Duffy preclude or weaken a no vote for Kash Patel? Make the fractuous GOP caucus fight tooth and nail amongst each other for every vote, no Dem official should give them ANY aid in their project to dismantle the American gov and civil service.

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Time, energy, resources

Do we focus on things we cannot change or things we can?

How do we target the GOP that might be amenable to defending the constitution? How do we convince them that it’s worth doing?

https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3limhdg7stk24

thesquidproquo.com•3 days ago

Id suggest Dems should stop targeting gop voters who put a fascist sex-pest into office and instead figure out why their own electoral base failed to show up.

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dems lost the info war.

“we are waging a 21st century info warfare campaign against the left, and they are using tactics from the 1990s. You get your talking points from a newspaper and you put it on the broadcast network, and then it disappears.”

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lig5e2gjmc2g

thesquidproquo.com•3 days ago

How does a no vote take more time/energy/resources than a yes vote?

Dem officials approving Trump appointees normalizes them in the eyes of voters. If Dems truly believe Trump and co. are a threat to democracy and society (true), they have to stop working with and enabling them.

knomercy.com•3 days ago

Christ shut the fuck up.

sonartaxlaw.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wasn't aware that there was a strong enough Republican supermajority to defeat a filibuster, care to remind me when that happened?

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Democrats can slow down Trump’s nominees through these holds but cannot block them permanently without Republican support, as Democrats only have 47 seats of the Senate’s 100, per the outlet.”

https://checkyourfact.com/2025/02/10/fact-check-democrats-slow-trump-nominations-block-them/

sonartaxlaw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Overcoming a filibuster requires 60 votes. The 47 Democratic senators could permanently block nominees unilaterally by each taking a single 4 hour shift a week reading from the Constitution. But they won't because that's harrrrrrrdddd. Do not do them the favor of pretending that that isn't an option

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

They cannot *permanently* block nominees without GOP support!!!

numble.bsky.social•3 days ago

Overcoming a filibuster for nominees does not take 60 votes. Only 51 votes are needed. Understanding how the rules have changed is harrrrrrdddd.

numble.bsky.social•3 days ago

sonartaxlaw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh, alright that's fair

largesseadultson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Schiff and Pedilla both voted to confirm him and it's inexcusable, full stop.

imjeremyfuckoff.bsky.social•3 days ago

OK, but there's no reason for California's Democratic Senators to go along with this shit. I'm a nobody. Schiff and Padilla are Senators, so maybe they've got more of an obligation to hold the GOP accountable than I do

drumtroll.bsky.social•3 days ago

We'd probably still be a month or more away from a Transportation Secretary, and maybe several away from having Kash Patel as head of our soon-to-be Stasi if those clowns and the rest of the @democrats.org did their jobs by denying unanimous consent on Trump's nominees instead of fast-tracking them.

stargonewrong.gay•2 days ago

it would only take one "no" and yet

drumtroll.bsky.social•2 days ago

Enraging.

numble.bsky.social•3 days ago

And California’s chances of winning discretionary federal transportation grants (which admittedly will be very low) would likely be zero if they voted no. LA Metro is hoping to get federal Olympics and rail funding, and they won’t get it by making enemies with the Feds.

sonartaxlaw.bsky.social•3 days ago

"which admittedly will be very low' Normalizing fascism for a $5 Applebee's gift card

drumtroll.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lol, take a look around, much? It's already zero, dude.

drumtroll.bsky.social•3 days ago

But you're right, worth the shot to fast-track Trump's nominees and speed our Constitution into the shredder for grant dollars we'll never see rather than try to save our republic.

numble.bsky.social•3 days ago

They did get a $1.3 billion grant under the first Trump administration. Duffy would still have had 75 Senate votes if California senators voted no, and Dems couldn’t block nominees under the first Trump administration when they had more Senate seats.

drumtroll.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'd like to call your attention back to this skeet:

numble.bsky.social•3 days ago

CIG program is still governed by statute and annual appropriations bills direct DOT to specifically fund specific projects that have gone through the statutory process, so there is still a path, especially if Dems win in 2026. Watch the video discussing what LA did last time.

toplayinla.bsky.social•3 days ago

"(Which admittedly will be very low)" is doing herculean work as a qualifier.

toplayinla.bsky.social•3 days ago

It is naive, frankly, to assume there is some reliable beneficial outcome to any strategic anticipatory obedience *even if* Duffy is in any way a serious actor because DOGE's actions alone will act as sands in the gears of any federal dispensement of funding.

toplayinla.bsky.social•3 days ago

*Especially* given Musk's well demonstrated antipathy for public transit in any form.

medusan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nah, shut down every second of the government they can. Impede it all

petradeasis.bsky.social•3 days ago

The nominations are inevitable unless a few GOP go against their party. Lawsuits, on the other hand…

I say drop the frog of democracy into the boiling water. The shock to the system might just give #wethepeople (and not just some) the impetus to act before it’s too late.

toplayinla.bsky.social•3 days ago

This presumes there is no cost to the GOP/Trump to denying unanimous consent and other forms of obstructionism even if the outcome is "inevitable". A crucial component of Project 2025 is the sense of urgency. Time is a factor and even styming eventualities is its own form of victory

castlebravoli7.gobirds.online•3 days ago

Why on God’s earth are you making excuses for United States Senators. Like even if you think there’d be some unacceptable payback for denying UC or some other procedural obstruction, why should CA’s senators vote for him and lend him bipartisan legitimacy?

shiftlesshobo.bsky.social•3 days ago

You're right. It's actually good they voted for him.

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