No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
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Because it’s looking like either the Democrats will control Congress, or there won’t be a Congress.
Historically, minority parties in circumstances like what's unfolding at present very commonly ended up in shallow graves.
Not sure you frogs know how hot the water is yet. Looking at it from the outside, we can hear bubbling.
While it’s easy to comment from the cheap seats, their job is to serve the country, not advance their careers.
Terms limits and blind trusts are the only way forward for all politicians globally.
My kids, and their kids, are never going to enrich these utterly corrupt goons.
Any US Rep or Senator (D or R or I, it doesn't matter) who can't stand up and demand an immediate end to this should resign.
One good counter argument is Nazi Germany leading up to WWII.
I don’t know how to fight this on the large scale, but like you I wish our reps would lead the fight with loud voices. Now.
Very frustrating but I'm sure there is a solution. I just haven't figured it out yet.
what he DID do was election fraud, pretty much completely out in the open, for which he won't be indicted under this administration.
@chuckschumer.com
@whitehouse.senate.gov
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"Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar
I don't see how or why that could be the case.
But I fail to understand the lack of response to the last couple of days.
https://bsky.app/profile/schumer.senate.gov/post/3lh36hrifms26
https://bsky.app/profile/andylevy.net/post/3lh5n3e4bjc2p
Republicans make a point of promoting faux populism, where they share the suffering of their supporters.
They are attaching hard drives to the servers, doing what no one knows.
And the only response is a series of tweets about remind everyone trump made food cost more.
We're on fire & he says the lawn looks nice.
No cloture, on anything. No unanimous consent, on anything. No unrecorded voice votes, on anything. No waiving debate time, on anything.
John Ganz
Garland's appointment wa a de-facto pardon and that was crystal clear in 2021.
Thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3ldif6udwrc2f
Gee whillickers, I sure messed this all up!
Because for the first 2 years Biden governed with the 0 (actually, -2) seat majority in Congress and for the next 2 years he had a minority.
Hang on, I gotta go vote more, I may not be able to reply.
Casting blame.
JFC
Yeah, both groups are complicit, but one is clearly worse, and if we fucking voted to keep group A out of power, we wouldn't be in this mess.
After eight years of Trump, the stupid middle was desensitized to talk of Trump's horror. It didn't move the needle. Trump won on the prices of necessities, and the fact that the stupid middle was angry about them and out to punish those in office for them.
It sucks, but it is.
Phones are automated.
Not even an intern to take live calls.
They'll get back to me. 🙄
I am pissed off though and jolted out of my lethargy.
It would be nice if they made themselves known.
Dude. Grow up. VP Harris's name was on the ballot during the primary. Party leaders and members supported her, as they should have.
Unless you don’t know what a VP is.
No one else got double digits.
This is not true.
There are 77,303,567 people to blame.
And Mitch McConnell.
We should be sending Dems thoughtful ideas.
(The one thing I am still pissed about is no Presidential primary. They let Trump dominate the news for months.)
They literally don't have that leverage until the debt ceiling vote.
Come on man, you of all people.
But they can't sue over other stuff until there is actual IMMINENT damage to them. Which will be soon enough.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQiQjKHC-Xz5AWEeKpfMD7jDhyexY57sIATpgKjDpqONY53S1hkhmhh7RRNpfkOOEcQhgiZt01qMCu0/pub
1. They have a lot of constituent work to do. That's good.
2. They are forced so suck for campaign cash. That is bad. It won't change until WE AMERICANS demand ALL private money be removed from politics, campaigns, lobbying, legislating & go to standardized public funding of campaigns
I am absolutely blaming dems for this entirely avoidable nightmare.
“God is on the throne” is not resistance. It’s resignation.
Why aren't they?😔
I believe they changed filibuster rules since then.
And it wasn't easy work.
https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/
https://bsky.app/profile/themckenziest.gay/post/3lhajqgb6pk2l
Believe me, these ladies are, if anything, angrier than you about this country.
Letter
Write your own - send to your Democratic elected and state gov
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My god!!!
DO SOMETHING!!!
Hunger, thirst, and destruction still surround us. Don't let the silence fool you, the tragedy continues!
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I’m blaming the feckless Dems in Congress who have done nothing to stop this power grab by Trump who is pushing the limits of power & getting away with it w help from feckless Dems
And the Dems who refused to stop Elon Musk’s coup!!
No cloture, on anything. No unanimous consent, on anything. No unrecorded voice votes, on anything. No waiving debate time, on anything.
1️⃣ Oppose all nominees until OMB reverses the freeze.
2️⃣ Deny Unanimous Consent to slow Senate proceedings.
3️⃣ Vote no on all Cloture.
4️⃣ Force Quorum Calls at every opportunity."
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahdohl.bsky.social/post/3lgt6tmafg22b
You people are pathetic, blame the idiots who ran a shit campaign for once and you'll stop being stuck with them.
Not our fucking fault they decided to take a right wing pivot and get a bunch of moderates to swing trumps way.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/the-gops-60-year-conspiracy-to-kill-24a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=sbkf
Not my view, but everybody has an opinion.
Damn fucking right we're blaming the Dems for at least some of this.
Especially the Clintons, Obama, Biden and the cunts preventing the party from in any meaningful way opposing their corporate masters and acknowledging the left might have a point
Always interesting how the Festering Pusbag Left reserves the most hate for the biggest Democratic successes in their lifetimes despite claiming to enjoy seeing Nazis lose.
I guess they're waiting for their donor class to give their approval bc they sure aren't paying attention to their voters.
We ALL have responsibility in this.
It is up to us to ensure that it works as designed.
"It's a Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
We CITIZENS are not.
It is past time but still time for speaking up, standing out, and protesting, to CRUSH trump, Musk, & the Oligarchs.
TAKE TO THE STREETS!
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1220492250/tuberville-drops-blockade-military-promotions
Let the American Spring begin.
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THIS👆👆👆👆👆👆😡
Here are 23 lawsuits ( and counting)
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges-trump-administration-actions/
Would help shift the Overton window back a little
All red states knew what they were getting. Even blue states got redder.
Millions of freaked out people will be a big issue
Not sure how a single senator can halt everything. I u derstand that Jeffries has been meeting with House Dems to map out a strategy for the debt ceiling, appropriations, which is the only area wher they have any power.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-tommy-tuberville-drops-hold-hundreds-military-nominees-rcna128138
I need them to understand this is their last chance to grow a pair.
Not next week.
Not in 2026.
NOW!
Oppose everything the fascists do or you're one of them.
Some called for bipartisanship.
Some posted on social media.
Some even held press conferences.
None did anything of consequence.
A drunk monkey could beat trump with half a policy over the middle, but not with Biden as candidate
Which goes against your entire claim even more; as they did it yet aren’t getting praise all over.
You might not have; but tons of people are blaming Dems for the problem.
So f'king stupid . . .
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Trump is the first Republican in twenty years to win the popular vote.
Americans did this. They should lead the way in fixing this.
The FIRST thing I need to see is our streets looking like Tbilisi and Bratislava.
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Now, with Trump, Musk, and Rubio, nothing is funded but "genocide" 😆
But....**crickets**
In the meantime, Musk has taken over Treasury.
Still...**crickets**
Enough with the "good trouble", let's make some "bad trouble"
💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙
I don’t trust the Democratic Party to care about any of this, and this will only continue until they start caring.
And surely our energies would be better spent uniting an opposition for 2026 than whatever this is.
Schiff- talky talk talk
We elected a bunch of yakkityyakyaks
And they act like they're all away for the weekend.
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lh5ms37cbc2g
Ideologues, left and right:
-Simple answers for complex problems.
-Reality can be changed overnight.
-The possible is the enemy of the perfect.
That is hugely significant.
To bring healthcare costs down is a separate issue and FAR MORE COMPLEX. That would not have been accomplished under Obama and we'd have NO ACA either.
State AGs *are* bringing lawsuits. More than 20 states have sued re: the birthright citizenship EO.
We ALSO need better coverage of everything the Dems are doing.