Dems can’t win by some parliamentary trick. Repubs have majorities in the House, Senate and SCOTUS. But they can embarrass the governing party, turn the public against them. Simple messages: The president is violating the Constitution. Planes are getting less safe and your hospital will go bankrupt.
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Mark Joseph Stern
I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.
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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
one day AOC or Rep. Crockett won't be there because they came for them in the middle of the night and they're now in a blacksite.
buy guns. be ready to defend yourself.
Suggestion in graphic below. Implicated by what Trump has already done (freezing infrastructure funds, gutting aviation safety cmte, compounding egg-price spike by hampering efforts to fight bird flu) and likely to capture much of what's to come.
Ds won't though, because they're too pathetic to actually do anything. They're still trying to "work across the aisle".
1. Corruption. Trump pardons his police-beater pals and fires law enforcement and prosecutors
2. Inauguration picture of the billionaires. Giving the country to them
3. Trump and Musk are de-funding science and public safety
Nobody has ever been won over by being insulted.
Nobody has ever been convinced by an argument they can't understand.
Only Democrats are not permitted to employ such distasteful methods as using the rules to achieve their agenda, not even to save our country from traitors.
They don’t know how to be revolutionary and they ignore or try to shame people who do
• Deny
• Defend
as it were
https://bsky.app/profile/ianford.bsky.social/post/3lh4uqc7grc2h
Elected Dems need to stand up & use every tool in the toolbox, even if it’s purely a signal & has no actual impact. Think of it as a rallying cry of sorts.
And a few need to take the national mic and tell the public where and when we are needed.
Turns out constitutional violations also don’t matter to the left as they didn’t motivate anybody this election 🤷🏼♂️
It’s all about anger, it’s all about class
as far as I'm concerned, the only actual opposition democrat is aoc, and look how the party as a whole treats her. that says a lot.