Simply demonstrating good behavior will create the perfect conditions for the man working to end our democracy. Forget compliance. Forget the usual plodding pace. Skip the decorum and deference Congress typically relies on. We have 2 months for patriotic Democrats to vet Trump's dangerous picks. - ThreadSky

stevenbeschloss.bsky.social • 101 days ago

Simply demonstrating good behavior will create the perfect conditions for the man working to end our democracy. Forget compliance. Forget the usual plodding pace. Skip the decorum and deference Congress typically relies on. We have 2 months for patriotic Democrats to vet Trump's dangerous picks.

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terpsichorecmlos.bsky.social•101 days ago

🙏🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽

vivbernstein.bsky.social•101 days ago

And if they don’t? Is that:

1. Anticipatory obedience/fear; or
2. A sign they believe a catastrophic Cabinet will aid them in the midterms and ‘28?

riredlibrarian.bsky.social•101 days ago

Hard to stomach if either option is the motivation

yep-she-said-that.bsky.social•101 days ago

Can you please call Joe and give him a pep talk??

healowe.bsky.social•100 days ago

Or rather, to prevent the stated intent to overthrow the Government and disregard the Rule of Law and dismantle the Constitution. What more evidence of insurrection is needed to assess this as a ‘domestic threat’?

domestic crimes.

tgruenewald.bsky.social•101 days ago

Lived & worked in NY/NJ my whole life. He treats contracts/norms/laws/rules/agreements as challenges to see how quickly he can break them with either total impunity or cost-of-doing-business fines.

tgruenewald.bsky.social•101 days ago

With rare exception his businesses have been tightly controlled private affairs where everyone was there to please him & carry out his whim, no matter how illegal or destructive. He breaks contracts, stiffs contractors, hires undocumented workers. Now he works both sides of the graft table.

htn-2025.bsky.social•101 days ago

Here, here!

equiltfairy.bsky.social•101 days ago

Who is taking a leadership role in Congress to make this happen?

bomberpete.bsky.social•100 days ago

Not Chuck. Chuck would rather chuck wood and cry "Comity" than antagonize a Repuglickan.

riredlibrarian.bsky.social•101 days ago

That leadership role seems to have a vacancy that urgently needs filling by leader that will take actions to defend democracy

shalte81.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yes! And it doesn't end in 2 months. We must be vigilant in identifying unconstitutional acts or unreasonable infringements on individual liberty, and we must be prepared to address them.

a2-abd.bsky.social•101 days ago

Let them wake up first.So sick of Dems and their uppity ‘play by the rules’ attitude instead of fighting dog fight other side been doing.Too disheartening just going to hand over country and everything good about it to known crooks/criminals to destroy.Will never get back once gone.Shame really.

debbiew4.bsky.social•100 days ago

I called my red Senators office today to express my dismay.

baltimoredem.bsky.social•101 days ago

Perhaps you can takeover Morning Joe….You shoot from the hip and I appreciate that. No sanewashing!

dlp2pgh.bsky.social•101 days ago

Why aren't audits and recounts being pursued? MAGA pushed on that, but Dems meekly accept the results out of a non-reciprocated sense of duty and decorum and "The Institution". MAGA will never operate that way.

gaiamama.bsky.social•101 days ago

bakeoff.bsky.social•101 days ago

It's time to simply say Fuck You! when they try to gaslight. Should've been done in 2016at the get go, but apparently we learned nothing from history.

mktsutherland.bsky.social•101 days ago

📌

mktsutherland.bsky.social•101 days ago

Wow Beschloss encouraging going rogue and I am here for it!
Listening to the Pod with you and John and Jon @jonmeacham.bsky.social and I am glad at-least I am not alone in my pessimism about trump still holding some optimism for Dem response @dncjaimeharrison.bsky.social

raeruff.bsky.social•101 days ago

I agree. I’m sick and tired of the dems wishy washiness. I feel like they aren’t doing anything. Where’s the fight?

oldcrone.bsky.social•101 days ago

Then it would be helpful to actually HEAR FROM THEM and to replace that empty suit, Chuck Schumer. Neither of which is happening. It's like they are in some bunker, awaiting retribution and retaliation. Where the fu** is the House leadership with this garbage from Nancy Mace???

bjans.bsky.social•101 days ago

All of this!

ohbuddy2024.bsky.social•101 days ago

Democrats need to do anything within their power to stop him. Biden needs to wake the fuck up.

sherrya.bsky.social•101 days ago

We need to fight them like our lives are at stake..because they are.
Congress needs to fight fire with fire. Being nice is why we are in this situation.

mamahootie.bsky.social•101 days ago

Trump wants (see also “demands”) they be appointed sans congressional approval. How far democracy has fallen. Might be time to grab my daughter and scram.

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