Senator Whitehouse has been a shining star for a decade about what is going on. Just voting in any way based on party rather than individuals will continue to make things worse. https://youtu.be/mAplGu1RxPg?si=8Ww4Xe9RBXAguB7O
Was your article written by MAGA? It seems calculated to destroy, not rebuild.
you know until the elected democrats figure out this isn't a test we are screwed ,these cute little press conferences lead right into Trump's plan .....they should be angry every friggin day but they are not ...vote them out
They ARE angry every day and doing what they can. Repubs have the Senate, House, and Presidency. The votes are not there. The only thing we have to count on at this point are the courts. That's it.
not when shimmer gets up there with a cute little news conference about how Corona beer and avacados are going to be effected by Trump's tariffs ...on Fox News they said we'll just drink Modelo
Good thing Democrats were getting judges confirmed. Oh wait, that was trump that got over 230 Article III judges confirmed. Plus three supreme court justices.
I understand that there's not much procedurally Democrats can do, but I'm getting email after email asking for donations and not a single email calling for protests or some kind of action.
Incumbents on both sides have gotten far too comfortable. Primary them all.
funny how when the republicans were in the minority they pulled out every friggin rule or regulation from the 1800s and every little used rule in existence ... what gives ...time to fight fire With fire
Yeah, not the answer. "Primary them all" is just getting rid of years of experience sorely needed. Dems follow the rules. Repubs do what Trump wants because of $ and lobbying. Foxx and Higgins tabled the motion to bring Elon in & Comer went with it. Yeas were there. Disgusting
ok how about the dems don't vote along with the GOP there were 12 that need to go right off the top ...maybe if they cared more about the country and less about keeping their seat we would be in better shape https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/
Yeah “Throw it all out and start over” sounds a lot like the other side right now. I prefer “Elevate young leaders and support them”. Elder Statespeople need to move into support roles but we still need them there.
The experience they offer will be invaluable to young leaders procedurally and strategically. I'm all for young leaders moving up, but the advice and experience the elder statesmen & women will be able to offer is gold, and we'll all be better off for it. They discount it at their peril.
That's great, but with no term limits and nobody willing to primary an incumbent, there's zero incentive for these folks to ever step aside. If you don't primary the incumbents but vote for them in the general election, you're sending the message that you're happy to have them stay in office.
You don't have to run to win, you just need to make enough noise that your representative (at whatever level) knows they need to be accountable for whatever they did the previous term. Make them go out and explain to constituents why their choices were best for the country.
I've heard both sides are getting an unprecedented amt of calls/hr, but Republicans don't care. Comer KNEW the ayes had it when the vote to have Elon testify came up, but that went nowhere. Repubs aren't going to talk to constituents directly unless they're in front of a camera where they can lie.
Dems didn't vote Trump in.
Whatever you wanna demand, demand from the people you voted in power.
Dems were betrayed by the people they were fighting for.
"i think you'll see here that Democrats said they were very displeased rather loudly in front of a microphone for ten minutes idk what you're all complaining about."
South Korean politicians (bipartisan) literally jumped fences and fucking stole rifles from armored soldiers less than a few hours into a coup to stop it
Democrats won't even rip the band-aid off a neo-nazi standing in front of a door that obviously is covering an SS tattoo.
This paperwork shit? Not cutting it. This legal shit? What fucking laws apply to Republicans right now? Not cutting it. This "calling out" shit? Not cutting it. They need to physically, violently resist.
That's ideal, but I don't think many of us here are voting for them in the first place.
The idea is not to vote out Democrats, but to send a message to career politicians that those seats they've occupied for years are not safe just because they have a 'D' next to the name on a ballot.
Wrong the idea to keep the GOP out of the majority in both houses, the WH, & state legislatures. Harm reduction is our 1st priority. Marginalized groups don't have the privilege nor luxury to play around with that "send a message" crap when the GOP is working to take our rights.
I'm not saying don't vote Democrat in the general election, I certainly will be.
But if your elected officials are sitting on the sidelines right now or voting with Republicans on something you feel is harmful send them a message in the primaries by running against them.
What harm reduction are the incumbents providing now by making sad speeches and not much else? You think young and marginalized democrats are excited to get out and support the current batch of Democrat incumbents? I say the primary is the perfect time to send a message that we want action.
I'd argue that the turnout for Kamala Harris last year proves me right. If people were excited about what Democrats are currently doing she would have won by a landslide.
Regardless, I will be challenging @markwarner.bsky.social next year and if you live in Virginia I'd love to earn your support.
So many words, yet so few about what the author would actually do differently. The most we get is she'd fight for "something." I'm sorry I gave it my time.
Putin and his "friends" have Bought OLD Poopypants a Dictatorship ... What's the sense .. Just watch the USA Fall Apart is all we can do now ... Over 100 Million didn't even vote ... Perhaps we Deserve to Fail ...
When you're the minority party, you have to pick your spots.
The key isn't firing up Democrats (other than donors) this year, it's keeping the spotlight on the harm being done to Republican voters - b/c they influence Republican congressmen.
Young progressives who don't understand anyone but their fellow progressives neither deserve to nor are capable of winning elections in most parts of the country. Their ideas are bad, their radicalism is bad.
It amazes me how these "seasoned" politicians supposedly spent their entire careers creating, defending or voting on laws and bills, yet when our democracy is literally in peril, folks who 🗳 them into power nor WTP's freedoms are anywhere near the top of their lists to protect, it's their own asses.
The problem is that once a lot of these politicians get voted in they're safe. Nobody from their own party wants to challenge them, so they have no incentive to work for us.
We want to change that by letting them know we will challenge at the primary and you better be ready to defend your record.
I know we are mad... but are we mad enough to do to Dem congresspeople the exact same thing the oligarchs are holding over the GOP congresspeople right now that got us into this mess? And won't that just help more GOP candidates in the end.
They didn’t start voting May until we started calling them. They work for US. Not for Elon musk. There are Dems who want to fight. Those are the people we need, not the ones who go home for a long weekend. Elon’s script kiddies didn’t take the weekend off
I'm so f-g tired of Dem's being blamed for not saving people from their own stupidity. They step up just to be demonized by everyone time and time again. Republicans and "protest voters" own this shit since that's who delivered us Trump. Where are all the articles calling them out??
So while your ship is sinking rapidly, you want to shoot the crew members who didn’t steal all the life rafts and stayed with you?
It’s highly unlikely there will be any elections any time over the next 5-10 years, unless Americans get off their ass and take to the streets and SHUT THE COUNTRY DOWN!
Schumer, Pelosi and similar establishment Democrats, who have never really done anything but go along to get along, have to go, if #Democrats want to move forward.
The thing is Senators almost never hold town hall meetings. They appear at very scripted events and don't allow anyone to challenge them and yes I'm talking about the Dems too.
I just fired off angry emails to my two Senators. I’m fucking livid over this. The nerve they have leaving DC in the middle of the gravest crisis this country has ever faced is unforgivable. Of course, this isn’t surprising given they are led by the greatest coward of them all, @schumer.senate.gov 🤬
The Republic Congress has been castrated by Trump and Musk and are doing nothing to fight for their country. They have fully abdicated their power; will they be eliminated by an EO as “government waste” next? This is a fascist coup and will take all of us to stop it.
What responsibility do republicans bear? Thats a rhetorical question. They shoulder the vast majority of the responsibility. Dems need to raise he’ll, of course. The press is also in bed with what is happening right now. Where are they?
republicans absolutely are responsible for their actions, but there comes a point where you need to assume the republicans will just be consistently evil and focus on forming a competent counterbalance, which doesn't exist and hasn't for a while, and for which democrats are largely to blame
David Hogg posted this. Since corporate media won't report on actual news, it is up to ordinary people like you and I to force feed the media the stuff they refuse to report. #procrimeGOP.
It's also exhausting to see senseless attacks on the only people who have the slightest chance of saving us, the Dems. We have to push them to do what they can, but saying they care more about time off than democracy is nonsensical and counterproductive.
The actual truth is 30% of Americans are to blame. They didn’t show up when they needed to the most
Could the party have been better prepared, or course. For that I think we can point to the old guard & say “enough”Let the next generation take the helm
WE'RE HERE FOR THE RUMBLE.
It's a time for fierce compassion. Be fierce, do an activity everyday. It's self care. Be the rain, the howling wind, and the mountainous wave. Be the storm. Pass it on.
I wish Americans would realize that their political system is so broken that they can’t rely on it any longer! They need the @aoc.bsky.social of the country to create a new party and hit reset cause man oh man have you all screwed us!!
Some of us are outraged. I sent angry emails to my senators and then happened to read this article the next day. Our incumbents feel too safe. I've been complacent in the past, not voting for results, just for party. But we need to let our leaders know we want them to do something more.
I wouldn't go that far, but the current crop of old school incumbents certainly seem more concerned with staying in office than with helping their constituents.
That's why we need to wake them in the primaries and elect new Democrats if they don't get the message.
I know from experience that my kids and my nieces and nephews, all Democrats since they could vote, want progress but they know they aren't going to get it from the Republicans, so they vote Democrat. Even if that Democrat doesn't care about real change.
We show that we want progress in the primary.
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The truth of the matter is that THEIR ideas are equally as old; we need to get rid of these uninspiring, bullshit ideas that don’t fix anything
Then flex our newly “discovered” executive powers that we see is achievable
https://youtu.be/mAplGu1RxPg?si=8Ww4Xe9RBXAguB7O
Was your article written by MAGA? It seems calculated to destroy, not rebuild.
Incumbents on both sides have gotten far too comfortable. Primary them all.
Whatever you wanna demand, demand from the people you voted in power.
Dems were betrayed by the people they were fighting for.
Democrats won't even rip the band-aid off a neo-nazi standing in front of a door that obviously is covering an SS tattoo.
The idea is not to vote out Democrats, but to send a message to career politicians that those seats they've occupied for years are not safe just because they have a 'D' next to the name on a ballot.
But if your elected officials are sitting on the sidelines right now or voting with Republicans on something you feel is harmful send them a message in the primaries by running against them.
Regardless, I will be challenging @markwarner.bsky.social next year and if you live in Virginia I'd love to earn your support.
While Pelosi and Schumer might be excellent at insider trading, lining their pockets will not save the democracy.
The key isn't firing up Democrats (other than donors) this year, it's keeping the spotlight on the harm being done to Republican voters - b/c they influence Republican congressmen.
Come 2026, you start up the campaign.
We want to change that by letting them know we will challenge at the primary and you better be ready to defend your record.
Is he a good Catholic man earning his halo, or a deluded fool who couldnt adapt to new rules?
New rules are a fact, alas.
Hear, hear.
It’s highly unlikely there will be any elections any time over the next 5-10 years, unless Americans get off their ass and take to the streets and SHUT THE COUNTRY DOWN!
#resist #shrug #ohwell
They go and meet their donors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/hakeem-jeffries-silicon-valley-donors-00203076
Could the party have been better prepared, or course. For that I think we can point to the old guard & say “enough”Let the next generation take the helm
It's a time for fierce compassion. Be fierce, do an activity everyday. It's self care. Be the rain, the howling wind, and the mountainous wave. Be the storm. Pass it on.
Democrats recipe for a vote=literally everything else without any clarity.
You could have informed people of reality in this article, but instead you’re feeding the outrage machine. Very grift-y of you!
Democrats’ self-delusion gave the world Trump 2.0. Their inaction over the past four years enabled the ongoing coup.
You can keep your blinders on and pretend everything is fine, but how does that help?
That's why we need to wake them in the primaries and elect new Democrats if they don't get the message.
We show that we want progress in the primary.