Yup.
Yesterday, 8 of them voted for the climate change denying asshole for Sec of Energy. Wonder of any of these 8 were at that press conference, lying to our faces.
1 Campaign on Autocracy
2 Purge the Bureaucracy
3 Ignore the Courts
4 Co-Opt the Congress
5 Centralise Police and Powers
5 Shut Down Elite Media and Academic Institutions
6 Turn Out the People
It's a start. I sure hope they plan on amping it up fast and furiously. Every single dem should be speaking out frequently and forcefully and making "good trouble" to combat these abuses of our Constitution and National Security. Where are the rest of them?
I really hope that is just the beginning … they have to do more and they have to block everything in every way and in every committee and any regulations or laws. Period!
Finally, and thanks to them for getting started. Given the fact that the other side seems to also be working on weekends, though, they may need to consider doing the same.
Scott, I humbly consider that I have Trump analyzed. I believe I know his game plan, but I will not publish it because this is war. I do publish analysis after the fact, though: https://youtu.be/rLQLZdvd3G8
The Democratic response to the lawlessness of the GOP has to become a constant. Our responsibility is to write letters and emails and make phone calls to every office holder in the GOP. Call often, write often. That is how our power grows.
It had been 14 days. I guess yes, it did feel like finally, and yes we need more of this. It's just weird what a huge chasm there is between the typical Dem voter & typical Republican voter where Dems can hardly ever do anything right & Republicans never do anything wrong.
Our turn to go on the offense: Contact your Reps in the Senate and House! Call their DC AND local offices. HARANGUE REPUBLICANS mercilessly. Blow up Mike Johnson & Thune’s phones. RAISE SOME CAIN! Follow orgs like Women Forward & Indivisible, Democracy Forward. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Really? The same team that led Kamala's losing campaign and helped cover up Biden's incapacity? I'm not. Happy to see David Hogg in the #2 slot but at this point he and AOC seem to be the only ones who get what a crisis we are in.
Call me a pessimist and cynic. But I want action, not words. And once again, Senate Dems are approving another unqualified Trump sychophant. That has to stop completely. Senate Dems: Just say no!
I love the use of "finally." We have been screaming,"Do something!" since _before_ the inauguration! We saw this coming. We warned people. And when it started happening, where were the Dems?
Trump moved so quickly I'm not surprised the Dems were caught flat footed. Time was needed to get a plan going. Now is time to watch and judge what the response is
We have a front row seat at the end of the experiment & destruction of our constitutional republic. This is horrifying & destabilizing to the entire planet! MUSK & TRUMP ARE EVIL TRAITORS!
We must be totally united against Trump, the Republicans and Project 2025. They are reprehensible, anti-democratic and a disgrace to our country. Every Republican in Congress must be voted out!
I would feel better if their response was anything resembling the leaders in South Korea rather than standing there awkwardly in their suits talking about how bad it is.
They need to do a hell of a lot more like sabotage everything Senate does or a mass civil disobedience. Sorry but not good enough when the ordinary Jo blog is more on informed and more on the ball then these gutless wonders ---Grrrrrrr
Every day. This should be part and parcel to their approach to governance. They should show up to advocate for their constituents. They should be out there campaigning and having the fights we hired them to do.
That’s a fundamental conceit we’ve all forgotten. They’re our employees.
They need to each speak the same unified message. That's how Republicans operate, and it must work because how else to explain why the rubes continue to vote Republican?
"House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries . . . says Dems are introducing legislation to prevent unlawful access to the Dept. of Treasury, and that at least 20 lawsuits have already been filed challenging at least 11 executive orders."
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Yesterday, 8 of them voted for the climate change denying asshole for Sec of Energy. Wonder of any of these 8 were at that press conference, lying to our faces.
1 Campaign on Autocracy
2 Purge the Bureaucracy
3 Ignore the Courts
4 Co-Opt the Congress
5 Centralise Police and Powers
5 Shut Down Elite Media and Academic Institutions
6 Turn Out the People
https://bsky.app/profile/moveon.org/post/3lhcmtcej2u23
TY ✊
Watch AOC she breaks this all down.
The republicans in Congress gave the keys to Pres Elon
"What Trump and Elon are trying to do is take away the constitutional power of Congress."
- Ilhan Omar
I read of their blocking trmp’s/musk’s plans with some maneuvering, and that is what I want to see them doing.
That’s a fundamental conceit we’ve all forgotten. They’re our employees.
Lawsuits are nice. Handcuffs would be better!