I agree with all the serious responses to this thread but I gotta say am I the only one who saw the words “Dear Colleague” and immediately had their brain go “Mmmmm whatcha saaaay…”
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Honestly, instead of taking off, these people should have stayed on Capitol Hill, thought ahead and drafted these things BEFORE the fascists declared their edicts.
They know what a Constructional Crisis is.
That letter is worthless trash. The only things I want to hear at this point is either "We're going to obstruct everything and we think it could work", or "That's it, folks, nothing else we can do,we need you all in the streets".
Jeffries has people on staff that write bills and he’s advertising that while segregationist musk was looting the treasury, his office couldn’t be bothered to write a simple law stating that what is already illegal is still illegal
I heard that Jeffries is working on a re-edit of Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi's face that melts when he looks at the ark of the covenant, just gets a really bad sunburn.
Federal law enforcement isn’t a monolith, and MAGA is trying to fire thousands of FBI agents who worked on J6–there are plenty of people who could at least temporarily put a stop to this shit
If Dear Leader tells them to ignore it, they will get fired for going against orders. You watch too uch TV. Agents do actually get to "go rogue" when they see something wrong. They get fired.
If this Federal Payment System processes all the medicare payments then this is a massive HIPPA violation. Musk has unauthorized access to see what meds we're taking, what doctors we're seeing, etc. They can turn off payments for drugs and procedures they don't like. This is extremely dangerous.
Um, how? Congress has no jurisdiction to arrest anyone. They can only tell the FBI to do it. And with the FBI compromoised and under MAGA seige, they will just say "no."
Maybe read up on the roles of the three branches a bit?
That's a lot of words. Probably took some time to write that. Sure is nice to see he's taking his time and crossing all the Ts, dotting all the Is, while THERE'S A FUCKING INSANE DRUG SOAKED BILLIONAIRE STEALING THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
Dear Hon. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Item #2 in your letter to colleagues is just kicking the can down the road and supports the hostile fascist takeover of government.
Introducing legislation to prohibit illegal actions is a waste of time. Presumably the REASON it is ILLEGAL is BECAUSE there are already LAWS on the books. Why aren't you pushing for full and legal enforcement of the law?
Jeffries needs to resign and give over his position as minority leader to AOC, Jasmine Crockett or someone who will take the fight to the GOP. Because what he is doing is just letting Elon and DOGE run roughshod over the government!
My favorite part of this is how they're going to "introduce legislation to prevent unlawful access" - MOTHERFUCKER, IF THE ACCESS IS UNLAWFUL THAT MEANS THERE IS **ALREADY** LEGISLATION AGAINST IT!
I don't need you to legislate harder, I need you to obstruct the shit out of everything.
They honestly just don't get it. This is all just theater to them. "I'm going to write a strongly worded letter, by gum!" You got the mail on the head - there's already laws against this, NOW ENFORCE THEM!
I mean, if detailing and highlighting and hosting and outreaching and legislating don't stop a fascist takeover of the entire United States government bureaucracy, then I can't imagine what will.
Maybe the Ds ought to hire some consultants from the GOP side, who know exactly how to shut things down.
The time to do something was when the “math didn’t math” in the swing states or when Trump bragged that Elon “helped out a lot with those voting machines in PA.“
The train of tyranny is barreling down the tracks, shredding our Constitution and Dems are running behind, shaking a stick at it.
"We will have a spirited debate soon as to whether we should tell the ketamine addict with a bat that smashing up the china shop and burning down the block was rather rude of him"
wow I'm sure this is going to do so much to curb the rampant corruption and destruction of our government. It's not like anyone associated with trump would ever do anything illegal. Gee. Wow. Amazing.
Dems on the news keep talking about how we need to see to it that Jeffries is the next Speaker of the House, and why? He's bringing a glass of tepid water to a gun fight.
Oh fuck off. The Democrats have yet to do a goddamn thing that will actually be effective in stopping this. The lawsuits are delaying tactics but that's just an umbrella. It'll be raining rocks soon enough.
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So yeah, real powerless.
Jfc.
FFS
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They know what a Constructional Crisis is.
Totally.
ARREST THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe read up on the roles of the three branches a bit?
I do wonder why "Rip Off" is capitalized, but pardon me for being a grammarian annoyed with the Trumpian erosion of literacy.
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This is theater.
I don't need you to legislate harder, I need you to obstruct the shit out of everything.
Maybe the Ds ought to hire some consultants from the GOP side, who know exactly how to shut things down.
The train of tyranny is barreling down the tracks, shredding our Constitution and Dems are running behind, shaking a stick at it.
Thanks guys, absolutely useless as always
get out on the street. get the bullhorn
line up and be actual leaders. make a scene. get attention
Is @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social supportive of Trump's bigoted attacks on trans and nonbinary people?
https://bsky.app/profile/joekatz45.bsky.social/post/3lhcb6gi6xk23
Oh fuck off. The Democrats have yet to do a goddamn thing that will actually be effective in stopping this. The lawsuits are delaying tactics but that's just an umbrella. It'll be raining rocks soon enough.