And that's the problem "if t doesnt rescind," are you daft? We are tired of this loser approach. And the gaslighting. You still have your salary, your healthcare, your home. How long do you think this is sustainable? Shall i call my senator? Fuck that noise. All of you need to be fired and replaced.
or you could just act now, immediately, not waiting for shit that won't happen. go. do you actual job. oppose and stop things like an actual opposition
He’s going to text you asking for money, and if you don’t send it (or, hell, even if you DO send it), he’ll go ask Wall Street for it and then roll over and play dead when they make cooperating with Trump a stipulation of getting the money. He is a coward and his party is managed opposition.
We all know there are phone calls and widespread panic over this, because it’s impacting ALL of us. The difference is that you were elected to serve and protect us from this.
Thus far YOU. ARE. FAILING.
Do your job or step down so we can elect someone who will.
Not so. Kindly review McConnell's video the day after Biden's election. He was pretty damn effective as an obstructionist. Campaign of obstruction fueled by EFFECTIVE messaging and grassroots organizing.
Congress needs to act anyway! Organize, plan, and resist! The whole country needs to be told what is happening daily. We need country wide outrage! We need to rise up together. Fill Washington with millions of protestors.
They have 'concerns' and stern faces. Maybe they need to consult a political consultant on the right stern look on their stern faces. Maybe ask a lobbyist if now is the right time to do what we hired them to do. I am conflicted.
Act...act...Senator...we need a Senate that acts....not reacts. This onslaught of pain will continue, morph...but it is all bad, illegal and contrary to the functioning of a democratic Republic. Be bold, be a leader...the old rules clearly do not apply.
I don’t know you but I feel confident that you would be a strong Senate minority leader right now that this corporate cuckold lapping at Wall Street’s teats.
Are you fucking stupid? Where the fuck have you been the past months? You and the rest of your party MUST fight everything that they do. Stop all movement in Congress for anything he tries.
ACT NOW! Look, even if you can't win, do *something*! He's tearing up the constution to fill the government with corrupt loyalists, as seen in the hit publication "How I plan to tear up the constution to fill the government with corrupt loyalists".
The bad guys had the decency to release a 500 page guide on their intentions and methods, I kind of feel like maybe the DNC should have had a plan here, and should come up with one immediately. Save democracy!
No wonder the Democrats lost, even the Democrats their party for everything. It is the believable to sit back and watch you folks destroy each other. What a world we live in.
You are angry at the wrong person, the coward is the GOP. They control all 3 branches. The Democrats try to warn us what will happen. Project 2025 is in place.
The GOP are delivering exactly what their constituents want, the Democrats are conversely not doing so for their constituents. It is not the GOP's job to stand up to Trump at all, it is the job of Dems, and they are failing miserably.
Yep, the presidential power to pardon is the most bizarre thing. It's a superpower. Rump could instruct anyone to commit any federal offence (including murder), and provided they do what he wants them to do, they're in the clear. Basically, Rump has infinite power.
I think so, but in the meantime the people that depend on that funding have to stress about whether they will get the help they need while the Trump admin drags things out through the courts.
The law doesn’t even matter anymore. The courts lost all legitimacy with the sentence of we acknowledge you’re guilty of 34 felonies. The legislative and executive branches have also lost all illusions of legitimacy.
Start the Articles of Impeachment in the House today, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow! Grind this Criminal Regime to a halt! #GumUpTheWorks
You sound like one of those parents that says to their kid "if you touch that one more time...." and repeats it 10 more times. Just do something about it. Stop with affording him the opportunity to fix what he has no intention on fixing.
Fucking get off your ass stop writing letters and fucking throw a fucking fit on the Senate floor that will hit every network with how fucking angry with are.
SCOTUS gave Biden the power to legally kill Trump knowing he would never use it but hoping Trump would to cement a permanent single-party dictatorship.
How about congress acts because he ENACTED it and even if he rescinds it make sure he can't do it again? How about if congress gets their feet underneath them before he removes any power there might be there to stop him. Also, OPM has our records, and Musk has OPM. Maybe look into that.
Suggestion for you and your fellow reps in DC...do your damn jobs to save democracy and serve the people. And stop with all your performative oh my gosh things are so bad bs.
There is literally nothing congress or the courts can do other than impeachment. People need to contact their house representatives and encourage impeachment. There is zero other enforcement mechanisms for the president.
Sure, and that might help with the 2022 election if there is one… but Trump is effectively immune as the executive for anything he does in office. He can just blatantly ignore the laws, consolidate power, and there is nothing but an impeachment that can stop him.
It’s because democrats believe in the institution of government and follow the laws, republicans don’t. They want to tear down the institutions because the institutions regulate their businesses, and tax them. They will stop at nothing to tear it all down.
Bullshit. Congress routinely ground to a halt when Obama was in charge. Schumer WANTS all of this stuff. He just wants Trump to do it not him. Remember; he tried to pass a law making all of this happen last year and was upset when Trump stopped it. Schumer loves deportations & roundups.
Yes, but Obama follows the law. Trump doesn’t. That’s the difference here. There is no enforcement mechanism that will stop Trump other than impeachment.
How do you act when you have a president that will not respect the law? The only way to act is remove him from office, and that’s what they should be working towards.
Nothing. He can do nothing but speak out. That's it. That's how government works. That's how a majority works. We get the government we deserve and unfortunately this is what the collective gave us.
They largely did nothing while in the minority because they could do nothing. They leaned on the weak links of Manchin and Sinema and made sure some resources found their way to change a few votes.
I don’t know, but Mitch McConnell was pretty effective at shutting Obama’s legislative agenda down when he was Senate minority leader. Maybe we start there.
If you don't have 60 votes you have very few vehicles such as reconciliation to pass legislation. Dems will do the same to the Republicans. Mitch didn't really stop a whole lot of anything that wasn't already a nonstarter.
Schumer said he doesn't even own a phone, so this is probably just an intern trying to make it look like Schumer isn't asleep at his desk after his pedialyte made him sleepy
They'll write a really angry letter about it. Maybe even go on social media and decry it! Fists will be shook, but elections will certainly not be won, not on the Old Guard's watch!
He will instead do nothing as stay in office until his entire generation dies, just like Feinstein. It is their duty to stymie all leftward progress in this country.
Act now, you spineless dickwit!!! What the fuck is the point of you being in a leadership position if you’re not gunna lead?! Clueless geriatric weasel
act now! you all have to push back hard. look he’s doing this with EOs even tho he has house and senate? then this means there are R house and senate you can peel off. BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT. they won’t come skipping over with out applied pressure
How do we hold our representatives accountable if we don’t know how they voted? Threats of political violence are terrorism and should be dealt with promptly by the legal system
Let me tell you something the moment they murder a senator for trying to do the right thing and oppose Trump and MAGA radical right Republicans, that’s when a civil war definitely begins and that’s when they should really panic and worry!
ALL VOTES NEED TO BE PRIVATE IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
Things will change when congress and their families are protected from being targets.
They're rightly afraid of the Mobster.
Grow a set. He's not going to rescind "it" or anything else, for that matter. The Article III branch is doing all the work here and is not 100% reliable. You know who your friends are in the Senate - FFS even Grassley wrote a letter with Durbin. Read Article I, stand on your hind legs and get busy.
What in the fuck are you there for if not to do something? We have fucking reporters for what you’re doing. GET WORKING OR GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY OF SOMEONE WHO WILL.
DT shouldn't be the first target. We must go after The Heritage Foundation and all it's members. No quarter, only extreme prejudice. This is their plan after all.
"Like both legislative statutes and the regulations promulgated by government agencies, executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the orders lack support by statute or the Constitution."
That's somewhat my point: It is literally illegal to do what Trump is doing. So, Congress getting together to give speeches in the Capitol is less than useless.
He needs to actually lead. And exercise actual power.
If the senate leader and one of the biggest figures in the party can't get 4 senators behind challenging the most flagrant breach of powers then what the fuck is he even good for?
Isn't that the whole excuse these ancient bastards give when shafting young progressives? Experience and connections?
He's not the senate leader though. I'll be honest believing anyone could create that kind of bipartisanship against a partisan president just makes it seem like you haven't been paying attention to the past 50 years of American politics.
#Veteran
Little dude. When you get to be fifty - give me a call and we can talk about what it’s been like actually LIVING through these last 50 f🎶king years. Stop being such a little douche. Okay? We good?
You should think about enlisting. If you could get in and through boot camp - you might get lucky and earn a modicum of respect and humility. Possibly. Maybe
Not true. Every Dem should pick one each of every single IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE the orange Q-hristian fascist nazi has ALREADY committed and the hundreds more to come and introduce article of IMPEACHMENT; today, tomorrow,every f🎼king day until midterm-win back congress guaranteed. Punch the f back Sen!
Articles of impeachment are introduced in the GOP controlled house. It would then be sent to the Judiciary Committee which is controlled by the GOP. And doing it everyday would only draw focus away from the harm being done. America voted to touch the stove and we have no power to stop them.
Thank you for the condescending response. I know which razor thin body initiates impeachment proceedings. Of course they will go nowhere-now. The point is to bury the orange demon in a mountain of push-back! Punches back sir. RESISTANCE sir. It’s all they have to do in the minority. FFS! Call it out
That's literally just writing a bunch of strongly worded letters that will be ignored. Like I guess if it makes you feel better, but it's still nothing.
It would shine a giant SPOTLIGHT on his crimes! 15 for 15 wins for impeachment in US. The POTUS not removed - but the party which brought the impeachment WON the next election, regaining control of House, Senate and WH in those Presidential elections.
Uh - I know and said that. And no, they don’t teach civics anymore. They call it social studies now. I, however, did take civics when it was taught in public school because I’m an old bastard. My assertion stands. The House minority daily-weekly articles of impeachment. Thanks for the condescension❤️
It’s an illegal, unconstitutional power grab and you should be saying so LOUDLY at every opportunity. Not to mention halting all other senate business, whipping votes against every nominee, and doing your job to protect democracy.
*You* are congress
*You* are leader of the opposition party in the *upper house* of *the congress*
I did not vote for you to sit on your ass and say while safety nets are gutted and trans people on my timeline are literally being rounded up and forced to detransition and revert their legal IDs
Act already. The fact that he did something so egregious in the first place - and based on his WHOLE FIRST TERM - is evidence enough that he’s unstable and not bound by the constitution. Congress is the only thing that can limit his takeover of our country.
I was sort of hoping we coudl agree to... IDK, not subvert the constitution and crash the economy by day 14 not, you know, bring in MORE wrecking balls
Naaah, he’s gonna stay in office forever, just like his buddy Feinstein. Their generation can’t face the fact that they’ve ruined the world, so they can’t step aside and let us fix it because that would be admitting their failure.
Congress must act *regardless.* This kind of overtly unconstitutional activity must be answered, and we can't care if Trump says "oopsie." There are no take backs, and letting him test the system like this without response is dangerous.
How about you RETIRE, and then maybe someone will replace you and ACT NOW instead of waiting for that wannabe dictator to find a conscience?! You really are unbelievable, couldn't be more unsuitable for the situation.
Rather than treating us like we're panicked for no real reason (which I know you're doing) and dismissing deep concerns as 'overreaction,' you should tell us WHY we're panicked for no real reason and having an overreaction. Or better yet, lay out your plan to do anything other than speech and tweet.
1) Bust out the “McConnell’s greatest hits” playbook and obstruct like our democracy depends on it.
2) Shut up, listen to and amplify the people in your own caucus who ARE effective messengers.
3) The republican caucus is incredibly fragile. Get your ass in there & peel off some votes.
Have Everyone vote against his nominees. Get on every single soapbox you possibly can (mainstream and otherwise) and talk about the incredible damage that the Administration has done in only 10 days. Organize protests.
Stop talking about bipartisanship when it's beyond obvious that the GOP wants nothing to do with that. Speak to those being adversely affected by the administration's policies so you can share their stories.
Be fucking loud and obnoxious so that people actually know they're fighting for you.
You know that many Republicans in congress are not happy about his EO frenzy agendas. Have the congress to put a stop to his before the country falls apart.
You're part of congress though. Do you mean the house or is this really awkward phrasing where you're talking in the third person like Bob Dole used to do instead of saying "we" or "I"?
"Congress must act" is a way of taking no personal responsibility for messaging yourself.
You idiots need to start yelling from the rooftops that people dying and things like elderly not receiving Meals on Wheels ARE THE INTENDED RESTULTS...THE GOALS...not accidents.
Can you please let someone with a real spine take over for you? You can't even get all your senators to vote against these completely unqualified cabinet members. How are you ever going to take on anything bigger? We're in a desperate fight for our country and democracy and we need actual leaders!
Well then do your job Chuck! Get a lawsuit filed, pass some laws, get organized and stop this insanity. It’s not like 70 million Americans didn’t see this coming!! You’d think you guys had months to start preparing for this. Holy shit! Talk about dropping the ball.
Yes but he’s the one we got right now. We have to work with what we have. And he’s stood up to the shit stain before. And there’s no time to find and vote for anyone else. Action needs to be taken right now, today. People are going to start dying soon, there are so many poor people left stranded.
It’s well documented that they’re not willing to do much more than complain. The reps fight dirty and the Dems reply with passivity. They’re playing two entirely different game.
And this is how we ended up where we are now. I'm not saying that Dem's are perfect. Of course they aren't. But we need to stick together. Except for Fetterman. He needed a slap upside the head for the Hegseth vote.
They’ve been a fucking rug for the republicans to walk all over for years. They’ve rarely/weakly fought back. The republicans took advantage of that and now we are fucked. Words won’t save us.
Examples please cause if they did a lot then how come people didn’t vote for them .As they say in the UK the proofs in the pudding but they don’t even have the recipe let alone the ingredients.Useless mofos
How do you suggest they pass laws? The democrats told you this would happen if the people didn't get out and vote, now they have no power to fix it - exactly as they warned.
They couldn't prevent it or they would have. They told people they needed to vote to stop it and people ignored them. No point in shooting the messenger.
We have a different system here. First off there are the courts. Illegal proclamations are challenged in court. Court orders stop them. Trump is trying to end what are programs written into laws here. He doesn’t have the power to do that. It would take amendments to these laws which require 2/3 vote
If they couldn’t prevent it then why bother having elections , laws and all that other bothersome stuff like human rights etc.
Plus I wouldn’t waste a bullet on the messenger.
I have CPTSD from 10 years of this BS. The Democrats had ONE job and 8 yrs. We elected them 2stop this very thing but they elected to stay silent. They rolled out the red carpet of decorum, smiled & welcomed fascists in by holding the door. I don't want anymore pep talks. I want ACTION & a damn plan
Most ineffective political party ever .They had 4 years to put an end to this madness and they completely ferked it up and now we,the civilised world, have to suffer for it .
Couldn’t organise a pissup in a brewery
I agree!! 4 years and did nothing. It was so evident this was going to happen. Biden sold us all out. I know peeps love him but let’s speak the truth here. He handed our country to Trump on a silver platter. He knew damn well this was going to happen. If you and I knew it so did he.
77 million people and the millions who voted for Biden in 2020 but decided to sit this one out, sold us out. They allowed this and they gave him complete power with the judiciary and congress. They handed our country over to an incompetent, hate filled fascist.
💯 Time for people to take their rose tinted glasses off and take a look at the real world .Democratic leadership have failed the American people and they have no excuses .
If they had of done their job right in the first place the fascists wouldn’t have got a second chance .Even Germany won’t give fascists a second chance so if that’s their best then I don’t want any part of it .
Yes!!! They need to get off their azz & do something!! This civil BS isn't working. We are tired of it! Dem politicians need to go low. Fight back. Damn it grab the GOP playbook and use it against them! Tired of Dems just speaking with zero action! We elected them so they need to fight 4 us!!
I’d like to know also. Americans voted for trump and Republicans to represent them. Republican Congress as we know never say no to him. So here we are.
Chuck, my good man, it’s already illegal and stomping on Congress. If you want to continue to have authority, go use it. No sternly worded letters. This is not normal, quit acting like it is. Do something.
I am your neighbor in Brooklyn. ICE is out rounding up people in Brooklyn NOW. Parents have been told to put a copy of their child’s birth certificate in their back pack just in case. Our schools are going to lose funding. This is dystopian and we need you to fight.
Sorry, every single one of them voted to confirm Rubio and he turned around and thanked them by yanking every dollar of foreign aid. They are clowns at the circus and they don’t care about the people in the audience being shot by Trump’s goons.
Whoever is in charge of this account, just stop with your pathetic posts. Your words mean absolutely NOTHING. It’s like sending prayers out for victims of mass shootings. How about f$cking doing something.
The middle of the American political system is just right wing sadly. We need a party that's more left than anything we have now. The Dems are already smack dab in the center.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if he along with several others start a strong 3rd part that actually can challenge the dems and repubs. But, sadly, we are too tribal in the country, and most won't dare leave their party.
@elissaslotkin.bsky.social per my telephone message I left for you earlier today —- where are you?! Where are the democrats?! Where is the fight?! DO SOMETHING!
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SIGNED, SOMEONE WHO VOTES IN YOUR STATE
We all know there are phone calls and widespread panic over this, because it’s impacting ALL of us. The difference is that you were elected to serve and protect us from this.
Thus far YOU. ARE. FAILING.
Do your job or step down so we can elect someone who will.
How pathetic dems.
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Why are we paying you?
Decades. Check the record check the record check the guy’s track record. big freeze
You are.
DO SOMETHING!
Never mind every day since scotus bullshit ruling on citizens-united in 2010.
Chuck Schumer is gonna DO something productive!
End impunity Abolish qualified immunity
Take a stand and DO something - or step out of the way for someone who will
The correct answer is “Trump won’t rescind it, I as the leader of senate democrats will act, here’s how:”
Still living in Biden Lala land.
Congressional inaction is complicity - and Democractic voters didn’t cast our ballots for you to cede our democracy to a petty tyrant.
Congress must act now.
#MurderingAPatrioticSenatorWillBringCivilWar #FuckFelon47 🖕🏼🖕🏼
Things will change when congress and their families are protected from being targets.
They're rightly afraid of the Mobster.
Your weakness is nauseating.
Pathetic.
Resign, geriatric.
Of course that would take strength and courage, things you have never had.
You're just going to wait and if it doesn't go away by itself, THEN you will act? Do we have an ETA on that?
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This is a start, at least.
Because from where I'm sitting it doesn't appear as though law or rule plays any part in how things run now.
He needs to actually lead. And exercise actual power.
Isn't that the whole excuse these ancient bastards give when shafting young progressives? Experience and connections?
You immediately took the least charitable interpretation of my words and then took the goal posts and ran, come on my dude.
Little dude. When you get to be fifty - give me a call and we can talk about what it’s been like actually LIVING through these last 50 f🎶king years. Stop being such a little douche. Okay? We good?
HE WONT STOP UNLES THERE IS ACTUAL RESISTANCE FROM THE OPPOSITION PARTY CHUCK!
WHAT HES DOING IS ILLEGAL CHUCK!
*You* are leader of the opposition party in the *upper house* of *the congress*
I did not vote for you to sit on your ass and say while safety nets are gutted and trans people on my timeline are literally being rounded up and forced to detransition and revert their legal IDs
So.
What are you going to do about it?
Are you taking Acosta's spot on CNN? Are you reporting news?
I thought you were still a sitting US Senator?
And they can do a lot more than just those two things, neither of which they've done in spades.
1) Bust out the “McConnell’s greatest hits” playbook and obstruct like our democracy depends on it.
2) Shut up, listen to and amplify the people in your own caucus who ARE effective messengers.
3) The republican caucus is incredibly fragile. Get your ass in there & peel off some votes.
Be fucking loud and obnoxious so that people actually know they're fighting for you.
COLLABORATORS TALK.
Resistance fighters ACT.
You idiots need to start yelling from the rooftops that people dying and things like elderly not receiving Meals on Wheels ARE THE INTENDED RESTULTS...THE GOALS...not accidents.
INTENDED INTENDED INTENDED.
Plus I wouldn’t waste a bullet on the messenger.
Chuck can’t do anything.
Send your post to McConnell or Johnson.
Good luck to you.
Dinosaurs need to get out the way so the young dems, who know how to fight, can do something!!
Couldn’t organise a pissup in a brewery
We the People deserve a new election. Period.
Something the #cowardlydems could've done but didn't
https://chng.it/ssPgKJHT68
We're all pissed, if not terrified and traumatized.
The best strategy right now is to be our own leaders while encouraging any efforts for positive change?
This is a hellscape. But, we are very much #TheDiverseMajority
as a congressman, are YOU going to act?
y'all did NOTHING but yap
delete your account and resign
(Emails are going unopened. Petitions go nowhere.)
That's what they are waiting for.
Phone calls.
Physical mail.
Call/mail anyone and everyone, not just "yours"
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-video-extreme-emergency
Hey Republicans, get going. Do your job. Clean house instead of sliming to Trump's demands.
Stand up and work with Democrats.
(but you won't) You got us into the shit mess.
YOU are Congress.
Protect us from this criminal ignoramus.