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Feb 3, 2025 5:50 AM
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originaljbw
Yall voted against them
cptcr
We need a billionaire to buy 2 republican house members and 2 supreme court justices. That's all it would take to put a halt to a lot of this shit. Don't even need the Senate, just filibuster everything dumb they do, but they can't get a bill to the asshole in chief without the house. Literally 4 fucking people could get insanely rich to just take the money and not be a cunt. Then buy the 2 house vacancies. Is it legal, sure it is, it's all just gifts right?
OutboardOverlord
Where is the pushback? You're it.
TheMoonBnuuy
Democrats don't push back.
They're the pawl in the ratchet. The GOP is the gear. The gear turns right. The pawl prevents it from turning left.
So while the Democrats don't push everything further to the right, they prevent any movement to the left.
bnyfrmthbrnx
Still on the mat l
Catheren
Just got off a massive 50k+ people video call with a couple of them actually: https://track-mg.mobilize.us/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv=55yf3AstpQI/1/01000194c99d0652-7c59d820-bd79-4339-885d-003fbb84d8be-000000/zuOVkU5MzusSimV1o8Yi1Y70IzRLJAq47lbYCO_6Oc8=390 They're rallying, guiding, instructing people who are willing to listen and paying attention how to move so they can better block Trumps illegal BS. Current priority: Keep Russell Vought out of OMB. 1/2
Catheren
Vought could give Musk a big fat stamp of approval if I understood correctly. Plan is to show up in person at- or call if you can't- your senator's office and tell them to BLOCK that nomination because he's the rat that made Project 2025, and even the Rs know how UNPOPULAR that move is, but they need to hear it from us, and we need to hammer it in. I'm trying to decide if I can hit that AND the state capital protest both.
wingineer
Suing in court. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/democratic-states-sue-birthright-citizenship-trump/index.htmldex.html">https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/democratic-states-sue-birthright-citizenship-trump/index.html> https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5111429-democratic-states-attorneys-general-sue-trump-administration/ They could be more effective and inspiring, but at the same time: everything Trump is doing is through the executive branch or private parties (DOGE), so there's no bill to block, and Dems don't have a majority in Congress that'd let them subpoena let alone impeach.
macrolet
... Aside from the fact that if impeachment actually did what you're suggesting, they wouldn't have had to impeach him twice the first time around and then he takes the seat again.
wingineer
The character limit prevented me from saying "impeach and remove," I apologize for not being fully accurate.
tachyx
The US does not have a parliamentary system. Trump is the first person to be leader of the opposition while not holding office. Who is the leader of the opposition right now?
TheYodajen
They are still waiting, thinking he's just going to stop one day and go back to normal ineffective government. It's like the American Revolution but in reverse. The dems want things to be regimented and by procedure and the repubs going rogue winning at every turn. Even when the dems had power they did nothing with it
DMWildemount
Wait, I’m not from the US - can the democrats actually control the republicans? [Sarcasm, but I don’t understand
jackal12345
No, republicans hold all three branches of government. This is basic "Republicans destroyed everything therefor it's the Democrats job to fix it" crap that's been going on for as long as I can remember. Fact of the matter is the voters ensured things have to go very very wrong before things can start getting fixed. By very wrong I mean a lot of people have to die not go into poverty but die before things change. And from what we saw with Covid the number of dead must be Khmer Rouge level.
DMWildemount
why some people seem to blame their left wing party for things their right wing party do. This is 100% a blame republicans thing. The democrats would be doing something if they could, as they won’t be alive (electorally and possibly physically depending on how bad it gets) if US democracy is dismantled].
Paraphrast
Yep. This plea is based on false expectations.
Paraphrast
Which might be the purpose.
TinyOctopus
Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership are too fucking worried that they won't have any power, so they're too busy trying to make back room deals to stay relevant. Meanwhile, the rest of us who aren't in the top 10% are going to get so unbelievably fucked, you're gonna be able to drive a car through our sphincters.
MyHuskyAteMySandwichAgain
This break in character is ... unsettling. I won't promise that everything will be ok but I will promise that we will face this together. Even if we aren't ever aware of each other beyond this virtual facade, we're not alone.
IMPICKLERICK
You know shit gets real with @TinyOctopus doesn't speak in the third person
REOJackwagon
SarahTheEverlame
%100 unnerving.