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'What leverage do we have?' Democrats face pressure to fight the Trump agenda (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 days ago by jhymesba to c/politics

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"I'm trying to figure out what leverage we actually have," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press briefing this month. "What leverage do we have? Republicans have repeatedly lectured America — they control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It's their government."

I'm going to go a bit out on a limb here and say that you should be out there, constantly emphasising that 'it's their government', day in, and day out, on every news channel that will have you, including left-wing stalwarts like TYT and more centrist rags like MSNBC, and pair that with "this is what you voted for when you voted third party or stayed home, to say nothing of directly voting for this mess," and "Vote Democrat between now and 2026 and we'll hold this administration accountable, " and "We will use every tool in our toolbox to slow this down, including every parliamentary trick we can find to gum up the works in both the House and Senate, as well as the simplest act of voting NO on everything that comes out of this administration. The GQP has enough votes to do this on their own, so we're not helping them, one bit. We don't help people that think of us as baby-eating, baby-fucking Satan worshippers, and we especially don't help the dismantling of the US system of government!"

But that's just me. And yes, I'd totally be calling them the 'GQP' and calling out their bullshit opinions of people on my side of the political aisle. Enough going high. It's time to call them out for what they are. Idiots with a hefty dose of asshattery on the side.

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[–] Treczoks 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Budget, March 14th.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fun fact: March 14 is the 53rd day of this Trump administration.

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