Translation: we can't get the billionaires back on our side, they've gone all in with the new regime.
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...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,"
Lol, if that's the approach the Dems are going to go with, I hope you loooove the current Republican regime. Attempting to shame people into voting for you is not likely to win much support.
"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.
It is wild to see him just stand up there and admit he's got no ideas for how to deal with this situation that he's known was coming since November (and should have known was coming since the convention over the summer). Like, even if he believes there's literally nothing he can do, just straight up admitting he's useless and implicitly telling everyone to look somewhere else for resistance is an awful way to rally out supporters and keep people engaged, which is exactly what we need to be doing right now.
We've got more important things to tell people right now about things Congress and the White House are going to be attempting soon, but eventually we also really need to be connecting with Jeffries' voters and making sure they understand that this blank check for Republicans is what they voted for when they supported him in primary votes and helping them understand that the country really can't afford this kind of lazy incompetence right now.
We've seen the GOP weaponize the filibuster at every available opportunity; the fact that the dems are letting anything pass without doing the same is irritating to me. The time to respect decorum is long past, but they don't seem to have gotten the memo on that.
Have the Republicans proposed any bills yet that the Dems could filibuster? ~~Confirmation votes for Trump's nominees are not subject to the filibuster and require only a majority vote.~~
Nominations are subject to the filibuster, unless articles like this one stating that a vote was needed to break a filibuster on Kristi Noem's nomination are all incorrect?
I don't think it's technically called a filibuster in that circumstance, but, yeah, there were things they could have done to slow those votes down but didn't (archived)
Fair enough, I might have the terminology wrong, but this sort of thing is exactly what I was intending to refer to.
I stand corrected. I was in error about the nomination process. You are correct that they could be doing more to block or at least delay Trump's appointments.
They could always try something, and if it doesn't work, try something else. Sitting around waiting for the ideal solution is just making it harder.
There are also the courts
This decisions stated agencies like fcc cannot make their own rules, they have to be written in law.
The agency musk is in charge of only has a mandate to make our government websites work.
We should be hearing about new lawsuits every hour.
Did they change how the filibuster works? Used to be as simple as an email, but I guess only Democrats (when in the majority) are dumb enough to agree to that.
You have us, jam the people standing with you in there like a crowbar and let's pry these motherfuckers out there.