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Good as a start, but come on guys, you've had decades to learn from Mitch McConnell how to do this! Stymie them at every turn. Filibuster everything. Make them drag the anchor for every move. Propose bills that would block them, even if they're doomed to fail, to slow down the process.
Trust me, this is one time your constituents DON'T want you to be the party of smooth-running government! We don't want to slide off the cliff into fascism!
Trump 45 was happy to let his appointees work as interim this-or-that or acting whatchamacallit, and those people seemed to have exactly as much authority as confirmed appointees. Maybe they didn't get the full paycheck? but senate confirmation seems to be completely unnecessary to the exercise of power when everyone just goes along anyway.
I'd be pretty happy to see Dems grind congress to an halt with investigations of absolutely everything, filibusters of everything else, and red card holds, or whatever other magical Senate traditions allow single Senators to completely stifle government activity.
Democrats are so bad at this. You could literally bring everything to a standstill by requiring votes on everything, even things everyone agrees with
And they should do actual filibusters and do 2am quorum calls to keep the GOP in the building at all times.
They won't because they work for the same people
Democrats are rubber stamping their fascist agenda and smiling while doing it
Almost like they're not trying
So what your telling me is that Democrats could have been blocking nominees this whole time..
No. This just delays the confirmations. They basically just don't get fast tracked.
Delay is the whole point. Delay everything and they can't get as much done.
~~It makes them take 60 votes. What I want to know is who are the 7 Democrats that are approving nominations?~~
Nvm, I'm wrong.
USAID?
My guy, he already tried to kill you guys once four years ago. He's having military and federal LEOs snatching people off the street, getting all their practice in for when it starts against non-migrants.
You're not wrong but your urgency and priorities need some fucking help and reassessment here.
To be fair, the USAID probably keeps more people alive than most other US government entities. Definitely per dollar funding.
Call your reps!
My senators are solid progressive democrats so I dont need to message them, and my House representative already bent over with his asshole pre-lubed for Trump on January 6th and ignores all mails I send to him. Damn I wish I had a voice. Oregon moment.
and my House representative already bent over with his asshole pre-lubed for Trump on January 6th and ignores all mails I send to him.
Same, but for both senators and both reps :(
Assuming the dubvee is for WV...it's real shitty here.
It is and...it is. It's very much "I have no voice, and I must scream". But I'm stuck here trying to survive and make the best of it.
It's my little therapeutic pillow to yell into as well. Lol
It is still worth to call.
Thanking your senators for holding these positions and expressing dissatisfaction with your representative. Honestly what musk is doing should make even MAGA upset.
Going back to your original statement. You said you don't need to call because senators hold such position, and don't need to call because representative doesn't. So what configuration would make you call? Because it sounds like you weren't planning to do it no matter what.
I have mailed my state rep Bentz in the past. He is such a deep state lost cause it is quite literally not worth my breath speaking to, unless he decides to ever have an in person town hall out here again, in which case I'll call him a Nazi traitor to his face.
The senators I may still contact honestly, since you've mentioned it....
I guess you could still voice your support and encouragement to your Senators, in a time that calls for their courage.
Run against him.
I dont have that kind of money and support network for a US house run, I'm too young for boomers, and I can't willingly destroy my personal values down to the level required to get elected to any position in Eastern Oregon. I'd have to bait-and-switch them and then probably get shot 3 weeks into my term haha.
You gonna finance the campaign?
Kotek is being infuriatingly silent or both-sides-need-to-work-together about everything as well. I get she wants to keep the flow of sweet federal money coming in so she doesn't want to piss off Trump but lets be real, that spigot is being shut off sooner or later anyway.
"Thanks, we'll wag our finger twice as hard next time"
I think we're way past this. The democrats are showing up to the game when it's already over. Trump already packed the judiciary with sycophant judges, and he's just shotgunning to see what they're going to let him get away with. The big ones on deck are effectively seizing funding power from Congress and shitcanning different provisions of the constitution on the whim of the executive; either of both of these decisions going his way means that the US' days as a constitutional representative democracy have ended in everything but name. Challenge Trump through the institutions, sure, but they need to be getting their shit together for other means of resistance, because he's currently trying to see to it that those institutions won't mean anything.
Give em the Tuberville treatment
Should be doing that the whole damn time!
Such a hold would halt the chamber’s ability to move bills quickly, and require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to ram the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
Dems need a backbone. That’s the whole reason we are where we are now
It's one of many reasons. We're all to blame to some extent.
Don't be so hard on yourself youre not in the ruling class
Why are they the ruling class?
Why did common people allow them to take over the entire system?
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