Not just them, anybody with fucking power. Where is the military right now? Theres a fucken coup happening in plain sight.
I thought this was what the second amendment was for… Well regulated militia and stuff…
Have you done anything like that yet?
Not my country, not my lifestyle. But when all those gun nuts give a militia protecting the democracy for an answer to the question why the second amendment is necessary you have to wonder if they started maching by now. Because if not, that argument might be bull.
It’s easier to call for someone else to be brave than it is to be brave.
I’m not calling anyone to be brave. I’m calling them to put their money where their mouth is. Twice now, but you seem to not understand.
You are using synonyms in this context. That’s twice you’ve pretended they’re different. I don’t know why you don’t understand.
You no understand, me see this. Me not bother anymore. You sleep tight.
I’m not a vegan, nor claim or aim to be one. But if I went about loudly proclaiming that I was, using this to justify my actions, and then it became public knowledge that I am in fact not a vegan, then it would be the same hypocrisy. When a group claims to need weapons to quell a threat to democracy, and then proceeds to ignore the threat when it arises, then they are hypocrites. Hope that helped understand the point - let me know if it did 👍
I get you, but being a vegan requires zero risk of injury or incarceration.
Like I told the (much less pleasant) other user, it’s no surprise that people are less brave than they’d like you to believe. That’s just… human nature.
Sure, it was them who acted tough for the rewards when there were no risks and now are reluctant to actually take those risks. And this is textbook hypocrisy that deserves to be called out.
well, no, not a coup, a constitutional crisis, but not a coup
It’s not a coup unless it’s from the Potomac Valley region of the US. Otherwise, it’s just a sparkling crisis.
The Four Loko of coups
Eh more bud light than four loko
It’s a distinction without a difference. It’s an unlawful seizure of power.
Idk man I’d say it falls under the definition of coup. With extra steps sure, still a coup tho imo
Unlawful seizure of power is a coup . . . oh . . . wait . . . Trump has complete immunity . . . nevermind
The dems have no coherent message and strategy because they are an attempt to unify basically everything that isn’t the far right under one banner. That means that different politicians under it, and different voters that vote for them, want fundamentally different things. Taking a firm, party-wide stance that satisfies the left wing of the party would risk driving off the segment that is just “conservatives that dont feel comfortable with how openly bigoted the republicans are”, and vice versa. But trying to please everyone by committing to nothing and running on good vibes eventually results in people getting frustrated with voting for a party that doesn’t advance what they want.
And yet Republicans have successfully runs on being everything the left is not under one banner successfully for two decades now, taking over the entire federal government.
That’s because the Republicans aren’t afraid to tell their base they’ll do it all regardless of it contradicts with something else, even if they know it’s controversial, and they push all of it through and let’s everyone know they tried to push it through. They show to their members they have their backs regardless of how stupid it is.
Meanwhile on the Democrat side, you don’t have a single mainstream leader that’s willing to do that and actively squashes anything that might upset the moderates or their donor resulting in no one feeling like the Democrats will actually fight for them because they won’t.
In this tumultuous and historically dangerous time, what are the dem centrist leaders pouring their efforts into? This corporate whoring BS to crack down on illegal streaming. And not much else. I hope the check the movie industry cuts to the DNC is worth it.
This is something else that the Republicans have always had an edge on.
I can’t remember exactly how the saying goes. Something about trying to serve two masters and you end up pleasing neither. Republicans have learned that message. Democrats have not.
Even before the days of Trump, Republicans have always given one clear, consistent message and you either have to take it all or leave it all. You want the immigration policies? You take all the bigotry and tax cuts for the rich that goes with it. You want religious freedom? Then you take our anti-abortion policies too. If it’s that important to you, then your option is to hold your nose and vote for us. Trump has streamlined the process and put a face to the ideology, but the underlying tactic is the same. One man, one message. Take it or leave it. There is no option B.
Democrats have never learned that. Think of it. Even when Trump isn’t in office, who is the face of the Republican party? Trump. He will be the face of the party long after he’s dead. And his party’s message will be the same as it’s been for decades: This is what the party is all about. Take it or leave it.
Who’s the face of the Democrat party? What consistent message have the Democrats ever sent? They try to be a broad umbrella for everybody who isn’t Republican. They have no party leader. No face of the party. No message. They try to please the independents and centrists and end up pissing off the far left, only to try to please the far left and alienate the centrists. It’s the epitome of trying to please two masters and pissing off both. It’s the epitome of “jack of all trades, master of none”. It has always been this way. They have never, ever learned that trying to please everybody just ends up pissing everybody off. They need to learn one thing from the GOP: Find a message, stick with it, and stop trying to be all things to all people. If the people are on your side about an issue that’s that important to them, they’ll hold their nose and accept the rest.
They try to please the independents and centrists and end up pissing off the far left, only to try to please the far left and alienate the centrists.
Only because they pretend the far left are about “woke” social policy stuff and absolutely refuse to even consider left economic policy.
Ask people what progressives stand for lately and they will say trans rights and wokeness.
I do wonder if everything on the far left seeming to be about “trans” this and that is an attack by centrists and fascists to portray all of the progressive left’s agenda as being about issues that are critical to only 1% of the population.
Are trans issues Important? Yes. But are trans rights issues the most critical issues of our time?
No. Not even close. Trans rights doesnt rise to importance over class struggles affecting all of us or state sanctioned mass murder in Gaza.Are they more important than … school vouchers, school lunches, and oil drilling issues? yes.
Are they more important than gun violence in schools?
I’d argue no.Womens reproductive care rights?
Fuck No.I think the progessives have been trapped by cleverly malign marketing tricks, many of which are from our own dem coalition partners. Centrist bad actions within the DNC to limit progressive influence needs to be reckoned with.
I was just asking a friend this last Friday. The party is led by out of touch boomers, backed by moneyed interests, and refuses to change. They’d rather not rock the boat or be the cause of a division in our society. Yet here we are, more divided than ever and growing by the day.
At least it wasn’t by their hands?
you don’t see any other actors or forces that have led to division?
There are plenty and too many to list here.
But Democrats, that’s the one?
The thing about wedge issues is that it doesn’t matter if someone gave it a whack, the divide was already there.
The fascists aren’t fascists because Big Scary Putin brainwashed them with a magic crystal, this is what they want.
Easy answer: because they are led by centrists who stand for nothing much beyond being in the middle so something can get done. The very nature of centrism is to not be in favor of either side of a political spectrum. Everything is negotiable, lately even the current value of human life abroad, which will come back to our shores. Centrists sure as hell cant lead much of anywhere coherent, or win elections. They can be proud of something like an infrsatructure bill, and they feel like that should be enough to get voters to the polls for them. Its just not. Anything uncontroversial enough that the right wont object to is not going to animate the left either. They can’t win on road-building and post office branch naming.
Parties need money to exist. Without voter funding from people and groups who want to get specific things done, the only funding they can get is from corporations who want dirty favors, so centrists inevitably become the dirty corporate favor party too. Or, “whores” if you will. Its whore or starve for these folks.
When their idea of “starve” is to live the normal middle-class lifestyle they’ve actively deprived us of.
because they’re paid to be.
“look, there are good billionaires. We’re going to take money from the good billionaires, we won’t accept money from the bad ones.”
The new DNC “leader”
just saw that clip today… this guy is exactly what you expect of the dnc- they’re signalling they haven’t learned a thing. hope democrats are looking forward to jd vance and co.
We’re going to take money from the good billionaires, we won’t accept money from the bad ones
As a lifelong Dem, thats just inspiring right there. “You’ll all service the clean Johns only, not the diseased ones. Some trickle down goodness to you poors may or may not happen in the process. Now everyone put on your knee pads and get on your knees. The boss billionaire is entering the building.”
Lmao because they are just as beholden to corporate money as the right
I think that’s mostly true, I see Democrats as the power brokers. Basically they hold power between the people and corporations and attempt to maintain order. This was the mo of Republicans until Trump.
I think that they probably believe they’re doing the best they can, but the reality is they serve corporations first, us second.
They’re bought-out by capitol, just like the Trump Troop.
Money. They want money.
They’re not spineless. They just have different values than you.
It’s almost like they’re all part of the same club, despite calling themselves different political parties.
It’s almost like there can be things that exist in this universe which have one side, and then you can flip it over and it has another totally different side, but it’s still the same object regardless of which face it’s showing.
They certainly had a spine when standing up for Netanyahu.
Because none of these scenarios happened on The West Wing so they have no idea what to do
Luckily for us it should not matter. Days of free and fair elections are over. If you understand what that means please let people know. The sooner we can separate ourselves from the controlled opposition real opposition can emerge.
We are talking about a 30+ years project here. Governments die, ideas do not.
The Democrats are spineless because a bunch of them are still capitalists and don’t want to mess with the status quo and disturb the money faucet that funds them. They’re just as bought and paid for as Republicans, they just try to hide it behind virtue signaling and empty words.
Neoliberalism.
What does The Gaurdian expect Democrats to do, without the Constitutional power do it?
In the last election The Executive Branch (Presidency), The Legislative Branch (Both houses of Congress) had their control swing Republican, couple that with Trump having already packed The Judicial Branch (The Supreme Court) with a Republican majority, and that’s the whole ball game.
Democrats seem spineless, because not enough of The American People cast votes in Novembers election to give them to power to do or stop Republicans doing litteraly anything all.
Elections have consequences. More Arab and Latino Americans cast a vote for Donald Trump in Novembers election than have ever voted for any Republican candidate before in American History. Leftists on the other hand spent the Spring and Summer of an election year, on nightly news, marching on every major American city, and taking over University commons across the country, protesting Jews, in support of Islamofascist terrorists, chanting “From The River To The Sea”, and telling anyone that would listen they weren’t going to vote for “Genocide Joe”, which I imaging not only freaked out Middle America, but All of it, with the kicker that Democratic youth vote was the lowest on record this past election, while Republican youth vote was the highest.
Donald Trump won his second term as President of The United States by 2.3% of the vote, and the Left suppressed the Democratic Youth Vote.
protesting Jews, in support of Islamofascist terrorists, chanting “From The River To The Sea”, and telling anyone that would listen they weren’t going to vote for “Genocide Joe”,
Oh hey look it’s the rare genocide supporter that helped cost the election.
Funny they blame people being against genocide by Nazi state like Israel yet stay silent on the millions of dollars Kamala received by Zionist lobbyists to continue a campaign so disliked by everyone.
So you decide that the best course of action is to allow a man who has explicitly stated he just wants to see the whole place razed to regain power? How did that help Gaza at all?
Well the guy who explicitly stated he just wants to see the whole place razed got the ceasefire Biden “tried” and failed to achieve for 15 months, which I’d say helped Gaza.
Sure, in the same way Reagan “got the hostages released” – by colluding with another fascist to make each other look good, so they can gain power and execute their agenda (and their enemies) later.
You’ve been played and you don’t even realize it.
Okay I won’t deny that this possibility exists—though I don’t think it’s likely either—but okay, and? Muslims in America wanted one thing: A Gaza ceasefire. Biden didn’t give them that, but Trump did. Therefore the idea that Trump was going to or is funding the genocide harder than Biden did is simply false.
I’ll wait till I see what Egypt and Jordan have to say about this. If they accept, which is necessary for Trump’s plan and exceedingly unlikely, I’ll eat my words.
In an “ends justify the means” way, sure. (And I’ll concede that an ends-justify-the-means victory is still a victory some are willing to accept). He basically threatened to nuke and pave the place if Hamas didn’t give up the hostages. So if you consider that a win, then sure. Trump basically “won” by saying he’s going to turn up the genocide, and maybe he’ll hold back the genocide for a little while if Hamas gives up the hostages. And that’s where we are now. Gaza gets to exist until Trump says they don’t.
He basically threatened to nuke and pave the place if Hamas didn’t give up the hostages. So if you consider that a win, then sure.
Hamas was never the ones stopping the deal from happening; that was always Israel, whom Trump told in no uncertain terms to end the war or else. I won’t deny the possibility that Hamas was also pushed along by Trump, but remember that Hamas wanted to give up the hostages in exchange for a ceasefire. That was the whole point of taking hostages back in October 7th, and they accepted the deal when Biden first presented it in May.
He also approved them moving the violence to the West Bank.
Okay, and? I think you’re misunderstanding something here: The problem with Biden and Harris after him was never that they were just Zionists; all American presidents who were contemporary with Israel were Zionists. The problem was that the level and scale of cruelty they accepted and supported in the Gaza war was unprecedented. Even the Zionist American government would normally not allow Israel to commit genocide on such a scale. See: Reagan during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Tell me he’s worse than Biden when he allows something on that scale; otherwise he’s just a regular US president aiding regular crimes against humanity.
whom Trump told in no uncertain terms to end the war or else
You make it sound like he’s not joined at the hip to Netanyahu. “Don’t finish the genocode, we’ll do it for you” isn’t really ending the war, is it? It looks more like an escalation, as does the mass expulsion he’s proposing, which is, by all accepted definitions, genocide.
In my defense I wrote this before the “let’s flatten Gaza” stuff. I am, however, taking solace in the fact that what Trump is trying to do is geopolitically impossible.
Funny they blame people being against genocide by Nazi state like Israel yet stay silent on the millions of dollars Kamala received by Zionist lobbyists to continue a campaign so disliked by everyone.
Funny that the anti-electoralists and protest vote crowd were just fine with enabling the installation of another nazi state but in the US that would provide more support to the ongoing genocide and expand it to other areas like LGBTQ+ people and aiming to start another world war. The least that they could do is take responsibility for their actions but, I don’t see that happening.
The least that they could do is take responsibility for their actions but, I don’t see that happening.
That’s never going to happen. They’ll just downvote you to feel better about themselves.
Take a look at my post history, including in this very thread. Despite repeatedly asking, I have never had a single one of these morons ever actually answer the question of how allowing Trump to return to power was in any way better. The most they do is either downvote silently because they know they have no answer, or just tell me to go fuck myself.
And I don’t expect to ever get an answer either. I’m going to keep asking because I think the downvotes are hilarious. But I don’t actually ever expect to get a serious response.
Despite repeatedly asking, I have never had a single one of these morons ever actually answer the question of how allowing Trump to return to power was in any way better.
Hello my partner in the democratic party, The floor is yours. Sprawl out on your belly and continue pounding the floor with both fists like the rest of your hostage taking ilk. If your side wanted to win, a win was in your grasp with a single announcement from Harris, she chose not to make that announcement. You never contest that point, why not? So yes we’re here in the wilderness with you. Difference is, we progressives (whose votes you absolutely needed to win) have been here a while. Check out my camp chair and marshmallow stick, cool eh?
Say, what outcome are you hoping to achieve with this increaingly boring and pointless messaging ? Are you trying to get progressives to join a future genocide? I think history has shown pretty conclusively that thats not going to work. Anything else you need, party-brother?
I have a declaration of universal human rights that you might have never seen before, to pass the time. Or the works of Emmanuel Kant. Some stuff from MLK.
Well here’s a serious answer: Allowing Trump to return to power is collateral damage, and really bad collateral damage but it was simply unacceptable to allow Harris to win the election with that mess of a platform. One would hope for a mass movement to resist Trump during or after election seasons, but American leftists are too spineless to do anything other than complain so the end result is… this mess.
Well here’s a serious answer: Allowing Trump to return to power is collateral damage, and really bad collateral damage but it was simply unacceptable to allow Harris to win the election with that mess of a platform.
Explain how allowing Trump to return to power was better in any way. Pick something, anything that was so unacceptable that you couldn’t vote for Harris and explain how allowing Trump to return to power was the better option. Pick multiple things if you want.
You don’t stop shooting yourself in the foot by pointing the gun at your head instead.
One would hope for a mass movement to resist Trump during or after election seasons
So your plan was to allow him to return to power and just hope to be able to resist later? You didn’t think this thing through very well, did you?
but American leftists are too spineless to do anything other than complain so the end result is… this mess.
And exactly what do you expect them to do now that you’ve stripped them from all power at every level of government? And wouldn’t it have been easier to just hold your nose, vote for Harris, and prevent this situation from occurring in the first place?
So first I’m not American, so I didn’t do anything, but that aside:
Explain how allowing Trump to return to power was better in any way. Pick something, anything that was so unacceptable that you couldn’t vote for Harris and explain how allowing Trump to return to power was the better option. Pick multiple things if you want.
The GOP is obviously a lost cause, but the DNC doesn’t have to be. Allowing the DNC to succeed in the election after their attempt to shift to the right again would set the precedent that they can do whatever the fuck they want and people will still vote for them. Then your two options become the fascist GOP or the now actively harmful DNC, and there’s nowhere that can lead other than GOP fascism. Between the choice of Trump now or JD Vance in 8 years, Trump now is the better choice if it will allow you to avoid JD Vance in 8 years. Which leads to my other point:
So your plan was to allow him to return to power and just hope to be able to resist later? You didn’t think this thing through very well, did you?
The ideal scenario would be mass Democrat protests (and other direct action such as strikes if and when protesting fails) when the DNC nominated Harris without a primary that would lead to the nomination of a competent candidate or at least a better platform for Harris than the monstrosity she ran with. I mean Republicans in her cabinet? Border wall? Just yikes. Anyway the American public chose to stay silent here. The less ideal but still workable scenario would be a Democrat mass movement riding the wave of Abandon Harris and the Uncommitted movement to, again, force the DNC to relent on their unpopular platform. The American public either stayed silent or actively ridiculed these movements, telling them to “hold your nose and vote for her”. From that point onward there was no happy ending and the only thing to be done was damage control. With that in mind let’s think about how the damage could be controlled: One way would be, as you said, to vote for Harris and try to avoid the current situation. That allows you to bet on Trump dying or being convicted before 2028, but in the case he wasn’t he was 100% going to win in 2028 because Harris’s platform put to action was going to piss off everyone to the left of Dick Cheney, and her being a black woman would piss off everyone to the right of Dick Cheney. Also, even if Trump was out of the picture before 2028 you’d run the risk of the GOP nominee being an actual good politician riding the Trumpist wave to destroy the country worse than Trump—who is fundamentally limited by being dumber than a sack of potatoes— ever could. Standing in the face of all this would be a DNC that learned from their 2024 victory that being outwardly rightwing corporate stooges works. The short of it is: The problem with a Harris 2024 victory was that nothing Harris was going to do in her term was going to prevent a Trump/Trump clone from winning 2028. “Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it” doesn’t work when American leftists have proven time and time again that they don’t know how to cross bridges. The other option is… well, you’re living it right now. Again, nothing is going to happen without a mass movement against Trumpism and for progressive economic policy so if nobody does anything (which seems to be the case) y’all are toast but that was going to be the case no matter who won the 2024 election.
And exactly what do you expect them to do now that you’ve stripped them from all power at every level of government?
The DNC isn’t leftist, just to make that clear. By leftists I mean actual American people with leftist values, and as for what they can do… well, there are many things but you can ask the French or the Spanish. Spaniards went on a general strike in October where
they called the country to come to a complete halt until the government breaks its diplomatic relations with Israel, as well as its commercial and military ties that include a weapons trade valued at over one billion euros.
Now I’m not talking about solidarity with Palestine here, but this is one way to make your government do something it doesn’t want to do. So why are we not hearing of Americans going on strike to stop the Trump government from ruining the country?
And wouldn’t it have been easier to just hold your nose, vote for Harris, and prevent this situation from occurring in the first place?
See above.
but American leftists are too spineless to do anything other than complain so the end result is… this mess.
Um, we’ve been doing far more than complaining… Who do you think is organizing on the ground right now, and have been for years? I mean, not like the Dems helped, or even moved out of the way of that organizing…
I mean, I really did enjoy getting tear gassed by Democratic party cops for daring to protest against police.
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how allowing Trump to return to power was in any way better
How was arresting your voters for protesting genocide helping keep Trump out of power?
ongoing genocide
Uh… Why do y’all forget that there’s a ceasefire going on right now? There’s a ceasefire that Trump was at least part of achieving, so while Israel is still up to their normal levels of Apartheid, the capital Gaza genocide is over, or at least paused.
The genocide is not over just because they paused killing in Gaza and restarted killing in the West Bank.
By that definition Palestine has been under genocide for 50 years. Which, okay fair enough but that has nothing to do with the claim that Trump is worse than Biden for Palestine.
By that definition Palestine has been under genocide for 50 years.
Yeah, that’s right. Slower or faster, but always and inexorably genocide.
By that definition Palestine has been under genocide for 50 years
Yes. 70+, to be more accurate.
There’s a ceasefire that Trump was at least part of achieving
No. He had nothing to do with it, aside from promising he’d publicly give Bibi free reign if he won, which was better than not publicly giving Bibi free reign while still giving it to him.
The way I saw the last election was like this:
People were demanding the Dems to stop supporting genocide, but Kamala was not going to make any changes on that front.
However, any other option would wind up allowing Trump to happen, which is just objectively a worse scenario.
It’s like we all saw a horrible fire headed our way and we needed to choose which bus to get into. People advocating for the blue bus knew it wasn’t the most ideal bus since they were helping throw gasoline on an external fire in another place. But the red bus wanted the fire and was the cause of the fire and clearly wasn’t going to stop throwing gasoline on that external fire anyway. People were protesting that the blue bus needed to stop helping put gasoline on that or else they won’t help people get on the blue bus. And now we’re stuck with the red bus and we’re all on fire.
Granted, the protesters weren’t necessarily the strict cause of us being stuck with the red bus and us all being on fire, but they sure didn’t help. And them acting morally superior is childish considering they didn’t help us try to get out of our own fire and the external fire is not any better due to the red bus, so their protest effectively did nothing anyway as everyone else already knew was going to be the case.
It’s like we all saw a horrible fire headed our way
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
So voting for the people who started the fire is your solution?
In the hopes they had lied about their stated plan to keep that fire burning as long as the Israelis wanted?
When they knew they’d lose the election by stoking that fire and they continued to stoke it anyway? But its the voters who are to be blamed huh. Harris could have won by admitting Israel was engaged in a genocide, about two weeks before election day.
No I dont think your suggestion is logical at all. Its a tired argument and its hostage taking by the DNC. I dont negotiate with far right wing terrorists-- whether they are democrats or republican or other. Sometimes when given an impossible choice of two murderous outcomes, the correct response is to make no choice, and stand up to smash all the people and systems that made this vote “neccessary”.
Now that the election is over, will you lay on the ground bitching or will you get whats needed done? Its time for you to stop talking about the past and start being a decent human being pushing for a brighter future. Remember when doing the right thing was something we all did? When will that start being present in your mind again?
Doing the right thing is making sure we can stand longer to keep fighting for what’s right, not throwing a fit when you can’t get 100% of what you want. No matter how much you throw a fit, it was not going to help, but you could have done something to make things not worse. All throwing a fit accomplished was virtue signaling.
Now we’re worse off and stand even less of a chance of making progress.
I don’t understand how people thought it was a good idea to throw a fit because the choice was between “the same shit” or “even worse shit”. We needed help avoiding even worse shit. You did not help with your virtue signaling.
No matter how much you throw a fit, it was not going to help
That sounds suspiciously like just blind acceptance that we have no power, will never have any power, and sort of like a suggestion that I should just lay back and enjoy it. And if thats true we need to burn the system to the ground-- no matter the short term pain-- not lend our support to it so it continues year after year. If you’re right, it has to end.
You’re clearly misrepresenting my argument. I’m literally saying that the power we do have is elsewhere. Trying to assert we have immediate power over the current presidential election by throwing a fit is ridiculous.
If you want change, then we need to change our first-past-the-post voting system. Until then, throwing a fit about our limited choices is ignorant.
I’m literally saying that the power we do have is elsewhere
Then you’re literally living in a dreamworld. Politicians dont care what we think except during an election. They dont even care about your patheticly small donations. This been proven without a doubt. FPTP benefits the DNC, so they would never change it unless they are leveraged to do so. What were you going to do, write letters to interns? hold a sign on the steps? It didnt work for Defund, and that was a much more potent cause. You as a dem voter have two short moments of power and leverage, and those were when you voted in the primaries and general.
You were conned into doing exactly what you were told and missed your chance to have any power. If 80% of the dems had voted uncomitted in the primary you bet your ass Biden/Harris would have acted, and Biden stil would have won the primary. But I bet you didnt vote uncomitted did you?
Plenty of time to do the right thing later, you think.
And them acting morally superior is childish considering they didn’t help us try to get out of our own fire
How many times do you expect people to put their deeply held morals aside, to help elect amoral people seize power?
What does The Gaurdian expect Democrats to do, without the Constitutional power do it?
I’ve been asking this since the election, and the best answer I get is being told to go fuck myself.
The GOP has control of all three branches of government, along with over half of the state governments. Every single state in the country swung to the right in this election, to some degree. They get to spend at least the next two years, most likely four, having the power to do exactly nothing but sit back and watch. The most they can do are angry tweets and messaging bills that won’t even make it to the floor, let alone get a vote. What the fuck does anybody expect the Democrats to be able to do about it? The last available option is the Senate where Democrats can still throw a monkey wrench into the works until the GOP decide to yank the fillibuster. And once that’s gone – and it will be gone – Democrats will literally have no power other than to sit there and be benchwarmers.
You had your chance in November, but at least some of you decided to stay home because “Genocide Joe”, “old man bad”, or “teh price of muh eggz” and when you’re told that Trump would be worse saying “Yeah but at least its different”. Well, this is what you get. Elections have consequences, and you just gave Trump all the power to do anything he wants because fuck you that’s why. You don’t get to complain now when all Trump is doing is delivering on the promises that he spent his entire campaign explicitly making. You don’t get to act all shocked and surprised now.
The time to do something about this was November 5, 2024. And Democrats as a whole decided to take that opportunity and hand power right back to Trump.
I’ve been asking this since the election, and the best answer I get is being told to go fuck myself.
Well state governments, for one, should be doing a lot more to resist Trump’s rampage. I mean that fucker withheld FEMA money from California right? Why is nobody saying anything about that?
Well state governments, for one, should be doing a lot more to resist Trump’s rampage. I mean that fucker withheld FEMA money from California right? Why is nobody saying anything about that?
The GOP have control of over half the state governments and are fully on the Trump train. As for the other states, exactly what do you expect them to do about it?
Admittedly I don’t know much about the nitty gritty of states rights in America, but again at least say something when the Trump-led federal government interferes in your affairs. The two examples that come to mind are the FEMA money thing and Trump opening wholly unnecessary dams in California.
Trump opening wholly unnecessary dams in California
That’s worse than unnecessary. Removing water from those reservoirs is going to exacerbate the drought when we get into the dry season in the autumn.
One thing Democrats could do at the federal level is to withhold consent for Trump’s appointments instead of rubber-stamping them.
Democrats seem spineless, because not enough of The American People cast votes in Novembers election to give them to power to do or stop Republicans doing litteraly anything all.
Maybe if the Dems stopped tossing people into prison for protesting genocides, or for protesting police abuse of authority, there might be more people able to vote for a Dem?
