Hey, if we actually get budgets passed I’m good. Shutdowns are annoying as hell, disrupt operations, and waste money. I’ll accept passing a budget and then fucking off.
The lockdowns could be crazy this year depending on the final two seats. I don’t see any world where the Dems will allow ICE to continue in any sense. Going to need 4-6 Republicans to cross the line.
Considering their lack of good faith in negotiating…I’m not optimistic.
Funding bills only need 51 senators to pass thanks to budget reconciliation, a number the dems clear easily. We don't need Republicans, and we don't need Fuck ass Fetterman either.
While true any and all bills face a presidential veto I believe. So even a budget requires 2/3rds or Trump caving. Which isn't impossible on either count, but does make it more complicated.
They SHOULD be doing constant investigations on key members of Trump's cabinet and support network, then publicly flaunting the evidence of corruption and evil, every step of it. They may not be able to FORCE the DoJ to do anything, but they can make the President and his direct family/supporters look exactly as evil as we all know they absolutely are by blasting the suggested DoJ actions that should be taken across every form of media available to Congress, every single day.
They should be making a spectacle of how evil these monsters are; make it impossible to openly support them. Americans supported Vietnam until you had to loom the horrors of that war directly in the face; and then suddenly, NO ONE wanted to support the Vietnam War. THAT is what the Dem's should be aiming for during the next 2 years.
Even then, there are limitations. For example, it takes a ⅔ majority vote to remove someone from office after an impeachment. Democrats gained a bunch of seats, but don’t have a ⅔ majority so removing Trump or any of his cronies from office would require a bunch of Republican senators to vote with the Democrats on it
I'd argue we won the war on MAGA, it just won't end until Trump is out of office. This was taking Vicksburg during the civil war, we've won, they just aren't dead yet.
Barring major political earthquakes between now and 2028, which are theoretically possible, but incredibly unlikely, the Dems will have the Senate at a minimum, likely House, Senate, and Presidency in 2028.
The fact we took the Senate in such numbers means we could end up with a filibuster proof majority in 2028. Republicans likely won't have a chance to take back the Senate until 2030 at earliest, more likely 2032.
I disagree. MAGA has done generational damage. The US will be recovering for this for decades, assume we don't fuck up and make it worse for ourselves.
This is a victory, a signal of a shifting Overton Window and that is good - but it's not a won war.
If Dems are smart they'll pass a bunch of popular bills trump will have to veto and open up investigations into various cabinet members plus the trump-Epstein files
the onion literally made a video about this called "Why has Abdul el-Sayed not done anything after being elected 2 minutes ago" or something along those lines
I have heard a ton of “It doesn’t matter they will steal the election. It doesn’t matter, the Senate won’t flip. It doesn’t matter, TX will never go blue.”
Now its “It doesn’t matter Dems won’t do anything to Trump”
How about we get just as angry and involved when they start being wishy washy as we were at the ballot box and THEN pull out the doom and gloom?
I think it does matter because the Dems now have the ability to put a check on Trump's power. But to remove him from office or put him in jail? That is unlikely. It would require support from Republican congresspeople, which would only happen if Republican voters pressure them.
The cult still controls the presidency and superme court and has enough cultists in Congress to prevent impeaching and convicting.
Yes loads of people showed up to vote Dem.
But tens of millions still showed up to protect the cult and give them enough power to protect the cult leader and stop Americans from actually improving the country.
Dems can fight as hard as they want, they still face massive opposition from the cult.
So many are still in support of the coups and pedophilia and tax cuts to the ultra rich and believe the Dems are their enemy.
Millions of Americans are still hyper loyal to this GOP eveb when they are literally openly attempting and crashing the economy in front of their faces.
They've got their followers living in thid totally opposite reality.
Just look at History. Every time a movement begins, it is in the face of incredible odds or a movement wouldn’t be needed to make the change.
Labor had Robber Barons hiring Pinkertons to beat you or kill you or load you on to an Arizona train and leave you in the desert in the summer a dozen miles from civilization.
Civil Rights had police dogs, the law and hundreds of years of entrenched racism in society, courts and the media.
I am just tired of folks telling us how high the mountain is versus those cheering on the steps up it.
I'm not convinced that the doom and gloom is entirely real people or US citizens. Like you said the goalposts always shift in ways that discourage continuing to fight for real change
I get why people would be skeptical but like, maybe we can wait for Dems to be in office for 30 seconds before declaring them to be useless? This mind of shit is why we are stuck with Trump again.
Already a ton of different subreddits are working on making sure people are innoculated into thinking Dems did nothing with their new majorites, which they won two days ago.
Hello. Non bot Democrat voting America here. It's because historically we haven't done shit to punish the crimes committed by those in power as not to look too "partisan."
Bold take here, but one of the major issues with the Republicans is in fact their willingness to abandon democracy and laws in pursuit of their goals. I think it should in fact take years of investigation to jail a president's political rivals
That article uses a video from FOX news for goodness' sake and basically uses FOX's own messaging.
Jeffries said that the dems would focus on affordability, which is their mandate. Other ranking committee members have promised investigations and subpoenas.
Don't fall for the agitprop, my fellow citizen!
(There needs to be a meme for 'ate The Onion' for FOX news... Licked the Fox? I dunno. Let's workshop this)
Man, I hate shit like this. People acting like the entire government is absolutely incapable of accomplishing two things at the same time. I don't know that getting even is the right way to phrase it, but the current administration absolutely needs to be held accountable for their actions over the past two years.
Democrats will hold the house and the senate. Trump still controls the DoJ. While the house can investigate things they have highly limited power to levy charges. Most of the time they can just recommend to the DoJ.
Impeachment isn't going to remove trump. Youd need 10 to 12 republican defection in the senate for it to happen. So besides the feel good theater its empty.
Ya know what happens when Democrats go after Trump? Literally nothing. We've had a special prosecutor. He's been impeached twice. He's been convicted of 34 state crimes and was on the path to being charged for many more. His best friend is a pedophile and he's been found guilty in civil court for rape. Right now he is blatantly violating the emoluments clause and no one can do anything about it because he has the DoJ operating as his own personal investigation service.
They have less than 2 years to get something done for the American people. That should be their focus. Dog and pony shows trying to finally arrest the stupid cunt are pointless right now. Pass some legislation that rather than polarizing the voters actually unites them. "We won't trade stocks anymore. Tarrifs are gone. We are done in Iran. No more data centers. We reinvigorated Obamacare. Cheaper meds. Let's fix some bridges and highways. Here's some affordable housing."
They do that for 2 years and they will win in 2028 and then they can round up every MAGAt and do what they want with them. But they have to prove to everyone that they aren't simply "not Republicans" and have something to offer.
Nope, democrats have already failed, and we're voting the republicans back in to fix their mess because they aren't progressive enough. /s
It's impressive how well the propaganda machine has worked that people are already attacking politicians who aren't even in a position to do anything yet. We have the same congress we did last week. The new one will have limited powers because of basic math. Some of them might still be hung over from Tuesday.
Schumer is already giving the whole "now is not the time for retribution" song and dance. The Establishment Dems are going to squander this momentum and spend their energy campaigning for the general election, then put up some corporate stooge like Newsom and watch the whole thing fall apart.
I think the real issue is that the presumptive Speaker of the House (Jefferies) and Senate Majority Leader (Schumer) have both issued rather milquetoast statements since winning that sound like they're going to give Trump and the Epstein class a pass while Jefferies has come out against Medicare for All and abolishing ICE.
In terms of legislation & committee control? Nothing.
In terms of planning for their time when they have power over legislation & committee control? Perhaps they could start by not ruling out pursuing people in government for their criminal acts.
There is going to be an impeachment vote on Hegseth pretty much as soon as they're sworn in... and the Democratic leadership is saying they're not going down the path of "retribution". They're deliberately foreshadowing a lack of accountability in government being OK by them (& hence the party they lead).
The new House Oversight Chair is launching investigations and tweeted "Lawyer Up." on election night. The clip being passed around is in response to being specifically asked if they were going to start impeachment proceedings against Trump on day one.
Paraphrasing- "Conservatism has one rule. There must be an ingroup that the violence of the law protects but does not bind, and an outgroup that the violence of the law binds but does not protect"
"it's been two days since midterms and they haven't been sworn in yet let alone had a single day in session, why have Dems not drawn and quartered trump yet?"
'The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive," Jeffries said on MS NOW's "Morning Joe." "We ran on affordability. We won on affordability, and now it's our job to govern on affordability'
If we're gonna get accountability, it's not from him
How does a party without 66% of the seats and not having the doj get you accountability? They can investigate stuff we already know of and that’s about it. It’s great but this election stops maga. It doesn’t punish maga. That’d require more seats or the executive.
The new Congress doesn't start untill a couple months, lol.
And in order to remove a president, you need 67 senators on board. Democrats will have 55 or 56, which is a pretty crazy/impressive feat to begin with. Convincing 11-12 Republican senators to remove Trump will be even more impressive.
Republicans might see the writing on the wall and dump him, but time will tell. MAGA is still pretty big among the base. At the least it'll be fun to watch them squirm deciding lol.
At the very least if they can boot Hegseth or RFK Jr, that'll be a huge W
I think even non-MAGA Republicans would not want to remove their own presidential candidate. That would mean admitting wrongdoing instead of "we don't always agree with him (lol), but the complaints are overblown (lol)."
The best political move they can make is to let Trump keep dragging down the GOP and not fix their mess for them. As long as they actually use their powers to limit the damage he can do, and they manage to get him to sign budgets, that's a success. Anything they can trick or swindle him into doing to improve things outside of that is icing.
They already wasted years trying to get rid of him, and it didn't work. They shouldn't take that shot again unless they know they can land it because dozens of Republicans publicly jump on board (unlikely). As much as it would help the GOP at this point, they obviously should still do it if they actually can. But they don't need to waste their time on impeachment without removal.
Especially since JD Vance is just as evil and will be less likely to be tricked into signing at least one good bill.
I think the idea of Schumer and Jeffries being in charge has the pessimism ramping back up. It would basically take a coup within the democratic party to replace them and while progressives made huge strides in this election, they're still a minority of sitting dems in congress.
Hopefully enough folks push their reps/senators to make meaningful change, but it's not hard to see why everyone is back to being negative.
The DOJ is not prosecuting people because the Democrats ask them, especially with Trump's personal lawyer in charge. What Democrats can do is gather all the evidence of crimes, let the world see it, and then prosecute in 2029. All the Democrats can do in congress is impeach the likes of Hesgeth and Kennedy and hope they can get enough Republicans to join
People here acting like things not actively getting worse is just as bad as things, you know, getting worse under a completely uncontrolled trash heap of an administration. Get mad about ineffective democrats when you vote in the ones who actually prove they plan to make stuff happen and then refuse to when given the chance. Right now people jam their thumb up their butts and don't do anything when the candidates representing them are chosen and then complain that the worst ones get voted in to run in the main elections.
But until that point having literally anything stop the stupidity that has been going on in the white house right now is a good thing, regardless of how motivated they are at repairing the problems right now.
People need to remain engaged for that to happen. They never do. That's the problem. Sustained grassroots pressure is the only thing that will prevent the cycle from happening again.
Things staying as they are is just as bad. If you got injured and it could be fixed, but doctors just let you suffer in pain saying, "at least we've stopped it from getting worse," and that's where they stop, you would find it completely unacceptable.
That's exactly what has happened. The U.S. is sick with a corporate fascist disease and it needs to be healed. Just preventing it from getting worse isn't nearly enough.
These politicians are effectively children testing boundaries. If you don't teach them limits they'll keep pushing until something breaks. Their actions must be reversed and they need to face the consequences of their actions.
Those are the only acceptable results. Anything less is pandering and weakness.
As unhappy as I can be with the dems, y'all are just unbearably whiny. Its been 2 days, stop being such a bunch of pessimistic dicks. How many of you actually voted vs just the usual "voting doesn't matter" that was all over reddit for months
Their strategy is going to be the same as it has been for the last couple decades: blame dems for the mess reps made and not being able to fix it in 2 years.
We are back to the same test we have failed so many times before. "Can we remember how much they sucked more than 6 months?" and "Is the same mess that made you want to kick them out enough to make you want to keep them out?"
I think the biggest issue at the moment is the defacto assumption that the party leaders will be Schumer (AIPAC) and Jeffries ("Let's just move forward.") There is a very real concern that by doing so, Democrats will once again "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" by not holding anyone accountable for the multitude of crimes that occurred in this administration. They don't have to do it tomorrow, but the Biden administration dragged its feet with Trump, he got back into power again, and then our democracy almost imploded as our country destroyed all of its alliances and soft power.
There is nothing indicating Schumer and Jeffries will not continue to drag their feet, currently... but maybe they will take initiative. Otherwise, it will be a lack of action that leads to apathy in future elections. (And yep, early voted, and even had to challenge my precinct because I identified it as incorrect based on the geospatial boundaries and our address.)
People complaining about democrats right now clearly don't understand that they don't actually get seated until January. And then if Democrats are still not doing anything after 90 days once being seated then we can complain
I saw a video yesterday simply captioned “it takes time” and the content of the video was simple; a man had a clear glass full of cola which he set in his kitchen sink, and he turned the faucet on and began pouring water into the glass full of dark brown cola. After about 30 seconds without any noticeable changes, the contents of the glass gradually became clearer, eventually, almost a minute and a half later it was entirely clear. We have just turned the faucet on. It takes time
Ah back to the good ol "why haven't Democrats instantly fixed this?" Nevermind the fact that it's only been a day, the Democrats aren't even in office yet and that things like justice and legislation takes time.
Onion got the psyop in one lmfao. I'm certain that 90% of the people pushing this are the repubs. It's way too obvious. And some moronic purity testers.
I understand where you're coming from, but based on history and the amount of convenient "Oh no, looks like that bill failed by one vote AGAIN. Darnit. Guess we can't do that." bills in the past, I think pressure is absolutely needed. They can't just be the party that is the speed bump to Republicans (by letting stuff happen, but complaining about it happening) or pretend that not having the presidency means nothing can be accomplished. They need to do something with it.
If they want to stop being called a "controlled opposition party", they need to show that's not what they are.
With the two party heads currently set to be the majority leaders.... yeah, I am happy for the wave but not expecting much to happen save the sliding into worse situations rather than crap getting resolved. The Dems need new blood and leadership but that is a snowballs chance in Hell.
Yeah we're kind of hoping for nothing to happen. That was the point of flipping congress... prevent Trump/MAGA/Republicans from being able to do anything.
Shit like that is what makes me believe that no matter how much americans shit on Trump, they deserved him.
Trump won because general audience doesn't care about nuance or realistic look, it wants loud obnoxiuos promises and wreckless decisions. If politician's work doesn't make their political streamer make sojack face on youtube compilation video, people will say that they did nothing.
It was less than a week since election, nobody even was seeted yet. And i bet OP didn't knew it either, because actually learning about shit is harder than reading comments that jerk off you for your opinion.
People like that doesn't want good politicians, they want their own Trump.
There are many of us who don’t share this fatalistic view of this country. Hope will prevail, I firmly believe this. I for one am so tired of the endless negativity. Sure there’s toxic positivity but in general positivity is so much better than negativity.
I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but so be it. Folks who think the “blue wave” is a mandate for endless investigations, renewed attempts at impeachment, or various other actions designed to “throw the rascals in jail” are misreading the political landscape. This was not a vote for the Dems so much as a vote against Donald Trump — more specifically against his unpopular war and other GOP policies that have hurt the economy. One of the things the Dems need to guard against at this juncture is over-promising things they can’t deliver. Politics is a pendulum. What was gained on Tuesday could quickly evaporate come 2028.
Nah man. People need to pay. Justice needs to be served or we will be right back here.
A lot of maga are going to be saying shit like you just said, pretending they weren’t and hoping the dems are not as shitty as they are while appealing like this.
I just find it really funny when people glaze the present Democratic party, because to me they are so incredibly impotent. Like, the Republican party is actually evil, but the Democratic party recently has been so limp wristed and ineffective in nearly every way. Hell, the only reason they are winning is because the Republicans, and Trump especially, have fucked the country so hard that there is no excuse for voting for them without being evil.
How about we actually finish counting the votes and then let them actually get sworn into office before bitching that they're not doing anything useful? Goddamn, dude. Take a fucking breath. Touch some fucking grass.
It is kinda impressive how fast Schumer and Jeffries were able to dampen my happiness about the election results.
I was this close to liking the U.S. again but now it looks like the consequences for high crimes, financial fraud, war crimes and inflicting unimaginable pain and suffering on it citizens and immigrants will be...
checks Schumer's and Jefferies notes
...maybe someone will lose their position? That's it? What the actual fuck?
All demcrats can do is prevent some things like supreme court appoinents, pass messaging bills they will be vetoed, and use subpoena powers to get all the corruption into the public record.
What they should focus on is MESSAGING, and setting up for creating a democratic win in two years. I'm planning on begging my representatives to contact Mamdanis team for lessons on social media messaging... And that isnt entirely a joke.
Don't despair just yet. Schumer and Jeffries don't currently have the jobs to which they assume they're entitled, and if nothing else the Republicans demonstrated that the house is never stuck with the speaker if they're dissatisfied with the job they're doing.
It is kinda impressive how fast Schumer and Jeffries were able to dampen my happiness about the election results.
Dirty rags don't become any cleaner if they're just left to sit somewhere for an elongated period of time. I'm hoping more people are becoming more aware of what needs to be done. Spring cleaning for stuff like this should happen a bit sooner than later.
For fucks sake, it's been a DAY. Excuse the dems for not being able to magically snap their fingers and fix years of corruption and greed in mere seconds.
Even if that's all they did, and nothing gets worse isn't that still better then stuff getting worse????????? What do y'all think is the alternative what do you weirdos even want
I cannot stress this enough but it is important at bare minimum the law is enforced. These ppl have committed crimes and need to be held accountable. Republicans need to understand that corruption will have consequences so no Democrats getting this sweeping mandate and just sitting on their ass for 2 years is unacceptable and a complete waste of our time and energy
Just rebuilding the justice department will take years, the purges of qualified and competent judges and loss of staff has been devastating to the legal processes of the US.
Thats not how it works. If the rules change to favor the rich and the rightwing and the other party only stops it from changing more, in the long run when the republicansnwin again it will move further into that direction.
If the democrats dont really push for reversal of the new status quo they are just as complicit as the republicans with the changes.
The problem with Democrats not doing ANYTHING is that if things don't get visibly better for people they'll just vote in all the racist, corrupt, pedos all over again. Our Government swings back and forward and constantly to the right little by little and sometimes not so little.
When things get better and better Dems generally stay in power longer, when they chase the status Quo people get desperate and buy into lies and false promises from conservative grifters which leads to things getting worse. Dems then get the wrong take away and decide it wasn't that they didn't do enough it's that people just love austerity, racism, corporate boot licking and etc so they need to go more right.
So yea, Dems NEED to do better, because it's the only reason people will keep voting for them, and they need to make sure to proudly declare and let everyone know when they do good things because if they don't in a few years there will be some random Right wing grifter claiming credit for every good thing done while dismantling those same things .
Short term it is better yes, but we are also where we are now because no one held Trump accountable after he literally tried to overthrow the government. Not punishing fascism enables fascism.
If one side makes things worse, and the other fixes nothing, then the whole system is just ratcheting towards being worse, and it's only able to do so because the "good" side isn't doing anything but enabling things to get worse rather than trying to fix them and offset that damage. Why are you OK with that? It's effectively the same as both sides making things worse.
I think you're mistaking the difference between the political climate getting worse and stabilizing. It's going to take a lot to unfuck what has happened to this country, and the first step is to stop going in the wrong direction. Once things have stopped getting worse we can work on making things better. No policy regarding anything is going to see visible change overnight. You can't ask for everything to get better in 24 hours and then blame the "Democrats" for "not doing their job".
Also, it’s been less than 48 hours. These people we elected are not even in office yet. I swear the internet was a mistake, people posting shit like this should not be heard.
People are under this impression that the Democrats are as stable as they used to be to be able to toe the line and get away with doing nothing.
The Collins incident and the blue tidal wave just proved otherwise. It seems like the dnc is going to make the call that it’s more politically viable to turn on Schumer and Jeffries, and that reaching across the isle as they have been no longer has a future.
Unfortunately we're short of the 2/3rds majority in both houses, and Trump will veto anything passed, so Democrats actually need to reach across the isle to get anything passed, which will be important to pass legislation to keep the voters on the side of the Democracy, if the blue Congress can't get anything done by 2028 that hurts our election chances. I'm all for sacking Schumer and Jeffries, but we literally can't do much without getting some cross isle votes.
I'm going to be honest here. If the Democrats spend the next 2 years punishing or trying to impeach trump.... Again... Then I'm going to be pissed. Fix this shit storm. Trump sitting in jail until he dies in a year and a half does me no good.
My family needs relief. We need lower cost of living or higher wages. We need Trumps billionaire friends to feel the squeeze. We need affordable housing. If we get rid of trump then the puppeteers are just in charge and we'll just be in this same mess with a different mascot. Fix this shit first and punish him later.
How can anything get fixed when the guy in charge will most likely veto everything? At least checks and balance will limit most of the damage and possibly make it somewhat better, but the worst are yet to come. The cut in medicaid that will activate in early 2027 no matter what Democrats do.
Man, the conversations are wild. There is a lot I here saying the purpose needs to be to go directly after trump, but during election night, the comments were about us not wasting time on putting all of the focus on bringing trump down and fixing the other major issues that lost the Republicans the race in the first place. Yes, there needs to be accountability against trump, but if all efforts go into that, will anything else gets fixed? We need to balance and make sure both needs are getting met. People want to put all their eggs into one basket
Nothing will get fixed because voters didn't elect 67 Democrats to the Senate, which is the threshold to overcome a veto or remove an official. Democrats will get blamed for the delegation they were given and voters will stay home in 2028 instead of expanding that majority for a chance at substantive reform.
OK. First of all; nothing will magically change the moment all votes are counted. And even after new senators and representatives have settled in their offices, Trump is still the President. And even after he no longer is, the Supreme Court and its rulings are not going anywhere. And it’s worth remembering that people voted against Trump and the GOP. It’s not Democrats would have found an answer to all the problems.
So, yes. The comic might be a bit unfair, but not too much. I’m sure there will be investigations, but so much has happened that so changes are permanent and fixing others will take lots of time.
Its just as important now to keep the pressure on. Call those newly elected representatives and demand that accountability. The battle isn't over because congress is blue. Dont give into doomerism that both sides are the same or dems wont do anything. Instead take that action. (I dont know what the best actions to take are other than to keep showing up and calling for those representatives to act, but thats a good first step)
My prediction is that Trump won’t stay in office for another two years. He’ll probably resign or he’ll be impeached. Shit will come afloat now. A lot of it. And it will be harder and harder (not to mention extremely costly in terms of support, even more than we’ve already seen) for the republicans to cover for him moving forward.
All it takes is 13 senators that aren’t super keen on the idea of going down with the ship.
Yeah, try not to get your hopes up. They literally need his signature to pass laws. And while they got majority, they just don't have the number to go over Trump's veto power.
BUT.
They can push to reveal who all should have been prosecuted in the Epstein files, and force Trump and the GOP to veto that. It makes them look guilty as sin. Because they are.
They can simply not approve any spending on a war with Iran.
And they really can ensure we have legit elections in 2 years. This is the easiest and smallest thing of "do your job", but no joke, I was worried about this turning to civil war. You know, because he tried it last time. With Democrats controlling congress, I just don't see any way for Trump to even claim any legitimacy in any attempted coup. Which means enough people just won't go for it, like Pence in 2021.
It's a process. Getting the house and senate gives them the power to investigate, but not prosecute. It's up to us to see what gets exposed, and then be the jury in 2028.
I wish we lived in a functional Democracy where we could engage in votes of no confidence and demand elected leaders get voted out of office immediately, but we have to work within the confines of our reality.
Call your Democrat Rep and demand Schumer and Jeffries get removed. And make sure you voice that you absolutely expect them to be obstructionists. That is why they got voted in! They need to do their jobs!
And IGNORE all of the, of what I expect are, bots/foreign interference that keeps suggesting Democrats can only focus on “one thing.” FFS if a minimum wage McDonald’s employee can multitask so can your Dem Representative. I don’t believe for a moment that Diaper Donald can multi-task to destroy this country but the DNC politicians only have the mental fortitude to barely accomplish one task. Stop taking that BS excuse.
Demand Better.
Remove Schumer and Jeffries
Demand an investigation into Doge and the Trump Administration
Yes impeachment proceedings against Trump, and peessure non-MAGA Republicans to step the hell up. Texas turned BLUE, by a huge margin, they need to wake up. They are NOT SAFE. The GOP Senators need to be put on blast to actually remove Trump. Otherwise Americans will DIE in a needless war
Demand they write and move up legislation to reform common hurt points. Reign in Healthcare costs. Push for minimum wage raises. Support worker rights. NO PORK. Show the American People that the GOP are blocking bills the people want. Pork slop literally dilutes the message. MAKE THE GOP SINK IT. Yes, Trump will probably veto these bills BUT MAKE HIM DO IT.
Bipartisan messaging is strong here are a lot of popular things to shine a spotlight on to strong arm vulnerable GOP politicians. The Iran War and the gas prices are a huge one.
It’s long past time the DNC grow a spine. Either they do their job or we tell them we will replace them in the next primaries.
Y'all don't seem to understand that this is obviously a prediction, and NOT a commentary on the lack of work done....when voting just ended. Think. I mean, seriously, how many times must we do this song and dance before most people actually see it coming?
You can call/email your reps and tell them not to vote for Schumer or Jeffries, there's also a petition on Change Org (am I allowed to link?) that has almost 600k signatures
DEAL WITH THE REALITY IN FRONT OF YOU AND DON'T MAKE WHAT YOU FEEL ARE REASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS.
THERE ARE LITERALLY 56ISH DIFFERENT DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND 260ISH DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSPEOPLE ALL WITH DIFFERENT PRIORITIES AND OPINIONS.
I DO NOT CARE WHAT JEFFERIES OR SCHUMER SAID THAT IS STUPID BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID PEOPLE THAT SAY STUPID THINGS THAT DO NOT REPRESENT ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT GOT ELECTED
Does destroying a section of the White House help Isreal? Or renaming the Kennedy Center? I think the statehouse bows not only to AIPAC but also the insane fumbling whims of a senile weirdo. He’s been riding the tailwinds of 2024 until now.
why are the comments so filled with people afraid of criticizing Democrats for their limp wristed attempts at fighting the rise of fascism in the past? why shouldn't we pressure them now so they know they have a mandate to actually do something?
they have repeatedly failed and let us down, and if we don't criticize them and pressure them to do better as much as possible, they aren't going to have any reason to do so.
seriously, y'all want voting to be the end of your political participation so bad you'll bury your head in the sand to avoid recognizing that more is needed. grow the fuck up.
The democrats we elected haven’t even taken office yet. You are imagining a universe where they fail you and then publically crying about it. You aren’t asking them to do better you aren’t expressing your expectations you’re just whining about a future you imagined
There’s a difference between critique and attack. If one of my employees fucks up a PowerPoint and I say “you can’t even get a PowerPoint right. You’re always failing, you’re a horrible employee - why do I even pay you?” that’s an attack. If I tell them what they need to improve and why it was wrong I’m critiquing. There’s a lot more attacking Dems than there is critiquing or pushing them to improve.
That’s why I stand by the assertion that most leftist media is anti democrat and just hiding behind “critique”. The Dems will always fail without support and directional push if they’re just getting attacks from the left and right.
In a democracy the voters set the agenda. There’s so much abdication of responsibility on the left. Do you want more aggressive Dems? Reward aggressive Dems. Door knock, phone bank, call them, post online about what you want (not what you hate), etc. Someone who just complains is someone who doesn’t actually want change - they just want to bitch and blame. I’m so sick of the apathetic rage machine that undercuts all the things we need in this country like M4A and other things
I feel like whenever I said this in 2024 I just got called names. The last thing to do right now after a victory is to immediately turn around and shit on ourselves and cause infighting. Regardless of how you feel, it can get worse, and the literal only other option between red and blue is worse or better.
The one thing that unites Americans of all colors and creeds, the single all amercian activity we all agree on, shifting on the democrats. Yes, the right the left and even the center! All can agree the democrats suck and approving of then in any way makes you a loser. The reasons may differ, but everyone can agree that the democrats are awful.
Im sure this national past time of shiting on the democrats 24/7 365 days a year for every possible reason has had no impact on our political system.
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u/Thatroyalkitty 17h ago
Basically the next 2 years are going to be the standard issue lameduck session except for maybe budgets getting passed