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Democrats vote against all the Republican bills

If this were even true (what was Schumer in hot water over again?), what the fuck does 'voting against republican bills' do when the black-shirts are already rounding up immigrants?

Democrats can't run around screaming about the end of democracy for 8 years and then wax romantic about the need for 'bipartisanship' when they're starting to line people up against the wall.

yeah!

just like that time Chucky boy colluded with other dinos and handed republicans the best hand we had at striking back at the administration.

wait....

I want a democratic party that is as fully willing to ratfuck and obstruct all conservative efforts as the republicans have been for decades.

I want them to stop attempting to "reach across the aisle" to an enemy faction that would never be willing to do the same.

I want them to vote 100% against every single human garbage dump nominee that Trump puts in front of them.

I want them to have state police ready to clap the cuffs on Elon Musk as soon as her enters a state where he has broken the law.

I want them to stop playing defense and to start attacking for once, and I want them to do this as a unified front.

I want representatives that are willing to pull some South Korean shit and kick down doors on unelected DOGE stooges flinging shit inside our vital institutions.

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THIS is what a politician fighting to stop fascism looks like.

Not a press conference, not ‘barricading’ the door before meekly letting the DOGE lakeys in after they call the DC police, not Chuck fucking Schumer folding to Trump’s budget demands after the House stood tall and members in D+1 districts risked their position.

It’s still politics as usual for most of the leadership. Not ‘the fight to save our democracy’ like they campaigned and fundraised on.

1- If Democrats had voted against all Republican bills, we'd be in a shutdown right now.

2- Booker's filibuster is good. There were also many, many options available to Democrats early in the confirmation process that they chose not to take. For example, if they demanded unanimous consent on every procedure, a roll call roll vote would be required to move anything forward. They could file deleterious motions constantly to slow everything down. McConnell successfully used these tactics just a few months ago to force Schumer cut a deal on judicial appointments at the end of the last Congress.

3- The suits are being brought by Democratic Attorneys General, who have been killing it. They remember how dangerous Trump was and prepared accordingly. The national Democrats, however, clearly had no plan other than, "Kamala will win," and didn't adapt at all in the months between the election and the inauguration.

Chuck Schumer is the poster boy for this shortsightedness. The only possible explanation for his actions on the budget bill is that he assumed at least a few House Republicans would defect and the bill wouldn't reach the Senate. When that didn't happen, he had to suddenly decided between funding the government, which would a terrible move since (aside from being an awful bill) every House Democrat had just stuck their neck out to try to shoot it down, or defunding the government, which had its own risks, but it's own benefits as well. Not only did he make the wrong choice, but he made it so abruptly he threw his entire party into chaos.

4- All of this is indicative of a party that is working from an out of date playbook that is hopeless obsolete in the face of fascism. Schumer and James Carvil started the term by telling Democrats to lay low and wait for Trump to screw up. Jefferies was advocating for bipartisanship for the fiest two months of the administration. The general consensus is that the legislative branch is completely helpless, and they simply need to wait for the courts to save us.

None of this will work. The Trump administration's fuck-ups don't matter if they're not planning on holding free and fair elections. Bipartisanship has been dead for almost 20 years. Court rulings won't save us; Trump is already defying court orders, and the Supreme Court has been pack with regime loyalists. Some Senators, like Booker, seem to be waking up to these realities, but the entire Democratic party needs to be looking to every single opportunity to slow and obstruct the Trump regime, and the leadership is not doing that.

Defeating the Trump administration will require widespread public mobilization and and an opposition party that's ready to play hardball. The Democratiic leadership seems to content with only doing the first half, and fundraising in lieu of opposition. That's going to get us all killed.

This is it. These kids never get off the memes long enough to watch house committees live every day. There’s like 40 cases being help up by non partisan federal judges.

This is the comprise to not burning down the country and demanding heads, in a civilized country we battle with armies lawyers instead of cannon fodder.

That’s all plan b. Same as it ever was.

What do you want?

They want the people they voted out of power to suddenly gain all the power.