The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trump’s agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema “preserved democracy” with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP won’t meet.
Playing by the rules against an opponent who refuses to do the same is an exercise in masturbatory performative self-sabotage.
Such a missed opportunity and self own.
Leigh Ann Caldwell is obviously lying about the Build Back Better act proposals in 22. Senate Democrats never sought for the US govt to own any private company, EVER. What Caldwell & other Rs called socialism was things like Child Tax credit, which is a TaxCut for parents, perhaps out of ignorance.
Manchin and Sinema were paid off.
Oh, great! These cowardly Republicans want to make it easier to pass Trump's Authoritarian agenda and confirm more weird and incompetent people. What can the Dems do to stop this ever increasing power grab?
Nothing.
This is such bullshit. Republican “majority” is based on archaic composition of Senate in our Constitution. They may represent more land, really doubt they represent more people. Minority rule horror if they bend the rules to grab more unearned power.
Paid very generously for their betrayal, no doubt!
Manchin and Sinema aren't Dems. They belong to a party of one. 😒
😒
The Dems will Never defeat the GOP if they keep playing by the rules. Fucking Fight!
I think it's blue card time. Stall them all.
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It's as if they're boxers. New rules mean you can bring a baseball bat in with you so the GOP brings several where Dems don't bring any because they're fighting like old dukes or some nonsense
Manchin and Sinema are to blame why we are in this mess now! Major bills should have been passed then but they blocked everything along with damn McConnell !
And NO MANCHIN - NOBODY WANTS TO SEE YOU ON MSM PROMOTING AND GRIFTING YOUR GODDAMN BOOK YOU ANNOUNCED YOU WROTE! YOURS LIKE ALL THE REST WILL END UP AT DOLLAR GENERAL AND DOLLAR TREE! YOU ARE IRRELEVENT!
The illusion of imagining that these votes/blocks would have glorious historical significance. 🤦🏻♀️ Glad they’re gone.
yup! good riddance!
Nationalize X, nationalize SpaceX and Amazon and Meta and tic toc. Come one. Outside the box?
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To the elected officials with critical thinking skills and working brain cells:
Think The F-ing Chicago Way❗️❗️❗️
Absolutely! My mother was from Chicago. I miss her every day. In her own way, she communicated strength.
California here… we support Newsom countering their gerrymandering… fed up!
Glad to see you starting to push the Dems Angry! 🥂
Budget must not pass!
WE NEED TO RECRUIT JUST A FEW REPUBLICANS WHO STILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CITIZENS. TRUMP AND HIS MINIONS ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR NATION. HE HAS SOLD A “BILL OF GOODS” ABOUT WHAT TO THINK TO A GULLIBLE GROUP CALLED MAGA. TRUMP MUST GO. NOW.
We need to challenge the “good guys finish last” theory….
Both Manchin and Sinema lied about their actual motives. Coincidentally, both are better off financially after their lies.
The F-ing Madness ❗️ When will ALL THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMS get it❗️❗️❗️
Very true
Yes this! I knew we'd come to regret allowing our entire country to be held hostage by those two (who met with secret Bilderberg group right before terms started) Thanks to Merrick Garland too for "not politicizing" the DOJ really helped us out didn't it? lol
They aren’t really democrats. They are mercenaries. As is most of congress.
But we had an agreement!!!
When voters put fascists in charge of the rules, expect fascism.
WAKE THE FUCK UP HOUSE DEMOCRATS and Democracy loving Americans we need to start to take this 💩serious or brush up on how the Russian people are living, because that's what's coming‼️It's being brought to us by A PEDOPHILE❗ HE'S A PEDOPHILE❗ HE'S A PEDOPHILE❗ HE'S A PEDOPHILE❗
We’re just so …. Great
omg they arent going to hide behind norms and the parliamentarian?
Standards is what separates the utterly retarded, stupid, worthless, MAGAt chimps from humanity.
To resolve the current Trump impasse, the GOP is considering getting rid of the procedural vote before final confirmation, or allowing a bloc of nominees to get voted on at the same time. They could also shorten debate time for lower-level nominees below two hours (Cabinet nominees and
appellate judges would retain their 30 hours of debate). But the more routine the Senate’s party-line rules changes and legislation becomes, the more clear it is that the filibuster is in danger, too.
Democrats say some big things, but they refuse to put a blanket hold on nominees or otherwise shut down the business of government until the coup that is plainly occurring is stopped. Turns out you should always get your spinal surgery before an authoritarian takeover. We are on our own.
Not a single mention of the military occupation of DC. Not a single mention of opposing fascism. Not a single mention of Trump using the DOJ to prosecute perceived enemies. Hey Dems, let’s hear your plan for reforming the courts, restoring democracy and generally standing up to the GOP.
And you honestly still think there’ll be another election in this country? Dictators don’t cede power quietly…
And I don't ever see JD Vance certifying any election. Thus a constitutional crisis that the dems will lose because they have no clue how to fight.
I agree, the Democrats need to use any trick the republicans use anytime they can get the edge to do just that. The republicans have shown that they have no intention of playing fair. It is win regardles or especially if it hurts most Americans.
Why do I always hear the change the rules . WTF is that
We ALL saw this coming.
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We've been waiting since 2016, nothing has changed and it's getting worse. We vote, we protest, we speak out and yet they haven't really changed. I'm starting to think they are the problem, pretending to fight for democracy.
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Lord this is awful
The only thing surprising is that it's taken the GOP 8 months to enact rule changes.
Trump is NOT doing socialism by any stretch. He is doing flat out FASCISM! Please learn what socialism actually is.
"When they go low, we go high" was also performative bullshit. It's not for the times we're in anymore. It's sad cause it's true.
@democrats.org @democrats.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social I hope y'all are writing bills to get passed when these asshats are out of power. We need LAWS-not norms & rules. They pissed all over those.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
The Dems have standards? Who knew.
The only standards Dems are holding themselves to are their bottom line lines. They are COMPLICIT in the installation of fascism. Why the fuck can't the country fucking see that??? Why the fuck can't the country see the performance they're putting on for us so we don't burn them out too?? 🤬
When are the Democrats going to finally realize these MAGANazis (nee Republicans) ALWAYS deal in bad faith & cannot be trusted???
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Yeah - pearl clutching and decorum do nothing but swing the door wide open for the GOP to 💩 all over us.
But you're silent on all the other Dems who voted to approve his nominees? You're just going to quietly give them a pass?
Of course they are.
GOP wanted to seize indefinite power for decades- now they have it. They are not giving it up. The mafia state is entrenched Bet the SC OF TRUMP -rules for the dic tator 99.9% of the time
If it was a socialist agenda I would give it grace. There wouldn't be military presence in our cities but there would be UBI.
It’s all about raw, political power and run over anyone who gets in their way.
They weren’t holding themselves to a standard. These two were doing the work of their donors.
IMHO, it looks to me as if some of them have been bought and paid for by corporate America.
I hate that these idiots calling fascism “socialism.”
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They were two giant turncoat 💩s, weren't they?
Democrats have to stop saying "Democrats have to stop..." Democrats have to START organizing into militia and getting armed immediately.
Always amazed me how the republicans always found a way to block everything while when reversed the democrats were powerless to stop anything.
Someone should check to see how much Bitcoin is in Sinema's crypto account.
THATS NOT A SOCIALIST AGENDA...
I want Congressional Dems, across the entirety of the field, to start playing hardball. As I used to tell the teams I coached: If the Ref allows it, don't complain. Play to the standard refereed. But in this case, do it as though your democracy and children's children's freedom depends on it!
Because it does.
Manchin and Sinema burned down the house, walked away and are happily living off the insurance money. They DGAF about democracy
Because trump is dying or his dementia is permanent, Miller is most likely pushing them to get his Nazi agenda passed before trump does. Miller’s fingerprints are all over this because trump is to busy stopping wars and collecting accolades from Europe. 🙄
Co-signed
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