None of it can be done without a Presidential signature or 2/3 veto override anyway. Showmanship bills are all that will happen from January 2027-2029 -- better they be aggressive showmanship bills than milquetoast or nothing at all bsky.app/profile/moin...
They have to find a way to communicate about it, though. The Republicans voted to repeal the ACA over 50 times after they took back the House in 2010, and it didn’t matter. The highest priority, now and in the future, is to retake control of the info environment.
One of the huge issues the Democrats have is that Pelosi and her camp have always had the opinion that "nothing" is better than a bill that fails on the floor Which, honestly, is fucking insane to me and I don't know how they got so much power with such bad instincts
Not even failing on the floor, but failing in the next house or when vetoed.
yeah it's wild honestly Like if the Dems aren't 100% sure it'll pass they don't even try Which makes them look like feckless cowards While they think it makes them look like tactical geniuses, except they're getting outplayed by morons
Then so be it. Statute of limitations to prosecute most federal crimes is 5 years, so until 2032. Doubt Trump pardons all of them bsky.app/profile/madm...
And even if he tries, I want the baseline to be "Trump was never eligible so all his actions and appointments are void"
100%
It's literally all going to be performative – 100% of it – without 2/3 supermajorities. Trump isn't going to sign any of it, so you'd need veto overrides bsky.app/profile/mwei...
Bingo And assuming it's filibustered in the Senate, you use it as leverage for the 2028 Senate cycle bsky.app/profile/isaa...
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Dems will easily retake the House. Low-but-nonzero chance they retake the Senate too. bsky.app/profile/erob...
I think the senate is in play.
That GOP Senate primary in Texas is going to be vicious Paxton is insanely petty *and* openly corrupt, and Cornyn has decades of consolidated power and allies Beto got within striking distance of Cruz not that long ago, and if Paxton is the nominee a Dem could take him
Correct If you want to "control the narrative," you have to create a narrative bsky.app/profile/wqsa...
Elections are run by the states. There's nothing Trump can really do, and even in red states their ability to tinker with rules is limited by the reality all elections for every office have to follow the same rules bsky.app/profile/real...
Yeah. Unless I’m mistaken, the American system of localized elections is unique to… America.
(Meaning that all the election-tampering advice Donnie is getting from his autocratic buddies is useless.)
I think people misunderstand how election tampering works outside of full on authoritarian regimes, it's only useful for tinkering at the edges and in tactically important locations, and even then it's iffy if an extra 5% of the population votes it basically doesn't work at all
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You see the quote-skeet you replied to? Then the screenshot that's being quoted in that quote-skeet? Then the first clause in that screenshot? bsky.app/profile/beau...
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This reflexive “Don’t blame the DEMMMMMMSSSSS!!!!1!!” is painful even for me, a deeply committed Democratic Party insider.
But they can intimidate voters into not showing up to the polls….
@gregdoucette.bsky.social Still, I hope state law enforcement in the states that are in play are prepared and have gamed out all the possible mischief.
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the trumpy red states cancelling the midterms while the blue and purple states go ahead doesnt exactly *help* trump
They won't cancel elections though because they'd have to cancel all the state and local elections as well
canceling the election makes it too obvious what’s going on — you want low info people to still be able to tell themselves there isn’t a boot on their necks Hitler held (fake) elections throughout Nazi rule
Trump can send iCE into blue cities and harass minorities into not voting.
*cries in "judge Griffith challenges ballots but only for his race and no other race"*
Jesus christ yes please stop defending and start attacking in the media.
I want to believe, but there's another voice in my head telling me, "you still think there's going to be fair elections, you dumb b*tch?"
The election won’t be fair but unfair doesn’t mean unwinnable. The election in WI a few months ago wasn’t fair: regime media lying its ass off, oligarchs openly trying to buy votes, etc, and the opposition candidate won handily There are degrees of unfair
Wish the Dems weren't such cowards or else they might give me hope
here's a question -- can the Senate filibuster a rule-changing the filibuster?
They had the trifecta 4 years ago and did none of the trump proofing that was needed. They did not even try.
They aren’t going to take either chamber. They should be thinking about how to act like a dissenting party now.
Greg all I'm hearing is that we need to win 2/3rds supermajorities next year. We better get to work!
Investigations can be done with a bare majority. If they have any sense we could gin up a Benghazi a week.
Then it’s beginning to sound like you guys REALLY understand what is actually necessary whether any of yall want to admit it. There is NO WAITING till ‘29. Country will be forever changed by then. Let me know when the violence starts. 👍
I'm actually curious about ICE doing state crimes with their actions actually. Gonna find that one out, I think.
Every time one of these bills gets vetoed, it will start a very loud argument about the issue it raises. For example, "Nationalize SpaceX" will have people asking why we privatized NASA in the first place. These are all conversations we desperately need to have.
And every second spent on fighting over one of them, in the press or in government, is a second Republicans aren't getting to shape the argument.
Exactly
Yup. Force the republicans and trump to vote against/veto every bill coming out of the House. It's like they should be doing now. Vote against everything this clown car administration and House cowards are doing. I don't care if the nominations will still pass, show some spine.
DOA showmanship bills are what the Rethuglicans submitted for years. Remember the Impeach Biden bills that MTG submitted yearly? Yeah they weren’t passed but the media in Hicksville reported on them