This is a fucking coup, wtf? How is everyone in the senior positions of government only worried about their own ass. It might already be too late. They got into social security and our payment and records. How are the money bag people okay with this? Trump will go where the wind blows, do they think they’re safe?
That info was already compromised multiple times over. Especially when Equifax had that data breach in 2017. This is not to say that your concern is invalid, however.
The issue is that we have unknown and unelected and unvetted people having carte blanche access to identifying information.
Information that they will use to target people.
I am Luigi.
It’s NOT a Coup if a RICH Person does it! It’s ONLY a Coup if Democrats or Illegal Immigrants* do it!
*Poor Illegal Immigrants!
GOOD! It’s about time the Dems did something besides ask me for my fucking money.
I just got 404’d
This is one post in a live thread so maybe something got weird there
The gist of it is that after speaking to around 100 protestors, various dem senators and house reps tried to get into the building. They got inside technically but ended up being blocked at the main entrance
Unsure if they are still there
They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump’s plans are and how they plan to fight in courts. I believe they also spoke about plans slow down senate nominations with the procedural tools they can (or that might have been said outside of the protests)
Thanks so much! I saw an article elsewhere about the plans to “slow down.” Performative.
Not actually performative, it’s one of the few things they really have power to do without republicans support. They can drag specific types of nominations out to end to taking something like almost a year to get through all of them. And take up limited senate floor time for other bills, legislation, etc in the meantime
There are hundreds of nominations they need to get through
My understanding, is that historically, the minimum debate times thresholds for nominations have been waved away via unanimous consent - especially for minor positions. If one senator objects, then you have to go the whole time
Another thing they can do is force quorum calls to waste time counting people present. Usually quorum is assumed
They need to start dragging specific people into the streets for the proletariat to handle.
That sounds good, and isn’t there a continuing resolution on the budget exciting soon?
Yep, and they’re already making demands, but its in March, and note dem power is limited there. Reconciliation allows budgets to pass without a filibuster, so dems only have power if Republicans infight. There’s decent odds of Republicans infighting like the other prior times, so Dems still are planning to use their votes to get some protections against Trump’s actions
In a letter to House Democrats, Jeffries hammered the administration for issuing an order — since rescinded — to freeze federal aid that Congress had previously allocated. Jeffries suggested Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that doesn’t explicitly prevent Trump from freezing, slashing or otherwise altering those programs, including Medicaid, which saw its services disrupted amid the chaos over the freeze.
The Democratic leader said he’s already delivered the message to House GOP leaders that, absent those assurances, Republicans will be on their own to prevent a shutdown.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5123216-jeffries-government-shutdown-trump-orders/
The Republicans would love a shutdown. Another Constitutional crisis*.
That sounds good, except for the Dems track record of backing down and ending up voting for all the horrific bills anyway.
That would sound good if the Dems had a history of using their legislative powers to delay the Republicans when they try to pass horrific shit.
Almost as if they’re complicit in fascism.
I would guess one with backbone could gum up the works for a short while. The CR, Republicans and establishment Democrats are the most immediate threat, that I can see.
Complicit in fascism? They keep confirming the absolute worst cabinet and court picks, trying nothing but Kente cloths and trying to keep insider trading privileges while Martha Stewart with a paltry billion or so dollars at the time of her conviction, which apparently cut that worth in less than half, today, according to this Yahoo article, which was just the first return on a brief search.
They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump’s plans are and how they plan to fight in courts.
Cool, so nothing will be done
That’s what they did before entering the building and then being blockaded.
Fighting in courts and grinding congress to slow way, way down is what they have the power to do federally. They don’t have any majorities in either the house or senate
They can try and go in to stop people physically - like what they also just tried doing by entering the building
What specific action from them do you have in mind that they have the power to do?
