They have no power in any arm of the government which is what the Americans who bothered to vote wanted.
This is pretty much all they can do for the next two years.
Senate Democrat says White House is ‘arm of Kremlin’
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SatansMaggotyCumFart 10 points 2 years ago
JustEnoughDucks 35 points 2 years ago
And yet when the republicans were in the same minority situation, they have been able to block tons of major government functions, judicial appointments, and laws being passed. When the dems were in power they needed right wing compromises somehow because "otherwise the republicans would block it".
The past 40 years have literally been lesson after lesson on how to completely make the machine grind to a halt when you have an opposition party. They choose to take not one single lesson from it and not lift a single finger when it matters.
Ensign_Crab 29 points 2 years ago
And just like that, democrats forget that the filibuster exists. Because the filibuster is only for blocking progressive policy.
SatansMaggotyCumFart -9 points 2 years ago
The main thing blocking progressive policy is lack of general support.
NoneOfUrBusiness 15 points 2 years ago
They're supposed to be drumming up public opposition and resistance to Trump, in and outside of government, not just crying about it. Right now America needs them to be politicians, not legislators.
SatansMaggotyCumFart -2 points 2 years ago
America made them powerless.
NoneOfUrBusiness 5 points 2 years ago
Yes, because when they had power they did nearly nothing of value with it.
LovingHippieCat 9 points 2 years ago
The Republicans weren't in the minority during Obama's term except for the first 2 years when he got a shit ton done. But in 2010 they got elected to the majority in the House. They weren't a minority party except in the senate until 2014 when they managed to take it.
The reason the Republicans were able to Kneecap Obama wasn't because they were the minority party and the minority party can just do that, it was because they had power. Because the voters elected them in the midterm election with the lowest turn out in decades and that shaped the rest of his presidency.
Democrats right now don't have any power besides the Filibuster and that is definitely going to be used for legislation. But Republicans are also going to use Reconciliation to do some of their most influential legislation because that way the Democrats can't do shit.
TropicalDingdong 7 points 2 years ago
"Slammed"
"Pounded"
"Owned"
etc..
This is the consequence of mistaking the theater of the act for an act of theater. Appearances matter, narratives matter: but do not mistake them for the thing they represent. A flourish is necessary, but not the same as the strike itself.
SarcasticMan 11 points 2 years ago
They can follow the republican playbook. They can disrupt, delay, ignore calls to quorum, filibuster, generally shit-talk the sitting government, and crucify fellow democrats that capitulate on every platform and in every instance. They will still lose but it would be a damn sight better than watching this group of corporate dick-sucks flounder around like they are just lost.
Thank Jebus for AOC and that other dude whose name escapes me at the moment but mostly the one-man army that has been Bernie Sanders since the election. You should see every single one, especially those ranking democrats, in the media every day just flat out mother fucking this administration and the Republicans just as the Republicans did for the last 4 years to Biden. Instead, we get crickets or sound bites about how the last election wasn't the American people rebuking the democratic party because that's what we need right now Nancy, old people telling us what we just saw wasn't what actually happened.
As long as they have a pulse there should be a fight, the time for decorum is long past.
jimmy90 -6 points 2 years ago
so you're just criticizing them for not giving you entertainment and calling them feckless pussies as if they're nazi collaborators even when they're openly accusing the new regime of being traitors
supporting them would be more effective
SarcasticMan 3 points 2 years ago
Bless your heart, you got me. It's all about the views for me.
CharlesDarwin 9 points 2 years ago
I remember when the qons broke into a SCIF meeting and paid no penalty for it.
Yeah, it was probably performative bullshit. But at least it demonstrated that qons stood for something (even if in their case, it was total nonsense).
Voters would like to see Democrats fighting for them.
CharlesDarwin 1 point 2 years ago
So many crimes in the criminal enterprise known as "the Republican Party".
tabarnaski 64 points 2 years ago
If Democrats had some sort of plan against what's happening, they would ALL be saying this, over and over, to all journalists in every news organization and podcast.
They should lead the pushback but they look like spectators.
chuckleslord 4 points 2 years ago
... yeah, I can see it
ShittyBeatlesFCPres 16 points 2 years ago
The follow-up question any competent journalist should as every politician is “And therefore you will do what?”
CharlesDarwin 4 points 2 years ago
All the Democrats should be saying this.
RampantParanoia2365 4 points 2 years ago
It's funny how this meeting included "shouting and fingerpointing", but Rubio had a complete "meltdown" in his interview. This description is accurate, but you'd think this would be described more along the lines "Trump and Zelensky murder each other's children while declaring a blood feud" in comparison.
inclementimmigrant 1 point 2 years ago
Also there House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court and about half of the state legislatures.
All are extensions of the Putin regime.
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Then fucking do something about it you feckless pussies. Stop with the sound bites of shit every single sane person in the United States of America already knows.
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