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Some one should call and tell them about elon musk.
I'd trust the Democrats to protect a whistleblower like smoking would protect me from cancer
Democrats should be rallying for an american revolution right now, but they don't have the spine to do that.
"Here's this whistleblower website so you can report all these illegal and unauthorized activity so we can bitch about you expecting us to be the opposition party and then do nothing about it."
And since the Democrats aren't in power, there's fuck all they can do with the complaints.
To who? Y'all haven't done shit and are letting it all happen.
Honest question here. What are they supposed to do that they aren't doing? They are in the minority in the House and Senate and have limited options besides bitching about what's going on and trying to draw attention to the criminality.
For one, not voting to confirm the most awful, dangerous, unqualified cabinet nominees this nation has ever seen. That would have been a good start.
Blocking nominations, slowing down general procedures, grandstanding about every fucked up stupid thing that Republicans are doing, Lock up the Senate and the house with debate and bullshit, introduce bills that would do the things that people actually want even if they're not going to get voted on, wherever possible don't cooperate, stop confirming his appointments, etc.
The Democrats should not be letting Republicans get anything done. Republicans always manage to rule from the minority by just being obstinate little shits. The Democrats should at least try that.
Donald Trump must be stopped and since that's not possible the least they should be doing is slowing his roll.
They can't block nominations or stop the confirmations of his appointments. They are in the minority and the filibuster rule does not apply to this. They would need at least a few republicans to vote with them in order to block anyone. They couldn't even get enough to block RFK and he is absurdly unqualified for his position.
They have also been slowing down procedures.
Hours after Mr. Trump was sworn in, Democrats agreed to the speedy 99-0 confirmation of Marco Rubio, their Senate colleague, to be secretary of state. But they have since shown that they are willing to use procedural tactics to slow other nominees even if they are destined for confirmation, including forcing time-consuming floor votes on action that is usually done by mutual agreement.
They have also been grandstanding and making noise about stuff. For example, Rep. Garcia brought a "dick pick" - a pick of Musk -to the committee headed by Greene to highlight her bringing a poster of Hunter Biden's dick to the House last year.
The Democrats should not be letting Republicans get anything done. Republicans always manage to rule from the minority by just being obstinate little shits. The Democrats should at least try that.
As I said, they cannot stop the Republicans from getting anything done. They cannot use the filibuster on confirmations. They have 48 votes. Three Republicans have to cross over to block anyone. So far, Mitch McConnell is the only one to vote with them against RFK and that's because RFK is anti-vax and Mitch had fucking Polio. They can use the filibuster when the Republicans try to pass regular bills, unless the Republicans decide to drop the filibuster rule altogether, which they may end up doing. We'll have to wait and see.
In the House, the Democrats have already said that they are ready to let the government shut down on March 14th rather than support Trump's budget plans. This is following the Republican playbook and I hope they do it. The only thing that is going to make a difference is if we get millions of people in the street fighting Trump's agenda and maybe a government shut down will do that.
There's only so much the Dems can do though when the voters handed the reins of the House, Senate and White House to Trump and the GOP.
Democrat from New Jersey, Andy Kim, voted to confirm Kristi Noem. Do not really care that his vote would not have changed the outcome, that is completely unacceptable.
Even in a minority position, elected officeholders have a bully pulpit, and any US Congresscritter or Senator is among the most politically powerful people in America. Any one of them could call up a local TV station, ask for an interview, and they’d gladly put them on the air, and could actually say something people need to hear. They could come to a rally, post a video to YouTube. Any one of them could walk into one of the Musk-captured bureaucracies and refuse to leave until they're arrested. Anything like that would get people’s attention, and might matter in some small but genuine degree.
That would be leadership. That would be resistance. That would be something. What Dems are doing is damned close to nothing.
Optimistically, they're supposed to be organizing people onto the streets by calling out Trump's bullshit. I can't disagree that their actions have been underwhelming as a group so far (good on Bernie and AoC though) but I think this is a good move.
The Trump administration is clearly willing to silence whistle-blowers so we need something outside the GOP's reach to document these issues.
They are at least signaling some sort of action now, so as you said I think it's a good move as well.
At least pretending like they care would be a good start. They unanimously approved a few Trump appointees on the promise that the republicans might reconsider one or two and whoops the dems once again got the football pulled out from in front of them. They literally cannot learn the lesson that bargaining with the republicans gets them nothing in return ever because they are the only ones who will hold up their end of the deal…
At a bare minimum they can stop doing that.
Not throwing the election by abandoning the working class would've been a good start.
Respect the law to the same extent that the opposition does. Direct Action included.
There's no answer. People wanna bitch all day is all. Perhaps if a shit ton of people didn't decide it didn't matter in November the Democrats could have actual power to do something.
That's the new "get your name on a list" website. If I'm going to be a whistleblower, the last person I'm going to is a politician.
I wouldn’t trust this for a minute. They’ll subpoena the records and retaliate against them and there’s nothing anyone will do about it beyond complaining about petty things like it being unconstitutional
why does the expanded hamburger icon say "about chuck"? is this chuckie's website or something?
consider me out of the loop and eli5 on these matters.
Chuck Schumer is the Senate Minority Leader, so he's the head of the democratic senators.
thank you, that explains the attribution perfectly!
Blow the whistle (toot toot toot toot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSnkWzZ7ZAA Featuring the Nokia Lumia around 1:52
I was actually thinking this, but hey, whatever gets some action going! https://youtube.com/watch?v=CBJtzEKetBM&t=67s
Probably so they have people to turn in to save their own asses. They are just as bent as Trump but they have "decorum".