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Not even gonna get to a vote. No one in the GOP cares. Good effort guys.
Gee, I guess you should tell your representatives to just roll over and give up, is that what you suggest? As for me, and my representatives, phone calls every day. (https://www.5calls.org/) Protestors at the state capitol EVERY DAY. But sure, you do you. I'll be there, jumping back and forth fast enough that it looks like there are two of us, to make up for you slacking. And when you've had your down time, when you've recharged yourself, maybe think about joining us.
Oh fuck off with your righteousness. Your calls do nothing and you know it. If the representatives don’t already know they should be fighting tooth and nail they’re a lost cause.
Hey friend, sorry you are hurting. What's happening is real. Do what you gotta do. I'll do me. It's not good for me, or IMHO for others to 'roll over' and play the victim. Mental health matters, maybe see what one thing you can do to first help yourself, then maybe consider helping others. I think it's important to give input, ongoing. If I gave you a job (elected you to it), and then gave you no feedback as to what I wanted you to accomplish for the entire term of your employment, until years later (vote you in again, or continue your contract), would that really be the way to do things? Or should I give you feedback?
Doesn't matter. The most important thing for dems to do right now is signal they don't like this. Their goal is getting the house in 2026 so they can run hearings for the second half of the Trump presidency.
An even better goal is to grab a few senate seats too so they can go for a possible impeachment.
they would literally have to win every single seat up in 2026 to have that shot.
considering the states with senate races in 2026, there's a 'nearest-to-zero as you can possibly get' chance of that happening.
just reclaiming a simple majority will be extremely difficult.
How will they do that though?
And even if they could, is impeachment going to somehow stop Trump this time, when it didn't last time and he's more powerful now? Sure, try whatever you can, but it still feels like the Democrats have not realized they're up against a massively popular Nazi movement that is already in government and conducting purges.
Thats why you need both the senate and the house. Impeachment means nothing if you dont have both chambers because you need the other to actually enforce the impeachment
The other issue would be getting ANYONE to actually remove him from office. I don't trust Congress to do it, I don't trust the judiciary to order it, and I sure don't trust any federal law enforcement agency to do it now.
It is not massively popular. Don't let yourself be fooled into thinking that. These mouth-breathing troglodytes are in the very slim minority as far as the whole population goes. A lot of the people voting for him actually did not know what they were voting for - I was just talking to one of my friends overseas and they had no idea about quite literally ANY of the things Trump and Musk are doing. I told them about the Department of Education, USAID, the Treasury access, and the concentration camps, and then they interrupted to offer to let me stay with them and seek asylum from the government here.
Many people in the US were in the same boat. The Fediverse gives the people on it a lot of information most people don't ever see, and the more people learn about what's actually going on the more people will start to oppose it.
Defeatist
It got a news article. That's better than crying in the fetal position for another 2 years.
They need more of this. How about an "Anti-Enabling Act"?
Thanks Copernicus