Harris-Walz / Dems

[M. Virion]

He's not worth your effort.

Paladin doesn't even read the articles he ******* posts. Just sees a headline, or gets fed a rhetoric and comes here to scream at all of us about it, often times over the voices of people actually affected by the issues he thinks he's educating us on.

 

[Corvus]

 

[Dekafox]

Some of them are starting to step up, even in small ways: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...d-trumps-state-department-nominees-rcna190470

WASHINGTON — Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said Monday he’s placing a “blanket hold” on President Donald Trump’s nominees for the State Department, tamping down his hopes of quickly installing personnel in key positions.

Schatz, who is on the Foreign Relations Committee, said his move is in protest of Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s declaring that he and Trump will shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development


“Dismantling USAID is illegal and makes us less safe. USAID was created by federal law and is funded by Congress. Donald Trump and Elon Musk can’t just wish it away with a stroke of a pen — they need to pass a law,” Schatz said in a statement.

“Until and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is reversed and USAID is functional again, I will be placing a blanket hold on all of the Trump administration’s State Department nominees,” he continued. “This is self-inflicted chaos of epic proportions that will have dangerous consequences all around the world.”

 

[Ironbite4]

I think having been yelled at by people all weekend must have given them a bit of a spine.

Ironbite-cause it seems they're doing everything we asked them to do this weekend now.

 

[Axaday]

Well, honestly there has been a lot of complaint about their supposed spinelessness, but he just took the oath 2 weeks ago and it was a blitzkrieg. I'm not surprised if it took them a second.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Yeah but this is only nominees for the State Department. Not all nominees. And Trump already got his Secretary of State two weeks ago. The same Secretary of State who is fully on board with what's happening to USAID.

I guess it's something, but this doesn't even stall anything Trump is trying to accomplish.

 

[Rhinox]

So Trump has said that America is going to "take over" Gaza and bomb it to the ground. All Palestinians should leave before they start leveling it.

Sure hope the purists are super happy with how things turned out. Good job fucknuts.

 

[Ungnome]

Congress needs to put a stop to him NOW before it's too late.

 

[Ungnome]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/02/03/day-without-immigrants-hits-utah/

People in UTAH are fighting back. Looks like they also were able to postpone an anti-union bill as well.

 

[Pocket]

Utah is also home to Mitt Romney, the most moderate Republican in Congress, and had a huge third-party protest vote in 2016 (21%, the largest of any state since '92), so it doesn't surprise me that they hate Trump.

 

[Pale Rider]

Utah is also home to Mitt Romney, the most moderate Republican in Congress

Not anymore. He didn't run for re-election in 2024.

 

[Axaday]

I voted against Romney because I like the other choice better, but Romney has to be sitting at home going, "If they had just listened to me, all of this would be going differently..."

I didn't expect Trump to come out swinging like this, but dang it where IS the line where the GOP Congress is going to say, "This guy will take us all down with him" and turn against him? I didn't think we would see that line, but I begin to wonder.

 

[wonko the sane?]

They're bringing the save act back: the line doesn't exist, because the elections will not be fair or representative again. They don't have the counter trump; because they won't lose the next election.

 

[Axaday]

The Save Act can give them an edge. It cannot reverse a landslide.

 

[wonko the sane?]

The point of stuff like the save act (and it'll only be the first of many, I'm sure.) is to prevent the landslide in the first place. It's a surprisingly short distance from legitimate elections to north korean elections.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

A lot of elected Republicans are probably feeling safe after the Roe backlash amounted to one disappointing midterm year. They achieved one of their holy grails, and it immediately blew up in their faces, but it turned out to be survivable.

 

[Axaday]

North Korea prevents the landslide by preventing the p

The point of stuff like the save act (and it'll only be the first of many, I'm sure.) is to prevent the landslide in the first place. It's a surprisingly short distance from legitimate elections to north korean elections.

He isn't doing that right. He's announcing the things he is doing and not silencing people from telling stuff he isn't announcing.

Save Act can get them an edge, but it cannot stop the landslide from happening. The people pushed away by Save Act were going to vote Democrat. The landslide is caused by people who were going to vote Republican. People who see all the stuff they are doing and just can't keep going along with it.

And even at what it is meant to do the Save Act only goes so far. The reason Republican can sell it as reasonable is that the people getting disenfranchised can prevent it with just a day of their lives if it is very important to them.

 

[Paladin]

these worthless ***** deserve everything they get.

Democrat senator admits criticism of "over-wokeism" is "valid attack"

Mark Warner said on Saturday that criticism of "over-wokeism" is a "valid attack" against the Democratic Party.

www.newsweek.com

 

[wonko the sane?]

Primaried.

 

[Ironbite4]

Oh jive...that's my senator.

Ironbite-god I wish.