Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
It means fuck all if Democrats mobilize because we voted them out of majority. Congress needs to move to stop Trump, right now Dems only have power to stop Congress.
Also the Neolibs are currently getting exactly what they want so don’t expect them to do anything to stop their conservative friends
Oh look a “both-sides-bad” centrist. Hey, thanks for helping to elect a fascist, really opening peoples eyes about the corruption by actively putting the corruption in power.
Someone doesn’t know what punching from the left looks like and mistakes it for centrism.
I keep seeing people say stuff like this, but are you seeing the good guys do anything? The article itself said that they’re now getting together to discuss how they can start stopping the bad guys. So one begs to ask the question, what have they been doing thus far?
This is distraction and chaos on purpose. It may even be a ploy to go to the SC to get more exec power
Democrats everywhere have been checked out from reality for almost 3 months. Good opportunity as any now to get their ass in gear and act as a proper opposition.
They can’t do anything. As a minority party, Dems can filibuster bills going through congress but they can’t do anything to the president or pass any bills unless Republicans help them.
We’ve created a pit we can’t climb out of.
In the House, Democrats lead some key committees, which hold more power rhan than you think, should they wield it. The majority there is also razor thin and so it will take even one or two purple state Republicans to get cold feet to block the Congressional agenda. The ® Senators are playing a performative game with who’s allowed to pretend they disagree with a party while they still carry through their lock step voting, but with enough calls from constituents including MAGA and ex-MAGA people that inevitably get hurt by it, there’s a chance it may not last.
This is a total shutdown of the federal government for everything besides personnel. All science research in the US has stopped. States are losing their funding. Completely unconstitutional.
Should have just went bidirectional. Stopped all funding from the states to the federal government. The federal government would what? Print money to try to pay the soilders to invade their homeland? Not much can be done if the states all said fuck you to the federal government
I’m starting to see more and more that this is how the inevitable schism will occur. I was afraid our nation’s demise would be armed conflict, but based on the last week I now believe it will be some combination of Feds withholding funding, states responding by withholding revenue, and then those states that are net exporters of dollars to the federal government just starts managing themselves without oversight.
States will form coalitions of like-minded governments with similar economic interests. States like California and Texas will be centers of gravity and will have incredible negotiating power. Others (see: deep red south) will slide into near third world status. Some might actually become Canadian Territories. Interesting to think about academically.
Surely someone has done the research and put the thought into how this could go. And written it down?
You say that but let’s say you eliminate all Medicare Medicaid and social security coming from Trump, do you see the older population voting for him then? All the sudden universal healthcare coverage sounds pretty good. If you told a family you can raise your family in a state that has healthcare or not, id choose healthcare. Aka people attempting to flee states that didn’t support it. It would create a requirement for the states to have it or lose their labor sources (and funding for the future). Aka whatever they call social security rides on keeping the labor force.
I fail to see how withholding all taxes for everyone is going to help renew the flow of funding for necessary services.
The federal government would immediately have cave is why. If we are paying for Medicare/Medicaid out of every paycheck and they are stopping that flow in the other direction it is our and the states responsibility to try to redistribute those funds.
