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"When" lots of optimism in that word.
Let's get to that point and at the same time run candidates to prevent it happening again.
"Oh my God he's bleeding out! We have to stop the bleeding"
"Yeah I've seen this before, he's just going to start bleeding again. Do you want Arby's?"
Let's fix problems, take incremental wins where available, and not be morons about it.
El-Sayed for President!
When apparently you can just rename everything America and after yourself at whim as President, the never-ending excuses for getting nothing done during Democratic presidential administrations will not cut it for me this time.
What a funny thing to hang your hat on. I can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcastic or not.
Renaming stuff is probably the easiest thing in the world. It costs money down the road, but it's significantly less intrusive and costly than doing almost anything else this admin has already done.
They don't say "it's too expensive", they say "republicans won't let us do it".
But they let republicans do anything they want, including stupid petty distractions like renaming places. They are not on your side. Also they committed the majority of the genocide in Gaza. Democrats are not your friends, very few of them are decent humans.
also a supermajority dem had problems, they had too many DINOs in the party.
Hence the title:
We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in!
We need to organize twelve million Americans under a common manifesto.
If the Democrats don't take power in 2029 (both houses of the legislature and the executive), if they fail to move quickly, overhauling SCOTUS and ironcladding elections to stop tampering and voter suppression cold, then the US public needs to occupy Washington by multiple millions with a list of demands.
Or general strike.
Or riot in multiple municipal areas hard enough to overwhelm responders.
Or go on a billionaire assassination spree.
If we cannot do that, then we're all going to be packed onto the cattle cars. Not necessarily all together, but the US will fall to one-party autocracy.
US Dictatorship by 2033 is on the BINGO card.
Or general strike.
This tbh. I've got very little faith in politicians to do something at this point. I would have been happy if 2022 Democratic senators and Biden did nothing and refused to get involved with the rail strike. Yet in another display of solidarity with corporations and billionaires they moved quickly to pass a bipartisan bill to block the rail strike. Wild.
The real trick: Republicans know their best shot of winning elections is to energize their base with "Democrats are going to destroy the country so you must go vote" while at the same time promoting the narrative "Democrats won't do anything so you should bother voting" to de-energize the opposition.
It's a very very obvious strategy being deployed here.
But go on and pretend you're an edgy contrarian while spreading the exact narrative the fascists want you to spread.
Democrats won’t do anything
Why do you suppose this is effective?
This one is actually encouraging people to get involved and put in the work to fix the party. It isn't like all the other posts I've seen that seem designed to discourage people from voting.
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My favorite Mamdani quote:
"For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people,” Mamdani said at a rally headlined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can"
The Corpo-Establishment, MAGA Lite Dems are going to try to be losers again, but the new DemSocs aren't going to allow it, and more importantly, neither are we. They will do their jobs this time, or they will be treated as harshly as MAGAs.
If they try to sandbag the next Dem administration again, in another transparent attempt to hand it back to the MAGAs, then they will be treated the same as MAGAs, and end up in prison or at the end a rope.
We're nearly as fed up with Dems as we are with MAGAs, and it starts with Schmuck & Jeffries. They are the first to go, to make way for real Democratic Leadership, and not just Manchurian MAGAs.
Exactly. Obama's
Yes we can
Resonated with a lot of people and then it turned out he and the Democratic senators of the 111th congress had no intention on following through.
Lol I already said a year ago that even if they gain a supermajority, they'll still somehow fail to successfully impeach Trump.
For the third time.
Trump has already been convicted for some serious crimes they need to actually sentence him.
Capone didn't end up prison for a lot of the heinous shit he did. But he did end up in prison.
I got the notion of this a long time ago. I mean like Obama expanding the Patriot Act. Like thanks for doing what I voted for you not to do. The opposite of progress is Congress. And there's a whole lot of Cons.
I'll be the first one to say that the current Democratic party needs replacing, but they're not wrong.
Or did everyone forget that you need a supermajority in the Senate to get past the Presidential veto?
Is anyone truly naive enough to think that Donald Trump would sign anything the Democrats put forward? The man who told Republicans to tank legislation with things they wanted in it to avoid giving Democrats a win?
Unless you're advocating for a revolution, you have to work within the system. And it's not the Democrats fault that is easier to break a thing than to fix it.
It's always easy to point out a problem. Solutions are what we need, and all this kind of post does is discourage left-leaning people from voting, which is what the Republicans want.
So unless you have something resembling an actual solution, this just seems like virtue signaling to me.
I will say that there's immense value in symbolism, performative values, and simply being caught trying by voters. Yes the President will veto anything good, but fucking make him do it. Go on social media and the talk shows to rip him a new one for all of the good things that he's actively preventing. Move the Overton Window. Change the terms of the public discourse.
Governing long ago moved beyond mere parliamentary procedure; it also needs to be a show that the people in the cheap seats (a.k.a. low-information voters) can watch.
Careful, that almost sounds like something a competent opposition party would do.
they’re not wrong.
Why can Republicans govern with a slim majority while Democrats consistently need a supermajority?
The democratic party accomplished all of its goals during the biden administration: they sold weapons for genocide.
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Because they also have the office of the president.
Currently anyway.
If one party controls both houses of congress and the president and has a sympathetic Supreme Court majority they can do a lot more than if they only have one or 2 of those things.
Because they also have the office of the president.
"We need a supermajority" was a response Democrats gave in 2009 and 2021.
If one party controls both houses of congress and the president
Did Republicans pass legislation they supported between 2011 and 201~~7~~ 5? Did they pass legislation they supported between 2023 and 2025?
So here’s some basics on how the American government works.
The house can pass a bill with a simple majority.
So can the senate. In the event of a tie, the vice president casts the tie breaking vote.
However, the senate rules are such that in order to get to a vote you need vote to close debate, which takes 60 votes.
There are exceptions to the 60 vote rule using what’s called budget reconciliation. Matters pertaining just to budgetary items can bypass the 60 vote threshold and be voted on by a simple majority. These items must be cleared with the senate parliamentarian.
Once a bill has passed both the senate and the house, the president can either sign it or just wait 10 days and do nothing, at which point that bill becomes a law. He can also veto the bills at which point it gets sent back to both the house and senate which can override his veto with a 2/3 vote in both the house and senate.
If you want to pass a bill over the objections of the president you need two thirds of both the senate and house to agree to do it. If you want to get a bill through the senate that goes beyond budget reconciliation you need 60 senate votes.
When people talk about a supermajority they may be referring to the 60 votes needed to pass unrestricted bills in the senate, which the democrats had in 2008-2010 when they got Obamacare passed. Or if they are talking about overriding a veto they may be talking about the 2/3 of the votes you’d need in the house AND senate.
I’m not interested in debating who said what about what when, it just seemed like some people were unaware of the actual rules of how the US federal government functions and hoped to clear that up. If you have any questions about how that stuff works I’m happy to address it with the best of my knowledge. But I have no interest in actually debating politics online.
So here’s some basics on how the American government works.
None of this seems to apply when a Republican is in office
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The thing is that many people are looking too short-sightedly for the internal (non-revolution-like) reform path. The goal for change is 2028, but change in 2028 can't get off the ground running, if a 2026 sweep doesn't. (I wish you had a Westminster system with no-confidence votes, but alas).
What Congress can do is to compel Trump administration officials to get their asses into the chamber. They can put articles and lawsuits with appropriate standing to:
- Halt ballroom construction.
- Halt reckless and unnecessary tariffs.
- Halt the endless war spending on the unauthorized military adventure Iran.
- Halt funding for Israel.
- Abolish/stymie/revoke funding from ICE.
- Have the DoJ release the Epstein files.
- Assess Trump's mental state and capacity to lead.
- Release funding that Congress allocated but the Trump admin is withholding or disbursing unevenly (e.g. FEMA)
- Collect evidence to make the case to impeach the justices or reform the Supreme Court in 2028.
Congress under leadership of feckless Republicans and sometimes Democrats haven't asserted the power of the purse. For budgetary matters, votes can be held without permanently removing the cloture rule. And if Trump refuses to sign a bill voted on D-party lines to fund the government while implementing changes, the government will shut down once again and the bill will await him on the desk until he signs it. He will try to shift blame as he always does, but the government has shutdown led by Republicans or Democrats, the common thread is his incompetent ass in charge for most of the time since 2016.
I don't think that OP is expecting Democrats or Progressives to get things through the Trump administration without a supermajority that can override his veto. What we are hoping for/expecting is that Democrats and Progressives to say "Fuck you, we're passing this bill and sending it on."
Medicare for All? "Fuck you we're passing this bill, veto it motherfucker!". Taxing rich people? "Fuck you we're passing this bill, veto this PDF". Repealing the Medicare cuts? "Hey, asshole, we passed it, oh and go fuck yourselves". Repeal the procedural filibuster? "Fuck it, we'll do it live!". Impeachment? "Hey, it's Tuesday, this asshole just did something unbecoming of the office, guess it's time to have another impeachment hearing, oh and fuck you, that's why."
Just try instead of rolling over on day one, what we're asking for even if you know it's destined to fail and show that you're willing to do the work. Back your shit up with actions instead of just words of "Well it'll never pass so we'll never try". Say what you will about Republicans, when they get in power, they do not give a fuck and will introduce every bad idea in their head and dare the President to veto it and that's why their base votes for them consistently.
That's what OP I think is asking people to remember.
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Very true. Dems had a supermajority and sitting dem president in 2009 and chose to sit on their hands instead of fixing healthcare in a materially significant way or codifying abortion rights. They left abortion in the hands of a lady that had more cancers than a lab rat.
Primaries are the time to do this. It's the reason I moved from independent to democrat as PA only lets you vote in primaries with party affiliation.
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Yeah but we need to vote for anyone in the end other than the fascist fuck pedo party.
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