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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

The Democrats are the minority party. They can't even start the proceedings, they can't bring the bill to the floor. It will never get out of committee. Not with the lickspittle MAGAts in control. But wouldn't it be nice?

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jackie willard's avatar

there r 3 special elections right now if we can flip those seats in the house!

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Diane J's avatar

3 specials and midterms to make an even better margin for ridding us of 47, Musk and others.

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Sheryl Gambardella's avatar

I understand the minority party being unable to do anything in congress. That's a matter of numbers. What I don't understand about the Democratic Party is why, on day 1, they didn't have a plan? The race was close. Did Musk donating unlimited amounts of "free speech" -to the tune of a quarter BILLION dollars- catch them by surprise? If anything PINO Trump is a transactional personality. We know, and he knows that he owes the election to Musk. Why did we not have a line drawn in the sand for us to stand on. A plan for fighting, an electronic game plan for us to get behind and support (physically and monetarily) to impair and hobble PINO Trump and his chosen 'hit man of the presidency'. Why, after 5 weeks, are we still running in circles wringing our hands wondering when and what we can do about this disaster. I feel we are living a slow moving coup by purchase.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

they need to make NOISE every single day to the American ppl just like the convicted does. He's somewhere every day spreading his hate, lies, on camera tv,or his failing LIAR SOCIAL Network. Messaging is EVERYTHING!

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Oh? Were you caucusing on day 1 with the Democrats? Hind sight is such a thing to make an accusation on, isn't it? You know as much as the rest of us do and what was planned - by the way, have you missed all the states attorneys generals going to court day after day and filing case after case because that's what you do when you are blocked in Congress. You take it to court. Did you miss that? The Democrats knew what Musk was doing, too bad you weren't aware of it. Watching Fox? Reading Breitbart? Catching up with Truth Social?Why are you sowing the kind of doubt that MAGAts love? I feel like I just read the kind of comments I would expect from someone who isn't quite up to speed on what is really being accomplished.

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Diane J's avatar

The Dems gave had 10 years to come up with something to fight MAGA so this isn't hindsight, it's asking why they're still doing nothing.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

MESSAGING Is EVERYTHING, every single day the entire party should be loud and making noise, trust me if they do it enough people wake up.

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Mary Siracuse's avatar

That's very snarky of you. This is the kind of comment that creates tension. Why don't we try to find solutions instead of attacking?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

No, accurate. I'm not attacking, I'm sick and tired of this nonsense. Remember Joe Biden? Yeah, him. The one who put the country right again in four (4) years. The one who brought killed inflation and did more public works projects hiring more people than back to the time of Bill Clinton. What causes tension is the rubbish about we had all this time to "fix" it. We did fix it. Amnesia running rampant. We all heard what the convicted felon kept saying. And you know what the response was? "Oh, that's just him. He won't do it." I'm not attacking except to say if y'all want to form a circular firing squad to prove the MAGAts right? Be my guest, but I'll continue to tell people to stop mewling about how bad the Dems are.......lowered medical costs, reduced student loan debt, repaired roads and bridges yup, the man did nothing - and debated a bit of scum while negotiating the release of hostages and with the flu. Oh, right, the Democrats were lazing about - no, they were governing.

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Sheryl Gambardella's avatar

Again I hear you. I am a Democrat. I vote Democrat and donate democrat. We are all angry and it is good to get the anger out so it doesn't eat us up. AND the Democratic party is not perfect and has not been up to fighting the aberration that is Trump. We can't fight him unless we improve and identifying areas of improvement is part of the resistance.

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Sheryl Gambardella's avatar

I hear you. You don't know me from Adam. But I am not MAGA. I am fully informed and long ago realized I needed to pay for and support actual news because corporate owned news agencies tell you what the owners/board want you to hear.

My venting was a moment of frustration that the American people do not have a clear path to fight Trump. I did not know the outcome of the election beforehand. But I certainly expected that the people whose job it was to plan for the contingencies of elections, and who had at their disposal all the resources and brain power of the Democratic party would have considered the possibility of his winning and had a game plan. A plan that at the minimum would have given hope that there was something to be done and which would have avoided the despair so many Americans now feel- and could have instead immediately united them.

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Thank you for your support, itтАЩs trolls like carol-Ann dearnaley who sit on their fat asses, and do nothing but act like KarenтАЩs on the internet. I know IтАЩm a fighter and I call my congressman and senators I donate to the people who fight for our freedom! I am an American citizen and I will not stand by idly watching our country is being put in harmтАЩs way! I will protect everyone and everything that is free from tyranny. Together we will stand and defend our rights freedom country and constitution!

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

First back at you. Fellow resister? Resisting what? Playing the MAGA game of always, always whining about the "libs"? Did you volunteer and contribute in the last election? What are you doing now? Calling your representatives? Checking see if your state's attorney general is doing all that can be done to stop Musk? I don't sound like MAGA, I sound like a person who sick to death of reading all these bloody bar stool political analysts with their warmed over MAGA lite comments. Knock if off? When moaners and groaner find their cajo├▒es and stop sounding like the opposition. It was appropriate, necessary, and I don't need a welcome mat. No one appointed you Den Mother.

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

". . . find their cajo├▒es"? If you're going for the ethnic look, please at least use Google translate so you don't get it wrong. The word is COJONES. Sticking a tilde in a misspelled word doesn't make it Spanish.

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

You've really narrowed in on the problem with the Dems. They don't have a plan other than to cater to as many of their fringe groups as they can under the idea that "the tent is big enough for everyone." It isn't. There is a limited amount of money, and most Americans would rather see that money go to things like better healthcare for Americans than supporting gender-affirming surgery to inmates. There's also the Dems' love of "legacy" and whose turn it is to be the nominee rather than seeking the best nominee. Biden should never had been allowed to be the nominee. Rather, he should have been forced to keep his promise to be a bridge president, thus allowing for a chosen rather than appointed nominee. Still might have been Harris, Dems still might have lost, but at least it would have been fair. Anyone who saw how physically Biden had deteriorated or listened to the first debate knew he was past it. And Jill demanding loyalty? Well, that's just Trumpism at its core.

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