Useless. Time for the Social Democrats to form their own party.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    Why save it for later? Because it would impede Congress from accomplishing its business? But it’s a Republican controlled Congress that’s hell-bent on passing more aspects of Project 2025. So obstruction is really the only play available for the Dems.

    If the shoe were on the other foot, McConnell or Gingrich would have held that brake pedal to the floor. Even though we all know there will be no personal consequences, it’s a method of Delay, Deny, Defend against the handover to fascism.

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      Laws pass through congress almost every day, on the 23rd this month the senate passed 13 bills including one that removed the requirement for Alaskan Native Villages to convey land in trust to the state while conducting business. We need a congress even if we don’t like the budget bill, the really bad stuff gets filibustered anyways.

      Aid must go through congress, arming our allies like Ukraine must go through congress, limiting state’s powers must go through congress. Even fucking USPS distribution centers and offices go through congress.

      Even if you hold the impeachment trial with no consequences, it comes off to the general public, who a plurality voted for Trump or majority voted for Trump or stayed home, as being unfair and heavily biased so it won’t gain any votes in the midterms either.