Absolutely useless

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    Call your senators, they can still block this despite Schumers push. The vote is tomorrow. If all republican vote for it, they need 7 dems. 8 with Rand Paul who has said he’ll vote no. (Republicans are not using reconciliation so it needs the the filibuster)

    Many senate dems are publicly coming out against voting for cloture (meaning they won’t vote to let it get through the filibuster). As of what I last read, around 11 10 dems are thought to potentially vote to let it pass filibuster. Most of those are still not sure. We only need a handful more of those to become noes and it will get blocked. Some yeses have flipped to noes because of public pressure. We cannot let up now

    Link to find direct numbers your senators

    https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

    Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121

    House dems are publicly telling the senate not to do this (and it’s not just AOC on this - it’s quite a few of them). Earlier read that 7 Dem state AGs are saying the same. Federal worker unions are telling senate dems not do this. Keep the pressure up

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      One thing to keep in mind though…

      I was outraged a minute ago, but now I’m not sure.

      When the government is shut down, so are the courts, and we need them.

      How one branch is capable to shut down apparently a co-equal branch of the government?

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        Not immediately

        Unlike executive branch agencies, the federal courts can continue operations for about two weeks following a government shutdown. When a shutdown loomed in September 2019, the U.S. federal courts confirmed they could use reserve or carryover funds accumulated from various revenue sources not dependent on Congress, such as case filing fees. When courts are on notice that a government shutdown may be looming, they can take steps to conserve funds by deferring non-critical expenses — for example, by curbing travel, new hires, and certain contracts.

        https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/2024/05/how-a-u-s-government-shutdown-impacts-courts-access-to-justice/

        Plus voting in favor of this CR would be codifying much of what these cases are about. Many of the illegal spending cuts would become legal until September making the cases moot.

        It would also fuck over DC local government in a way the executive branch cannot easily do. Congress can control DC budgets but very little of the DC budget comes from federal money (<1%) where Trump could mess with. The CR has a clause to cut $1 billion from their budget despite that not saving the federal government any money

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          That’s a good point. Looks like both ways are bad, but voting yes, still looks worse.

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            Indeed, there’s a reason the Federal Worker Unions are saying to vote against the CR despite the likely shutdown that would entail

            Plus it would teach senate Republicans that they can do basically whatever they want as long as they threaten a shutdown. You have to stand up strong to bullies it’s the only thing they understand

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    19 hours ago

    Schumer clearly never learned that appeasing Nazis is not the way to go! Or perhaps he’s a nazi is disguise.

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    If someone who has been in office doing their job for decades and still hasn’t changed much … why does anyone expect them to do anything different now?

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    Jesus Christ I’m sick of government shutdown drama. Do your jobs and figure out the budget on time, you fucking assholes.

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      They have. Republicans are in charge rn, and they decided to gut 2 trillion in programs like Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and a shitload of other stuff so that they can feel slightly better about the 4.5 Trillion deficit they’re going to add by extending their tax cuts for the rich.

      That’s why a lot of people are upset enough to want the government to shut down rather than face that reality.

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      You mean like recently? No. It’s been a lot more than a feeling since 2016, for me at least. A known fact I guess you could call it?

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      Well he’s a zionist. And the zionists bought both parties but preferred trump in power. So yeah.

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      I felt that about the lot of them since the state of the union address.

      they’re giving off strong “fuck you, got mine” vibes.

      I doubt any of them realize the following though.

      What do you get if you take everything away from a person?

      you get what you fucking deserve.

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    19 hours ago

    We’re not going to give Donald Trump what he wants, so we’re going to pass this spending bill that gives him everything he wants! That’ll how 'im!

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    The US has no form of vote of no confidence. So therefore no way to have consequences for bad governing outside of the voting period, which has its own problems. Importantly here is the need for quick backlash rather than wait two or more years to choose someone else (if there is anyone else allowed to be a pick).

    A lot of the flaws in the government are inherent from the beginning because there were certain expectations assumed, and that a document of rules can’t be perfect the first, second, or even only a third time. It needs consistent revisions to keep up with the needs of the group it is designed for. This is where the biggest failure has happened, and can be attributed to lack of attention, not wanting to change what seems to work, sacred holding of what was never meant to be set in stone, or just that it often benefited not being changed at the time by those with the power to change it.

    Add to all that a very short attention spanned public, fine tuned to be ignorant and forgetful as well as easily manipulated by the simplest of sound bites.

    The rot is in the walls. Not that the American Experiment was a bad thing, it’s just that it wasn’t maintained and updated, so you get eventual decay.

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      Kevin McCarthy would still be the house leader if that were 100% true. Congressional leadership can changed with enough intrer-party pressure. Schumer is highly unlikely to face any expulsion vote from congress, but he could more realistically be stripped of leadership position. This is a breaking point that might actually build that pressure and we can play a roll in that by calling your senators.

      Not delaying Trump’s nominees with all tools (only some of them) isn’t nearly serious as him pushing to give up the one piece of genuine dem leverage until September for basically no gain. Directed pressure - not on social media - but in places senators can see will let us do it. That means calling them, emailing them, hell even faxing, showing up in person to their office and town halls, etc.

      Also do this for the bill vote itself too before tomorrow morning. See my comment about we can still block this vote

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    The dnc is just controlled opposition. The Democratic Party is the only chance to push the country left but the establishment is working against it and these old fucking ghouls are the elite still and much closer to their Republican “counterparts” than they are to us.

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    I don’t know the details of the powers trump would have under a shutdown so I’ll have to reserve judgement on this one. Some of the dems are acting a little shell shocked since this chaos started though so you wonder if they can be useful again.

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      Reading a bit it seems the funding bill in its current form basically cuts their remaining healthcare and removes most congressional oversight on how money is actually spent, among other things.
      If so then yea it’s probably not better than a shutdown.

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        Republicans created a dilemma though, the bill legalizes and gives trump more power, not then of government is shut down, so are the courts.

        Looks like we are fucked either way.

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    Warner and Kaine have both said they intend to vote no. Unfortunately there’s no chance my congressional district is going to do anything other than give Trump carte blanche.

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    no one is this meek. this is collusion. they’re complicit, and it’s not by accident. they’ve always been this way.

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      This is the correct take. Dems are owned by corporations, conservatives are owned by oligarchs (and corporations, but I don’t think corporations are too happy with what’s going on with Trump and Musk)

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      Democratic politicians suck up Super PAC money the same as Republicans. It’s just that Republicans just do other forms of corruption out in the open because they know their voters are too stupid to notice.

      Trump scamming people with memecoin currency, MAGA doesn’t care.

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    Only if you’re ready for a decades long campaign to flip towns, cities, districts, and state level legislatures like it took the republicans from 1972 to just a month ago.

    That’s what we’re up against.

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      The US needs to break the two-party system so minor parties and independents actually have a chance at representation.

      Of course there’s no incentive for the establishment to do that. Is there any way for new candidates to run with the major parties, but on a platform to introduce preferential voting when they have the numbers? I don’t know much about factions within US parties, but they certainly exist in my country, and can transform parties quickly if they think they have election-winning appeal.

      It would have to happen bottom-up, as you say, so people can get comfortable with such a big change. Also, people are much more likely to elect independents at a local level.