“Forcing recorded votes is possible. Frequent quorum calls are possible. A wide variety of dilatory motions are possible. In short, harassing the majority is possible. If they think it’s a bad idea, say so. If they say it’s not possible, they’re lying.”

I like how politicians voting is considered a time out. It’s their job, jfc.

They actually can’t force votes though, so we’d be getting the same votes and we already knew whenever Republicans stepped out from the ranks such as the Hegseth confirmation where 3 of them abstained but he got appointed anyways. Recorded Votes doesn’t stop the Trump admin. The Dems are effectively powerless without 13 Ind + Gop to impeach and remove him or his cabinet members or corrupt federal judges.

Dems have plenty of options available even as a minority party, they just aren’t doing so.

Leeja is cool but her opinion was that they’re running their tiktok accounts wrong and they were born in the wrong year.

What specifically would YOU do to stop what the Trump admin is doing?

Lmao, I can’t believe that’s what you got from the video. That was not remotely her point. Her entire point is that the Democrats should be using everything within their polical power to obstruct and delay everything the Trump Admin is trying to do. She gave multiple examples of exactly how they can do that. That’s the bare minimum the Democratic Party should be doing. I already participate in local community organizations.

What is it YOU think is in their political power?

People didn’t vote dems into power and that is why we are in the situation we have now.

It sure is neat how powerless the minority has suddenly become.

Remember when the democrats had everything for a few years and did basically nothing and kept blaming the republican minority apparently that was bullshit and actually the minority has no power. So either the dems are liars or damned liars.

I certainly don’t remember it. We gave them 58 over a decade ago and less than 50 ever since.

We gave them a majority in 2020. Don’t pretend that the two independents that caucused with democrats don’t count. The independents didn’t vote with republicans. Democrats did.

Nope~ we gave them 48 Dem + 2 Ind, they only picked majority leader with VP tiebreaker.

If Independents counted as Democrats then we would have singlepayer healthcare a decade ago. Face it, those Ind were as likely to fuck us all over on votes as they were to help us.

Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance. Just look at the last presidential election: voters chose literally Hitler over the Dems.

Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance.

Because we gave them the means to pass legislation without a single Republican vote. That was their chance. They used that chance as you wanted, and so you’re making excuses for them.

If you can’t break filibuster then you can’t pass anything without the opposition’s graces. The thing about progressives vs conservatives is the progressives have to pass things but conservatives win when nothing happens, and conservatives have been winning for many years.

If you can’t break filibuster then you can’t pass anything without the opposition’s graces.

You could change the senate rules with 50. Stop using the filibuster as an excuse.