Three Democratic Senators Vote to Advance Trump Agenda
For those who are the politics police, no, this doesn't do anything except call attention to a problem that is supported by facts. I'm just pointing out mistakes made by Democratic party leadership when they have had a chance to response in a better way.
United States foreign policy hit an all time low point in the screaming, blame-filled rant of Trump and Vance, a verbal attack on a man who is doing his dead level best to preserve the freedoms his people have earned through hundreds of years of suffering under the domination of a more powerful neighbor. There has never been a more embarrassing moment in the foreign relations of this country than that meeting and press conference with Ukrainian President Vlodomir Zelenskyy. It was a display of some of the most anti-American, inhumane and unjust action that our country has ever embarrassed itself by allowing both of those men to do what they did with Zelenskyy.
Marco Rubio, who is Secretary of State, has proven himself to be either the single most inept and foolish person in the Trump cabinet, or the worst of the worst when it comes to sycophants who suck up to the demented, incompetent Trump. He's the Secretary of State, and we know that since the GOP has a congressional majority, the votes will go their way. But this snivelling, duplicitous liar is just feathering his own nest with Trump favors while lying through his teeth when answering questions.
He was confirmed with a vote of 99-0, which means that no Democrat voted against him. And that is absolutely, positively, totally infuriating. There are those of us out here, in the real world, who contributed to Democratic candidates in hopes they would win the elections and with that contribution, expressed trust and belief in the cause that they were advancing. Or, that we thought they were advancing. This is sheer disappointment.
Either Donald Trump is an existential threat to American Constitutional Democracy, or he is not a threat. If he is, then there is no excuse, not one, for a 99-0 confirmation vote on any candidate the man nominates for any cabinet post. Now I read where another vitriolic America-hating MAGAt, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, got three Democratic senators to vote for her to get her name out of committee as the nominee for, of all things, Labor Secretary. A woman who is as anti-labor as they come, who stands against what the Democratic party says it believes when it comes to organized labor and workers rights, gets three Democratic votes on the committee.
And you wonder why people are being critical of Democrats in Congress, accusing them of hiding out and protecting their own interests instead of fighting against Trump's Project 2025 agenda? Why the questions keep coming up about where the hell is our leadership and what are they doing, even within the limits of their power, when these idiots and subversives come before their committee to be confirmed before being nominated to a cabinet post. Why we are turning to individuals like Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Casio-Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett, who aren't asking permission before they speak up and who are moving ahead with plans to opposed this evil, incompetent, criminal enterprise that is now in the White House.
You, the party leadership, want me to trust you, and make sure my contribution lands in your coffer. You notice that I give a little more than average, so you share my name and contact information with other Democrats. In spite of the election loss, you appeal to my understanding that Trump continues to be a threat and offer opposition as a means to stop him. He's still a threat, you tell me, and because we lost the election, we will need a little more of your help to stop him. So here's where to send the money.
And then, as hearings are held and nominees are confirmed, which is expected given the Republican majority, I read news reports pointing out which Democrats are voting to confirm these totally incompetent boobs Trump is nominating. Democrats voting for them, for God's sake. But the fundraising appeals keep right on coming. Well, sorry if there hasn't been a response. But I don't see anything the party leadership is actually doing to back up their words about Trump's threat.
What the hell kind of opposition is that? If Trump is an existential threat to Democracy, then act like it, question like it and vote like it. And don't come asking for money until you have a plan that will work. As long as Democrats vote for his nominees, I'm not contributing a dime.
The Same Sinking Feeling Keeps Coming Back From When We Realized Garland Wasn't Going to Move His Tail, Use the Power of the Justice Department and Make Sure Trump Was Tried for Insurrection
Every Democratic member of Congress' vote to confirm a Trump appointee is a let-down. It's demoralizing. What in the hell are we fighting for? Those of us in the rank and file have been waiting to see who emerged as leaders of the opposition, capable of doing even some of the most difficult work possible, like convincing enough republican members of Congress to vote to impeach and remove him. It doesn't appear that even all of the Democrats are interested in doing that.
This is the ineffective Justice Department and Merrick Garland all over again. Trump committed serious crimes and the Attorney General dragged his feet, obfuscated, went for a period of time without making any progress at all, deliberately, which we didn't know about until afterward, and then shrugged his shoulders in an irresolute way and let us know that the justice department of the world's most democratic, free, and prosperous country could not bring a notorious and obviously guilty political criminal to justice.
The sick feeling I had when I realized he'd waited too long, and wasn't going to take bold risks but was going to hide out and try to stay off the radar screen and out of the courtroom is the same one I have now when I see Democrats acting irresolute in the face of the greatest danger our constitutional democracy has faced since the Civil War. They are playing a game that is convincing me they do not think Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, and they are telling me they are really not going to do a damn thing about it except flap their lips.
It's the sinking feeling I had knowing that we had a Democratic majority in Congress for two years, and there was talk about taking the risk to end the filibuster, and then pack that damn Supreme Court, but the answer was no, the President didn't want to undo that senate tradition. Well, there were certainly risks on the other side of that, but had it been done, we'd still have Roe, Trump wouldn't have been able to delay his insurrection verdict, there would have been no ridiculous, unconstitutional ruling giving unlimited immunity to the President, and while there might be other dangers to constitutional democracy posed by this Republican party when their hands got the Senate, Trump wouldn't be one of them.
I did not vote for Democrats to have them rubber stamp Trump's agenda. I voted for Democrats because I think Trump's agenda is wrong, bad for America, anti-American, in fact, and represents nothing but corruption and incompetence. He's aligned himself with a satanically inspired religious cult and if this doesn't get stopped, America as we know it will cease to exist.
Hakeem Jeffries told us that the Democratic party was united, and ready to do anything necessary to stop Trump. That is apparently and obviously not the case.
So I'm going to follow the people I see who are really doing something about it.
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