#get your campaign shoes on for local elections
The conservatives fucking shut down the government when Obama was president and you can’t fucking get together to put Trump and his goons at bay?
Now what the hell. WHAT THE HELL.
There’s a huge difference here. The Republicans held the majority in both houses and so all they had to do was sit on their flabby white butts and vote no whenever Obama wanted something done. Without that majority, the Dems are going to be reduced to making flamboyant, but ultimately useless protest gestures like taking over the floor for 24 hours.
If we want the Dems in Congress to block Donald, then we need to make sure there are enough of them to be effective.
It is really depressing when people bitch about the Democrats like this because they are apparently incapable of COUNTING. Like, there are legit reasons to criticize Democrats, but you can’t expect them to accomplish shit that they would need more Congressional votes to accomplish! They can’t conjure more Democratic Senators and Reps out of thin air! We the people did not vote enough Democrats in. And now they the Democrats can’t stop the slight but crucial majority of Republicans from running things into the ground.
There were enough Republicans to shut down Obama. There are not enough Democrats to shut down Trump. The minority of Democrats staged an all-night event to try to stop Betsy DeVos’s appointment to the Cabinet, but it was 50-50, Pence got to break the tie, and she was confirmed. So Democrats did all they could here, but people whine, why aren’t they STOPPING this?
For the same reason you didn’t “stop Trump” during the 2016 election season. You only had power over your vote, and maybe some money to donate to efforts to try to sway other voters. But you couldn’t keep Rust Belt racists and sexists from narrowly voting him into office despite his 2.8 million popular vote deficit because his electoral vote count was larger. Why do you expect Democrats to have magic powers over math that you don’t?
