Summary
House Democrats are frustrated with progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible, which are pressuring them to oppose the Trump administration more aggressively.
In a closed-door meeting, lawmakers complained about grassroots activists driving constituent calls demanding obstructionist tactics.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defended the party’s strategy, saying, “We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.”
However, a CBS News/YouGov poll shows 65% of Democratic voters want all-out opposition to Trump’s agenda.
“We are getting paid to lose elections.” Yeah, thanks for the update dickhead.
This is why they lose.
How many Democratic members of Congress (and their donors) are going to be richer thanks to Trump tax cuts?
How many of them own stock in companies that are regulated by the institutions that musk is meddling in?
Spineless corporate shills. They don’t want to do the hard work of governing either. They just want a fat corporate paycheck from lobbyists and insider information for stock trades.
Don’t you see? They’ve earned it by being in Congress since the 80s and doing nothing but dismantling the government for kick backs. Now let them retire in office in peace, it’s a lot to ask an 80 year old to put up a fight.
The Senate: the only tax payer funded nursing home that is suitably staffed.
progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible
I’ve seen a lot of people asking how they can get involved and make a difference. Well, there’s your answer. If those are the guys the Dems are mad at then they’re the ones making the most impact.
Democrats “We’re suppose to do something about this? Cause we weren’t really planning on anything.”
There the fucking same… The whole thing is just an illusion of choice to divide people and cause chaos so everything can stay the same…
And now the crazy conspiracy Trump admitted to stealing the election saying he didn’t need the votes… Elon used his newly paid platform to push the trump agenda because he was going to jail if Trump didn’t win… The whole thing was rigged…
The only person who could have done something refused and let it happen even if she was wrong Trump would have done exactly the same thing…
This is amazing.
What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.
“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights,” Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.
That’s a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.
At this point you have to wonder if they’re actively complicit.
Wittingly or not, it’s quite clear they are.
They 100% are.
Sounds like our democracy is dead, if true.
No democracy has survived contact with neo-liberalism. Clinton couldn’t roll over for his corporate overlords fast enough.
“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights,” Schumer told The New York Times earlier this month.
Bro is ineffectual in even his own metaphors.
Hilariously fucking accurate take
Yeah dipshit we’re not asking you to lie down on the tracks and die, we’re asking you to do what russian anarchists do and rip out the the tracks entirely
Careful,people who don’t understand the trolley problem are gonna complain again that there are only two options.
Democrats have way more leverage than they’re willing to use. The GOP is as fractured as ever and they have the house with a razor thin margin. Now is exactly the time to play hardball. The GOP will likely need their votes to do anything.
But instead I foresee Democrats making weak ass concessions at every turn because “we can’t risk having the government shutdown!?!?”
the chuck schumers and nancy pelosis act like they don’t know what this is and like mitch mcconnel didn’t hand them the blueprint
“unnamed source” “unnamed Democrat”
Why don’t these people grow a pair of tits and put their name to their quotes? They’re complaining that the Dem leadership isn’t being brave and fighting, yet they can’t be brave and put their name to critiquing the leaders…? Figure it out.
Sometimes it’s strategically necessary to not put a name to yourself if you want to actually be able to influence how things are happening within your organization.
These people are actually in the thick of it, you’re not. Don’t be so quick to assume you know better than them how things work.
We need a progressive party.
Hell just a real party that actually persues an democratically decided agenda would be a vast improvement. What we have instead is a coalition of career politicians.
It’s hard to understand how dismissive they’re being when their own constituents are reaching out to them. Is this article leaving it out or have they given some sort of rationale for choosing their battles instead of going all out?
Maybe I’m too cynical, but perhaps they’re being paid not to go all out.
Dear House Democrats,
Fascism is currently destroying the US system of government that you like to call democracy.
Given the influence on the world held by the US, this is a major threat not only to the people you were trusted to represent, but to practically everyone.
If it succeeds in taking over the United States, it will be in no small part your fault.Kindly do you fucking jobs.
Now.
Before it’s too late.What REALLY pisses me off is that feeling that I’m being fucked. My ass has been pulled around to the front like a fucking contortionist and they fucked it right in my face.
Every email with the “stop fascism” this “stop fascism” that with the goddamn donate button like they’re actually doing anything to stop it OR that they actually believe it in the first place. You know what? They don’t. It’s politics as usual for these people.
Trump skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration.
These assholes are always pretending to be the good guys, he gave them a free pass to skip his inauguration when he went on and on about the election being stolen. Or, I don’t know, when he had them all running for their lives on January 6.
Seeing all of the former presidents sitting there at his inauguration (including Bush, who by the way has said out loud that the man is a threat to democracy) legitimized his position and everything looked like no big deal to all of the people who aren’t paying attention.
It lends legitimacy to the claim that people are experiencing some derangement syndrome when everybody comes to the big party and it appears to be business as usual.
And you know what? It mostly is. At least to them.
These are a rare breed of people who are nasty enough to seek power in the first place. They get it by being two faced. They get it by exaggerating their feelings. They get it by calling a fellow human being whatever nasty name they can think of and then turn right around and shake his hand with their fake smiles and their suits that cost more than my car.
I. Am. Done.
I’m done responding to them with donations. I’m done being bombarded with cries of threats that they don’t take seriously except to say what they need to say to raise funds.
I’m staying out of it. I’ll vote for the lesser of two narcissists/egos when it’s time to do that.
As others have said. It’s time for a progressive party.
This isn’t the time of magazines and newspapers telling folks who to vote for. If the internet can’t make a viable third party stand a chance I don’t know what can.
