• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Lawmaker protests accomplish literally nothing except making people like you feel good. Legislatively and legally, Democrats are powerless, because YOU fuckers refused to vote for them. You say “do something” but this does NOTHING.

    YOU should have done something at the fucking ballot box if you don’t like what’s happening.

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      2 days ago

      You’re on lemmy bro, people just want performative shit to make themselves feel good. Congress do not hold executive power, they’re literally just a vote.

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      2 days ago

      You know you’re wrong. You know, as we all do, that even minority politicians have power to do a great many things.

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        2 days ago

        No, they have the power to STOP a SMALL number of things, specifically bills in the legislature. Most of what Trump is doing is completely bypassing Congress.

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          2 days ago

          Dems can only stop non budgetary bills by invoking the filibuster. Any reconciliation bill is going through regardless of what Dems want.

          Trump has only done a bunch of illegal EOs. Which are being taken up in the courts, but he dosen’t care and is doing them anyways.