Originally published at: Jeffries Calls Out Republicans For Ceding Their Authority To Trump In Rubber-Stamping DOGE Cuts
House Republicans narrowly passed the rescission package President Donald Trump sent over last week to Congress in an effort to give an air of legitimacy to the Department of Government Efficiency’s rampage through the federal government. Democratic leadership called out their Republican counterparts in a press conference ahead of the vote, criticizing House Republicans for…
Democrats need to go much, much further. We need to make it clear that anyone who enables this foul regime will suffer permanent consequences, whether they be legal jeopardy or professional sanctions like being disbarred. That’s what fight looks like. Make sure every one of these motherfuckers knows we will never forget and we will make it our life’s mission to destroy them. We need to start giving them something to worry about.
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OT- some good news for once:
A judge released a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the US on Thursday, freeing her on bail after a brief hearing.
Kseniia Petrova, 30, who was brought into court wearing an orange jumpsuit, had been in federal custody since February. She was seen walking out of the courthouse laughing and hugging supporters.
Lawyers on both sides came to an agreement on conditions for Petrova’s release, which included limiting her travel. Authorities are still holding on to her passport. Petrova must return to court next week for a probable cause hearing on the smuggling charge.
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It’s not the Dems that are the cowards here, folks.
There were enough votes to stop the recissions package until Johnson and the goons took a couple of the no-Rethuglicans out to the woodshed and threatened to beat them senseless unless they changed their no votes to yes.
Those are the cowards. Let it not be forgotten.
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Before we jump off the partisan cliff over the doge cuts we need look at each cut separately and to ask ourselve what they were about. They ight be fine. Many more might be damaging to the American people.
We should expect the Congress to do the looking. That is exactly where Congress has failed.
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“House Republicans will continue to behave like nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s extreme agenda.”
I think of them more as adherents and willing accomplices rather than as a reckless rubber stamp.
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How did just obeying orders play at Nuremberg?
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What’s known about the cuts, not just the ones we dont know about, is enough to toss it all on a bonfire, without any partisan fussing.
Please, what’s the good news? That they didn’t take her out back and put a bullet in her head?
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Centrism = status quo mindset and adult in the room fetishizing has been the Democratic contribution to Republican destruction of America. Why anyone would bother go through the Dodge cuts to find the one or two things that has not caused a major catastrophe in 10s of thousand if not 100s of thousands people’s lives is a form of indifference to human suffering.
We watch as Trump and his goons destroy our democracy with Gestapo tactics with lockstep support of all republicans while putting on Trump military show. Too many in the media put the emphasis on the democrats with silly analysis of what they do or don’t do. Meanwhile the elephant in the room are the republicans. Nothing, no matter how drastic, no matter how often, no matter how widespread, jars republicans from complying with Trump as he loses court case after court case. Why is that not the story.?
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what makes anyone think a DEMOCRAT, once elcected to office. is any different than the REPUBLICANS…they like their nice job…so they ‘speak softly and carry a toothpick’
because that story is more difficult to explain. to viewers,
Okay, so my first question is, why are we sitting on our fat, collective asses “watching” this unfold? Where are the general strikes? Where are the massed, daily constant protests? Huh?
That lazy inaction is not the media’s fault. They were always useless.
Nor is it the fault of the Republicans. They’ve been evil fascist motherfuckers since Nixon.
No, look in the mirror. That’s why the fat fuck is getting away with it.
That’s why billionaires have been allowed to seize our democracy.
That’s why Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are under assault.
That’s why we don’t have universal healthcare or any of the other things a decent industrialized nation has.
We are the problem. We’re too lazy, too coddled, too entitled to rise up and fight for what we want, instead happily accepting scraps like beggars. And this will continue until we get angry enough and decide we’ve had enough. Not before.
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I don’t think the media has done a good job explaining what was cut and why. In my experience what was cut mostly involved contract for services work. You know hire a defense contractor to build or maintain something built to government spec. Those are often very wasteful contracts.