the constitution isnโt is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.
01.04.2025 02:36 โ ๐ 7654 ๐ 1154 ๐ฌ 233 ๐ 97
I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
03.04.2025 21:25 โ ๐ 35840 ๐ 13164 ๐ฌ 1255 ๐ 654
does violating the constitution in order to retain our mad king fall in the "personal liberty" vertical or the "free market" vertical?
03.04.2025 19:35 โ ๐ 515 ๐ 86 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 3
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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14.03.2025 22:50 โ ๐ 86409 ๐ 13910 ๐ฌ 5089 ๐ 823
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
14.03.2025 23:18 โ ๐ 129966 ๐ 25386 ๐ฌ 5737 ๐ 1541
NEW: Here are the 10 โdemocraticโ senators that voted to sell out veterans, the American people, and their colleagues in the House.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
King
Peters
Schatz
Schumer
Shaheen
14.03.2025 21:25 โ ๐ 13925 ๐ 5805 ๐ฌ 1560 ๐ 713
YouTube video by MSNBC
โThe people hold the powerโ: Grassroots anti-Trump resistance outshines lawmakers
No kings. Not ever.
youtu.be/VZk4hhSPMG0?...
15.03.2025 02:10 โ ๐ 7519 ๐ 1316 ๐ฌ 274 ๐ 73
When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
14.03.2025 12:41 โ ๐ 31980 ๐ 4898 ๐ฌ 726 ๐ 285
Iโm calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
14.03.2025 03:30 โ ๐ 13307 ๐ 3361 ๐ฌ 575 ๐ 245
2/2
The plain reality that Trump is **losing his mind,** and expressing in public the results of dementia-style grievances + hallucinations like this, is one of few aspects of his return that deserves much more attention than it has received.
Those around him must know this, cynically using it.
13.03.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 1877 ๐ 370 ๐ฌ 65 ๐ 32
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess thatโs just too hard
14.03.2025 00:02 โ ๐ 13881 ๐ 2188 ๐ฌ 571 ๐ 162
It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.
13.03.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 6047 ๐ 1088 ๐ฌ 65 ๐ 48
13.03.2025 22:46 โ ๐ 8191 ๐ 1806 ๐ฌ 50 ๐ 46
It gets worse! Many, many Democrats have opposed filibuster abolition on the grounds that theyโd miss it when Republicans gained a trifecta and it wasnโt available to them anymore.
13.03.2025 22:46 โ ๐ 3214 ๐ 568 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 19
Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.
13.03.2025 23:29 โ ๐ 4487 ๐ 800 ๐ฌ 150 ๐ 66
Quite something that Schumer had his NYT op-ed justifying his surrender ready to go tonight while not informing the public (including his constituents) of his plans. He seems to think this is just an old-school pr battle. He's never been more wrong.
14.03.2025 01:57 โ ๐ 10054 ๐ 2106 ๐ฌ 334 ๐ 120
My two cents: we donโt abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. Itโs a good party. It just has bad leadership.
14.03.2025 06:37 โ ๐ 27907 ๐ 4666 ๐ฌ 1979 ๐ 475
GOOD: Mallory McMorrow will launch a bid for the open Senate seat in Michigan.
13.03.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 11136 ๐ 1275 ๐ฌ 303 ๐ 133
Iโll always be on the side of Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Bigots can go to hell.
13.03.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 21579 ๐ 2853 ๐ฌ 345 ๐ 147
Mitch McConnell & Chuck Schumer will always be remembered as US historyโs two most effective Senators in getting things done for the Republican Party.
14.03.2025 06:51 โ ๐ 678 ๐ 102 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 5
*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. ๐
14.03.2025 02:27 โ ๐ 7603 ๐ 2451 ๐ฌ 181 ๐ 91
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
13.03.2025 14:47 โ ๐ 20119 ๐ 7134 ๐ฌ 684 ๐ 537
One of these things is not like the others
13.03.2025 15:51 โ ๐ 29016 ๐ 10735 ๐ฌ 642 ๐ 618
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking atโฆ. Chuck Schumer.
13.03.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 10486 ๐ 2657 ๐ฌ 65 ๐ 85
Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...
13.03.2025 16:30 โ ๐ 7402 ๐ 2162 ๐ฌ 182 ๐ 111
Opinion | DOGE says itโs saving $100 billion. Itโs about to lose a lot more.
Cuts to the IRS will backfire by giving tax evaders a free pass.
"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would โ very conservatively โ lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
13.03.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 26635 ๐ 9958 ๐ฌ 1505 ๐ 672
A 1 month chart of the DOW falling off a freaking cliff
thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this
13.03.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 19897 ๐ 3617 ๐ฌ 563 ๐ 239
Schumer is a disgrace
14.03.2025 00:05 โ ๐ 13852 ๐ 2287 ๐ฌ 502 ๐ 134
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