If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
19.11.2025 03:11 β π 2123 π 527 π¬ 50 π 11@marielapenn.bsky.social
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If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
19.11.2025 03:11 β π 2123 π 527 π¬ 50 π 11We all knew that. Itβs you and your colleagues that seem to think otherwise, because CRs are the only way to force them to agree to funding. Instead, youβve conceded the point after weeks of suffering which you rendered worthless.
11.11.2025 01:13 β π 672 π 136 π¬ 6 π 1Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary β whatever happens β we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
This isnβt about left vs. right.
This is about fighting back vs. losing.
The regimeβs threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. In this moment when fascists are on the march, we need leadership with a spine.
After yesterdayβs surrender, weβre launching the largest Democratic primary program that weβve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If youβre as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. π
We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. Itβs time for drastic action.
"Weβre done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We canβt afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.β β @indivisible.org
10.11.2025 23:08 β π 4228 π 1227 π¬ 74 π 89β’
βThese are not the people to defend the country against the manifold extreme threats to our institutions and way of life posed by Trump and MAGAβ
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βWe need to recognize that we canβt have a different Democratic Party β Until we have different Democrats leading itβ
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
10.11.2025 23:14 β π 1884 π 379 π¬ 26 π 11He orchestrated it and he's a liar. He's despicable.
10.11.2025 22:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0NO. Primaries for all of you useless pricks.
10.11.2025 21:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You are a liar and a POS. Go home.
10.11.2025 21:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is the answer
10.11.2025 20:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Of course they did. Primary all of them
10.11.2025 18:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So get rid of Schumer
10.11.2025 17:46 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
10.11.2025 12:50 β π 13249 π 2258 π¬ 345 π 179Beyond policy considerations and electoral politics, Tuesday provided a lot of people with a brief spark of hope that maybe our democracy is not already dead, and Democrats immediately capitulating to anti-democracy forces for no discernible benefit is a great way to extinguish that spark.
10.11.2025 01:59 β π 597 π 148 π¬ 10 π 9the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
Like for six weeks, Democrats actually united on a singular, coherent message of βthis is entirely about healthcare, it is the only thing that matters, all of this is about protecting healthcareβ and then the flight delays started and the first thing they did was give up on healthcare
10.11.2025 04:46 β π 262 π 70 π¬ 4 π 1Dems are very proud of themselves for their βsavvyβ willingness to tell their base to simmer down and let the experts work. What they donβt seem to understand is the intangible, but very real, damage that does to the enthusiasm of their voters, who feel abandoned. And then the βexpertsβ fail!
10.11.2025 04:32 β π 717 π 104 π¬ 19 π 4What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
10.11.2025 04:33 β π 5116 π 912 π¬ 195 π 79These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yesβthey agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
10.11.2025 04:09 β π 3394 π 756 π¬ 39 π 11These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.
10.11.2025 03:10 β π 3297 π 823 π¬ 25 π 25The Democratic Party stabbed America in the back less than a week after the American voters gave the party a βfight backβ mandate.
10.11.2025 03:55 β π 416 π 82 π¬ 9 π 4This is very obvious and this is why all the safest 2026 Dems should be primaried.
10.11.2025 03:54 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0How you gonna keep fighting when you always let them win fuckface
10.11.2025 03:51 β π 263 π 35 π¬ 1 π 1Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
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