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senseandsensibility

(20,614 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:16 PM Tuesday

DUers are asking "what can we do?" Here's an answer

From Leah Greenberg on bluesky: Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrwn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It's a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting ( I think she means conducting) business as usual.

If Dems did this, the press would have to ask them why they were doing it. It would give them a chance to raise a ruckus. Let's go!

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DUers are asking "what can we do?" Here's an answer (Original Post) senseandsensibility Tuesday OP
Yep. They can gum up the works. And they SHOULD. CousinIT Tuesday #1
Plus hannah Tuesday #3
I have been SCREAMING at folks on BlueSky to CALL THEIR REPS! CousinIT Tuesday #12
My REP is a worthless POS tRuMp Ass kisser named Darrin Lahood. 634-5789 Tuesday #17
I'd call anyway. And email. I emailed my MAGAt reps today. CousinIT Tuesday #19
He supposedly is my "rep" also.. raising2moredems Tuesday #31
I don't get these dumbass politicians who are up his ass Dem4life1234 15 hrs ago #35
THIS!!! calimary Tuesday #24
Oh yes bdamomma Tuesday #23
They are trying to "gum up" the laws of our country senseandsensibility Tuesday #5
DAMN RIGHT. nt CousinIT Tuesday #14
Yep!!! calimary Tuesday #25
States are suing LeftInTX Tuesday #8
Yes! Think. Again. Tuesday #2
Recommended. H2O Man Tuesday #4
Not sure what this means. ShazzieB Tuesday #6
Does it really matter which one? nt Bobstandard Tuesday #10
Personally, I don't think so senseandsensibility Tuesday #16
I was just curious. ShazzieB 19 hrs ago #34
I've found humor to be my best weapon. multigraincracker Tuesday #7
Indivisible just sent email with lots more specific action items and info - go here and rec this thread Amaryllis Tuesday #9
DONE. Bookmarked, rec'd and SHARED. nt CousinIT Tuesday #15
LOL DENVERPOPS Tuesday #11
They're not used to thinking ahead - at least about his ability to screw people. calimary Tuesday #26
Do.Not.Make.Nice! IzzaNuDay Tuesday #13
Kind of goes without saying, right? senseandsensibility Tuesday #18
K&R orangecrush Tuesday #20
I'd like to see them throw sand in every cog they can. Phoenix61 Tuesday #21
Do it!!! Now!!! benfranklin1776 Tuesday #22
Republicans used every filibustering trick in the book and more. unblock Tuesday #27
Call your Senator and House Rep. Light up their phones. surfered Tuesday #28
Strategies For Resistance Baron2024 Tuesday #29
States Rights Baron2024 Tuesday #30
Wake Up & Shake It Up Rendville 22 hrs ago #32
The Dems should hire Mitch McConnell to coordinate their resistance strategy. That MFer knows how to be in the minority ProfessorPlum 21 hrs ago #33
Call, call, call your state and local officials pat_k 14 hrs ago #36
Good info senseandsensibility 12 hrs ago #37

CousinIT

(10,760 posts)
1. Yep. They can gum up the works. And they SHOULD.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:19 PM
Tuesday

And state AGs can sue SHitler, Inc. over this ROBBERY.

hannah

(184 posts)
3. Plus
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:27 PM
Tuesday

We need to make noise! Tim Kane was just on Tv saying the people need to start calling the House and Senate to stop the ILLEGAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS!

CousinIT

(10,760 posts)
12. I have been SCREAMING at folks on BlueSky to CALL THEIR REPS!
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:59 PM
Tuesday

Especially if these freezes will affect them or someone they know. Reps need to know about it.

SHitler is hearing from billionaires, Muskrat, and Project 2025 goons. HE AND CONGRESS NEED TO HEAR FROM WE THE PEOPLE.

Those goddamned mofos need to be REMINDED WHO THEY WORK FOR.

634-5789

(4,351 posts)
17. My REP is a worthless POS tRuMp Ass kisser named Darrin Lahood.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:25 PM
Tuesday

So, faggedaboutit, he'll do NOTHING. Never has, never will.

CousinIT

(10,760 posts)
19. I'd call anyway. And email. I emailed my MAGAt reps today.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:31 PM
Tuesday

I don't GAF if they like it or not. MY TAX DOLLARS PAY THEIR FUCKING SALARIES. They work for ME.

And goddammit they ARE going to hear from me on the bullshit they support.

If they're only hearing MAGAt propaganda and Proj2025, billionaire and Muskrat bullshit, that's not good. They may not do what we need them to do but they should HEAR FROM US as much as they hear from those other robber-baron mofos.

raising2moredems

(731 posts)
31. He supposedly is my "rep" also..
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:43 PM
Tuesday

He's a piece of shit. I didn't agree with his old man on most things BUT his old man had integrity. Something his alleged child will never have. One of the many pukes who pissed and moaned about the deficit yet are crawling on their hands and knees, mouths open, to intentionally cut revenue (income). They never, ever cut to make a tax cut net zero. Most people won't get a tax cut and the non-2% that do will pay double or triple (best case) in increased costs of food and goods. But hey, you can't fix stupid. You gotta hope they can't breed and can't vote.

Dem4life1234

(2,255 posts)
35. I don't get these dumbass politicians who are up his ass
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:05 PM
15 hrs ago

It's like don't you want your constituents healthy and happy? I don't get it.

bdamomma

(67,218 posts)
23. Oh yes
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 07:01 PM
Tuesday

call Democrats and those filthy MAGATs on the other side of the aisle NOW. We have to send a chill down their spines. Let them hear it keep calling ad do not stop. This is an assault on the American people. I wonder what Fox is saying. not that I'm curious to go there.

senseandsensibility

(20,614 posts)
5. They are trying to "gum up" the laws of our country
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:44 PM
Tuesday

At least we can make it difficult for them!

ShazzieB

(19,149 posts)
6. Not sure what this means.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:55 PM
Tuesday
From Leah Greenberg on bluesky: Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrwn


Which EO? There's been an avalanche of EOs.

senseandsensibility

(20,614 posts)
16. Personally, I don't think so
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:09 PM
Tuesday

I caught an typo or mistake in the quote above and corrected it without changing it, and maybe this is similar. Could be she meant to type EOs (plural). In any case, strategy applies to all of them IMHO.

ShazzieB

(19,149 posts)
34. I was just curious.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 11:50 AM
19 hrs ago
From Leah Greenberg on bluesky: Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrwn


From the above, it sounded like the bluesky message was related to/prompted by a specific EO. I wondered which one it was, because I was interested to know the context.

Is this vitally necessary info? No, but I was still curious, because I like to know stuff. I went on bluesky just now and found the message (which I obviously could have done in the first place lol), and I can now confirm that Greenburg does not mention a specific EO. I'm now following her on bluesky, so it's all good.

multigraincracker

(34,626 posts)
7. I've found humor to be my best weapon.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:56 PM
Tuesday

I have an Eat The Rich sticker on my vehicle. Plan on punting one next to it that says Musk Burgers For Everyone.

Amaryllis

(9,888 posts)
9. Indivisible just sent email with lots more specific action items and info - go here and rec this thread
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:03 PM
Tuesday
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219957252
"Indivisible just sent email with action items to do right now and more info on funding freeze"

DENVERPOPS

(10,523 posts)
11. LOL
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:59 PM
Tuesday

The Republicans in the House and Senate, if they allow Trump to "DICTATE" everything, don't realize the next thing he shuts down, will be the legislative branch, and they will all be out on the street..........He already has the complete control of the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch............There will be no need for the legislative if he is going to keep making his own rules and laws, and not acknowledge existing laws........

calimary

(85,035 posts)
26. They're not used to thinking ahead - at least about his ability to screw people.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 07:17 PM
Tuesday

And some of those he’s screwing will be THEM.

IzzaNuDay

(817 posts)
13. Do.Not.Make.Nice!
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:59 PM
Tuesday

the democratic congress should be as oppositional as the GOP like in 2009-2016 when Obama was in office.
No time to be nice. We have a democracy to save!

senseandsensibility

(20,614 posts)
18. Kind of goes without saying, right?
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:26 PM
Tuesday

I think that is the source of a lot of the angst. Like, why are we having to spell this out for them?

Phoenix61

(17,819 posts)
21. I'd like to see them throw sand in every cog they can.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:44 PM
Tuesday

non-stop. Decorum has been dead and buried for some time now. I can’t believe they don’t know how to gum up the works. Ask for the parliamentarian to review EVERYTHING! Every single vote. Delay, filibuster, …

unblock

(54,394 posts)
27. Republicans used every filibustering trick in the book and more.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 07:24 PM
Tuesday

Such as refusing to even consider Obama's Supreme Court nomination.

There's no reason we should be cooperative. The felon-in-chief has committed more impeachable offenses already.

surfered

(4,516 posts)
28. Call your Senator and House Rep. Light up their phones.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:39 PM
Tuesday

And Write letters to the editor of your local paper.

Baron2024

(675 posts)
29. Strategies For Resistance
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:38 PM
Tuesday

Here is a link to a longer post about Strategies for Resisting the Trump MAGA attack on the Federal Government and the American People. Worth taking the time to read-

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219958563

Baron2024

(675 posts)
30. States Rights
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:40 PM
Tuesday

I had an idea that States controlled by Dem Governors and Legislatures (California, Michigan, New York, etc.) should demand their citizen's tax dollars back so that the States can fund programs and services that Trump is going to cut. For example, the cuts to CDC and NIH could be offset by expanding funding in the State's Department of Health. Former CDC and NIH workers could be offered positions in the expanded State Department of Health. Dems in Congress could propose a Bill to return federal taxes to the States in the form of a block grant. It would not get anywhere in a MAGA controlled House, but it would make a good story in the Media War that Trump and MAGA are ripping off Taxpayers in Blue States. Which is the truth.

Rendville

(5 posts)
32. Wake Up & Shake It Up
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 08:17 AM
22 hrs ago

We All Hope the remaining Blue Dems turn red hot radioactive and go after these traitors procedurally. But everyday citizens are also sincerely asking What Can WE Do? And they are not just asking where can we send our donations. Activism Against Evil that goes beyond social media posts, protest marching or bankrolling lawsuits against MAGA. The emotion building is akin to Mohandas Gandhi's Salt March/The Dandi March. Which was a nonviolent protest against iron-clad British rule in India. March 12, 1930 to April 5, 1930.

ProfessorPlum

(11,409 posts)
33. The Dems should hire Mitch McConnell to coordinate their resistance strategy. That MFer knows how to be in the minority
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 09:57 AM
21 hrs ago

and f*** things up.

pat_k

(10,885 posts)
36. Call, call, call your state and local officials
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:19 PM
14 hrs ago

Tell them to SPEAK OUT:

No 1 message: They must become more than executives and legislators. They must be effective information warriors. If they are not voicing opposition on social media, including bluesky and sez.us, they need to be. And tell them you and your connections will promote their messages. You need to hear them on local radio. Opposition cannot be relegated to members of the House and Senate. Voices of sanity must ring across social media, radio, podcasts, YouTube, cable and broadcast media. You are calling on them to speak out, loud and proud.

And do not neglect your Republican elected officials. Call are tracked. DO NOT allow them to claim none of their constituents are angry or oppose WH nominations and actions.



Hit the phones: hones today. All of us. Loud and proud, people. Kennedy and Gabbard have their hearings today, Patel tomorrow. Three things you can call about today:

Fight The Unacceptable 4 - Gabbard, Kennedy, Patel, Vought. Keep the script short - they are dangerous, unqualified extremists and should not serve in the government of the United States. You expect your reps to fight.

Challenge Trump’s denying of funds to the states and localities (and dozens of countries) and his other illegal actions this week. Everyone has a stake in this. We must fight Trump’s mad power grab, his purposeful attempt to harm people across the US and around the world. Defend your democracy.

Insist they fight Trump’s “catastrophic” tariffs that will raise prices for everyone on just about everything and cause destructive trade wars with our closest allies (see yesterday’s Hopium post).


https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-fight-against-trump-is-now-a
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