I think congressional Dems need to act

[cilla4progress]

stronger and faster to rid us of drumpf.
Sometimes I think they are being too "strategic.

History won't look kindly on those who let drumpf slide.

I'm also looking at you, media.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What do you suggest?

[Blue_true]

27. A Revoultion? Will the "revolutionaries" show up? Looks like any little thing that

inconvenience them is ample reason to stay home.

[TwilightZone]

2. How?

He's not going anywhere unless/until we vote him out in November.

[trc]

3. The Dems in Congress can't do it alone

And alone they are.

[cilla4progress]

4. I dont know exactly and I knew

this would be an unpopular OP.

Impeach him again?

There doesn't seem to be urgency. Maybe it's just me

As for journos - they need to band together at these PR events in the WH and follow up one another if he ignores them, or all turn their backs and walk out.

[Mike 03]

6. I'm not against the idea but I thought you meant "the power of the

purse strings" perhaps, and oversight. For example, how dare Trump get rid of the federal watchdogs overseeing his discretionary use of the Coronavirus task force funds? Isn't there something we can do about that? I thought the Dems wrote that into the legislation and it was not something that could be casually discarded.

Also, where is our new committee to investigate Trump's negligence in the handling of the virus? I know we'll have to wait until some future date to actually call witnesses.

Demand that no documents be destroyed.

So, really, I agree we should be doing more.

[gibraltar72]

8. Yes the purse strings. My thought also.

Nancy should just snap it shut on his pet programs. I mean not a fucking dime.

[cilla4progress]

10. Yes!

Why isn't this happening?!

Remember "fierce urgency of now"???!!!

[bluestarone]

20. AFTER the election

IF things DO NOT improve, I'm thinking the House will have NO CHOICE but to HOLD back on ALL the rethug programs!! EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THEM! NOT a fucking dime!

[Demsrule86]

24. We are in the middle of a national emergency...she needs to work on that Trump stays unless we

defeat him in November accept that and move on. Do everything you can to help us win. No impeachment...use this to get healthcare,more money for the poor...Trump needs more money for business...we can't run impeachment at the moment or even hold the purse strings.

[cilla4progress]

9. Bingo! Yes -

thank you, Mike.

Just to begin with!...

[mcar]

21. What's the point of that?

He deserves it, for sure, but we know that he will never get removed by the Senate. And, it would give fodder for the Trump cult and media to criticize Democrats for being so political during a national crisis.

[The Magistrate]

5. And Just What Do You Propose, Sir?

"Enquiring minds want to know!"

[marble falls]

7. Another impeachment just might put him over the edge.

[stopdiggin]

17. ABSOLUTELY NOT !!

during the pandemic crisis? Are you mad?

[marble falls]

23. Personally I don't care if he makes it to Nov3 or not. I actually think a President Pence even ...

at three months until Jan 20 (when we inaugurate Biden/Harris*), to be a big nightmare. I want him off balance so that the only thing he's worried about is how he finds a fun place with no extradition treaty.

I think depending how badly we kick the snot out of him on Nov3, if we also get at least 50 Senators, he will resign claiming he couldn't lead without a mandate and leaves late night to no knows where like the Shah of Iran.

I think he'll be in an orange jumpsuit a bit later. And using an alias - Marlon Brando.

Bet his jail shot will be as bedraggled as Phil Specter's was.



*doesn't that sound good!

[MerryBlooms]

11. trump has shown how outdated our system of governing has become.

Our documents and laws regarding the executive branch were written for people who were assumed to have honor and conscience. We are ill prepared for an entire party and president who has neither. There will need to be laws written and changes to documents to ensure another president never gets away with the amount of shit this one has.

[cilla4progress]

18. Yes.

Whole new ballgame.

Eric Bohlert on twitter today said that American journalists are not prepared to deal with an authoritarian government.

I second that.

You know who sees clearly? Authoritarianism expert Sarah Kendzior. I'm buying her new book Hiding in Plain Sight about the crisis of drumpf

[rufus dog]

12. I was very impatient and said they had to impeach

That being said, if they impeach again tRump and the media will jump all over the Dems for playing politics during a crisis.

The Dems did their immediate job. At this point Repukes and voters MUST be held accountable.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. +1

And to the other poster who posted the same.
It's a bad idea right now, no matter how deserved it may be.

[kentuck]

13. They have surrendered everything for the next election.

There is nothing they can do without Repub help.

[TwilightZone]

14. They didn't surrender anything.

They can't unilaterally act. We really should have figured that out by now.

[kentuck]

29. Of course.

They can do nothing unilaterally.

That's the point.

[doc03]

15. Democrats bent over backwards to bail Trump out.

In the next couple months when things go back to more normal the stock market is going to come back just in time for the election. I have said this a dozen times Republicans were willing to put us in another great depression. Not one single Republican voted for Obama's stimulus. Democrats gave him like $3 trillion and they are talking another round. I can see extending unemployment. But why a slush fund Trump can use for whatever he wants, it's crazy.

[msongs]

16. media lol like the US media is ever gonna challenge trump nt

[stopdiggin]

19. we listened to a lot of this pre-impeachment

it's even less informed in the current situation than it was then.

[cilla4progress]

25. Just because you don't agree with me

doesn't mean I'm uninformed.

Food for thought.

[stopdiggin]

30. you're correct

I take great exception to the suggestion that our leaders should "be doing more." I think it is both unhelpful, and also quite possibly detrimental in what are challenging and perilous times. So I disagree with you almost completely on this particular subject ... but I do not know that you are uninformed. I stand corrected.
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[cilla4progress]

31. Nice.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

[Blue_true]

26. Are you serious?

Didn't the impeachment fiasco show anything? We get no where unless Moscow Mitch agrees, and right now, he has no intention of holding Trump accountable. WE need to get rid of as many republican office holders as possible, at EVERY election, that is the only way that change will come.

[cilla4progress]

32. What do we all think now

That hes removed all the IGs?

Forcible removal?