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augyboston

(379 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 06:28 AM Mar 2025

Shut it down baby!!!

Shut it down baby!

We are the opposition party so whatever these clowns propose we should oppose. Gum up the works, delay, deny and defend.

The GOP game plan is to give huge tax breaks to guys like Musk while running up the debt and telling the rest of us; who will be worse off, that it will trickle down on our heads. Nothing new here, it is the same tired old plan to transfer wealth up the ladder.

What is new is what the Republicans in the Congress are allowing and that is an un-elected oligarch to carve up the government from the inside out with no oversight, no debate and no guardrails. It is against the law and the Constitution and it needs to be stopped!

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Emile

(42,289 posts)
1. You have to have the majority to shut her down.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 06:33 AM
Mar 2025

If the government shuts down, it will be because enough Republicans decided enough is enough.

Emile

(42,289 posts)
8. You may delay it a little bit, but it still the majority
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:22 AM
Mar 2025

who will still be the deciding factor in the end.

William769

(59,147 posts)
10. You have to start someplace.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:30 AM
Mar 2025

Right now we are just giving them everything. That does not make an oppisition party, that makes us cowards.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
4. Yeah...this isn't merely a political party with dissenting opinions. We are just the United States of America now.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 07:10 AM
Mar 2025

Last edited Sun Mar 9, 2025, 12:34 PM - Edit history (1)

We're under a tyrannical foreign occupation. It's not a narrative, it's what's happening.

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Emile

(42,289 posts)
6. If all the Democrats stuck together (which they won't) you
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 07:39 AM
Mar 2025

still need Republicans to vote to shut her down.

 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
12. Yes. Where did the 6 million votes that Biden got in '20 against Trump
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:39 AM
Mar 2025

but Harris didn't get in 24 go?
Too many Democrats and those on the Left were complacent and overconfident.
I thought that Harris would win but I still got my ass out and voted for her because we needed not to just beat Trump but to crush and humiliate him.

DFW

(60,186 posts)
11. Sometimes I think we're seeing West Wing replays where the bad guys are in the WHite Househttps
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:39 AM
Mar 2025
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