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electric_blue68

(27,326 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 06:02 PM Sep 2025

This can't be Too difficult? Dems hold a Press Conference 3xs/wk Highlight 2 issues each. What they' ldone on...

[Cross posted to The Way Forward]

.. each, plan to do. Point out lies on these issues that trump has said.
Usually, a Mon, Weds, Fri shedule; giving people an extra day to think on what's been presented.

Currently, also continue about the Epstein files.

If something extremely egregious happens then hold an extra presser.

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This can't be Too difficult? Dems hold a Press Conference 3xs/wk Highlight 2 issues each. What they' ldone on... (Original Post) electric_blue68 Sep 2025 OP
AND issue a joint declaration signed by every ... pat_k Sep 2025 #1
That might be good, too. Maybe have that be the beginning of a Monday presser. electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #4
Folks have been lobbying for this. It remains unclear to me ... pat_k Sep 2025 #6
This is what they should have started doing 20+ years ago. Crunchy Frog Sep 2025 #2
Maybe. I always thought at times for decades that Dems needed to be More Assertive! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #5
THIS malaise Sep 2025 #3

pat_k

(13,856 posts)
1. AND issue a joint declaration signed by every ...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 07:20 PM
Sep 2025

..member of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate who embrace essential American values -- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, self-governance, and economic justice, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry. A declaration listing 47 regime abuses and usurpations. As with our declaration of independence, it is time to "let Facts be submitted to a candid world" (long past time).

I know it's harder to herd Democrats than to herd cats, but get it together people! For the sake of the nation, get this done!

pat_k

(13,856 posts)
6. Folks have been lobbying for this. It remains unclear to me ...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:35 PM
Sep 2025

...what the rationalizations for inaction are. All I get is agreement that this would be a good thing from Pramila Jayapal, Patty Murry, and Maria Cantwell here in WA, but further inquiry feels like I'm hitting a wall. They are "aware" that Simon Rosenberg and Hopium Chronicles people -- and others -- have been lobbying for this.

Hopium folks are tracking similar resolutions they been lobbying for (and getting passed) in states and municipalities: https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hopiums-resolutions-project-draft I'm not sure if that page has the latest updates.

Crunchy Frog

(28,299 posts)
2. This is what they should have started doing 20+ years ago.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 07:23 PM
Sep 2025

Instead of seeming to act on the faith that fair play will win out in the end.

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