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lees1975

(7,188 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:33 PM 9 hrs ago

Another threat to wipe our Iran from Trump, I know it's primary and election season but I think Democrats

need to come up with a way to put a stop to this instead of whining about not being in the majority and heading back to feather the fundraising nest. "Doing all we can" isn't cutting it.

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Another threat to wipe our Iran from Trump, I know it's primary and election season but I think Democrats (Original Post) lees1975 9 hrs ago OP
Whining ? How and what exactly are democrats supposed to do that without JI7 9 hrs ago #1
We had a chance in 2021-23, but missed the opportunity. lees1975 7 hrs ago #2

JI7

(93,892 posts)
1. Whining ? How and what exactly are democrats supposed to do that without
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:41 PM
9 hrs ago

having a majority. Even having a majority would still leave Trump with some powers.

But actually holding office which in turn means Republicans aren't holding it is the only way.

Strange that you want democrsts to stop tryng to win when that is the only way they could actually try something.

lees1975

(7,188 posts)
2. We had a chance in 2021-23, but missed the opportunity.
Sun May 17, 2026, 09:28 PM
7 hrs ago

Garland dragging his feet, not pursuing the charges after a year long Congressional investigation laid out a mountain of evidence, and no use of the power of his office to stop the legal delays, which he could have done.

The Supreme Court should have been a target, when we had the power not to have to wait, but to break that damn filibuster and pack the court. There are a lot of wishy-washy Republicans but for some reason, they don't cross the party line so why can't Democrats use the same threats to keep their shillyshalliers in line?

If this insane idiot pushes the nuke button against Iran, it's over for all of us. So keep up the apologetics and the defense and don't expect anything.

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