my dude, learn to walk AND chew gum.
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Do "all of the above" you fucking pussy.
That's the neat thing, Adam, you can do more than one thing at a time!
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God, are centrist Democrats so completely inept that they can't do more than one thing at a time?
No. This isn't an oopsie.
Not this time nor the last 7500.
It doesn't have to be either/or. They've employed the "flood the zone" technique with their corruption, let's do the same thing in reverse, but with investigations AND legislation. Keep these MAGAs busy reacting to one thing or another.
It's OUR country now, and WE set the agenda and the message, and MAGA will have to go along with it. This guy sounds like he's just one of those old school cowardly loser Democrats who is still afraid of MAGA confrontation. He can sit on the sidelines and wait until we need him for a vote.
Those things aren't mutually exclusive! Do both of them!
Seriously! Stop presenting this as either/or. It's BOTH. No more excuses!
Wait, having congress do two things at once? Preposterous!
tbf they're going to have to work up to doing one thing at once
Seems like an awfully demanding schedule for Congress. They may have to start with doing half of a thing.
Is that like "Por que no los dos?"
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I can kinda see where he's coming from (assuming he's being sincere).
However, congress can focus on 2 things at once. They can and should do both.
If Democrats have any hope of winning the 2028 election, they need to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time
Instead of loudly investigating and quietly going about normal business, they should quietly investigate and loudly go about the business of unwinding trunos fuck ups.
There needs to be accountability, but there also needs to be a change. If they can't do both, the same will happen again.
It's really strange, we pay these people to act as our representatives full time, drafting and proposing and voting on legislation. So why don't we see more action?
I understand that when the GOP controls congress, nothing is going to come up for a vote unless they're certain they want it to. But Democrats could still be introducing bills and spending time trying to force public awareness. And for a Democratic controlled congress even if they can't control the presidential veto, like we're about to see, why on earth shouldn't they be passing major bills every week or two? Even if the president vetoes them, that is how you keep voters' imagination and loyalty from drifting to the GOP, so I really hope that's what we see.
Yet somehow I suspect we're going to get into the driver's seat and hear about maybe two or three bills a year, all attempted to be "bipartisan." That's why I'm so anxious to get Jeffries and Schumer out - they can't imagine Congress acting any other way.
Because the American politics system with four fucking elected bodies, is dumb as shit and literally intentionally designed to make government ineffective.
An elected Senate and an elected House makes zero fucking sense. You just roadblock yourself constantly. The president being elected separately from either also makes no fucking sense.
And then the fact that your judiciary is like half elected is the most nonsense fucking bullshit on the planet.
Your system of government is not built or designed to be effective.
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This guy was a registered Republican until 2020. He basically was fine with Trump's first term. Let that sink in... He will be as useful to Dems as Fetterman is. That's one of the reasons I'm not very optimistic about the whole "blue wave" thing. A lot of those wins in red states are by center-right politicians.
It doesn't have to take two years. Don't investigate everything, because that will take forever. Investigate the worst stuff and impeach him as quickly as possible.
No, investigate everything. Hire a teams of good lawyers to deal with each investigation while different teams of experts work on legislation to solve other issues. Every time a team completes there solution, bring it to a vote and move to the next one.
The federal fucking government can afford to hire lots of teams to each laser focus on individual jobs. Each one of them is critically important. Just keep the corpo-lobbyists out of it.
If you're going to investigate everything, it's going to take forever to impeach him. Or convict him. He can flood the zone with so much crime that it will never end. Get him behind bars first, then investigate the rest. Keep investigating until after he's dead, but don't let impeachment and sentencing wait for all that.
You don't have to finish every single investigation to convict.
Just bundle them up into fun little groups. Maybe a neat little pack of Epstein crimes - investigate, charge, convict. Do a fun little group of bribery - investigate, charge, convict. Next maybe some fraud? Investigate, charge, convict.
The great thing is, you don't have to wait for them all to finish before you work on the next one! It's a cool trick called: more than one team doing things.
Make it a competition who gets to convict him first.
The thing to remember is that Congressional investigations in both houses take place in committee, not on the floor, and that committee assignments are often long-term commitments, fought over and worked toward over multiple terms, with the most powerful ones being given to people who have worked on them longest.
What this guy is asserting doesn't matter and won't change anything. It's hot air. He's a new senator who will not get especially powerful committee assignments, and after this he sure as fuck won't get anywhere near investigations.
But I will add, this guy is a reminder of why Schumer and Jeffries need to go: if you can't achieve, you can often block. This guy can't block shit, especially if he gets assigned to something like the committee on office trash collection. But Schumer and Jeffries can, especially Schumer. They need to go.
If you're interested, the REAL committee to watch is House Oversight -- the one already working the Epstein files investigation in spite of ongoing Republican efforts to shut it down and protect the perps -- and the rep who will now be chair, Robert Garcia of California, is one of the reps who was telling Republicans on election night, "Lawyer up." He's already announced the investigations he will be prioritizing and has been working on all along as the ranking (minority) member: he's hitting the ground running. And unlike the chair now, he's not afraid of applying actual consequences. I suspect we might even get to see some action out of the Sergeant at Arms.
We can, and will, do many things at once. It's not that hard. Bad actors just made it seem that way.
Can’t walk and chew gum eh?
Trump somehow manages to have like 10 different obscenities and acts of corruption running simultaneously, but 54 senators can figure out how to pursue two goals at once amongst them.
I don't see why they can't do multiple things at the same time.
For fucks sake. They get paid quite a lot and have exceptionally good benefits compared to the rest of us.
Plus all the stocks, bribes, and so on.
Lazy bastards.
Huh, I would have thought the 1st priority would be shutting down ICE, releasing everyone and closing the concentration camps. Then the 2nd priority would be getting the people back who were sent to random countries they've never visited before.
For reelection in Kansas you probably would be advised to take this stance.
It's been just a week, and already 3 democrats are publicly opposing any accountability for republicans, one of which is fucking Kamala Harris.
It's almost as if... No, it can't be. It can't, right?
If it walks like an enemy of the people, and quacks like an enemy of the people....
Imagine caring if this fucking guy ends up being disappointed
Cool, fucking throw him up against his beloved firing squad and call it a day then do something beneficial for the general populace.
Congress is supposed to make laws; they aren’t a version of Law & Order
You have to stop trump from stealing the money before any will be spent to the benefit of the people.
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Why are democrats fucking stupid? Republicans do not have hang ups like this.
Check his hard drives
And get his Grok history from Musk
The bigger priority for me...is ‘please help us with the cost of living
Trump caused the higher cost of living, and he did it illegally. Started an illegal war and imposed illegal tariffs. Holding him accountable needs to be our highest priority, so that this shit can't happen again.
Why not both? There's a couple of hundred of you to go around this time ..
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