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angrychair

(10,286 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:15 PM Feb 11

Constitutional Crisis

the majority of these speeches we are hearing Democrats make are not about the actual constitutional crisis we face, they are only about the symptoms.

I didn't know that I've even heard an elected official even say the phrase "constitutional crisis".

TSF is overtly ignoring court decisions and the view from the outside, looking in, it doesn't seem like we are addressing it with the seriousness it deserves.
We are likely in the final phase. I honestly believe that he will make the Legislative and Judicial branches irrelevant out within the next month or so if not sooner.
He doesn't need them anymore. He has consolidated his control over Treasury and OPM and other key agencies. He is already ignoring the courts.
If our representatives in Congress don't start using their voice I'm not sure they will have one much longer.

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Constitutional Crisis (Original Post) angrychair Feb 11 OP

You appear to have been unmoved by Mr. Schumer's go at a "Braveheart" type speech? (n/t) Moostache Feb 11 #1

Nope angrychair Feb 11 #3

Check out the answers to the latest poll 54% agree we are in a constitutional crusis kerry-is-my-prez Feb 11 #2

I wrote to Schumer today, for a second time. yellow dahlia Feb 11 #4

Moostache

(10,364 posts)

1. You appear to have been unmoved by Mr. Schumer's go at a "Braveheart" type speech? (n/t)

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:21 PM

Feb 11

angrychair

(10,286 posts)

3. Nope

Reply to Moostache (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:43 PM

Feb 11

We need more. Actual action. Like refusing to vote for any cabinet member. Doing everything they can procedurally to slow everything down to a crawl.
File court cases non-stop.

As Rachel says "watch what they do, not what they say"

kerry-is-my-prez

(9,657 posts)

2. Check out the answers to the latest poll 54% agree we are in a constitutional crusis

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:35 PM

Feb 11

The U.S. is in a constitutional crisis:
Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%
Not Sure: 19%

The word oligarchy describes "a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few." Do you think the United States is an oligarchy?
Yes: 38%
No: 37%
Not Sure: 26%

How well would you say democracy is working in the United States today?
Very well: 16%
Somewhat well: 35%
Not too well: 32%
Not at all well: 17%

yellow dahlia

(1,804 posts)

4. I wrote to Schumer today, for a second time.

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:20 PM

Feb 11

IMHO, he is not meeting the moment.

I asked him to do something like the Rapid Response Task Force Jeffries created at the House.

I offered my opinion of the Democratic Senators who are delivering the message well, such as Chris Murphy.

I offered my suggestion of the way the message should be targeted.

I have been emailing and calling Congress critters for the past three weeks. We are beyond the moment of an emergency. We are under attack.

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