Summary
Senate Democrats plan to force Republicans into tough votes on tax cuts and government cuts linked to Trump’s legislative agenda.
They will introduce amendments opposing tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to programs like education and Medicaid as Republicans push a $325 billion budget resolution.
Democrats also target Elon Musk’s DOGE, which is rapidly cutting federal jobs. Some Republicans express concerns over DOGE’s speed.
Democrats hope these votes will hurt Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms.
If I’m reading this right, their plan is to basically make Republicans vote against popular things, in hopes that it makes voters turn away from them in 2026. That’s neat, and in an ideal world where people actually paid attention to what their senators are voting for and the republicans didn’t control the media and generate propaganda at an alarming rate, it might even be effective, but I am skeptical that it will have any real effect in the world we actually live in.
Think of the county as a car driving towards a cliff.
Republicans want to stomp on the gas and roll coal to trigger libs.
Sure, Democrats UNDERSTAND the “concerns” of pollution and driving off a cliff, but they also have to be sensitive to the desires of their oil donors and constituents that work in refineries, so they feel obligated to reach across the aisle to push the gas a little to keep $XOM over $100.
The news blames the Dems for the car slowing down. No one wants to rock the boat by stopping the car from going off the cliff. Attack anyone that considered reversing for being a socialist because capitalism needs us to buy a new car after we crash this one.
Leftists and the third world are in the trunk.
I still want ice cream, damnit!
That’s the long and short of it. Your average American has the functional understanding of a five year old because they don’t know what they haven’t been taught which is most of everything.
You ask a first grade class if they want ice cream for breakfast and they will basically never say no.
They want it because it makes them happy without understanding what makes them healthy.
Most people are level 1 Skyrim characters and only understand explicitly what they level up by doing… Which is usually as little as possible.
Many facets of society have been turned into Skinner boxes that reward people dopamine for doom scrolling, isolating, or being angry.
Even if one wants to argue the downfall of society was accidental and not malicious, those in power never really seemed to do anything but make shit worse regardless.
Even if the system is working as designed… This is the fucking end result and inspires no hope there won’t be a world wide economic collapse.
I mean… at least that’s the part of the plan that they SHOULD have been doing for decades… back when the public option was killed from obamacare… no vote was ever heard, and the only person who they announced as the problem was Liberman.
I mean this strategy is just plain common sense that always SHOULD have been the norm. IMO I think half the reason for low information voters now… is that they basically allowed vote information to get muddled for decades. IE If a bill is overwhelmingly popular with the base, but can’t break a fillibuster proof majority, the democrats just go “we don’t have the votes, don’t put it on the floor”, when things do make the floor, we allow riders and compromises to make it so that both sides are attackable.
In short, they’ve allowed the voting record to become nearly useless to look at, practically never use it in their advertising on either front, and then allow a good chunk of bills that happen to basically be the “Save orphanages, and kick puppies” bill, so that no matter which way someone votes on it, an attack add can just cover the bad half of the bill and attack people for supporting it, or cover the good half and attack people for opposing it.
The various Right-wing talking heads will just continue to blame them for being petty and point to it as a proof of government inefficiency. These people can’t be bothered to verify anything beyond the first opinion screamed at them through a screen.
Yeah, their whole strategy depends on high information voters knowing exactly what their representative voted for, it’s ridiculous because:
So the Democrats’ strategy is to get Republicans to vote for unpopular stuff that Republican voters will never hear about. Republicans have been passing super unpopular stuff for half a century now, their voters don’t care.
Perfectly succinct.
house democrats can’t do shit without at least some help from republicans… and that help does not exist, those maga fucks want to see the nation burn.
AOC is finding ways to help. She’s using her platform to inform people of their rights, and she’s meeting fascists bluffs rather than capitulating* early. This is ultimately just rhetoric, but if one migrant family knew their rights when it mattered because of her, she’s helping more than the Democratic leadership is. Sitting on the sidelines complaining about the rules that no longer exist is the liberal strategy, and respectfully, they need to reassess and recommit to antifascism.
They can’t bear to admit their anger has made them lemmings. Even as they see the cliff clear as day. They will lose everything before they admit they were played by a blatant con man.
If they don’t think voting is going to do anything, go get arrested. Lead a protest. Go to an agency and don’t take no for an answer. Disrupt proceedings, even if it’s against decorum. Make a headline and then talk to anyone who will platform you.
These are supposed to be leaders, not functionaries.