Remember there names when they beg for your vote, if they are not helping to fix this problem then they need to step the fuck aside.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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The assumption then is that at least 149 democrats are in the Epstein files and they hold their allegiance to trump and maga. Occam's razor and all that.
This system needs a purge badly.
Americans need to bin anyone in the Dems who is not trying daily to grind this facist regime to a halt.
The Democrats are giving Trump and his lickspittle Hegseth the money to keeping being able to throw their military dicks around.
The so-called opposition Democrats are just handing the trumpists the means to make threats towards Greenland and Denmark, to make interventions in Latin America, to fund genocide in Palestine.
If you're a US citizen, do your fucking duty to the rest of us, call these Democrats and give them shit for arming the mad king: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202645
I'd rather not talk to them & just vote them out - they've already shown who they are, and I believe them.
most of them are likely in safe seats, or they are retiring.
They're not going to let you vote them out. That ship has already sailed.
I think it's prudent not to assume it's impossible until it is. When they leave absolutely no room for doubt that's the way it's going to be, then there will be far less hesitation when it comes to opposing them. Let them force us to unite against them. As it stands, there are still too many afraid of going outside the status quo so they need to be given little choice.
Bless your heart. You still think the US is a democracy.
Not really, no - it never was. But many "centrists" still do, and we need their support so proving the truth we see to them is necessary.
When they leave absolutely no room for doubt that's the way it's going to be, then there will be far less hesitation when it comes to opposing them.
Sure, but in return they'll be far more powerful, and the math here is overwhelmingly in their favor. Both authoritarianism and resistance require time and preparation, so there's no time to waste on electoral politics when it's already known that it won't work. Any resistance movement that tries to establish itself after the authoritarian takeover will simply be crushed; the time to stop the Nazis was before the Enabling Act, not after.
The two options are not mutually exclusive. We can prepare for battle, but wait for them to throw down the gauntlet first.
The bill is a consolidation bill which funds countless non-military agencies.
One of those "shut down the government" situations then that allow minorities to say the agenda and make the majority have to spend cycles managing the crisis. So is there any particular reason why the Democrats should not be triggering any political crisis they can trigger right now?
A government shutdown is not the same as defunding a list of specific agencies.
So is there any particular reason why the Democrats should not be triggering any political crisis they can trigger right now?
No good reason. The usual reason though. Complicity.
Remember that they REALLY are UPSET at ICE Murdering Civilians and to PLEASE Donate!
To everyone who mocked anyone for pointing out how the parties were similar: WE. TOLD. YOU. SO.
They obviously don't get it yet considering you barely have any upvotes and the top comment here is thinking we can fix the problem by calling our representatives and giving them a piece of our mind.
They obviously don’t get it yet
Oh, they get it. They love how similar the parties are.
This bill does not just fund the military, it also funds human services, transportation, education, housing and urban development, etc.
If the DNC were in charge the bills would look very different and all of this madness would not be happening.
And when trump unilaterally reallocates the funds erarmarked for human services, transportation, education, HUD, etc, you'll act surprised. But at least your republican nazi besties will have the means to murder dissidents. Stop defending shit just because you love the taste.
If Trump could take whatever he wanted wherever he wanted then we would not have any Medicaid or SNAP funding, and pretty much all forestry workers would not be getting paid either. But that's not the case.
Bills like this also wouldn't even matter, because in that hypothetical he could just raid the treasury and print money.
Can't wait for your "Wait! That's illegal!" when he does it anyway.
Followed of course by the requisite excuses for the second republican party.
First you claim it is happening then you claim it will happen when called out on the obvious flaw in your logic.
First you claim it is happening
Reread what I wrote. You're just here to defend quislings. And "here" means "on this planet." Not "in this thread."
Israel is going to get a lot of that money. I guarantee it. Are we ready to admit that the democrats are not on the side of the people yet?
Even the Dems realize America's going to need that military.
Because they're going to ~~bring freedom to the world~~ invade sovereign countries for oil and resources or what?
Anyone know an easy way to find which house members voted for this?