SPECIAL BULLETIN - MARCH 14, 2025

 

Americans can no longer rely on the Democratic Party
to help fight against the POT, Felondent Donald Trump,
and Elon Musk's coup d'état

Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats have voted in favor of giving over more absolute power to the POT with a cloture vote on H.R. 1968.  The final vote was 62-38.  (Oh yeah... and they also voted to avoid a shutdown of Congress.)

With today's vote of cloture (end debate and move on to the vote} on the Continuing Appropriations Act passed in the House of Representatives earlier this week, the Senate has helped to do the following:

empower the POT for whatever it wants to do

empower DOGE (Elon Musk's "cutting waste" grift)

keep information on the POT's and DOGE's actions from the public

protect Felondent Trump from any consequences

take away any possibility of stopping trade wars from Congress  

Yes, all of that is in this Continuing Resolution! 

Schumer was quoted as saying, "I believe it is the best way to minimize the harm that the Trump administration will do to the American people.”  Really?  The best way?  He continued, "The CR is a bad bill, but as bad as the CR is, I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."  That's an odd comparison.

Trump could make recess appointments, among other things, during a shutdown, and that can certainly cause problems, but the POT-controlled Congress is unwilling to reign him in, anyway.  Trump's been getting away with a lot that he shouldn't while this Congress has been in session. 

A shutdown affects government employees immediately; it will affect citizens, if a shutdown goes on long enough.  However, slashing the workforces of several government agencies already has negatively affected the employees, and will eventually negatively affect the rest of us here and around the world.  All this has been happening while this Congress has been in session.  

Like millions upon millions of my fellow citizens, my tightrope to walk in all of this is how what has been happening can affect me.  The weapon of fear-mongering is one the POT swings at us with the greatest of ease.  Clearly, like anyone else, I don't want any harm to come to me, but Trump, Musk, DOGE, the POT have all been wielding that weapon while this Congress has been in session. 

Schumer's concerns ended up being a pass for all of the POT.  His claiming the Felondent would cause more harm during a shutdown seems somewhat misguided.  Has Trump and his cultists caused lots of harm already?  Yes.  Can he do more harm with a shutdown?  Yes.  BUT...can he cause more harm without a shutdown?  That, too, is a yes.  Chuck Schumer lead chants of We will win! and We won't rest! a month-and-a-half ago.

Chuck Schumer and nine other Democrats voted today to rest.

Federal courts in this country seem to be the only entity standing up to the coup, and thank goodness for that.  However, Americans can no longer rely on the Democratic Party as its north star, its rod of justice, its defender.  Chuck Schumer needs to be voted out as Senate Minority Leader as soon as possible, and the Democrats, even as the minority party, need to fight at every opportunity.  (And there have been, and will be, plenty of opportunities.)  Fight, dammit, fight!

The Senate needs to vote on the bill and get it to Felondent Trump before midnight tonight. 

Here are the ten Democrats who voted in favor of the bill:
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (NY)
Sen. Dick Durbin (IL)
Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats (ME)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Sen. John Fetterman (PA) [no surprise there]
Sen. Gary Peters (MI)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Sen. Brian Schatz (HI)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (NH)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH)

Terry