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I dare him to name 3 Jews involved (in any way) in the founding of the current country.
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Anyone still on Twitter needs to tell him to read the Treaty of Tripoli.
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“Every member of Congress should go visit within the next ten days a private detention center,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Illinois) told me, emphasizing the fact that lawmakers have the legal right to conduct oversight of detention centers. “We are not going to stand for this intimidation of members of Congress, and coming after members of Congress to intimidate them so they don’t do oversight.”
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Yes, but will they use it?
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Narrator: No they will not, as once again, and with the exception of one or two of them, they will somehow find themselves unable to extricate their tails from between their legs.
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Republicans will, though, if Democrats regain control of the Senate.
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For this reason, Democrats could subject the Senate to time-consuming resolution votes repeatedly, to such a degree that the Senate would not have time to do anything else for the rest of this session of Congress. In other words, Democrats could respond to the waiver vote by paralyzing the Senate, and stopping the giant Trump tax bill from ever reaching the floor.
HERE IS THE LEVERAGE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
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I mean, the GOP did this constantly in the past and it was phenomenally effective. It’s the reason the ACA is what it is - although it’s still unbelievably better than what we had before.
Side note: the ACA has been around so long now that people are forgetting how it was before. I saw a heated arguement on Reddit yesterday where someone was insisting the reason that annual checkups are free are because insurance companies would rather pay for that than the fix…forgetting that this was one of the key points of the ACA.
During Trump’s last term, the Dem controlled House prevented tons of his activites, along with him still at least somewhat pretending to operating within the rules. With him doing whatever the heck he wants, the Dems need to unite and just oppose, block, and prevent always. I would be completely happy if Donald and Congress were both unable to do one more thing for the next 4 years. There’s already decades worth of fixing to do.
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Democrats should definitely try that, but I have zero confidence that Republicans won’t find some reason why that can’t be used in this situation. They should still try, in order to further expose the GOP’s hypocrisy and nonsense, but I really don’t think it will work.
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I’m making a Trump Train right now!
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“ Early March: Pro-Israel activists reportedly meet with members of Congress seeking Khalil’s deportation; Ross Glick, then-head of Betar USA, says he discussed his deportation efforts with Sen. John Fetterman and the office of Sens. Ted Cruz – all of whom, Glick claimed, expressed support for his efforts. Glick also claims that members of Columbia’s board of trustees reported Khalil.”
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Some good news: For this bill to pass the Senate with a simple majority under budget reconciliation, many sections will have to be cut. Take Section 70302, for example, Republicans’ attempt to weaken the judiciary and undermine the separation of powers. It states: “No court of the United States may enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.”
But under reconciliation rules, every provision must have a significant budgetary impact. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this section has none, meaning it, and others like it, will be stripped. So as long as Senate Democrats hold the line, large chunks of this bill that have nothing to do with the budget will be eliminated.
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So the bill is going to pass as is?
ETA: Especially since it’s due a holiday weekend.
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https://transcripts.cnn.com/date/2025-06-01
“ [Dana Bash]: Now, I know you previously warned that the administration charging members of Congress was a – quote – “red line.” What are you doing now that the red line you talked about has apparently been crossed?
JEFFRIES: Well, let me make clear that the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government, the Congress. We don’t work for Donald Trump. We don’t work for the administration. We don’t work for Elon Musk. We work for the American people.
And we have a responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. That’s the constitutional blueprint that was given to us by the framers of the United States democracy that we have inherited over the last few centuries. And so we’re going to continue to undertake our congressional responsibility, notwithstanding efforts by the Trump administration to try to intimidate Democrats.
It’s unfortunate that our Republican colleagues continue to be nothing more than rubber stamps for Trump’s reckless and extreme agenda. And the American people, I think, will ultimately reject that next year, when we will take back control of the House of Representatives.
In the meantime, in terms of how we will respond to what Trump and the administration has endeavored to do, we will make that decision in a time, place, and manner of our choosing. But the response will be continuous and it will meet the moment that is required.”
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