02-14-2025, 05:16 AM
https://www.splinter.com/democrats-are-lying-to-you
Senator Chis Van Hollen said to MSNBC today that “we are using all of our powers in the Senate to slow down this trainwreck, to work to stop this trainwreck, and we will continue to do that.” It’s worth watching the video because hearing it doesn’t make this sound any more convincing...
This is a lie. Lie lie lie lie lie. As big of a bald-faced lie as any that Donald Trump has told, and you can see his soul rattling out of his body as he tries to tell it. The Democrats are lying to you. They are not doing everything they can to slow things down in the Senate. They are going home at the end of the week like they always do, granting unanimous consent for their hard-earned three-day weekend last week while Elon Musk rummaged around inside the government.
The reason we can call this an objective lie is thanks to this rule they used to help give themselves a long weekend. The Senate’s entire essence is an entity designed to halt any kind of progress and slow everything down to near-unworkability, and this translates to a set of arcane rules to govern it that like, three people in American history have truly understood. One way to avoid these arcane rules is for everyone to unanimously consent to agreeing that they are dumb and stupid, and no one needs to follow them. It’s how the Senate keeps things moving and gets everyone home for the weekend, which is the primary goal of every lawmaker in each party.
But sometimes, people come along and say that they actually like these dumb and stupid rules, and they object to the unanimous consent of the other Senators and stop everything from moving forward. This is one of the key powers that Senators can use to slow down something they believe to be a trainwreck, and it only takes one person in a seat of power like Chis Van Hollen’s! It’s been done by many Republicans before...
We know the Democrats are lying to us because they are not employing a minority tactic that they soiled their senior diapers over throughout the last two years, proving they are not “using all of our powers in the Senate to slow down this trainwreck.”...
No one in their right mind would think that Democrats are doing everything within their limited scope of powers to slow this trainwreck down, and Jeffries whining about it this early before really using any of the levers he and Schumer have at their disposal is a signal of the true intent of leadership here: to do what they always do and pass the buck and then fundraise off of it...
Another way you know the Democrats are lying to your face about doing everything they can to stop Trump is that every single one of them has voted for at least one of Trump’s cabinet appointments (Marco Rubio), while just ten out of the forty-seven members of the Democratic Senate bloc voted against every other Trump nominee: Tammy Duckworth, Mazie Hirono, Ed Markey, Chris Murphy, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden.
If you did not see your Senators’ name there, call them. That means they voted for someone like climate denier Doug Collins for VA Secretary, or puppy murderer Kristi Noem for the Department of Homeland Security, or oil executive Chris Wright to head the EPA, or even Trump’s own personal fucking lawyer for Attorney General (to be fair, only one Democrat voted for Pam Bondi, and it’s exactly the weasel you think it is–future Fox News host John Fetterman has seeded one of the most inevitable well-funded primary challenges I’ve ever seen)...
Primary these liars out of politics forever.
Senator Chis Van Hollen said to MSNBC today that “we are using all of our powers in the Senate to slow down this trainwreck, to work to stop this trainwreck, and we will continue to do that.” It’s worth watching the video because hearing it doesn’t make this sound any more convincing...
This is a lie. Lie lie lie lie lie. As big of a bald-faced lie as any that Donald Trump has told, and you can see his soul rattling out of his body as he tries to tell it. The Democrats are lying to you. They are not doing everything they can to slow things down in the Senate. They are going home at the end of the week like they always do, granting unanimous consent for their hard-earned three-day weekend last week while Elon Musk rummaged around inside the government.
The reason we can call this an objective lie is thanks to this rule they used to help give themselves a long weekend. The Senate’s entire essence is an entity designed to halt any kind of progress and slow everything down to near-unworkability, and this translates to a set of arcane rules to govern it that like, three people in American history have truly understood. One way to avoid these arcane rules is for everyone to unanimously consent to agreeing that they are dumb and stupid, and no one needs to follow them. It’s how the Senate keeps things moving and gets everyone home for the weekend, which is the primary goal of every lawmaker in each party.
But sometimes, people come along and say that they actually like these dumb and stupid rules, and they object to the unanimous consent of the other Senators and stop everything from moving forward. This is one of the key powers that Senators can use to slow down something they believe to be a trainwreck, and it only takes one person in a seat of power like Chis Van Hollen’s! It’s been done by many Republicans before...
We know the Democrats are lying to us because they are not employing a minority tactic that they soiled their senior diapers over throughout the last two years, proving they are not “using all of our powers in the Senate to slow down this trainwreck.”...
No one in their right mind would think that Democrats are doing everything within their limited scope of powers to slow this trainwreck down, and Jeffries whining about it this early before really using any of the levers he and Schumer have at their disposal is a signal of the true intent of leadership here: to do what they always do and pass the buck and then fundraise off of it...
Another way you know the Democrats are lying to your face about doing everything they can to stop Trump is that every single one of them has voted for at least one of Trump’s cabinet appointments (Marco Rubio), while just ten out of the forty-seven members of the Democratic Senate bloc voted against every other Trump nominee: Tammy Duckworth, Mazie Hirono, Ed Markey, Chris Murphy, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden.
If you did not see your Senators’ name there, call them. That means they voted for someone like climate denier Doug Collins for VA Secretary, or puppy murderer Kristi Noem for the Department of Homeland Security, or oil executive Chris Wright to head the EPA, or even Trump’s own personal fucking lawyer for Attorney General (to be fair, only one Democrat voted for Pam Bondi, and it’s exactly the weasel you think it is–future Fox News host John Fetterman has seeded one of the most inevitable well-funded primary challenges I’ve ever seen)...
Primary these liars out of politics forever.