Summary
Progressive Democrats accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk of orchestrating a āconstitutional crisisā after Musk moved to shut down USAID and gained access to a federal payment system.
Lawmakers, blocked from entering USAIDās headquarters, condemned Trump for granting Musk unchecked power over government functions.
Senator Elizabeth Warren warned that Muskās involvement could trigger financial instability, while Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it a āplutocratic coup.ā
I watch an ungodly amount of porn and still manage to do some basic keeping up on politics. The problem isnāt the other things people want to do, itās that being up-to-date on politics is straight up a faux pas. Everyone can agree that our current government sucks, but start trying to tell the vast majority of people about anything specific, such as, I dunno, how Mitch McConnell stole Supreme Court appointments from Obama, their eyes glaze over. People think itās cool to bitch about your own problems, but if you learn enough to do anything about it and advocate for political action, you become a tryhard.
but do you get your news from porn or from social media? because a disturbingly high proportion of the population gets their news almost exclusively through facebook, instagram, twitter, and reddit
As someone whoās eyes glaze over, what should I be doing? I canāt vote McConnell out. I have a job and responsibilities to deal with just keeping myself alive so I canāt travel around protesting. I vote but my vote gets drowned out by the overwhelming majority of Republicans surrounding me. Itās overwhelming to think about.
The problem, IMHO, is Democrats are fractured. You think all Trump supporters like his policies on LGBTQ individuals? They still vote for him because Ā®. We need that level of votes, instead of staying home because they didnāt like Bidenās policy on Gaza. We need an anti-maga, something we can rally around. Iām partial to Antifa personally, we just need to make it an actual group. Iām sure the media will vilify it like they always do
I was thinking more along the lines of Biden pulling out all the stops with executive actions and eliminating the problem for good. Then bullying Congress into fixing the loopholes that allowed him to do that in the first place so it canāt happen again. But of course heās a gutless coward who only took care of his own before he bounced.
Then tbh youāre not one of the people I was talking about. I hope youāll put in the extra credit and join a local movement if one gets started, but if you put in the effort on that one day every two years, youāre way ahead of about a third of the country