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xqcgrek2 13 minutes ago [-]
Long overdue.
georgemcbay 5 minutes ago [-]
Good.
Congress has to start working for the people it represents again, so I really hope the Democrats start pushing lots of legislation that addresses the real needs of the people. Even if every bill gets vetoed, make sure Trump and the Republicans around him own the lack of progress in a very visible way to ensure 2028 is an easy-mode Democratic win.
But... they also have to undo the damage to the rule of law that has been supercharged by the Trump administration.
Letting bygones be bygones and trying to move back to the old status quo without addressing actual wrongdoing is how you end up with Trump getting reelected even after January 6th.
If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.
herodoturtle 41 minutes ago [-]
Paywall for me. Link anyone? Curious to read this. Thanks.
happymellon 36 minutes ago [-]
Not sure about the others but here is information on the SpaceX investigation.
Good. Either the state controls the oligarchs or oligarchs control the state.
Avicebron 11 minutes ago [-]
So what's the plan for affordability, healthcare, etc? Retaliatory investigations isn't going to solve problems for the average person who voted for them
api 4 minutes ago [-]
That would require allowing real estate prices to fall, which neither party can ever do. Real estate price appreciation is now a sacred entitlement alongside social security and medicaid and anyone threatening that loses the next election.
Unfortunately that also means housing can't become affordable because housing can't simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.
I'm not just being cynical. It's genuinely a hard problem, since crashing real estate would open the door to the next generation while bankrupting all previous generations and causing a banking crisis.
We are very much painted into a corner here, and the US doesn't even have it the worst compared to other developed nations.
trollbridge 2 minutes ago [-]
And making sure real estate prices don't fall = making sure housing doesn't get built anywhere near jobs or other places people want to live.
lukas099 3 minutes ago [-]
Trump has the veto power until 2029. Until then, not many laws are going to be passed.
JumpCrisscross 5 seconds ago [-]
Let Trump veto a minimum-wage increase, the ACA premium, a war-powers resolution and an Epstein bill. Then let Republicans defend not overriding it. That will deliver a Democrat trifecta in 2028.
JumpCrisscross 2 minutes ago [-]
If Democrats only investigate, they’ll fail. But if they ignore corruption, they will also fail.
We can raise the minimum wage ($12.50 in 2027, $15 in 2028, $17.50 in 2029, $20 in 2030 then indexed to CPI); expand Medicare (I’d add neonatal and pediatric care); restore the ACA subsidies; call a War Powers Resolution (to end Trump’s war in Iran and ban the on-and-off trick); and cut the deficit by slashing DoD and DHS funding while also impeaching and removing Hegseth, Blanche and RFK; while also pursuing the Epstein cover-up; while also investigating everyone who made donations and received a pardon; while also investigating Musk’s treason and the Cabinet’s self dealing and the crypto corruption by David Sacks et al.
Hell, if I were Speaker I’d announce a special schedule for Year One that has Congress running over time every week until these priorities are passed.
torlok 8 minutes ago [-]
You can do both. This election was just as much about affordability as it was about blatant corruption in the Trump administration.
duplessitous 5 minutes ago [-]
"Retaliatory investigations"
hide your power levels if you are going to play the village idiot, it is more convincing. just extremely bad faith commenting
smallmancontrov 6 minutes ago [-]
The plan for affordability starts with getting Trump out of Iran, because the bar is on the floor.
ajuc 6 minutes ago [-]
The whole problem with US is that average people pay taxes and oligarchs rule the country and extract public resources.
politician 7 minutes ago [-]
The plan was "lie to the public about the election" then retaliate against our enemies after the election. There is no plan to improve your life.
freeone3000 12 minutes ago [-]
Prosecute the one accepting the bribes, not the one giving it. Working with law enforcement is... uh, not a crime, definitionally. So you've got to make it so that law enforcement cannot be criminal. Own goals all over.
piva00 5 minutes ago [-]
Both are crimes, and it's made pretty clear by the compliance training I have to retake every year at my corp job. If a corporation has to train employees to not give bribes because we can go to jail, and the corp will be on the hook as well, then they will likely also be prosecuted.
Both sides are wrong on this, giving or accepting.
smallmancontrov 4 minutes ago [-]
No, giving a bribe is not "working with law enforcement." These are two different things.
ajuc 2 minutes ago [-]
[delayed]
samrus 7 minutes ago [-]
Obviously you have to prosecute the ones giving bribes as well. What a ludicrously entitled position
youtmommy666 2 minutes ago [-]
...already drunk with power?
gamblor956 13 minutes ago [-]
"If Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) becomes the House minority leader, he may bring his reputation for partisan oversight to proceedings to counter Democratic machinations."
Good luck with that Mr. Jordan. The House minority leader doesn't have the power to issue congressional summons, and there is a 0% chance that the Democrats will allow him to take any committee assignment that would put him in such a position (and even his own party didn't trust him enough to put him in charge of anything important after it was revealed that as a coach at OSU he knew about the sexual abuse of minors and student athletes for decades and did nothing about it).
exabrial 18 minutes ago [-]
All I want is a federal government with like a $10 budget. None of our tax dollars are used for anything useful.
LeafItAlone 14 minutes ago [-]
I don’t think you’re in the right country for that to ever happen.
For one, what you consider “wasteful”, others might not.
Maybe consider being an entrepreneur and go start your own country?
bryanlarsen 17 minutes ago [-]
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
gamblor956 10 minutes ago [-]
You'll love Ethiopia. They have no meaningful federal government to speak of right now.
Of course, you'll end up paying most of your income as tribute to the various warlords, but they won't be taxes! They'll be "payments in lieu of death."
Or, you could live in the real world and pay taxes because they enable things like...preventing warlords. Also unimportant things like roads and police and clean running water.
trollbridge 21 seconds ago [-]
... Ethiopia? Huh?
There's a civil war going on right now with various rebel groups, but overall they certainly do have a federal government. They have an income tax rate around 30% plus a VAT of 15%.
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howunfortunate 17 minutes ago [-]
The pivot from "we just want single payer healthcare" sure happened a lot quicker than I expected.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do you make these links?
Congress has to start working for the people it represents again, so I really hope the Democrats start pushing lots of legislation that addresses the real needs of the people. Even if every bill gets vetoed, make sure Trump and the Republicans around him own the lack of progress in a very visible way to ensure 2028 is an easy-mode Democratic win.
But... they also have to undo the damage to the rule of law that has been supercharged by the Trump administration.
Letting bygones be bygones and trying to move back to the old status quo without addressing actual wrongdoing is how you end up with Trump getting reelected even after January 6th.
If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/11/05/what-de...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...
Unfortunately that also means housing can't become affordable because housing can't simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.
I'm not just being cynical. It's genuinely a hard problem, since crashing real estate would open the door to the next generation while bankrupting all previous generations and causing a banking crisis.
We are very much painted into a corner here, and the US doesn't even have it the worst compared to other developed nations.
We can raise the minimum wage ($12.50 in 2027, $15 in 2028, $17.50 in 2029, $20 in 2030 then indexed to CPI); expand Medicare (I’d add neonatal and pediatric care); restore the ACA subsidies; call a War Powers Resolution (to end Trump’s war in Iran and ban the on-and-off trick); and cut the deficit by slashing DoD and DHS funding while also impeaching and removing Hegseth, Blanche and RFK; while also pursuing the Epstein cover-up; while also investigating everyone who made donations and received a pardon; while also investigating Musk’s treason and the Cabinet’s self dealing and the crypto corruption by David Sacks et al.
Hell, if I were Speaker I’d announce a special schedule for Year One that has Congress running over time every week until these priorities are passed.
hide your power levels if you are going to play the village idiot, it is more convincing. just extremely bad faith commenting
Both sides are wrong on this, giving or accepting.
Good luck with that Mr. Jordan. The House minority leader doesn't have the power to issue congressional summons, and there is a 0% chance that the Democrats will allow him to take any committee assignment that would put him in such a position (and even his own party didn't trust him enough to put him in charge of anything important after it was revealed that as a coach at OSU he knew about the sexual abuse of minors and student athletes for decades and did nothing about it).
For one, what you consider “wasteful”, others might not.
Maybe consider being an entrepreneur and go start your own country?
Of course, you'll end up paying most of your income as tribute to the various warlords, but they won't be taxes! They'll be "payments in lieu of death."
Or, you could live in the real world and pay taxes because they enable things like...preventing warlords. Also unimportant things like roads and police and clean running water.
There's a civil war going on right now with various rebel groups, but overall they certainly do have a federal government. They have an income tax rate around 30% plus a VAT of 15%.
https://x.com/search?q=Subpeonas&src=typed_query