Beyond infuriating. Fast tracking us to fascism by being cooperative. Rubes would have blocked every single fucken thing and whined about it loudly. Dems need to catch the fuck up. Feelings gotta get hurt, get dirty with the people spreading the dirt. None of ya'll listened to Mr Shinoda.
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Dems need to catch the fuck up.
I don't think that the minority party in the Senate can block a nomination. They can do some procedural things to slow down approval, they can ask questions of the candidate, and they can officially express concerns, but not stop it.
kagis
Yeah.
https://checkyourfact.com/2025/02/10/fact-check-democrats-slow-trump-nominations-block-them/
FACT CHECK: Democrats Can Slow Down Trump Nominations, But Not Completely Block Them
A post shared on X claims that Democrats could block all of President Donald Trump’s nominations.
Verdict: Misleading
While Democrats can slow Trump’s nominees, they cannot block them permanently without Republican support.
They'd need to convince some Republicans to cross party lines to do so. Which...might be doable, if they can find some sort of thing to concede on, but at the moment, the Republicans have a trifecta, which means that there's very little that they actually need from the Democrats. If a Republican senator were deeply-concerned enough about a nominee to cross party lines without any other reason, he could do that, but he'd potentially suffer political harm unless the voters in his state felt the same way.
EDIT: Trump nominated Matt Gaetz as Attorney General, and the Republican Senate wasn't onboard with that. So it can happen. But they've gotta be pretty unhappy with the nominee.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gaetz-withdraws-consideration-trump-attorney-general-2024-11-21/
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Hardline Republican Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general after the former lawmaker faced opposition from Senate Republicans over his past conduct.
Gaetz, who resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives last week, was the subject of an Ethics Committee probe into allegations of having sex with an underage 17-year-old girl. He has denied wrongdoing.
Unexpected LP
No more checks no more balance. Evil is in full control.
is this the dei hire they keep projecting about??
I think he's a "loyal and unquestioning asskisser to Dear Leader" hire.
Despite deep Democratic doubts
FTFY: Despite the Democrats doing absolutely fucking nothing.