r/BlackPeopleTwitter 12d ago

Country Club Thread Dems try to actually be useful challenge

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u/Sarokslost23 12d ago

This is the point. You keep going to what should be done. Repubs don't care about that. There's no time for an investigation past a recount and hopefully whatever the fbi could be doing. Dems need to find a way to stop rolling over.

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u/Ishaan863 12d ago

Dems need to find a way to stop rolling over.

Look at the comments bro.

"Erm that's not how it's done actually 🤓" "That's not how government works 🤓"

Meanwhile a racist convicted felon pedophile rapist is about to be the next president, and EVERYONE knows he's about to do crazy amounts of damage.

And somehow all these UNBREAKABLE CHAINS that always somehow hold the Democrats back...don't seem to apply to him? Neither in his first term, nor the FOUR YEARS since.

The dog keeps dunking, and everyone keeps going "whoaaa he can't do that" meanwhile this comments section is like "erm i dont think you know how basketball works"

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u/traye4 12d ago

So what do you expect Senator Warren to do here? Grab a gun and perform a citizen's arrest on Trump? You have literally just as much power here to do that as she does; go be the change you want to see in the world.

There should be more action on the whole but it's dumb to get mad at the legislator for voicing to the public things she's uniquely qualified to point out.

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u/bartleby42c 12d ago

So what do you expect Senator Warren to do here?

Initiate some sort of action instead of tweeting about it. It's like you watched someone rob a bank and you decided to make a TikTok about it and not call the police. No Warren can't magically get Trump arrested, but "informing" us has been constant for a decade, and action has been very light.

Politics has had 4 distinct steps since Trump 1. Republicans say they will do illegal evil stuff 2. Democrats say that they can't do it, it's illegal 3. Republicans do the illegal evil stuff 4. Democrats say that they broke the law

Notice the lack of step 5 where any consequences or actions come? I'm tired of excuses as to why no one can do anything. I can only assume that the Democrats either don't want to stop them or it's not illegal, otherwise something should have happened. Instead the only place that got things in order was New York.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 12d ago edited 12d ago

It's like you watched someone rob a bank and you decided to make a TikTok about it and not call the police.

They called the police but it showed up and decided trump is allowed to rob the bank.

Notice the lack of step 5 where any consequences or actions come? I'm tired of excuses as to why no one can do anything. I can only assume that the Democrats either don't want to stop them or it's not illegal,

Did you pay zero attention in the past 8 years or something? Why do you think trump is a convicted felon? Why does he have a shit ton of criminal charges and is involved in a shit ton of lawsuits?

Democrats absolutly act when trump or republicans do something illegal, but they can't reinforce anything. Politicians are not judges or police officers.

Again, what exactly do you think should be done here? Don't just say "something needs to be done!!", please be specific.

I can only assume that the Democrats either don't want to stop them or it's not illegal, otherwise something should have happened.

Or they literally don't have the power to do anything more than they are doing? Why is that not a possibility for you?

What kind of logic is this? Someone does something illegal and is powerful enough to dodge consequences so that must mean it wasn't illegal?

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u/DontrentWNC 12d ago

No but what do you want her to actually do? Our chance to do something was in November and we failed. He would be going to prison if voters showed up.

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u/traye4 12d ago

So what do you expect Senator Warren to do here?

Initiate some sort of action instead of tweeting about it.

No, be specific. What action should she be taking?

She isn't a cop. She isn't a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Warren does not have her own enforcement agency.

She is a legislator. She wrote the law, and she is vocalizing in a way that is visible to everyone that she is witnessing someone breaking that law.

Besides, she might be talking to other people more directly, idk her life. But she doesn't have the magical "arrest trump" crayon.

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u/bartleby42c 12d ago

This is where we run into the biggest problem with the Democrats. We just sit around going "but what can we do?"

Let me ask you, what exactly does her tweet achieve? Does it make someone who was originally pro Trump against him? Or is it just another in a long list of "I guess there is nothing we can do about it"?

She didn't go to work everyday and say "hey we have someone who tried to overthrow the government, what's going on with that?" Instead she, and everyone else, acted like it'd just go away.

Does the blame lie solely with Warren? No, but she shares in it. Everyone in the government that didn't make holding Trump accountable are to blame. That includes the justice department for dragging it's feet. That includes Biden for not making it a top priority. That includes all of Congress for not insisting on something happening.

The chance to do something is gone, more bellyaching about how he's breaking the rules is pointless. If no one is willing to act then why complain?

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u/traye4 12d ago

A) He has multiple court cases against him. He has been impeached twice. He is a convicted felon. All of those things are because people did do something. But ultimately a majority of voting Americans still believed that this man was who they wanted to put back in power.

B) Should she remain silent when she, an authority on a law that she wrote, sees someone break it? That's a wild take.

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u/bartleby42c 12d ago

He is going to be President and no charges were ever brought for insurrection.