Time for Dems to shut down the government and call a general strike. Unify the people. Kind of like what Biden did with the railway strike in 2022, but the opposite.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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The Democrats are in the same pockets as the Republicans are. That's the reason the last shutdown got shit canned. Don't expect anything extraordinary from the Democrats that are in our house and Senate right now they haven't got any backbone whatsoever.
You want to change? Get out to the polls during the primaries and use your middle finger to punch their ticket out of office.
Democrats should block any bill that provides funding ICE. ICE and DHS should be disbanded. It was created post 9/11 and people saying creating them was a bad idea we're 100% right.
The INS existed before ICE.
Project wetback, as one heinous example of INS...
I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and even my stupid ass knew that, along with all the patriot act shit, was going to be a problem.
Alex Jones said that when they were created. You won't believe it, but he fully supports what they're doing now. Such a surprise!!
You can literally see the mental illness on his face in every photo or video.
I don't trust Trump not to pull funds from elsewhere. Shut it off and leave it off until he's out of power.
That's not how it would work. If you shut it down.... He's still going to run the military.
I suspect that's what tariffs and Venezuelan oil are for. Skipping the Congress.
The sooner we shot it down, the more apparent this will be and higher chance it won't work for him.
Yeah, the money from that is literally being put into foreign bank accounts instead of being held by the US government. Supposedly it'll be give back when they're ready, or whatever bullshit they say. If this is true, why those bank accounts? Shouldn't it be the US government that holds onto it?
Only very gullible would fall for argument that you need to keep money in a foreign account that is unreachable by Congress or Judiciary until things "are ready", but then here we are.
Yeah, it is so the US government can't seize it. I'm worried that they are there to keep gestapo running when Congress finally wakes up.
Normal people when they realize leftists were right:
But fr, they were right and we need to start listening to them. First thing to do is unite!
Yea but they should vote the other 5 agencies through then just never pass the DHS budget.
The 'greatest country on Earth' and they routinely fail to keep their government running. I have a question: if your government fails to govern, why does it exist? The whole point of these people is to manage things. They are failing to do the only thing they exist to do. There is obviously a fundamental flaw in this system.
I seriously think nobody should have to pay taxes while the government is shut down. People shouldn't pay for services they aren't getting
How many other countries have their government "shut down" instead of being dissolved? Genuinely wondering
Effectively zero.
The republican party exists only to extract money and influence. Actually doing their job is of no interest to any of them, unless that "job" is to tear down or punish their competition in any way possible.
The whole point of these people is to manage things.
Let me fix that for you: In a democracy, the whole point of these people ~~is~~ would be to manage things.
There is obviously a fundamental flaw in this system.
Ya think?
Ok, thanks Mike, hell, keep it shut down for the rest of the year
Leave the machine off, it's broken currently
That's exactly why the planned opposition party will continue to keep the machine running. At this point, I think anyone that has faith in the Democratic party is literally more delusional than the people that voted for Trump three times.
We are literally watching the equivalent of the liberal parties in Germany voting for the Enabling Act. And, honestly, they already did that when they funded ICE like they did.
Thank you. This is exactly how I feel about the democratic party. I can't believe people don't see the parallels between the opposition parties in the 1930's to 1940's to our modern day DNC.
It's certainly made me realize how many people fail at basic pattern recognition.
A lot of people don't read Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds. Sounds like something you'd enjoy. Though, given your comment you might have already.
I haven't, thank you for the recommendation. Looked it up and looks like a good read.
"Search "yellow Parenti" on YouTube if you want a taste of the author in lecture form
@MicroWave@lemmy.world I just want to say thanks for posting quality links so frequently. You're one of the few who isn't posting click bait junk like Raw Story and Daily Beast.
Thanks! Appreciate the recognition.
Leave it fucking shut. Nothing good will come out of this government.
"I don't want to have to hurt you, but THEY'RE making me! THEY could stop me anytime they wanted to if they'd just agree to let me hurt you whenever I want."
🔥🧊
I hate this dweeby little troll so much.
He needs to be slapped. Like bright red cheek slapped. Make it sting for days.
blames Democrats for their ICE demands
Ya don't say
I DEMAND ICE BE MELTED!
Dems need to shut it down and keep this government down. Any dem who aligns themselves with the republicans over this needs to be kicked the fuck out. I know that is a tall order especially for Chuck the cuck. But fucking hell do something for once.
It's funny, every time I see him now, it's him trying to walk away from reporters while saying something about this all being the democrats fault.
“The president is leading this,” Johnson, R-La., told “Fox News Sunday.”
“It’s his play call to do it this way,” the speaker said, adding that the Republican president has “already conceded that he wants to turn down the volume” on federal immigration operations.
Republican Congress leaders Johnson and Thune look like what'd you get if you impressioned a face-shaped boot tread onto a faceless head. And Johnson's comments here really shows that boot-licking is all he's got left.
"Der Führer is leading this," Göring told Das Reich.
"It's his play call to do it this way," the Reichstag president said, adding that the NSDAP chancellor has "already conceded that he wants to turn down the volume" on anti-Jewish operations.
Does any reporter ever ask him if he knows he's running a separate branch of government?
I remember the last time the dems shut down the government…
And then surrendered to the fascists just as we all knew they would.
So did the Dems just cave so the government shuts down EXCEPT for ICE?
Fucking wankers.
No, the Senate Dems funded everything except ICE until like October but only 2 weeks for ICE (should be none, but oh well)
House has to approve the same bill but Republicans are stalling now, because they want ICE to be fully funded.
Thanks, I misunderstood the article.
It definitely sounds like that.