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All of which brings us to, you know, one of many lists about what Democrats should be doing right now,

you know, basically grinding the Senate to a halt and, you know, not engaging in any sort of normal process while

all of this lawlessness is flagrantly going on. I mean, it should be the most obvious thing

in the world, but only like half of the senators are out protesting while the other half are taking their votes as normal, many of them

voting in favor of Trump appointees. So Democrats need to get on the same page, which again,

it's sort of like was mentioned last week, like it doesn't instill the most confidence,

if that's what we need to happen.

But action from citizens calling in record numbers into Congress really does seem to be having an

impact. Yeah. Changes have already started to happen. So keep going is the answer.

It's sad that we have to beat them into realizing how serious this is, but apparently we do.

So call, show up, keep doing all those things.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I mean, this list is what Democrats should do, you know, force votes on Trump's tariffs

to shame Republicans, file as many lawsuits as you can think of to bog things down

in the courts, you know, not just for show, but because they're valid complaints, obviously.

Trump's opponents should continue to remind voters about the promises about inflation and

the economy that he's obviously not going to be keeping.

And anyone concerned about democracy in America should also, at long last, recognize

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