Ranking Member Huffman Releases Report on How Trump Hijacked America's 250th Birthday to Enrich Himself, Sell Access, and Harvest Americans' Data | The House Committee on Natural Resources
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Full Report: From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday.

Today, House Natural Resources Committee released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.

  • ChonkyOwlbear
    22·
    14 hours ago

    There is literally one thing that can legally be done to stop Trump - impeachment. It wouldn’t matter a bit if every Democratic rep was magically changed into a DSA member tomorrow. Like you said, they don’t have the votes.

    I’m well past the point where I will cheer on any non-legal solutions, but I don’t expect that to come from elected representatives. Their job is to do what the Republicans did when Obama was in office - obstruction. That is what they are doing.

    • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Well we definitely disagree on what obstruction means. I could list countless successful obstructions the Republicans did to Obama. The supreme court pick being the massive one.

      What successful obstruction have the Democrats been able to pull off? Because all I’ve seen have been a couple government shutdowns that they eventually gave up on. Some unsuccessful (and questionably successful) redistricting measures at the state level? What have the federal government representatives in the Democratic party actually been successful in obstructing?

      Because, so far, it’s been judges and states doing their best to delay while DC seems to be happy with “setting records for longest filibuster” or writing letters that do nothing.

      I could count on my fingers the number of Democrats in DC actually making any effort. And they’re all the ones connected to DSA and it’s momentum.

      Don’t defend the entire party because AoC and company are in it. Criticize them for sitting on their asses while taking AIPAC donations.