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   Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 07:12:52 JST Shiitake Toast

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   There is NOTHING that Dems should be voting for right now. Not the CR, not approving appointees, not naming a post office after a war hero dog. Nothing should be bipartisan at this point, because everything that passes will be used against us.
   Even being present for investigations and debates isn't going to be helpful. Nobody is going to see Senator Gillibrand pwn some chud in a hearing. It's not 1994, nobody is watching CNN to see a ten second clip of a committee hearing.
   If you're a Dem senator, you should be using your federal salary to wander around the reddest parts of your state educating your constituents on how our government works and what it's there for.
   If you're a red-state rep, you should be using that salary to wander your neighboring districts actually talking to people.
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     Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 07:12:53 JST Shiitake Toast

     I've been thinking about what the Democrats can do going forward, because we are, for the moment, still a 2-party system, and one thing I thought of is that there is little reason for most of our senators or representatives to be in Washington DC right now.
     Now clearly, this is a fantasy, because despite most of the work being done by the grassroots, the dems seem averse to recognizing how much things have changed.
     I acknowledge, too that for some of them, this is on purpose, for others, it's just an ability to understand, and others are just sidelined.
     But anyway, about not going to DC...
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