Yes, I'm angry and frustrated at Democrats who keep voting to advance Trump's agenda.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/democrats-who-keep-voting-to-advance.html

For those who are the politics police, no, this doesn't do anything except call attention to a problem that is supported by facts. I'm just pointing out mistakes made by Democratic party leadership when they have had a chance to response in a better way.

United States foreign policy hit an all time low point in the screaming, blame-filled rant of Trump and Vance, a verbal attack on a man who is doing his dead level best to preserve the freedoms his people have earned through hundreds of years of suffering under the domination of a more powerful neighbor. There has never been a more embarrassing moment in the foreign relations of this country than that meeting and press conference with Ukrainian President Vlodomir Zelenskyy. It was a display of some of the most anti-American, inhumane and unjust action that our country has ever embarrassed itself by allowing both of those men to speak.

Marco Rubio, who is Secretary of State, has proven himself to be either the single most inept and foolish person in the Trump cabinet, or the worst of the worst when it comes to sycophants who suck up to the demented, incompetent Trump. He's the Secretary of State, and we know that since the GOP has a congressional majority, the votes will go their way. But this snivelling, duplicitous liar is just feathering his own nest with Trump favors while lying through his teeth when answering questions.

He was confirmed with a vote of 99-0, which means that no Democrat voted against him. And that is absolutely, positively, totally infuriating. There are those of us out here, in the real world, who contributed to Democratic candidates in hopes they would win the elections and with that contribution, expressed trust and belief in the cause that they were advancing. Or, that we thought they were advancing.

I did not vote for Democrats to have them rubber stamp Trump's agenda. I voted for Democrats because I think Trump's agenda is wrong, bad for America, anti-American, in fact, and represents nothing but corruption and incompetence. He's aligned himself with a satanically inspired religious cult and if this doesn't get stopped, America as we know it will cease to exist.

And that's the word that came from Democratic party messaging. Hakeem Jeffries told us that the Democratic party was united, and ready to do anything necessary to stop Trump. That is apparently and obviously not the case.

So I'm going to follow the people I see who are really doing something about it.

[lees1975]

1. K

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Rubio has been a U.S. Senator since 2011.

Of course the Senate was going to confirm him.

Of course he was destined to disappoint.

But not confirming a fellow Senator (and among the least outrageously horrible of Trump's nominees) would have looked like bad faith and a rejection of the confirmation process.

Democrats have held together pretty well as to the other nominees, I think.

And are speaking out strongly against Musk who has more power than anyone else even though never subjected to a confirmation hearing or vote.

[lees1975]

3. Huh.

Yeah, I know senate traditions and all that. Character doesn't matter. Rubio is a "stick your finger into the wind" kind of guy. No integrity. And the tradition that says we support one of our own is exactly why the country is falling apart now.

Talk and holding together pretty well, really? Look who voted to move the labor secretary nominee out of committee.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Teamsters said she'll do.

And Tim Kaine said (paraphrasing) if she doesn't advance, who knows what sort of menace Trump will send us instead.

So I do see that pros and cons about the nominee were at least weighed within the context of avoiding future regret.