i’m just so fucking tired of living through crisis after crisis and feeling like we have to beg for and negotiate with our own representatives to address the crises seriously. they shouldn’t have to be disciplined by the base into mustering an appropriate response to a fucking coup!

Unfortunately what I'm hearing is a Dem surrender may be imminent. We've been driving calls, not to mention organizing the largest protest in history followed by the biggest election night in years, along with polling saying we're winning the fight. But they're not listening to that. It's bad.

They can authorize the Trump administration illegally stopping payments though

Congress gets paid the same salary of $174k they've had since 2009, and with that you need to pay for (at least) two residences, one of which is in an insane rental market, as well as often covering their and their staff's flights, lodging, and expenses. It makes bribery/insider trading inevitable.

This story was published the same day Elon Musk got his board to approve an $800,000,000,000 pay package