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• @faithisleaping@anarres.family 2026-11-04 14:54

  @toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se Yes and no. He'll veto everything so I doubt they'll be able to pass a lot of new laws. What they can do is potentially rein him in. Congress does have oversight powers and they can start invoking those and investigating everything. There's a LOT of illegal shit the Trump administration has been doing and the Republican congress has been just sort of standing off to the side and letting him do whatever. In particular, this provides real opportunity to rein in ICE and get people into the detention centers and make all that public and start prosecuting people and tearing that system down. Congress can do that without Trump. They can also put Trump on trial and impeach him. That wouldn't lead to a new presidential election, though. It would just put JD Vance in office and he's also crazy evil. But he doesn't have the charismatic pull that Trump does. I think what's more important is the number of states which have flipped and message that was sent: We don't like this shit. Trump and his cronies think they're speaking for the silent majority. The actual majority spoke yesterday and that's going to make a lot of people reconsider some of their choices, especially their loyalty to Trump. But as with any of these things, only time will tell how it actually plays out.

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