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The 15 Democrats Who Voted to Give Trump Insane New Powers (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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On Thursday, the House passed a bill that would allow the president to wipe out any nonprofit organizations he opposes with the flick of a pen. He had bipartisan support.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So republicans running as democrats to snag people who toe the party line. Damn, wish we could get some people to pretend to be fucking insane and then flip left

[–] spankmonkey 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, Dems just love to play the center and vote for this kind of bullshit all the fucking time.

As a group they are not as terrible as Republicans, but they voted overwhelmingly for the Patriot Act and mot other shitty legislation too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Well, everyone wants control. The patriot act was a wet dream for all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

How are these people Republicans running as Democrats? All of those districts that I know have had Republican challengers fielded.

[–] timewarp 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well we do have quite a few Democrats now claiming the 2024 election was hacked. Give it 8 years and the crazy Republicans today might look pretty tame after Democrats continue moving to the right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which democrats are claiming it was hacked? Just random people? I haven’t heard anything.

[–] Serinus 2 points 2 months ago

There was one who told a plausible story. Spoonamore? But as soon as you try to verify the number claim, it turns out to be bogus.

[–] timewarp 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here is the latest post saying the same thing:

https://lemmy.world/post/22304014

I gotta give c/politics that they removed the previous post, but before they did it had approx. 200 upvotes or more and what appeared to be a majority of users claiming Trump won cause he hacked the elections.

Here is a link to the post that got removed:

https://lemmy.world/post/22287918

Not sure if there is someway to still view all the comments, but you're in for a wild ride if you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So just random people? There’s not much point thinking about it. Nothing will happen. And, that energy is better spent thinking about your exit strategy.