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Thanks, abstainers. Really showed us what a great America you lot believe in.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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Don't worry, they're just thinking long-term. They've got a plan to make everything better in 12-16 years, just you wait and see! Any day now!
I didn’t abstain, but the blame doesn’t lie entirely with them. This feels like 2016 all over again, down to blaming the voters instead of the party.
People want change and are unhappy with the state of things, so the Democratic Party runs a status quo candidate against a (psychotic liar) who is making promises about change.
At least a charismatic candidate like an Obama (who doesn’t actually rock the status quo boat too much) would have rallied voters. Why is the Democratic Party so bad at this?
None of that is even the beginning of an excuse for going out of your way to burn your own and your neighbor's house down.
"They should have been 1000x better than the alternative of burning everything, instead of merely 10x better". This shit just doesn't fly.
And yes the Democrats are guilty of being better than Republicans by an embarrassingly thin 10x margin. Any decent party is 1000x and that should have happened, too.
The fault fall on both the DNC and the voters.
The DNC for being god damn awful at campaining and the voters for seeing the situation and still decide not to go vote.
Both can be true.
But, we can’t remove the tax-exempt status from churches that are explicitly promoting Republican candidates..?
Incidentally, also terrorist-supporrinf organizations.
Just as the founding fathers envisioned.
Always the plan.
Or concepts of it.
How can they give him anything when he isn't the president yet?
Because the Republicans control the House. They can start working on bills now and pass them next year.
Bills generally take a while to pass, so getting the work done now means more time for the Don to send his enemies to the gulag.
You don't need control of the House to work on bills that you don't even intend to pass until the next session of congress, though. There's nothing stopping the Republicans, Democrats, or even average citizens from writing bills right now that are intended to be voted on by future sessions of congress.
And the House of Reps voting on the bill next week is also meaningless, because the bill has a 0% chance of passing this session with the democrats in control of the senate - and the House of Reps would then have to pass it again once a new session starts. Which, they probably will - but that doesn't make the vote next week somehow less meaningless. So the headline is pure clickbait: Congress isn't about to "gift" Trump anything. The gifts will come next year.
I'm waiting for the I started enacting this bill that hasn't even gone through the legislature yet, with the claims of "I needed to speed up the process". Similar to the other article someone posted about the Senate not needing to approve cabinet positions because it will save time.
But someone yesterday told me that it won't be all that bad because John Thune made a minor criticism of something Trump wanted which means that congress is not on his side.
Do... do you mean to tell me he really is going to turn the U.S. into a fascist dictatorship?
Write your representative and senators today about invoking the 14th amendment. Worst that happens is nothing changes. Took me less than five minutes.
Right wingers only see problems when it happens to them personally. So the only way to get rid of Trump is to give him enough rope to hang himself. This is just a tiny string in that rope. I'm hoping he gathers up enough to end up like Mussolini.