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[–] Allonzee 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Both parties are very serious...

...About keeping this economy and system exactly as it is, as they bicker over social wedges that don't meaningfully impact quarterly earnings expectations.

They're both paid well by the same oligarchs to do so.

If you wanted to see them scrambling to pass real legislation to protect the government from an incoming administration, you should have elected a leftist. You'd see Democrat and Republican reps holding hands, having sit ins, and desperately chanting we will overcome if an incoming administration was promising to dismantle for profit healthcare, for example.

Don't worry though, they'd never let that happen. They have all the tools they need to prevent such a disaster as they see it. Their bribes would dry up overnight if they lost control of the narrative and their plebs.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 hour ago

they finally changing it from the turkey?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought this was already the national bird: 🖕

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

Or was a close call. I heard that were debating changing the national bird to the Hawk Tuah

[–] OCATMBBL 46 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I found the reason on Wikipedia

"The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder."

It's the bird the US leadership most identifies with.

[–] mlg 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.

[–] finitebanjo 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.

[–] turmacar 3 points 1 hour ago

TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.

It is not unique about either of those.

Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn't mean they shouldn't have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was "we can't tell you but there's classified info that means we should ban it." Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of 'those dang kids' being annoying.

[–] return2ozma 125 points 20 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 24 points 20 hours ago
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[–] mhague 32 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 1 hour ago

i would, but my asshole is in a jar 50 miles away. are you willing to wait?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

I think it's the eyes...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

This timeline is suck.

[–] simplejack 84 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

The real national bird is the boneless chicken.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mercano 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

* May contain less than 50% chicken

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] simplejack 9 points 16 hours ago

OOPS! ALL BONES!™

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (16 children)

Ah yes, really focusing on the important shit here. I can see why the US is doing so well.

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[–] cheese_greater 56 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Not technically no, we all apparently thought it was. Now it is official.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 23 points 20 hours ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

Never had a national bird, according to this article. Thank God our infinitely wise and useful government got on that before they lost all their power to actually do anything meaningful or helpful. 🦅🇺🇸

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

It's not like if they didn't pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all - I hate the "Is this a good use of your time" argument.

But it's never a bad time to criticize how ineffective lawmakers are.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Anything other than this would've had an impact on people's lives. They don't need universal healthcare. They need something.

Your comment is a prime example of the nirvana fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

this session has been a dud from the start.

a split congress isn't gonna get much of anything worthwhile done, especially not this late in a session.. and extra-especially-not with the ultra hyper-partisanship exhibited by the 'modern' republicant party since at least the 1990s.

want something done? something awesome and good? help get democrats and progressives 75%+ of each chamber of congress, plus 38+ state legislatures.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Healthcare for ~~some~~ none, small American flags for others!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago

The 118th Session? Yeah, we don't even have a parallel in all of the history of the US to mark how unproductive this session has been. Like not even during the Civil War was Congress this underwhelming. The 118th Session has set a new low water mark for "things gotten done".

The biggest issue was that the House spent something like ~60% of their time in Committee doing "investigations" that ultimately led nowhere. Like, I'll throw Congress a bone here, if they actually impeached someone with all those investigations, I'd give it to them. But that literally nobody was impeached all those investigations basically go into the "wasted time" column.

And they can't impeach any of them come the 119th session because... New President, new people. So all that time they invested goes to waste. Hell, even Hunter I can't give it to them, because in the end, he got a pardon. And as soon as Trump gives the J6 folks a pardon, all that work the Democrats did becomes wasted as well.

But the 118th spent the vast majority of their time in investigations, so they got so little actually done and passed.

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[–] DarkSpectrum 19 points 19 hours ago (5 children)
[–] finitebanjo 2 points 12 hours ago
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