"What are we supposed to do, we don't control Congress"
"What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority"
"What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"
"What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority"
"What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"
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That is "complicit". And "hypocritical".
Because I remember when people protested over Biden funding a genocide in Gaza. Dems sent the police to beat up the protesters and called them terrorists.
Last time I checked this is what fascist do.
Since Obama, it's been 16 years of Democrats pretending they'll listen to voters only to ignore their voters and doing the bidding of corporations.
No one is falling for this anymore.
Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Hit dogs holler.
#PerformativeOpposition
@TheDemocrats.org say there's "nothing they can do" then send me an extorsion email for $50 bucks so they "can do something"?
Got it!
that's it...
“What are we supposed to do they have the same donors”
https://www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Democrats need to turn and face the public and say the government is lost. Stop lying and delaying.
I have the same response as Clark Gable
https://disa.org/russian-disinformation-network-matryoshka-relocates-to-bluesky-amidst-x-exodus/
"What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has progressive democrats unsatisfied with our pathetic incrementalism"
You can NOT use anything from Hitlers /Nazi identitet in a democratic free world .
But it is not difficult to see Hitlers
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Rally with bully and lie talk
Insults, hate , revenge and easy words to remember on repeat https://bsky.app/profile/nomadmatt.bsky.social/post/3lgbhie67ns2l
The DNC doesn’t deserve your loyalty, and they’ve done a shitty job. Find a better identity; feeling attacked when elected officials are criticized is the behavior of subjects, not citizens.
It’s also not a journalist’s job to give you a better chance at a majority, you fucking doorknob.
I bet you meant “fringe conspiracy theory,” though, which is a completely different thing.
https://bsky.app/profile/internettheo.bsky.social/post/3lhtyod44tk2w
Would
Mitch
McConnell
Do?
And deflects from the fact we truly have no power this time in the legislative branch.
I think we've only had a majority that was filibuster and veto proof like one year this century.
And back then, many Democrats were socially right-wing too.
While the far-right is just pushing relentlessly for their agenda no matter the circumstance.
We never did.
Between Sinema and Manchin, we never had the votes.
And when we did, Republicans would just filibuster.
Dems would vote Yes on a good bill when the minority. Republicans never do.
That’s what they’re saying.
Also, what team are you on and why can't your team beat the Dems?
"We're better than them because they're better at it than us" is such a weird take.
This is that.
Welcome to ninth grade.
You're trying to pull the "how would you fix it," but 1. It's not my job to govern, I pay them to do that and 2. The lack of a better alternative does not make a bad thing good.
Stop settling. Do better.
WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?
Hopeless mofos. That's gotten to be one of my least favorite sentences in the English language.
...and that goes for the PEOPLE, too. ALL y'all. You wait around and send emails and phone calls to people WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU. Dipshits.
Personally, I will never initiate any violence.
But I am a knowledgeable homeowner, whose shotguns and rifles are oiled and stocked; not a prepper.
If MAGA starts a civil war, then *they* have *initiated* violence.
Not me sitting in my home.
I have never liked handguns and have never bought one.
They just seem a little too handy and too easy to use without thought.
Experts in home defense will say I'm making a mistake.
But I just don't like handguns.
Have researched them a lot.
Never find one that makes sense to me.
They gave that job to newbies in platoon.
I thought it was cool, at first.
Then realized it sucked.
You have to carry that thing and take care of that thing.
Glad when next newbie came along.
M16, it's so light!
You didn't use enough of them to give me a clear idea where your head is at.
Only enough characters to make me suspect that your head is not in a good place.
Run into a wall.
Shake that head up a little.
Do it again.
And again.
Harder.
That's the spirit.
Nothing except career ambition, of course.
Term limits now.
The flow of money doesn’t give them any power once the election is won. There is no recourse for a corporation when the senator they bought doesn’t do what they want. They can force nothing.
The argument you have just made is “they can’t do it without giving up comfort,” which means they’re unqualified for the fucking job.
Democrat, Inc. *are* the obstruction in the way of their voters.
Pre-announcing their intention to let the Democrats eat up another decade of our lives waiting around to do anything. This is the shit you've been voting for the last 60 years.
Abandon. This. Party.
you're a trained loser.
That's no non sequitur.
And it's not the "swinging back & forth" that I dislike, it's the inevitable farce of the court expanding more and more. Term limits should be enough.
it's just neverending with you people. at absolutely zero points in history are you living in the factual present. just an eternal hypothetical future.
Overturn Citizens United, Raise Min Wage, Universal Healthcare. Focus there and we'll get votes.
I think you should educate your readers a bit better.
But when it comes to the public good …..
Oh noes! The Parliamentarian said that we can’t!
We can’t because our majority party won’t vote for it.
We promise that we will AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION.
Oh, except the Dems could have followed all the rules and prevented this by RUNNING ELECTABLE FUCKING CANDIDATES.
We're fucked.
its time to move on.
They got the ACA through in that time.
But Ken Klippenstein the campist red-brown tankie guy won't tell you that.
Why didn't/couldn't Dems do something similar today, blocking incoming Repubs from being sworn in?
How do you have a Democrat supermajority and use it to implement Romneycare Deluxe? https://obamacarefacts.com/romneycare-romneyhealthcare/
The ACA was passed on March 23, 2010, one year and two months after Obama's inauguration.
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/insurance-health-care-firms-give-lieberman-big-293804.php
It was the biggest expansion of the welfare state in decades.
I want single payer but it was a big f'n deal.
We were never going to get Manchin to vote to end the filibuster. Never.
We do NOT control the Senate.
What does that mean?
And Leiberman planned to use the filibuster against the public option in the ACA, so no, he wasn't a vote to count on to make up for Manchin's shit either.
Dems im both chambers are limited in what they can do. That's just a
Public sentiment against trump/musk is how we give Dems more power. Instead, I'm seeing way too many big follower accounts bashing Dems and collecting clicks. You're not "resisting" and you're sure as fuck not helping.
We aren't cynical AND closed to suggestions.
Schumer never intended to fight. He capitulated long ago.
He’s talking about “bipartisanship” and “"will use our votes to help steady the ship” like it’s still 1985.
and inaction: so then they what, shut down the government?
The very thing the Republicans would love them to do?
There is that to consider.
I wanted more but it's a lie to act like they did nothing.
Obamacare is still the most expensive healthcare in the advanced world. A government subsidy for the private insurance industry.
Medicare for All and free universal healthcare is the minimum expectation and they failed to meet it.
They’re scared. The Senate collegiality that made them successful before cripples them now.
We have to give them spines. We do that by flooding the Capitol with calls.
It’s the only way to show them that waffling risks re-election.
Call often.
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When they had a majority, the passed massive stuff on jobs and climate and would have done way more if the deciding vote wasn’t Joe Manchin.
It was a staring contest and the American populace lost.
Depending on the makeup of the court, one could challenge that law on the 10th amendment—the duality of the interstate commerce clause and the 10th amendment leaves a whole lot of wiggle room for “interpretation”
There is no "it would be done". Such a state does not exist in nature.
I remember leftist criticisms of the Obama admin. They hated the Wall St bailouts, the drone strikes, and the "deporter in chief". But nobody cared about Roe until 2022.
Funny how fast that narrative changed
They didn’t increase the minimum wage to a livable level.
They didn’t make abortion access law.
But they did fund a forever war, over and over.
Your imagination is too fucking small, and you settle for scraps.
If you look at the graph of US healthcare cost without the years attached to the graph, you can't tell when the ACA went into effect.
Why is US Healthcare vastly more expensive and lower quality than any other developed country?
Was it because it was an awful Heritage Foundation plan?
There's a disconnect between the idea that Dems have their hands tied, yet Jeffries says "It's Republicans' government"
The trouble is, the democrats consistently try to do the absolute bare minimum to stave off literal rebellion or collapse after American capitalism goes all-in on "hellscape," and then they get mad people aren't grateful.
Is that normal? Or is that barbaric?
I say that is beyond barbaric.
Go ahead. Explain how it’s impossible to get anything done, while the other side does.
Biden got way more done than Trump did in his first term by a long shot with reactionaries like Sinema and Manchin.
But if you are just up for hating on Democrats then be my guest.
So.
Your argument for why the Democrats can’t get anything done…is that they’re bad at their job.
Which, come to think of it, was my argument, actually.
How many doors have you knocked on in red counties?
Let someone with vision and balls/breasts to do the heavy lifting!
Republicans have garbage politics, but at least they fight. Give me politicians with the fight and voting turnout of Republicans but with leftist/liberal ideals.
I'm not surprised by his behavior, but I don't think Dems intended to donate to someone so willing to vote for people who were going to willingly violate the constitution