they suck is the answer imo. they just suck. - ThreadSky

prisonculture.bsky.social • 2 days ago

they suck is the answer imo. they just suck.

Why the fuck isn't every appointee a straight party-line vote right now? Nothing is gained by voting to confirm a Trump appointee, but it *does* make the Democrats look fucking complicit, which you'd think they wouldn't want.

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lamexicaine.bsky.social•2 days ago

The DNC/DemParty establishment are corporate conservatives meant to stop any possibility of a true leftist movement. That is their purpose. Everything else is to appease liberals and keep us moving to the right , which we have. Today’s Dems are 80s-90s Repubs.

anarchokoala.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have some serious questions for Senator Durbin. Either his comms team didn't want to use bipartisan legislation as a cudgel against GOP... 1 cosponsored by Schatz & Thune! The Klobuchar one is total trash TBF.

Or he's corrupted by lobbyists to sell us all out.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/28/durbin-repeal-section-230-legislation-free-speech-social-media-seth-stern

vinchenzojackal.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm pretty certain that in addition to sucking they are also doing this on behalf of big donors and lobbyists.
Odds are they are either getting paid for doing it or they are doing it under the threat of never getting paid again.
Big money rules politics.

idlerat.bsky.social•2 days ago

👆👆👆

thatmillie.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think they’re also trying to maintain relationships for when the Rs are confirming their nominees at some imaginary point in the future, so their nominees won’t get party-lined? Deck chairs on the Titanic.

megansnakebite.bsky.social•2 days ago

That literally has not been a thing since I became an adult. Delusion for 20 years

thatmillie.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, even Mayor Pete (as a random example I just looked up) got 86 votes in 2021 — not unanimous, but way more Rs than voted against him.

sophygurl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because the Rs always work across the aisle to confirm Dem picks all soft and easy like that? Oh wait no, they've made it a policy position NOT to do that.

prisonculture.bsky.social•2 days ago

they are pathetic. truly.

athenabear2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

kcclyburn.bsky.social•2 days ago

It needs to be said that a lot of the people who keep voting for Trump’s nominees are in safe seats in solidly blue country.

They’re voting for these people because they want to, not because they have to.

kcclyburn.bsky.social•2 days ago

My brain is currently going crazy because Slotkin has been positioned as some sort of gold standard as to how to win elections by moving to the right when she very nearly lost a seat that a Democrat held for 21 straight years mostly unopposed. It’s political suicide and yet they keep doing it.

marcmcvey.bsky.social•1 day ago

She’s my senator and she drives me nuts. She rode in as a US rep on the 2018 blue wave. Defeated Mike Bishop who wasn’t holding town halls and has just moved right ever since. She’s basically Fetterman 2.0

saclarkaa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same

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