it’s definitely easier to destroy shit than build something but i don’t think i’ll ever stop thinking about how we were told biden couldn’t do anything at all, ever, while elon musk and donald trump run around like rats gnawing on cables stopping the governments functionality completely - ThreadSky

junlper.beer • 73 days ago

it’s definitely easier to destroy shit than build something but i don’t think i’ll ever stop thinking about how we were told biden couldn’t do anything at all, ever, while elon musk and donald trump run around like rats gnawing on cables stopping the governments functionality completely

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Noah Feldman vs. reality

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innuendostudios.bsky.social•72 days ago

Biden found all kinds of resolve when he skipped Congress to send bombs to Israel so they could do genocide

endtimesenjoyer.bsky.social•72 days ago

and the democrats have had 8x more airtime on USAID than the trans genocide in the USA.

kingriptor.bsky.social•73 days ago

Liberals are just as complacent in this as anyone else. Biden was so obsessed with a legacy he already shit on that he was afraid to do anything

boopsly.bsky.social•73 days ago

That's because of a subtle political nuance. You see, when Repubs are elected, they are actually elected into the office they ran for, whereas Dems are technically elected into an adjacent cuck chair from which they watch Republicans fuck the country anyway.

The more you know🌠

benpen.bsky.social•71 days ago

June, the government’s only allowed to do evil things, did you even read the declaration of constitution

superlauren.world•73 days ago

Remember January 2020 when everyone was like "guys, its his first freakin week in office, give him some time!! surely he'll get around to cancelling all our student debt and doing literally anything else he said he would soon!"

Oh what a week as president can do, apparently

captainheartless.bsky.social•73 days ago

IMO it makes more sense when you realize it depends on a regime's coalition and what people with levers of power support. So you have to look at what the courts, business, military, law enforcement, etc. support to see what a regime can do, rather than just elections and public support 🤷

dustinpeerce.bsky.social•73 days ago

But a dog can't play basketball!

iwillrobyou.bsky.social•73 days ago

What trumps doing is illegal, but I would like illegal stuff if it was good. I want Bernie to trespass into federal buildings and set up universal healthcare when no one is watching

mrbaskerville.bsky.social•73 days ago

Just running around and illegaly improving the lives of the common man, that would be based.

shuchancellor.online•73 days ago

It would have been preferable if the democrats just said to everyone "we don't want to" or "we don't feel like it" instead of all the damned lies and propaganda

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•73 days ago

The only response to an outright "we don't want to" would be "then let's replace you." The lie of "it's not possible" removes the former possibility unless they're called out as liars. And you don't need to convince everyone of that lie, just the core party members that fund and vote in primaries

altrocks.bsky.social•72 days ago

What primaries? The DNC argued in court that they're not required to follow democratic processes, because they're a private corporation, when sued for rigging them. Is not even new. Look up how the 1944 convention went down when they replaced FDRs VP bc they knew he was dying.

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•72 days ago

The primary system, along with First Past the Post, are the traditional gatekeepers against outsider threats, including the likes of (milquetoast for Europe, radical for US) Sanders. Rigging important primaries (e.g., 2016 and 2020 DNC presidential) are just the name of the game.

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•72 days ago

Regardless of whether Sanders would have won without that rigging, they were rigged. Superdelegates the first time around, Obama making everyone but Biden drop out the second time going. But the most brazen round of rigging has now actually created a near-existential threat for DNC legitimacy.

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•72 days ago

Biden running despite his dementia, running despite knowing how bad his internal polling was, effectively cancelled the primaries. This let him anoint Kamala his successor and impose on her his policies and advisers (which she might have taken on anyway).

refreshingtime.bsky.social•73 days ago

you dont understand. he had a stutter

fatgerm.bsky.social•73 days ago

🤔 beginning to think the Democrats are in on it..

estivalbloom.dev•73 days ago

It's almost like a bunch of wealthy old people in power benefit from doing the absolute minimum to maintain their power while the right runs rampant

fatgerm.bsky.social•73 days ago

As long as they continue fundraising they couldn't give a fuck

youtackything.bsky.social•73 days ago

Well, yes, because the Biden administration wasn't willing to commit flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional actions and then defy court orders, which is a good thing.

junlper.beer•73 days ago

hot take but i think they should do flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional actions to do good things if the opposition will do that to do deeply evil things

youtackything.bsky.social•73 days ago

Do you actually think we would be allowed to keep the good things that are done that way?

dearzeus.gay•73 days ago

If you rewrite the rules like the fash are, yes.

youtackything.bsky.social•73 days ago

Do you understand why the fash are getting away with it?

dearzeus.gay•73 days ago

Yeah, they installed sycophants and let their billionaire pet run wild while ignoring the law after also installing a supreme court bent on never allowing things to be done "the right way" ever again.

sorblaze.bsky.social•73 days ago

Did we get to keep the good things done the “right” way?

youtackything.bsky.social•73 days ago

No, because voters put Republicans back in power, who undid them.

Republicans in power can undo the things done the wrong way even easier.

The only answer is organizing and persuading.

sorblaze.bsky.social•73 days ago

What “even easier”? He swiped away almost the entire Biden presidency in one to two days. Doing it the “right” way got us here.

precogdissonant.bsky.social•73 days ago

I’ve gotten a lot of use out of this screenshot lately re: Democrats

fattyjabbers.bsky.social•73 days ago

If only the Parliamentarian would speak up!

sunshinex.bsky.social•73 days ago

There is this thing I hear and read all the time about the rule of law and it’s power to stop fascists presidents but the reality is always different because the law needs someone to enforce it and they can simply refuse to do it. Oh it’s clearly unconstitutional but who will declare this ? 🤷🏻‍♂️

buffandtuff.com•73 days ago

$2k checks out the door first day in office

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•73 days ago

Libs spent 4 years telling us the president is just a powerless little guy and can't do anything and yet here we are lmao

cassandra.show•73 days ago

Turns out the only barrier to unchecked power was thoughts and prayers.

assfarter.bsky.social•73 days ago

It might seem bad now, but you just wait until Donald Trump has to explain all this to the Parliamentarian. He's gonna be in soooooo much trouble for not being a good boy like Joe!

adilredivy.bsky.social•73 days ago

They could have at least broken the bad shit, the cages and black vans and guns

discchoco.bsky.social•73 days ago

Where the fuck are the South Korean unions and protestors when you need them.

mediumvillain.bsky.social•72 days ago

we were also told Obama couldnt do anything ever after running on literally "hope and change". and everything Clinton did started as a Heritage Foundation document, but that was the "hopeful, optimistic" times.

anon762.bsky.social•73 days ago

The goal is to turn the United States into a business, where Musk and his cohorts are the executives that tell Trump, the CEO, what to do

endtimesenjoyer.bsky.social•73 days ago

POL-SCI is going on the shelf of "Majors to be mocked relentlessly" Next to MBA and Sports Management.

tvsjosh.bsky.social•73 days ago

TWICE they tried to get our hopes up with any measure of student loan forgiveness before going “Aw shucks”.

spaceprez.bsky.social•72 days ago

Biden didn't own scotus and congress.

Trump does.

It makes a difference. The design is such that no branch was supposed to be absolute. The GOP changed that.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's not something to be admired, and I worry that people are taking the wrong lessons from three men's purchase of the U S government.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•73 days ago

I know this is decades of judicial and legislative rot coming to roost, but seriously, why can Democrats not think outside the box for like *one minute* rather than the has-yet-to-succeed plan of "never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake"

mlip16.bsky.social•73 days ago

Breaking the constitution isn’t thinking outside the box. It’s just another form of dictatorship

altrocks.bsky.social•72 days ago

If they wanted to, they would. Biden could do an end run around Congress to illegally sell billions in arms to Israel, but literally everything else was out of his power to accomplish. They do exactly what they want to do and no more.

holyshitimfucked.com•72 days ago

Loving all the whining before you put on the brown shirts because you say that there is no difference and you can pretend that you are going to have a socialist revolution in the chaos.

asseenoncctv.bsky.social•72 days ago

you like to make up guys so much you should play dungeons and dragons

holyshitimfucked.com•71 days ago

Must be all the atrocity I do by opposing fascists.

lotts.bsky.social•73 days ago

I keep seeing questions like this when they are based on a false premise that Dems ever wanted any other path than the one they enabled. People have to stop projecting what they want onto what the Democrats actually want (despite what they ever say publicly). You can't make sense out of nonsense.

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•73 days ago

They're absolutely capable of thinking outside the box. It's just in their class interest not to. The moment you throw a special interest they're personally invested in they'll come up with any loophole to make it happen, only for their benefit of course

dashwallkick.bsky.social•73 days ago

The party is split between dozens of interest groups but as a collective they do want to be *seen* doing good things for people, it's not just class solidarity stretching to their donors. Schumer ie literally does not know how to fight fire with fire.

genericuser1234567.bsky.social•73 days ago

Schumer is worth $81M, he doesn't have class solidarity with working people. Working people don't donate to the likes of him the way they do for progressives, hence they're (candidates and donors) actually his political opposition too. Schumer gets 13% from small donors, Sanders 63%.

horseknuckler.bsky.social•73 days ago

Fundraising lawyer brains have limited tool sets

bebopbun.bsky.social•73 days ago

Democrats rushing to explain why Biden couldn't do anything in office but Trump can

nwgarcia.bsky.social•73 days ago

The head of the post office probably committed a bunch of felonies ahead of the 2020 election that broke the mail and hurt Biden, and not only was he not prosecuted, he's still got that job.

phatcussy.bsky.social•73 days ago

i used to always say Elon was chewing the twitter cables when twitter went down. it's not nearly as fun when he's doing it to the government 🙁

eve-rising.bsky.social•73 days ago

And all these demotivational influencers online like "the GOP has the majority, WHAT CAN WE DO??"

Um, something is always better than NOTHING

discchoco.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's like they forgot the Obama years where McConnell and Boehner cockblocked almost all of their legislation.

mrnelson.bsky.social•73 days ago

They were able to do that because they had the majority in at least one chamber from 2011 onward. It's a lot easier to cockblock legislation when you actually have the numbers somewhere to do it.

vapeynj123.bsky.social•73 days ago

They did it even when Democrats controlled both Houses.

tessablackwell.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's definitely apples and oranges. Working within the law keeps you on a tightrope path of narrow possibilities. When you've decided to go Pirate-styles, anything goes.

musicfighter.bsky.social•73 days ago

Remember the Senate Parliamentarian?

jacobcaulfield.bsky.social•73 days ago

Ah, sorry mate. Can't do $15 minimum wage. Parliamentarian says no

lotts.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's stuff like this. People love to convince themselves this is all just the Democrats being incompetent instead of always just having a very convenient excuse.

jacobcaulfield.bsky.social•73 days ago

Rotating villain theory!
https://prospect.org/politics/senates-quiet-opposers-manchin-democrats/

themilfmag.net•73 days ago

nvr c it brought up but theres a glaring corruption component to this. all the donor class has to do is steak out the most eager sellout which senators like sinema signal when they c an opening meanwhile the next cheapest sellouts lay low wait their turn to be the rotating villain some later session

themilfmag.net•73 days ago

stake* lol

themilfmag.net•73 days ago

narrow margins are optimal for the donor class too cuz its fewer ppl to bribe

holyshitimfucked.com•72 days ago

It is like there is a difference between a centrist and a deeply corrupt nazi.

pizzathesteve.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's time for the Senate Parlimentarian to rise up and stop Trump

dommedeluise.bsky.social•73 days ago

the senate parliamentarian is an end boss for all Democrat build characters

manawolf.bsky.social•73 days ago

It's wild that it took over a quarter of a millennium to build the US government into what it is today, and these criminals could destroy it all in the span of a single presidency.

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