Connolly lied about his cancer prior to the election. He could have resigned at any time instead of dying in office and leaving a vacancy. He died a selfish cunt.
No it wouldn’t. What this guy thinks is that he just *should not have run for reelection*. Resigning just creates a vacancy, the exact thing he’s complaining about.
I don't know what he *meant* but I assumed (yeah, I know), he meant to resign and let others run for his seat. You may be right, and resigning then depends on the governor of the state, or the state laws for replacement.
The vibes, bro. Republicans would’ve been inspired by his noble sacrifice and all voted to oppose the bill in his honor, followed by a slow clap like in that movie Rudy.
Unfortunately, so is sitting by and doing nothing, if you're an elected Dem.
Why wouldn't we hold our elected officials accountable? They are the ones who are not using the power that we gave them. Also, why would anyone vote Dem ever again if they weren't able to prevent facism in the first place?
a) the dems all voted against the bill, they didn’t do nothing
b) the last sentence of your post is so dumb it’s reasonable to wonder if you’re trolling. “not enough people voted for the good guys last time, so why would anyone ever vote for the good guys in the future” is a terrible argument.
Your reading comprehension could use some improvement as well. My last sentence didn't say that enough people didn't vote for the good guys, it said that there are clearly no good guys if facism took over that easily. Again, why would anyone vote in favor of a weak government?
You're laser focused on the one & only bill that the Dems opposed & ignoring the dozens of times they voted with MAGA (as well as the past several decades of "harm reduction" that has gotten us nowhere) but hey, if performative politics is your thing, who am I to ick your yum?
Harm reduction is a catch phrase that Dems use to scare voters into voting blue - even though there is a history of things not getting better - thus, the well deserved quotations. What is more revealing is that you don't seem to care that harm reduction never reduces harm. Why do you think that is?
Why can’t both be true? I have enough bandwidth to criticize democrats and criticize/see Republicans as an existential threat. I also can say that one is the bigger threat and still criticize them both.
We need to recognize that we are competing on an unequal playing field against MAGA/Trump in which they are incapable of being self-critical of their own. Not asking to be blindly loyal but laying blame for the bill at the feet of Dems lends credence to the lies Republicans spew every day
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Why wouldn't we hold our elected officials accountable? They are the ones who are not using the power that we gave them. Also, why would anyone vote Dem ever again if they weren't able to prevent facism in the first place?
b) the last sentence of your post is so dumb it’s reasonable to wonder if you’re trolling. “not enough people voted for the good guys last time, so why would anyone ever vote for the good guys in the future” is a terrible argument.