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you literally can't lose any here. we don't have a downvote button
we do got one of these though
It’s too bad the Democratic Party doesn’t have a Party Whip whose job it is to force legislators to follow the party line or face consequences. Oh, they do, but they only use it on the progressive wing because the DNC doesn’t want to do anything to upset the donor class?
Ya it's so weird how there's always just one or two darn senators that stop all the good things that the Democrats totally definitely want to do. So weird that it keeps happening.
Plus the darned Senate Parlementarian!
american liberals love to be like "ugh corporate money has corrupted the democratic process and our elected officials are bought and sold by the board members that really write policy... except for my democrat, who loves me and kisses me on the lips every night before bed"
it's just, like it's kind of like they mostly know what's going on and they're mad about it, and then somehow their conclusion is "okay we have to keep this thing going as long as possible"
"We must maintain at all times 50% of the house minimum, 60% of the senate minimum, actually make it 62% to compensate for democrats who aren't apparently actually democrats, and the presidency.
And even if we get some laws passed despite gerrymandered representative districts and the entire existence of THE SENATE as a concept, well, SCOTUS will just wand-waive away all of that legislation, agreed upon by about 60% of the legislature and the president.
What can we do about SCOTUS? Nothing. That would be anti institutional!
What can we do about the existence of the senate and states which were designed to be and objectively are anti democratic in nature? Nothing. Do you not respect the constitution and institutions!?"
Repeat until we die
They always find an excuse for doing the bidding of donors rather than voters.
oh nyoo! not your karma!! :(((
Does Lemmy even track karma? I don't think so
they dont. this user is reddit brained tho lol
Oh no did mean old Sinema and Manchin stop all the good stuff? Wow how inconvenient! So terrible! And the parliamentarian! Don't get me started on the parliamentarian! Old Joe really does want to do good, but he's just completely powerless due to these two incredibly inconvenient people that just started kicking up trouble. Well nothing we can do but increase cops budgets by billions, arm Nazis, ban cheap solar and EVs, expand fracking and fund genocide. Wish it could be otherwise but that's just how it is due to Sinema and Manchin and that mean old parliamentarian. Poor Joe
it's because he doesn't have a plan and doesn't want to. The closest thing they'll ever see to a tax increase from him is him begging for donations
Sure he can, the powers of the presidency are whatever the president feels like they are. He could have Trump, any intransigent Congress members, and the entire Supreme Court executed by drone strike if he wanted to.
Oh please mods make the first part of this post a tagline
Libs will simultaneously hold the following opinions:
"Trump will destroy democracy by welding the powerful tools he has as president"
"Biden really can't do all the things he promised because the president actually isn't that powerful"
the is the funniest most sincere lib shit i've ever seen lmao
Death to America
—James Madison
Hey good on you for deleting your post when you wrote something stupid instead of digging your heels in and continuing a failed argument
Lol, I was just tired of all the idiotic replies filling my inbox.
"idiotic replies" lmao. Say stupid shit, get obvious things pointed out to you.
Stand by your dumbass take then, you cretin