"tankies complain a lot!" "The system works but the problem is we don't have the power :smuglord: "
The Democrats had a generational supermajority after Obama was elected and they didn't do anything. Saying they always have an excuse is objectively correct.
As if this mf had ever heard of 'the Senate Parlamentarian' before that became a necessary excuse for the Biden administration
So, to get anything done, you'd need the Dems to always win every single election so they have complete control of the state? Sounds authoritarian
They also need to have a super-dooper majority and reach a bipartisan consensus with their good friends in the Republican Party, which America needs to be strong to have a healthy democracy.
Didn't the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?
"Get over yourself and elect a moderate Dem!"
5 minutes later
"We regret to inform you that moderate Dems are obstructing progressive reform"
"Yeah but but Biden couldn't do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!"
It's not like there's a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn't have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.
Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.
But but but! You're forgetting the Senate pastafarian!
But using the power of the executive to do good things would be wrong!
Yes but you must understand Manchin/Lieberman/whoever throew a little tantrum and there wasn't anything we could do!
Funny, they seem to be able to do things just fine when it comes to genociding brown people or kneeling for the GOP
That same sub I saw em excuse biden going above and beyond for the genocide passing congress because they didn't want a multi front war against Hezbollah. Hows that working out?
Even when they had majority they don't do shit. How many people live in blue states where they don't even push basic shit. Biden did bypass congress on emergency sales to israel though several times
Didn't he flagrantly and openly violate the separation of powers to do it a few times, too?
Absolutely. Congress didn't seem to raise a fuss about it as much likely because they cosign it
It's a winner all around. President Crime Bill isn't going to be re-elected so he can do whatever the fuck he wants and they don't have to put their signatures on yet another extermination warrant.
Republicans meanwhile are never powerless, they always get what they want. Weird system huh.
If Trump wins, he will dismantle all of America's institutions, declare himself God Emperor for life and genocide all minorities.
If Kamala wins, she won't be able to do anything unless the republicans let her.
Except genocide homeless people, undocumented people, and Palestinians, which she'll use her political acumen to achieve bipartisan consensus on.
no sweaty, this is not hard to understand!!
Curated tumblr is undoubtedly one of the most insufferable subreddits on that accursed site. Practically every post on there is just "actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing"
"actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing"
This is what happens when "radical" politics is vibes based, and centered around influencers. Any critique of the captialist system is regarded as being childish and privileged, because, who else but sedentary millionaires have the time to complain about capitalism?
Oh the planet itself and the environment is complaining about it a lot....
At what point do redditors have to start considering that the reason dems won't enact good policies is that they don't want to?
I'd have to check how many new members we get on a monthly basis but it's not enough.
They don’t want power, nor do they want to criticise power. They just want someone of their preferred party to be able to profit by insider trading.
life is so simple for so many idiots
Harry Reid could have dissolved the filibuster but he thought that would be impolite and he didn't care enough.
Harry Reid could have been dissolved in acid but sadly that didn't happen either.
Да.
Джесси, нам нужно готовить.
Harry Reid could have been dissolved in acid but sadly that didn't happen either.
I remember reading about the Parliamentarian in the Constitution and civics class. What's wrong with you tankies?
The parliamentarian just provides advice on the consistency of procedures - they can just make amend the procedures.
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