• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    10 months ago

    Better ideas get filibustered. They could remove filibustered but since they’ve had 48 or less senate seats since 2013-2015 congress a literal decade ago that also means the GOP could potentially pass laws without a filibuster.

    What we need is a strong DNC majority like we had in 2010-2012 which expanded healthcare to tens of millions of people and proposed tax reforms that reduced individual rates to 10% and raised corporate and foreign effective rates to 25% (many companies pay 0%

    Instead we just reelected the fucking apeass bastard who keeps cutting taxes for the rich.

    And have people learned anything from all this? NO! THEY’RE ACTUALLY GETTING DUMBER AS TIME GOES ON.

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      10 months ago

      Don’t pretend like the DNC aren’t to blame for not getting enough votes. Look at how hard they fumbled the last national election, and how they’re treating Mamdani.

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        10 months ago

        You mean… just being joyful about not being able to afford food didn’t fix your entire life?

        I’m shocked.

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        10 months ago

        Is this a bot? Because despite me constantly railroading the conversation to policy and vote histories it just repeatedly uses high emotional words and phrases and ignores and the other person.

        Did the DNC not have your feelings hard enough? Enjoy Republicans, you deserve them.

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          10 months ago

          Nice ad hominem.

          Policy doesn’t matter if you’re not effective at actually getting elected, and by now we’re kinda beyond the point where the fascists can be voted out.

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            10 months ago

            Ah look a retort, I’m sure this user has addressed my statement about their incapability of citing any singular vote where the DNC let them down or didn’t accomplish all they could.

            Let’s see, uh…

            Nope…

            Nope theres nothing in here, they’ve just proven their incapability of speaking outside of their designated scope.

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      10 months ago

      Dems had the presidency for four years. They had Congress for two years. With that same amount of power Donald has accomplished everything he wants.

      Did you notice those special sessions Abbott just did in Texas?

      The US president has the same power. He could have kept Congress in session for four years straight until he got what he wanted by sheer force of will.

      But that assumes he gives a shit.

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        10 months ago

        First of all

        1. Texas house and senate were also solid red.

        2. POTUS can’t keep congress in session because that would require power of the purse which belongs solely to the house.

        3. I JUST SENT YOU A LIST OF THINGS THEY ACCOMPLISHED DESPITE THEIR 50:50 MAJORITY, NOT COUNTING ANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS.