Why does the real world have to be a YA novel adaptation with paper-thin and one-dimensional villains who are not believable?
My 86y old Dad was trying to tell me “but it’s Chuck Schumer holding back the vote”. When I explained that the three branches of govt are controlled by the Republicans he didn’t want to hear it.
Years ago my dad said Obama left the economy in tatters after his 2nd term. I started opening my laptop and said we’d go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ website so we could look at the hard data over time. He changed the subject and walked away.
I don’t really talk to him anymore unless necessary.
They’re brainwashed to a degree that can’t be fixed. They’re gone.
It is not feasible to deprogram over 100 million people. Not sure what comes next.
It is amazing how the democrats are simultaneously incompetent and weak yet at the same time they still control everything even when the right is in charge of everything.
Those people are taking all of our welfare, and all the jobs!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
[The enemy is] at the same time too strong and too weak.
…just like Russia!
Republicans have given zero concessions in the spending bill, yet half the country voted for Democrats. Democrats are asking for basically nothing, yet Republicans won’t compromise even slightly
It’s not a coincidence that we have yet another shutdown under Trump. It’s a strong arm tactic Republicans use to give zero concessions when passing spending bills
Hell the last CR we had the GOP pulled back and reallocate funds that the Dems specifically wanted. So even if they do get concessions what can stop the same thing from happening twice?
It’s quite something when they’d rather listen to some political hack, than to facts and their own kids.
They dont like it when facts and logic get in the way of their hatred.
- The House: Republican-controlled
- The Senate: Republican-controlled
- The Presidency: Republican-controlled
- SCOTUS: Republican-controlled
The democrats have literally no power with which to induce a shutdown. This is the work of republicans.
Need 60 votes in the senate and it’s 53 republicans in there atm
so Republicans need votes and to get votes you need policy so its still the Republicans fault for not courting policy to court votes
They can lower it back to 51 like before the no-show filibuster rules and keep it at 51, but that takes away a major tool used for corruption and obstruction. Or they can just not cause people’s insurance premiums to skyrocket next year.
No, they literally don’t.
They don’t and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don’t want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
So, in your own words, they just don’t want to end the shutdown then. They absolutely could if they wanted to.
Yeah, I wasn’t exactly disagreeing.
They’d complain even if they had all of the votes.
No no no, they are still secretly in charge!!!
I’m more concerned with the majority of airports that went “Yes mein Fuhrer, instead of news channels we will play this glorious propaganda video!”
I mean, good on those that resisted of course.
Agreed, the real story here is how many airports are showing this if only a handful have resisted.
Do they say the breakdown? I’m curious how close it is to 50%
Not in this article. And I’m sure they’d’ve chosen a different headline if the percentage was significant. OTOH this story is still developing.
Punchable face.
You know how much she paid for that face?!
Was it a punchable amount?
Not enough apparently.
So I did some ducking around for a list of Trump’s hatch act violations, and it seems there where so many during the 2020 campaign that nobody has gotten around to compiling a list of ones so far this year.
Apart from this, I know he’s used the whitehouse page as his personal blog, and the housing administrations was being used for a political billboard…
What’s the latest rule on how many times one has to blatently break a law before it goes into effect?
If Democrat then one.
If Republican then infinity.
Remember that time Obama wore tan suit? Such of outrage!
Treasonous it was! Almost as bad as Dijon Mustardgate. I swear that man has no bottom to the depths of his depravity.
In RepubliSpeak that’s being a strong leader and getting things done.
ducking around
off topic: I’m glad the term is catching on
“duck around, find out”
If democrat your democrat blue team is infallible but if your republican then your republican red team is infallible
With football politics the only right people are the ones making you believe you are part of their football team mean political party same thing here in the United States
As long as the one breaking the rules are from the persons political football team then they are doing no wrong democrat or republican
Actual merits and job performance and anything else that could make or not make someone hirable does not apply here just blind tribal sports politics ruling the day
You made TWO braindead Both Sides arguments under the same post, great job. Forget to sign into your alt account again?
Unlike republicans and democrats do not feel the need for alt accounts or shadow play
Rather do it in the light out in public
Are the Democrats and Republicans in the room with you now?
Yes, I am former President Bill Clinton on my burner account and I approve of this courageous voyagers message!
Can you give some examples of a time when a Democrat president just flagrantly disregarded the law with absolutely no repercussions
Obama drone striking American nationals on foreign soil with no due process.
Leaked Drone Papers
The White House and Pentagon boast that the targeted killing program is precise and that civilian deaths are minimal. However, documents detailing a special operations campaign in northeastern Afghanistan, Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse.
The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA — “enemy killed in action” — even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless evidence posthumously emerged to prove the males killed were not terrorists or “unlawful enemy combatants,” EKIA remained their designation, according to the source. That process, he said, “is insane. But we’ve made ourselves comfortable with that. The intelligence community, JSOC, the CIA, and everybody that helps support and prop up these programs, they’re comfortable with that idea.”
The source described official U.S. government statements minimizing the number of civilian casualties inflicted by drone strikes as “exaggerating at best, if not outright lies.”
Andrew Johnson with torpedoing reconstruction?
Just off the top. As for modern era politics, not really.
Yea, see that’s why a question like that has to come with qualifiers. Andrew Johnson was a democrat, but he was a conservative democrat from before the party flip.
He’d be a republican under the modern party ideals.
Leahy Law
Multiple provisions in U.S. law restrict the sale or provision of weapons to other countries, including the federal Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act, and the Leahy Law. The open letter draws on evidence from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other watchdogs to argue that continuing to provide weapons to Israel blatantly violates these laws, in addition to international treaties.
You’re not wrong, but. As I replied to your other comment:
There are differences (between Dems and Reps), and ignoring them is just as bad as not seeing the problem.
This comes from a third party football team viewpoint that labels both the dominant teams misguided and seemingly infallible following, while also thinking their alternate team would be infallible if it could play.
There can be blind loyalty to anything. That’s human nature. But you ignore the many times Democrats have burned their own because they do tend to take the higher path, whereas Republicans are more known to march in step and protect their own, usually while projecting onto the left the same behavior they did.
Your caricature is a strawman of politics. I wish it was as simplistic as you make it out to be.
the last president supported segregation of schools
sorry but dont just grow up from that take it from my great grandparents
and the last election we had harris and walz who both worked with republicans
walz worked with trump to take care of protesters that were fighting for all of us to live in a clean environment but hey democrats should get a free pass because they say and do a few good things compared to the republicans who democrats are supposedly fighting against on our behalf
at the dnc protesters who were fighting for all us there as well to have healthcare, a world without war, living wages, etcetera were locked out but the republicans and celebrities got in and had grand ol’ time at the gala
where does the differences come in and how is does it help when democrats are bathing and sleeping with republicans
It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re trying to use a broad brush that groups everyone in the same light. No one is getting a free pass either, all of those have been mentioned in the scope that Democrats need to do better, and stop only going halfway when they manage to get traction. The American people need to do better too, the acceptance that this is how it is contributes to the problem. As does the apathy of “both sides” which you’re using here.
As a side note: I’m usually not a stickler for grammar and spelling, I figure if there is understanding any mistakes are fine in a casual discussion. But I have to say your sentence structure is hard to follow sometimes. A bit better wording would allow your points to flow a bit better.
You should probably take your meds regularly. Who knows, maybe you’ll feel better after a while.
Yeah, that’s called electoral politics. Do you know how earlier we would’ve gotten civil rights if the right were too busy arguing over who was more racist, whilst letting pro civil rights politicians gain power. Would’ve been awesome.
Unfortunately, right wingers know when to lock in and stop ANY semblance of progress from the left. I wish the left would figure this out by now.
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
Would be funny if they played that South Park clip instead.
I feel like this is backfiring for Republicans. No one sees them as honest anymore.
I’ll call it backfiring when anyone does anything effective to stop them.
Why does this country get amnesia about republicans everytime a democrat is president? Trump and Elon laughed about Union Busting on a public Twitter space call…… LITERALLY LAST YEAR DURING THE CAMPAIGN
That was like a decade ago in political time.
Their base is a bunch of morons, they either STILL don’t get it, or will NEVER care. Because aside from pure morons is the pure evil group that gets off on this shit.
There is no changing the minds of their base, what matters is getting uninterested voters to realize they need to actually participate in democracy while we still have it.
Yes but the other party isn’t going to fix everything instantly, so we might as well let the outright fascists win again.
No one
No sane person.
Problem is, mentally ill cultism is all too popular right now.
people have never actually cared about that sort of thing
Unless you live in the giant GOP media bubble where you don’t hear the truth about these folks. Which is 59% of the US.
Seriously. Just go into /r/conservative and look what “news” they are reading. It is all rage-bait stories about violence in the world caused by people of color or immigrants or leftists. There are no stories at all about the shutdown. I was flying home from vacation two days ago and could see the Fox News stories on a guy’s TV in front of me. It was all rage-bait with no actual news stories, not even fake news stories blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
The day I start seeing state propaganda in airports is the day I stop flying.
Her message in all sports makes this world feel even more dystopian. Throw a sledgehammer at her
Like the apple Superbowl add?
Smartly given they don’t want air rage to become a thing.
Should be obvious at this point that democrats and republicans both have repeatedly failed to run the government for the people
Both parties are just tools for the owner class and past time everyone sees it
There are differences though, and ignoring them is just as bad as not seeing the problem.
Of course blue and red are different colors with obvious differences
Does not mean not both colors
That’s not the start of a meaningful discussion, sorry.
They’re just a troll
Do you train to be this ignorant? Is there some daily exercise you do to specifically kill brain cells?
I remember when I was “bOfE sYdEz” until I got off my lazy fucking ass and started looking up both party’s voting history and criminal conviction history and actually started watching representatives from both sides and how they presented themselves and realized that one side was WAY, WAY, WAY better than the other and that you’d have to be an idiot to play the both sides game, especially when the stakes are so high.
Are you fucking seriously trying to “both sides” this shit? Yes Democrats have leadership problems, but I haven’t seen the blatantly violate the Hatch act and other laws to use the government like this.
As someone who’s followed politics pre-trump. Trust me, the Dems have undoubtedly moved further left, even just 10 years ago.
Usually there’s like 7-10 Manchins and Sinemas. Now there’s just like 3.
no that is called aging and dying off
because elections are rigged when the information for the elections are bought/controlled by the same owner class that are trying to sell you products that are also buying politicians and the same owner class that also owns the voting machines that are used to vote for our politicians and the same owner class that owns the local news and national news plus all media
Brother, 48/50 Dem senators voted for Biden’s BBB.
That would be unheard of in a year like 2010.
How many Venezuelans have the Democrats blown up this year?
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Well, democrats are asking to extend current discounted health insurance costs for everyone and republicans implemented massive tax cuts that gave the top 5% of earners 3-4x the tax benefit compared to the lower 40% Link.
So no, the parties actually take substantially different views on the so-called owner class.
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