• Serinus
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    “A bunch” is roughly three. Sinema, Fetterman, and, uh… I’m sure there’s one more.

    It’s easier to stop things than to pass things. You’ll notice Republicans aren’t getting a lot done right now, exactly. At least not through Congress.

    They’re doing so many blatantly illegal things, largely with the blessing of the DoJ and the Supreme Court. But they can’t get the SAVE Act through to stop us from voting.

    It turns out every bit matters.

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      “A bunch” is roughly three. Sinema, Fetterman, and, uh…

      If you can’t name more than two Senators… Jesus, dude. Maybe start with Henry Cuellar and Bob Menendez. Ritchie Torres. Elissa Slotkin. Eric Swalwell. Josh Gottheimer. Do I really need to make you the full list?

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        Whenever there is a democratic majority, just enough Democrats will turn to make any actual change impossible, like a public option with Obama. Or when the blue dog Democrats fucked healthcare reform under Clinton. It’s happened every time and will continue to happen because the ratchet effect is a feature that always ends in facism and oligarchy, which is where you make your real money.

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          The ratchet effect is real, but it’s because when the Dems have a majority they’re relying on West Virginia. Republicans kiss the ring or they’re kicked from politics, just look at Ted Cruz.

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            Yeah it’s always something, and it’s always gonna be something. And that thing is oligarchy.

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            when the Dems have a majority they’re relying on West Virginia

            They’re relying on a billionaire scion of a coal dynasty. Plenty of working class labor friendly people in WV. But the Dem Senate committee won’t touch any of them.

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          Is that why Biden got more progressive change through than any prior president despite record breaking political resistance?

          You need break the dependency on the idiots who talk about fake “bipartisanship”, like Manchin

          When get only get small majorities, these damn idiots gets a say, you need to make those dumbasses irrelevant

          https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/joe-manchin-nominees-bipartisan-support

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      Jeffries, Schumer, Pelosi, Kaine, Booker… pretty much anyone not in the squad or otherwise on the AIPAC tiddy

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        The neolibs are not responsible for the majority of our problems.

        Their biggest crimes are Israel and not being aggressive enough on changes. They’re not the ones preventing most of the legislation we’ve tried to pass, such as the public option with the ACA.

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          As far as you’re concerned, their biggest crime is not supporting genocide even harder.

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            can you read I’m not American and have no dog in this fight apart from not wanting the USA to fuck the world worse than currently, but they literally mentioned genocide/Israel being their biggest crime