• @alexc
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    114 minutes ago

    I predict Vaccine tourism is just around the corner…

  • @[email protected]
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    596 hours ago

    Future histories of the collapse of the US will include a section on the utter failure of checks and balances.

    • @thisorthatorwhatever
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      56 hours ago

      All other western democracies use some sort of parliamentary system akin to what the English have, a party appointed Prime Minister with very limited power. Presidential systems always devolve into fiefdoms.

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    236 hours ago

    Was a forgone thing given the makeup of the Senate. Facts and qualifications don’t matter if the orange one says so.

  • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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    186 hours ago

    I begrudgingly respect Mitch McConnell for being the only dissenter, both here and with Tulsi Gabbard.

    He’s still a piece of shit and I’d happily piss on his grave but he’s doing better than the rest of them in the face of the coup.

    • @[email protected]
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      Good chance he wouldn’t have dissented if Trump’s picks weren’t going to pass without his vote.

      • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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        166 hours ago

        Oh I have ZERO doubt

        He’s always been a fuckin worm who’s sold out my mountains and the people who worked them.

    • @dogslayeggs
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      85 hours ago

      Nah, he’s just at the end of his career and is no longer concerned with reelection while also 100% confident in the vote passing without his vote. He has the seniority to be allowed to have a “conscience vote” that the other members can’t have.

      • Flying Squid
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        54 hours ago

        I can believe that about Gabbard, but McConnell had polio himself. It’s always different for Republicans if it’s about them.

        • @dogslayeggs
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          34 hours ago

          Solid point. It is always the same story: the only moral abortion is mine, gay marriage is evil until my son/daughter comes out, get rid of all government programs except the one that benefits me, don’t vote against the party unless you have a personal reason not to.

          • Flying Squid
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            54 hours ago

            I always think of Cheney suddenly not being a homophobe after his daughter came out.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 hours ago

    Well, maybe we’ll get lucky and this will result in conservatives depleting their numbers. Natural selection and all…

    • @tburkhol
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      205 hours ago

      I remember hearing the same thing about Covid.