I remember when Democrats mocked Bernie Sanders because they had worked with Republicans to successfully block all legislation he had introduced except renaming a post office.
Now they’re acting like this petty shit is an accomplishment.
Hey, everyone on this thread saying “do something useful”. The democrats are currently the house minority. The Republicans will torpedo anything useful they propose, and have already signaled that they will do so. The dems are blocking what they can when it is proposed. This is performative, yes. That’s exactly what a minority party does outside of responding to what the majority party dictates, which dems are also doing. Johnson and conservative committees decide on what is brought to the floor, so no amount of hard work magically makes good legislation happen.
To add to that, this is three Democrats who spent like three minutes talking about and signing something a staffer typed up. It’s not like we were about to have free healthcare but we can’t now because they decided to spend months of work on this.
Honestly, it kinda makes my eyes roll too. I would never argue this stuff is effective. It’s just not diverting any resources or attention away from anything important.
I disagree entirely with your middle paragraph. They cannot “bring anything to the table”. That’s the entire point of what I said. The minority members cannot just bring things up for vote like that. Consider the turmoil that would cause when conservatives are in the minority. Like it or no, there is not a single productive thing Democratic House members can do but posture, block, and campaign right now. It’s the way our government is constructed and a natural side effect of bipartisanship dying when the conservatives decided to go fully insane.
I’m with you, it’s very demoralizing. Let’s not forget, there are a ton of useful things going on behind the scenes. Democrats are blocking harmful legislation where they can and you really can’t overstate the importance of campaigning in an election year. We don’t have the power to introduce or pass legislation, but that does not mean important things not happening. Defense is still essential, even if you don’t get a bunch of shiny new things to show for it.
It used to be that all votes were not completely along party lines and the members of a legislative body would actually… deliberate. Every issue and vote now has only one dimension that matters.
Sure, but it is almost an inevitable result of FPTP, the makeup of the Senate, etc, and not just because people don’t want to deliberate. The two parties are living in completely different realities at this point and that does not set a stage for deliberation. I don’t have an answer for you, and I’m not sure that anyone in America truly does right now. There is no simple answer, that is certain. We should all be very suspect of anyone who tries to sell us one.
Wooooo yes more performative partisan bullshit! That’s what all the people want! More performative bullshit! More insults! Let’s take some money out of Medicare and fund a big gold statue of Biden taking a dump on Trumps chest!!!
I bet this gets bipartisan support as it makes Trump look tough on crime to his fans and immature democrats will laugh at the irony without realizing they’re actually helping their opponents
There were a fair number of deeply conservative fans of the Colbert Report because they didn’t realize it was satire. If we can trick the party into thinking this honors Trump I’m all for it. You know he also wanted to drain the swamp so I think there are a few sewage treatment plants we could name after him.
My mother in law came over yesterday to share some of the stew she made with ingredients from the food bank. I was so grateful that I got a day this week where I didn’t have to pay for food. This shit is not helping anyone.
I can’t make your part of the world better, but I promise I’m trying to make the world around me better. And I hope someone like me is doing the same around you.
Bearing in mind the only powers Dem House members have currently are introducing bills that won’t pass or helping the Reps pass a bill that will hurt you and yours, how would you like them to spend their time instead?
It feels like he has gotten more orange recently. I don’t know if it’s that he’s using a different shade of concealer, is missing more spots so his pale skin shows against the concealer, or the various images I’ve seen have had weird saturation issues, but it’s noticeable. Like a bad spray tan in some images, though I expect some of those may be saturated.
Given how angry some folks get over certain jokes based on the age of the joke indicates to me that the jokes remain at least somewhat effective in their goal of drawing attention to how ridiculous something is.
You should save all that pity energy for the guy in the mirror
actually genuinely cringed irl. The worst part is I bet you really thought this was very clever as you were writing it, lol
I cannot believe how many people are really seriously unironically taking a big stand and getting extremely indignant over someone telling you your zero-effort insults are zero-effort, lol.
It’s funny because Trump chooses to look orange. He probably spends a bunch of money turning on and maintaining the orange. He somehow truly believes that is his best look.
That doesn’t really make a difference. Hasn’t Trump done and said enough stupid shit that actually merits criticism? Making fun of how someone looks is literally the lowest tier of criticism.
I don’t see it ever not being funny.
Yeah, if you guys haven’t grown up by now, I agree you probably never will.
I’m in my 40’s and chuckle when I see bullies thrown on their own sword. Review my post history and ridicule me appropriately, no one here gives a fuck.
It’s funny because this chuckle fuck won’t go away. We’d all love to never see skits about him on late night again… so can he please shut the fuck up and go away already?
White he was occupying the White House (you know, the 75% of the time he wasn’t golfing) Trump would take two scoops of ice cream and make sure everyone else got just one scoop.
Hence the name “Donny Two-Scoops.” Bonus point, that’s also why Jr is named “Half-Scoop.”
Do you remember that photo of his shitty combover being blown backwards where you could see the border between his skin and his clown makeup? It was circulating with some text like, “after you use Tupperware for spaghetti one time.”
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