Am I supposed to sit here and wait for republicans to feel ashamed or some shit? Am I supposed to sit around and wait for Democrats to magically win seats in red states? Seriously. If Obama couldn’t - or wouldn’t - do jack shit after the first dozen of children were murdered, why exactly am I expected to be hopeful that Biden will?
I love that the Dems justify punching left by saying that they have to appeal to red states, but then they all rally around an issue that red states fucking hate
It’s spectacle. The voters watch the shadows on the wall and imagine it is reality. They’d rather watch the same shadow play and shout out the same, tired audience participation lines, than free themselves from the cave of capitalist realism. I don’t know why they think a different set of players on the stage will change the ending of the script.
He fights every single Republican trial by combat style. He will probably die but its gonna be a great show.
“At the time of independence in 1776, trial by combat had not been abolished and it has never formally been abolished since. The question of whether trial by combat remains a valid alternative to civil action has been argued to remain open, at least in theory” (See folks there is a chance)
As long as the filibuster exists - everything they say is a joke because they can’t get to 60 votes.
If Biden or the DC dems were serious about anything - last year they would have…
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Put the thumbscrews on Manchin, Sinema, and other shit dems.
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Killed the filibuster
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Gotten to work and actually done stuff.
For point one Biden could have called them into his office and given them carrot and the stick.
Carrot: Work with me and do what I say - I stump for you, you get a shitton of campaign donations, and when you retire - you get a fantastical non-job sinecure where you do no work but get 6 (or 7) figures a year.
Stick: Don’t work with me? Every three letter agency I can think of investigates you or audits you or checks you out. I do the same all the members of your family and the people you love. Everybody get as many colonoscopies as possible.
Example - Not only must Manchin be dirty - I bet his daughter is even dirtier. She’s the reason Epipens are so insanely expensive. She got her beak wet.
This is imagining Biden is serious about any of this and is any better than Manchin himself
The politicians don’t intend on passing them, except for maybe a couple as-yet-unjaded idealists. There’s a reason they have a rotating villain.
The democratic voters, however, believe that a good inspiring speech combined with performative protests will suddenly bring empathy and compassion to the GOP, because they watched too much West Wing. This is why we must bully them.
They were protesting outside the NRA convention! Politely! Behind police barriers! They didn’t even go inside and fuck shit up! That’s Libs stretching their political agency to the utmost. That is the horizon of what they are capable of. Politely standing in the designated free speech zone waiting for someone to save them.
