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[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure if the current democrats have enough of a spine to oust the sitting president, even if they get enough of a majority...

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 146 points 2 weeks ago

Vote in the fucking primaries so you can get better democrats.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I agree with that sentiment, shame I'm not actually from the US. My in-laws are but they're (allegedly) too disconnected from politics to care. I still feel like they might be closeted Trumpers that don't want to openly say so but who knows.

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Even if they aren't, they are satisfied with status quo apparently.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well I have been hearing them complain more about it being more difficult to make ends meet. Perhaps that'll finally make them rethink their political stance.

I mean just stating the endless facts, would be enough for a somewhat sane person to grasp how fucking awful this current administration is. There's endless fuel every day. Just collect a list of the worst stuff, you can still fill the whole day with a fairly neutral list of facts... That should be enough motivation to vote them away...

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

But if they don't care, some facts won't change that.

And if they believe that Kamala would have been worse, you are done.

sane person

If you don't care about getting poorer everyday, well you probably aren't a sane person. Unfortunately the amount of insane people in the US seems to be growing for some time I guess...

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

If they don't care about politics at this point, I can't declare them sane by any means.

[-] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Voted for Bernie

DNC: "best I can do is HRC"

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Keep at it, or people like Bernie won't even try.

Down ballot is even more important, because those are races you can affect. There's only 15-20,000 people voting in most US House primaries.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

You think if the most unbelievable thing happened and a Democrat won every election to somehow hold both a majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, they wouldn’t toss him out?

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Conviction in an impeachment trial needs 67 votes. They currently hold 45 seats. In order to get to 67, they'd need a clean sweep of all Senate races.

[-] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 21 points 2 weeks ago

Even then, what's the over under on a convent count of turncoats that vote against because we "just need to come together and heal the nation."

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, the Schumer classic.

[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Damn. Well that’s some quality cynicism.

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Tbf at this point it's well earned. The Republicans are still not switching positions about Epstein, the 25th and other things and their voters sure as hell did, so one can only conclude the more cynical position, that is, there is so much corruption it takes more than an elite sex abuse ring for the Republicans to finally do something.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

I assure you it isn’t offered willingly, I wish I could say otherwise.

[-] jontree255@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

If Democrats think we’re mad now wait till they see how mad we get if we give them a supermajority and they don’t do anything.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

even if they get enough of a majority...

And there's the rub.

The House is one thing, the Senate another. Only 1/3 of the current Senate seats go up for election, and the majority of seats up for vote that are currently held by Republicans are from very safe Republican stronghold states. I don't think there's a chance that the Dems get control of the Senate, even if they gain a couple seats.

As for the "problem" Dems, Fetterman isn't up for reelection. Schumer isn't up for reelection. Kaine isn't up for reelection. Shaheen and Durbin are at least retiring, but none of the other sellouts are on the ballot until 2028 at the earliest.

Best we can hope for is that the House flips to a Democratic majority (a supermajority is still beyond question) and that turns the next two years into an ineffectual lame duck Congress. But it's not like that'd be all that different from the situation right now anyways, because Trump has demonstrated he doesn't give a shit about Congress and will just issue illegal executive orders for everything he wants to do, while the courts twiddle their thumbs and maybe question the legality of his actions 10 years from now.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

Oh gee, i guess it's better to vote Trump then...

[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't they literally just file a bill to get him removed...?

[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, there's a pattern with this kind of thing. File a bill on a popular issue when they're in the minority, but just flat out ignore the issue when they've taken the majority.

Not feeling arsed enough to dig up examples, probably because I've given in to cynicism on the matter. But I doubt it would take much digging for anybody curious...

Edit: from my feed today-

Oh, wait, that doesn't happen, so I'm the one imaging things. 🙄

[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 8 points 2 weeks ago

There's no such pattern. You're talking out of your ass.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, buddy. Whatever you say 🙄

[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 9 points 2 weeks ago

"This is totally true, but I'm not going to give a single example. But trust me, it totally is".

Yawn.

[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Couldn't care less if you trust me. Don't even care about your misplaced trust in politicians. Your loss, after all.

[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Stole this image from my feed. I didn't even have to do any research and found an example.

But you don't like my argument, so I must be wrong.

How's that for "cute", dumbass?

[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no, some random tweet?? Whatever will I do!

Have you actually used any braincells to engage with it? Or did you see it, race over here to comment, and forget to actually think?

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