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[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

Burning things down is easy, building them up takes time

[-] BeardededSquidward 4 points 5 hours ago

If they truly get a majority to override the president, or in the future can then make the tri fecta again, it's easy to fix shit. Just make it what it was before, blast it through committees like the Republicans do with hardly a word from someone else. The question then is are Democrats incompetent or complicit.

[-] isleepinahammock 9 points 11 hours ago

Excuses excuses.

Yes, Democrats like to whine that they only got 60 votes in the Senate for a short period during Obama's term. You want to know the last time Republicans had 60 votes in the Senate? 1911.

It's been over a century since Republicans had that kind of majority, and I think back then the filibuster had a larger threshold to overrule, so they probably didn't even have a filibuster-proof majority even then. You probably have to go back to Reconstruction to find Republicans with that kind of majority.

Do you know how Republicans dismantle programs without a filibuster-proof majority? They do it by cutting funding. They cut funding to programs and zero out their budgets. The program still exists in legislation; it just isn't funded.

To fix that damage does not require breaking a filibuster. It just requires properly funding those programs again. And funding can be passed with just a simple majority.

And of course, much of what Republicans do is done by executive order, and that can easily be reversed by the next Democratic president.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Burn down systems of oppression, then. Oh wait. That also magically takes time because this stupid platitude is just the latest in a long line of excuses from the pawl of the ratchet.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 24 points 17 hours ago

Then start burning what the republicans built or fuck off.

this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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