• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    Sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re doing the right thing. But if Trump praises you for it, you can be assured it’s not.

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    18 days ago

    I think now is as good a time as any to remember that despite Chuck’s poor decisions, this is a republican bill written by the GOP and passed with every Republican in tow and a very small number of DNC (if it can even pass with Chuck’s blessings at all).

    This problem exists because of the Republicans. Screw Chuck, for sure, but Fuck those Republican traitors.

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      18 days ago

      I have a different view. he had two bad choices available and he chose the worse one.

      he and the establishment Dems (hehem, Biden) as well as turncoats like Lieberman/Sinema/Machin/Fetterman who were inexplicably allowed to caucus with the party) are precisely why we’re here today watching the rise of fascism and oligarchy. from failing to seat a supreme court justice under Obama, sabotaging Bernie (twice), fielding awful presidential candidate after candidate, allowing the military to expand endlessly, not codifying Roe (and doing nothing in response to it’s overturning), to censoring Al Motherfucking Green…

      the entire “opposition party” looks weak and disorganized and incapable of fighting every time a crisis arises. the party needs more progressive leadership and they need to realize that sometimes it’s appropriate to break a few rules and take risks on big power plays. and forward popular plans that will actually energize the base.

      these ‘play it safe’ supposedly harm reducing tactics are why we’re here today. they had 8 years since 2016 to come up with ways to combat trumpism and the best they could do, after flopping on the election and then peacefully handing over power to a sociopath and a nazi billionaire - was… write an op ed in the New York Times.

      I’m done with this group of shit heads. there are better senators who should be in charge. we need people getting mad and breaking shit, not another patronizing speech about having patience until the next midterm.

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        18 days ago

        Patience for midterms? God no, we need to be supporting the DNC starting yesterday. There is no waiting for Midterms, we need to be contacting representatives, holding up signs, attending rallies, deep canvasing today.

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    17 days ago

    So although passing this budget was obviously terrible, how is it worse than no budget at all? No budget followed by a government shutdown would be the ideal case for Trump and Elon to take yet more power from Congress. The Democrats aren’t in any good position of power right now so expecting the budget to include any of their priorities is unrealistic.

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      17 days ago

      Because removing requirements to spend money the way congress intends is to forgo your power of the purse and this is the only thing a republican majority needs them for. Schumer is literally greenlighting the coming holocaust piggy bank all because his donors gave him a call. Disgusting fucking greedy loser.

      Read the details of the agreement, this allows funds to be pulled from other projects for whatever Trump wants. 350 billion for ICE? Why not. Thanks Chuck, I’m sure the American Holocaust will take longer to get to the Jews than the last one. There was also the claim that Government employees don’t want to be folurloughed but a majority were okay if it mean congress made it harder to fire them.

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        17 days ago

        Thank you for clarifying that this removes the requirement to spend the money where it was allocated. This answers my question and could indeed be worse than a shutdown.