Their way was orders of magnitudes worse.

Signing it is a defeat, and its our fault for voting in a conservative 119th Congress after voting in a split 118th Congress. Blaming Biden and blaming Democrats exasperates the problem that caused this.

Got it, you think yes is no and up is down, lmao

They literally didn’t choose the 0% yet you claim the thing they did actually choose is an illusion?

So you choose 0%, wow thats sick anon.

Always do, but the difficult part about winning is getting other people to vote Dem. Even this comment section is highly hostile to the idea despite being filled with people actively being harmed by republicans.

Actually, Biden signed the congressional budget 5 days ago averting Shutdown. Democrats don’t want shutdown, Republicans do.

If he didn’t sign it then families would have just gone without coverage and the military would be unfunded until Trump entered office and signed it regardless. In fact, handing it off to the next congress could result in an even worse bill.

Out of curiosity if I made you choose between:

• 0% of military troops’ families getting salaries and healthcare

• 100% of military troops’ families getting salaries and healthcare with the sole exception of trans care

What would you choose?

Although, honestly, since we’re in hypotheticals and foresight, Biden could have let them go without pay and possibly triggered a Bonus Army type scenario where the military protests.

It doesn’t cover their hormone replacement and other trans care, but it still covers all their sickness and injuries.

A big part of the issue is they need 60 votes on budgets, constitutional amendments, court decision reversals, and removal from court/congress/presidency.

So either you have bipartisanship between moderates and literally satan to cover 99.9% of troops families, or you have the entire government collapse leaving every single troops family without coverage.

The only way out is to give the progressive party 60 votes, but every election cycle we stray further away from that.

Although there is also a way for 34 states to come together and force a constitutional change, but idk if that has ever once happened in all of US History?

Yeah I really wish I didn’t have to think about Reagan’s bullshit like all the time.

Citizens United decision was in 2010, and after 2011 they lost the votes needed ever since, so probably more like 2010/2011 was the only time they had enough power to do anything about it.

To be clear, a law banned PACs in 2002 but the courts decided that banning the pacs violated the first ammendment, meaning that simply passing a new law wouldn’t cut it. You would need either a constitutional amendment, replacing the courts, or some other measure involving a supermajority.

Fat fucking chance it passes under Republican Majority, but if they do somehow get Citizens United overturned then I’m willing to forgive them.

If it reveals GOP hipocracy on how they treat Pelosi vs their own stock traders, then maybe a little PR would do a lot of good.

The ball is in Republican court, money where their mouth is, the DNC is ready to ban stock trading for its members even if it means expulsion of Nancy Pelosi who married a stock broker decades ago.

Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:

• HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!

TikTok

Is Run

By Dictatorship Military

It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.

I feel like you’re missing the very clear context that Republicans are hyper partisan who refuse to cross the isle. Earlier this year they voted down their own border security bill because Biden gave it the greenlight.

I think you’re cool and a really good person.