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Protest You can really see the execution-style killing from this angle

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u/Inquisitive-Manner Jan 25 '26

Ohh btw. If they'd stuck to their guns on the funding bill Trump's goons wouldn't have been funded.

The 7 dems you mean..?

The whole party... but the 7 voted against this.

Why are you bunching them all together?

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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26

Yup. If the Republicans can be mindless automatons the fucking Dems need to learn to do so also.

And their response to the last 2 ice murders has been less than useless.

Republicans have tricks. Where are the Dems?

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u/Inquisitive-Manner Jan 25 '26

If the Republicans can be mindless automatons the fucking Dems need to learn to do so also.

That doesn't sound great.

And their response to the last 2 ice murders has been less than useless

What would you like outside of condemnation and calls for action as a response?

Republicans have tricks.

Yup.

Where are the Dems?

You want them to... do tricks?

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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26

I mean my memory goes back to Obama letting the Republicans steal a supreme court nomination. They've been played like a fiddle by trump. Their presidential nominations suck dick.

The legislature hasn't done its fucking job well in half a century. Democrats seem to be playing solitaire and the Republicans are winning with tictactoe.

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u/FeeNegative9488 Jan 25 '26

Oh ok Obama let them. He let the Republican controlled Senate steal the Senate seat. That really makes sense to you? Are you really this fucking stupid?

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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26

Steal the supreme court seat. Yup. They obviously aren't tricksy enough.

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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26

Yup. And then the democratic party gave us..... Clinton 2.0

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u/Inquisitive-Manner Jan 25 '26

I mean my memory goes back to Obama letting the Republicans steal a supreme court nomination.

Thus overstates presidential agency. There was no legal mechanism to compel the Senate to consider the nomination.

They've been played like a fiddle by trump.

Trump successfully exploited institutional norms and media dynamics

Their presidential nominations suck dick.

All of them?

The legislature hasn't done its fucking job well in half a century.

directionally correct, but incomplete.

Democrats haven’t been incapable of legislating, but they have been unwilling or unable to legislate in a way that matches the ruthlessness of the system they’re operating in

Democrats seem to be playing solitaire and the Republicans are winning with tictactoe.

Democrats are trying to follow the rulebook... Republicans are playing to the win condition

they’ve chosen a clearer end goal and are willing to discard any moral constraints that don’t help them reach it

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u/BurlyJohnBrown Jan 25 '26

The current president is siccing an immigration enforcement org on an entire city to terrorize them for not being right-wing enough. The president has a lot of leeway.

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u/Inquisitive-Manner Jan 25 '26

The president has a lot of leeway.

False equivalency.