• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    Oh, so its actually, factually, Johnson who shut down the government.

    Good to know as trivia I guess, not like right wingers are on speaking terms with reality.

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I’m curious why the GOP seems to be actively pursuing a shutdown right now, that they have full trilateral control over the Federal Government. Trump already isn’t bothering to staff or govern the administrations they don’t like, it seems like this would only hamper their goals with ICE & DHS, right?

      Is there even an actual goal here? Or are they betting on Schumer et al caving at the last possible nanosecond?

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    8 days ago

    Turns out that having the legislature operate via a Gentleman’s Agreement that assumes good faith behavior and concentrates power in the hands of a small number of people was really bad for Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    I think it has been thoroughly and repeatedly established that this poor excuse of a withered Dollar Store twist-tie has no shame.

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        8 days ago

        I think the goal of some of these lemmites (lemmings, lemmors?) is to push all the moderates out of the Democratic Party so we’re left with only the truest most liberal of politicians. And from there, we will win 20 senate seats and never see the presidency again.

        If democrats aren’t alienating the majority of Americans, they aren’t the party for us!

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          8 days ago

          Talking about alienating people…

          I think we could all live without “”“moderates”“” like you.

          • danc4498@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            Is that your go to when you disagree either someone, but don’t have a real argument? Go find out which mods have overreacted to something and then that invalidates everything that user ever says?

            I am not moderate, I’m anything but homophobic/transphobic, so that is 100% irrelevant.

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    8 days ago

    Democrats must demand the files be released as one of their requirements. Make it so that Republicans are at fault because they were so scared of the Epstein files

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      8 days ago

      I’m ambivalent about this. It’s really not as important as everything else, but I feel like it’s the only thing that will resonate with half the country

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        7 days ago

        it’s the only thing that will resonate with half the country

        The best part about it is that it resonates with half the right and half the left. And the half of the left that doesn’t care already knows the score and is more worried about more direct problems.