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It's literally this fucking meme every time.
People get told over and over to vote Democrat to prevent fascism, and when the fascists end up elected, the Democrats just fucking collaborate with them anyways. No wonder they're scared of Mamdani.
USA is a single split personality party state
The illusion of choice is proudly sponsored by the New American Ruling Class.
One like they imagine themselves to be and one for how they really are
It's giving Smeagol/Gollum
It's amazing how many of you people tacitly suggest that the millions of immigrants at risk of being disappeared aren't America. Because that is what you're saying here — make no mistake.
Edit: I feel I should clarify — you are fucking wrong if you think those immigrants are not Americans. Like never speak in my presence again, wrong.
By now I think you should vote 3rd party. No, the dems aren't as bad as the fascists, but they won't save you from them either.
Absolutely. We need ranked choice voting to prevent spoiler effect. NYC used it well!
It's Italian fascits vs. German fascists.
Nazi collaborators aren't remembered fondly either.
My assumption was that the Republicans weren't going to shift
a lot of the money they got for tax breaks for the wealthy came from pillaging Medicaid. They can't really back out and do their tax policy. I also didn't think that the Democrats were going to just block the budget until Trump leaves office.
So I think that if what you were hoping for was all the healthcare coming back, that probably wasn't going to be in the cards. I commented on roughly that earlier, that what I expected was one of the Republicans using the nuclear option (change the Senate rules to permit passing the budget without a supermajority), or the Democrats ending the shutdown without at least a full change on Medicaid.
The Democrats don't really have much by way of levers to pull, because the Republicans hold a trifecta. This is one of the few things that they can do, and it's a pretty weak lever.
So it really came down to a political play based on what will win more public support for the midterms. Will people shift Republican or Democratic? The Republicans will try to get people upset at the Democrats, to shift Republican. The Democrats will try to get people to shift Democratic. If the Democrats gain control of the House in the midterms, then they gain a substantial amount of leverage.
Will they do anything with it in this hypothetical? They had the trifecta for a brief time didn’t they? And didn’t really do anything substantial with it….
What, like, restore Medicaid funding? I mean, sure, I expect so. They were the ones who set up the funding in the first place.