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The Republicans have demonstrated that no, these things do not take time.
If America was a school we'd have one party full of bullies smoking in the bathroom who don't give a shit if one of their ranks breaks the rules so long as it's not messing with them personally, and we've got another party full of brown nosers who will run and tell the teacher any time someone even thinks about using the wrong kind of pencil. Neither is good for the student body as a whole, but in very different ways.
The teacher? John Roberts & co.
I asked for a gender inclusive restroom, was gaslighted those things take time. I then emailed CEO cc’ed chair of board of directors. It was converted in 2 days.
It was never about time, it’s about agency
Yep, it takes time for us peons but the dictators can do anything they please.
Add long as you brazenly break rules and laws, and your controlling party willingly does nothing about it
Let's break some laws to make everyone better off.
The only law democrats are willing to break is the Leahy law.
No that would be terrorism put the bread down Mr valjean
Breaking things is a lot faster than fixing them...
Particularly when you're not interested in fixing them.
Have you ever broken an arm? A window? A car? A heart?
Fixing things takes time.
That doesn't excuse not starting when given a chance. The focus should be on establishment Dems' failures to start fixing things, not on setting some unrealistic expectation that all it would take is a snap of the fingers and bippity boppity boo.
And until they start fixing things, "fixing things takes time" holds within it the implicit lie that they're trying.
You're right. That's only for netanyahu's every whim.
Burning things down is easy, building them up takes time
If they truly get a majority to override the president, or in the future can then make the tri fecta again, it's easy to fix shit. Just make it what it was before, blast it through committees like the Republicans do with hardly a word from someone else. The question then is are Democrats incompetent or complicit.
Excuses excuses.
Yes, Democrats like to whine that they only got 60 votes in the Senate for a short period during Obama's term. You want to know the last time Republicans had 60 votes in the Senate? 1911.
It's been over a century since Republicans had that kind of majority, and I think back then the filibuster had a larger threshold to overrule, so they probably didn't even have a filibuster-proof majority even then. You probably have to go back to Reconstruction to find Republicans with that kind of majority.
Do you know how Republicans dismantle programs without a filibuster-proof majority? They do it by cutting funding. They cut funding to programs and zero out their budgets. The program still exists in legislation; it just isn't funded.
To fix that damage does not require breaking a filibuster. It just requires properly funding those programs again. And funding can be passed with just a simple majority.
And of course, much of what Republicans do is done by executive order, and that can easily be reversed by the next Democratic president.
Burn down systems of oppression, then. Oh wait. That also magically takes time because this stupid platitude is just the latest in a long line of excuses from the pawl of the ratchet.
Then start burning what the republicans built or fuck off.