Ardennes posted:

It is about connecting with your jerk bag sociopathic “friends.”

How does Xanax mix with vodka?

Ardennes posted:

How does Xanax mix with vodka?

Alec Eiffel posted:

Serious question: why don’t the Democrats run on a popular platform that will better the lives of millions of Americans and then execute their platform once in office? It seems pretty simple. In fact, it might be a part of the basic job description of a politician. Anyway, that’s what I would do.

bag em and tag em posted:

Excuse me but your vote belongs to the Democrats. They owe you NOTHING and gently caress you for even suggesting "policies" or "results" come into it.

Alec Eiffel posted:

Serious question: why don’t the Democrats run on a popular platform that will better the lives of millions of Americans and then execute their platform once in office? It seems pretty simple. In fact, it might be a part of the basic job description of a politician. Anyway, that’s what I would do.

500 good dogs posted:

LastInLine posted:

At first blush this might seem false but when I actually think about I can't remember a politician telling me they'd do anything to improve my life at all.

Noob Saibot posted:

Can you imagine if the libs end up storming the capitol over broken campaign promises

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

there will be protests if '24 is stolen, which will be immediately condemned by democrats who don't want to appear to be doing a 1/6

the republican congress will still hold hearings on the "radical left insurrection" regardless

Ardennes posted:

How does Xanax mix with vodka?

quote:

Last year, she listened as Joe Biden promised he would protect the right to vote if he was elected president. “One thing the Senate and the president can do right away is pass the bill to restore the Voting Rights Act … it’s one of the first things I’ll do as president if elected. We can’t let the fundamental right to vote be denied,” he said in July last year.

Months later, Butler and other organizers had a breakthrough that had been years in the making. After years of investing in voter mobilization, turnout among Black voters surged in the November election, helping Joe Biden win a state long seen as a Republican stronghold. In January, Black voters came out again and helped Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win two upset Senate bids, giving Democrats control of the US Senate.

On the night he was elected president, Biden called out the Black voters who helped him capture the presidency, saying: “When this campaign was at its lowest – the African American community stood up again for me. They always have my back, and I’ll have yours.”

And so, after Biden was inaugurated, Butler and many others expected that voting rights would be one of the first things the president and Democrats addressed.

Instead, during the president’s first year in office, Butler has watched with dismay as Biden and Democrats have failed to pass any voting rights legislation. Meanwhile, Republicans in Georgia passed sweeping new voting restrictions, one of several places across the country that made it harder to vote.

“It is disheartening, I can tell you, out of all the work we’ve put in to have fair elections, to get people engaged, and to have the Senate that will not act to protect the most sacred right, the right to vote, is unheard of,” Butler said.

“[It] makes voters say ‘Did I vote for the right people? … you haven’t fought for me. Why should I fight to keep you in office in 2022?’”

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As the window to pass legislation closes, some voting rights activists say the White House is too passive.

After Biden made his strongest signal to date of altering the filibuster, activists had high hopes for getting details on strategy during a 15 November meeting with Kamala Harris, whom Biden asked to lead the White House’s voting rights effort.

Instead, Harris gave six minutes of remarks and then left staff to answer questions. Some attendees were upset and one, Cliff Albright, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told the Guardian of the meeting: “Nothing substantive came out of it, it was very frustrating.”

Like Butler, Albright said he was concerned about the message to Black voters who turned out and helped elect Biden and Harris.

“You’ve got people in the White House and friends of the White House that believe ‘if we get it done, people don’t care how long it took.’ I think that they’re dangerously mistaken,” he said. “People remember that you prioritized everything else above our interests.”

CaptainACAB posted:

Take: The demonrats WANT to get destroyed in 2022.

CaptainACAB posted:

Take: The demonrats WANT to get destroyed in 2022.

CaptainACAB posted:

Take: The demonrats WANT to get destroyed in 2022.

Nothus posted:

The liberal elite media will cheer it on until someone yells at McConnell at a restaurant, at which point they will condemn the protestors and say we need to move on.

Obama will beam down from planet billionaire to say we just need to vote harder next time.

Srice posted:

trump would insult pete with some ubiquitous pop culture reference again and once again pete would fall on his face trying to formulate a comeback

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

All I want is for once after Trump wins in 24 regardless of the actual vote, and it's mask off even for liberals that this isn't a democracy, for Obama to say "vote harder" in a speech at a commencement or something and get booed

And then just watch as Obama's ego is crushed and he goes full heel Chappelle mode and starts ranting about CRT and trans rights

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:

i mean look how fast obama moved when the nba players were talking about going on strike of course if there were serious protests he'd magically appear again

Business Gorillas posted:

Pete loses the LGBT vote because Trump makes a mid 80s pop culture reference and Pete reveals he doesn't have a favorite Streisand album

DoubleDonut posted:

It will be very funny even the democrats get destroyed in 2022 but don’t fool yourself into thinking democrat voters will ever learn anything

i say swears online posted:

lol unironically ask trump and pete about david byrne and see who gives a better answer

Lastgirl posted:

this is doomer talk we dont appreciate that

blue wave is coming, i am manifesting a blue wave tulpa

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

One can hope, but in my heart I know my lib family will be haranguing me about voting for Dems even if its plainly obvious they're controlled opposition

smug jeebus posted:

Just so I'm clear: the four committees that Joe Manchin is on, they can remove him from those, yes? Or at least threaten to do that? And they're just...not?


The democrats are going to get destroyed in 2022

Business Gorillas posted:

I wonder if they know if they're controlled opposition

30.5 Days posted:

Hilariously, I don't believe they can: you need 50 votes to amend the rules, and he will probably not support that. It would be funny to make him vote for it, though, and would make reelection difficult or impossible if they had 48 votes to remove him.

They have many, many ways of making his life miserable, though. They could move his office every week, they could ban him from the party office space and force him to rent his own. The DOJ could investigate his daughter, the ethics committee could investigate him. They could gently caress up his travel and make it hard for him to go home, they could schedule all four of his committees to meet at the same time on purpose. They don't want to.