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Evil Fluffy posted:Abortion, gay rights, universal healthcare, and a bunch of other progressive policies have wide support in the US but sure go ahead with these lead-brained takes. Two party and team politics is a hell of a drug for low information voters. This doesn't really matter because half of the voting population, regardless of their feelings on the above policies, prioritize being racist self-absorbed monsters lusting for tax cuts over all other political stances. So even if they are popular it doesn't matter because conservatives who care aren't going to give up the racism for anything and the people you need to make up the difference either don't vote out of apathy or can't vote through disenfranchisement.
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Ogmius815 posted:I can’t reiterate enough that the time to stop this was November 11, 2016. All of this was pretty much written on that day. All of this is a direct and foreseeable consequence of the results of that election. Naw, it was 2008. Obama held the presidency, the court was 4-5 or 5-4, they held the house and the senate. They needed to kill the filibuster and then pass comprehensive voting rights (and medicare for all, and codify abortion, and any number of other good things that could get done with that supermajority). But they didn't, Ed Kennedy died and was replaced with a republican and now they couldn't break the filibuster anymore and oops all losses ever since. Even when they win they lose because they have no means of breaking the minority stranglehold and their last (for the forseeable future) chance to do that was 2008.
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Discendo Vox posted:The Democrats are not a monolithic bloc. They did not have the Senate votes to do any of those things. They had 60 (59 after about 6 months), they definitely would have if they had killed the filibuster. I remember the ACA whipping they had to do, there was only like 3 idiots holding out for garbage legislation that could have been ignored entirely without the filibuster and the same would probably have held true for other things. They may not be a block but they could probably whip 51 nerds consistently to pass stuff, even decorum poisoned compromises would have been better than the 7 and a half years of stonewalling. Regardless, voting rights is the only thing that could have prevented this and the only time it could have been passed, at least in my memory, was 2008 with a dead filibuster. More on topic, if I were a betting person I would bet on them killing Chevron because this is the dumbest timeline and that would be the dumbest thing that could happen. Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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C. Everett Koop posted:Supreme Court ends with 8 marionettes and a confused Gorsuch wondering why no one returns his calls anymore. The ideal conservative court.
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