Good Citizen posted:

Truga posted:

funny how there's always exactly enough dem obstructionists in the congress/senate that they can't pass anything by just 1 vote

anyway, that's why you should vote more

Harik posted:

are we supposed to recognize the meter of l-mm lyrics or something because we're all secretly liberals who've gone to hamilton repeatedly or what?

because it's completely foreign to me

SixteenShells posted:

What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing.

SixteenShells posted:

My thinking on that argument, is that the best approach for that problem is avoiding it in the first place. Obviously you can't always have that; Sinema didn't look like she would be such a spoiler at the get-go, for example. But let's look at abortion. The party continues to nominate and support anti-choice candidates at the same time it's claiming it's opposing Republican attempts to restrict abortion rights. How is the party going to protect abortion rights if abortion rights aren't a litmus test for party support? If you enforce party unity on abortion rights, you are much less likely to end up with a small handful of senators holding up abortion right legislation because we need them for judge nominations.

(the true problem is that there's not enough national support for a "let the government run itself and gently caress off to do insider trading" platform)

World War Mammories posted:

this was all in a goldmined thread, here's where he tried it
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4021673&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post529063985

then on the next page willa figures out that leon edited her name out of his posts and the thread rockets into the stratosphere

scary ghost dog posted:

the currently unfinished postmodern religious text “one piece” posits that ancient civilizations were actually more advanced than modern civilizations because they were able to dream of a better world, while modern civilizations are chained to a repressive and stagnant world government and stuck in a false end of history

Nichael posted:

what democracy

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/noemiemakesmaps/status/1779683723740418330

Vim Fuego posted:

Would Biden even try to get a nominee through before the election?

Nichael posted:

It is being reported that Justice Thomas died in a threeway with Speaker Emeritus Newt Gingrich and Ambassador Callista Gingrich. Justice Thomas remained asleep for the latter two-thirds of the sexual encounter, as in an echo his idiosyncratic behavior on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Trabisnikof posted:

You are 100% correct, but most people aren't going to like the timeframe: It took the right-wing 40 years of chain voting to remove abortion rights, and it may very well take 40 years of chain voting in the other direction to fix it.

That means...showing up for every election (including non-presidential ones!). For 40 years. It is unfortunate that many on the left get angry when they show up once a decade and everything they want isn't instantly implemented.

silicone thrills posted:

*jerking off motion*

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/1781330692263043288

Uncle Wemus posted:

I'm fairly sure it's just a typo joke directed at condescending dems calling people sweety when they're explaining why we have to vote for a senile genocidal rapist

Nichael posted:

KIM JONG TRILL posted:

how much money have we shipped to ukraine now since the start of the war

Al! posted:

it stinks, imo