Serious question: What does the CBC actually help us with?

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

What % of Congress is the Manchin and Sinema Caucus?

This is an argument against the existence of the Senate rather than an argument against the efficacy of the CBC.

Being one or two of 435 means that your vote has a lot less power than being one or two of 100.

This doesn't mean that there aren't legit critiques of the CBC. But really, you made an argument for abolishing the Senate and expanding the House (the latter can be done by repealing the last apportionment act, but unfortunately we are stuck with the former).

 

[Broke Wave]

This is an argument against the existence of the Senate rather than an argument against the efficacy of the CBC.

Being one or two of 435 means that your vote has a lot less power than being one or two of 100.

This doesn't mean that there aren't legit critiques of the CBC. But really, you made an argument for abolishing the Senate and expanding the House (the latter can be done by repealing the last apportionment act, but unfortunately we are stuck with the former).

Buddy, what the heck are you talking about?

the CBC is 57 seats out of a democratic caucus of 222… that’s a HUGE bloc are you out of your mind? That’s nothing like 2/435 or whatever. That’s a quarter of all the winning votes in the house

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Buddy, what the heck are you talking about?

the CBC is 57 seats out of a democratic caucus of 222… that’s a HUGE bloc are you out of your mind? That’s nothing like 2/435 or whatever. That’s a quarter of all the winning votes in the house

Are you remedial or what?

You made a comparison to Sinema and Manchin. Their power is proportionally more because the Senate has proportionally more power than the House, which is by design.

The House has literally passed bills that can't even come up for debate in the Senate because cloture is set at sixty votes and two Dem voters are upholding those rules.

Do you not understand how our government even works? Legit question.

Further, upholding the filibuster to block bills out of the House that undermine white supremacy is obviously a strategy that appeals to white supremacists like Sinema and Manchin. What would the CBC get out of holding up such legislation in the House?

Critique the CBC all you want, breh, but comparing them to Manchin and Sinema takes considerable ignorance.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Buddy, what the heck are you talking about?

the CBC is 57 seats out of a democratic caucus of 222… that’s a HUGE bloc are you out of your mind? That’s nothing like 2/435 or whatever. That’s a quarter of all the winning votes in the house

Your point?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Buddy, what the heck are you talking about?

the CBC is 57 seats out of a democratic caucus of 222… that’s a HUGE bloc are you out of your mind? That’s nothing like 2/435 or whatever. That’s a quarter of all the winning votes in the house

In fact, that's 13%. Not 9%.

 

[Broke Wave]

Are you remedial or what?

You made a comparison to Sinema and Manchin. Their power is proportionally more because the Senate has proportionally more power than the House, which is by design.

The House has literally passed bills that can't even come up for debate in the Senate because cloture is set at sixty votes and two Dem voters are upholding those rules.

Do you not understand how our government even works? Legit question.

Further, upholding the filibuster to block bills out of the House that undermine white supremacy is obviously a strategy that appeals to white supremacists like Sinema and Manchin. What would the CBC get out of holding up such legislation in the House?

Critique the CBC all you want, breh, but comparing them to Manchin and Sinema takes considerable ignorance.

Calling sinema and Manchin white supremacists is juvenile and frankly misinformation.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

They’re are part of the Democratic Party caucus. They make up nearly a quarter of the Democratic Party.

Just joined yesterday and already banned.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

They help their freinds get on, but for the black community, they offer little to nothing except a black face to rubberstamp establishment Democratic policy.

This^^^

Look no further than Clyburn killing Bernie’s campaign and then clyburn tried to put some corporate piece of shyt on the new scotus seat over the current selection of brown

 

[the cac mamba]

Clyburn killing Bernie’s campaign

clyburn didnt kill bernies campaign

he knew that the best way to win in 2020 was to nominate the moderate, loyal VP of the most popular Democrat ever, not a tired old communist from a 99% white state

and he was right

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

clyburn didnt kill bernies campaign

he knew that the best way to win in 2020 was to nominate the moderate, loyal VP of the most popular Democrat ever, not a tired old communist from a 99% white state

and he was right

Imagine discussing politics and not actually understanding what a communist is

 

[the next guy]

clyburn didnt kill bernies campaign

he knew that the best way to win in 2020 was to nominate the moderate, loyal VP of the most popular Democrat ever, not a tired old communist from a 99% white state

and he was right

Except for the whole VP thing I guess lol.

 

[Pressure]

Are you remedial or what?

He's a Somali refugee living in Canada. His understanding of American politics or what it means to be black in America are purely academic.

 

[Pressure]

This^^^

Look no further than Clyburn killing Bernie’s campaign and then clyburn tried to put some corporate piece of shyt on the new scotus seat over the current selection of brown

Bernie lost because he bet on running populist policies as being a primary motivator to turn out young voters.

Instead those voters didn't show up at all, didn't show up in the numbers needed or chose the racial politics of the GOP.

Bernie ran a poor campaign.

 

[Pressure]

I've been thinking lately how representation without power is meaningless.
And it brings me back to the Congressional Black Caucus. What have they done for us? Are they even useful for black citizens? I see Sheila Jackson, Maxine Waters, Jimmy Clyburn etc always at a podium or infront of a mic saying this and that about whatever the news of the time is but yall been in the same positions for 40 years what have yall been doing?

So can somebody put me on game please.
Im here to learn.

Thank you.

I dunno. You live in Alabama and Louisiana. What are your state politicians doing for black folks there?

 

[the cac mamba]

Imagine discussing politics and not actually understanding how much sway fox news has in this country

fixed

and for the record, the democrats should be kissing clyburn's ass for what he did for them in 2020