The Dems Do Nothing; A Never Ending Thread

[Controversy]

I agree with this. I just don't think they'll need to alter the filibuster to do it.

Republicans will almost by default control at least half of all state legislatures. Dem voters don't understand the value of state and local politics like Republicans, so the GOP may control even more. With the courts being 6-3 conservative (and possibly 7-2 because Breyer is on some bullshyt), they could theoretically just let their unpopular policies be enacted on the state level, let the courts uphold them and go, ". States' rights."

The GOP played the long game and won.

The long game is courting latino voters who will be the majority in about 30 yrs

The nation was trending blue as boomers die off...but now I just don't know

 

[acri1]

Which is not enough to keep them in the majority.

Their base is easily enough as long as Dem turnout is depressed. Which it will be in 2022 and likely in 2024 too.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

The thing is Manchin and Sinema aren’t the only problems

Dems' filibuster conundrum: It's not just Manchin and Sinema

Joe Manchin’s Silent Partners in the Senate

The filibuster is not going away. But you can still vote on the voting rights act and make it clear who voted against it. Or force the GOP to filibuster.

BBB and BIF should have been passed with a Dem majority thru reconciliation. Instead we got the Sinemanchin combo of BS and obstruction.

 

[Controversy]

The filibuster is not going away. But you can still vote on the voting rights act and make it clear who voted against it. Or force the GOP to filibuster.

BBB and BIF should have been passed with a Dem majority thru reconciliation. Instead we got the Sinemanchin combo of BS and obstruction.

It will go away, it just won't be by Democrats in this legislative cycle.

 

[DirtyD]

The filibuster is not going away. But you can still vote on the voting rights act and make it clear who voted against it. Or force the GOP to filibuster.

BBB and BIF should have been passed with a Dem majority thru reconciliation. Instead we got the Sinemanchin combo of BS and obstruction.

Then the GOP will just filibuster, if they don’t they know they don’t have the constituency needed to win elections on a regular basis.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Then the GOP will just filibuster, if they don’t they know they don’t have the constituency needed to win elections on a regular basis.

True. But that's why you force the vote. So when you go on a "vote like your life depends on it" tour, you actually have clear and present evidence of why the people vote should like that (again).

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Voting rights getting stomped out at the Rucker. Dems look and start running toward the cops.

 

[Cole Cash]

Voting rights getting stomped out at the Rucker. Dems look and start running toward the cops.

Exactly how I feel. Biden Jan 6 speech was his “get my pool in the back” “Donald….dikkHEAD”

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Remember how the media swore that Joe was the only guy that can unite the party and pass meaning legislation?

And before you shyt lib, establish, nut hugging dems get offended and call out progressives. I'll admit that probably progressives wouldn't be able to pass things under these circumstances as well. However, one thing for sure they ain't going down saying "I don't know if we can get this done"

Get this loser outta of my sight with that loser mentality.

I’m so happy we passed on Sanders and Warren for this p*ssy ass loser

 

[Mook]

I'm willing to give the Dems enough Senators to get 53 votes so we don't have to deal with the Sinema/Manchin bullshyt. But if they still can't get their caucus -- not the GOP, the Dem caucus-- to do shyt, then we really gonna have to find another way.

I'd rather have lukewarm legislation then whatever the GOP is handing out. But politicians should never be this ineffective.

Vote in your local elections, breh and brehettes.

See you're already going down the road of the mark one more time. You'll vote for the 53 and all of a sudden there's two more manchins that pop up.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Neither party does anything. The same mechanisms that hurt the Dems right now were celebrated over the past four years.

The American voter is stupid, self interested, and hypocritical.

Nah one side does a shyt ton of stuff to ruin American lives especially black Americans. The other side does nothing to stop them

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

You guys don't get it......if you pass legislation to end the filibuster in the Senate it might be good RIGHT NOW for Dems and Progressives bc they can pass more radical legislation for the next year or two, but when a Republican president is elected again in 2024 (you know it's going to happen, whether Trump runs again or it's someone like Desantis bc ppl know now that Biden sucks and Harris is even worse in the polls) then you are going to have a Republican president and likely a Republican congress from 2024-2028 running amok and doing whatever the F*ck they want.

Y'all need to think towards the future, and not just the here and now.

I wanted Bernie as much as the next millenial/ Gen Z voter, but then y'all centrist/ moderate Dems went ahead and voted for/ picked another 80 year old white racist with clear cut dementia in the primaries who put more blacks and minorites in jail with that 1994 legislation than most ppl think. Good job.

Sorry but y'all reap what you sow....can't go back now. When the Republicans take over Congress in the midterms, then you are going to have a lame duck President for 2 more years and then i'm sorry to say there is going to be a red wave in 2022 and 2024.

Because the Dems have looked inept and incompetent with everything from the Covid response and testing, the vaccine mandate shyt, the inept and incompetent pullout from Afghanistan, the supply chain crisis, inflation, and the way they are hanging Kamala out to dry in the media.

Honestly tell me one thing this administration has done right in the last year and a half? Nothing.

I personally know MAD people who voted for Biden/ Dem just bc they didn't like Trump, but not really bc they liked Biden, but now they regret that vote and most of them say they are voting red in 2022 and 2024.

Loser mentality

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Remember how the media swore that Joe was the only guy that can unite the party and pass meaning legislation?

And before you shyt lib, establish, nut hugging dems get offended and call out progressives. I'll admit that probably progressives wouldn't be able to pass things under these circumstances as well. However, one thing for sure they ain't going down saying "I don't know if we can get this done"

Get this loser outta of my sight with that loser mentality.

Yeah that's the most damning thing

 

[Mook]

Honestly if Bernie were president with this type of Senate make up I don't even think the stimulus gets passed.

He would have done way more as far as executive orders, but that's it.



All they care about is tax cuts and judges, both of which they can do with a simple majority. The filibuster actually protects them because the rest of their policies are massively unpopular nationally.

He would have immediately moved Marijuana out of schedule 1. That alone woulda been a historic legislation and better than anything any other Dem will do.

And he would have absolutely tried to stop corruption and lobbying with it.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

See you're already going down the road of the mark one more time. You'll vote for the 53 and all of a sudden there's two more manchins that pop up.

Fair point.

But like I said, if they can't get it done, then they've shown they're not bothering to vote for.