• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    Beats the ever-loving fuck out of whatever the fuck he’s doing now.

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    7 days ago

    Just imagine if he did nothing the last two years, but just coasted along, letting Biden’s work continue.

    Things would have been fine.

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      There is no end goal for this people but more money and more power. They are the embodiment of capitalism, there is no victory condition, there is no “enough”. It’s more more more more more forever, at any and all cost.

      Like, a serial killer won’t ever be like “ok I’m gonna kill ten people and I’m currently at eight, so just two more murders and I’m done! Gonna be so nice when it’s over, I can just relax, pick up gardening…”

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      Right, but that wasn’t the 2025 plan, they told everyone what they were going to do and too much of the damage has been done. It takes longer and harder to rebuild it if Dems win president and enough majority in 28, but not counting on it unfortunately. I’d love to be wrong and they do make real progress if they win, but I’m way ahead and coming back to present moment, peace.

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    We’re pretty close to being in “Mr Veto gets overridden” territory. Senate Republicans up for re-election in 2028 are going to be strongly tempted to defect from their party line in the interest of not being thrown out by the electorate. We only need 6 to jump ship for an override.

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    “Don’t worry nothing bad will happen if the other guy wins” seems like a strange campaign strategy

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    And if they do go his way he’ll rubber stamp legislation that people who dislike him won’t support. Pretty weak threat!

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    Lol what a loser and puppet of heritage and other dark money run trash that has been brainwashing people since the 70s. All part of their plan to insert their disproven and failed policies as normal and equal to what is shown to actually work best for people, and they would never give up the public goods that reduce false scarcity. Their funded groups churn out the lies and propaganda for dim-witted people to fall for over and over, but never admit they were wrong, low integrity folks be like that.

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      It’s much easier understanding them when you view the Republican Party as a crime organization. It’s organized crime, that’s it.

      Like a mob family.

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      Exactly.

      Shit will stay bad, undeniably bad.

      And I’m 2 years Dems get to campaign on hypotheticals for how much progressive policy would have helped if we had a progressive president.

      The were looking at 2/3s majoritie to get a lot done, and insulation from remaining neoliberals who won’t vote with the party

      It’s honestly the best path to super majorities, because we don’t have to try and get some stuff accomplished the next two years, there’s zero expectation that trump will let anything pass. So even if nothing gets fixed, it will still just help Dems.

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      Yep! Let’s play the “no budget will be passed until ICE is completely disbanded” game. Sounds fun.

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        Honestly it might be worth it just to get the supreme court to rule that the government can’t shut down because it refuses to authorize funding to itself

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          Nah, they’ll rule that only “essential” government services can’t be shut down.

          Food stamps for poor people who might suffer malnutrition otherwise – not essential.

          Medical care for veterans, some of whom will die without it – not essential.

          Homeland security, including ICE – absolutely essential due to ‘national security’.

          Or, better yet, they’ll rule that “essential” government services can’t be shut down, then leave it to the executive branch to decide which services are essential and which aren’t.

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        Exactly. So dumb.

        Republicans: “We want loads of money to waste and do awful things” Democrats: “Oh gee that sounds like a dastardly plan. I guess we just have to approve because reasons”

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    Believe it or not, that’s the ideal outcome short of impeachment.

    The economy is fucked, and we have proof his government has been lying about the numbers. An obstructionist Trump lets Dems continue to rightly blame him for it, and Republicans with any luck take it on the chin again in 2028.

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      Agree 100%. It’s better for the world if Trump and congress are at a stalemate than if Trump is allowed to continue to run rampant

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      Of course, his voters will see it as dems being at fault for only passing bills that weren’t any good (Trump didn’t approve of them after all) and thus if dems get the majority in 2026, they’ll be at fault for everything that happened in 2025-2026 in addition to already being at fault for everything negative that happened from 2017-2025.

      And they will reelect him in 2028.

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        Yeah but those morons will support him no matter what happens, so why bother trying to placate them?

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      You’re right, we should do absolutely nothing about all the idiotic bills this Congress has passed, including slashing ACA subsidies for everyone. Let’s just let the moron do what he wants.

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        Somehow I don’t think a slight majority Congress is going to lead the revolution, chief.

        This is the system. What is supposed to happen is that Republicans put country and ethics over personal benefit and agree to vote in favor of impeachment from top to bottom, but that’s not happening so it’s a two year stalemate or a civil war.

        We’ll see what happens next.

        If it makes you feel better there’s a lot of things Congress can do in terms of investigation and daily business he can’t veto, it just means new bills won’t be passed.