• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    Didn’t the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      19 days ago

      “Yeah but but Biden couldn’t do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!”

      It’s not like there’s a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn’t have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.

      Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        19 days ago

        “You can just Primary consevative dems!”

        Attempts to primary

        “No! don’t you see you’re damaging our election chances with an untested candidate and anti-democratic rhetoric!”

        dems change rules to prevent an effective primary ever again

        • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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          18 days ago

          dems now can’t do anything about someone running while under federal investigations and being against abortion

    • Ah, but you need 60 seats in the senate to bypass the filibuster. And even though there are procedural workarounds, you need the blessing of the parlimentarian, a sacred and infallible office where it would be braking the sacred norms to use our powers to ignore them or replace them. /s

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        18 days ago

        why yes the GOP uses that method each time but if the dems do it gop will still use it when in power.

        Amazing how it never used for good only bad in order to totally prevent it being used by GOP/bad