Reagan is also gone now, guess we can’t complain about what he had done either.

Why? He helped him get into office.

While any artist has the right in our country to express hateful views, Slope Day is about uniting our community, not dividing it.

United in defense of genocide? Also, since when are anti-genocide sentiments considered hateful views? Bizarro world.

When judges die while democrats have power, they nominate milquetoast compromise judges while republicans just go full far-right crazy. Democrats don’t fight to block the crazy republican judges nor do they even fight to get their own judges in. A great example is when Obama nominated Merrick Garland, an already lame pick, as a “compromise”. The republicans insisted on waiting until the 2016 election concluded and the next president was sworn in and the democrats didn’t fight back at all. Then as some dumb form of symbolism, they make Merrick Garland the Attorney General during Biden’s term and Garland proceeds to not prosecute Trump for four years. That should tell you how great he would’ve been as a supreme court judge.

So even if democrats do get a judge in, it’s a compromised “centrist”. How do you think the court will end up when one side packs in far-right wackos and the other side puts in moderate right-wing losers? Seems pretty clear what the direction would be even if democrats won every election until the end of time.

So, again, practically meaningless distinction. Until democrats are willing to use the same tools they leave available to republicans, the democrats are ineffective.

If it was that easy to undo what biden did, then practically he did nothing.

There’s already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.

You’re right, thanks for the correction. I think most of her constituents disagree with her anyway, but it’s just a hunch on my part.

Pressed on the fact that most of her caucus didn’t agree this was one of those moments, Shaheen was frank.

“I disagree with them,” she said. “I think they weren’t thinking about what the seriousness of the alternative was, to have a government shutdown. And then there was no guarantee that we could ever open the government up.”

Then you don’t represent them and shouldn’t employed as their representative.

Hardware vs software solution?

Laying in bed thinking about the problem, “oh, that must be it!” Jump excitedly out of bed to work on the problem, “welp, that wasn’t it.”

Don’t worry, democrats will make sure that doesn’t happen.

Except back then there were a lot fewer customers, cartridges cost a lot more to manufacture, and there wasn’t countless DLC to make even more money. Also, now there are so many games that the raw supply is practically infinite.

The usual for the “world’s most moral army”.

Yet democratic party leadership still thinks the winning strategy is to move further to the right, in support of the oligarchs!

It’s odd that people here mock voters for “pRiCe oF EgGs” but don’t realize that it was shorthand for the economy being shit for the vast majority of Americans. Obviously Trump isn’t better for the economy, but there were fundamental problems like the high cost of living that people were desperate to get out of and desperate people do desperate things which can be seen as stupid.

Our economy has been an inflatable castle patched with band-aids all over, especially since 2008, but the foundations for this setup was laid down decades before that. Touting higher consumer spending numbers (because people have to pay more for everything), lower unemployment (because people are kicked off unemployment and have to work shitty gig work), or the dumb stock market (which has been pumped with massive money printing) is as dishonest as outright hiding numbers.

So about that government shutdown…

About 90 million people listened to everyone and their (non-conservative) mother say how this might be the most important election

We get told this every election, but then democrats cooperate with republicans every step of the way. Most recently, democrats had an opportunity to force a government shutdown and use that as leverage against the republicans, but instead they instantly folded like they always do. I recognized this pattern when Obama promised hope and change but then mostly continued Bush’s policies when he got elected (e.g. corporate bail-outs, deportations, and warmongering). Democrats follow republicans as they journey further and further to the right.

Just pepper spray your mouth at that point.

With such amazing leadership skills, I can see why chucklefuck schumer has been senate minority/majority leader for almost a decade.