WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democrats.
Frustrated by the stalling tactics, Senate Republicans moved last week to make it easier to confirm large groups of lower-level, non-judicial nominations. Democrats had forced multiple votes on almost every one of Trump’s picks, infuriating the president and tying up the Senate floor.
The new rules allow Senate Republicans to move multiple nominees with a simple majority vote — a process that would have previously been blocked with just one objection. The rules don’t apply to judicial nominations or high-level Cabinet posts.
“Republicans have fixed a broken process,” Thune said ahead of the vote.
The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm the four dozen nominees. Thune said that those confirmed on Thursday had all received bipartisan votes in committee, including deputy secretaries for the Departments of Defense, Interior, Energy and others.
Among the confirmed are Jonathan Morrison, the new administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle is a former California prosecutor and television news personality who led the fundraising for Trump’s 2020 campaign and was once engaged to Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
I was told that this was impossible to do when Dems were in power, because “The Reich wing might do it”…
The Nazis are grabbing power faster and faster every day
The country is already lost the real question is why has there been no coup yet. Very telling on Democrats and their ability to talk themselves into complacency.
What are they waiting for? Republicans to yell “lol we are fascist”? But we know Democrats will then go “oh but they’re just saying it we need conclusive actions so we can write another stern letter.”
America is a failed state. Let me hear it from everyone in the back.
The Democrats don’t care as long as their donors are happy.
We’re living in the Snowpiercer world with Republicans currently playing Wilford and the Democrats playing Gilliam. Even if Gilliam regains power he wouldn’t reel in the powers of the executive branch because like Wliford, he also believes in keeping the status quo.
That’s fucking terrifying. So 48 more cult members with no qualifications and no willingness to work with Democrats in any way.
This definitely won’t hurt Americans even more…
I’m sure they’re all highly qualified appointees, too. His work at HHS and the FBI show the top talent this walking corpse attracts.
Yeah well I made a new rule that says they can’t do that. Your move now, senators.
of course they gave kimberly gargoyle a position.
I will never be able to think of her any other way than shouting a full speech during the 2020 RNC.
“Do not let the Democrats make you believe you’re not good enough! Manifest! Fly me to the moon with that SpaceX cocaine! 🚀 Gimme gimme gimme!”
there’s only one way you can be giving a speech that is that shouty and not immediately stop and that’s if they’ve turned off your monitors. sound guy did her dirty, which means she fucked with the recording crew far worse than they usually get.
Obama had thousands of unconfirmed appointees because Republicans blocked them for his entire term
Mitch mcconnel and gingrich were spearheading those blocks.
gingrich
Goddammit, you just reminded me that ghoul is still alive.
Sure. That’s because Democrats are political morons and spinless assholes.
Even now, spineless.
Pretty sure that headline is misleading and it was a non-binding resolution passed without a formal vote
No, complicit.
We need to stop pretending Democrats are constantly getting “outplayed” or “surrendering”. Their goal is to put on a good enough show that we feel like we have representation while ensuring that their billionaire donors get everything they want.
they also had 10 DINOS at the time to vote against them.
And party leadership should whip DINOS into shape.
Instead, the party consistently coddles and enables them.
It’s failure theater. They’re all still getting fucking paid.
Now they have so many more.
Breaking News: Three Supreme Court Justices dies under mysterious circumstances, meanwhile trump’s three Supreme Court Justice Nominees approved within 2 hours.
Democrats had forced multiple votes on almost every one of Trump’s picks, infuriating the president and tying up the Senate floor.
Yet the “Both sides” group will still continue to say the Dems aren’t even trying.
Oh no they for Dec multiple votes, whatever will we do?
Fuck off. That’s their performative bullshit so people like you keep thinking billionaires are two groups instead of just one with different colors.
If it’s just performative BS, then why didn’t they pass when it was 60 votes required?
It’s also possible to acknowledge some Dems are bought by the ONE billionaire class and some Dems are actively trying to push back.
I know you haven’t been told to think that, but maybe you’ll eventually find someone with critical thinking skills that tells you how to think.
Everyone with a different opinion than me has no critical thinking skills and just follows orders from… somebody I guess.
This is such a weird, arrogant thing to think. It’s funny how you think this and you also believe the mainstream narrative.
Sure, buddy, nobody has ever told you “the Democrats are actively trying to push back”…
Please tell me more about how Democrats have stopped the descent into facism.
Oh wait… Lmao. Keep sucking billiiinare dick, I’m sure they’ll throw some crumbs your way when the right billionaires* are un power.
They’re fucking not. They could have done this exact fucking thing at any point since 2008, bUt tHAt wOuLD HavE beEn tOo DiVisiVE.
Do not pretend for a fucking second that the Democratic Party is in any way, shape or form competent. Do not pretend for a fucking second that the Democratic Party did anything but pave the way for this fascist regime with their ineptitude and greed, thus enabling the shattering of the American republic.
Thune said that those confirmed on Thursday had all received bipartisan votes in committee
According to the article the Democrats are still helping Trump get these fascists appointed.
51-47. A few Dems is not the entire party.
Anyone down voting and arguing this point is an idiot without basic critical thinking skills.
If the few dems that voted to make it 51 was planned, then why didn’t they pass them with just enough to make 60 with the older rules?
If the party wanted, they could take those Dems off all committee assignments and cut them off of all party funds unless they work with the party. Instead the party continues to support these people. This tells us those in charge of the party, Chuck Schumer and co, support their actions.
if israel wasnt obvious already. The old guard is basically just the republicans lite.
a very simple question: did it work?
all they have done so far are this kind of performative, petty, menial and ineffective resistances, yet on anything that has mattered, they capitulated.
please point me to anything effective they have done. so far the most hopeful thing i’ve seen is Zohran Mamdani getting the nomination, and the congressional Democrats still haven’t endorsed him yet.
yes it did work. They delayed his nominations for a long time as the minority party. they did the most effective thing possible in the situation.
Aww I’m so proud of them. Good boys and girls, those democrats.
certainly better than l33t keyboard warriors and all they are doing to take back the country.
Im betting the Dem votes to increase cop budgets helps the on the street resistance efforts…
why would it matter to those that don’t resist?
In this very thread people are blaming the Dems for not being fascists themselves under Biden and Obama.
No. You’re deeply mischaracterizing the situation.
The Democrats could have, at any point since 2008, responded to Republican obstructionism with this very same policy. It has been brutally apparent for well over two decades that the GOP was not negotiating in good faith, and would never again negotiate in good faith. The Democratic Party refused to even consider employing even the most basic precepts of game theory. They continued to negotiate with a bad faith actor in good faith, and were somehow constantly surprised when said bad faith actor acted in bad faith. That’s not politics. That’s rank idiocy.
This is not fascism, ending the fillibuster is not fascism.
The Democrats should have done so when they were in government to try and implement the things they were elected for.
America’s broken political system certainly had a role in it’s slide to fascism.
Fascism is when you don’t roll over for fascists in the name of norms, which the fascists don’t have to follow.
Yep. The both sides people are sure helpful in all of this.
I wanted to reply to numerous comments, but I’ll just do it here. The people aggrieved that democrats/liberals/the left didn’t do more are not wrong for being upset, even very upset. Things are generally better for everyone, in recent history, under left-side leadership. But our representatives have been beset by corporate capture since the 80s/90s so by my estimation politics has been a performative art for my entire lifetime. Still anyone with their head above water knows you’ve got better quality of life under democrats, even if they are deceptive or corrupt.
The system needs replacement. It has been captured whole by multi-national industry, corporations, investment interests, and billionaires. It is currently being bent and corrupted to the point of no return. Even if democrats work for us, they only give us so much before bending for their donor money. I’ve always had this vague notion that for even the best intentioned, there’s only so far you can climb the ladder of politics before you refuse a bribe, or lobbying money, and they just boot your ass. Or blacklist you, or whatever, you just get locked out. I dunno how to end this, except to say that the whole world needs a massive paradigm shift, and it just doesn’t look like we gettin it.
You’re in a thread where the republicans are destroying the government into an authoritarian state and you’re saying we “need a new system.” Dude, you better show some receipts of people who have done this in the situation we’re in. Details on how this should be done.
If you’re saying communism or pure socialism (no democracy). You’ll have my go to request: Name one country that has done communism or pure socialism that has lasted more than 5 years in the history of the world.
Neozapatistas in Chiapas. 30+ years now…
Oh, okay. I’m sure it’s a paradise.
EZLN’s ideology has been characterized as libertarian socialist,[3] anarchist,[12] or Marxist,[13] and having roots in liberation theology[14] although the Zapatistas have rejected[15] political classification.
Its what they want. Which, frankly, is all that matters. Just because your colonial ass doesnt think its good matters very little.
Now, however, imagine how much farther along they would be if the US and Mexican governments didnt decide to wage open war on them for 20 years?
lmao socialism and democracy aren’t exclusive, you’re thinking of capitalism and democracy. If you want an example of effective democracy in a socialist country, Cuba had just over 90% in favor of their last constitutional referendum, which enshrined LGBT rights, among other things. This required years of meetings, debate, and organizing at the local level.
You want America to be like Cuba? Do you mean the bread lines? Cuz there are government allotted bread lines.
The bread lines were caused by being under blockade by a superpower nextdoor for 70 years.
Were you under the impression they were caused by Cuba being too democratic?
nah they’re just disingenuous overall
Again, they’re not a success then.
pure socialism (no democracy)
Why would that EVER be an option? Socialism is an economic system while democracy is a political one. You cannot have one functioning without the other. You want a socialist fascist state instead?
Name one country that has done communism or pure socialism that has lasted more than 5 years in the history of the world.
The Scandinavian states…? Wtf is “pure socialism”?
A conveniently movable goalpost.
We’re maybe a week away from the enabling act
The Enabling Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-enabling-act
🤣 Twenty years of this shit. Twenty years of people saying “You can’t do anything in the Senate without 60 votes” back and forth at one another endlessly. Twenty. Fucking. Years. 😂
I never want to hear shit about how Clinton / Obama / Biden “tried hard” again. I never want to hear shit about “We can’t pack the courts, its unprecedented” or “This obviously qualified person is too radical to survive confirmation”. You liberals deserve what you fucking get. Damn shame the rest of us are getting dragged along behind your worthless asses.
Are you saying that the Republicans going nuclear is the left’s fault? Wow, just wow. The Republicans are destroying our government, but somehow, somehow, that’s the left’s fault. That’s like saying that every victim everywhere deserved it.
Psst. See Murc’s Law.
in American politics, only Democrats are assumed to have agency. Republicans are like rocks rolling down hill or perhaps sharks eating seals: they do what they do because that’s just what they are, so there’s no point in holding them responsible for anything, since they could not do ottherwise.
there’s no point in holding them responsible
Wouldn’t “holding them responsible” mean prosecuting them? Who has the power to do that?
The majority. When the dems had majority, they impeached him. The republican majority let him go.
They failed to prosecute him once he was out of office, having already acknowledged he had committed crimes during the impeachment.
The dems appointed an AG who chose not to prosecute Trump because that would be political.
A REPUBLICAN AG. At a time when Republicans needed to be held responsible for the most treasonous behavior since the Civil War, they actually appointed a Republican to handle it. He then dithered and slow-walked, and gave them a two year head start to run out the clock.
Just one more example of Democratic weakness.
This is why I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977.
They’re saying the dems not going nuclear under Obama and Biden is the problem.
“We should have turned authoritarian before they did”, basically.
No, they should have used their Constitutional powers to follow their oath to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. But they didn’t.
Following the Jan 6 Insurrection, Biden would have been well within his Constitutional rights and responsibilities to have Trump and his henchmen rounded up as National Security threats the moment he was Inaugurated. They should have been sent to Guantanamo Bay for extensive interrogation into their nefarious dealings with Russia, and their corruption.
Sure, the MAGA following would have gone nuts, giving the a Biden administration the excuse to crush them mercilessly, and declare them a terrorist hate group.
THEN the Stolen Document scheme would have come to light, and if the Dems were playing Hard Ball like they should have, they could have combined that with his Insurrection, and used that to create such public outrage against the MAGA Party, that it would be effectively dead forever.
But he literally did NOTHING, including pressure his REPUBLICAN AG into acting more decisively. They had managed to wrest control back from the MAGAs, but instead of making sure they never succeed again, they just created a political environment that enabled and even ENCOURAGED their comeback.
After his amazing success with the simultaneous Covid Vax program, and his post-Covid Economic Stimulation program, Biden would have been considered in the top 15 presidents, but his greatest accomplishments are overshadowed by his weakness in defending America, and avoiding crushing the treasonous MAGA movement, and allowing it to grow stronger, and rise AGAIN. For that he will be forever in the bottom 15 of presidents, the way the pre-Civil War presidents are reviled for their lack of action on preventing, or even encouraging the Civil War. Biden now joins them.
I largely agree with your sentiment, but -
post-Covid Economic Stimulation program
This is gaslighting common Americans. This was not an amazing success in my lived experience.
Life under Biden/during COVID hit so much harder than 2008 as a person living in poverty, living around other people in poverty or homelessness in an exceptionally poor area.
People barely received any direct help and all I heard about is corporations raking in record profits. People blowing their savings - racking up credit cards. Interest rates going through the roof. House prices going insane while investors buy everything up. Rent skyrocketing. Food going absolutely nuts.
I don’t know what to say besides none of this felt like enough. I know what the common responses to my expressed sentiment are and it’s okay if you disagree, but this was a necessary vent.
And most of those things were caused by MAGA-supporting corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs, pissy that they didn’t get their way, and most people recognized that.
Sure, the MAGAs did their best to sabotage Biden’s Economic Recovery Program, but what DIDN’T happen, was that we didn’t go into a recession or depression, which was looming large, due to the virtuosic incompetence of the MAGAs.
What did happen was that inflation DECREASED, jobs increased, unemployment decreased greatly, and most people came out of Covid a bit banged up, but okay.
So you can keep your MAGA propaganda. The lack of action against MAGA treason aside, Biden had an extremely successful presidency. But add in his low impact response to MAGA treason, and allowing MAGA to rise again and retake power, and the net result of his presidency is FAILURE.
So you can keep your MAGA propaganda.
…excuse me? I’d like to request that you don’t accuse me of this.
Sure seems like it to me that the price of goods multiplied and cost of living vastly increased, while the minimum wage stayed stagnant (or effectively close to it) in most areas and wages generally didn’t rise proportionately - Americans clearly had less and less purchasing power over Biden’s term. Unemployment is an obvious gamed statistic, as well.
Who the literal fuck cares about terms like “inflation”, “recession”, and “depression” - America was destroyed before Biden left office and performing the bare minimum of first aid to stop the bleeding is not an amazing success. I don’t care about macroeconomics - higher interest rates hurt average people. People need vastly more support to properly get back on their feet.
Biden giving Americans healthcare assistance in a literal pandemic would’ve be nice too - it’d be awesome to go out in public and not see vast swaths of people visibly in distress every single time because they are under-served by the healthcare system and can’t afford help and tell me as much. It’s especially heart-breaking seeing these people help me as a part of their job duties when they are doing so poorly. No matter who is in in office, even fucking Obama, this has been a persistent reality for me - I am TIRED of seeing this shit.
and most people came out of Covid a bit banged up, but okay.
Nope. You are living in a bubble.
I already told you that you are free to disagree, but I’m going to push back on gaslighting when I see it. You were free to not engage, accuse me of MAGA propaganda, and repeat all the common talking points that milquetoast liberals repeat like it’s their job. The economy can go to hell if its maintenance requires sacrificing regular people while convincing them that everything is actually okay.
It’s a valid point when the republicans were telegraphing their intentions to do so the whole time. Should have seized power, disposed of the traitors and restructured the laws to fix the loopholes that allowed it to happen in the first place. Biden would have been great for this since he was already old as shit and they could have thrown him under the bus after the fact.
Implementing fair voting laws is not authoritarianism.
Neither is playing Hard Ball, and forcing the MAGAs to follow the Constitution.
This idea that it is AUTHORITARIAN to insist that everyone abide by the Constitution, is insane.
And how does one “implement a law”?
Schoolhouse Rock can explain it to you better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8psP4S6BQ
I’m still confused a little bit on the part where they vote on it. It doesn’t seem to indicate the people who vote no to all attempts at fair voting laws.
SNL updated it for the Executive Order era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
You’re seriously asking how members of Congress can “implement a law?”
No. I’m seriously asking how people expect Democrats to get a damn thing done with republicans preventing everything. Everybody wants to point to the ten minutes when Democrats had both houses and the president, but I think that’s really naïve.
I know what they’re saying, lol. It’s Obama’s fault that the Republicans are pieces of shit.
Republicans have been destroying our government for decades and decades and we now see the Democrats had the tools to undo the damage but never actually followed through with any of it.
The only tool they use is Schmuck Schumer’s stern statement in front of the cameras. Sometimes he’ll write a strongly-worded letter.
Remember what Aldo Rain said in Inglorious Basterds, when told he’d be shot for killing Hands Landa’s assistant?
“Shot? I don’t think so. More like chewed out. I been chewed out before.”
That’s how MAGAs view Schmuck’s stern statements: They don’t give a rat’s ass. Yet, it’s about the only resistance the Dems ever offer.
Perhaps the original sin of the Obama Administration was that they never dismantled the post 9/11 surveillance state. It was almost a perfect Tolkien allegory. They had this great, terrible, and Constitutionally dubious power they inherited from the prior administration. They could choose to use it or destroy it. Unfortunately our leaders are not as noble as hobbits, so Obama chose to keep the power for himself.
Plus letting Bush and Cheney off on their war crimes so that we could “heal as a nation” certainly didnt help either. Biden, while not stating as much, did the same thing with Trump after all his illegal actions including J6, and only decided to pretend to do something a few months before the '24 election after he’d already secured the RNC nomination.
Plus doing they own was crimes
It’s only the left fault because the left doesn’t want them to do it and the Nazis want to do what they want to do. With Republicans the ends always justify the means in this case the ends mean Confederates won‽
I do not believe you are Stephen Miller’s Barbie doll. Where’s the porcelain‽
How’s this?
Ohhhh that’s better…but what the fuck are those dolls called? Stephens creepy grandma’s doll?
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Facists: Exist
DAMNED LIBRULS
???
DAMNED LIBRULS
For not taking action when they had the majorities.
Seems like a fair criticism.
And electorally, their inaction cost them. FDR’s popularity rose because he did shit. There’s this view democrats have that they only have limited political capital and they have to choose where to ‘spend it’, but it just doesn’t work that way.
Yep. Republicans have the rabid following that they do because they accomplish tasks. Horrible, fucked up, stupid tasks that should never have even been tabled for discussion, but they get them done. 99% of Democrat messaging my entire lifetime has been “We’re gonna do [X]! Oh, wait, no, we can’t do [X] because we don’t have a supermajority. Shucks. Well, we’ll surely get 'em next time if you just vote for me again!” and people are, understandably, getting fucking tired of that. Especially when these same Dem voters watch every single conservative election cycle jam through abject bullshit without pushback. If they can get these things done then why can’t you? Why can Trump loot my 401k and Medicaid directly into his own pockets but Obama couldn’t enact universal health care? Why do we only ever ratchet toward the right?
Democrats have been chasing the mythical “centrist swing voter” for decades while voters have increasingly polarized into left vs right and the centrists have evaporated. Anyone who remains a centrist, now, isn’t even going to go vote because politics clearly do not play any part in their lives.
We now have the additional problem of the rabid MAGA crowd being so vehemently anti-Democrat that not only would they never vote blue no matter what they were promised, they’re statistically likely to go make attempts on the lives of Democratic officials or those running for office. So anyone who wants to run as a Democrat with an actual progressive platform are putting double the number of targets on themselves.
I think the only real way forward is a third party, one that can sidestep our red vs blue team sports mentality and say look, things are pretty bad for everyone right now. You don’t have to vote for a Democrat or a Republican to make things better. You can come vote for us instead, we’ll get this train back on track and you don’t have to go tell the boys that you voted for a Democrat
…But then our problem becomes making this third party actually electable, which has historically been a huge problem in America.
Honestly, the democratic brand is so tainted the the left really should embrace a strategy of running independents in solid red states. They’re receptive to a Bernie style message (tell them big Ag is trying to buy your farm, go big on right to repair so John Deere can’t screw you on parts, tell them that Medicare for all is actually good for small businesses that can’t compete on health care, etc), but after decades of right wing propaganda you can’t do anything under a democratic banner in those places (especially since the democratic party would put their thumb on the scale for the centrist guy in a primary).
I mean it’s 100% fair criticism, honestly. The part where it falls down for me is where the solution always seems to be “Don’t vote for Democrats!” (and then leaves the room, walking proudly)
Almost everyone in Washington is a piece of shit, although the Republicans are much worse. If you want to have another FDR, you have to have another several decades of labor movement before that, fighting for change from the bottom up. And then the political class is the last to come around, and they can lock in and extend some of the changes you fought for. “Democrats are POS” is mostly true. “Let’s get less engaged to politics / It doesn’t matter who wins the election” is a fucking horrifying reaction and plan to cope with that and make it better.
I’ve heard many people on Lemmy say that they’re not planning to engage with the electoral system until the Democrats get better on their own. All I can say to that strategy is, better start looking around for where to move to that’ll give you the best shot at having a pretty comfortable ICE facility to call home going forward. And if you identify as any kind of anarchist / Marxist / anything like that, if you are at all engaged with any kind of counterculture or activism and you’re still in the US, you should probably be making plans to leave, because for you it will probably be much much worse.
They expect Democrats to cater to people who don’t bother to vote because nothing is ever good enough.
“Bold strategy Cotton. We’ll see how it works out for them.”
Considering the Democrats are a minority in every single branch of government, I’d say its a bold strategy on their part to continually ignore their own base in favor of the Republican base.
The base that doesn’t vote for them?
Correct, the republican base does not and has never voted for a democratic candidate in meaningful numbers. However, trying to be republican-lite does a great job of decreasing turnout with your own base.
There’s that whole thing about everything in the US taking this horrifying downwards turn right around 1970, by all these different metrics, and there’s not really an obvious reason for it. I actually have one speculative theory on that: I think that in the 1968 Democratic convention, the Chicago cops beat the fuck out of a lot of the most passionate and engaged leftist activists the country had out in the street, and the lesson they took away from that (sorta reasonably, even though the Chicago cops certainly were not Democrats) was “fuck the whole political system then, I don’t care, I’m out and fuck you.” McGovern suffered his absolutely heartbreaking shutout in 1972, and the Democrats just stopped winning elections completely for the next 20 years, and eventually they learned their lesson and became Republicans. We went from JFK and LBJ to Clinton, and the new era of 1990s / 2000s horrors was born with no left representation anywhere in Washington.
So yeah, I agree with you. There’s not really any reason to think that anyone in Washington would react to the electoral disengagement of the left by moving any direction other than right, and I think there is a good argument for a strong precedent of them moving far right and the whole country getting fucked over a barrel up to and including the present day because of it.
Clinton only won in 92 because Ross Perot split the vote. Obama (and biden) won because people thought they were going to help them, and were further disaffected when they turned out to be republican-lite. You can’t pretend dems moving right does anything but further disaffect their base. You have to really really loath your base to lose against a party as malicious and incompetent as the republicans.
Never change guys
Never change
Fair, and pointless.
It’s not pointless. If we all complain when conservatives flush the rules down the toilet and kick open Pandora’s box, then do nothing when liberals lick their corporate donors’ toes while fretting over the propriety of the tiniest changes, then the Overton window keeps moving right and we’re all fucked.
The original complaint is absolutely pointless. It’s bitching about what happened literal decades ago.
Murc’s Law strikes again.
It doesn’t really matter now. There won’t be any more elections, and the laws dont matter.
There won’t be any more elections
We’ve got two gubernatorial races and a whole mess of municipal races coming in November. So that remains to be seen.
But when see front-runners for primaries coddling up to fascism all up and down the Dem slate, it does not fill me with optimism for the future.
It makes me sick. I don’t want to leave the country, but I might be leaving the country.
Did that almost a year ago, only thing I miss is Waffle House (I never actually liked waffle house, but having it available at 2AM was comforting) and some friends who are still working on getting out.
Is there a list of countries its easy for americans to move to?
It varies massively between individual and financial circumstances, but the American passport is still very strong.
I mean, I don’t think you will have to ever hear it again to be honest. We’re headed into truly uncharted waters. By spring next year it’s hard to say what of our political system will even be recognizable.
It’s not uncharted.
The senate structurally favors republicans. It’s to the left’s advantage for it to be slow and inefficient. Now that that’s no longer the case it just means more than ever we need a movement with autonomous power that isn’t subjugated to a system that is designed to disenfranchise us.
You liberals deserve what you fucking get.
It’s true, we really should just start gunning down anyone we see. All we need to start, is to behead some big government people on television. THEN we’ll get universal health care, infrastructure backing to fix the climate, and more money for schools and social programs.
Goddam, how did Clinton / Obama / Biden not see that?
More of Murc’s Law, I see.
They don’t call’m “Reactionary” for nothin
Befitting username
