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Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill (prospect.org)
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Thanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The only hope currently (within the governmental realm) is to ~~line up behind~~ gang up on these dumb donkeys and push them with all of our might.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

dumb donkeys

You attribute to stupidity what is more reasonably explained with malice.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, tried that with the genocide supporters last year. They're still getting the only policy any centrist has ever wanted, only now they're blaming anyone who didn't spend all of 2024 publicly masturbating to dead Palestinian children.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not really the same thing, and anyway what's the alternative? Sit around and whine post about it?

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and anyway what’s the alternative?

This maybe?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All the Internet talk about revolution it seems to me amounts to diddly squat.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You guys are right and I'm wrong obviously. All of the right-wing Internet talk about revolution culminated in the January 6th insurrection.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No lol we support a different party.

If Democrats want votes they can start acting like it.

I'm not going to do their fucking jobs for them, i have my own job i have to worry about.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think you're reading too much into the "line up" part of my post. I should've wrote gang up, as I do not intend to indicate that you or I need to align with them.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What you are saying is that we tell out representatives what we want.

We have been doing that the whole time, they ignore their voters.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The American population generally speaking is not politically engaged. They have the idea -- one you appear to share -- that civic engagement is a chore that they don't have time for and that it's someone else's job.

So, continue doing nothing and pretending you've tried everything.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a deliberate feature. Keep people so concerned about basic survival that they don't have the time or energy for civic engagement.