Update: Welp, late today this passed the House overwhelmingly, 409-2. The only two nay vote were from Republicans Thomas Massie and Eric Burlison.
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409-2?! And the only nay votes were republicans?! What the actual fuck?!
And this is why I'm not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of "the adults in the room" that don't have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you're one to believe that the Democrats are the "good guys", they're the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.
and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it
Worse, that party is taking advantage of the distractions of the time to push all the authoritarian wet dream rhetoric they've ever dreamed of. It seems while the Rs were slip-n-sliding towards Fascism, the Ds were rollerblading towards Authoritarianism in parallel.
The Ds see Authoritarian control as a way to "regulate" and "clean things up" "for the children!"
It's as if the political spectrum is but a donut, and as each party circles around the donut, they both exit centrism, neutrality, logic, freedom, and go directly to a Hellscape from either side.
Neither party knows what America was meant to be, nor understands freedom, nor the Constitution. They just want control, for opposing but similar reasons.
So AOC voted for this?
Yes, see under Ocasio-Cortez in the 'yea's
Welp so much for her being the progressive and hope we had.
She still insists on being a Democrat, despite constantly shit-talking other Dems, instead of going independent like Bernie or starting a new party. She's always been one to yell and shout but when the time comes to actually do something, she always mysterious disappears or falls in line.
Believe it or not Nancy Pelosi was once for universal healthcare. I bet 20 years AOC if staying on this path will be no better then her
She and Harris, they want to be seen as leaders of the opposition but don’t actually do any opposing
And Ilhan Omar? Even the “radical” ones fall in line, huh
I wonder why
Maybe because AI porn of her is very popular on 4chan.
Just when I think that the Dems might stop being fucking stupid, they capitulate to the fascists
They're not stupid at all. They're all playing us like the fools that we are.
"Nothing I could do." - Phil 'Democrat' Burnell
Democrats would rather lose to fascists than win as the people's champions.
There's no bribe money in the latter.
When Trump fervently supports your bill you know it's a good idea. /s
This comes after leadership dismissed substantive criticisms during markup, including explicit warnings from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the bill’s potential for abuse.
Then why the fuck did you vote for it?
What the fuck