• jeffw@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    After it was known that Musk was salivating for the shutdown to cut more shit, I’m not really surprised. They’ve got 2 years to fight back. You don’t spend all your political capital before you’ve earned it

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      They’ve got 2 years to fight back

      They had 4 years to “build a case” against trump. No more delays and no more excuses.

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        just one more chance bro. i promise bro just one more chance and it’ll fix everything bro. bro… just one more chance please just one more. one more chance and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro c’mon just give me one more chance i promise bro. bro bro please i just need one more chance

        -Cucky Shoomer (via ActBlue)

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      If I understand correctly this CR legalizes DOGE and everything it has and wants to do in the future. Shutting government down completely is preferable, IMO. The federal employee unions agree.

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        16 hours ago

        The federal employee unions agree.

        Or “why democrats have decided to take the opposite position.”

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      You think not shutting down is going to truly slow musk down? You think dems will accomplish anything meaningful in the next two years with Rs in control of all three branches? What fucking political capital? They fail at pretty much every turn. How are they going to earn capital by just failing?

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              You got your wish. The bullshit bill giving Trump everything he wanted passed.

              Congratulations. You can stop trolling now.

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              That doesn’t answer my question, how does shutitng down the Federal government that Trump controls speed him up?

              It’s the one thing the Dems in Congress can press on him. Republicans did it to Obama, why can’t we have the representatives we voted for, myself included, represent the need to slow him down?

              Just keep giving him money and rubber stamp his bills for the Neo-Enabling Act. That’ll show him!

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      23 hours ago

      If you think you have political capital options in the current administration you’re insane

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        23 hours ago

        And that you accumulate it by not doing things. It’s such an inane concept that somehow only gets used to argue against acting and never for.

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          And just the stupidity of thinking Chuck fucking schumer is going to be the political genius of building and using political capital effectively. Just ridiculous.

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          Yeah. If you look like a bitch to people who think “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”, then the strong will do what they can(that is what you allow them to do with little resistance) and you suffer what you must.

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      23 hours ago

      Democrats have no political capital, they’re nothing but hollow platitudes and fake resistance.

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        Capital is built on credibility. Schumer just flip flopped very publicly from what people want him to do, to what they always knew he would do. Literally overnight.