The Dems coordinate their votes. They unanimously vote no, when the Republicans can carry it on their own. When it’s a close vote, the Dems produce as many token turncoats as necessary.
The Dems have also held multiple majorities in that 15 year period.
I don’t think you’re stupid enough to not understand this. I think you’re a liar and a bad actor.
Your information is false and that’s why you think I’m lying. Show me 1 time that the Democrats held Congress and the Senate since 2009. If you win Congress and lose in the Senate it goes no where. I think you are completely failing at understanding how our government works or are as you said. A bad actor.
So you believe the republicans hold monopoly control of obstructist strategies? What prevents the Democrats from doing it? Why are Democrats continuing to approve Trump nominees? Why are any Democrats voting to fund Trump’s agenda? Why did democrats just release a thank you to ICE, as they build concentration camps?
No, I’m not saying they hold the monopoly on obstruction. Every Republican bitched for 4 years during Trump’s first term that Democrats blocked everything. (He didn’t have the Senate and Congress Majority from 2017-2021)
Democrats shouldn’t have approved trump nominees, but even if they voted against they would have been approved by the majority of Republican votes. The one notable flop that Democrats won was Matt Gaetz not getting in.
Also this thread was about Tarrifs, but like I said there are many really shitty Democrats politicians out there, it doesn’t mean they can block anything without getting Republicans to turn their votes against the party
Would you like to get into how many times the Republicans have been able to rely on token Dems to cross the aisle to help pass their agenda? We can then break down whether those turncoats were primaries or protected by the party.
If the republicans can pass it without the Dems, that makes their betrayal a worse example. Not better. Wild you think that’s a defense.
Can you give an example of one where enough Republicans voted against that it would have failed? If that didn’t happen yes it is a betrayal to their party, but it doesn’t mean they could have blocked it. (which is what people are asking them to do in this thread)
(edit to throw in) also It feels like a betrayal to us because we are further left than the Democrats, but the Democrats have a lot of overlapping views with Republicans, which if your voter base has 60% support and 40% against (things like Israel, it sucks but that politician is supposed to vote for Israel)
Israel sucked so bad because the truth is that the majority of the Democrats supported Israel when the war started, and by thr time 50%+ didn’t, it was far to late
Wanna go back over the last 30+ years of Democrats helping Republicans pass their evil shit? I’m down. I’d also love to throw in how many of these turncoats the party protected from primaries, while the party actively primaried their progressives.
There’s no “us” here. You’re a liberal. I’m a leftist. Don’t go convincing yourself you’re not on the right.
Every Dem just voted no on that stupid Bill, did nothing because they are the minority in both houses.
It worked when the Republicans did so, because they were the majority in one of the houses and have been since 2009.
So for 15 years they have been able to block anything they wanted. And it was only for 2 months really in 2009. Before that was 1993.
A lot is/can happen right now because there will be at least 2 full years of the Republicans holding both parts of the legislature.
The Dems coordinate their votes. They unanimously vote no, when the Republicans can carry it on their own. When it’s a close vote, the Dems produce as many token turncoats as necessary.
The Dems have also held multiple majorities in that 15 year period.
I don’t think you’re stupid enough to not understand this. I think you’re a liar and a bad actor.
Your information is false and that’s why you think I’m lying. Show me 1 time that the Democrats held Congress and the Senate since 2009. If you win Congress and lose in the Senate it goes no where. I think you are completely failing at understanding how our government works or are as you said. A bad actor.
So you believe the republicans hold monopoly control of obstructist strategies? What prevents the Democrats from doing it? Why are Democrats continuing to approve Trump nominees? Why are any Democrats voting to fund Trump’s agenda? Why did democrats just release a thank you to ICE, as they build concentration camps?
No, I’m not saying they hold the monopoly on obstruction. Every Republican bitched for 4 years during Trump’s first term that Democrats blocked everything. (He didn’t have the Senate and Congress Majority from 2017-2021)
Democrats shouldn’t have approved trump nominees, but even if they voted against they would have been approved by the majority of Republican votes. The one notable flop that Democrats won was Matt Gaetz not getting in.
Also this thread was about Tarrifs, but like I said there are many really shitty Democrats politicians out there, it doesn’t mean they can block anything without getting Republicans to turn their votes against the party
Would you like to get into how many times the Republicans have been able to rely on token Dems to cross the aisle to help pass their agenda? We can then break down whether those turncoats were primaries or protected by the party.
If the republicans can pass it without the Dems, that makes their betrayal a worse example. Not better. Wild you think that’s a defense.
Can you give an example of one where enough Republicans voted against that it would have failed? If that didn’t happen yes it is a betrayal to their party, but it doesn’t mean they could have blocked it. (which is what people are asking them to do in this thread)
(edit to throw in) also It feels like a betrayal to us because we are further left than the Democrats, but the Democrats have a lot of overlapping views with Republicans, which if your voter base has 60% support and 40% against (things like Israel, it sucks but that politician is supposed to vote for Israel)
Israel sucked so bad because the truth is that the majority of the Democrats supported Israel when the war started, and by thr time 50%+ didn’t, it was far to late
Wanna go back over the last 30+ years of Democrats helping Republicans pass their evil shit? I’m down. I’d also love to throw in how many of these turncoats the party protected from primaries, while the party actively primaried their progressives.
There’s no “us” here. You’re a liberal. I’m a leftist. Don’t go convincing yourself you’re not on the right.
https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-cross-aisle-back-gop-035900823.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/crypto-stablecoins-senate
https://www.them.us/story/81-democrats-joined-republicans-passing-defense-bill-ndaa-anti-trans
You have no idea what I believe in, you just don’t like that I pointed out that the Democrats can’t block any of this without Republican support.
Also for your breakdown:
Lake Riley act Democrats couldn’t have blocked
The North Carolina budget (not federal) has a Republican Senate and Congress as well, can’t verify what the party line votes even were
crypto bill: Democrats helped pass bill to put “guardrails” on crypto currencys.
Gender affirming care, Democrats couldnt have blocked
So what we see from your examples is that Democrats are worried about Crypto as much as Republicans are.
Note that doesn’t mean there arent shit Democrats who vote for right wing ideals by the way, there are many
And how many of them do you think the party leadership primaried? How many of these do you think the party protected?