Upstanding dem who happens to be Asian tries to so something positive, and Hexbears will call it “Kabuki”
Smh bad look tankies.
If he introduces a m4a bill next week - that could be very dangerous. I could die laughing.
Might fuck around and introduce a resolution declaring Donald Trump a big poopyhead
…in a diaper!
Even in their wildest dreams they are proposing market-based “solutions” and public subsidy of private ownership.
you have to understand that the remaining like 1200 days left in Trump’s presidency are the Democrats ONLY opportunity to campaign for 2028. Unfortunately for Cory Booker, he blew his metaphorical 2008 Obama load early with the ‘omg i think i beat storm thurmond’s record for filibustering if you ignore the fact i was not actually filibustering anything’ stunt - a smarter candidate would have waited til early 2027 to pull that stunt.
Are you a democrat seeking re-election in 2028? DM me, I can work with you to ensure we get you in office. You WILL have to spend the next 3 years making performative gestures to the non-fascist public at large but you WILL get to go ‘I do recall saying I would close Guantanamo Bay on the campaign trail, but unfortunately we just don’t have the numbers in the house/senate to get it passed…no I don’t think I can do it with an Executive Order because the Senate Parmesan-reggiano will get mad at me’ once elected
If they called it the Combatting the Homelessness problem Act, they could probably get it to pass
Final Solution to the Homlessness Question Act
Edit: Never mind.
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This is a test.
This is a test.
This is a test.
It’s right there! Haha. I knew that. This is all a bit!
Always when they don’t have any power.
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Isnt this almost exactly the kind of thing communists would push if they were elected? But i suppose a communist would do so under the understanding it will fail, and be ready to make a point about it
What he’s doing is just another version of this…
if they were elected
If I was a congressperson - I think what I would focus on would be smaller stuff that - at least in theory - had a tiny chance of passing. Off the top of my head… I dunno… maybe a 100% ban on congresspeople trading stocks, etc. Right now congresspeople can do insider trading with zero worry of facing any criminal or legal problems.
One thing is absolute certain - the dems would try to fuck me every single way - every single day. On my personal website - I’d have all sorts of stuff like a Insider Trading Tracker. I assume if I put that on my .gov account - in a day or so the dems would try to use procedural tricks to force me to remove it.
If I was a congressperson - I think what I would focus on would be smaller stuff that - at least in theory - had a tiny chance of passing.
Oh come, let’s at least be intellectually honest here, the legitimate critique against dems was that they were getting no where either ways so why not go big with ‘cancel all student debt’ vs ‘cancel 10k’.
‘End homelessness’ is a good message.
*This isn’t an endorsement of democrats. Should this politician come out the next day saying ‘End homelessness… in Beverly Hills’, I will not be held responsible for treason.
‘End homelessness’ is a good message.
It’s performative bullshit when they are out of power and can do fuck all. There will be more of this in 2026 and 2028 before the elections. “Elect me and I will put the Fill-in-the-Blank-Sounds-Good! bill on the floor. We will work for you America!” After the election? Crickets.
If there’s a serious of bona fide miracles and in 2029 the dems control congress and the presidency - I can guarantee you that there will be no
*stuff like “Housing for All!” or “$17 (minimum wage) for All!”, etc. They will say you can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We campaign in poetry but we govern in prose. And the difficult realities of politics mean fuck-fuck-fuckity fuck-fuck-fuck…-–
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*Well, Bernie and AOC will talk about it a lot but get absolutely nowhere.Lucy holding the football is a good message
A communist would do it when they had power, not just when they don’t.
If Trump can get away with so much unconstitutional shit, why haven’t the Dems ever done something like this (I know). Just ram through housing and healthcare for all by executive order and don’t listen to the courts.
Just ram through housing and healthcare for all by executive order and don’t listen to the courts.
Biden could have done that last year after Kamala lost. The GOP justices issued their immunity ruling which gave the president (in theory) incredible powers for “official acts”. It will always be hilarious to me that after the election - Biden did nothing with those powers. When the justices ruled they did so for a possible Trump presidency. Biden might as well not even existed. They ignored him entirely because they knew he wouldn’t do a damn thing. And any sane leftist (including me) knew that too. But it’s still funny to me. It’s like if you had Thor’s Hammer right at your side but you didn’t even consider using it because of the fucking norms.
The sweet spot for a democrat, whose donors and masters are the exact same people that empower republicans, plus or minus the privileged and empowered folks who fall outside the category of “human” to the card carrying fascist, is to be able to say to your constituents “I’m trying to do something! Look! See at all this Trying I’m doing?! Aren’t you so grateful I’m here and Trying So Hard. Alas, republicans… I said, excuse me sir…[Peanuts adult noises start to drown out their voice] …Reaching across the aisle like an adult in the room… [somebody who still only gets their news from MSNBC starts clapping like a trained seal] …Vote for Mueller for the grand bargain in the West Wing”
But then they also need to go to their office and assure their real masters that no, they’re doing exactly nothing, because they know their performance is fated to fail and be forgotten, with zero chance of ever having the force of law, nor being interesting enough to kick off a movement or popular support of any magnitude. Then they do some insider trading, because they know what the republicans are actually doing, and they get a fat enough paycheck to be fine with it, because everybody sells out, because all humans are basically the same, and on equal footing, and the incidence of benevolent principled behavior is low enough to be statistically irrelevant, because the world we live in destroys anybody with those tendencies, or buries them.
That’s the elected-lib sweet-spot. Demonstrate “value” to credulous constituents through meaningless performative action you know won’t amount to anything, tell them to vote harder about their increasing suffering, and then go to the guy who owns you so hard his fist might as well be deep up your ass and assure them you’ve done absolutely nothing to threaten their interests.
It’s a lot of work, but hell, it pays the bills and you get to feel superior to the people you dupe every two to six years.
