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How in the happy fuck is this getting blamed on the minority party!?
by taeric 1y ago
How in the happy fuck is this getting blamed on the minority party!?
- flanked-evergl 1y ago[flagged]
- timeon 1y agoFascinating how you chose to believe those lies.
- flanked-evergl 1y ago[flagged]
- addandsubtract 1y ago"If only Trump's victims agreed to sleeping with him, it wouldn't be rape. How could they do this?!"
- deafpolygon 1y agoBut say it often enough, and it becomes "truth". At least, that's what people believe.
- flanked-evergl 1y agoName a single thing in my comment that is not entirely factual.
- bastawhiz 1y agoThey didn't even get all the Republicans to support it, so that's false on its face.
- flanked-evergl 1y ago[flagged]
- jsiepkes 1y agoFine, so it's a lie by omission.
- flanked-evergl 1y ago[flagged]
- jsiepkes 1y agoHere is a video of Trump saying on Foxnews he doesn't need 60 and he can do it with just the GOP: https://x.com/OfTheBraveUSA/status/1973163223408120241 https://x.com/OfTheBraveUSA/status/1973163223408120241
- dabinat 1y agoIf Republicans cared about the government shutting down they would have made efforts to negotiate or compromise. They’re just as responsible. In fact, Trump seemed pretty gleeful about the extra people he could fire if a shutdown happened.
- intended 1y agoThe reality of our times in a song - the dems are always wrong. The right leaning media machine is not beholden to facts or accuracy, it’s beholden to narrative. The center and left are still stuck in the old era of trying to do reporting, and so they look like confused and untrustworthy in comparison. Study how the right does media and messaging, its half of the flywheel that powers the current political era.
- jachee 1y agoPropaganda, mostly.
- b00ty4breakfast 1y agoold GOP standby; always appear to be playing defense, always be flabbergasted by those rascally democrats. Everything bad is always the result of the "radical libs" doing something. The details, and even the very veracity of the claims are immaterial. The trick is to sell, like a pro-wrestling match. To be fair, the dems have given a go at a similar tactic, since their last 3 presidential campaigns had the implicit slogan of "At least we aren't those guys". the 2-party system devolves into some kinda halfway dumb Hegelian dynamic where you are always opposed to what the other guy is doing while simultaneously being dependent on them for your existence.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoIf it were really Hegelian, there ought to be the synthesis showing up.
- archagon 1y agoIn the country’s past, third parties occasionally emerged to replace the dominant parties. I wonder why this does not happen anymore.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoThird parties did emerge and replace dominant parties, but rarely - say, once a century or less. It's hard to tell the difference between "does not happen any more" and "continues to happen at that rate".
- HDThoreaun 1y agothird parties are very weak in first past the post systems. Anyone who thinks about the game theory quickly comes to the conclusion to not vote third party. With easier access to mass market news more people can be informed of that so less people vote third party
- pqtyw 1y agoIt does occasionally happen, though. e.g. in Britain Labour replaced the Liberals in the 20s and 30s. Conservatives got almost destroyed last election if polls stay were they are they will likely be replaced by Farage's party. France maybe doesn't fully count but when turnout is very high they are almost FPTP. Also the second round when it happens is usually three way and sometimes even four way. And their party system is about as hectic as it gets (i.e. most PR countries in Europe are much more stable)...
- KevinMS 1y agohow do you not know that's not how the senate works?
- taeric 1y agoIt is more a question of how the media works and does not hold Republicans to any shred of accountability.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoYou need 60 votes in the senate to pass a budget so having a majority doesnt equal having a budget. The argument is generally that the majority party won a mandate from the people and therefore should be able to pass laws they want and when they cant the minority party gets blamed. Pretty much every government shut down in recent US history has been blamed on the minority party, dems won a lot of political points when the government shut down under biden.
- pqtyw 1y agoWell historically Republican voters are absolutely supportive of the principle itself (i.e. minority party undermining the vote on the budget). So obviously that's what they voted for..