House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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      101 month ago

      Remember when the democrats had everything for a few years and did basically nothing and kept blaming the republican minority apparently that was bullshit and actually the minority has no power. So either the dems are liars or damned liars.

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          121 month ago

          We gave them a majority in 2020. Don’t pretend that the two independents that caucused with democrats don’t count. The independents didn’t vote with republicans. Democrats did.

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            11 month ago
            1. Nope~ we gave them 48 Dem + 2 Ind, they only picked majority leader with VP tiebreaker.

            2. If Independents counted as Democrats then we would have singlepayer healthcare a decade ago. Face it, those Ind were as likely to fuck us all over on votes as they were to help us.

            Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance. Just look at the last presidential election: voters chose literally Hitler over the Dems.

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              71 month ago

              Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance.

              Because we gave them the means to pass legislation without a single Republican vote. That was their chance. They used that chance as you wanted, and so you’re making excuses for them.

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                If you can’t break filibuster then you can’t pass anything without the opposition’s graces. The thing about progressives vs conservatives is the progressives have to pass things but conservatives win when nothing happens, and conservatives have been winning for many years.

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                  71 month ago

                  If you can’t break filibuster then you can’t pass anything without the opposition’s graces.

                  You could change the senate rules with 50. Stop using the filibuster as an excuse.

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        Their coalition had a majority from 2020-2022. During which time Republicans were all-powerful.

        Stop pretending that we didn’t give your party a majority that they squandered.

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          Um akshually

          We gave them 48 + 2 Ind and VP tiebreaker gave them the majority leader position who calls votes. They literally did not even have a simple majority even with the Independents.