• @[email protected]
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    and give him a Democratic senate and house in 2024

    He had that in 2020 and it still didn’t pass.

    There’s always some obstacle that prevents the Democrats from delivering what they promise.

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      Barely. Manchin and Sinema kept torpedoing just about any legislation that would have been actually beneficial. Though with this specific topic it appears that eight Democrats voted against it, which is still far fewer than the number of Republicans that voted against it.

      That’s not to say I’m some Democrat apologist or shill, I have so many problems with the party, but for issues like these it seems like they are the lesser of two evils and if their majority margins could increase it would likely have an effect on issues like these.

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      He had that in 2020 and it still didn’t pass.

      … except he didn’t have that in 2020… which is why it didn’t pass… what lmfao?

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        He did. Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate in 2020.

        The bill failed to pass because a bunch of Democrats voted against it.

        From the first paragraph of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_elections :

        Despite losing seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate. As a result, the Democrats obtained a government trifecta, the first time since the elections in 2008 that the party gained unified control of Congress and the presidency.

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          … And two independents torpedoed it because they ran as Democrats despite being from essentially Republican areas with one being a giant lying sack of mega shit know as Sinema.

          If you didn’t pass legislation, then you didn’t control the government. This is not a hard concept to understand. It’s one of the very few black and white ones since there is only a binary outcome lol.

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      We voted Democrat hard enough but voting Democrat didn’t work because we didn’t vote hard enough.

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      There’s always some obstacle that prevents the Democrats from delivering what they promise.

      I mean, it’s just so weird, isn’t it? Like how it keeps happening every. single. time. Oh well, maybe if we try getting the Dems a majority, plus the Presidency, one more time we’ll get a different result. That’s a totally sane course of action, right?