Summary
The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.
Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.
Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.
Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.
The majority who didn’t vote saw a cookie-cutter politician and an authoritarian man-baby and thought, “Eh, either is fine.” So their “vote” went to the majority winner. There are no redos because not enough people showed up.
That is a problem, but they did not endorse this.
If someone sat at home on election day or voted for anyone but Harris they absolutely endorsed this. They should go to their graves knowing every single thing Trump and crew does is because they allowed it to happen.
I think many are too low-info to really have endorsed anything.
There’s got to be a line where “low-info” becomes a choice. I don’t know where that line is, but “Donald Trump is an imminent threat to democracy” is absolutely past that threshold.
I’d have to say a whole lot of people are completely checked out of any kind of civic engagement whatsoever, for probably a plethora of reasons. There are definitely some that think they can be Above It All ™ because I Don’t Want To Be Political ™, and in my experience these people are insufferable smug jackasses about it, too.
Wait, I thought Lemmy was blaming billionaires who have a stranglehold on churches, media, and education.
I would blame both. The malfeasance from the oligarchs doesn’t absolve any individual of blame for their own individual actions. Both groups are assholes in different ways.
Inaction is a choice that says I don’t care about the outcome. It’s an equal endorsement of facists and neolibs.
With the way our electoral system works, not voting against fascism is the same as voting for it.
It shouldn’t be this way, but this is the reality of the situation.
Of course they did. When it comes to voting, silence is consent.
Does that mean those on Lemmy who told me not to vote for “both sides” consented?
Yes. The people on Lemmy encouraging people not to vote for Harris definitely consented to this.
But they said we’d revolt next, so they sounded like they don’t want this.
Do we get ponies and ice cream after this “revolution?”
They said progress has never been achieved without violence.
I guess maybe they just wanted the violence.
It’s functionally the same thing.