• @TheFonz@lemmy.world
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    146 months ago

    Are you sure? I thought it was just a slim majority in the house. At no point were both majority Dems.

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      -146 months ago

      There was a majority in the House, and it was 50-50 in the Senate. With Harris being the tiebreaker, that’s a majority.

      I also remember the line from 2022 being “If you want to pass things progressives are clamoring for, we need more Democrats.” So we elected an additional Democrat. Then Sinema left the party. Then Fetterman was like “Sucker!” and sprinted toward the center. And now Manchin has left the party.

      • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        176 months ago

        So we need MORE Democrats. That’s the point. If you only give us a slim majority we’re beholden to the 2 or 3 blue dog conservative Dems. 2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.

        • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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          -136 months ago

          2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.

          Please. We elected an additional progressive in '22 and wound up with two fewer Democrats and the progressive we picked up turned out to be a centrist.

          It doesn’t matter how big a majority we give Democrats. There are always just enough Manchins.

          • @crusa187@lemmy.ml
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            66 months ago

            So long as we perpetuate this system of legalized bribery, aka “campaign finance donations,” there will always be just enough Manchins.

          • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            56 months ago

            That’s absolutely not true. That one time you fickle fuckers gave us enough Democrats for like 4 months, we got Obamacare. Imagine what we could get with 4 years or so.

            • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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              -46 months ago

              We gave Democrats a supermajority. They killed the public option with it. They made damned sure to bail out their owners in the banking industry and make sure the only one of them who saw any consequences was the guy who scammed rich people. And had no interest whatsoever in codifying Roe.

              And just like Biden’s first two years, they could have ended the filibuster forever with a simple majority, so your “four months” argument is just another pro-failure excuse.