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Im hearing: The other political party needs to stop our party, its being crazy ... this is why we did not vote for the other political party, so they can save us ... or something.
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I'm hearing "holy shit, how are those dipshits so ineffectual? Why dont they use any of their power when they're the minority like mine does?".
The answer is SCOTUS is compromised. They will favour GOP every time.
The republicans dont throw their hands up and go "well the SCOTUS/Parliamentarian/Manchin>might say no, so we cant do ", they do it anyway. When Greg Abott wanted to drown children in the Rio, did the fear the SCOTUS might request he stop after the 50th child prevent him from drowning dozens of children?
When the parliamentarian told W's cronies "no you cant just do infinite reconciliation bills to stop the dems from filibustering", they just fired him, like they are talking about with the current one.
The republicans dont throw their hands up
Why would they? They've got Supreme court in their pocket since last 4 years.
Honestly, what do you want Democrats to do? They have no power. Not even popular vote which Hillary had.
Letting Trump run the country into the ground is the best way to get rid of the MAGAzis.
Accelerationism has never proven to be an effective means of combatting conservatism.
No, because they'll immediately vote conservative the next chance they get anyway.
No amount of suffering will cure the vast majority of these people. They will be licking the boot even as it crushes their skull in their final moments.
The billionaire disease remains, though.
Ooh! There was an episode of the Past, Present, Future podcast a couple of months ago that touched on this very subject. Tariff policy was set by congress up until the Smoot-Hawley act, which was considered such garbage that they decided that it should be left to the executive.
Back when it was a congressional power, it was also the source of some of the worst horse-trading, as representatives from rural areas would seek protection on agricultural imports (with low tariffs on imported machinery), while representatives from manufacturing areas would seek to lower food prices and increase the cost of imported manufactured goods.
Edit: Not saying that handing it to the executive is the best plan, as we can see by what's going on now, but letting congress do it was also problematic. It's funny how a lot of us grew up with the idea that no/low tariffs are the natural order, when it's actually been a fairly short-lived anomaly in historical terms.
I’m not sure that tariffs being a constant back and forth in congress is a bad thing
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