Also Republicans pretty clearly aren't interested in having elections anymore, so I don't think they're particularly concerned about voters.
By the way there's no triumphalism here; heavily Republican areas are full of vulnerable people, surrounded by neighbors who have been encouraged by television and social media to behave as if vulnerable people's lives don't matter, and they're in serious danger.
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Yes we crashed the ship into the iceberg instead of changing course but what’s important is it was a bipartisan decision between people who had already taken the lifeboats.
Yes we could have changed course but we asked all the most selfish assholes in the world and they said no.
What? Yes there were enough of us in control to do it anyway but I feel you’re missing the part where the assholes said no, so it would have been a partisan decision.
Oh so I suppose YOU had a plan? Let’s hear it.
So easy for you to be critical and say “just don’t hit the iceberg” but I don’t see your navigation charts.
Again I reiterate that Democrats should lie to Republicans repeatedly. Tell those 10 Republicans that they promise not to use reconciliation and then just use it anyway.
They can even say they are “very concerned” about the reversal right before voting for it.
So have you ever had the experience of a movie that's so entered the public consciousness that you think you've seen it but then you go to "re-watch" it and you realize you've never actually watched the whole thing? anyway until yesterday it turns out I had never watched ALIEN.
It's a pretty gutting feeling to realize that all these years I could have been making people furious online for having never seen ALIEN and I never once took the opportunity.
He’s going to all this and still not get Republican votes, extraordinary.
So for everyone who’s insisted Biden was working at bipartisanship with Republicans to prove that Republicans can’t be reasoned with, the better to make the case for a pivot to unilateral action, let me know when you expect him to pivot.
Again beyond the fact that compromise with fascists is philosophically undesirable and morally unsupportable, it’s also impossible as a simple practical matter.
They desire only domination. They believe only they are legitimate. By definition this leaves no room for compromise.
Since the Obama presidency represented an 8 year commitment to compromise proving definitively that compromise with Republicans is impossible, it’s simultaneously horrifying and frustrating to see Obama’s VP waste the first year of his presidency needlessly re-proving it.
Incidentally I could have sworn this was something we already knew he had done, but possibly it’s just so obviously something he would do that I’ve been taking it as given. Certainly he’s advocated similar violence in public context with cameras rolling.
During the protests last year, for example, he advocated retributive police murder — and not in the abstract, but giving his blessing to a specific example.
He pardoned a war criminal who murdered civilians. A sheriff who ran a desert concentration camp. oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/…