30 million women voted for Trump. 90 million Americans who were eligible to vote didn’t vote. As a nation, we asked for this. As individuals, many of us did not ask for this. But it wasn’t enough.
We can call or write our representatives. We can march in the streets. We can do any number of things to reject and correct our hard slide into authoritarianism. But I promise you that passive internet griping is bottom of the list in terms of effectiveness. Well, unless it’s Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. Holy shit that stuff worked like a voodoo curse….
Ah, the willy nilly style of leadership… Oh wait, this is coming from the Russian puppet rapist pants-shitter.
In that case it’s exactly what Russia needs. It’s deliberate. It’s expected.
AP is a primary source for a lot of other news outlets. This is less about their stance on the Gulf and more about cutting off information to a good chunk of the nation, in my opinion.
Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.
I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!
The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…
You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress.
Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.
Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.
There are differences between candidates within each party. And historically both parties have gone through drastic changes. You can vote for like minded candidates at the local level, the state level, and as they gain experience they’ll be better suited to succeed nationally and change the party as a result. But this requires you to actually vote. In every election. Always. And I get the sense that those who complain it’s a two party system the loudest are just offering an excuse as to why they simply don’t vote, don’t participate in our democracy.
The people who run for national office in say, the Green Party, rarely have any government experience or real leadership experience. It’s just boilerplate slogans and a clear demonstration they don’t really know what’s going on. Why the fuck would I vote for that? Shit, I can say all the right things and run for President. But I would suck as president because the job is much more bureaucratic management than just saying shit out loud.
Mass protests have stopped. A handful of people meeting at a coffee shop or vigil is a stark contrast to bridges and roads being blocked, to school administration buildings occupied.
The US is 330 million people and you get how many at a protest now?
And that website is all about Israel and nothing about forced relocations of two million people and the US annexing Gaza for development. But those aren’t Democrat proposals, so whatevs…
We’re “Boomers” the main problem in this election? Were they the Trumpers…?