cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
We should be investing in alternatives.
The 11 dems who were needed to pass Massies impeachment of Hegseth didnt show up to work that day either. Impeaching Hegseth and doing their job to hold republicans responsible for murder and high crimes just wasnt important to them.
These traitor-Dems need to lose their seats at the next possible chance.
Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) Marilyn Strickland (Washington) Julia Brownley (California) Lou Correa (California) Laura Gillen (New York) Steven Horsford (Nevada) Jonathan Jackson (Illinois) Nancy Pelosi (California) Brittany Pettersen (Colorado) Haley Stevens (Michigan) Frederica Wilson (Florida)
Not surprised to see Haley Stevens there, considering she’s gone full Republican and been kicked from the party after her loss to Abdul El-Sayed despite millions from AIPAC. At least she’ll be gone come January.
I don’t understand how the senate can have “recess” from August to September and then all of October then they get to pull this shit after an election just because. It’s sick.
They want a civil war but don’t realize how close the left is to joining the next insurrection. Nobody is happy. Nobody on either side.
There will never be a civil war cos the left have no guns whereas the conservatives have lol
lemmy users really just be making up the stupidest shit and posting it. are you a bot?
deleted by creator
We need a revolution
a violent one.
Or at least one thats not utterly pacifist and shame based. Our system knows exactly how to drown pacifist causes. They have had a lot of practice.
It has to be multilateral
Because if course they did. Bought and paid for.
The Democratic party and GOP should both go the way of the Whigs. Neither are working for the American people. Or humanity.
The Whigs simply reconstituted as the Republicans. They never really went away
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that. The other stuff is correct though. The Whigs were where corporate Democrats are today. Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning that their actual name is lost to history. They only lasted a few years before dying out and getting reabsorbed into one of the existing parties, or leaving politics entirely.
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Eh. There was a rapid decay of progressivism in the Whig-turned-Republican Party in the 1880s, culminating in several decades of fascism, oligarchy, and outright White Supremacy as the prevailing order of the federal and state governments. This peaked with Coolidge in the 1920s and have birth to a brief US flirtation with Communism as an active movement.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that.
Plenty of Whigs were progressive. Conscience Whigs were a political force across New England long before Republicans existed as a party. And they were the first to defect en mass to the Republicans when they did manifest.
Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning
Do you mean the “Know Nothing” Party? Because that was a secret society which operated in direct conflict with Conscience Whigs, effectively splitting the organization in 1854 and giving Republicans an opportunity to emerge onto the national scene.
I thought they were the “Know Nothing” party
Do Nothing, Know Nothing, Speak of Nothing. It is the natural home of the world’s Mike Johnsons, and other assorted chimps.
It was one party all that time? Damn, they’re good!
Monoparty
It’s been said the only true role fulfillment championed by dem leadership is to be the perennial opposition party. They are not paid to win and subsequently they do not motivate their lesser peers to behave like winners. Schumer and Jeffries were chosen to maintain a constant loser state of existence.
I fuckin hate these people
This is exactly what we need to point to whenever someone says vote blue no matter who.
Depends. Is it Primaries season, or is it the General election?
If the former, then vote progressives in.
If the latter, show me in the races these Democrats were elected where the Republican wasn’t objectively worse on practically every issue.
“vote blue no matter who in the general” is how we get outcomes like this one. Well done.
I actually did vote for one Republican locally because he was experienced and could get the job done. All the rest dems and every one of them lost because of gerrymandering.
But they cheated and still lost nationally, so fuck them. Hope is not lost. If you’re in a red district, you can still call and request that minority leader not be an AIPAC whore. Tell them you’ll vote them out.
When are we burning shit?
I don’t think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.
Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.
The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.
This is why I get tired of the US getting criticized.
Ratchet goes clink
For those who like explanation.