• Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.science
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    22 hours ago

    I’m so frustrated. It’s happening exactly like everyone said it would. I wanted to think everyone was smarter than this, but this is the Executive equivalent of yelling, “IT’S COMING RIGHT FOR US” right before you kill illegal game.

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      17 hours ago

      Same thing happened with Epstein. Everyone was calling that shot before they took it.

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    17 hours ago

    There’s gonna be 3 mins of missing surveillance footage and a sleepy guard found next to her body with a broken neck huh?

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      20 hours ago

      Weird how you name Democrats when Republicans are responsible and the Republican president was her co-conspirator in child rape.

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        19 hours ago

        My guess is that it comes down to how effective the minority party is at stalling the actions of the majority party. It feels like when democrats have the majority, they don’t do much and get shut down by the republicans at every turn. Compare that to how the republicans are just steamrolling everything this year and the democrats have been extremely ineffective at doing anything to stop them.

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          13 hours ago

          At least they have some principles - but again, Republicans and their villianesque ideological leaders have executed a systematic destruction of American democracy. Blaming Democrats is not a path to reversing thaf.

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            13 hours ago

            For sure, republicans deserve nearly all of the blame here, but not criticizing democrats for never learning from their mistakes, rolling over in the face of everything that’s going on and not having a plan to deal with this ahead of time when it should have been extremely obvious to anyone paying attention that this was going to happen is not a good idea either.

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        20 hours ago

        I’m referring to their flaccid response to everything. They are not up to the challenge of the moment.

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          20 hours ago

          it’s almost like constant baseless shittalking about them cause people not to vote for them, which leads to them not having a majority position that would allow them to affect policy.

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            18 hours ago

            Or that they can’t fucking rally people around them because they have completely lost touch with the base they are supposed to represent? Democrats can’t figure anything out and continue to get info from bullshit firms that tell them to ratchet right and they blindly follow when they should be courting the left, and it’s always funny how Republicans can absolutely stall and shut down the government even when they are the minority but democrats continue to play nice when Republicans are in charge, they had the chance to shut the government down but decided to let Republicans win because some fucked idea of it would set a precedence. People are tired of democrats being ineffectual piss babies and want real representation. If they can’t show up to put real work in then I can shit talk them all I want, I don’t owe them a fucking thing.they owe me everything. And they are still the best choice because Republicans are just fucking evil

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              14 hours ago

              Did you miss the two impeachments? Investigations (admittedly slow-walked by Merrick Garland and hamstrung by DoJ policy) into major national security offenses? Dissolution of the Trump foundation?

              What does “spine” look like, in your model? Because “murder” and “civil war”, which I’ve seen people here suggesting, are profoundly self-defeating options.

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                Because “murder” and “civil war”, which I’ve seen people here suggesting, are profoundly self-defeating options.

                Better not do anything in that case, hm, since of course there’s no possible kind of direct action short of murder and civil war.

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                  2 hours ago

                  don’t be catty, go ahead and list five of these direct actions you think Democratic lawmakers or others should take.

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      22 hours ago

      They literally dont have the votes in Congress to do anything. All they can do is make noise

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah the accountability chain here is:

        President is accountable to Congress via impeachment/recall. Congress is accountable to the people via elections.

        The people opted to not hold Congress accountable, and Congress is a bunch of cucks that refuse to do their jobs, and the Supreme Court is clearly choosing to not even try to enforce anything… but the ultimate truth is “people chose this”. Very sadly. The American people chose this executive, this Congress, and indirectly this Court.

        “This isn’t the real America” - sorry but it actually is.

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          21 hours ago

          They have been. Congress basically stopped holding any votes at all once they started trying to amend every piece of legislation to include a requirement to release Epstein files