• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    These are pretty serious times when he could be doing some data scrubbing, premptively pardoning others so they might act now in ways trump wont like, perma-loaning eq to allies, and just generally trump-proofing. But instead he’s signing a national bird act. Good old ‘nothing will fundamentally improve’ Joe Biden. What an arrogant doddering asshat.

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      Signing doesn’t take him any time at all, but that 50-ish irrelevant bills were given limited Senate time doesn’t speak well to how seriously the Democrats are taking this limited window.

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        General reminder that we do not hold the House, greatly impacting our ability to pass the laws we’d like.

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          Dems always use that excuse even when they do have majority. It’s always “boo hoo the Republicans are stopping us again…” They’re just another flavor of oligarch that panders to a particular group of people for votes, which is why they’re doing nothing useful right now. I’m sure if they actually cared, they could find 9 Republicans that have a shred of a concept of wanting to save America for votes, and play the politics dance to get things done, but that smells too much like work.

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            Finding 9 repubs willing to stand up to Trump these days is easier said than done. You’re aware, I assume, of what happened to the last batch.

            Regarding work, how about a whole bunch of judicial appointments? He already broke Trump’s record.

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          Yeah, but the Senate alone can do things other than process useless laws. Squeeze out another judge or two.