• UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    What are senate dems supposed to do without a majority? The voters decided to prevent them from being able to do anything.

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      14 hours ago

      We can take a look at what Republicans do without a majority: stall for time, attack the moral character of the opposition, find loopholes in the procedural process that you’re technically not disallowed to do but annoy the shit out of everyone, and generally be as obstructionist as possible.

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          11 hours ago

          I wasn’t referring to the article, I was referring to what Senate Democrats can do in the current situation. At bare minimum, that can do what they were elected for as the opposition party. We don’t get even a noteworthy fraction of that, let alone extralegal measures.

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            11 hours ago

            As a party, democrats have voted against all of Trumps cabinet picks.

            Blaming “Senate Democrats” for the votes of outliers like Fetterman who vote against party lines is disingenuous.

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      19 hours ago

      I guess they’re supposed to take over the Capitol with guns and body armor or else we will continue to bitch and moan about the Democrats being the problem after we told everybody how apathetic we were about voting for them.

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        18 hours ago

        But I want to criticize democrats until republicans win elections and then criticize democrats for not doing the things I prevented them from doing…