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What group did Republicans object to throwing under the bus?
Oh yeah, that only ever works one way, and it only ever works with people that Democrats consider expendable.
What? Who said they did? Republicans need to throw someone under the bus. That's fascist strategy 101. They just don't care who it is.
Let's put you in charge of the party then. Who do you choose to sacrifice instead? The Republicans are going to insist on some red meat. If the bill gets pushed off until January 20, it's just going to result in far worse for more people. One small charity could completely mitigate this issue for everyone, so why aren't you working on that?
This is just the beginning of the shit this country will be dealing with for at least the next couple of years. If the Democrats don't absolutely crush it in 2026, it will be a lot longer than that. You want to play these fucking games and pretend that Democrats are the enemy, then the blood can be on your hands.
I say this fully aware that the Democrats are on the wrong side of lots of issues that I care about, but there is no issue where they are worse than the Republicans. We can help by fixing the culture. Politicians are not good at doing the work of activists. (And activists generally make lousy politicians.)
And Democrats play along. That's complicity 101.
Your question is based on the incorrect assumption that fascists are happy when they have achieved the sacrifice of one group. Who do you choose to sacrifice next? Because there will be a next. The trans people you consider expendable? When Republicans move on to the next entry on their "then they came for" list, there is one fewer entry between you and being the group Democrats are willing to jettison to save the dwindling whole.
I know why you aren't. In my case, this happened yesterday. But hey, anyone who describes a problem has to singlehandedly solve it as it happens, or nothing they say is valid.
Yup. Democrats shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw in an effort they know to be in vain to placate implacable fascists.
Democrats are culpable for their complicity. You just want no accountability as your party turns quisling.
They're on the wrong side of a lot of issues you don't consider important too.
It's not about making fascists "happy", and no, I have no delusions on that account, and I don't consider anyone expendable. But, if we went into the next administration without a defense funding bill, Republicans would still get what they did, and have the chance to attach anything else they wanted as well. The choice the Democrats had was this, or worse than this, so Biden signed.
Going into the next administration, Democrats will have zero power to be complicit in anything. The people "shoveling vulnerable populations into the maw" will be Republicans - the same people that do it today.
Wow, you have no fucking clue how I feel about holding Democrats accountable. I just hold them accountable for the things they actually have power over. I've ripped Harris to shreds over her cowardly hiding from trans issues in the campaign, and Biden before that. I've been advocating for overthrowing the Democratic establishment for 30 years.
Pro war Democrats are worse on the issue of foreign policy than the 1 or 2 anti war Republicans.
They're worse only on foreign policy, but they are worse.
1 or 2 Republicans? That's such a creative way to do logic that I'm impressed!
Yeah, I totally concede. Straight up. In fact, I'll bet that the average Democrat is worse than 1 or 2 Republicans on every issue! You fucking got me, LOL.
Disapproving something only takes a single counter example. You've obviously never taken a class on Logic since you seem to believe otherwise.
EDIT: Here is the beginner level text book on how that logic works, if you want to actually learn something: click to actually learn about logic! 😀
Thomas Massie, an absolute shit bird of an evil human being has better foreign policy views on Iarael then Biden, or any Democratic member that supports the genocide.
He is wrong on everything else.
Your lecturing me on logic yet you haven't even mastered basic reading comprehension. "Republicans" is not the same as "all Republicans" or "every Republican". Had I used either of those you might have had a point but I didn't because I'm not an idiot.