Opinion | Do You Want a ‘Unified Reich’ Mind-Set in the White House?
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Young Republican staff members appear to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.

a generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    228·
    1 month ago

    It’s not a non-sequitur. It’s exactly why they compromise in Congress. They never have control so to do basic things like pass a budget they need to compromise. It’s literally why they compromise. And why they go to the centre to win elections.

    What you’re doing is closer a non-sequitur by ? demanding that Biden saying they have to compromise? And by saying ? he’s not getting people excited? Like talk about a non-response just so you can say “bring out voters” (like Fox doesn’t exist) and “obstinate” and a whole bunch of other insinuations. And so you can try to turn it around and blame Dems. It’s so twisted around there’s not much responding to it.

    And wow you think the filibuster isn’t real. Well I think that say it all.

    • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
      47·
      1 month ago

      Your comment was, as I stated, nearly non-sequitur because you only responded to one word of the first sentence of givesomefucks’ comment:

      I wish the Dem party compromised as much with Dem voters as they did with trump supporters.

      You responded to the word “compromised”. You responded as if you were responding to a general senseless rant against the very idea of compromise at all, a position which is not even present in that first sentence, and has nothing to do with the rest of their comment, or the overall point they were making about the belligerent and dismissive attitude Biden takes toward Democratic voters, and what different approach would actually win elections - I’ll quote the rest so you don’t have to scroll back:

      That’s the best way to get Biden the votes necessary to prevent Trump.

      Not the current strategy of:

      Fuck you, you’ll vote for me or get the fascist again

      Like, this should be an easy victory for any halfway decent candidate. Instead we get an 82 year old that won’t stop shit talking his party’s voter base for not wanting to fund a genocide rather than social services.

      In my comment, I attempted to clarify and expound on what would work, what they are actually doing, and the great gulf between these, trying to bring it back to givesomefucks’ actual comment, rather than what you imagined to respond to. Instead, you’ve responded, again, to a comment not actually made - accusing me of somehow “demanding” something. Where did I demand anything?

      And yeah, the filibuster isn’t real. A simple majority of the Senate can pass anything they want. They can drop the filibuster as a rule; they can carve out a general exception; they can even just choose to suspend it for that single piece of legislation. If a simple majority can pass any legislation they want, given that they actually choose to, then the filibuster is absolutely not real. It’s smoke and mirrors so they can blame the other guys. In fact, it’s probably not even constitutional - there’s no constitutional support for it, and the founders were explicitly against including any kind of supermajority requirement.