Oh look, another empty "gotcha" by Democrats that accomplishes literally nothing.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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It's nice and all, but Dems still haven't learned the lesson. You can only capture the republican voter with raw emotions. This is 100% worthless if it doesn't elicit raw anger from those voters, and as we've learned it doesn't. It's stuff they experience and get frustrated by daily, like healthcare uncertainty => Dems promise expanded access <= Reps will cancel it out by claiming "illegals" will benefit from it.
The grocery prices thing was a good rep strategy to rile people up because most shop for groceries at least weekly so you can remind them how pissed they are every week. same thing applies to paying at the gas station. Dems need to find something similar and pound it in. Good luck with that.
"President Trump campaigned around the country to 'drain the swamp', yet one of the first things he did was reverse President Biden's executive order that banned White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists," Khanna said on the House floor. "I believe that this bill will have support, not just from progressives, not just from independents, but from the MAGA movement."
It won’t. We’ve seen this film. We know how it goes.
I know Republicans who don't think Elon Musk's obvious conflicts of interest are a problem. You just can't reason with these people.
Yeah, while this bill will show the obvious hypocrisy, it won't do anything. Like we already have 700 other examples of the hypocrisy.
But still good to have ig. Kinda like scientific studies that confirm things everybody already knows
The hypocrisy is a flex to them.
So Ro is gonna wag his finger at them? If this is the best they can do, Democrats should never hold another office.
Where was this before the elections? Why wait until now when it is too late?
It's political grandstanding, taking a stand when there's zero possibility of it accomplishing anything
Before the election, Biden had an executive order already enforcing this
Why wasn't it pushed into law.
EOs just get stripped by the next admin, and dems don't even have a spine to stop maga and repubs when they are a minority, yet somehow when the repubs and maga are in the minority they seem to stop everything the dems want.
Force the fucking toadies go on the record as voting against reducing corruption.
We know this won't have legs. The unfortunate thing is, if they get power back, I don't see Dems as a whole reviving the unless we get a huge progressive wave in primaries.
benefits are only for the king and his court
great bill, great work