“The shitshow that is supporting Israel during its accelerating genocide, I won’t defend all that much. But the overall attempt to paint him as the same as the average Democrat is dead wrong.”

Won’t defend it all that much? So there is a defence even though they admit it’s an active genocide. Amazing

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    The republicans, who had no legislative power whatsoever during the majority of his term thus far, stopped him from doing anything good.

    They really just want us to forget the race in Georgia.

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      I think ‘republican obstructionism’ has become a thought terminating cliche rather than an argument anyone really believes. It’s a universal excuse. Any policy failure could be said to have failed because of obstructionism, so it works for everything, and asks no explanation for why any given policy succeeded or failed. “Just be grateful that anything got done at all!”

      Anyone blaming obstructionism is basically saying “all Democrat wins are legitimate and the result of their competence, and all of their failures are illegitimate the result of bad faith actors.” I don’t know how you could take someone seriously if they were that unwilling to be even mildly critical of their own party.

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        This is my favorite one

        Did you know: In 2001, then Parliamentarian Robert Dove determined that Senate rules allow only one budget bill per year related to revenue to be immune from filibuster, a process known as reconciliation. Later that year, Dove ruled to remove a Republican provision to allocate over $5 billion in the 2002 budget for natural disasters.

        He was then fired by (conservative) Senate Majority leader, Trent Lott.

        The position serves ENTIRELY at the discretion of the Majority leader. Chuck Schumer could have just fired that asshole and stuck in someone who agreed what libs wanted to do was fine, and they had precedent for that literally less then 20 years ago.

        They never wanted to do anything she shot down.

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      Biden is both strong enough to save us, but so weak that those with no power can defeat him. Its an infallible strategy! inconceivable