American Politics

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Red Phoenix]

The way US congress works is fucked way beyond what these Republicans are doing anyway :

 

 

[Section_31]

Lobby system is legalised corruption pure and simple. It's an actual DC industry staffed by former political advisors on mega bucks trying to essentially bribe senators with 'contributions to their campaign' in exchange for political favours. 

[Fugitive]

I think the problem with American Politics can be summed up with the words ‘Lauren Boebert’.

 

When you have fucking cranks like this involved, you are fucked and broken.

[TheHowieLama]

What changed in 2017?

[Captain Turdseye]

12 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

What changed in 2017?

America was made great again. 

[J-V]

Give it to Trump

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

What changed in 2017?

 

Republicans had control of the House and Trump was president.

 

What happened in 2019?

 

Pelosi became House speaker and Dems took control of the House. So in that tweet back there you have 6 years of 0 floor-offered amendments that started with Trump and Republicans for 2 years, then carried on for 4 more with Dems in control of the House and split between Trump and Biden as president.

 

It's obvious that Reps started it but Dems then carried it on and changed nothing. To be fair though Nancy did have her stock portfolio to deal with so you can understand her being busy with other things.

 

I don't think this should be a partisan issue though, both Dems and Reps have serious problems that need sorting out if anything is going to improve.

 

edit : to add another bit for more balance if needed, the entire drop from 414 floor-offered amendments in 2011 all the way to 0 in 2017 took place with Reps controlling the House the whole time. So they turned the entire thing to shit. It's still a shame that Dems didn't start to reverse that as soon as they took control in 2019 though.

[Red Phoenix]

 

[TheHowieLama]

 

 

 

Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse completely accidently did this? Surrounded by fellas who had no idea what it meant?

[razor]

12 hours ago, Fugitive said:

I think the problem with American Politics can be summed up with the words ‘Lauren Boebert’.

 

When you have fucking cranks like this involved, you are fucked and broken.

 

She's an angry Twitter account made flesh.

[Mudface]

Too drunk to be arsed finding the proper thread, but this is absolutely horrendous- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/virginia-school-student-shot-teacher

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A six-year-old child deliberately shot a teacher at an elementary school in Virginia on Friday afternoon, according to police.

Police said in a statement that they have arrested the boy accused of shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, a city in the south-eastern part of the state.

 

 

When the fuck will they tool up teachers and stop this madness?

[Jairzinho]

11 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Too drunk to be arsed finding the proper thread, but this is absolutely horrendous- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/virginia-school-student-shot-teacher

 

When the fuck will they tool up teachers and stop this madness?

 

The real question here is why didn't all the children have guns? 

[Mudface]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

 

The real question here is why didn't all the children have guns? 

 

Quite. They could have taken the kid out. Why leave it to big Government?

[Jairzinho]

6 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

Quite. They could have taken the kid out. Why leave it to big Government?

 

Biden and the rest of the Stalinists in the DUMocrat party want to take away my freedom to arm my little Jimmy Joe John Junior with a rocket launcher. 

 

 

[Mudface]

5 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Biden and the rest of the Stalinists in the DUMocrat party want to take away my freedom to arm my little Jimmy Joe John Junior with a rocket launcher. 

 

 

 

Can't wait until the Twitter files expose them all. Any day now.

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, Mudface said:

 

Can't wait until the Twitter files expose them all. Any day now.

 

I would be very surprised if Elon wasn't deeply concerned about my well-being. 

[Vincent Vega]

10 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Republicans had control of the House and Trump was president.

 

What happened in 2019?

 

Pelosi became House speaker and Dems took control of the House. So in that tweet back there you have 6 years of 0 floor-offered amendments that started with Trump and Republicans for 2 years, then carried on for 4 more with Dems in control of the House and split between Trump and Biden as president.

 

It's obvious that Reps started it but Dems then carried it on and changed nothing. To be fair though Nancy did have her stock portfolio to deal with so you can understand her being busy with other things.

 

I don't think this should be a partisan issue though, both Dems and Reps have serious problems that need sorting out if anything is going to improve.

 

edit : to add another bit for more balance if needed, the entire drop from 414 floor-offered amendments in 2011 all the way to 0 in 2017 took place with Reps controlling the House the whole time. So they turned the entire thing to shit. It's still a shame that Dems didn't start to reverse that as soon as they took control in 2019 though.

Didn’t the Republicans filibuster the shit out of anything the Democrats tried getting through though? 

[polymerpunkah]

Clowns. They're all clowns.

 

Trying to set up some sort of grandstand finish, like it was the WWE. 

 

And it appears they've fucked up their math and McCarthy fails again.

 

This is one third of the government of the most powerful country to ever exist, economically, militarily, by almost any metric, and it's a collection of clowns.

 

And now they're going to adjourn for the week-end--not because they think it will take two days to figure out how to fix this, but because they all want to go home for the week-end.

 

 

Clowns.

 

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, Vincent Vega said:

Didn’t the Republicans filibuster the shit out of anything the Democrats tried getting through though? 

 

It's house members getting to have their own amendments in the first place that's the issue I think. That happening can bring its own level of chaos too but members at least have more of a chance to actually change things and it's more democratic.

[Red Phoenix]

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

A Rep has to be pulled back with some other guy holding his hand over his mouth :

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Red Phoenix]

Gaetz voted present on the 15th attempt, looks like it's over shortly.

[Section_31]