Hegar

Pulling quorum is an ancient tactic. Republicans in OR were doing it last year to block climate change legislation so voters passed a law saying that anyone who’s missed more than X sessions is ineligible for re-election. 10 I think?

So it’s worth noting that Rs do this more often, for bad causes, and when they do Ds respond within the bounds of the law, rather than with blatantly illegal moves.

what are the charges? Serious replies only plz

That’s just cruel. Succulently cruel.

But in seriousness the charges are irrelevant, the fascists are long past pretending to care about the rule of law.

Not if you want to buy a hammer. BOGO costs you twice as much as -50% and you’d have to carry out two hammers like a madman.

With no ransom demand it’s gotta be a state actor probing defenses and testing responses, right? I think first guesses would be Russia, China, Iran or maybe North Korea.

Yeah I’d heard that there’s a chance the spanish felt they needed a new word for it because the ‘caca’ is not an appealing sound for a drink in many indo-european languages.

There’s a 0% chance of her winning, but definitely a non-zero chance of her being the dem’s candidate.

Can we get an enough buttigieg spam magazine?

I bet he bought that headline from the buttigieg 2028 funds he’s already started collecting on the sly.

He’s a greedy grasping politician with burning ambition where his ideals should be.

Childr rapist grasps for distraction from his role in organizing a sex trafficking ring.

Child rapist grasps for distraction from his role in a sex trafficking ring.

will evidently focus more on outside spending from organizations and super PACs that supported the Democrats’ presidential bid

I heard someone saying the democrats aren’t a political party, they don’t have ideals, they’re just a patronage network.

I have no problem with insulting fascists, bootlickers and other vermin, but a lot of that “inbred … chaw spitting … mullet-wearing six-toed cross-eyed cousin-fucking” stuff doesn’t feel right to me.

Maybe it feels elitist? Like the way he says ‘this is a particularly stupid version of fascism’ is by describing it with images that conjure up stereotypes used against the rural working class. Like you could add the word “peasant” and it wouldn’t look out of place.

It’s just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.

The rich are the government - from local ‘big men’ style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.

The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.

Surely if anything it’s cynical rather than naive.

The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they’ve always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.

As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.

I’ve got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That’s the whole point of having a government, it’s how the rich control others.

There is no data to suggest that protest non voters swung the results and some recent data from Pew that they did not.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at Dems for choosing policies they knew in advance would supress turnout.

But again, this election was neither free nor fair. Only those who engineered this coup are responsible for it.

Personally, I blame the murderous fascists.

If we were a democracy then maybe it would make sense to blame the public. But our elections are a cesspit of corruption, vote buying, gerrymandering and rampant open illegality.

The public have had little to no relevant say in who forms a government for a few decades at least, probably since the 70s. It makes no sense to blame the public.

That’s more deaths than the Holocaust at a much early stage of fascism too. Of course that doesn’t account for inflation - 6m dead is closer to 20m with today’s total population.

But have no fear, this republican regime will do everything in their power to surpass their idols.

policies that support growth only exist to further empower the rich, such as deregulation and low taxes

Fixed it for you, cnbc.