@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
2026-09-16 02:13 UTC
Replies (6)
-
@jackal@infosec.pub 2026-09-16 03:27
Oh look at fucking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez bending over backwards to appeal to the right wing vote which will never vote for her. God, I can’t stand this politician.
-
@Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 2026-09-16 03:40
Representative government is inherently corrupt.
-
@doc@fedia.io 2026-09-16 03:56
The vote the two Democrats defected on is known as a rule vote. Typically, members of the minority party stick together to oppose these kind of procedural votes, which the majority party needs to bring bills to the floor. Democrats are particularly irate given that one of the bills that can now be brought to the floor is a Russian sanctions bill that President Donald Trump himself has championed. While some Democrats support the Russia sanctions bill, they said they were not willing to back a GOP rule — and cross party leadership — to get that result. “I’m proud to represent one of the largest Ukrainian communities in America — people who have lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the fight to defeat fascism,” Gluesenkamp Perez said on X, adding, “My vote today gets us one step closer to enacting these sanctions into law and I look forward to voting tomorrow to cut off the flow of Russian oil money fueling this war.” Unless fatally flawed -- highly likely for anything Trump supports -- then don't we want sanctions here? I get wanting to deny a W for the opposition, but having one or two be the bad guy so everyone else can look unified while plenty probably support the thing sounds like politics. Stupid politics, but this is the age in which we live.
-
@kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 2026-09-16 04:23
Fuck Jared Golden. I’m so glad this asshole’s not running in my state again. He has been the biggest disappointment ever; a DINO coward.
-
@Sunflier@lemmy.world 2026-09-16 04:23
The paid opposition is being the paid opposition? I’m shocked.
-
@Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2026-09-16 05:16
2 Democrats defect all Democrats are worthless No. 2 Democrats are worthless. Vote for better ones, outnumber them. Don’t throw this “both sides are the same” “don’t bother” rhetoric around. It doesn’t solve jack shit.