• derf82@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As I said, Dems joining the freedom caucus in getting rid of McCarthy was a mistake. We’ve gone bad to worse. I fully expect the longest government shutdown in history, Ukraine getting cut off, climate initiatives to be cut off, and more.

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      1 year ago

      It goes both ways; McCarthy refused to make a deal with the Dems to save his job. He refused, and here we are

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      1 year ago

      You say that as though that wasn’t going to happen under McCarthy. They had him by the balls as much as they do the new guy.

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        1 year ago

        McCarthy is the one that put through the temporary deal. You think this guy would? McCarthy is a turd, but this guy is diarrhea.

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          Which is one of the reasons McCarthy got booted. He fucked over the democrats by torpedoing the initial plan, then fucked over the republicans by agreeing to another.

          You “compromise” and agree to every regressive policy on the basis of “bi-partisanship” and you get our current situation. Where the Republicans are emboldened to do whatever the fuck they want, cause what are the Democrats going to do? Oppose it?

          People are going to suffer either way. The question is if we want a slow decline, or a quick bandage rip and then we start to move on.

          The former is how we got into this situation in the first place. The latter is how we’ll finally start to see actually progress.

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            1 year ago

            Progress? What the fuck are we supposed to do for the next year? I’ll take the slow decline in hopes we don’t decline as far before the midterms and hopefully taking back the house.

    • Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Funny how you see that as the Dems siding with the freedumb caucus and not McCarthy doing absolutely nothing to work with the Dems as well as going back on the deal he made? McCarthy and the Republicans are the ones driving the saddest, unfunny clown car into it’s own REPUBLICAN LED blockade.

      I agree with you that all the other stuff will happen though. The more being the American people suffering from gun violence at bowling alleys, natural disasters turning from a stiff breeze and a drizzle to a monstrous storm overnight, and veterans who can’t get access to healthcare because Republicans seem to dislike providing for the ones they sent to fight a war for oil.

      We have gone from bad to worse, but you should really blame the right people. Neither side is good, but at least the Dems are willing to come to the table and make a deal.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, McCarthy sucks. But I’d rather democrats save America from the mess we will see than just let Republicans crash the country.

        Yeah, republicans are the problem, but we can’t do shit about that for over a year. We have to live in the meantime.

      • StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        You can be frustrated at your own party. Of course the majority blame is on the Republicans but you can’t deny that the Democrats made a blunder here.