The Senate and House versions of the Republican tax bill would reverse efforts to modernize the energy system and reduce greenhouse emissions.

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    “You cannot have this kind of whiplash,” Etheridge said. “If every four years tax policy changes drastically like this, we are not going to be able to build anything great in this country.”

    No shit.if democrats ever get a trifecta again (highly unlikely) they’d better fucking pass actual laws rather than this budget bill crap.

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        does it tho? tommy dumb fuck tuberville single handily shut down military appointments for months. moscow mitch just decided not to have senate hearings for garland.

        the dems need to kick schumer in the balls and while he’s down get some fuken things took care of. they need to figure out how to out-moscow moscow mitch.

        strongly worded letters can get fucked. we need some ‘well what the fuck are you gonna do about it?’

        i used to call myself a dem but that’s just embarrassing now. not sure what i am anymore, you know, aside from pissed and frustrated.

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          There are things they Democrats should have been doing in addition to what they’ve done, but they can’t actually stop budget bills like this one unless four Republican Senators join them.

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            Yes. This bullshit where a back-stabbing little “centrist” asshole like Joe Lieberman could raise a pinky finger and shit-can something like the public option [1] is nonsense.

            At least make motherfuckers like him WORK for it. I want REAL filibusters to be required to have such a thing. Not the mere mention of someone indicating that they would filibuster something.

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              Ending the filibuster would need to be accompanied by a rapid plan to essentially erase the Republican Party in its current form: mass political education, deep and broad electoral reforms, vast increases in small-d democratic participation, and probably many more radical reforms that would essentially rewrite the country.

              But this would probably also erase the Democratic Party too, so they’d never do it.

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      They do no believe the world is going to last, so their plan is to squeeze every bit of juice out of it as fast as possible before the End.

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      No…

      The goal is to obscenely enrich to the fullest extent possible any/all Fossil Fuel Robber Barons and all their “friends” (read: the ones that initiated these policies).

      They simply care for nothing else like climate change, the planet, people (rank and file), etc… (unless you count working to accelerate the Biblical End Times).

      🤡 🖕 💩 💩

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      To be fair, the US has been behind the rest of the world in most things for quite awhile.

      What they want is total control and fear-based loyalty.

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    These fucking species-traitors are trying to speedrun the end of human civilization, and they’ve convinced 40% of the country to cheer them on while they do it.

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        Thiel and that freak Curtis Yarvin are some very weird and fucked up people.

        The Democrats need to bring back “weird” and in a very big way. That shit was working. Shine a spotlight on these weird motherfuckers and ask the normal American voter - do you really want this?

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      It’s about making “liberals” (meaning anyone even slightly to the left of Ronnie Raygun, I guess?) cry for the dumbdumbs that vote for the oligarchs to sell the country off.

      For the stupid base and a lot of the elites that run the conservative “movement”/Republican Party, cruelty is the point. Making a shit-ton of money is the main point for the people getting the stupid base to vote against their own interests…even if they fuck over their own descendants…

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    The plan is to reduce us to third world poverty. Use the collapse as an excuse for total austerity. Then, in ride the billionaires to the rescue, and most of us will serve them, just to stay alive.

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    The Republicans not only hate freedom, hate this country and most of the people in it, hate the rule of law, and hate the Constitution, they also hate humanity.

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      They hate not being the ones in control. That’s it. Because they can’t handle being afraid.

      It’s fear not hate.

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        So many of them spend a lot of time and money on keeping the others in their group deeply afraid of their own shadow. So it’s something caused by them. They aren’t born that fearful, that kind of fear has to be curated.

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      Freedumb!

      Do you smell that? Clean coal, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of clean coal in the morning. Smells like victory!

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      The term “maga” has no real meaning or guiding principles.

      It’s conservative Newspeak and sounds like baby-talk, which I think is no accident.

      And the only thing that seems to outline what “maga” means is if it is something that makes Taco happy. Everything else is secondary, even if conservatives have completely reversed themselves on policies they supposedly held dear prior to learning how Taco feels on a given matter. The cons pretended to revere the military at one point. If Taco says those that serve are “suckers and losers”, well, then, what Taco says is law, and cons have always been at war with the military, I guess. Until Taco needs a birthday parade…

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        Well in case you didn’t notice, I was ridiculing MAGA because everything Trunp does is worshipped by millions just because he does it - even if it’s something incredibly stupid and and/or tragic like logging National parks just to “stick it to Canada”.

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          Yes, sorry, I completely noticed. None of that commentary was meant as a poor reflection on you or what you said. I was just “yes-and’ing” your comment, I guess. :)

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    I wonder what the percentage is that: believe the lies/value $ above everything VS just wanting to opposite everything Dems want and just don’t care they are killing people/the planet?

    Like what % are actually making backroom deals and JDGAF that the planet is burning, and which are just asshole dipshits that see it as just getting fake GOP points to fuck everything because it’s “sticking it to the libs!”.

    Edit - Also the bigger issue is that once these assholes make it easier for Big Business to fill the air/land/water full of forever chemicals and micro-plastics and all the other fun shit, good luck getting back to “healthy”. It’s going to take decades and $$$$$ to even turn around let alone “fix”.