Can the “both parties are the same” crowd explain how the Democrats do shit like this?

She was on par (or better) than all her 90’s indy rock contemporaries. The “novice” criticisms were 100% because she’s a woman.

30 million women voted for Trump. 90 million Americans who were eligible to vote didn’t vote. As a nation, we asked for this. As individuals, many of us did not ask for this. But it wasn’t enough. We can call or write our representatives. We can march in the streets. We can do any number of things to reject and correct our hard slide into authoritarianism. But I promise you that passive internet griping is bottom of the list in terms of effectiveness. Well, unless it’s Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. Holy shit that stuff worked like a voodoo curse….

Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees. Why would they trust this attempt at pillaging for “security”?

Ah, the willy nilly style of leadership… Oh wait, this is coming from the Russian puppet rapist pants-shitter. In that case it’s exactly what Russia needs. It’s deliberate. It’s expected.

Just wait until bird flu fully crosses over to humans…

Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A~%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.

Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.

I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!

The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.

Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…

You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.

How was Biden going to cancel an act of Congress?

Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

MAGA will find this to be funny.

There are differences between candidates within each party. And historically both parties have gone through drastic changes. You can vote for like minded candidates at the local level, the state level, and as they gain experience they’ll be better suited to succeed nationally and change the party as a result. But this requires you to actually vote. In every election. Always. And I get the sense that those who complain it’s a two party system the loudest are just offering an excuse as to why they simply don’t vote, don’t participate in our democracy. The people who run for national office in say, the Green Party, rarely have any government experience or real leadership experience. It’s just boilerplate slogans and a clear demonstration they don’t really know what’s going on. Why the fuck would I vote for that? Shit, I can say all the right things and run for President. But I would suck as president because the job is much more bureaucratic management than just saying shit out loud.

Aww, y’all hitting the down arrow instead of addressing what I said…. I have been put in maw place!

Mass protests have stopped. A handful of people meeting at a coffee shop or vigil is a stark contrast to bridges and roads being blocked, to school administration buildings occupied. The US is 330 million people and you get how many at a protest now?

And that website is all about Israel and nothing about forced relocations of two million people and the US annexing Gaza for development. But those aren’t Democrat proposals, so whatevs…

The protest $hill Stein voters still gonna claim the righteous high ground while excoriating Biden/Harris/Democrats even though every last detail of this story was floated by Trump and pals during the election.

And the “Free Palestine” mass protests have all but stopped since Election Day, movement leaders (who exactly were they?) having achieved their goal of disenfranchising Democrats (but ZERO protests against the Republican Congress that approved funding for Israel).

The slice with the expiration date and lot number imprinted on it is the lucky slice

Thanks for the link. It seems the bulk of these recent protests are just meetings at a local storefront or a “banner drop” involving only a handful of people. The street marches, building occupations, and bridges closures that required hundreds of people are simply done.

Ah yes, whataboutism as the answer to any uncomfortable comment. So tell me where and when these protests are occurring. I used to see them weekly in my city, block-long marches down popular streets. They used to block freeways and bridges and college administration buildings were occupied. Did the pre-election protests ever once target a Trump rally? Or any Republican?

Will people take to the streets now to protest Trump and his Republican Congress’s stance on Gaza? Will the people do anything now that the Democrats have lost?