• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Obama had a filibuster proof majority for a grand total of 73 days and they did Obamacare. Dems haven’t had that since.

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      10 hours ago

      Get rid of filibuster. Pack the supreme court. Do whatever you have to do to do what is in the benefit of the public. It ain’t that hard, it is very popular but the democratic party is just not interested in working for the people.

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        3 hours ago

        I’m not sure I agree with that. Before suggesting someone wield that kind of power, consider how you’d feel about it if the opposition parties did that too.

        At this point, I think the USA is better off just reforming its constitution. And possibly splitting the union into 5-10 separate smaller countries. The country is clearly not an effective union anymore, and to be honest, hasn’t been for a very long time. This isn’t the first time there’s been a north-south divide and it certainly won’t be the last, so why prolong the suffering? Just break it up and be done with it. Everyone will probably be much happier that way.

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          57 minutes ago

          the fascist party has already done that. I’m not against taking off the gloves if the other guy is coming at me with a fucking knife.

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        10 hours ago

        It ain’t that hard, it is very popular but the democratic party is just not interested in working for the people.

        It sure as shit was not popular in 2009. It’s not even popular now.

        Most people don’t know jack fucking shit.