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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Media once again blaming Democrats for the Republicans' attacks on Americans

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Democrats don't have the votes, lmfao.

Filibuster is getting gutted, it only needs simple majority to remove.

Also, the VP as President of the Senate can just ignore the parliamentarian, so they wont even need a vote to abolish the filibuster.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't the democrats have the opportunity to remove the filibuster in the Senate and chose not to?

Democrats play by the rules, republicans don't. They don't need to remove filibuster. Senate rules are enforced by the senate parliamentarian, whom the VP as President of the Senate can overrule.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The federal government is only one locus of power; they have the majority in many State legislatures.

[–] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans aren't going to cut trans healthcare. They are going to cut everyone's healthcare

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But by framing it as attacking trans health care they will gain the support of the R masses. Gotta say I'm getting bored of watching leopards eating faces.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They don't even need to label it as trans healthcare....just "illegals are taking your healthcare, so we're going to stop them"

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are no votes. There’s a trifecta.

It means birth control, ACA, social security, Medicare, HIPAA, overtime, no fault divorce, federal labor laws, the department of education (and it’s mandates regarding special needs kids, safety checks on Wall Street, and lots of other things could be gone by next Christmas.

Wow. Embrace reality. It’s a weird headline that doesn’t track with reality. Like Roe as soon as the document was made public, it’s already gone it’s just not official yet.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buckle up because all of that is true. Hell going worse then that.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

What’s surreal is watching Korea defeat their dipshit dictators martial law and knowing none of that will happen here.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You forgot marriage equality

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, I just realized I couldn’t type everything. There’s a lot of things listed out in project 2025.

As is, I expect where President Musk and the Heritage Foundation meet most is in forceful increase of fertility rates. So that will likely be where they start. As a non breeder odds are you’ll be overlooked for a short while. But only a short while.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not that it really matters, but you shouldn't assume I'm gay just because I support marriage equality.

That said, "non breeder" is still accurate lol

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

You are right.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine being so dumb that you blame everything on the democrats.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Yes, they will happily let trans healthcare be gutted as they "learn" from this election and continue their inexorable move to the right.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Liberals and appeasement go together like chocolate and peanut butter.

Solidarity is all that keeps reactionaries from taking over.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol, the Republicans have the SCOTUS, Congress, and the Presidency. Exactly what is it the Democrats are supposed to do?

Be as obstructionist as the GOP has been for the last 30 years. Be loud, annoying, and refuse to compromise on human rights.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they don’t self destruct, gop is going to be doing whatever the fuck they want. Dems can’t do shit.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

They can do quite a bit in states where they control state government.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?

Yes.

The real question is, will the public? Unless there is at least anger in the streets, also yes.

Oh fuck right the hell off JAEL HOLZMAN.