#democrats are incompetent

[jangillman]

[truth4ourfreedom]

VENEZUELA TODAY; THE SAME UNDER HARRIS COME NOVEMBER!

And isn't it just coincidental that he stole the last Presidential election as well?

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[lady-raziel]

It wouldn’t be a good thing and would certainly throw a catastrophic wrench in everything but the next 12-15 hours would be the absolute funniest time for Joe Biden to go on tv and say “actually I’m a Trump supporter now, after hearing about all this for so long I’ve come around to it and think I’m voting MAGA 😎”

[breakerofcurses]

usa is quickly turning more dystopic but my country is no different

[sillimancer]

tiktok ban is objectively bad and subjectively sucks major ass for a lot of reasons but I don't think I've seen anyone mention what an absolute L for the Democrats this is because they've literally set up the layup for Trump to become The President Who Saved TikTok which is honestly so fucking embarrassing for them, Democrats are truly allergic to winning, it's beyond parody

[bill-gates-hate-blog]

I hate this fucking country

[tomorrowusa]

« Democrats want to govern because they believe government has a chance to do good. This means even the party’s most left-wing members will compromise to take a step or two forward even when they want to take four.

Republicans, on the other hand, are riven between those willing to govern — even, occasionally, with Democrats — and those who will be satisfied only if Trump is president. They presume this would allow them to roll over the left, the liberals and the moderates alike. »

— Columnist E.J. Dionne at the Washington Post.

Most Republicans are not really that interested in governing – except for persecuting people different from them and giving big tax breaks to the filthy rich. The perpetual culture war is all that really matters to the GOP.

Remember the famed "Infrastructure Week" during the Trump administration? If not, that's because it never happened during the 208 weeks of Trump's term. He was probably too busy rage-tweeting from the bathroom to be involved in the actual work of governing.

In contrast, infrastructure improvement was promised, passed, and is currently in the process of being delivered by Joe Biden. Check the map in the link below to see projects in your state.

Investing In America

Even in Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson's Louisiana there are many local people benefiting.

With Democrats you get job creation and investment. With Republicans you get vengeance and retribution with a heavy dose of incompetence.

Anybody who tells you that both parties are alike has the veracity of George Santos. Nobody talks about the Ebola outbreak of the early 2010s any more because the Obama administration handled it competently. The Trump administration completely botched the COVID-19 outbreak right from the start and America suffered much more because of his ineptitude and indolence.

[mirrorfalls]

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[biggest-bara-tiddies]

How the hell does a company that’s been making submersible vehicles since 2009 decide to kick off a program that puts a crew of one pilot armed with a knockoff xbox controller and four clueless passengers in an expensive metal inescapable coffin to take leisurely tours of the titanic on the ocean floor

[jangillman]

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Democrats couldn't run a goddamn hot dog stand ! Thank goodness President Trump has been reinstated. Onwards and upwards for America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👏👏👏👏 MAGA 2024

[truth4ourfreedom]

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO FROM KAMALATOE HARRIS!!!!!

Uh - oh! She outlines just what the Democrats are going to do come November!!!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Gary Markstein, Creators Syndicate

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 9, 2023 (Thursday)

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 10, 2023

The Republican-dominated House of Representatives remains unable to agree even to a way forward toward funding the United States government. This is a five-alarm fire.

The continuing resolution for funding the government Congress passed in September when then–House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) couldn’t pass appropriations bills runs out on November 17. If something is not done, and done quickly, the U.S. will face a shutdown over Thanksgiving. This will not only affect family gatherings and the holiday, it will hit Black Friday—which, as the busiest shopping day of the year, is what keeps a number of businesses afloat. 

The problem with funding the government is the same problem that infects much else in the country today: far-right Republicans insist that their position is the only acceptable one. Even though the majority of the country opposes their view, they refuse to compromise. They want to gut the government that regulates business, provides a basic social safety net, promotes infrastructure, and protects civil rights. 

To impose their will on the majority, they don’t have to understand issues, build coalitions, or figure out compromises. All they have to do is steadfastly vote no. If they can prevent the government from accomplishing anything, they will have achieved their goal.

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) perfectly illustrated how much easier it is to destroy than to build today as he objected to the promotion of military leaders, one at a time. Democrats tried to bring up each promotion of career military personnel, many of whom have served this country for decades, by introducing them by name; Tuberville had only to say “I object” to prevent the Senate from taking up those promotions. 

That refusal to budge from an extreme position weakens our military. It also weakens our democracy, as was apparent today in Michigan as Republican lawmakers joined an antiabortion group in suing to overturn a 2022 amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights. Voters approved that amendment with 57% of the vote in a process established by the state constitution, but the plaintiffs want to stop it from taking effect, claiming that by creating a new right, it disfranchises them and prevents the legislature from making laws. They could launch their own ballot initiative to replace the amendment they don’t like, but as that seems unlikely to pass, they are instead trying to block the measure the voters have said they want.

The decision of Ohio’s voters to protect abortion rights on Tuesday has prompted a similar disdain for democracy there. The vote for that state constitutional amendment was not close—56.6% to 43.4%—but Republican legislators immediately said they would work to find ways to stop the amendment from taking effect. 

North Dakota state representative Brandon Prichard was much more explicit. Opposed to the measure, he wrote, “Direct democracy should not exist…. It would be an act of courage to ignore the results of the election….” According to James Bickerton of Newsweek, Prichard has previously called for Republican-dominated states to “put into code that Jesus Christ is King and dedicate their state to Him.” 

Now that refusal to compromise threatens the U.S. government itself. It has been apparent that the Republicans were unable to agree on a funding plan even among themselves. On Tuesday, as Nicole Lafond of Talking Points Memo pointed out, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Americans should just trust the Republicans. He told reporters: “I’m not going to tell you when we will bring [appropriations bills] to the floor, but it will be in time, how about that? Trust us: We’re working through the process in a way that I think that people will be proud of…. [M]any options…are on the table and we’ll be revealing what our plan is in short order.”

Today, although the House managed to vote on a series of extremist bills designed to signal to their base—lowering the salaries of government officials they dislike to $1 a year—the House Republicans had to pull the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill after extremists loaded it with antiabortion language so they could not get the votes to pass it even through the Republican side of the aisle; earlier they had to pull the bill to fund Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies. 

“We’re still dealing with the same divisions we always have had,” a House Republican told Sahil Kapur, Scott Wong, and Julie Tsirkin of NBC News. “We’re ungovernable.”

And then, after pulling the bill, Speaker Johnson adjourned the House until Monday. As Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) put it this afternoon: “We are just 8 days away from a devastating government shutdown—and instead of working in a bipartisan way to keep the government open, Speaker Johnson sent Congress home early for the weekend. This is completely unacceptable.”

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote: “The training wheels fell off for [Republican] leadership this week. They tried to pass two appropriations bills. They failed twice. The government shuts down in 8 days and [the House Republican Party] HAS NO PLAN. Instead, we voted on stupid stuff today like reducing the salary of [the] W[hite] H[ouse] Press Secretary to $1.”

The problem remains what it has been since the Republican Party took control of the House in 2021: far-right extremists refuse to agree to any budget that doesn’t slash government funding of popular programs, while less extremist Republicans recognize that such cuts would gut the government and horrify all but the most extreme voters. In any case, measures loaded with extremist wish lists will not pass the Senate; this is why appropriations bills are traditionally kept clean.

Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out just such an agreement with the administration in May 2023 for funding, but the extremists refuse to honor it. For their part, Democrats are holding firm on that agreement. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told NBC News correspondent Julie Tsirkin that “[a] clean continuing resolution at the fiscal year 2023 levels is the only way forward… We're asking for the status quo to keep the government open.” 

The government budget isn’t the only casualty of the Republican chaos. The farm bill, which funds agricultural programs and food programs, must be renewed every five years. The measure authorized in 2018 expires this year, but extremists are eager to slash funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps, endangering the passage of a measure farmers strongly support. 

And today the Defense Department pleaded with Congress to pass the supplemental budget request President Biden made in August to fund Ukraine’s military needs in its war against Russian aggression. 

The Republican Party’s problem continues to be America’s problem, and it is getting bigger by the day.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Not voting is saying you care nothing about disabled establishments, and the accessibility for those with mobility issues.

Its saying I have no dependence on routine healthcare or treatments, so people reliant on medicines and prescriptions should just suffer.

It is complacency to a world spiraling with hate and fearmongering, while trumps people shout "the bad people are the ones who want education and aid for minorities, or vulnerable children."

Healthcare workers are suffering. Minimum wage workers are suffering. Full time college students working two jobs are suffering, because the old people who were given everything, later took everything away from the younger generations.

We are still working for a better future. It's a never ending process. It ends when you die, and that is what the privileged Americans want. They want you to be a statistic that they can ignore, because their life is so good without you in it.

"Don't vote to teach the Democrats a lesson!" Great thanks my Jewish disabled queer ass will just die then

[sawbuckplus]

It appears that Ms. Harris is not well thought of by many senior members of the democrat party.