from the not-meant-for-this-moment dept

  • @WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    89
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    The timing here is what makes this move particularly baffling…

    It’s only baffling if you cling to the ever-more-laughable belief that the Democrats are any sort of meaningful opposition.

    If you instead simply shift to the ever-more-supported belief that they are in fact essentially oligarchic co-conspirators, then the timing makes perfect sense.

    • Ogmios
      link
      fedilink
      English
      288 days ago

      Yea, both Democrats and Republicans have a pretty solid history of voting in lock step on matters of giving themselves more power.

        • @Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          77 days ago

          The same people who regularly give us uninspiring and insipid candidates to run against demagogues and repeatedly act surprised when they lose ground expect to gain control of a White House where the current president is treating democracy as if it’s an optional hindrance – expect to take power?

          If nothing else, I admire their optimism.

            • skulblaka
              link
              fedilink
              English
              37 days ago

              Only because he was matched up against the most hilariously inept and unqualified opponent in the history of American politics, and even that wasn’t enough to save them twice.