Except that it is, and a bill was already passed by House Democrats to protect women's rights to obtain an abortion. Yet another baseless comment.

Nearly 90% of your posts are like a thin, watered down crisco oil. Tasteless. Thoughtless. Without substance. With only one blind purpose. To fulfill your post requirements or limit or whatever it is you are targeting.

To try and break you of this habit, I want to ask, do you remember anything of your childhood fondly? Or were you like this as a child also, petulantly trying to shoot down your classmates and friends if any? The society you hate and distrust MADE you somehow, and perhaps an analysis of your origins will help you to realize where you had your first mis-steps. We might help guide you towards a new goal besides literal years of weaksauce attempts at "smashing the libs' dreams."

Would appreciate some actual honesty from you. But I won't expect it.

When does that bill become legislation?

Stars for Simillion.

It will never become legislation, because the Democrats are utterly incapable of governing.

Imagine maintaining such allegiance to a political party that cares so little about your needs. It's like being in a cult.

Simillion wins.

I heard a great interview with a member of the leadership of the Vermont AFL-CIO today. They are pushing to eliminate union funding of Democratic party candidates, since they've given them many millions of dollars in exchange for nothing in return. In fact, most Democrats regularly vote against union interests. They want to take that money and spend it somewhere useful, like on solidarity efforts and local organizing.

The left would be a lot better off if more people realized that the Dems aren't going to do shit for them. All they care about is securing their own reelection.

Lol crackersmack got bodied by simillion

There are post requirements here? I guess I may have to leave more than one comment a year.

Still wondering when the Democrats are going to legislate abortion rights for all Americans. That's what they believe in, right? Protecting abortion rights is a top priority of the party, I've been told. So why the inaction? I'm sincerely asking to be informed here.

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You see, Crackersmack, the Democrats can't do anything because it might reduce their chances of being reelected in 2022. If that happens, they'll be in the minority and won't be able to do anything!

MAGIC!

I’d love a choice in between “letting republicans have full fascist totalitarian control because principles “ and technocrat dems telling me “all change must be glacial and we can’t tax the rich because reasons.”

But still, in an America where currently those are THE ONLY two choices, I’ll take the not-xtian taliban option.

lol slam dunked by Simillion maybe you should move on to easier pastures for your trolling

It won't pass the senate because they won't get rid of the filibuster or force Manchin to toe the line.

Instead, they're debating passing a reconciliation bill that includes the Hyde Amendment.

Democrats are either stunningly incompetent at achieving their stated aims, or they don't really care about those aims. (Abortion is still available to constituencies they care about and, like their counterparts on the right, they can use it as a wedge issue to get out votes and raise money.)

Tell us how to force manchin to do things.

I, 48 dem senators, and millions of Americans would love to know what you’d do to force manchin to do your bidding.

Senate committee assignments. That's how you force senators to do things. The committee assignments are the source of all of their actual power and ability to collect bribes. If the idea that Manchin and Sinema would lose committee assignments was even suggested, they would fold immediately. The fact that it hasn't is proof that this is all a show.

Roe vs Wade Jackass

Perhaps the Democratic leadership could try actually using some leverage on Manchin. If the rank and file actually cared about things like abortion access they'd put their bodies in between those who want to take it away and the levers of power. They'd march with us in the streets.

But no, you'll never see them do any of that, because abortion access is far less important to them than raising money and staying in power with their capitalist-imperialist party (red edition) buddies.

And no, the capitalist-imperialist party is not the only choice. Voting does basically zero good, but you can engage with your local community and make things dramatically better for those around you who are in need with only a tiny bit of effort. It's also far more satisfying than waiting for the Democrats to grow either a spine or a conscience.

If you are opposed to making the world a better place directly, you can always join a grassroots progressive party like the DSA and work electoral magic at the local level. Don't worry, they won't scold you for voting for your abusers.

Roe vs Wade doesn't protect abortion rights anymore. When the SCOTUS refused to block the Texas abortion ban, they essentially showed every red state legislature exactly how to do it. And you're not going to get a SCOTUS that is favorable to abortion rights in either of our lifetimes without drastic court reform that Democrats have already said they will not do.

So what now? Why is it so unreasonable to ask that Democrats use their majorities in congress to make abortions rights into actual legislation? It's possible without relying on a single Republican to vote for it.

Sadly, our worthless frozen Senate will need 10 republicans to turncoat on abortion rights and vote on the House bill to pass it. That does mean that it is unlikely that the abortion rights bill that House Democrats already passed is going to pass the senate.

However, CLEARLY, the fault doesn't "lie with the dems" when the issue is that senate rules require a larger majority.

The fault lies with AMERICAN VOTERS who have been so evenly divided along red and blue lines for so long that we are entrenched in a frozen Democracy with a Senate that only barely acts in any one way.

What makes Crackersmack and others in his camp nervous is that there is actual chance of social change for so many reasons now. Literal hundreds of thousands of Republican voters are now dead across the country due to COVID19, literally millions of previously disenfranchised voters have been enabled to vote by mail (though recent legislative action in red states are locking down the vote rapidly, an important counter-action we need to prevent), and literally billions of people worldwide are now aware of just how fucked up our climate is, are aware that 100 corporate entities have generated 71% of the world's CO2 emissions, are aware that ideas such as "clean coal," carbon capture and biofuels are broken solutions fabricated by the oil and coal industries to maintain their profits, while solar and wind remain cheap, are now cheaper than alternative fuels, and more sustainable in the long term with actual net energy gains per CO2 emission made over time.

What makes Crackersmack and his shit faction nervous is that millenial investors are now rich, are learning how to take meaningful action against said 100 corporate entities via divesting actions with the combined billions in savings and market accounts that they now control, and can use social media to quickly disrupt and cause tremendous financial losses to said 100 corporate entities, and why we haven't already is lost to me but I am sure it will happen.

What makes Crackersmack nervous is that the global hive mind is capable of making action happen that the controlling factions thought we wouldn't have, and they might actually start LISTENING TO THEIR CUSTOMERS over time and may actually stop generating income doing unethical polluting practices and may actually invest in the world's future instead of their own short term profit out of necessity to prevent massive capital losses. That global hive mind is not on the side of big oil, big coal, and the majority of the US Republican party.

The dems are falliable and imperfect, and a two party system is inherently flawed and does not give good choices, but if the last 20 years have shown us anything it's that the most damage control when it comes to political policy for our environment, our rights to control our own bodies and our world's future have been in decisions made by most of the democratic party. The only thing we don't need right now is a sudden loss of interest in politics and inaction on the part of voters. If continued progress is made, we might actually get to a 60-40 majority and then we will finally have the ability to make critical comments like Crackersmack's if the democratic party continues to flop around with inaction. But that time hasn't come yet, the dems haven't truly taken full power at all. The supreme court remains locked in the Republican camp and the split senate is unable to act, but the trends of the recent past MIGHT point to actual change that will save lives and prevent social and environmental tragedy.

And again, as a short retort to Crackersmack's last comment above mine: Again, baseless. "Why is it so unreasonable to ask that Democrats use their majorities in congress to make abortions rights into actual legislation?" Well, I explained that in my above post, a 60-40 majority is required for this particular legislation affecting all 50 states, and those rules are the problem, which may not change, but voters might attain a 60-40 majority. Crackersmack won't discuss facts that are inconvenient to his goals.

For anyone impressionable, young, or debating their opinion on how we can at least for now use one of these two parties to accomplish SOMETHING, please know that Crackersmack speaks only falsehoods and lies that are designed to disenfranchise, and he isn't going to change. He's not going to be honest with you, he's just fabricating an impression that he knows will harm progress, which is the point, he prefers our government to stay locked in inaction, but it doesn't have to stay that way, if more people vote and continue to boot out worthless Republicans until, at least for a while, we have actual legislative control. Only then will any of his critiques be valid in any way, until then he is just lying to you.

The senate can change it's rules with 50+1 votes, including removing the filibuster entirely.

"What makes Crackersmack and his shit faction nervous is that millenial investors are now rich, are learning how to take meaningful action against said 100 corporate entities via divesting actions with the combined billions in savings and market accounts that they now control, and can use social media to quickly disrupt and cause tremendous financial losses to said 100 corporate entities, and why we haven't already is lost to me but I am sure it will happen."

lol yeah, if investors are just woke enough it will stop being profitable to externalize risk and exploit labor sure buddy it's just around the corner

he actually said that in all that the text diarrhea? omfg lol

LOL that clown thinks we will save our species by mildly reforming capitalism.

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John that's just not true tho. Your political party provably does not struggle to represent any interest other than that of the very wealthy. They won't even use their power to preserve abortion rights, which even I would have thought they would go to the mat to protect.