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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•This was from 2017.
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    9 hours ago

    2020 Election: The Democrats gained control of the Senate after the Georgia runoff elections in January 2021. This flipped the Senate from Republican to Democratic control. The Senate was tied 50–50, but with Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote, the Democrats technically controlled the chamber.

    The Supermajority: A supermajority in the Senate requires 60 votes to overcome filibusters and pass most legislation. This means that, while Democrats technically had control with 50 seats plus the Vice President’s tie-breaking vote, they did not have a full 60-vote supermajority.

    However, there was one brief moment when Biden’s party had a 60th vote, which occurred after Senator Al Franken resigned and was replaced with Senator Tina Smith in 2018

    At best their ‘accomplishments’ you mention were limited, while vastly more dammage was done in other fields.
    They celebrate 1 step forward while simultaniously going 3 steps back somewhere else.
    The drone king was one of the worst and harmful presidents ever.
    That party can not and does not want to be fixed, it’s working as intended.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•This was from 2017.
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    2 days ago

    What’s this today? Been in the fediverse for barely 2 weeks only to be dissapointed by the same manufactured consent from its users (minus the bots).
    All of a sudden I see anti-capitalist posts and based comments.
    The ‘libs’ in Europe would be the shamelessly named socialist parties.
    Invariably being horrible and keeping the status quo with only difference that they now and then throw a bone to the beloved working class and have their larping day on the 1st of may, sing the internationale like they mean it.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•This was from 2017.
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    2 days ago

    That’s not their purpose, they just need to look the part. They are comfortable in the ‘my hands are tied’ position. They can propose bills they know will not make it. When they have a supermajority, like they had not long ago, they are in trouble. They have no choice but to stop proposing bills and find reasons to say they are ‘sabotaged’. They played this game for centuries, still works.