Summary
The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.
Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.
Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.
Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.
yes. yes, they did.
Most Americans did vote for this. Now enjoy what you sow.
They did with absolute certainty.
They absolutely did vote for this and sat on their asses and also didn’t vote and voted for this.
Fuck you Americans, you wanted it, now we all get your shitty choices.
Hey man i didn’t vote for the assholes
Too damn bad that’s not how democracy works. You’ll take what the idiots give us.
Sadly, because of the US’s imperial nature, it’s not just going to affect them.
Unfortunately, the American people did.
But we didn’t. I voted for Harris but I expected this shit to wait until the inauguration to happen unless she won
Unfortunately, a plurality of the electorate disagrees with us.
As for the timing, it’s normal for the rules for the incoming Congress to be put into place before the presidential inauguration. It’s just abnormal for them to be so… shitty.
The responses here reaffirm to me how sweet this setup is for the rich. You’ve got two parties owned by the rich, with one willing to give a few minor concessions to the peasants, and the masses are stuck between them, but you better vote for the somewhat less bad party or else it’s all your fucking fault that everything is bad. Seriously, is the strategy to demand the majority vote for a single party until the end of time? You’ve got to see how that’s impossible under this system. It’s a way to shift the blame off the broken system and to make it an issue of individual responsibility. Reminds me of people who bash the poor as lazy people who just need to “get a job”.
They actually did vote for this with open eyes
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In countries where minority governments can rule this would be a valid reaction, but this is not the case here
So what happened 2021-2023?
Why do you think a simple majority means republicans can do anything they want, but when Dems had it, it wasn’t enough to do anything?
How do you rationalize how those two are different?
Maybe power should be distributed
But they did vote for this. Whenever I saw Trump speak, he always emphasized on how he will do tax breaks to the big corps. He never proposed a solution on how to help the working class people.
Less than half of all eligible voters voted. Yes, non voters essentially voted for Trump but it’s not the same thing as literally voting for and endorsing the dumb demented fat fascist.
The majority of eligible voters are just morons that have been successfully distracted and confused (because they’re so dumb).
There is value in the distinction, even tho that value may be quite small in context
but it’s not the same thing as literally voting for and endorsing the dumb demented fat fascist.
In a two party political system it is. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Non voters are even more dumb than Trump voters… at least Trump voters understand the very simple fact that there is power in voting.
Less than half of all eligible voters voted.
According to Ballotpedia it was 63.7% of eligible voters, which is a very good turnout by US standards.
Still means that only about a third of eligible voters voted for Trump, but, y’know, that’s really quite a lot.
Just like Hitler. He got 33%.
It’s like a magic number for people. You can often find at least 25-30% of people that’ll agree to something in politics/views no matter how terrible it would be for them, and the GOP has them locked down.
His idea on helping working class is blaming it all on immigrants.
His idea of “helping the working class” consists of tariffs that don’t work the way he says they do and a very likely catastrophic mass deportation program.
And people did vote for those somehow.
Some of it yes, but the leopards face eating feast wouldn’t exist if they actually got what they thought they were getting. They’re just idiots.
Doesn’t matter now they are in power. That’s all they ever wanted.
They did vote for it and they are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.
Donate another 8 billion in weapons to Israel
Point angry finger towards Republicans
Yep it’s Democrat time 😎
Welcome to the kingdom of north America. United States is dead, this is the new fiefdom, and king Elon and chancellor Trump don’t give a fuck what we think or want.
You guys are so fucked lmao
A whole lotta dipshits voted for lower egg prices, or stayed home, voted their useless protest vote or outright voted for donvict, because “genocide joe” or whatever.
But we are all going to get this instead, I guess. It’s not like many normal Americans were not warning them…Gaza and egg prices will be unaffected by donvict, maybe made worse by his fumbling idiocracy.
Biden already said that the US doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Aaaaand Kamala ran on a pro-fracking platform.
I mean, jfc do you people have the memory of goldfish or were you just not paying attention in the first place? Proud to be one of the 13 million, personally. Have fun voting for Liz Cheney when she runs as a democrat in four years!
Thankfully, Biden is at least using his last hours in office to do something useful, like send Israel another $8bn in weapons.
Hey, he’s also giving Liz Cheney a medal…
from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney
“Regarded as a leading ideological neoconservative[7][8][9] in the Bush–Cheney tradition as well as representative of the Republican establishment,[10] Cheney is known for her pro-business stances and hawkish foreign policy views.[11][12][13] She was once considered one of the leaders of the Republican Party’s neoconservative wing,[7] and was critical of the foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration while consistently voting in favor of Trump’s overall agenda”
So the Democratic party is giving medals to neocons who voted in favor of Trumps policies.
You couldnt make this stuff up. Stuff like this is why Bidens approval was too low to run and Harris got her tail kicked. Their idiot incompetence and hubris is why we will all now suffer.
And this is the person Harris touted as a win to the people Cheney hurt the most… And said she would be a good cabinet level position.
I’m only surprised it took this long for them to give republicans medals. Hell biden/Kamala were running on bush era policies and ideas while also saying we needed to go farther right…
But yeah it’s totally all on the voters.
But yeah it’s totally all on the voters.
You people are so fucking transparent with your desperate attempts to place blame anywhere but on yourself. Grow up.
If you’re old enough to vote, you’re old enough to take responsibility for the consequences of that vote (or abstention).
Our country is filled with idiots because we refuse to fix our education system (and one party just works to break it). The democrats needed to do more than just we’re gop-lite but they don’t want to win so they never do that.
You people are so fucking transparent with your desperate attempts to place blame anywhere but on yourself. Grow up.
Ah the classic the party can never fail only be failed
Yes. They were flawed.
Explain to me how Trump being President helps the Palestenians or the environment.ve4sus a Bid3n or Harris administration.
Even if their policies were 100% in lockstep on Palestine and the environment (Trump will ABSOLUTELY be worse for both), there’s a million other ways in which Trump is worse.
You motherfucers who cast votes for third parties, refused to vote, or really did anything but vote for Harris were signing a fucking suicide pact for the rest of us while pretending you were taking the moral high ground.
Everything that’s coming is your fault. All the suffering, death, destruction - all of it. Your hands are bloody. It should keep you up at night, but your heads are so far up your own arrogant asses you no longer smell the shit you’ve spread.
When you had the choice to put up meaningful opposition to fascism, you chose not to.
Fuck you, now and forever.
Trump will no doubt be worse for the environment and many other things. But as an outsider I cannot help but ask, if you blame those who did not vote for Harris for what is coming, then surely your hands are dipped in the blood of all the victims of the Democratic party’s policies over the years? How long are you going to pretend that they are different? Surely you realize that no Bernie will ever be the democratic nominee and that this is by design. How far to the right must the Dems go before someone else takes over what is the remnant of the American left?
The time to change the left is the primaries and local elections.
When the national elections come around, you don’t move the country to the left by allowing the ultra-right fascists to win the election.
That is absolutely true, but you know that the vast majority of people are not as politically engaged as to do something about that. They barely get up to vote for the big one. I get it that this is not exactly the best of excuses, but if you consider how voting works in general - with things like gerrymandering etc and the shady and purposefully complicated process of electing party representatives - I would argue that the American people are never given much of a choice. At the end of the day I don’t think what you guys have can be called a democracy. The process gives way too much power to a select few and takes all the meaning away from the public vote. Most people may not realize it, but they instinctively react to the futility of the voting process. In fact, I would argue that the Trump phenomenon is a direct result of this. Arguably most people who voted Trump are not consciously evil fascists, they are ignorant idiots (and I use this word for its original Greek meaning) who are tired of voting for anyone from the establishment only to see them serve the 1%.
My point is, it’s easy to start pointing fingers at those who didn’t vote anti-Trump specifically, but imho Harris was exactly the candidate that would cause a surge of Trump votes by trying to appease her way to the middle of the road between the extreme right and the insane ultra nazi right that are the two choices for Americans these days.
Democrats are not “extreme right”. Fuck off.
Nice manners. If you compare their policies with right wing parties around the world you will see the similarities. There are inner factions that lean left obviously but their voices are muffled by the Clintons and the like.
I mean… it worked for most of europe. Granted it also involved a world war. But thats just details.
Ahh yea, those famously fair and democratic DNC primaries.
How are they not fair?
Just because the majority of people who actually show up and vote in them pick candidates you don’t like?
It’s the people who bother to fucking show up that make the difference.
2016
On July 22, WikiLeaks published the Democratic National Committee email leak, in which DNC operatives seemed to deride Bernie Sanders’ campaign and discuss ways to advance Clinton’s nomination, leading to the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other implicated officials.
2024
The primaries in Florida and Delaware were cancelled, with Biden receiving all pledged delegates, while in North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Indiana, no candidates other than Biden will appear on the ballot, partially due to decisions by the state Democratic parties in those states.
It’s the people who bother to fucking show up that make the difference.
I assume you’re not talking about the 6 states listed where the DNC chose to run Biden unopposed or simply cancelled the primary altogether. After all, can’t show up for the primary if there is no primary.
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there are many groups to blame
The important thing to do when casting blame on groups is to ensure you are not part of those groups.
Centrists are getting the policies they want either way (especially the genocide) because they’re conservatives. Blaming progressives is just posturing to make sure the next centrist dipshit they saddle us with is even more conservative.
