✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay

2 days ago

don’t get it twisted

those that got us in this position are just as culpable as those pulling the trigger

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

screenshot of a Facebook post by Sam Brody:

"What is happening in DC right now would not be happening if DC had been made a state any time Democrats held both the presidency and Congress in the last 30 years.

Adding states to the union is much easier to do than amending the constitution. It requires nothing more than an act of Congress, and only needs a simple majority to pass. The Obama Senate could have easily done it when they had 59 senators. But the party leaders thought, I dunno, it wouldn’t be sporting or something. Not fair to the Republicans to use power to do things. The pundits might call it “overreach,” oh no, not that. Biden could have tried to do it - everyone was already saying it was necessary democracy reform after Trump I - but he pre-gave up because Manchin and Sinema said they just had to respect the ancient and immortal filibuster, so what can you do? Best not to try.

So now we have millions of US citizens with no representation at all under naked authoritarian rule by an unchecked federal law enforcement apparatus. And the pundits have all forgotten the word “overreach,” which only applies to Democrats when they win by much greater margins than this and have much larger and more representative majorities than this."

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social

2 days ago

Fuck this "we should time travel and now we're getting what we deserve" bullshit.

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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay
2 days ago

i’m not saying we should time travel

i’m saying that those who refused to act when given the opportunity because they’re spineless and obsessed with “respectability” directly created the opportunity for this to happen and should be held responsible for the consequence of their inaction

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