sorry LEFTISTS, I will let fascists fuck us all dead before I steer progress away from anything that isn’t Obama-nostalgic capitalism. oh and I’m pretty sure I heard that commie say something about term limits so I’m going to make that all of yous’ problem just for even considering it.
I’ve been saying since 2016 that Sanders’ executive orders alone would have moved the US further in the right direction than any president since LBJ.
The last six months of Donald Trump have proven that. The presidency has all the power any party needs if they actually want to do real good.
I think its hilarious how before Trumps 2nd term, the libshits would argue "but if they use executive orders to push through {legalization of abortion, marijuana, socialized healthcare, public transit, any number of good left leaning policies} the R’s will do it back when theyre back in office!!
Now look where we are.
fucking libshits and MAGAts.
Yeah so Biden did an executive order to forgive student debt, it got challenged in the courts and so it didn’t happen.
People saying “Democrats should just do executive orders like Trump does” need to look into who’s on the Supreme Court.
The “do everything by EO” strat only works for a party that has had a loyal voting base for decades so they have control of the courts.
Sorry to interrupt the “both sides” narrative leftists/MAGAs love so much.
why wouldn’t they? Bernie’s interests are aligned completely opposite to the interests of whatever groups that keep at least half of those democrats in their seats. That became much more clear when they happily voted no to Bernie’s “ban weapon sale to Israel” motions.
Good question.
If Democrats were reasonable, objective people (which they are not), they’d probably look at the fact that the state of Missouri passed a $15 minimum wage, required paid sick leave, AND legalized abortion in the same election where they elected Republicans.
And then take that as a lesson of maybe what they should be doing in order to win back red states.
But they won’t.
They’re in the pocket of the rich and couldn’t care less about people who work for a living.
This is so confusing. Which party, if any, was supporting those measures? How’d they get on the ballot?
We are one of the last states that can still do ballot initiatives. That’s how weed happened anyway.
It’s a bit silly sometimes though, the citizens put initiatives on the ballot that Rs hate and then vote in all the Rs expecting them to implement the stuff in good faith.
If you consider the bigger picture it’s not silly at all.
Democrats spent four years, two of them with the same amount of power that Donald Trump has, letting people get significantly poorer and aiding a genocide. Then, they fronted an openly demented candidate who had a meltdown on national TV. Then, they let the brain-dead candidate crown a candidate who couldn’t even beat Tulsi Gabbard in a primary. After that, they spent three months of campaign time offering no policy changes, but just telling people to ‘be joyful’. Then, after that, Harris publicly affirmed she wouldn’t do anything differently than Biden had.
TLDR: Democrats made voters hate them just that much. You can’t tell tens of millions of people working 100 hours a week at three jobs just to afford a roach-infested studio that you’re not going to make their lives better. Sure, Dems say they support better things, but no one believes them anymore.
sorry just saw this. I was referring to mo state politics, not national.
Specifically, that we put policies in place via initiatives that fly in the face of standard R philosophy but then are surprised when the Rs that we also elect (in MO) don’t want to follow through.
That’s okay.
In this case, the surprise was warranted.
Republicans in 2024 ran as economic populists, even though they were lying about it. The Democrats presided over four years of people’s cost of living doubling and tripling, so it only made sense that Republicans pretended to give a shit.
Though people should have 100% expected them to try and undo the abortion rights amendment.
