• sinedpick@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I’d probably just resign.

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      5 months ago

      All resigning does is give them a greater margin to win votes by. We have several chances to win a tie or majority in the house and senate

      Three house seats are up for special elections, two in florida and one in NY. If they all elect democrats, there will be a tie in the houde and any bill can be blocked.

      Senate votes can be held without all members present, so making sure all democrat congress members always show up and always vote gives a good chance of blocking some bills

      Also in 2026 will be the midterm and we can vote republican congressmembers out, as they only have a majority and not a supermajority.

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        5 months ago

        What I want to know is: what does the vote of a Republican Senator cost these days? Can we start GoFundMe campaigns to get some things changed in our preferred direction?

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    5 months ago

    I am against trying to acquire Greenland. However, I support this naming. If the USA is going to let something this moronic happen, we deserve to have this be a monument to our impotence and idiocy.

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    5 months ago

    This is just more bullshit to distract from egg prices and Elon robbing all of us in a Superman 3 scheme.

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        5 months ago

        The scheme is basically stealing tiny tiny fractions of a cent from every transaction that requires rounding and going unnoticed in the theft. They attempt it in Office Space, but misplace a decimal point and steal way more than they intended.

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    5 months ago

    They were serious about that?

    At least come up with a different name; Red, White and Blue Land sounds like a theme park… Trump totally should re-open Action Park and invite as of his friends there. That would be so wonderful.

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    5 months ago

    Let them, then put trump in charge forever there. And move all his supporters there. Everyone wins.