Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
Can we please fucking stop using slam in headlines already? It got old 2 decades ago.
Reminder: Kamala's plan was to pass anti-price fixing legislation that we're not getting now
But but but I was told kamala was exactly the same!
How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?
Don't forget finger wagging and strongly worded letters
Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying 'I did this' pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
It's crazy to see "price of eggs!" as a talking point appear on every major broadcaster a month before the election as the defacto rubric for economic strength. Then trillions invested in Western based AI gets obliterated within a week of the new administration taking office.
If anyone actually thought that piece of shit trump was going to do anything about grocery prices, they are fucking fools.
And I fully understand that this letter is just theater. Stupid, shitty, ineffective theater.
Fuck this whole fucking piece of shit grift called a government.
Everytime I ask a republican what it is that Trump is doing that will help with prices they say 'wait and see!' like he is going to pull some sort of magic trick.
Same "Oh there's a plan, it's just a long term one."
I guess that makes sense, afterall, if he de-humanizes enough transpeople all our groceries will become free, that's just logic! /sarcasm
Sounds a lot like "prayers and thoughts". They are a faith based people after all.
I'm so tired of Democrats taking "the high road." The high road doesn't fucking exist anymore and y'all are just fucking everyone over. Trump is literally on the road to destroying this country and Democrats are trying to do things "the right way."
Fuck that shit. It doesn't work anymore. They're just accepting the premise of assholes. I hate to say it, but unless they fight back with the same kind of energy than they're fucked. If you try and do shit the right way Trump will just undo everything with a wave of his tiny hands.
I'll go a step further. Motherfucker cancelled all federal grants and aid, AMONG OTHER acutely awful executive orders.
How about Democrats "slam" Trump for dismantling our government and actively harming our nation from the first moment he was inaugurated? The time to fight about egg prices ended Nov 07.
Let me see some of this energy Dems! (and from someone other than AOC and Bernie. WTH is wrong with the rest of you!)
Because the people who voted for him think it's a good thing that he's cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle "big government" because they've been mislead into believing that the reason they're struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
You can't attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
But the reason most of those people voted for him is because they are struggling financially, regardless of what the actual reasons are. They want him to come in and take a wrecking ball to the government in the belief that it will somehow make their lives better. I don't see how it's a bad thing to drive home, repeatedly, that they are wrong. That all of Trump's promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him. Because if you want his supporters to abandon him, you have to appeal to their sense of self-preservation. You have to remind them, over and over, that he's not making life better for them.
I blame Reagan, his "The scariest phrase in the english language is "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help" nonsense
It was a scam to encourage rugged individualism on a cartoonishly high level.
I keep hearing from people that they're GLAD Gender Affirming Care is being banned, not because they're transphobic (they are, but that's not the main reason they're glad about it), but because they think now that Medicare isn't going to cover that, that more people will be able to get on it and get cancer treatments.
That is not how that works.
Too bad "slam" just means some grandstanding in Congress with absolutely 0 changes to the situation. For the amount of money we spend paying various congress-critters to sit in a room kvetching at each other all day, it'd be nice if some of that turned into actionable changes.
If the Democrats want to get some credit fucking do something. As if the election results didn't display this, the average American is not entirely pleased with the Democrats. If they ever want to fill the White House ever again, we better see more than "slamming" happening.
JFC "Well we sent a letter! what else do you want from us?"
"Why don't people like democrats anymore??"
COME ON
AND SLAM
AND WELCOME
TO THE
JAM!
Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.
DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.
“We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”
Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.
So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.
What's with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There's more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake
Speak for yourself heathen.
I eat eggs.
I would rather starve than eat something other then eggs.
Meat? Gross. Vegetables? Ick. Sugar? Fuck off.
Eggs. Just eggs.
Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don't have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there's a shortage or prices go up, people don't have something to replace it with so it's more apparent that they're missing out on something and that gets attention.
He should be physically slammed to the concrete floor multiple times
Call him a liar. To his face. To his subordinates. To his mother. To his cousins. Keep calling him a liar until he understands he is the Dishonest Don.
Honestly, it’s almost embarrassing. Democrats continue to fight using Queensberry whilst Trump et al are, again, acting with impunity. They’ve got to smell the coffee and take the gloves off.
Republicans don't care when there's a Republican in the White House. Then it's just God's will.
Meanwhile all lawmakers had gains in stocks larger than the average Joe. The fuck they care about prices
A rapist who lies to the courts has its base of voters shocked when he doesn’t cum through on his promises.
Let's never forget when the undertaker slammed mankind on the floor from the top of hell in a cell
There should be billboards by now.
When I read talking points like this, I think about: Who would they convince? I don't think many people honestly believe Democrats had a capable plan to fix these grocery prices in the first month of a Kamala presidency. Yes, Trump over-promised, and unfortunately, that was probably the right tactic.
I'm still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though. Sometimes when grandma clicks the "You have a virus" prompt for the 400th time you have to start blaming her.
Actually, the last important bit to me is who exactly is saying this. Recalling from memory, Elizabeth Warren once put forward a suggestion to require that 40% of a company's board be voted in by employees. It's very possible that with a less corrupt, profit-seeking corporate landscape we wouldn't be in this situation. So even more than Kamala she may have credit to blame others for such things.
