chapotraphouse

Why didn't the Dems block Trump's nominees

When the institutionally reactionary supreme court blocked any attempt of FDR's resuscitation of the American economy, FDR unilaterally threatened to destroy their chokehold on "legality" by proposing to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age 70 and failed to retire.

You know what happened? The supreme court immediately capitulated to FDR, and he went on to beat everyone who went against the interests of the American working class over the head until they fell into line.

Biden could right now threaten expand the seats of the justices by two seats, soon three in two months when Sotomayor turns 70, to ensure Roe, or literally anything the mealy-mouth not-remotely democratic party pantomime its support for becomes the law of the land

But they won't because they serve the same fucking interests of the capitalist class and are equal enemies to the American working class, alongside the workers and oppressed people of the world, as the goddamn republicans

The point is not that these events happened, but rather that the Dems refused to do anything to counter them. Apparently and rather conveniently only Republicans have the power to interfere and get what they want huh.

You're right its interesting and perhaps Dems should definitely learn more about how it works lol.

The Democrats had many legal mechanisms to take care of this issue. They could have codified it. They could have threatened the court. They could have even distributed abortion drugs by mail (which the states aren't allowed to check iirc)for free, which would have significantly weakened any bans.

Eat shit and die you disgusting little monster, we understand how this shit works better than you ever could

Soooo like, why should anyone support democrats if they won't do anything about anything? Please explain to me how the government works cause I'm just a big poo poo head Russian bot

My screen says that I'm at Hexbear. But you're saying I'm at Reddit or perhaps Bluesky. I wonder where I am really.

"Listen, Jack. I'm going to pocket veto everything that gets passed until a bill to Codify Roe is on my desk. I don't care if it's military funding, funds for Israel, whatever.

Also for any states that are considering passing bans that go beyond Roe, I will be issuing executive orders to cut off all federal funding to your areas. Your highways can rot. No more red state welfare!"

~Biden in an alternate universe where Democrats have a fucking spine

I was going to vote for Biden but now I won't because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they've even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

And there's the "Revolving Villain-of-the-Week' play. What did Obama do about it? Fuck-all. He could've bounced every piece of legislation the Republicans wanted until they let his pick through. He had all these mechanisms to reprisal-without-being-called-reprisals, that we watched Trump exercise, ironically-- and did fuck-all with them.

Or do you just like pretending to be a talking head?