I think it’s fair to call the democrats the Conservative Party. The republicans are regressives, certainly. But the people plead for systemic change, and the democrats are just trying to conserve the same failed order that got us to this point.

the constitution says slavery is allowed, you just have to have a judge sign off on it first

I wipe my ass with the magic parchment

The Republicans think the constitution was written by god himself and Democrats think they can combat that with American Civil Religion.

Amazing

First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.

Every time I hear democrats speak, I am reminded of the Android speech to Gohan from TAS

Hate it when people keep trying to politicize my job of house minority leader

I hate this so much

It's so accurate and I hate this so much

These people don't want to do anything; they're not trying to make anything better; we're electing people to sit there and slow the descent into catastrophe and they're sitting atop us while the waves are at shoulder level and they're hardly even trying to slow the descent into catastrophe

It’s the god awful axios house style—helpful to hide AI content and assuming your readers can’t read or handle content that takes more than 15 seconds.

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My Gen x parents are being directly effected by a lot of this policy. They used to be non voters and my dad was kind of libertarian/conservative when I was a kid.

They seem a little more engaged these days and I'm hoping to hear them say something that would make me proud some day