In. A. Hole.

Wow it's been a week and and a half since the election so clearly despite the big win it's all hopeless. I mean the next session of congress hasn't even started yet but obviously nothing good can come from this so we should all just give up. Like right now. We should stop cause we're definitely not making any changes. Nothing to see here, the challenges are too great. The power of the rich is insurmountable, we know it's true because the news that they own keeps telling us how powerful and unstoppable they are. Which is definitely a thing you have to say when you're power is unstoppable.

"but this is not complicated."

That is always a red flag statement. If you don't think something is complicated in areas where experts and experienced people have been working and a problem occurs... you may simply not even understand the problem. It's totally what an out-of-the-loop middle management person would say.

I think it's time to realize that, while the election has its own effects of sending a message to the GOP about how much the public hates their plans, and has caused corpos to start switching sides, the math around Congress is not going to create any new laws. It doesn't matter if we own both sides of Congress, since Trump can veto everything, the GOP can filibuster anything in the Senate, and nothing will get passed. The federal legislative gridlock will continue until the braindead peons will get it through their thick skull that elections need to be continued every year, not when they are passionate about it.

1. Elect Democrat to president.

2. Get pissed that the president getting cockblocked by Congress every step of the way because the House has a majority of Democrats, but the Senate still runs in six year cycles, and has a Republican majority (or filibuster power).

3. Wait two years.

4. Elect a bunch of Republicans to Congress.

5. Get pissed that the Republicans didn’t do anything, either.

6. Wait two years.

7. Get pissed that the new Democratic presidential candidate isn’t exactly what they wanted, focus on one issue that they might disagree with, stay home during the election.

8. Surprised Pikachu face when the worst Republican candidate they can muster somehow wins the election.

9. Endure two years of hellish bullshit, despite the Congressional stalemate.

10. Elect a bunch of Democrats to Congress.

11. WE ARE HERE! Get pissed that Democrats in Congress can’t fix anything because the Republican president vetos everything, and the Senate is still locked in a Republican filibuster “majority”.

12. Endure two more years of hellish bullshit.

13. Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.

All of this bullshit about Chuck Schumer is just noise. Who the fuck cares? Elect an actual donkey to become the Majority Leader. It has the same effect.

Rare inversion of Betteridge's law of headlines.

Hopefully a whistleblower will leak the truth

I revisit this now and then and see more blue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c6vgy427vxklt

But but... you know you can be mentioned in the Epstein files, even tens of thousands of times, have met him every day and be his BFF for years, and not be a pedophile and not know anything about what he did, right?

I know that because President Donald J. Trump is definitely not a fucking pedophile and definitely had no idea what Epstein was doing. I know that because he wouldn't have been reelected president if he did: voters aren't stupid!

Really funny given that Trump has defended him and told him to fight the allegations.

But he never met Epstein!

Well, he met him once, but vowed to never meet him again!

Also, they were neighbors and hung out regularly.

Holy smokes! We could be rid of this lying Epstein-loving sack of shit soon. Thanks Jensen! You might have done something to redeem yourself there.

Suckers and losers.

Need more men to be vocal about his shit. He's embarrassing them day in and day out. Vance too with his whining about white men's oppression.

Buried.

under a prison?
I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment I'm just not sure how that would work.

They’re patriotic when it’s convenient for them. Like when it can be used as an excuse for their hatred and violence against others. Otherwise, they aren’t even remotely patriotic, they’re nationalists.

What other country do we know of that dresses up their violence and hatred as nationalism? One hint: MAGA is trying desperately hard to be just like them and the propaganda wing of their psyop department is working hard right here on lemmy to sew discord and division.

Hegseth is a murderer

The disdain that these people show for the military and veterans despite claiming to be massive patriots is really quite fascinating.

This is the shit the MAGAsshats would want a head on a pike over if this was a Democrat.

These people need to be put under a prison. Regardless of party affiliation.

Hegseth is such a nauseating sack of shit...

Almost all of these could be fixed/addressed with updating and cleaning up the tax codes. If they don't address wealth inequality through regulations and taxes, non of these issues will change. Except maybe #5. That should happen anyways. I'm surprised the orange asshole didn't expand the courts while he had the chance, even more than his fuckery that gave us the current justices.

Oh God dammit.

The end of the 2026 midterms last week marked the unofficial start of the 2028 election cycle,

😭

Well that's a start. There are so so many more to impeach.

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