Rotating villain. He allows them to tell their constituents "we want what you want, we just don't have the power because of thay one guy, but if you vote just a little harder, we won't pull the football away this time", while telling their donors "we ain't giving them shit lmao".

He was elected in 2022, so his next election is in 2028.

Senators are elected for 6 years. House Representatives have election every 2 years.

Edit: gotta love the down vote, as if facts didn't matter, just feelings or as if I wrote the Constitution.

How would that work, exactly?

PA senators are not subject to recalls, so it's out of the hands of the voters. He could technically be impeached and removed from office by the Senate itself... but for what, exactly? It's not illegal to vote a certain way, even if it's against the wishes of your constituency.

And even if Fetterman were somehow removed, PA is an extremely competitive state. Remember, he won against Doctor fucking Oz, so the chance of someone even worse coming in to replace him is quite high. The devil you know, etc etc...

Best case scenario is that he gets primaried into irrelevance in 2028 by someone with actual integrity. But even then, I'm not holding my breath...

Exactly.

Look at how Donald has dealt with people who get out of line. Democrats aren't powerless. The villain's part of their party strategy.

Because he was elected and is still serving his term?

And it doesn't appear that he's the type of person to resign.

Do the 21 people who have upvoted you thus far not understand how our government works?

Not speaking for anyone else, but I’m fully aware of what the Democratic Party stands for. Problem is, the alternative has gotten so much worse.

Before the current madness, there was a part of me aching to vote for someone crazy to come and hasten the act of burning this mess to the ground. Then I saw it, and got scared. Maybe that’s when I should’ve leaned in.

Right, but in the mean time it makes any attempt to claim "The Democrats stand for [insert policy position]" a lie, because while an individual democrat may believe in those things, the part as a whole can't agree on anything at all. They can't even align themselves on their own platform, let alone apply pressure to the Republicans. At best they're nothing but a speed break for more republican policy. You're still getting republican policy, just slower, and they can't move the needle in the other direction even if they win because they'll simply surrender in advance.

Wasting more time and more money trying to slow the rate the US collapses into a burning train wreck is an exercise in futility. The only real solution is to try and build a "coalition of the willing" to preserve what is left and the Republicans drive the rest, screaming incoherently, off the cliff they're headed for. Small scale organizing, networks to help move people to safety "underground railroad" style, to move material and finances in ways that circumvent federal control, create safe-havens that can resist federal encroachment and operate outside of federal regulation meant to break down resistance. Register some "Churches" that can provide physical plant and meeting grounds, as well as offer support services when federal support is ripped up. Build a nation within a nation.

Voting for Democrats isn't going to stop this spiral. They have no vision, no will, no unity, and zero political capital to actually create change. Sure, vote blue to slow the bleeding, if you're still allowed by next election, but as long as they're a party so big tent they have no direction at all, they're just a slower, more painful collapse.

Ok, I just hope it doesn't spoil. What is the shelf life of gay?

Ive been told that its not gay in a 3 way, and with a homey in the middle theres some leeway.

Can you confirm? I dont want to run out of credits.

Yeah that's literally what living in the US was like

chopping off an arm and telling you your arm is gone, is better than chopping off your arm and telling you your finger is broken

I don’t know that I agree.

Then you need a better education.

Beautiful!

Now, add some marionette strings to both parties, connect those strings to a billionaire's hand and it will be a perfect representation!

With their proposed ideas, I'd mostly agree.

However, with the increasingly shittier Republicans they have compromised further and further into utter shit. They've tacked toward shitty, pretty hard in some cases, to try to lure some shitty votes their way... alienating those who want less shit. They've opted to take money from extremely shitty people because they have a lot of money but those people desire there to be more shit. The Democrats abandoned their less shitty ground repeatedly even when they managed to find some real leverage, unleashing torrents of shit for no apparent reason (unless they actually want more shit).

So yes, their campaign websites have a lot less shit on them than the Republicans, but in practice the party as a whole has either pushed for things to be much shittier or compromised their alleged ideals unnecessarily resulting in things being much shittier.

There are certainly diamonds in the shit. I don't think it's all of them, but current leadership is definitely way more shitty than they look. What concerns me is that every time we get rid of some small contingency of Democrats that are obviously bathing in shit and willing to open the floodgates for the Republicans, we always seem to find just enough of the remaining Democrats wiling to dive in and replace them. It gives the impression that, for a significant subset of them, their campaign slogans and alleged ideals are performative.

Lol ok

Were you not following the back and forth fight that went on back then for him to try to get anything through? Yeah it’s shit but it’s a lot better than the nothing there was. It was progress and if this country had actual adults in it instead of a bunch of emotional children and corrupt politicians then things could continue to progress.

You said they had the house, senate, AND presidency for 4+ years. The house yes, presidency yes, senate no. Nothing becomes law without the senate. Your claim was not accurate.

You literally said dems havent had the House, Senate, and presidency ... then posted the Biden era where he had the house, senate, and pres. You are acting and posting like AI.