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The GOP-led House is in disarray and focused on all the wrong things. They couldn’t even get a bill to fund the Pentagon through a procedural vote because five of their far-right members revolted. And now Speaker McCarthy has pulled the continuing resolution to fund the government, one that was hammered out by the different factions this weekend, from any consideration because it also doesn’t have the votes.
Instead of doing their job and passing a budget—one they already agreed to earlier this year—they are preceding with an impeachment inquiry into President Biden because the Orange Guy insists he shouldn’t be the only impeached candidate up on stage. The hearing will now happen just two days before the government shuts down because they don’t have a budget in place.
This is the GOP in a nutshell, folks. Paralysis, political theatrics, and chaos.
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I have no love for the GOP my friend, but you are criticizing them for doing the one thing the democrats arent doing and should.... Vote their conscious rather than just agreeing with the group.
We **want** politicians who are there to vote whats right, not what their party tells them to vote.
@freemo @georgetakei
Lots of politicians did what they thought was right in the 1930s. Turns out xenophobic, racist fascists have different opinions of what that is than most folks. Also, no American has seen « the left » since the 1970s, center-right democrats don’t count.
Can you list what policies of Biden or Obama's that either of them took action to execute in some way, that is a right-leaning policy stance?
As far as I know every single one of their policy stances and actions have been left side of the fence:
* increased restrictions on guns
* push towards universal single payer healthcare
* pro-abortion
* pro equal oppertunity
* pro free education/loan forgivness.
Literally cant think of a single thing they pushed for that is right.
And yes, obviously we want people to follow their conscious and be a good person... funny that huh, its almost like having a conscious is important, but so are other things.
@freemo @georgetakei
Funny what you think is left are all basic human rights in my country. I’ll give you some real left actions:
Increase corporate taxes to a sustainable level for the betterment of society.
Increase taxes on the rich to post war levels.
Close all corporate tax loopholes.
Nationalize essential utilities
Nationalize resources to fund society
Salary caps on top level executives
Guaranteed living wages
Universal right to unionize
> Funny what you think is left are all basic human rights in my country.
Are you suggesting the left doesnt support human rights, therefore by being human rights they are not on left oriented ideas?
Like ok, its a basic human right, so the left has some principles such as supporting basic human rights... how are you even disagrring?
> I’ll give you some real left actions:
So again your saying the left doesnt support human rights? and as such when i pointed that out was wrong?
> Increase taxes on the rich to post war levels.
Heading in this direction are both things Biden and Obama did, increasing tax on the rich.
> Close all corporate tax loopholes.
Against something both Obama and Biden worked towards by proposing on quite a few occasions to close corperate loopholes in the tax code.
> Nationalize essential utilities
That would indeed be an extremely left move. As far as I know no democrats have pushed for this. But when all of their policies are clearly on the left, not having pushed for some arbitrary policy on the left you want to see doesnt stop them from being left, it just makes them a less-extreme version of the left, that is all.
> Nationalize resources to fund society
This has been pushed for by both Obama and Biden. For example the nationalized fund that paid off school loans would be an example
> Salary caps on top level executives
I dont know if they actively pushed for this as a law or not. But they have stated several times they agree with this stance.
> Guaranteed living wages
Both Obama and Biden have consistently pushed for increases to try to get us to a living wage.
> Universal right to unionize
Both Obama and Biden have pushed to support the rights of unions to be forced on workers against their will and removing the right for workers to choose for themselves to join a union.. so yea they have done this too, its a big issue.
So almost everything you listed applies to Obama, Biden, and most democrats... glad we could agree democrats are on the left.
