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Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill (prospect.org)
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Thanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, tried that with the genocide supporters last year. They're still getting the only policy any centrist has ever wanted, only now they're blaming anyone who didn't spend all of 2024 publicly masturbating to dead Palestinian children.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not really the same thing, and anyway what's the alternative? Sit around and whine post about it?

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and anyway what’s the alternative?

This maybe?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the Internet talk about revolution it seems to me amounts to diddly squat.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You guys are right and I'm wrong obviously. All of the right-wing Internet talk about revolution culminated in the January 6th insurrection.