Right-wing lawmakers are proving increasingly willing to force potentially divisive votes.
Impeaching Biden over nothing while at the same time censuring Schiff for impeaching Trump. Wow
Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.
Conservatism is destructive and deadly and should be openly identified as such.
What for? It’s hard to imagine him doing anything impeachable considering all the shit the last guy got away with.
He has a D next to his name, which in itself is an impeachable offense to half the House.
It’s being led by Lauren Boebert which is really all you need to know about it, but the reason given:
The resolution charges Biden with abuse of power and dereliction of duty over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
For the “crime” of not being a far right Republican and for the “crime” of Trump having been impeached twice. Those are the only “crimes” that these extremists care about. They also don’t care that, even if they convince 50%+1 Representatives to vote to impeach, this will die in the Senate. They’ll impeach Biden three times just so Trump isn’t the most impeached President and they’ll claim that their purely political impeachments somehow prove that the impeachments of Trump were purely political as well
Notably, Biden was not involved in either impeachment. Just as he’s not involved in the current investigations (remember those special councils)? With the exception of the ones Garland is running, he has no influence… and garland is treating trump with ultimate kiddie gloves so far.
Exhaustive list of things I like: he’s not as bad as the “other side.”
A pox upon both houses. Both sides are hypocritical as hell. And both sides fucking suck.
Unfortunately the American electorate is too afraid of change to do anything about it, and/or too lazy to vote in primaries in significant numbers, and/or the opposing party puts forward stupid candidates that have no change.
Thus Congress has like a 18% approval rating, but a 80+% re-election rate.
And in most cases, I’d argue that’s because candidates insist on pushing stupid wedge issues. The Democrat down south is going to go anti-gun which makes them unelectable. The Republican up north is going to go anti-abortion or anti-LGBT which makes them unelectable in a blue state. And rather than set those wedge issues aside and recognize that there’s FAR more important things at stake, we keep squabbling over bullshit rather than actually making progress.
I agree that both sides do shitty things, but they’re no where near equivocal.
- Democrats impeached Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine in an attempt to blackmail his political opponent, and then again for inciting an insurrection when he lost the election.
- Republicans are trying to impeach Biden because he’s a Democratic, while they’re trying to normalize impeachment to downplay how serious it is so Trump’s previous impeachments don’t look so bad for the next election.
Implying that both sides suck equally is dangerous. It’d be like a kid saying “My parents made me eat my vegetables, they suck. Also the guy that broke into my house and tried to stab my family sucks. All adults suck.”
A pox upon both houses. Both sides are hypocritical as hell. And both sides fucking suck.
I find it hard to look at the behavior of both American political parties and see them as equally objectionable. Our Overton window has shifted wildly in the last decade. By international standards, Democrats are conservative left and Republicans have become dangerously radical right. American Republicans have abandoned the rule of law. They oppose democracy and attempted a coup when they didn’t like the results. They openly lie and gaslight. They scapegoat vulnerable minorities. They force women to give birth against their will. They induce violence via stochastic terrorism. I can’t look at this situation and muster comparable ire for both sides.
Congress has like a 18% approval rating, but a 80+% re-election rate.
That’s congress as a whole, most Americans have a positive view of their own representatives.
rather than set those wedge issues aside and recognize that there’s FAR more important things at stake, we keep squabbling over bullshit rather than actually making progress.
In a 2-party system there’s little incentive to. I posit that voters are motivated to vote more by fear of the other party than enthusiasm about their own. This is a consequence of Duverger’s Law. If we want to fix the system and encourage cooperation, the best way is ranked choice voting, which encourages candidates to reach out to all voters even on the other side because they might be their 2nd or 3rd choice. When they implemented it in SF, some candidates running against each other started campaigning together, cooperating for mutual advantage.
Boy do I love whether I’m allowed to exist being seen as a “stupid wedge issue.” Totally agree, we should comprise and only shoot half the LGBT people! /s
Real-talk, the solution here is to encourage more gays/queers/trans folk to run for elected positions of power to better represent their minority.
Agreed. I also remember that Nebraska was making headlines recently because one of the representatives’ daughter was trans, so she was refusing to pass any bills that could hurt her child.
I’d bet the person would care about you and your struggle if they met you but at a distance unfortunately they see your struggle as an obstacle to their agenda… I get careless a lot myself and say things without empathy or thought to what it might imply to others… sorry you ha e to deal with that
Didn’t mean to imply that LGBT is not an important issue. Not at all. Just that it’s something that one side feels more strongly about than the other.
To an Evangelical (usually conservative), persecuting LGBT people is good policy and good for the country. To a Liberal (and to many like myself, FWIW), persecuting LGBT people is a civil rights violation that makes a person unelectable.
To a Liberal, gun control is good policy that will save lives. To a gun owner (usually conservative) gun control is a civil rights violation, an unconstitutional violation of the Bill of Rights that makes a person unelectable just as much as if they suggested needing a license to exercise free speech.
So what I’m suggesting-- if the GOP stopped trying to persecute LGBT folks, or the Democrats gave up gun control, either one of them would GREATLY increase their appeal especially to moderates and people on the other side of the aisle but who are fed up with their own party.
Put differently— if a bunch of politicians came to you and said ‘we’ll stop trying to take away LGBT rights, but in exchange you stop trying to take away gun rights’, would you agree to that?
If I understand you correctly, your suggesting the politicians should say “We’ll stop trying to deny people the right to live and exist, in exchange for not trying to stop unstable people from easily murdering random civilians”?
You are aware that the overwhelming majority of Americans support gun control measures, right? So LGBTQ people should die because 20% of the country has a gun fetish because they’re insecure little bitches?