It’s a slow top-down, follow the chain of command, follow policy, follow the chain of custody, vote, protest, violently seize the means of production,
until we have universal healthcare.
I like that the thumbnail is John Fetterman. Like who else could this be almost explicitly aimed at.
Exactly. Now watch, some of the GOP that complained about Fetterman’s clothing choice will take it to the extreme and wear a chicken costume or something.
Personally I’m holding out for aborted fetus costume. I can feel it in my bones.
Well there was a literal orange clown in the oval office for a few days so republicans were already dressing up
I hope he goes wearing overalls with one shoulder unbuckled and nothing else.
I think the rules said that women senators were supposed to wear dresses.
They just want to see what Boebert comes up with when sbe wants attention.
Ok so can we have universal healthcare now? Cause that should be the biggest issue every single day for them.
Until the filibuster is gone or there are 60 dem senators, a vote on universal healthcare will just be performative. You’re not going to get any Republicans voting for that.
And then? Let it be performative. Make it the top issue every single day. Make sure nothing gets done until it gets done. Tie to budget, tie it to cabinet appointments, tie it feel good bills that do nothing. A single issue that shuts the government down until resolved. Eventually it will be. The DNC keeps playing nice and keeps failing.
Republicans: Democrats want to shut down the government??
No. Wait. Stop.
See, your problem is in thinking Republicans want a functioning government.
I didn’t realize you were talking about Republicans at first because of how bad they’ve gotten. I don’t even question it anymore with how normalized their evil policies have gotten.
I think they were a lot better at covering this up until 2010 when the Tea Party took hold. Since then they’ve been more and more blatant about it, culminating in totally taking off the mask in 2016. It seems to me that beforehand, the party elite carefully curated both their image and policies to have plausible deniability. With them losing control to the inmates however, the party hasn’t just thrown away their cover, they’ve decided to go for even worse policies.
It’s like they realized their followers are a cult, and they’re curious to see if anything they do goes too far to them. It’s such a pathetic state of affairs.
I think most republican voters simply care more about “other people can’t get a free thing that I had to pay for” or “I don’t want universal healthcare because I’m healthy and I don’t need it”. Which are both incredibly selfish mindsets. The GOP knows about these mindsets and does everything they can to encourage them.
I think they now are so far gone that they find it easier to convince voters by spreading propaganda than it is to win people with good policies. I think part of it is that on the policy front, there’s stiff competition. But on the identity politics front, it’s not even a competition. The GOP is massively better at propaganda and identity politics. They know they’re better at it, which is why they’ve leaned so heavily into it while also having so little else to offer. Fixing problems often gets in the way of profit, so they don’t have an incentive to actually fix many problems (at least not for normal people).
Well then perhaps the Democrats ought to engage in progressive theatrics as fascist theatrics seem to be effective.
This idea you seem to have that Democrat=progressive should have been fixed by now.
Time for femboy Congress
Hyperbolic bullshit as usual. They know very well that the average age is 181.
Although senators will benefit from the change by being permitted to sport casual clothes in the Senate chamber, their staffs are still required to wear business clothes under the old dress code. People other than senators who walk on to the Senate floor will also need to wear business attire, which for men means a jacket and a tie.
One rule for thee but not for me.
I can understand if they have some important meeting. If some foreign dignitary is going to be stopping by, you’ll want people to dress up. However, this should be the case for Senators and staffers. If it’s just a normal work day, there’s no reason that the staffers can’t go with casual clothing.
Yeah that’s pretty much what I mean, with this change, the senate is proclaiming that there’s no need for formal dress on a “regular day in the office” (which I 100% agree with), but to make that declaration, while still insisting your staffers stay formal is literally saying “We get to be comfortable because we’re important and rich, and you can stay uncomfortable, because who gives a shit what you want.”
