by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-02 05:40:57+00:00
>I'll repeat myself

I guess I will too?

>You create a culture of tribal lines and it seeps into every aspect of your political navigation.

I don't know what else to say here.

>But you recognize that the budget is kinda a big deal, right?

My single mother raised me through 3 shutdowns as a government worker. So yes. There were times we had to stretch meals pretty thin because the delayed paycheck meant no groceries for a while. She wasn't exactly paid the minute the government opened up. Those IOU's take a bit to process.

> It's not the kind of thing we the constituents should let be partisan...But that also doesn't mean that both sides can't be royally fucking it up. I'll eat a moldy sandwich over a turd pretending to be a chicken nugget but aren't we tired of having to choose between two shitty things?

I as a constituent have never in my millennial voter life felt like I had any true representation in government. Maybe one year under Obama, but still not really. My feelings here are clearly irrelevant.

You're right on what "should" be true, but the reality is that the president has been completely reckless with what few fundings congress does agree on and the congress in power does not correct it. Congress themselves continue to balloon the budget despite GOP promising otherwise (regardless of what I think of how its allocated). There's already been two huge budget compromsises that ended horribly alongside the other 8 months of chaos.

That's why I push so hard on this "vacuum" statement. We can assign blame and talk theory when the building's fires are put out. No point blaming Jim for shorting the microwave when you can be using that oxygen to breathe.

>I'll continue the rant to add that this whole Trump situation was the Dems fault. They keep falling for the Repubs bait. We'll spend all day talking about issues that affect very few people while ignoring those that affect many more.

I guess it's my turn to be overly cynical.

There's no bait. We don't have progressive democrats, we have neoliberal establishment getting a kickback from the thieves ransacking the country in real time. It's no coincidence that better labor reform is handwaved whenever it comes up. It's one of the few bipartisan issues in this congress.

Anything to distract and give fake progress will work out for them. These days, they don't really need to distract anyway. 2025's given plenty of fires to put out and unify the dems on in the way 9/11 did for America for a short time.

>I don't like that Repubs attack trans people, but it is also bait.

1. You just said we can talk about both, to be fair.

2. Calling it "bait" is a bit short-sighted. Clearly this point is preying on the same sentiments as Abortion. Another "who cares" point but states instantly went in to ban it the second they could and now impacts half the population in states that acted on this. That's how they sap away freedoms: slowly, then all at once.

3. And now I feel you are falling into the bait here. I don't know where we got this sentiment that Trans policity is a top issue for Democrats. Harris never brought up the issue in her campaign. That's the power of shaping the narrative; you even get some of the other policy to believe how much their representatives talk on an issue, because they equivocate fights on the internet with debates on stage. Granted, I don't watch sports, but I only hear about this issue when the GOP brings it up, often as a distraction from something like, say, a government shutdown (yes, Trump did bring it up today)

>So stop this fucking tribalism and feed the god damn children

Best we can do is protect pedophiles, sorry. Definitely the dem's fault.

Again, I agree the Establishment Dems are compromised, but this is why I'm so harsh on this "enlightened centrism". They have issues and definitely made mistakes that lead to this. But what do you want them to do here? They can make a "feed the children" bill and it'd be a partisan 47-53 vote. The republicans can do the same and they'd get some dem votes even if they don't need it. But we both know they won't.

That's not a "both sides are bad" scenario. They are bad, but not for reasons as simplistic as "they can't agree to feed the children". It's something insidious within each party that just so happens to be clashing with each other at the same time.