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Weird that it just has two photos of Ted Cruz side by side
"Forever" is not possible, a future Congress can just repeal the law.
But what if they add a "No Takesy Backsey" clause?
They takesy backsey the clause first
I'll be honest, I don't really care. None of these laws mean anything if the government is completely rebuilt from the ground up. Every single thing this admin does will be worth so much burned toilet paper. All the grifts ill gotten gains will be liquidated and confiscated by whoever the fuck hangs them all in the streets, as is most likely to happen. All the bills that say shit like "no regulations on AI evar!! Lol" or "Donald Trumps name on everything, including mt Kilimanjaro for some reason" will be meaningless.
The only way this will happen is through violence, and even then it's not a guarantee.
- conservative South loss against the north in the civil war and there were no reparations or punishment.
- Nixon came the closest to being impeached and charges were dropped as soon as he resigned, despite the fact that the votes were there. We was then fucking pardoned because "we need to move on."
- fucking TRUMP will "learn his lesson" for forcing Ukraine to provide opposition research on Biden in exchange for security.
- TRUMP again when he literally caused people to storm the capitol.
- when Biden was in office, house refused to even push more impeachment talks because "he's not president anymore" and then got Pikachu faced when he ran again.
- when Trump finally was found guilty in New York, the judge fucking gave him no jail time.
Democrats refuse to hold Republicans accountable and we need to start acting like they are part of the problem.
democrats are just potty trained republicans, it seems to me. as an outsider america seems to have just one party that is divided.
American here. Can confirm. It's not left vs right, it really is just two different colors.
Watching all blue states fail in lock step to substantially improve the lives of the people that live in them has me thinking you are on to something.
Your first sentence is about the gist of it. No way out of it now.
I'll be honest, I don't really care.
This is how they win, you are doing precisely what they want.
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This matters for ... the next 10 years? 20? Gas will not get much cheaper again, while renewables will, and battery tech only gets better.
You sound as if you think the democrats are a progressive party
Unlike the Republicans, they don't completely exclude progressives.
They just mostly exclude progressives.
aside from like only 2 dems in congress, almost every other one is complicit.
They framed it as a way to “protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.”
Aren't lawful actions already protected by, you know, the law? By definition, the only legal punishments that could happen are for illegal actions. This doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense as reasoning. They didn't even try to manufacture justification.
Anyway, when the justice system no longer can be relied on to provide justice, extra-legal methods must be taken to ensure a just society. Them doing this could be either of two things, or both. It's them actually protecting dirty energy companies, as it sounds, or it's them requiring vigilantism to stop it, which gives them justification to crack down on "the left" and anyone else who stands against them.
Edit: Also, they consistently say that climate change isn't real, and yet they feel the need to pass a law that explicitly is there to protect against the harms of climate change. Either it's real, and they should pay (especially since they knew about it and mislead the public, which this also explicitly protects), or it isn't real, and this law is pointless.
the actual way to solve “leftist legal crusades” (if they exist): anti-SLAPP laws that punish frivolous lawsuits… but that would hurt them more than “leftists”
Shouldn't democrats sort out epstein files when Biden administration was in power?
Oh you mean while the files were conveniently sealed by court order because of Maxwells case until exactly when trump came into office?
What did you want them to do at that time?
Do it anyway.
The MAGA Nazis don't care about rules or laws and taking down a global ring of child predators that has existed for decades feels like an excusable reason.
What did you want them to do at that time?
Expose trump
While the documented proof that apparently everyone needs to see was conveniently locked and sealed by the doj?
Do you know what trump would have said if they went above that?
"They're weaponizing the DOJ, it's a witch hunt and fake news. It's all lies they're doing this to hurt me." Invigorating the low information base he has to what, fucking go riot and try to hurt the people in dc again. March on the capital and shit, again?
He was screaming at the time that epstein files must be released. If they were his presidency chances would be buried forever
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