The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission are unconstitutional and overturned a 90-year-old decision that allowed Congress to shield members of certain independent agencies from being fired by the president at will.
The decision from the high court expands the president’s power over many independent boards and commissions, which Congress had insulated from political pressure by saying their members could only be removed by the president for cause.
For all the dipshit fake leftists who still openly brag that they “refused to vote for genocide” by boycotting Kamala in 2024,
Think of all the millions of additional deaths this asshole’s rampage of all working class protections is gonna cause.
And that’s in addition to Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, brown Americans, Americans with disabilities, everyone who relied on US foreign AID, etc.
You objectively chose the pro-genocide option.
You know that was a bullshit excuse, right?
I get being disenchanted with only being able to choose harm reduction, but prioritizing self-righteousness over harm reduction isn’t the flex some people think it is.
Where’s that lady that ran green for president now?
Oh she’ll mysteriously reappear when it’s time to fuck over another Democratic candidate.
Because this is exactly what good third party leaders do, they vanish for four years and do absolutely nothing to build an actual party at the local and state levels. Only to reappear just in time to run a doomed presidential campaign.
Bingo
Back to sucking Putin’s toes.
“We can take votes away from Kamala Harris.”
No mention of Trump. Green MAGA.
I think she’s working on an organic gardening cookbook with mostly borscht and vodka recipes.
That sounds important
I’ve long contended that the relationship between borscht and vodka needs further study.
She should stay on that instead of running for president again.
And the folks throwing away their votes in protest of the two-party system are shooting themselves and all of us in the collective foot.
So a candidate doesn’t tickle their tummy enough, too bad. Should still choose them over a candidate that wants to kill brown people, and LGBTQ people, and the poor, and the disabled, etc.
I mean I get it, the two party system sucks, but it is something that can only be changed with time and influence, and a lot of it. It’s a slow and gradual thing. The only way out of the system is to go through it.
You do know that third party is not the reason anyone lost right?
Like the rights third party vote is like 4x the size of the lefts, most leftists do vote Dem. Y’all just love to foam out the mouth at leftists cuz you can’t not eat DNC bullshit trying to keep the party right of center. You treat the DNC like an infallible god and get mad when people criticize them for bad policy. But yeah, clearly it’s the .4% of the population who voted PSL’s fault that the DNC lost, definitely not the DNC who won big with Obama’s message of “change” and then decide to run with “nothing will fundamentally change.” Boy what a way to energize the voter base. Don’t worry, Dick Cheney will help!
You don’t even have the right fucking Cheney.
I’m so tired of this shit, y’all are not invested in this at all, you just want to stir shit up.
Some of us have to live this shit every day.
I know it wasn’t the right Cheney sorry for sarcasm, but like, dude the DNC fucked itself, and has been since after Obama won. (At least they decided to change their stance on gay marriage so he could win re-election, last time we got any concessions from them.)
The point is people need to stop praising the DNC like they’re infallible. They are the ones to blame. It is their job to make people want to vote and they’ve absolutely killed voter enthusiasm since Obama. Do you know how many normie ass people I’ve heard talk about how they haven’t voted since Obama because what’s the point?
Who here is praising the DNC like that? That’s a straw man.
People who are blaming third party instead of blaming the DNC are? They attack people who criticize it, even though those criticizing it are doing so cuz they want them to run someone they could actually vote for.
That doesn’t include the number that abstained entirely.
Also you didn’t include any other 3rd party numbers
Yeah cuz I am too lazy to go look this shit up again because yall don’t care anyways and are gonna continue to try and fight the people who are trying to help.
From studies I’ve seen before the election, progressive left literally votes for Dem more than any other ideological block for dems by % total (which includes non-voters).
And sorry it’s been years but iirc it was like .4% for PSL and 1.1% for green? And then I think .5% constitution and like 4% for libertarian. You can go look up the numbers from like, even the 2016 election which was the largest 3rd party vote I think? Idr anymore. I just remember it being about 3-4x total for the right vs left 3rd parties put together showing the left really doesn’t have a 3rd party problem but that doesn’t stop the DNC from attacking it to stop people from wanting progressive policy since they refuse to run any. They’ve sued to get 3rd party taken off the ballot in a lot of states, while trying to say republicans are anti-democratic. (Which like duh they are too, but like… if that’s gonna be y’all’s message maybe don’t do anti-democratic shit like refuse to have primaries, give a “victory fund” to a candidate before primaries, and sue to remove 3rd parties from elections.)
Sucks that the Democrats couldn’t do some bare ass minimum ‘genocide is bad’ messaging if they wanted those votes.
Not that I think it deters anyone who is here to crash out over criticism of the Democratic party, but I voted Harris and live in a blue county in a blue state. I can control literally nothing that [general you] are mad about.
I’ve fallen for it three times now. Was promised that Hillary was the only one who could win. Was promised that Biden was a stop gap and they were working on finding better candidates. But then Kamala had to be candidate because whatever. On and on and on.
Democrat voters are finally waking up, and the DSA is making strides and hopefully we will have different party by the 2028.
Otherwise, with the VRA and climate collapse, I mean really looks like things HAVE to get worse before they can get better.
What do you think elections are? You’re upset because someone promised you a person would win an election, and then they didn’t?
Grow the fuck up. Get used to it.
Woah, I’m not used to being remembered in the list of people being fucked over. Thanks.
Really like your username
People who don’t like hit songs by the village people?
disabled people. there’s usually the list of people harmed by a policy and it’s [well here’s everyone. Yeah, we could include disabled people but we aren’t paid by the word anymore fuck those gimps]. (and since i have acquired a creeper, mods please leave the harsh language it is illustrative and not attacking anyone) It’s nice to be acknowledged every now and then.
Let’s not forget his handling of Covid19 either.
That’s where you’re at? Blaming people who are fed up with the US’ god-awful system? Mad that they didn’t vote for the same party that enables this crap?
Up here in Canada, we have a progressive option and I am so fucking mad that people refused to vote for them. This “enable the conservatives masquerading as the center” thing is old and tired, and I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’ve never fallen for it, and I’m so disappointed in people that tell me that it’s my fault despite being one of the few people actually doing the right thing.
I will never blame people for sending a message and doing their best to use what little voice they have. The Democrats couldn’t even beat Trump and all they had to do was admit to one of the most obvious genocides in history. The people who refused to vote for them are well aware of what happened, and as far as I’m concerned their names are clean.
Be mad at tens of millions of people who actively and cheerfully voted for Trump. Be mad at the “moderates” who tell everyone to suck it up and vote slightly-less-conservative but who will never make any effort to make a progressive compromise. Don’t be mad at the people who didn’t want their name marked under “actively supporting a genocide”. It’s not their fault the US is a flaming shithole that deserves nothing less than to be thrown into the fucking sun.
Go after the people actively causing the damage or go find a tall bridge over fast moving water.
You’re wasting your breath. Ppl like OP bitch and scream about ppl abstaining but a Trump was going to happen eventually because the system is inherently flawed and Democrats wanted to keep it that way. You literally have leader of the Democratic caucus mad that voters are voting in more leftist candidates.
Like you said it’s not a failure of the voters, it’s a failure of the party
It is a failure of voters, too, but it’s a failure of the Republican voters and the “centrists” who fight hard to make sure that nothing ever gets done.
Abstaining to vote for one of two pro genocide candidates is not a pro genocide position. no matter how the corporate dems try to shift blame leftists are not Democrats and to get our vote you have to male concessions. The sooner the dems stop foaming at the mouth and move left for once the sooner our material conditions will improve.
Stop caping for the orphan crushing machine and blaming the people who demand we crush less orphans.
It’s hilarious that you don’t realize that’s absolutely no longer an option anymore unless you overthrow the entire government and institute a new one.
You didn’t teach anyone a lesson - you just removed your own ability to influence the direction of the government completely in the future.
How about if everyone stops pointing fingers and figure out what to do now?
I mean it seems like NYC has learned the lesson?
Yup I personally did that by voting PSL instead of picking one of the corporate neoliberals that serve the continuation of american fascism and neocolonialism. Very keen analysis. Its crazy you sycophants think I had enough power to erase the facade of democracy in america but not to affect the party platform. You can call me accelerationist but not fascist or a genocide supporter and I’m okay with that.
BTW how is keeping your picks accountable going, does complaining about leftists on the internet help stop weak willed dems from caving on the save america act
Stupid fuckwit.
Its socialism or fascism. Welcome to the 20s
Listen, I don’t have it in me to bother going back to find the research but a few things:
Without any of the research, maybe don’t blame people for how they vote but blame the DNC as its literally their job to energize people to vote by having policies that make people want to vote.
Without research, people voting for PSL/Green and still voting Dem/progressive down ballot is a whole lot better than the alternative of zero votes. Yelling at people they have to vote how you tell them isn’t gonna make anything happen. Let people vote how they want.
With research, “Progressives” vote more consistently for democrats than literally any other ideological group by % total population of said group (meaning they looked at non-voters as well)
With research, 3rd party leans HEAVILY right for votes. I forget the exact number but I think it was about 4x as many in libertarian/constitution compared to Green/PSL.
Fuck off with attacking people who literally just… could not stand for voting to commit genocide? I mean you shouldn’t be attacking the left at all, but specifically people who morally refuse to vote for someone who wants more genocide? Really? Anti-anti-genocide isn’t far from anti-antifa. Which like, oof.
See that’s the thing. None of us were voting to commit genocide. We were voting for president.
I was about to ask what the fuck kind of dumbass statement is saying voting for president isn’t voting for policies but the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” doesn’t really have policy so I guess that tracks for a Dem.
You should try paying attention to politics before you criticize the politics. Like, let’s help you get better arguments. It bugs me when people I agree with use inaccurate information (like the democrats not having policy) when we can criticize them for far more accurate and heinous things.
It really is that simple, you are voting for a person not their platform. The platform is the advertisement of what they might do, but we all know most campaign promises are worthless. If you are just looking at a candidate’s platform and not their history you’re missing most of the relevant story.
If the genocide in Gaza was my only factor I was voting on, like a lot of y’all right wingers on here seem to think it should be (strange how the sibboleths in your language match theirs) I’d first ask which candidates are likely to win. Among those, which are likely to end the genocide. None? Okay which are likely to slow it, which will ignore it, and which will make it worse. Then I ranked the candidates and got to the same spot as just saying “fuck Krasnov I ain’t voting for anyone he likes or who likes him”
Oh right I forgot “you have to vote who you think will win”
So, you are wrong and voted wrong too.
Did you think Harris could actually win? Really?
And my point in saying they didn’t have policy is their literal ads sent to my house said exactly “nothing will fundamentally change” for Biden. And Kamala made it clear she was going to do the exact same shit as she refused to break from Biden on basically anything important. Sure they had policy but it was all fuckin garbage. The DNC lost because they refuse to do something to try and win. People don’t want to put up with “at least I am not a literal clone of Hitler, even if I’m just as bad.” People want a candidate worth voting for. That’s why I’ve heard tons of kids tell me their parents haven’t voted at all since Obama. Or other normie ass people I know have said the same. The DNC has shot itself in the face repeatedly since, and Biden honestly only won because his name was tied to Obama and people forgot he was tied to Obama to try and and anchor him to centrist ass bullshit, and that Biden not for progress or change at all. People refuse to keep voting for a race to the bottom in who can put out a worst candidate because that’s why we are where we are at.
Look at NYC, that is how you energize the voting base.
Honestly no. Harris was an abysmal choice the DNC made for the democrat party, bypassing the primary process. I’m not the DNC. I get to choose between what’s in front of me. I’m not the DNC, so i’m not sure why you’re attacking me for THEIR choices.
she was better than Trump. that was what it came down to in the general election.
I mean, you’re supporting their choice while also yelling at people for refusing to support that choice? One you admit was an abysmal choice?
Like vote how you want idc but don’t discourage people from voting for someone who is a better candidate.