• artyom@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    That’s no reason to let him decide the agenda.

    If you do not have the power to do anything, you cannot “let” anyone do it. Just as I can’t “let” you drive too fast in your car, or stab a random person on the street.

    Make him veto popular initiatives.

    …why?

    Make him prove over and over that he hates the American people.

    He already has. There’s nothing he could possibly do to make that more clear. Sure as shit not a veto .

    Then use the vetos and votes to beat them in the next election.

    That’s completely unnecessary. Anyone who doesn’t know where they stand on these basic foundational issues sure as shit won’t know if they veto them.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      22 hours ago

      You’ve never played chess, and it shows. You don’t understand tempo.

      If you’re not putting your opponent on the defensive, your opponent is going to put you on the defensive.

      By passing a progressive agenda in Congress, they force his hand. He vetos everything, because that’s what he does, and it shows his ass to swing-voters.

      If Dems do nothing with a congressional majority because “it would just get vetoed,” then they’re letting him force their hands. They’d do nothing all session, which would show their ass to swing-voters.

      If you don’t understand how that matters, then you don’t understand politics. Or you’re just a troll.

      Either way, you’re fighting a losing battle here so just stop.