Good. This is just theater for the knuckle-dragging Republican base anyway. The dems who went along with it can eat a bag of dicks.
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Anyone notice how many news stories nowadays start with "Republicans block or halt or shut down or remove something.... They aren't doing anything... Just keeping anyone else from doing anything
People are probably getting sick of me saying this by now, but of course Republicans aren't doing anything, this is their philosophy. Their core beliefs are in conserving traditional hierarchies and norms. God over man, men over women and children, white over black, rich over poor, cis-het over LGBT people and other hierarchies.
Their actions are best understood through the lens of conservative philosophy and the maintenance or restoration of socio-economic hierarchies.
To achieve their goals, they really only need to do a few things legialativly,
- Stop progress and change
- Rollback change
You see 1 all the time, they dont even need to be in power to do it. They just need to get in the way. If they get power, you see 2, and since they're trying to rollback generational change, not even decades old precedent is safe (see Roe vs. Wade).
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Considering their whole M.O. is regression or conservation of the status quo, that's not surprising
I am tired of Republicans being referred to as a political party instead of what they actually are: a violent terrorist ideology on the level of ISIS, Taliban, Al Qaida, Khmer Rouge, Bolshevik Soviets, etc. They are not a "differing opinion"; they are a terrorist insurgency bent on destroying America and it's representative democracy. Those who refuse to acknowlege this and who disparage those who advocate defending against them are equally violent and evil.
If you want to be "the party of no" you can't allow things to happen.
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Except we've been trying everything else for decades now
And there's still plenty more to try. They've barely even scratched the surface of the whole genocide-your-own-population thing
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He never said that, but it's still a heck of a good quote.
Yeah, but it's on a picture and I agree with it, because it's shitting on Americans, so I'm going to mindlessly parrot it!
As an American I can honestly say "No lies detected".
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Fucking dipshit asshole bastard republiQans. Evil, stupid, sociopathic, and cheating every way possible. As usual.
Are you telling me, that my US rep Tim Fucking Walberg, that useless fuck, actually accomplished something? I'm actually kind of impressed. The bill is straight up dogshit, but he actually submitted something and dogged it through committee and got the full chamber to vote on something.
I call bullshit. Someone else did this, and pawned it off onto Tim. Either because they didn't want to be responsible for it, or they felt sorry for him. Hell, I feel sorry for him.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The White House's plan to boost electric vehicle adoption came under heavy fire in Congress on Wednesday.
Five Democratic Representatives joined the Republican majority to pass a bill that would prohibit the US Environmental Protection Agency from enacting stricter new corporate average fuel efficiency regulations that would require automakers to sell many more EVs by the year 2032.
But burning fewer hydrocarbons has become anathema to the modern Republican Party, and former President Donald Trump's administration focused some of its attention on undermining the EPA's ability to regulate tailpipe emissions or cut gasoline dependence.
A pair of Texas Democrats (Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzales), as well as Jared Golden (D-Maine), Donald Davis (D-N.C.), and Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) all voted with the Republican Party.
It says the EPA cannot "finalize, implement, or enforce" new vehicle pollution regulations that are meant to go into effect in 2027.
The White House strongly condemned the legislation, which it says would "catastrophically impair" the EPA's ability to regulate vehicle pollution, and President Joe Biden has threatened to veto the bill should it pass the Senate and be sent to his desk.
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Why threaten, do it already.
The bill has been passed by the House but not the Senate. It is not yet ready to be signed or vetoed.
Is this a bill in which the GOP rejects innovative free market capitalism?
Because it sounds like a bill in which the GOP rejects innovative free market capitalism.
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