Post by @Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca

2026-10-25 13:18 UTC

This is kinda how it goes every mid-term election. I’m used to it by now. The way the US government is designed is hostile to progress and dragging its feet the whole time. The few moments when any party gets multiple seats of power, they sprint as far and fast as they can before the gears get clogged again. You gotta just play the hand you’re dealt. If democrats win a majority, but not a supermajority, their job is to at least stop things from getting worse for a while.

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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 13:44

The few moments when any party gets multiple seats of power, they sprint as far and fast as they can before the gears get clogged again. Republicans, certainly. But I was around for the Obama first term. He was terminally West Wing brained. Fully convinced he was going to get 70+ Senators on every vote, because Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Susan Collins were his close friends. Fucking chump. You gotta just play the hand you’re dealt. If democrats win a majority, but not a supermajority, their job is to at least stop things from getting worse for a while. I predict that Congress will find it doesn’t have a majority to pass any useful legislation domestically. But what they will have is an overwhelming Pro-Israel majority. Also, just enough votes to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports at a national level

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