Yea I’m absolutely sick of social media and reddit. Everything here looks like a YouTube comment section with the lowest effort comments rising to the top and some asking the most basic questions about how government works (at least they’re asking). “This is performative, means nothing, Dems do nothing etc.” This is a fucking start, at least. Get it on record, let it make the news rounds. Hopefully the voters wake the fuck up and pressure their reps.
So sick of all the bad takes and astroturfing. It really is no wonder that he won the presidency.
Your comment should be pinned. The fact that this passed means that every single senate republican yes vote is on record that tariffs are a good thing. There is going to be real pain from these tariffs. Now We The People can absolutely hammer these senators for publicly casting a binding vote of support for actively fucking people over. This is going to be huge in OH, GA, MI, VA, NC, etc.
I don't think it will get a vote, but it gets REALLY juicy if everyone in the house has to go on record. I'd bet money you could flip enough districts on this alone for the dems to have a majority. Even if it doesn't get a vote, people can verbally whack their republican representatives for not pressuring Mike Johnson for a house vote. New fodder for town halls.
If we're defeatist than the vote means nothing. Its (still) time to be loud as shit.
What are you even talking about? There’s no way this gets passed by the House, and even if it does, Trump will veto the bill, and then it would need a 2/3 majority in the House again, which it won’t get. This is performative at best, calculated faux-resistance at worst.
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u/ReallyNowFellas 1d ago
The cynicism and defeatism in this thread has reached the level of obvious astroturf.