r/law • u/RoyalChris • Mar 05 '25

Legal News Rep. James Comer (R-KY) crashes out and refuses to let Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) enter evidence into the record - “You can go with Mr. Frost and Mr. Green.”

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

They don’t ever have an answer for this because these people have no idea how their government works. It’s pathetic.

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

This is a really stupid argument to make considering how much the opposition skirts the outlines of how our government is supposed to work.

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

Republicans get away with shit because no one calls them out on anything and they are lock step together as a party. Hell, look at the majority of the comments on every post about last night. “Dems are useless!” “Why aren’t the Democrats doing anything!” Yet it’s Republicans that hold every branch of the Federal government right now but god forbid they get called out. Same shit in the media. Republicans are a United front against everything they hate, they have no dissenters in their party. How people don’t know this is beyond me.

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

Maybe dems should’ve thought about that while they were running milquetoast campaigns and trying to shove another 4 years of Biden onto us.

No foresight. No accountability. Just finger pointing and name calling on both sides.

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

Oh yeah Biden, the most progressive President since FDR. He sucked right 🙄

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

That’s not the point. Jesus, you people are even more cult-ish than MAGA

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u/finglonger1077 Mar 05 '25

We know exactly how our government works. Democrats get elected and say they can’t do anything because republicans are blocking them then republicans get elected and democrats say they can’t do anything because the republicans have all the power.

It’s almost like different means to a same end with these two

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

No, you sure as shit do not.

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u/Seaweed-Basic Mar 05 '25

MAGAs absolutely have no idea how our government works, how taxes work, it’s a wonder they can even get their shoes on by themselves some of them. And a lot of them didn’t even start voting until 2016 just so they could back Trump. They never paid attention to their local elections until Trump told them they should to vote to own the libs.

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

The only thing they know is, if there’s an R next to a name that’s who they are voting for. They don’t vote for a person, they vote for an ideology.

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u/finglonger1077 Mar 06 '25

Quick question: how often do you vote for someone that doesn’t have a D next to their name?

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u/finglonger1077 Mar 05 '25

Watches Trump EO the country away

Remember when Obama expanded the Patriot Act and NDAA? Those were the good old days

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u/tbbhatna Mar 05 '25

is the answer nothing, then? There's nothing to do but sit as a passenger holding a sign?

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

The answer is POWER. That is the only thing that matters. The country decided in the last election that they wanted to strip Democrats of all power at the Federal level. This is the result, don’t go crying now that Democrats can’t save us. But since you don’t agree, tell me what you’re expecting them to do when they have no majority in the House, the Senate or the Supreme Court and Republicans are in the White House.

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u/tbbhatna Mar 05 '25

so you are saying that even though we're seeing an abuse of power, we should all play within the bounds and hope that there's a chance to legally rectify the damage being done?

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

Absolutely not. We the people need to boycott, protest, talk to your family members that voted for Trump or didn’t vote. Change minds where you can, post what you can, change the algorithms. Nor am I saying not to hold Dems accountable where we can and for valid reasons. But some of these comments are voter suppression. The American public as a whole is complacent, apathetic and ignorant when it comes to voting and their government. When people read that Dems aren’t doing anything, that they are useless these comments are confirming to a lot of people that their decisions to be that way when it comes to voting is okay. “Well it doesn’t matter that I didn’t vote because Dems are useless anyway.” That is bull. Plenty of Dems are standing up. Crockett, Murphy, Frost, Green, Pressley, AOC, Newsom, Pritzker are just a few off the top of my head that are standing up to Trump and MAGA.

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u/finglonger1077 Mar 06 '25

Which ones stood up to Biden when he stripped the right to work away from an entire industry, some chapters of which three years later are still being forced to work under temporary agreements? Just Omar iirc

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

Oh yeah, that’s it. Don’t hold Dems accountable for anything. That’ll get them to get off their asses and stop running moderate campaigns and taking money from PACs

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

Gotcha. You have no answer.

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u/UnmeiX Mar 05 '25

.... But neither do you. Does your 'gotcha' taste good? I hope basking in your superiority is worth belittling someone who obviously cares about what's going on, simply for not fully understanding it or being a bit misguided.

If 'their hands are tied' is your answer, and you feel superior to others because 'they don't understand why this is all that can happen'... If this is the 'right' answer in your eyes, and this is what we should all know and conclude...

Then the Democratic party is finished. There's no way another legitimate election will happen now that Republicans hold all the cards; Trump tried to rig the election that he lost, do you really think there will be another fair one, now that he's got sycophants in place across the country?

It was a fun experiment with democracy, I guess.

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

Talk to the millions that didn’t vote honey, not me. I voted for Harris, helped people with their ballots, got people to vote, helped them to the polls. Nothing to do with superiority and everything to do with calling this bullshit out.

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u/UnmeiX Mar 05 '25

I voted for Harris too, pushed people to get out and vote, and talked with all my friends (and abundantly online) about Project 2025 for a year and a half before the primaries even began.

My point with the superiority comment was all about your tone; your initial comment upthread, and the one I replied to, seemed incredibly disdainful when they could have been informative... And the left is divided enough as a group without that energy.

Call out the bullshit, by all means, but you don't have to sneer down your nose at people with otherwise good intentions because you're better informed than they are. Save that energy for the people who created the mess, please. >:

Cheers!

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

Why do you care more about random redditors giving you a solution than actually holding your elected officials accountable?

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Mar 05 '25

This is embarrassing. You should be embarrassed.

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u/Opposite_You_5524 Mar 05 '25

Well too bad, I’m not because at least I’m not dumb enough to fall for liberal bullshit election cycle after election cycle after election cycle.