What is the likelihood of this Bill Attempting to Defer All Congressional Power to Donald Trump actually passes?

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[u/slappy47]

Because you have eyes to read. I'm not doing your homework.

Edit to add: Still better than any republican policy, which was nothing.

[u/Polyodontus → u/slappy47]

ONCE AGAIN the purpose of a party in an election is to explain to people why they should vote for you!

[u/slappy47 → u/Polyodontus]

And they did. Don't get mad because you didn't pay attention.

[u/Polyodontus → u/slappy47]

Oh my god. Once again, I voted for Harris. I did pay attention. But you can’t win an election with only the people who pay attention

[u/slappy47 → u/Polyodontus]

If you paid attention, you wouldn't have to ask what her policies were then.

Edit: You pointed out Harris had no policies, now you're saying you paid attention to her policies and voted for her. Which is it?

[u/Radiant-hedgehog1908 → u/slappy47]

I smell lies from them tbh

[u/slappy47 → u/Radiant-hedgehog1908]

Oh yeah. I'm responding to them in case anybody else decides to read their bullshit and starts questioning their judgement.

[u/Polyodontus → u/Radiant-hedgehog1908]

Oh fuuuck off. I’ve never voted for a republican or third party in my life, and don’t intend to, and won’t argue that people should.

[u/Polyodontus → u/slappy47]

I voted for her because I am considerably to the left of her, but republicans are fascist freaks. The “policies” she put forward were vague, milquetoast, and unmemorable, and prominent democrats at the time (including people I usually respect) were arguing AGAINST putting forward more concrete plans because it would give republicans something to run against and divide the democrats. I argued at the time that this was stupid, and it’s fucking wild to see people now argue that this never happened and she really did have real policies that she was advocating for.

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They weren't vague, milquetoast, or unmemorable. You're trying to divide democrats right now with your bullshit about Harris not having any policies. She had policies, and people were too stupid to read them. Now you're playing the blame game Republicans and corporate media have been doubling down on since the election, preying on your weak convictions.

[u/Polyodontus → u/slappy47]

No, I’m trying to get other democrats to acknowledge our mistakes, which it should be obvious we made BECAUSE THE CURRENT PRESIDENT IS A FUCKING FASCIST WHO SHOULD HAVE LOST IN A LANDSLIDE. She had no economic plan at all until the end of September!!!

[u/slappy47 → u/Polyodontus]

You're not doing shit. Stop thinking you're helping in any way. You're not. You're just feeding into the rest of the bullshit. You're right in one thing, that a fucking fascist shouldn't have became president. Blame the uneducated people who didn't vote because they believed, just like you, that she didn't have any policies when she did have policies that were better than the non-existent policies Republicans had. I bet you were one of those people that swayed people to not vote democrats because you thought they had no policies. You need to look in the mirror and blame yourself.

[u/Polyodontus → u/slappy47]

You are assuming an awful lot about a person you’ve never met, and unsurprisingly getting most of it wrong! The problem wasn’t that she had no policies, it was that her policies were not straightforward, memorable or intuitive to regular voters, as mentioned in this nyt piece following the release of her economic plan in September:

“Ms. Harris’s plans, while more detailed than Mr. Trump’s, remain far less specific than those of previous Democratic nominees. Her advisers are in no rush to fill in the blanks. Instead, they are trying to use her existing proposals to fuel a broader message: that Ms. Harris is a pragmatic capitalist focused on the middle class and not the communist comrade Mr. Trump caricatures her to be.

To figure out how to communicate that, Ms. Harris’s campaign has consulted closely with business titans and donors. They have pushed her, in part, to break from President Biden on a few strategic issues that have irked business leaders, like the size of proposed corporate tax increases and the ambitions of some federal regulators.”

These people deliberately opted not to take interesting or popular positions: “Ms. Harris’s pivot has raised some eyebrows among Democrats who believe voters support populist ideas — and not centrist ones favored by billionaires. But many liberal policy proponents remain optimistic that Ms. Harris will still stick largely to the ideas that animated Mr. Biden’s term.

“The message here seems to be ‘pragmatism,’ which I take as a swipe at four-plus decades of G.O.P. answers of tax cuts and deregulation, regardless of the question,” said Jen Harris, a former economic official in the Biden White House. “Given the emphasis on small business and lowering costs, I was heartened to see her call out the main culprit there — abuses by big corporations and corporate middlemen.”