He did as much as a president could do in this position at the federal level.

Patently false.

He has the constitutional power to keep Congress in session if he wants to. He could have held military funding hostage. He could have used his position as the leader of the party to divert campaign funding away from the politicians who vote conservative.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Respectfully, the excuses don’t matter. The Democrats are not powerless. They’re profiting off the issue, and I think that is why they do not act, and it doesn’t matter how you vote. We’re never getting nationwide legal abortion back.

I don’t think it ever will be legal at the Federal level again.

Democrats raised $80,000,000 just off the Roe repeal leak alone. Why kill the golden goose when the people voting for you don’t care if you actually follow through with your promises or not?

As an aside, this is the same reason why we’ll never have a functional immigration system. The Republicans make too much money and political capital off of it to ever fix the problem.

TBH, that Idaho managed to criminalize abortion and get away with it while we had a Democratic president and Congress is, to me, one of the greatest political betrayals I’ve ever seen in my life. I have no faith whatsoever that electing Democrats is going to lead to anything positive on this issue, and it makes me hopeless when I see Democrats in power and then zero response when such an important right is repealed.

Well, zero response other than exploiting it for fundraising.

Good for them.

The tenant union here in Kansas City is doing great work for local renters. I hope the same happens in Omaha, because we know damn well the government isn’t acting to protect local residents.

Rent control policies can lead to higher rents for uncontrolled units, reduce landlords’ incentive to maintain units, and dampen the creation of new rental housing — exacerbating affordable housing shortages.

This sounds like the same alarmist BS we hear any time a minimum wage increase is on the ballot, and once it’s passed, we find that it’s actually a really good thing. Does it not follow logically that rent control, by keeping more money in the hands of people who actually spend it, is a win for the economy as a whole?

At this point, if you’re not double-checking something produced by your AI tool of choice, it absolutely is your fault. It’s no secret that these applications were trained on garbage.

It’s wild living in a country that, if you’re white, you can literally run a terrorist group and no one’s going to stop you.

Ah, my mistake mixing them up. Thank you for the correction.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it in the UN Charter that an attack on UN forces is an attack on the entire dang alliance?

There’s plenty of evidence that social media is harmful to kids, teens, and adults. Several are referenced in this article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-media-teens-mental-health

We also know that FB has used its platform to unknowingly run social experiments on users without their knowledge and helped the proliferation of misinformation to the tremendous detriment of our country and our people. With gen AI creating even more false information, it’s imperative that governments crack down.

Social Media can and should be regulated just like any other objectionable form of speech.

Totally.

I was very impressed by Democrats’ reaction when the Roe repeal was leaked.

They used it to raise money.

That alone is indicative of the fact that they’re unsuited to govern.

Well, thank you for your perspective.

Have a nice weekend.

I honestly think you and I are on pretty close to the same page as far as American politics are concerned

I really think we’re not.

But thanks for the discussion.

What’s amazing is seeing a president who isn’t content to make excuses.

Nothing I say is going to change your mind, and that’s okay. Thank you for the discussion.

He also dispelled the myth that one needs 60 votes to pass legislation, and yet, I still have to hear Democratic supporters make that excuse for why they never fulfill their promises.

And Harris will stand by and make excuses when the same things happen under her watch. We know this because that’s what Biden and Obama have done.

So what’s the point?

I don’t know how much failure it’ll take before Democratic voters start to realize they should make different choices if they actually want change.

When you elect an opposition party that doesn’t actually oppose anything, every issue that concerns you is in jeopardy, yes. Further, I wouldn’t trust someone who built their career on locking up nonviolent drug users en masse to care much what happens to you or your family.

They certainly don’t care about mine. My eighty-year old parents are driving for DoorDash, in a car I lent them, and that’s the only thing separating them from homelessness and starvation.

I don’t think that’s accurate.

I’m not the one gaslighting myself about Democratic governance or pretending that they actually did the things that they promised, and neither are the people who need better pay instead of memes.

When was the last time the minimum wage went up in this country?

Almost two decades ago, and 2/3 of the US states use that as the standard.

So yes, if you’re poor or working class in this country, it doesn’t matter much who we elect.