• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Let’s just pretend Biden didn’t have 2 years of near congressional control to prevent the fascist takeover I guess. Or at the very least impede its effect. Never forget Biden never shut down the whole kids in cages shit, or ended the border wall construction outright.

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      5 hours ago

      Let’s just pretend Biden didn’t have 2 years of near congressional control to prevent the fascist takeover I guess.

      What is “near congressional control”? That just sounds like a disingenuous way to say “didn’t have congressional control”.

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      9 hours ago

      DNC haven’t had more than 50 senators in over a decade but he still managed to pass lots of good shit like the IRA and some protections for gay marriage.

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          4 hours ago

          Incorrect, the last 7 congresses had the following party divisions:

          113th 2013-2015 : 53 D - 45 R - 2 I
          114th 2015-2017 : 44 D - 54 R - 2 I
          115th 2017-2019 : 46/47 D - 50/52 R - 2 I
          116th 2019-2021 : 45/46 D - 53/52 R - 2 I
          117th 2021-2023 : 46/48 D - 51/50 R - 2/3 I
          118th 2023-2025 : 47/48 D - 49 R - 3/4 I
          119th 2025-2027 : 45 D - 53/52 R - 2 I - 1 Vacancy

          We literally have not had more than 48 D since 2015. The most independents we’ve ever had since the 1940s was also coincidentally in just before Republicans swept the 2024 election. Every DNC “majority” we’ve had in the last decade was only with caucusing independents and also VP tiebreaker.

          We ALSO never had a DNC supermajority, which is why we had to water down the Public Option healthcare in 2011-2012 due to Independent Joe Lieberman holding out and Republican filibuster, the most we’ve had since 1979 was only 58.

        • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 hours ago

          Baseless claims don’t fly far with an audience that reads like it’s second nature. 🤷🏼‍♂️