• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    Yes, but that’s because nobody can be good at it. The Republican party is fractured at its core, and it contains the Trump party and the establishment Republicans. Both want power, and neither want to share. They have such a razor thin margin (now even thinner, thanks to the NY Dem win), that they have to work in a bipartisan way to get anything done, and one or the other would rather make a show than govern.

    And Mike, poor fatuous Mike, is caught between the two factions (plus his weird beliefs) in a job that requires bipartisanship.

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      9 months ago

      You’re giving them far too to much credit. What’s actually happening is that they’re actively trying to prevent the government from functioning in order to justify their planned fascist takeover.

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        9 months ago

        Republican leadership has been quite open about the fact that they don’t have an electorally viable constituency anymore.

        They painted themselves into a demographic corner by embracing the backlash against civil rights wins in the 60s. The southern strategy worked for a few elections, but you can’t win elections by embracing a dying group of extremely conservative white racists while the US populace gets less white and more progressive.

        For at least 20 years republicans have been failing to find voters who want their ideas, and failing to find the courage to change their ideas. They’re fully aware that the will of US voters is an existential threat to their party. They’ve been heading towards authoritarianism with their eyes open.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    9 months ago

    The Republican party has simply forgotten the difference between doing its jobs and appearing to do its jobs. To them, political reality is indistinguishable from reality. Solving imaginary problems gives them the same sense of accomplishment as solving a real problem, and their first and foundational achievement must always be to retain power.

    So when they impeach Mayorkas for no reason at all, they literally cannot tell the difference between that and actually doing something that matters.

    So is he bad at doing his elected job? Yes. But he and the other GOP members are incapable of realizing, acknowledging or correcting that deficiency. Nothing we can say will make them change.

    It’s not our job to analyze them anymore, or convince them. It’s just to defeat them and take away their power.

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      9 months ago

      To your point. The federal government STILL does not have a budget for this fiscal year, which began last October 1.

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    9 months ago

    No. It’s just that we’ve all expected “This” to mean “serving the interests of the United States”.

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    9 months ago

    The only thing he can do to be successful is to pass bills with support from some Dems, and that are going to lead to a vote to dethrone him. So he can’t do anything. And he can’t pin down the right flank on any issue so he can’t promise passage of any vote.
    But he and every member of the hous knew all of this before the election.

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      9 months ago

      And the job isn’t really possible. Worse than wrangling kittens, he’s trying to wrangle methed out, delusional, psychotic, ignorant kittens that think they have god on their side.