cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
The 11 dems who were needed to pass Massies impeachment of Hegseth didnt show up to work that day either. Impeaching Hegseth and doing their job to hold republicans responsible for murder and high crimes just wasnt important to them.
These traitor-Dems need to lose their seats at the next possible chance.
Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) Marilyn Strickland (Washington) Julia Brownley (California) Lou Correa (California) Laura Gillen (New York) Steven Horsford (Nevada) Jonathan Jackson (Illinois) Nancy Pelosi (California) Brittany Pettersen (Colorado) Haley Stevens (Michigan) Frederica Wilson (Florida)
I don’t understand how the senate can have “recess” from August to September and then all of October then they get to pull this shit after an election just because. It’s sick.
We need a revolution
a violent one.
It has to be multilateral
Monoparty
Because if course they did. Bought and paid for.
This is exactly what we need to point to whenever someone says vote blue no matter who.
Depends. Is it Primaries season, or is it the General election?
If the former, then vote progressives in.
If the latter, show me in the races these Democrats were elected where the Republican wasn’t objectively worse on practically every issue.
“vote blue no matter who in the general” is how we get outcomes like this one. Well done.
I don’t think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.
Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.
The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.
The Democratic party and GOP should both go the way of the Whigs. Neither are working for the American people. Or humanity.
The Whigs simply reconstituted as the Republicans. They never really went away
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that. The other stuff is correct though. The Whigs were where corporate Democrats are today. Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning that their actual name is lost to history. They only lasted a few years before dying out and getting reabsorbed into one of the existing parties, or leaving politics entirely.
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Eh. There was a rapid decay of progressivism in the Whig-turned-Republican Party in the 1880s, culminating in several decades of fascism, oligarchy, and outright White Supremacy as the prevailing order of the federal and state governments. This peaked with Coolidge in the 1920s and have birth to a brief US flirtation with Communism as an active movement.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that.
Plenty of Whigs were progressive. Conscience Whigs were a political force across New England long before Republicans existed as a party. And they were the first to defect en mass to the Republicans when they did manifest.
Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning
Do you mean the “Know Nothing” Party? Because that was a secret society which operated in direct conflict with Conscience Whigs, effectively splitting the organization in 1854 and giving Republicans an opportunity to emerge onto the national scene.
It was one party all that time? Damn, they’re good!
It’s been said the only true role fulfillment championed by dem leadership is to be the perennial opposition party. They are not paid to win and subsequently they do not motivate their lesser peers to behave like winners. Schumer and Jeffries were chosen to maintain a constant loser state of existence.
I fuckin hate these people
Ratchet goes clink
For those who like explanation.
This is why I get tired of the US getting criticized.
I’m flabbergasted! I have been blindsided!
What next? No universal healthcare? Seven bucks and change minimum wage in 2026? No term limits? Openly senile senators and Presidents? Madness.
We live in strange times. It’s almost as if they’re openly colluding without even bothering to hide it. Everybody on Lemmy knows “bOtH sIdEs” is Russian propaganda, this must be fake news.
That fucking sucks.
If you read about the legislation, there was a lot of phrasing in it to make it sound like they were giving concessions to climate goals, but in practice it’s really just a palatable wrapper to cut red tape for fossil fuel companies.
It had a couple riders though such as lukewarm regulations for data centers, so I wonder how many of these Dems got caught up in that, or how many neglected to read it for its substance.
I have no doubt that some of them at least voted for it because it’s a boon to the fossil fuel industry though.
We might be able to use some parts of it to further the development of renewable energy infrastructure, but overall that’s a consolation prize at best, and this should have been rejected in favor of crafting better legislation next session.
or how many neglected to read it for its substance
All of them neglected to read it. I think senators and congresscritters should have to take a test to prove they read a bill before being allowed to vote on it.
That would be so funny. We really have to micromanage them, don’t we?
They forget that they work for us, not the other way around. After all, who pays their salary?
from the article: The 22 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus who voted with Republicans for passage were:
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
The bill hasn’t been enacted into law yet, still time to contact representatives while it’s in the amendment process: https://5calls.org/issue/bipartisan-affordability-and-jobs-act/
that’ll work.
Ossoff (D-GA)
Warnock (D-GA)Well that’s a fucking disappointment.
If these are your reps, contact them and express your disappointment. They aren’t on Lemmy.
The new election was such a mixed bag for me. On one hand we now have Peggy in the Senate. On the other hand we have fucking Amy traitor Klobuchar as the fucking governor of Minnesota to try and fill the shoes of Walz. God I hate her so much
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Hickenlooper was just reelected.
Damn I really thought better of Whitehouse, at least on climate issues. :(
