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GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Their Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
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Big "of COURSE two wrongs make a right" energy in this article and comment section 🤦
Bringing a gun to a gun fight isn't wrong.
Nobody's shooting them for allowing debate. It's not a binary where they have to either allow Republicans to obstruct endlessly or eliminate debate completely.
They all had two prior opportunities to debate, though!
Were these two opportunities for other nominees? You know that different people aren't interchangeable, right? 🤦
That is an impressive selective reading of the article. One could be left to wonder how, in good faith, you could have possibly missed all of this:
Why should Dems follow all the rules when repubs don't? If anyone cares about the rule, they should have punished the previous committee leaders even though they have an R by their name.
Because rules are how society works. If both parties agree to throw out the rules.. we don't have a democracy anymore.
So it’s turn the other cheek bullshit? They’ve had my left, right, and both ass cheeks. There are no cheeks left to turn.
Love when people have that argument. I always politely remind them that we didn't just turn all of our cheeks to Hitler and hope he stopped. At a certain point you gotta go all in.
If one party ignores the rules, while the other party follows them, the party with no regard for the rules will take all the power, and we definitely won't have a democracy anymore.
Rules of procedure are hardly the bedrock of democracy
The same reason Dems should do a SHITLOAD of things differently than the Republicans: because they're better and more honest or at least pretending to be.
That's exactly what Republicans have become adept at manipulating.
So do you want Dems to be like Republicans or are you just a massive hypocrite?
I want Dems to stop being taken advantage of. Inaction has gotten us where we are.
They're not being taken advantage of. They're CHOOSING to not use powers they legitimately have in order to protect their owner donors from what they, the Dem leadership, say in public that they want to do.
Like back when they "had to" take the minimum wage increase that the vast majority of the population wants out of the infrastructure bill because one unelected bureaucrat didn't think it was a budget item 🙄
Ok fair, that was a misnomer. They are definitely not being taken advantage of.
That being said, what exactly do you think should be happening? Because I think things are escalating because of decisions made by reps, and dems have to do something in response no?
Well...a wrong is a negative thing. Two wrongs would be a double negative. A double negative is a positive and a positive thing is a right. Therefore two wrongs do in fact make a right. (Please note: I don't believe this and an just using words recreationally)
Its not the multiplicative of wrongs its just the summation. If you rob a bank and also commit wire fraud that person isn't responsible for a wire fraud worth of bank robberies. In fact, that statement is nonsense. Two wrongs add up having done more wrong.
Careful about using words recreationally, that shit can be habit-forming!
Sincerely, wordplay addict and loving it 😁