Now the headline albeit confusing isn’t much, but the article text/body is pretty amazing. The final paragraph is classic Onion. This would’ve been seen as satire a month or two ago.

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    Why do Democrats always have to be so lame?

    They also have a legislative tool to shut down the Senate (as long as they have 30 votes). They should be using it, and we should be pressuring them to use it.

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      Assuming you mean the filibuster: They need 41, actually, and there are some things you can’t filibuster like providing for congressional disapproval and nominations require 51 instead of 50. See https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/119.htm for every time someone decided they might have a chance of breaking filibuster. The only acts that went through are the Laken Riley Act—the first ever—the HALT Fentanyl Act, and the GENIUS Act—which allows the Fed and States to regulate stable crypto—while the only acts that have been passed by senate are the Laken Riley Act and the TAKE IT DOWN Act which counters deepfakes. While the Laken Riley Act should’ve been filibustered IMO, I don’t think any of the others that passed/did not meet filibuster should be stalled just for politics reasons.

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    GOOD! I’m LOVING this New Direction the Democrats are Taking! PASS TRUMPS AGENDA but Eat TACOS while doing it!

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    “Trump always chickens out — we’re just bringing the tacos to match,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement on the food truck’s message.

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    Man, it pains me to agree with JD Vance on anything, but we really do have the lamest opposition party. All they’re good for is performative bullshit like this. We’ve got Gestapo black bagging people on the street and dragging them off to foreign torture prisons, and the best the Dems can do is mock Trump for wavering on tariffs. It’s truly fucking pathetic.

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      Most of the comments itt are Oniony. Agree with you:

      “We have the lamest opposition in American history,” Vance wrote on the social media platform X

      He’s not wrong.