• lectricleopard@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I was just telling a friend, both sides want the same thing, money. The difference is, one side is willing to kill for it, and the other side is always willing to look away.

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      19 hours ago

      Why did Democrats ban large campaign contributions from 2003 until 2010 when the SCOTUS overturned the law?

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        15 hours ago

        Who was president from 2009 to 2017 and could have passed a different law? Who was president from 2021 to 2025?

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          15 hours ago

          To overrule the SCOTUS interpretation of the constitution you would need to amend the constitution, required 60 Senators and a house majority. Since 2013 there haven’t even been more dems than repubs before caucus, much less 60.

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              7 hours ago

              They never had 60 votes. They had a 58 + 2 ind caucus for 72 days and chose to use that time to expand medicaid to millions of americans.

              The last time the DNC had 60 seats if I recall was 1979?