Who is preventing this crisis from being addressed?  

Leave the other words you used in there

One says “Democrats” the other says “DEMOCRATS.” Which words make one more specific than the other?

What do you think just happened? The Supreme Court had an opportunity to stop this law from going into effect, and they didn’t. It has already been challenged, and the challengers lost because there are 5 members of the Supreme Court that want Roe overturned. If they didn’t want Roe overturned, they wouldn’t have…

Short of holding a loved on hostage, putting a gun to his head, or something else equally absurd and illegal, other politicians’ ability to control Joe Manchin may as well be the same their ability to reverse gravity or divide by zero.

This:

So your problem with me saying if Democrats wanted to, they could address this problem, was that I didn’t adequately point out that there are Democrats who don’t want to address this problem? That’s literally what I was saying. Like:

No one anywhere should be backstopping any lawsuit under this law, especially not as a means to get it overturned.  The Supreme Court could have easily put this law on hold.  That they didn’t tells you everything you need to know about what 5 members of the Court think about it’s constitutionality.  It will be upheld.

Lol, what? Maybe you should learn to read, instead of having your first instinct being to defend some of the most powerful people in the world from criticism. After all, your response to me pointing out that Democrats could address this crisis if they wanted to was to....point out that actually the problem is that…

Sorry, I’m sure at this point it’s a “me” thing and not a “you” thing, but I still have no idea what point you’re making.

Okay, but the reason they don’t have the votes is because of DEMOCRATS who aren’t willing to make those votes! That is the point. The failure of the federal government to address this crisis is a failure of DEMOCRATS to address this crisis, because DEMOCRATS are in control of all of the relevant parts of the federal…

Because there aren’t 50 of them in the Senate who want that. Thought we’d covered that math sufficiently.

If Democrats want this, why hasn’t it happened yet?  What the fuck do you think Chuck Schumer’s job is, exactly?

Maybe that’s his point. I don’t really care. My point is there are enough Democrats in Congress that you could solve this problem without needing Republican votes. Democrats actually have the power to get the federal government to do something about this problem. If Democrats fail to do something about this, it is…

Joe’s term lasts until 2024, so don’t think this would be the last thing he does as Senator. Since he was last elected senator in 2018, he has voted twice to convict a president who his constituents favored by 40 points, in two separate elections. So it’s not like Manchin has never demonstrated a willingness to do…

They’re not on board. They’re Democrats. If Democrats—an identity both Sinema and Manchin officially claim and act like (Manchin, who has probably the Trumpiest constituency in the country, voted twice to convict Trump)—wanted to end the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, whatever, they could, because there are…

There are. There are 50 Democrats (or members who caucus with Democrats) in the Senate. It takes 51 votes to change any of these things. The VP, who casts the tiebreaking vote in the Senate, is a Democrat. 51=51; 51>50. As a reminder, Manchin and Sinema are Democrats. So, if Democrats wanted to, they could change…

Democrats have enough votes to get rid of the filibuster and codify Roe. They have enough votes to expand the Supreme Court. Maybe before focusing our blame on people who, individually, could not have actually changed the outcome of either one of those elections (although I agree it was stupid, frustrating, and…

Hey now, they’re issuing strongly worded statements to the press. Let’s not get all crazy and expect them to take proper legislative measures.

There needs to be a moratorium on Superman goes beserk after Lois is fridged stories.