How Long Will It Take To Vote Out All Republicans

How Long Will It Take To Vote Out All Republicans Are you into this political conflict for the long haul? Look forward to 2028 as the year we see a complete denouncement of the Republican party. We can politically banish their kind.  It will take at least 6 years to do it. Three campaign seasons away from justice. To vote out all Republicans. If Democrats were to win every election from now on,…

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For all the time Republicans spend complaining about the economic struggles faced by everyday Americans, they remain steadfast in their commitment to ensuring major corporations can continue squeezing their customers.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the GOP-controlled House Financial Services Committee voted to advance a bill that would repeal a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that drastically reduces the caps on credit card late fees - from $30-$41 to $8.

The legislation would also repeal the CFPB's ban on automatic adjustment of late fees due to inflation. In the Democratic-controlled Senate, where the bill is expected to fail, a similar repeal measure was introduced by Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — who has recently devoted most of his energy to fawning over Donald Trump — and co-sponsored by 12 other Republicans.

“Credit card companies penalize consumers with exorbitant late fees that far exceed their actual costs, raking in billions of dollars in profits on the backs of those who can least afford it,” said Chuck Bell, advocacy program director for Consumer Reports, in a statement urging Congress to reject the repeal.

According to Republicans on the committee, however, lowering late fees will “harm consumers by shifting costs to responsible consumers who pay on time in the form of higher annual fees and higher interest rates,” while removing incentives for timely payments.”

An analysis published this week by the watchdog group Accountable.US found that Republicans on the committee have “received over $7.9 million from industry groups against this rule and the largest credit issuers.”

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so there's an image making rounds on my dash, sometimes presented sincerely and sometimes being criticized. it's pissing me off, and I'm here to add to the criticism in my own words

sigh.

you know what? let's talk about the trolley problem.

there's a thing about it that's made as endlessly memeable as it's become lately, and it's that on the surface it's very intuitive. one person dying isn't as bad as five people dying, right. why're we calling this a "dillema", again?

the thing is, pulling the lever makes you directly responsible for the one death, and letting the trolley roll on along doesn't. or, well -- does it? that is the question. if you do nothing when you could, because you value your personal honor more -- then are you still, in some sense, responsible for not lowering the death toll? it only seems simple because it's a theorical exercise precisely intended to raise these kinds of questions before someone's staring down an emergency that genuinely requires them to make difficult decisions.

this here, though? it's pretty much the opposite of thinking about one's personal responsibility -- it's wishing it away. this is a gaggle of USamericans saying to Palestine, "your deaths will be tragic, but they're a price I'm willing to pay".

something tells me that the side that says, don't be doing anything reckless, keep your head down and accept the status quo -- is not the side that's advocating for pulling the lever. it's the side that's preparing itself to argue for why it's not really their fault that the trolley killed five people. after all, the glorious lever-pulling revolution hasn't manifested itself out of nowhere just yet, so how would the lever be pulled? I bet you wouldn't really pull a lever at the Walmart if the chips were down, tough-talker.

look -- you have months and months until the election. I'm not asking you to overthrow the US government overnight (but hey, shoot for the moon). all I'm saying is, you're the ones closest to the core. you can throw your lot in. you can do something, anything, no matter how small, no matter how token. there's an infinite amount of ways to be politically active between "firebomb a Walmart" and "just shut up and vote". you can either start asking yourself what you could do -- or you could at least stop pretending like your political apathy is a principled stance.

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

personally i don't see a huge distinction between older people trapped by right wing propaganda that are obsessed with crime rate statistics and twenty something white girls that are obsessed with true crime. but that's my hornet's nest to take a swing at.

Just a reminder that a vote for no one is a vote for the opposition

Okay so. I'm doing some reading on the 2024 presidential candidates because this is the first year that I'm able to vote and I want to know as much as possible. So im on this website, ballotpedia, and tell me why LITERALLY ALL OF THE CANDIDATES SUPPORT ISRAEL?? literally all of them are like "well israel is all good and dandy and has the right to protect thenselves (:" and like??? HELLO?? THEYRE COMITTING GENOCIDE??! I'm so tired of this fucking country good god, we cant even get one cadidate that opposes genocide and war crimes?? What the fuck.

Florida is the America of America

I get so annoyed at people who decide to just not go out and vote because "well the leftist party also sucks". Yes, I agree, but do you know who sucks significantly worse? The right wingers, whose hands you are playing into by deciding to just sit out an election

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maybe I’m just an asshole but man i have little to no sympathy for those  Christian, Republican woman unable to get life-saving abortion services in this post-Dobbs world stories. 

sometimes I truly genuinely forget nuance is dead on the internet and then I have to read people who should be on the same side argue about politics on the internet and I start wanting to bash my head into a wall.

If you look at what happened in Tennessee yesterday and still say "actually both parties are the same and voting is useless and democrats do nothing" you are at best an absolute FUCKING idiot and at worst are actively helping the neo confederate white supremacists who want to control the government and ensure that women and minorities have no part in it and no rights