• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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    Yes but if Trump is forced to veto then Congress is left again to reconsider how badly they want this to stop. We need congress to grow a pair of balls and this is apparently how it will be done.

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      If anybody powerful enough was ever going to stop this with nonviolence, it would have happened already.

      They expect this to happen. It’s part of the process. It’s just more guidance on who to purge and who to villify in the media. It’ll have the same effect as the children who begged Trump to stop raping them.

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      We need congress to grow a pair of balls and this is apparently how it will be done.

      The Republicans control both houses of Congress; even the best case midterm scenario wouldn’t give the Democrats enough votes to override a veto.

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        Technically the ABSOLUTE best case, in which Dems pick up every single Senate seat (which would probably translate to the requisite 2/3 in the House) they have the barest of margins to do so.

        But then let’s talk about our Fetterman problem…

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          Technically the ABSOLUTE best case, in which Dems pick up every single Senate seat (which would probably translate to the requisite 2/3 in the House) they have the barest of margins to do so.

          The realistic best case scenario—particularly after Republican-slanted gerrymandering—won’t be a two-thirds majority in the house, and definitely won’t be a two-thirds majority in the senate.