Democrats Introduce Bill To More Than Triple The Minimum Wage

Yay! Public masturbation instead of actually fucking doing something. What happened to impeaching the shit stain that keeps desecrating the constitution?

It's "not a top priority".

What happened to impeaching the shit stain that keeps desecrating the constitution?

A basic understanding of arithmetic and calendars...

Who was saying wed impeach before midterms?

Trying to do that, wouldn't change anyone's mind.

Trying to do this, something most Americans want, forces Republicans and neoliberals to go against it, which hurts them in primaries/mid terms.

If you don't understand why people are doing something, just ask bro.

That's how we learn.

No... a basic understanding that they're bought and paid for by the same billionaires and always follow their masters' orders. There is no chance in hell that this will happen at all and meanwhile they're changing the subject from Epstein and Iran to this. Fucking shills... every single one of them.

There is no chance in hell that this will happen at all

I know...

I just explained why it still matters...

There is no chance in hell that this will happen at all and meanwhile they’re changing the subject from Epstein and Iran to this

1. In your mind people can care about more than one issue, but no more than two at once?

2. As we've both said, Dems don't have the votes. And I think we agree that not all Dems would vote with us if it came to it... So what do you think they can do about the other 2 issues? Wouldn't we want to highlight as many of Republicans failures as possible in case not all voters agree about the other two?

They complain that Dems don't do anything. We say they don't have the votes.

Dems try to do something. They complain that Dems tried to do something.

It's almost like these people don't really care what the Dems do or don't do. It's almost like their goal isn't to improve the Democratic party, but that they have some other agenda.

They can get off of their collective fucking asses - every single one of them - and not say anything about anything except Epstein and the Iran war every single day, 24 hours per day and force the narrative to be that Trump is a pedophile and treason-weasel who should be treated as such. They could do almost anything that isn't another version of sucking his balls.

How DARE they Show voters what to Expect if PROGRESSIVES win a Majority!

-People who will DISAPPEAR after the Midterms!

And pin it to an inflation index maybe?

4 hours per day and force the narrative to be that Trump is a pedophile and treason-weasel who should be treated as such

We tried that, it's not enough...

Dem voters need something to vote for.

Even the DNC realized this over a year ago man...

They could do almost anything that isn’t another version of sucking his balls.

I mean, this isn't sucking his balls...

So we're cool here now, right?

You see the value in this?

They pinned it to median income.

Pin it to congressional compensation.

I mean...

For the last 30-50 years, "the dnc is working against us" was valid...

It's just at no point does anyone teach people how our political system works. People know enough to know it's stupid, but if it was possible to change the system from the outside, Bernie would have tried it by now. Or any of the people that keep trying would have succeeded by now.

The only way to beat the system, is thru the system.

Right now we have a level playing field at the party level, that's fucking huge.

And if that lets a progressive to the general and into the oval, they get to name the next DMC chair.

The reason there's such a big push against the DNC, is if progressives grab the reigns, we'll hold them for decades. A constant cycle where progressives keep winning and keep controlling the party, decades (if ever) for Republicans to recover post trump.

We're so fucking close. And as much as people point out the bad parts of history repeating, we're coming up on FDR. And that's the real reason the rich are scared.

It will definitely increase inflation.

It wouldn't be a major priority for me, either.

Impeachment is a formal accusation of wrongdoing. It doesn't remove the President from office.

To remove a President, first you need to impeach him (simple majority in the House) and then you need to pass a vote to convict in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds supermajority.

Trump was already impeached twice. On neither occasion was he convicted.

As things stand, that Senate vote to convict will almost certainly fail. That will also almost certainly be the case even after the midterms.

So the impeachment would act as something of a formal condemnation, but unless you're really into symbolic gestures, it's probably not the most-important thing. It doesn't alter the balance of power or do much to Trump.

What having a House majority will do is let the Democrats conduct investigations, and they probably should do that. If the Trump administration has been doing sufficiently-sketchy things that previously hadn't been turned up and they turn it up, that might get enough votes in the Senate. But absent new information, impeachment isn't going to have much real impact.

Pin it to the sum of all campaign contributions and congretional "gifts".

Only if that includes what they make from all sources. I could see them being bribed into reducing their pay and framing it as a selfless move for bucket-crab voters. Their new owners will make the investment back as soon as employee pay gets adjusted back down.

Lifting millions out of poverty wages isn't "masturbation". Wealth inequality can be traced to several problems within the country, and can be directly linked to several factors leading to the election of Trump.

It's a great move and these are bills that need to be introduced frequently by dems right now. When people say "Yeah, but what can they do". This. This is what they can do. Introducing these messaging bills for republicans to vote again and then grand standing on how republicans won't do anything to help the working class.

But dems must follow through. Minimum wage is the prefect example of where they should follow through. Attach it to a budget bill and when the parliamentarian says "not allowed" tell them to F off and push it through anyways. Just as the republicans have already done several times since they took control. Or blow up the filibuster. Either is an acceptable act for when dems get power. But they must deliver.

If dems operate like they did in Biden term 1 or Obama term 1, they'll be sunk in 2032.