Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants
by FollowingTheDao on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:16AM
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Exactly. There is no need for fascism because there is no left opposing him. That is what people do not understand. We have corporate government that will be dictating your lives and you are focused on Trump and not the Oligarchs that control everything.
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They lack the numbers. And it seems everyone is frightened by everyone else's obsequiousness towards borderline illegal orders.
Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants
by nozzlegear on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:00PM
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What would a hypothetical "left" do differently than the current Democrats? Assuming this "left" is similarly handicapped like the Democrats are, having just lost control of the House, Senate and White House?
Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants
by mrguyorama on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:46PM
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You don't get to blame the Democrats anymore. They were voted out in November, and are no longer in power in any way.
There is no "opposition" power structure in the US system.
If congress brings a bill to a vote, democrats can threaten to filibuster it, but the GOP can pretty easily call that bluff right now.
That's it. That's the only "power" a minority party has in the US system.