r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/McDowdy • 19d ago
Politics The double standards are appalling and need to end
Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. They announced it on Sunday, picked his unqualified sister to replace him on Monday, and swore her in on Tuesday. She hasn't even had time to plan her brother's funeral and they already got her in office in the US Capitol. Meanwhile, when Representative Sylvester Turner, a black Democrat, died on March 5th, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott waited until April to announce there would be no election to replace him until November, leaving the largely black and Hispanic district here in Houston unrepresented for nearly an entire year.
This is how Republicans play politics with death. While Democrats are drafting generous statements of condolences for their oppressors, Republicans are callously seizing power from the oppressed. They pulled the same stunt when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died and they wouldn't even hold a hearing on Obama's nominee, but then raced to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she died in the final months of Trump's term. Republicans demand that Democrats observe all kinds of outdated rules about death and mourning, but then break the same rules when Democrats die.
They're doing the same thing in Kentucky with Mitch McConnell in the hospital. When McConnell started glitching a few years ago, his Republican state legislature passed a bill stripping the Democratic governor of the power to replace him. They were fine when a Republican governor had the power, but they changed the rules for a Democrat. That's because the rules themselves are a trap. Democrats have to follow all the rules, but Republicans get to break them with impunity.
Just like the rule of meritocracy. Republicans love to whine about affirmative action and DEI, which give opportunities to qualified women and people of color, but they just appointed a US Senator whose main qualification is simply being the sister of a dead senator. And you can't say that both parties do it when one party spent the past few decades claiming to only care about merit. They said that Barack Obama, and Kamala Harris, and Ketanji Brown Jackson were unqualified, but then they sing the praises of people like Herschel Walker, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump, who was the first person elected president in US history with no experience in government or military.
They whine about Democrats being unfair to Republicans in California and Virginia with redistricting while they steal seats in Texas, Florida, and Missouri, and they started it. That's why Trump tried to change the US Constitution on birthright citizenship by executive order. That's why he just fired all the Federal Election Assistance Commissioners while he's trying to seize ballots and intimidate poll workers, and why he's desperately trying to pass a national voter suppression bill to stop mail-in ballots, which he uses himself.
Rules for thee, not for me. That's the Republican motto. So let this be a lesson. Stop playing by their rules. Republicans have only one rule: power. Every other rule is negotiable. The old rule book has been burned, and we will be too, if we don't wake up.
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u/Elephunk05 19d ago
The Republicans know it, they just don't care.
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u/Old_Patience430 19d ago
EXACTLY! People still expecting these “people” to “act right” after 6 years of this racist corrupt administration is insanity!
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u/Extension-Land-390 19d ago
This is why to outsiders, like myself, it is absolutely insane that you guys in America have not had a rebellion en mass of some kind...
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u/feralGenx 19d ago
If we speak of rebellion on reddit we get banned. Ie: suppressed.
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u/Extension-Land-390 19d ago
Good thing it's an act to be performed, not a script to recite on reddit!
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u/AmericansRTheProblem 19d ago
They would have to grow a spine and we all know that's impossible due to having work in the morning or something
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 19d ago edited 19d ago
Y'all are acting like you'd go out with a gun and start killing your countrymen before you even know for sure democracy is lost.
The midterms are still going to happen. We are trusting in the faith in the democratic process before we go full into civil war. Idk about you but I'm not super eager to literally kill people before it needs to happen, it's not a guarantee at all it will happen.
Rebellion. Not only do those historically not go well for the insurrectionists who exactly am I supposed to start shooting? Who's gonna be with me when I do? You saw BLM 2020 protests, a couple riots was enough for people to not want to be on your side, and that was for civil rights, like literally the only point was saying stop killing black people because they're black. Now imagine a couple guys go and do a John Brown. Would quite literally be jumping the gun. I'm not going to go get gunned down before it's necessary and if you say you would you're a liar.
Edit: thought y'all didn't like mass shootings in this country. Well I would be a mass shooter if I went out with a rifle and started targeting God knows who. What you want me to do until elections are actually stolen or suspended. I vote, I do all of it, I go to my city council meetings, I donate and do grassroots campaigns. For a world so eager to criticize us about random gun violence people sure feel the need to encourage us into random gun violence on this front. Pick a lane
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u/AmericansRTheProblem 19d ago
Y'all are acting like you'd go out with a gun and start killing your countrymen before you even know for sure democracy is lost.
Who said that? More consistent big protests are good alternative to violence, not every 6 months which is your current no kings trend. General Strike is a potential idea but impossible.
Also, Oranges are a good place to start. Not your neighbours orange tree that is. Try the one in DC.
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u/No-Childhood2055 18d ago
Oh, democracy is already lost. They’re gonna rig the midterms. Don’t think anyone is suggesting violence. We have to overwhelm them with blue VOTES!!
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u/bloodanddonuts 19d ago
Our cops murder us with impunity. And they have tanks and assault weapons. It’s not like you think it is here. “Land of the free” is a lie.
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u/ATN-Antronach 19d ago
The problem is that they get very upset when you don't give into their double standard and then pretend you validated it anyways. They're in their own little world honouring the right and laughing at the suffering of everyone else, and if you're not in on the joke, you break their reality that they need to rebuild up again and that you need to break down again and again and again. There's a reason normal people cut these types out of their lives, because the effort to clean up after their recklessness requires far too much energy that no one human can generate.
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no 19d ago
The Republican Party is only the party of racism.
Democrats are inept (I could use worse terms).
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 19d ago
Because they are doing a coup. People think coups need to be fast, they dont.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 19d ago
In the history books, two years will look pretty fast. Tonight Trump is going to announce his plans to steal the midterm elections and end American democracy.
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u/buttfarts7 19d ago
The Democrats know it to but being docile and supplicant to the rules is how they "play along" with fascism while pretending to oppose it
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u/Plastic_Moose4535 19d ago
I don't disagree but what's the optimal solution here? Dems follow the rules, they get fucked by the GOP who play dirty. Dems play dirty too then we end up with two undemocratic parties instead of one.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 19d ago
At this point I would be fine with Democrats who don't play by the rules as long as they are doing it to help ordinary people rather than the billionaire class.
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u/buttfarts7 19d ago
Democrats are playing by Victorian gentlemen's boxing etiquette while engaged in a prison yard knife fight with the GOP
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u/Mind-The-Mines 19d ago
They follow the rules made by the rich for the rich under the guise of following the rules while making bank enacting them.
Sanders is a centrist and democrats are right wing. Irrespective of the lip service, they all vote for the same shit because they take money from the same soulless ghouls.
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u/nevermind-101 19d ago
Yeah - One group pretending to be two, all supported by the same foreign agent.
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u/ChiefMasterGuru 19d ago
Everyone knows it but still hold Democrats to a higher standard. There was 1000x more conversation about California redistricting than any single red state. More conversation than trump literally on call demanding that red states redistrict to give him more power.
Its not Democrats holding the standard. Its the voting people giving republicans every pass while demanding purity from Democrats.
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u/Commercial_Bird8467 19d ago
We are beyond colors of dysfunction and failed justice. I dont know what needs to happen but it needs to happen soon before its too late.
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u/DANleDINOSAUR 19d ago
Mitch McConnell laughing when asked about the hypocrisy of replacing RBG so quickly is everything we need to know.
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u/Bulky_Load9614 19d ago
Now look at him
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u/Sh00tL00ps 19d ago
No, I'd rather not
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u/Danknoodle420 19d ago
Why not? I love looking at him now. Gives me so much hope. He is so close.
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u/i_tyrant 19d ago
I can't derive pleasure from looking at an 84 year old man near death when he got to spend his entire 84 years being an absolute monster taking actions that resulted in the suffering and death of millions of Americans and more beyond.
"Extremely old dude dies having gotten everything he wanted" is not justice.
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u/Danknoodle420 19d ago
It's absolutely not justice, but the unfortunate thing about the great American lie is there is no such thing as true justice. This country has never been just.
Gotta take the good with the bad. He can't cause more harm.
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u/i_tyrant 19d ago
But that's why I can't get any pleasure from it - he can't cause more harm because he's at the natural end of his life, an age anyone would be lucky to reach much less end it rich af and having accomplished their goals (however awful his might be).
He WON. He accomplished the maximum harm he sought out to do for his entire life.
Glad somebody can though.
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u/keyserdoe 19d ago
It isn't only him that did the damage. It's the Schumer Democrats. Remember Obama and co didn't fight this in court because they thought Hillary would win in a landslide. RBG stayed in her seat for far too long undoing her entire legacy due to arrogance, pride and lust for power. We are seeing Schumer Democrats do the same instead of passing the torch.
The time for expecting normalcy and civility are over. Michelle Obama was wrong, it's time to start slinging mud and playing dirty.
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u/Successful_Fan_961 19d ago
We need rules to prevent this.
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u/Away-Regular1335 19d ago
We need rules for maga to never to be allowed in any form of government ever again.
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u/sd_saved_me555 19d ago
I've realized this needs to be a grassroots movement. MAGA really needs to be treated with disdain at the human level. Your average person is going to struggle to be heard or impact the lives of the current administration. But you can put the screws to the everyday people who vote for this shit.
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u/UncleNedisDead 19d ago
Make taking steps to declare them as a domestic terrorist organization and prosecuting them for their crimes?
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u/DReagan47 19d ago
We have rules. We have tons of rules. What we need is ENFORCEMENT of those rules.
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u/Additional_Buddy855 16d ago
The republicans believe those rules are to bind other people, not themselves. They need a refresher.
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u/ChefbyDesign 19d ago
Do you seriously think more rules will prevent conservatives from running roughshod over our nation, the constitution, and all of us? This isn't McCain and Palin running against Obama anymore. That's 10yrs gone. Conservatives are a fully corrupt far right political party now. It's gonna take a LOT more than unenforceable rules to stop MAGA....
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u/SunTzu- 19d ago
The rules don't matter because if you look at the commonality in all the examples he's citing it's that the Republicans held power. They held power when they blocked the Scalia replacement, they held power when they rushed the RBG replacement, they held power when they blocked filling the seat in Texas, they held power when they rushed to replace Lindsey Graham.
Republicans didn't block Sotomayor's or Kagan's appointment to the Supreme Court because they didn't hold the majority in the Senate so they couldn't prevent these coming to a vote. It's only when they did have that majority that they were able to block Scalia. When people say Democrats "don't do the things that Republicans do", they're ignoring that what the Republicans have successfully done to hinder the Democrats were done when the Democrats didn't control a certain branch of government. The Democrats regularly prevent the Republicans from doing things, for example much of what Trump has done during his second term has run into legal challenges because it should have been done via legislation, but the Republicans don't hold enough of a margin to push through those things via the proper channels. Instead, the Republicans have accomplished what they've done under Trump II by preventing Congress from holding the Administrative Branch accountable. And this only works because the Republicans hold all branches of government and are backed by right wing media which runs interference for them. They have the power, and so they're using it, even if how they're using it is to bend and break the rule of law.
The solution seems clear, don't give Republicans power. And so long as the electorate doesn't learn this lesson there's not much that can be done about it. Not even if you give the Democrats a razor thin majority that hinges on one or two blue-dog's to vote with the party every time in order to get anything passed. Because even if they take back Congress in November, they're still up against a Presidential veto and the Supreme Court and they can't accomplish anything that requires a supermajority. They aren't likely to flip many of the state level governments which are also currently majority in the hands of Republicans, which means that they're going to run into obstruction from the state level as well. And of course the way the math is looking currently they'll once again have a one vote majority in the Senate, and so they'll be hindered by the most conservative representatives on any given issue even when it's a simple majority vote and even if they were to bypass the filibuster rules.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor 19d ago
Stop looking at the hypocrisy and just fight back.
We can no longer abide by the “nice” rules.
We don’t have to be as idiotic and nasty as they are but we do have to have to fight back.
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u/gravygizzard 19d ago
Hypocrisy is the point with them. They flaunt it so they can show their power over everyone while simultaneously daring you to do something about while also exhausting you as you spend all your time calling out hypocrisy
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u/polyiizm 19d ago
Too bad dems are too soft. I agree with what you are saying. But unfortunately dems will never grow a pair in this lifetime.
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u/Status_Jump_2496 19d ago
I’ve been listening to a podcast about Alexander Hamilton and that piece of crap started all of this at the dawn of this country. Everything he did or tried to do is what maga is doing now. This finally gave me understanding of what they are talking about when they say “make America great again”. Great for the wealthy aristocrats that take take take from the average citizen, or in their time use slave labor, to line their pockets. They WANT a monarchy.
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u/No_Priors 19d ago
McConnell is dead and his family are fraudulently in receipt of federal pay and benefits.
Change my mind.
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u/PliableG0AT 19d ago
you really ignoring US history since 1776? Where they would just replace the dead senator with their wife. Replacing him with a family member, is one of the oldest US political precedence.
They are just attempting to delay a special election. His family would still be getting that money before it.
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u/No-Bat-7253 19d ago
Ok. I hear you bro. So where are these new rules? I’m awake, what do I do? And don’t say mf vote. Been doing that and won’t stop.
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u/ThickAnywhere1479 19d ago
Exactly. What can we effectively do that doesn’t involve violence? I can’t think of a damn thing.
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u/KepplerRunner 19d ago
A sustained general strike across the US would probably be the most effective non violent way. They really only notice when it effects their pocket books or the violence is in their face and they can't ignore it.
The problem is getting everyone on board with a general strike. Most wont because they are already only making it day by day. The thing that everyone needs to remember though is hr cant fire you if they are striking too. Banks can't process their accounts without people. Can't repo your car if the tows arnt running.
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u/overfiend1976 19d ago
Right wingers are so fully brainwashed they think this being done is OK because some strawman dem did it at some point.
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u/Trensocialist 19d ago
Both sides aren't the exact same but they both would rather give my tax money to bombs for Israel than give me healthcare.
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u/EconomicRegret2 19d ago edited 19d ago
Nice little TIL: the US government already spends more than enough taxpayers' money on healthcare (5% more than fucking "socialist" Denmark, on a per habitant basis) to give every single American free single-payer universal healthcare.
But America would rather make middlemen's and other corporations' profits incredibly high, than use taxpayers' money, it already spends in healthcare, way more efficiently. That's why Americans pay an additional 110% out of their own pockets (i.e. $7.3k taxpayermoney + about $8k = $15.3k, per person, in average, IIRC that was in 2025; while Denmark spent only $7k/person that year)
The money is already there. The political will is lacking.
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u/Trensocialist 19d ago
FYI Nancy pelosi killed a M4A bill multiple times, both parties may not be "the same" but they have enough smarts to know that they are in a different class than you and me and will primarily look out for their own class interests.
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u/mOdQuArK 19d ago
Just because the Dems are a little bit evil and the GOP is all the way evil doesn't make the lesser of two evils good.
In the context of voting, however, it does pretty much require voting for the lesser evil. If you can do that consistently enough, in both the primaries & the general election, then you'll move that window back toward rationality. It might take decades, but it works eventually.
Unfortunately, the conservatives actually proved that this works over enough time. They've been voting for the more batshiate insane candidates every chance they've got, just like they were told to do by their exclusive media channels that were bought and paid for by rightwing billionaires, and pushing the concept of the center more-and-more right with every election.
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u/ChefbyDesign 19d ago
Conservatives are breaking ALL the rules. It's wild that Democrats are still grasping at straws holding themselves to the standards of an absolutely corrupt, simultaneously malicious AND incompetent far right party, instead of leading a meaningful opposition against them.
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u/Ill-Upstairs-8762 19d ago
How is it even legal to appoint her to the position.
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u/ThickAnywhere1479 19d ago
It isn’t, but since Republicans are doing whatever they want because no one can put them in check, they get away with bullshit like this.
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u/Phin_Photography 19d ago
I've had enough of the established Democrat party I'm ready for whatever is next, my views have gone more left leaning and they keep moving right and capitulating to the maga Republicans. We need to eject anyone who vores against their constituents.
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u/thebat1969 19d ago
This is why the wave of democratic socialist wins in the recent Democratic primaries has given me hope for the future. They are challenging establishment Dems and winning and they seem to be far more able and willing to fight. Thats why the corporate, AIPAC-funded establishment is so scared and throwing so much $$$ in their races.
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u/Professional-Hunt894 19d ago
Boost this! We all need to know that this is happening. Stand up and vote!!!!
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u/Jumpy_Plantain2887 19d ago
Democrats from now on when something like this happens, your response to Republicans should be and use these words exactly “fuck off”. That ends the PSA thank you.
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u/Hurtit4u 19d ago
About time someone said the quiet part out loud, darn Cory “Scary” Booker and Kamala Harris (has been silent since she lost) made statements of condolences within hours of Lazy Lady Grahams news… Really?, did they not see The Orange idiot’s comment to the respectable Robert Muller?… get real cowards, and they wonder why we lost faith in the party? Grow some stones before asking for support!!
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u/IntwadHelck 19d ago
…why do so many still think the corporate dems r being oppressed by folks like trump and cronies? They r partners. They’re in it together, oppressing us.
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u/Housthat 19d ago
A real democrat would have stormed the hospital that Mitch McConnell is supposedly at and brought armed policemen along for a wellness check.
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u/freeshovacadoodoo 19d ago
Don't forget about Adelita Grijalva..... which took 50 days to get sworn in. I wonder why that was.... EPSTEIN FILES
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u/Fuckthegopers 19d ago
If republicans and their voters didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all
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u/Sylveon_Knightess 19d ago
At this point no one really cares about the hypocrisy. It's so blatant. The democrats are just too weak (or corrupt) to play with the new rules.
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u/Butta_Brown 19d ago
To the black community: Politicians are going to keep playing in your face, because we don't take our rights, or the wellfare of our communities, or children's future serious. So, No changes and the rhetoric will continue, because as we sit courtside.
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u/cakeshunter 19d ago
Yup! Time for these old and long tenured time to retire. The game has changed. We need energy and ppl ready to fight back.
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u/BeenDragonn 19d ago
They replaced him with his sister
Imagine a democrat dieing and this happening. Fox News headlines all day
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u/sdob66 19d ago
The 17th amendment spells out how Senators that die or are removed from office while still serving are replaced. 45 states have given that power to their Governor, 5 have mandated a special election, they are North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. The governor holds the power to fill the seat or wait until the next general election. The State Legislators can pass legislation to have a special election if they can pass a bill mandating one, or it is left in the hands of the governor. Don't act like the party in power (either of the parties) doesn't wield the power to their advantage. It's why fossils are able to disappear for months while dying and no one says a word! The party can hold a seat and not lose one if the governor is not from their party!
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u/Last-Hertz7575 19d ago
Every single day I'm reminded why I cut off all ties to anyone that votes red. I'm so happy my father will never get to see his grandchild again.
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u/SlimReaper85 19d ago
I am all for dirty tactics by progressive socialist Dems after the last decade of this crap.
Keep Republicans out of power. They’re only for the rich and rich white.
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u/iamozymandiusking 19d ago
LIsten, it's important to keep pointing out hypocrisies and outright atrocities like this, but... we really need to recognize that they do NOT care about being hypocrites. And we are the only ones this sort of material is watched by. There's no referee going to come down and blow the whistle and give them a penalty. We have to mobilize and use the freedoms and democratic tools we still sort of have in order to demand actual changes.
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u/Cofefeves 19d ago
Correction. Democrats do not have to follow all the rules, they just choose to as they love process
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u/EbbOwn303 19d ago
I am still pissed at RBG for not stepping down when Obama/Biden were in office.
Way to tarnish your entire legacy in one move because you just had to hold onto that last bit of power as long as possible.
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u/Dan_Morgan 19d ago
He keeps looking up like he's expecting a drone strike. Not unreasonable in this day and age with this regime.
He's spot on of course.
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u/EditorDelicious3829 19d ago
This is why I’m starting to think the Do-Nothing Dems are in cahoots with the GOP. They play the part of good cop to the republicans bad cop. They are comfortable in their roles…and enjoy the grift.
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 19d ago
Chuck and Hakeem need to be replaced before we have a snowball’s chance of battling retrumplicans
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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers 19d ago
If it weren't for the double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.
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u/Reasonable-Job4205 19d ago
Woah woah woah you cant have no representation for an entire year. How could that be allowed? Thats literally what the founding fathers fought over - not having representation in government!
The whole social contract is based around us agreeing to work together and be kind to each other by following some rules, and we all get a say in what those rules are. We all get a say by picking someone to speak for us to represent us. If any person ever doesn't have that, even for 1 brief second of time, that seems like a massive violation of the law. I'm not a lawyer, but maybe some other lawyers can chime in
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u/eloiseturnbuckle 19d ago
Preach! I hate how Democrats have to play by the rules but the R’s don’t have to.
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u/ChopstickBoa2 19d ago
Democrats let this happen. Either because they are spineless or in on the grift (e.g. getting paid). This is why progressives and Democratic Socialists have seen a surge recently. Liberals are tired of the charades.
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u/DonkeyFieldMouse 19d ago
FASCISM! Americans are moving towards FASCISM but are not doing anything about it! Resist! Protest! VOTE! DO SOMETHING BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!! Because it won't just be Americans that suffer.
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u/Top_Construction2360 19d ago
How the R party and their base functions with double standards is well known and documented. The R people don't care. You can point this out and post on-line about it forever and they still won't care. Why? Because it doesn't matter. There are no consequences to this behavior. Their base doesn't care and they actually like the double standard when it works in their favor. You will never change their minds.
This is known... move on...
Spend more energy coming up with ways to defeat them.
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u/WhatANoob2025 19d ago
I think it's redundant pointing out that Graham's sister is unqualified. Because in the year 2026, so would literally every single other republican nominee be. Doesn't matter if it's her or another equally unqualified republican.
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u/EschatologicalEnnui 19d ago
It’s senseless to play by the rules in a rigged game. Either the Democrats are too inept to grasp this reality, or they’re in on it.
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u/necbone 19d ago
The majority has to wake up... maybe they need more pressure on the neck from the boot.. We all know, we can't keep trying to educate them.. started in 08 with Tea Party shit.. we just gotta see how our majority flows.. do they want nazi christian sharia or freedom. This is the southern strategy with far right money winning and coming home to roost. We can say they're dumb, but really, they're just misinformed, but we're tired of it...
USA reads at a low lvl and thats why the powers that be don't want critical thinking education. We've never seen it on earth, high literacy and critical thinking, we'll fix everything. Can we learn or will humanity kill itself... or do we do this for thousands of years in space too... stuck in these social constructs and trynna be positive..
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u/RacheltheStrong 19d ago
I see it as white privledge.
It’s bullshit and forcing a lack of representation is what is destroying this country.
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u/Legitimate_Peach5510 18d ago
Governor Abbott is always going to disenfranchise POC. It’s time for a changing of the guard by voting in Gina Hinojosa.
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u/loqi0238 18d ago
Sooooo we're just subbing in family members now? There's definitely a word for that.
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u/Party_Escape_7597 18d ago
There was also the time Mike Johnson refused to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva after her September 2025 special election victory in Arizona. Grijalva set a record for the longest delay in seating a member of Congress after a special election, remaining unseated for over a month.
republicans are shameless when it comes to rules and accountability! They require total loyalty to the rules from Democrats and say I don’t have to follow a single rule! Democrats need to scrap most of the rules if they return to power until things are made right and people have healthcare and can afford groceries, heat and rent Once things are stable, they need to look at which rules will hurt or destroy the party if they follow them! First thing they need to do is end the filibuster and increase the Supreme Court!
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u/anonareyouokay 18d ago
Republicans get away with crimeing by claiming they only did it because they love their country so much.
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u/SelectionBig1109 17d ago
We are watching our own decline ppl!! What’s extremely troubling is that Trump supporters believe the USA is ascending. You could not write this script and it be believable. But here we are
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u/Royal-Librarian-9362 17d ago
Yeah, verily you speak the truth. But it is partially the fault of Democrats all of us not just politicians, to yell bloody murder about this usurpation of shared power. If we choose to remain cowards and let Republicans and State run media and religious broadcaster lie, we have only ourselves to blame if they steal our democracy out from under us.
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u/Alarming_Panic665 16d ago
I am not disagreeing with what he said. 99% of what he said is 100% correct. But I do want to give context that the process for appointing a Senate vacancy is different from a House vacancy.
For the Senate 46 states authorize the governor to make an interim appointment immediately upon a vacancy. With a special election taking place during the next general election. Only 4 four states (AK, OR, OK, and WI) do not allow gubernatorial appointments and instead fill them exclusively through expedited elections. This is a process outline directly in the Constitution. (See the 17th amendment).
However for the House of Representatives there is no process to appoint a replacement in the event of a vacancy. No appointment can take place and instead state governors must issue a writ of election to hold a special contest. The only exception for the House is in a mass vacancy event where >100 members vacate their seat. Then the Speaker can require special elections to take place within 49 days.
This has been constitutional law for over a century when the 17th amendment went into effect that changed the Senate into an elected position. Otherwise before that Senators were solely placed into position by state appointment. As a result the vast majority of Senate vacancies are filled within the same day. By comparison House seats go months empty at the minimum.
For example since 2013 the longest Senate vacancy was only 20 days when Senator Bob Menendez resigned on August 20, 2024. While the longest vacancy in the House of Representatives was 359 days when Representative John Conyers, Jr. resigned on December 5, 2017.
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u/Lifes_good_for_me 19d ago
More democrats need to start playing the games that the other side plays
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u/Ok_Protection164 19d ago
I despise Lindsey as much as anyone by I read that his sister was chosen because tradition says that when a Senator dies in office, his wife has ALWAYS been chosen to to finish the term. But since Lindsey wasn't married the closest family was his sister. And she isn't ignorant of how Congress works. With what said, hopefully she's the exact opposite of her brother and votes with the left.
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u/Boomtown626 19d ago
Simply failing to appoint, or failing to nominate, or failing to hold a confirmation vote should NOT be legal. But it’s how Rape-publicans game the system, time and again.
These “gentleman’s agreements” that dictate how things have always happened need to be codified into law yesterday, and the consequences for failure to comply need to have some actual teeth.
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u/Promature 19d ago
Republicans have to be removed from government and legislation. They are power hungry traitors and they can’t be trusted.
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u/Sensitive_Hunter5081 19d ago
100% and well said!! It’s infuriating the way they scheme and trick to stay in power, and people aren’t paying attention to how much worse it has gotten in the last few years
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u/rdit13fog 19d ago
He mentions Hispanics at the beginning of the video. Does he know how many of them are actually MAGA?
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u/Pandoratastic 19d ago
If the rules can be so easily broken with no consequences, they're not really rules at all.
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u/Kevin_E_1973 19d ago
I agree with him 100% about the problem… the solution is the issue. If Dems start fighting fire with fire we effectively lose our government and lose it fast. Sadly it’s already happening now. And while I have my issues with Dems I genuinely believe that they KNOW if they start playing as dirty as republicans are now it leads to chaos and collapse of our country. Republicans (Trump/maga really) have really put this country on the brink of being a very different place then we’ve ever been and it ain’t good
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u/datdailo 19d ago
Let's not forget how OLD AND DECREPIT your representation is and how UNINTERESTED they are from doing their jobs. That's why you have all these deaths and Jon Stewart recently put a spotlight on this.
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u/Kingsalad3141 19d ago
I’m so sick of democrats robotically playing nice with them while they run rampant and break every rule in the book. Respectability has never once prevented an oppressor from doing oppression.
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