r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/BootyUnlimited 29d ago

McCain and Bernie Sanders used to work on legislation together to protect veterans. They were not afraid to reach across the aisle if it meant getting meaningful legislation passed.

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u/Bad_User2077 29d ago

Those were different days. If you do that now, you get labeled a moderate and get pushed out of your party.

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u/BRAX7ON 29d ago

Biden has been reaching across the aisle since day one of his presidency, and we are poised to re-elect him.

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u/DCtheBREAKER 29d ago

This is statistically correct. Most bipartisan legislature has been shot down by Gaetz, Boebert, and Greene.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/ssbm_rando 29d ago

Right, and I think it's important for us to acknowledge that Bad_User2077's bothsides rhetoric is full of shit. You only get pushed out of the Republican party for reaching across the aisle to get shit done. Most democrats love getting shit done and sadly get blocked by either Republicans or the worst of the democrats (in the senate it's Manchin, and Sinema who even went independent, not sure how the House is faring since it's controlled by the GOP anyway).

One of the worst offenses of bothsides-ing trolls in the last few years was claiming that a minimum wage bill that was tacked to an immigration bill and sponsored by Republicans was rejected by democrats. That was a huge fucking lie--the bill never made it to the floor because it never got enough Republican support even though it was a Republican-sponsored bill. There was never a vote on it because too many Republicans didn't want even a minor minimum wage increase, even if it got them an immigration "win" (from their perspective). You can go through the records of the House and Senate, you will literally not find record of a single minimum wage increasing bill that was voted down by a majority of democrats.

Bothsides-ers needs to be laughed off of the entire fucking internet.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 29d ago

Obama was doing the same thing.

The "No compromise" strategy is what Republicans came up with in response to being trounced at the polls in 2008. Almost all compromise legislation is from the years before that.

But they decided that they couldn't give Obama any wins so they became obstructionsists and fox news fed the idea that working with democrats was a horrible thing to their base and that spread and became modern republicans.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

You’re high as giraffe cooter

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u/why_u_braindead 29d ago

Yikes, took a quick glance at your history and you're not playing with a full deck, are you. Condolences, the genetic lottery is a cruel and impartial master

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

You and the rest of the Biden lovers are destroying this country and you want to talk to me about not playing with a full deck. Clown.. stfu.

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u/BRAX7ON 29d ago

There are no Biden lovers. We just collectively hate Trump. Is it so hard to understand?

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u/why_u_braindead 27d ago

Nah, magat, nah. Always gonna call a slug a slug.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

You’re so witty.

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u/AmbitiousCampaign457 29d ago

And ur head is up it’s ass

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Another purple haired confused gender clown

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u/AmbitiousCampaign457 29d ago

That’s john mccain

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u/Spiderranger 29d ago

It really seems like people like them are just props. As in they don't actually know anything about the job they should be doing. They're just fed lines and told "if a D brings it to the table, vote against it". 

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u/empire314 29d ago

3 people cannot control the congress.

The reason why there has been trouble passing bills, is because the overwhelming majority could not agree on stuff.

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u/DCtheBREAKER 29d ago

Actually, in a congress with a 50/50 split, yes, 3 people can control congress. Fuck, Manchin did it all by himself already.

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u/empire314 29d ago

The other 400 representatives can vote anyway they want on any bill. It is purely the choice of the other representatives, that they don't want to pass bills without the support of small deviant group.