In olden times, you’d sound out constituents, gauge support for a bill, then vote. Now, it’s the opposite. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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It’s already been defined. You can see it in the national hatred towards Republicans
aug 30, 2025, 3:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Money speaks louder than constituents do.
aug 30, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Retcon and spin make a fella wealthy, powerful, and wise
aug 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They've learned the value of framing, or, at the extreme end of the scale, lying. We are being destroyed by our own marketing and advertising sales tricks.
aug 30, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Normally I would say that the electorate isn’t going to fall for defining an obvious gift to billionaires at the expense of everyday Americans as being “for the working class” but maga has shown again and again that they will literally buy whatever bullshit trump sells them
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 6 2 • view
Yeah but it’s in the scumbaggy WaPo. They can go rot.
aug 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 3 0 • view
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Fascism relies on lies. bsky.app/profile/carl...
aug 30, 2025, 2:27 pm • 10 4 • view
These new laws might be destroying your lives, but aren't they great?
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope we can vote Hinson out! She doesn’t care about her constituents, only her donors. It’s sad.
aug 30, 2025, 2:23 pm • 2 0 • view
The gaslighting will be off the damn charts! 🤡
aug 30, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump's terrible,horrible, no good, very bad bill.
aug 30, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe people could just read it or run it through ChatGPT to find out how terrible it is.
aug 30, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are SO full of shit! The bill they passed is destructive to everyone in the US except the rich. They ripped to shreds much of the federal government and made the biggest increase in the national debt all for the sake of giving the rich $4 TRILLION!! Unsustainable and MUST BE REVERSED!!
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
As Trump’s tariffs come under legal pressure, the amount of money added to our debt is skyrocketing !
aug 30, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, that’s why they gave the bill a new nickname.
aug 30, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
If the Big Beautiful Bill was so great and worked so well for constituents, these reps wouldn’t have to go to their districts to explain it. Build Back Better was massive investment back into infrastructure, roads, bridges, shovels in ground, spurring construction for the blue collared MAGAs.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 9 0 • view
Strange how common it is to see republicans who vote against democrat bills try to take credit. You won’t see democrats trying to take credit for this dumbass bill- not even republicans want to take credit for it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 8 0 • view
Instead of discussing Republican public relations efforts, maybe the Washington Post should simply describe what the bill does. Just saying!
aug 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet another case of Republicans being the "say any damn thing at all, regardless if it bears any relationship to the truth" party. It's remarkable, really. Trump has taught them well.
aug 30, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Voters believed their lies before the election, will they continue?
aug 30, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
You can insist all day long that a steaming pile is chocolate ice cream, but the stench still won't go away.
aug 30, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, and Big Macs are health food.
aug 30, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
still smells like shit so it is still shit.
aug 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
In olden times, the headline would be telling the actual truth to your readership not suggesting that the spin is, in fact, the news.
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah, but that was back when politicians flip-flopped and had no backbone. We wanted ideologues who would not change their actions no matter how unpopular and that's what we got.
aug 30, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Liars = current Republicans holding office!
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
if publications like WaPoo did their job it wouldn’t even matter
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Resist the stupidity, racism, and fascism of the Felon and MAGA! Oppose welfare for wealthy - tax cuts for billionaires! Vote out every conservative, from the city, county, state and all!
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
This points to an important difference between the parties. Republicans lead opinions of their base, while Democrats respond to it. In the abstract, that may be more democratic, but politically it’s a problem because Democrats don’t seem to stand for anything.
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I actually don't think this is true anymore, at least not on the level of individual bills. And I don't mean this as an attack on Democrats, because things have changed such that you have to do *something* (even good somethings!) within a year or so after getting power, or you may not be able to.
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The canonical modern example is the ACA. Democrats pushed it through without getting public approval for every detail, because they had <2 years. And the shitty public punished them for it, even though it was a vast if imperfect upgrade.
aug 30, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
The ACA is an anomaly. 2 factors affected public opinion. 1) For budgetary reasons it didn’t take effect for 4 years. 2) Lieberman’s duplicity prevented the inclusion of a public option which would have broadly lowered costs. Overall, I still think Dems are hurt by consultant-driven politics.
aug 30, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I think infrastructure bill and IRA are examples too, albeit less stark. There may have been a broad public sentiment for improving infrastructure (just as there was for improving healthcare), but it was still a case of, we need to pass this and then sell to the public that it was good...
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
...because you can't get the public to support policy details in advance; it will take too long if it can be done at all. Now, I'm not drawing a moral equivalence here! The Dem bills were broadly good and the Repub ones broadly evil. Just saying the superficial procedural similarity exists, imo.
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I view infrastructure as illustrative of my point. Despite its broad popularity, Repugs opposed it in Trump’s first term even though he supported it. And partially because of their ambivalence, the Biden bill, although valuable, was too small given the country’s glaring needs.
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
So they continue with massive tax cuts for the rich as the commonweal declines for lack of adequate funding.
aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view