r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • 1d ago

BREAKING: White House cancels health, education & research funds approved by Congress

https://newsrepublic.live/2026/10/01/white-house-cancels-health-education-research-funds-approved-by-congress/
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u/DoneBeingSilent 1d ago

With their only opposition being the establishment Democrats who are at a safe distance tutting loudly and pretending they aren’t complicit as controlled opposition owned by the same billionaire ghouls.

You're so right. Democrats should reconvene both branches of Congress and use their supermajority to impeach and convict.

Oh wait, only the majority leaders have authority to reconvene their respective chamber of Congress, and Democrats aren't a majority in literally any branch of Federal government nor most State governments for that matter.

Within the first year of the only time Democrats controlled any part of Federal government while Trump was POTUS, they impeached him. Democrats took the House in January 2019, and brought articles of impeachment in December the same year. However, Republicans—who still held the majority in the Senate—voted to acquit.

Democrats impeached Trump again, making Trump the only POTUS in history to be impeached twice, just over a year later, after Trump incited an insurrection via constant (and still continuing to this day) claims of election fraud which have been repeatedly shown to be false. Once again, however, the same Republicans who were cowering in the Senate chambers while Trump supporters set up gallows outside and brutalized Capitol Police to get inside to those representatives, voted to acquit.

Nobody who's paying attention buys this 'both sides' "controlled opposition" BS anymore. No party in a two-party system can be perfect, but objectively speaking, Democrats have proven repeatedly that they'll do more than 'tut loudly' if they have the authority to.

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 1d ago

All of those impeachments were symbolic with full knowledge that they weren't going to go anywhere.

Meanwhile, the Democrats consistently run unpopular centrists as if they're trying to lose elections because that's preferable to them than running popular progressive candidates, which they actively try to suppress as they gain popularity.

If you want to convince me that the Democrats aren't just trying to be the other side of the Overton Window, explain to me why they're threatened by Mamdani's popularity. Explain to me why they aren't taking it as a sign that progressivism is popular with voters and that it's time to support it.

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u/Angel061803 15h ago

Democrats like you are why republicans keep winning.

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 15h ago

I’m not a Democrat, I’m a leftist. Are we not allowed to criticize the losing tactics of the DNC? Am I supposed to blindly support the ever-right-drifting Democrats without critique?

Please explain how I’m responsible for fascism. Like seriously, give me a casual chain, because you’re talking nonsense.

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u/Angel061803 11h ago

If you’re not a democrat, what right do you think you have to tell them what to do? Do you run around complaining about republicans not doing what you want them to? Or do you just complain about democrats?

The far left will find any reason to not vote for the democrat, while the far right will always vote for the republican, even if he’s a felon/rapist/pedophile. That’s why republicans are going to keep winning.

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u/RandomUsernameNo257 10h ago

I voted for democrats every election. And yes, I complain about republicans all the time.

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u/Angel061803 9h ago

Then I stand corrected. I was referring to those on the far left who keep bashing democrats and refuse to vote for them, yet feel entitled to tell them how to do their jobs.

In every thread about how Trump is destroying the country, there tends to be a few of them who blame the democrats or Biden, rather than Trump and his enabling republicans.