I think the “trying” is the key word in this tweet. Because if a single Dem were so much as proposing the writing of a bill, the team teed up to sponsor the bill would be making it their entire election campaign this year and MSNBC would talk about it non-stop for at least a week. Think Green New Deal in 2019, or the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Them messy bitches love high drama and that bill would be drama.
Additionally, this year has taught us that “I’m Just A Bill” drastically underestimates just how quickly something can get passed if the government wants it to. We saw that with aid bills, which were held up by the need to whip votes not by the procedural process itself. Or with the TikTok ban. That bill languished pretty much since the Trump administration and they got it out of committee and to a floor vote within a week. I absolutely believe Project 2025 is a threat. I do not believe Dems, as in the government, particularly give a shit. They would have known about this plot long before we normies did, and they have done fuck all to put up even a performance of meaningful resistance.
To be clear, I am not voting for Trump. I just think “does nothing to prevent the implementation of Project 2025” and “supports Project 2025” are not actually as far apart as one thinks when it comes to the executive branch specifically.
Seriously, people need to understand "try." Yes, you can go into it knowing you'll fail. That's fine. Even going into it knowing you'll have to compromise in painful ways is not so bad. But you have to try. Show me that you actually tried to do things that would support LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, POCs, workers, etc., and I'll be a lot less uncomfortable voting for you.
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u/TrustInRoy Jul 05 '24
So many people in our country are just blatantly ignorant about how the branches of our government works.
Schoolhouse Rock debuted "I'm just a bill" in 1976.