My favorite shitlib excuse so far has been that it would be undemocratic to overrule the parliamentarian. Passing an overwhelmingly popular policy with a public mandate behind it? That's authoritarianism. Letting some unelected capitol creature obstruct the public will? That's democracy baby!
WHO THE FUCK IS THE PARLIAMENTARIAN? WHAT IS THE NAME?
Nevermind the fact that we haven't even voted for this shithead, how are libs making ends meet on this person who doesn't FUCKING TALK.
Chuck can literally just fire her and replace her on a whim but he’s not gonna because democrats love being ineffective assholes.
WHO THE FUCK IS THE PARLIAMENTARIAN?
Literally just some random asshole the Senate appoints to do rules lawyering.
so just a staffer who literally doesn't do shit except have office hours once a week.
What could they possibly be saving the political capital for? What's the policy that they have lined up that is more important than stimulus relief and the minimum wage? We know it's not healthcare. And we know it's not getting rid of ICE. So what is it?
What could they possibly be saving the political capital for?
its for the third Impeachment of ex-president Trump of course
Don't need to save political capital for something that'll have bipartisan support :desolate:
With dems being as feckless and incompetent as only dems can be they'll manage to spend all their political capital look it anyways.
Or they'll just waste it all on a program to recruit more diverse drone pilots.
"We can't waste political capital!" dems waste "political capital" on dumbass impeachment trial that goes nowhere because they didn't realize that Mitch McConnel would do his one and only move, waste more on dumbass Neera Tanden
Assuming "political capital" isn't just a bullshit phrase you say when you fuck working class people over, isn't political capital acquired by doing things people support? Wouldn't this therefore earn political capital?
they imagine a limited supply of fairy dust that floats around DC that politicians pay their policy elves with
Capital typically needs to be invested to get a return.
This is more like political land banking.
These chucklefucks can’t even do capitalism analogies correctly.
Political capital can be a useful concept, just like social capital. It's just a shitty excuse here, because (1) what the hell else would you be saving it for, and (2) the VP overruling the parliamentarian isn't a situation where you have to persuade anyone to get on board. You can just do it.
yeah lol, Kamala is already VP, the only office she is going to want after this is president. therefore its waaaaaay more politically saavy to be known as someone who was key in passing a higher minimum wage. in fact, its too good of a move to overrule the parlimentarian, which means she will most def not do it.
Also, just like social capital and actual fucking capital it needs to be invested and put to work to get a return on it.
Got money? You better be putting labour to work using it, or it’s gonna be worth less and less.
Even with social capital, you need it to do certain things, like throw a party, but throwing that party actually increases your social capital.
Fuck me they’re dumb.
They still refuse to make DC a state even though it's literally just two free Senators and maybe three or four House Reps guaranteed to be Democrats.
Democracy 4 is out now and shit's pretty dope. Really easy to mod to, literally just spreadsheets
Mfers acting like this is any Paradox game post-Victoria 2 and Kamala Harris has to preserve her political mana.
If someone under the age of 30 talks about Political Capital (tm) they've been playing too much Democracy 3
