Unless we’re going to get enough senators etc to impeach, wtf does it matter if we take back the senate and the house

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And why are we acting like there is hope in some republican majority or whatever? They are - with maybe 2 exceptions - just as bad as the democrats. Republicans are like the private school gets who know how to get away with stuff, and the dems are public school kids who DGAF, smoke and bang in the bathroom, etc.

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we take back

Republican politicans are not "we". There is only one party.

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Have you read the Constitution and understand the power separation between Executive and Legislative?

If you control just the Senate or the House all you can do is block changes. If you control both the Senate AND the House you can write laws as you see fit with only presidential veto and judicial relief being the only ways for the minority to stop changes.

This is why it is so obvious that in the US we have a false dichotomy in our two parties. There is only controlled opposition and a uni-party. How do we know this? Because as soon as one of the parties controls BOTH the House AND the Senate, all of a sudden DC goes quite. As soon as one of the two parties has real power to change things, they do nothing for 2 years.

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Will need a veto majority which obviously would be great but that’s quite the sleeper if we’ll get that.

We already have blocking power with the filibuster no?

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We already have blocking power with the filibuster no?

Not by any constitutional authority we don't... this is just a convention that can be changed with simple majority votes. If the Majority can just vote to take away the check-and-balance power of the Minority, then that check or balance was toothless to begin with.