Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "How Can Progressive Actually Have Leverage Over Joe Biden?" video.

The progressive caucus is possibly one election away from becoming the majority of house Democrats. Then they could pick a progressive speaker and put M4A up for a vote as often as they like, if Dems still have the house. Threatening to paralyze the house could backfire and damage progressive gains, and going third party when it won't win a seat in congress in 50 years let alone get anyone healthcare ... Jimmy doesn't have the brightest ideas.
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Yeah! Paralyze the house, and let corporate Dems use that to blame you for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. Me Jimmy Dore. Me so smart. If you disagree you're a fake!
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@thenomad9230 Yeah, Jimmy isn't bright. He has also argued that Pelosi would rather work with Republicans than progressives, which is an argument against his own "plan". She could just make a backroom deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them to abstain, or be absent, to reduce the threshold needed to win. For every 2 abstentions, absents, or unfilled seats, it lowers the threshold needed to win by 1.
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Dore knobs don't seem to consider the fact that corporate Dems can just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, no minimum wage increase, etc., while people struggle to get by. It isn't a risk free tactic. What do you gain if you do get the vote? A vote guaranteed to fail because it's still almost 100 votes short in the house, let alone the senate.
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Btw, AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, increasing the yes vote count, the very thing you need to do to ever pass a bill in congress, the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote.
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@Nalgitas86 Wait ... are you under the delusion that the vote could pass now? It's almost 100 votes short in the house alone.
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@Nalgitas86 Adding yes votes to congress is exactly what's necessary. It's the only possible way to ever pass a bill. If you, or Jimmy, has an extra 100 pro-M4A candidates in your back pocket, why didn't either of you pull them out for the election that just happened? There was already a list of names that hadn't signed onto M4A, that needed replacing. You know corporate Dems don't have to fold to the threat, and can just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic, right? And you're already going to get a new list of people that won't sign onto M4A when the bill is reintroduced in the new session.
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@Nalgitas86 Still going to have to do the things they're doing after a failed vote, by adding yes votes to congress, anyway. Not sure why you're not grasping that fact. A failed vote won't drastically change then when.
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