Jaysyn
@Jaysyn@kbin.social
- Comment on Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders 5 months ago:
Good. The leaders on both sides need to end the days in a cell in the Hague.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 5 months ago:
This falsehood has been a right-wing talking point all the way back since 2013.
When Obama had "Total Control" of Congress
Lies are easy to get away with if they are repeated often enough and given voice by many different people. Repeat a lie often enough and that lie often becomes conventional wisdom. Repeating a lie doesn't change the lie into the truth, it changes the people hearing the repeated lie. They begin to accept the lie as truth. One huge example: 'Iraq has WMD.'
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The truth....then....is this: Democrats had "total control" of the House of Representatives from 2009-2011, 2 full years. Democrats, and therefore, Obama, had "total control" of the Senate from September 24, 2009 until February 4, 2010. A grand total of 4 months.
Did President Obama have "total control" of Congress? Yes, for 4 entire months. And it was during that very small time window that Obamacare was passed in the Senate with 60 all-Democratic votes.
Did President Obama have "total control' of Congress during his first two years as president? Absolutely not and any assertions to the contrary.....as you can plainly see in the above chronology....is a lie.
EDIT:
This is the archive of the original chronology link.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130307230207/http://www.thepragmaticpundit.com:80/2011/12/obama-did-not-control-congress-for-two.html - Comment on Caves of Qud gets a huge new Beta released with the big UI redesign 5 months ago:
Well done.
<slow clap> - Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 5 months ago:
Close, it's the lead (poisoning) in the Boomers.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 5 months ago:
Florida as a whole is about to be completely underwater
FYI, the north-central Florida is literally the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
- Comment on Caves of Qud gets a huge new Beta released with the big UI redesign 5 months ago:
This is legit one of the best games I've ever played.
@unormal is a great guy to boot.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 5 months ago:
LOL, Gov. Clownboots should sign a law that makes ocean acidification illegal before Miami collapses into the sea.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 5 months ago:
He'll be a senator next FML.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 5 months ago:
LOL, whataboutism.
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 5 months ago:
Leave it to corporate America to figure out how to make a simple thing difficult in order to sell (rent) you less for more.
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 5 months ago:
The singular reason #Muskrat isn't living under a bridge & eating bath salts is that he was born rich.
- Comment on England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027 6 months ago:
Putin loved this.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 6 months ago:
I can't even imagine being that big of a sucker.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 6 months ago:
Absolute garbage.
I hope someone hacks this, makes it free & makes applying it as easy as changing a channel on your TV.
- Comment on IRS says its number of audits is about to surge. Here's who the agency is targeting. 6 months ago:
More of the progress Trump wants to stop.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Subarus are pretty awesome. Just sayin'
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Some hits from the current shareholder voting:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The Ruzzian Federation is lies all the way down.
- Comment on Iran renews violent crackdown on women 6 months ago:
This won't change until the women of Iran start luring & lynching these so called morality police en masse.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 6 months ago:
Can't blame them, Texas is an ugly, shithole state and most of the politicians are worse.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
If money wasn't the point, then influence was. Congress is right to shut them down.
Foreign owned, FARA-unregistered influence operations have never been a facet of "free speech" in the USA.
- Comment on Radicalized Students Will Regret Backing Hamas 6 months ago:
Nice strawman.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
Just a matter of time before we have another Kent State.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 6 months ago:
I have a 3rd gen i7 that isn't "allowed" to run Windows 11.
- Comment on The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse 6 months ago:
Meanwhile, my sibling, an actual solar rooftop installer (that doesn't peddle these financial products) can't get residential solar work in Florida at all.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
That's fine, but I think they are lying.
And in case you don't understand, foreign corporations running FARA-unregistered influence operations isn't free considered a facet of "free speech" in the USA.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 6 months ago:
I turned it off two weeks ago by installing Mint.
- Comment on Tesla seeks to award Elon Musk $56bn pay package | BBC 6 months ago:
I did that after the Cybertruck was shown the first time.
- Comment on Tesla seeks to award Elon Musk $56bn pay package | BBC 6 months ago:
I guess we are going to find out exactly how stupid the remaining Teslas stockholders are.
- Comment on Germany arrests two for alleged plot to attack military bases on behalf of Russia, accuses suspects of working with Russian secret service in attempt to undermine support for Ukraine 6 months ago:
We are already at war with Russia. It's time the EU & USA started acting like it.
