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I will consult for free for anyone who primaries this cowardly piece of shit

Why it fails. All this is pushed by one movement, the Catholic Church. Even an app tracker won’t account for this: Scientists said they have found women sometimes ovulate several times in a single month. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbn...

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers

Sanders says if he could delay this procedural vote he would ... gives you a sense of whether there will be a quick agreement to finish the funding deal and send to the House "If this vote succeed, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling of their premiums"

From Politico: I guess suggesting that Rand Paul will stall things even if Schumer tried to accelerate. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Before the disgusting GOP cut SNAP and are now fighting court orders ordering them to quit their psychosis & feed Americans, they cut USAID which has already *starved 100’s of 1000’s of human beings worldwide to death.* Barbaric isn’t enough to describe such depravity. *Well* past “politics.” 🆘🇺🇸

“Well, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which gets filled first.”—Burgess Meredith as Grandpa Gustafson, “Grumpier Old Men”

“We won the thing we were legally owed” take a victory lap Dems, absolutely killing it

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

Not seen a single House D or potential 2028 D support this. They must be the D's who want a future.

let's make this all about health care, message only about healthcare, and then give up on healthcare.

never underestimate the desire of an @kaine.senate.gov or @ossoff.bsky.social to be a spineless ghoul

I think they get it through and I think some of them start to regret that very quickly the anger from the last cave is stronger and has a much smaller set of targets now

The deal for a vote just gives Susan Collins an opportunity to vote off and nobody gets more affordable health care

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight* Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again). Not another #SchumerSurrender @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Which raises the other question: who is this deal actually for? Who is it meant to appease?

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Don't say we didn't warn you.

One thing from our piece on Saturday: Sen. Shaheen is leading the Senate cave caucus. She's on the appropriations committee and wants whatever little goodies she got in her appropriations bill passed into law. As we wrote: prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.

Democrats put health care subsidies in the foreground while No Kings measures to restore power of the purse stayed in the background. They then got nothing on health care, while of course letting the background stuff go, except for some short-term RIF prohibtions designed to get Kaine's vote.

Seven million people came out on No Kings Day, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, and then followed it up with sweeping every major race on Nov. 4. We did our job in the streets and at the polls. It’d be nice if Democrats in the Senate could get on board.

BUT WAIT, HERE COME THE SENATE DEMOCRATS TO SAVE THE TURKEY!

If any of the @democrats.org believe this, I’d like to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge. @durbin.senate.gov www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes. Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.

Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts. There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.

This just tells your opponents they can wait you out because they know you’ll give up literally no matter what else happens

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Yeah, but that was before air travel was in trouble and the senators were personally affected, see

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

The Democratic establishment:

Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.

Yeah, how would this "deal" even work given the Hastert rule in the House?

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

Cannot wait for every one of these losers to get Mamdanied to hell the next cycle they’re up. They can all go live with Cuomo on an island in the sea.

And we want that resignation effective immediately or before the next CR vote. It’s not just because he deserves it, but to make clear to anyone who would be his successor in the role that we, the base, are not negotiating anymore. If you fail, we will break you and replace you.

From his point of view, Kruge was acting to neutralize a Federation superweapon.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them