Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

Resign.

Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!” And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”

Fuck it primary both senators in every state where this happened. Pour encourager les autres.

Reminder: the Democrats made their decision on Thursday to cave as a unified caucus.

"Guys you win some and you lose. In this case everyone is losing affordable health care insurance and there is nothing that I, a United States Senator, can do about it. Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

Hard disagree here: "This accomplished a lot. It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price." No, it demonstrated that potential existed — and now people know their sacrifices mean nothing to these people and will be squandered.

Dems emerging from 2 hour caucus meeting saying they are unified on next steps on shutdown “We’re unified on how we’re moving forward,” says Sen. Duckworth. “The key part of it is health care and taking care of our federal workers.” “What we’re going to say, we’re going to be unified behind it”

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.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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.

Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

"What radicalized you?" Me: Cowards. Angry honking. 🦢

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

Donors don't pay Democrats to solve problems, they pay them to stay just on the heels of Republicans enough to make it look like a fight most of the time.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

As far as DNC Leadership is concerned this post is evergreen. Is this EVERY Democrat? Obviously no. But people like chuck and nancy... at least nancy is finally ready to cash in her chips and go home.

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

What it feels like to watch Democrats constantly cave to Republicans. @teamfourstar.bsky.social @kaiserneko.bsky.social

All they'll do is go on social media and tell you how bad the things they let happen are. Salt in the wound. There's no call to change how they do things, no demand for Schumer to resign, no postulating about fundamentally changing the approach, just a report on how much we all just got fucked.

There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse. But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000. Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home. Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Hickenlooper seems to be saying opposing the deal is useless, the Democrats are defeated, and they have to move on, but he is voting no right now out of frustration. He refused to criticize the capitulators.

Either call for Schumer to step down or you were in on it. 👇 bsky.app/profile/ezra...

Any one Senate Democrat can still delay the procedural votes necessary to get this cave-in formally written into law. Which one will it be? Already hearing at least one nominal opposing Democrat - Hickenlooper - saying his no vote is merely performative, he understands why Dems capitulated.

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

And then their response is to scold people who didn't show up rather than giving those people a reason to show up. They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Would love to see some reporting on how the airline lobby put on the pressure.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Can’t wait for this news cycle

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

I still like my idea of impeaching Trump and retroactively impeaching Clinton as well over Epstein. Lord knows they both deserve it and finally some bipartisanship I can get behind.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

If you're the most annoying and I'm the most annoying then who's running the phonebank?

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

Fight don’t fold.