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.

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

For sale: baby shoegaze. Nevermind

Not enough of these guys fear angry mobs.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

Love to negotiate a deal then performatively vote no on the deal I negotiated.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

God the number of times I have been through this with the same damned bus of clowns in the senate. They need to go.

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.

OK so I’m gonna need to find a job with benefits in the next month or so if I want to have health insurance next year. No pressure.

Van Hollen a No, and suggesting they might drag this out and make it painful

Schumer (74) is hiding behind Angus King (81), Jeanne Shaheen (78, retiring), and Maggie Hassan (67). New England's geriatrics are leading on bowing down to the Trump regime

The ACA is kind of like vaccines. We've had it *just* long enough that people have forgotten how absolutely nightmarish it was before.

If Trump indicts my colleague Adam Schiff, I will have no choice but to cancel my next book tour.

I wish there were a Democratic House majority. That, by itself, would be enough. But while Johnson runs the House? Senate Democrats are desperate to sell us out to save themselves.

John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.

This. Help ME see the 4D chess on this!

What are you going to get with your $2,000 in tariff money? I'm thinking about pointy stick

if they're fucking caving because of thanksgiving travel they are the dumbest motherfuckers on the fucking planet and even more worthless than they already are

The Democrats have learned their lesson. by Susan Collins

Claiming that getting a vote destined to fail as a win is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

I can already see the news item about Kaine requesting additional security detail within the week Can’t think of a worse misreading of the entire room than right now

I say hell no to any deal that will cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance.

“Congratulations on looking so wise for the wallet inspector.”

Words like “trifling” and “feckless” come to mind regarding the Senators about to sell people out for comity and deliberation. At least the reactionary right has a genuine commitment to ending the republic as specified in the constitution, imagine selling that out for process not principle

If the Dems will cave on this there is no right of yours that they will not throw away if it means they can go on vacation. I hate them with my whole heart.

Once again <taps mic> <all together now>

LOL, they now get to roll out the losers who will pretend they aren't in on the caving...

One can hope that this hastens the end of the modern National Democratic party but people have been conditioned to accept shit sandwiches for so long that who knows...

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

Every Democratic senator who votes for this should be primaried.

If you believe the man who’s been fighting tooth & nail to keep $200 away from starving children all in the name of TAKING AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE is suddenly about to cut u a $2000 check I really hope u donate your brain to science when you die so we can get to the bottom of how idiots like you exist

As you think about that question I would note that Emmitt Till was born in 1941. 19 years AFTER the House first voted to make lynching a crime. He was lynched in 1955. 67 years BEFORE the Senate would make lynching illegal in his name. And he's just one of the few victims who's names we know.

The House would continue to pass anti-lynching legislation and the Senate would continue to not even both to bring it up for a vote FOR AN ENTIRE CENTURY. And then finally, in 2022 they caved and the Emmitt Till Anti-Lynching Act was signed into law. deathpenaltyinfo.org/more-than-a-...

For that, you've got to look to the Senate's century long commitment to ensuring that Black Americans could be legally lynched. I am not being hyperbolic. Because in 1922, the House passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime. naacp.org/find-resourc...

The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

And yes, I'm still jacked that the Senate thought it was more important to protect the filibuster than to protect American healthcare. But honestly, that's far from the most egregious and durable sin committed in the name of Senate procedure. www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...

Dear DC Comics, Why isn't there an ABSOLUTE DICK* comic yet? Sincerely, A concerned fan (*Grayson)

5/ Whether Republicans secure enough Democratic votes is NOT the only question here. It’s critical that if 7 or 8 mods vote with the gop to end this that the rest of the caucus vote the right way and make clear they think this was the wrong decision. If they don’t then “the Democrats” own this …

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Insurance works because risks are pooled; this assumes everyone will experience only the average need and no more. It's stupid.

I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

This is like vouchers for public schools. Will only help people who can already afford it. Absolute shit idea.

Disabled people tried to warn you. We said that the rising eugenicist sentiment that accelerated during the “back to normal” phase of Covid would eventually hurt everyone The new healthcare plan for America appears to be: Don’t get sick If you do get sick, it’s your fault If you can’t pay, die

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.