“…putting an end to Trump’s cruelty…” lol exactly wtf do you think you’ve accomplished here? DC Brain is really something. (No it’s not just Senators.)

Casino Royale was implicitly a reboot of a new 007 as a completely different guy. It was a great Bond film. Those two things are not unconnected, IMO. Just start with the new guy and create a new 007 as part of it. It’s fine.

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

If you actually want a more united front, the most obvious choice is replace Schumer as leader because he has zero credibility and people rightly loathe him. But at a bare minimum if you want to at least make some gesture, replace Durbin as whip. He's retiring anyway. There would be no downside.

Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts

Anything short of calling for Schumer to be replaced is performative outrage designed to mollify you

The (consciously?) ignored part of all this shutdown drama & capitulation is that this will all happen again in two months. The US federal government is, almost literally, incapable of providing guarantees and/or essential services to its workers and its citizens. Houston we have a problem.

At some point in the last 20, 25 years people everyone on the left and center-left became too embarrassed to admit that they each have individual priorities and desires and that these should be sufficiently negotiated over.

Unless and until a Dem senator calls for the replacement of Chuck Schumer, you can assume that Dem senator is lying to you. Sheldon Whitehouse is lying to you.

Various coalitions of states will eventually *have to* band together to provide essential services the current federal government can’t/won’t provide. The US federal government will collapse. Ironically this makes me hopeful because this would be a (mostly?) non-violent way to break up the Union.

i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.

Dems sympathize with Republican policies, example #18,654. They sympathize so much that they feel *personally responsible* for Republican messes. Jesus, what a pathetic confession Kaine just made.

The counter to “Trump is a psycho willing to starve & kill tens of thousands of people” is “so the Republicans had to get rid of the filibuster to avoid negotiating with us,” and that would’ve been better long term for Democrats. But even that was too much for the Senate Dukes and Duchesses.

Dukes and Duchesses, the lot of them.

Well, @kaine.senate.gov is not taking calls or voicemails. Yeah, the Lords and Ladies of the Senate are not willing to hear from us plebes. They decided to help their Good Friends The Republicans, and they think we should all shut up and take it.

They’re wealthy white elitists. They consider themselves Dukes and Duchesses, they didn’t want their flights cancelled, and they didn’t want to change/reform how they “work.”

I don’t see these Dems as rubes being scammed by Rs. I doubt the Dems believe they’ll be able to work w Rs to get good things done. It all seems like gaslighting of the public, to bullshit their way out of voting to end the shutdown so they can have functional air travel & keep the filibuster.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Why would you want to be a proud Dem? Your leaders will tell you the best way to win is by losing, that you’re a naive fool if you want them to stand up for anything, and they’ll brag to each other and the press about how they’re smart enough to ignore you. You’re joining a team that hates you!

Again- professional Democrats (electeds and their staffs) are so bad at marketing that they couldn’t hack it as local sales reps for Frito Lay (or Budweiser or Pepsi or etc). They’re just bad at their jobs and they’ve been bad at their jobs for *decades*.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

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.

…to accomplish helping their Good Friends The Republicans. That’s what. Dem leaders actually sympathize with Republican policies, because Dem leaders are wealthy elitists too. Dem leaders believe in hierarchy, and they can’t bear to see their fellow Dukes and Duchesses be dragged by the commoners.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

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Whether it's Joe Lieberman going MAGA or Tim Kaine caving in on ACA, both vice-presidential nominees turned out to be assholes.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

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.

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

A thought experiment- if you love Republican policies and ideology, but are fully committed to concealing that sympathy, would you behave any differently than Dem leadership? Dem leaders are wealthy white elitists, and they love their Good Friends The Republicans.

I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”

Want a party that actually fights back? That doesn't fold? Run for office. We’ll help you.

People seem to get a lot more offended learning that the ruling class is a bunch of knuckleheads as opposed to Machiavellian genius sociopaths.

He is who he is- a coward, a moron, and pathetic.

the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

After her extensive detailing of losing all her friends, I watch this video and I am concerned* for Olivia Reingold’s mental health. Much like Nancy Mace, this is so deranged that “not right” is the correct summary of her. *mildly concerned, she’s a complete asshole and deserves zero sympathy

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's an AT-TE.

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

The comparison to the Tea Party is right -- not just in terms of the size of the protests, but the complaints they're making. The Tea Party began when a CNBC reporter and a crowd of bond traders threw a tantrum about Obama continuing the post-crash bailouts that Bush began. That was their "tyranny"

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

As Gov Pritzker knows and as many other Dems refuse to learn- he is an absolute coward when he is opposed, so just…oppose him FFS. Trump Always Chickens Out.

The Dem Party is run by people who couldn’t make it as local sales reps for Coke (or Budweiser, or Frito-Lay or etc).

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

A lot of people on the left don’t want to admit that politics is performance and marketing when those things are the whole ballgame

This is an in-kind contribution to the Mamdani campaign.

The house is on fire, and the Dems want to talk about changing the drapes.

They have plenty of power now to push for these things and they do not so I do not believe him.

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA. So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created