The Republicans will kill you, and the Democrats will let you die. An explainer on enablers from last year -- and before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

"Afraid" is doing some nasty work here! SMH. 🤦🏾‍♀️

Also, they were afraid that Trump would start being increasingly cruel and doing things like going to SCOTUS to stop SNAP. Everyone knows the best was to deal with a bully is to appease him.

THEY WERE ALREADY BEING BLAMED! EVERY TIME SOMEONE SPOKE THEY BLAMED THEM! So what do they get in caving? They're not going to be lauded for giving in! JUST FECKLESS! SMH.

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

I feel very defeated. But that's ok.

“I gave my son his phone back because he promised he would clean his room next month.” That’s what the fuck you sound like.

Get rid of the old guard!

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

I have never had such a vanilla take make people so mad. y’all are wild.

reactions to this one are wild folks. members cave over personal inconvenience! it happens time and again. hope it doesn’t happen here! But it’s just contrary to history to say it doesn’t happen.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

Probably easier to steal the whole car now and strip it for parts and components now, since everything is integrated.

This is another interesting element of this - car stereos getting stolen was this huge thing for a while but I guess now they're either worth less or not as easy to pull out or something

Nor taking the face off their radios and putting it in their pocket? 🤭

Kids today will never experience having their cars broken into repeatedly by car stereo thieves.

I want to upgrade my car stereo. It works well enough, but I'd like it a little better. Anyway that's my contribution to this discourse

I'm not sure if it's because of the switch to digital, the default stuff being better, or maybe just people being in the car less but it's a fascinating contrast compared to like 30 years ago when it was a thing people would really obsess about

Another random old man thought occurred to me tonight: Car stereos used to be such a big thing. Growing up I knew a lot of people with aftermarket upgrades to their car stereos and speakers and I would pass by a lot of shops that specialize in that, but it feels like a totally dead thing now

I love a good Fish & Spaghetti fight! I hate I missed this! LOL 😆

He doesn't need to be a yes so long as enough others do it for him. He's done this shit before: organizing a capitulation then voting no once he knows it's going to pass.

They saw us tasting hope after Tuesday and they REALLY did not like that, huh

People who want to win seize on their opponent’s weakness.

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

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

This right here.

Democrats folding in this instance have SOLIDIFIED Republicans in WHATEVER IT IS they're doing! You don't galvanize people with feckless bullsh¡t! 🤷🏾‍♀️ (Even if you don't know what "feckless" means! 😒)

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

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

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

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

I wanted fried chicken tonight for dinner but didn't get it! If I die tonight, know that I'll be having fried chicken for breakfast in Heaven! 😇

On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Before the end of the year, Gordon Lightfoot had recorded his song about it. youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...

Madame CJ Walker 😕

The original maker of the girdle Then Sara Blakely (creator of SPANX) for honorable mention! 🤭

Eve 😏

Name a villain you sympathize with.

Luigi Mangione

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

Absolutely blame them. But this wouldn't have happened without Chuck Schumer and other Senate Dem leaders agreeing to the vote.

Its also all people who were cited at the very beginning as most likely to fold if the heat kept up long enough. There are other retiring Senators who voted no, King is an independent, etc. Like, are you surprised Fetterman bucked party leadership?

Curious how no one who caved is up in 2026. They're all 28, 30 or retiring. Almost like they planned that.

Yep, the involuntary work camps for houseless (starting with Utah) are part of that, too.

This administration’s goal is to roll us back to before the New Deal and so impoverish US citizens that they will fill the jobs left by all the Latinos kidnapped by ICE. They want peasants dependent on the whims of the tech lords

For coming from a party that loves to crow about supporting small business, Trump’s cuts to the ACA are the biggest attack on small business people imaginable