Do they think they're playing fútbol?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES:

Sorry to this man, but when you are actually in a real battle against a corrupt and malevolent foe, you do anything you can to stop them. None of them believe that this administration and the Republican party are all that bad. If they believed it, they would have left the wrench in the gears.

As much as my pride hates to do this...I don't have $4500 to cough up after paying property taxes this year...most urgently, I need a new furnace this winter. I'll only post this once. gofund.me/0cf8241cb

Also just so everyone is crystal clear the democrats knew that they were going to fold the entire time and only waited until the won the elections to bury their bad acts.

MJ singing those last notes

Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"

Relatedly, if you want my ticket for tonight at the broadside, dm me, I’ll email it to you

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Twinkie and a Sprite was my go-to in the summer of '96

Peter McCallister, money launderer

Mike Johnson Shows the Dems’ Shutdown Deal Is Already Backfiring newrepublic.com/post/202945/...

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."

*learns Blues guitar*

Rand needs the marijuana industry thriving so he can manage the pain from when his neighbor kicks his ass again.

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Again, if you're going to rehash the 2016 election, please acknowledge that the EC failed Clinton, not the popular vote. If your rehashing depends on ignoring that more people did vote for her, then please shut the fuck up.

great point. as opposed to when the government wasn't shut down and Trump was scrupulously following the law to the letter bsky.app/profile/heid...

Anyway, good morning to fans of NFL teams who won yesterday and are above .500

And liberals are coping this morning by calling it "strategy." They're attributing strategic maneuvering to a party that has not shown a capacity for it since the Clinton administration.

gotta go taste that boot in person, I guess

*white America gave control

I need everyone to take the time today to learn about incremental change and then consider how much incremental change was flushed down the toilet last November. It took DECADES TO GET WHERE WE WERE. This is wtf we were trying to tell the whites!!!!! So now the goal is to what? Forget that?

Round 2 of trying to make positive changes shake today. Send your boy some good vibes.

They're emboldened and are about to kick shit into another gear because they know they will face zero resistance and accountability.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them. I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.

Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.

Saw this on IG from @elivalley.bsky.social on Twitter, thought I’d share

Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them. Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.

Same energy

Okay, moderates, go ahead and pragmatize and compromise us out of fascism since y'all got a degree and know every fucking thing.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Every single measurable indicator from GOP polling all the way up to the recent elections refute this wholly. Democrats as constituted simply do not stand for anything beyond appeasing the donor class.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Republicans took away your healthcare. We refused to fight back. Please rush us $3

Prescient

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

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.

the exuberance of last Tuesday’s elections, gone. just like like that.

Please do not be surprised Democrats folded. They’re still part of the problem. A moderate Democrat is still our enemy.

Let's not call these people moderates; they are collaborating with fascists and took a vote - took an actual, active action - that will strip healthcare from millions. They voted *with* Republicans against the ACA, against Obamacare. Whatever technical excuses they have, that's the bottom 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.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

Whatever I cook later this week is going to be a step down because this was GOOD