There are worse cults.

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If a house is on fire then you have to fight the fire. If the entries are obstructed you have to get rid of the obstruction. If the firefighters won't fight the fire then you have to get new firefighters. This is a metaphor.

Because voting "no" while letting others vote "yes" is strategic misdirection that lets Democrats fold every hand while claiming that only some of them fold some hands. No more tricks. Clear the decks. Put in a new batch.

There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.

I get to see that Tim Kaine has pudding for brains.

Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

I love the show unabashedly and, yes, still watch/buy Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

True story- When MST3K did their college tour back in the 90s, I went to it alone because I loved it that much. The auditorium was PACKED, I barely got in the last row. The show started, we all sang the entire intro song perfectly, myself included, and that’s when I realized I was in a cult. 🤷‍♂️

Where are my Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans? I’d like to do a Thanksgiving special episode of my podcast and want a special guest

Everyone should call their Reps and Senators and tell them they won’t donate another penny until there is new leadership an a commitment to actually fight.

Also, this is also the latest of a series of "fire Schumer" moments people have had since Jan (or longer). It's not like this is happening in a bubble? I don't think he's good at his job because I don't think he fundamentally understands the political reality he slept walked us into.

(Summing up) Schumer concocted a selfish plan to benefit senators not the ppl. He should have been ousted then. He could also have chosen not to start the shutdown. Having started, he could force the GOP to own it by nuking the filibuster. He failed at every turn. He must go.

3) (cont.) Finally, if he knew that he was willing to cave for no benefit, he should not have initiated the shutdown which hurt so many ppl. But having hurt so many ppl, he owed it to them to win a victory worth their sacrifice.

3) cont. Given that **even on his own terms, following Schumer's own plan** it would have been more successful to force the GOP to pass a new budget w zero Dems, he's not even competent to do what he says he wants to do.

3) Until GOPers cave or they blow up the filibuster, allowing future majorities to pass legislation w/o GOP support. either result is positive. What's also amazing is that Schumer's long-held plan was to hang this around GOP necks, which would have been more successful if the GOP did it alone.

2) I think the Senate Minority Leader has the power to cut off DNC support for Dem incumbents reelection campaigns. I think the SML has the power to take the mic in front of TV cameras and denounce the selfish anti-Dems who caved. Schumer won't bc he's a collaborator, but he could have.

1) (cont.) The time to replace Schumer wasn't this past weekend. It was in spring when he concocted the idea that if Dems let ppl suffer, that was good for the Democratic Party. There is no one in the Senate today I would trust w leadership, but a new leader could at least repudiate this.

1) Schumer announced in spring during that CR fight that his plan was to capitulate... this in the hope that voters would blame the GOP in 2026 and thus Dem senators would benefit. My minimum standards are: Don't plan to submit to fascism Don't put yr career b4 the ppl's welfare

Things that would get any other president impeached

Just superficially, someone who wasn’t elected to the Senate when FIGHT CLUB came out might connect more with voters. He apparently has the power to coordinate these failures. Forcing Republicans to willingly kill filibuster would be a victory.

“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this is racist as shit

Catherine my good bitch you guys are the only ones who do not know where the Republicans stand

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

We all knew that. It’s you and your colleagues that seem to think otherwise, because CRs are the only way to force them to agree to funding. Instead, you’ve conceded the point after weeks of suffering which you rendered worthless.

This is always how it works, it's why they have a whip.

It’d be nice to have a president who knows how a single fuckin thing works.

A uniquely grotesque marriage of lawfare and the telegraphed robbery of state coffers to pad the pockets of the wealthy nomenklatura. An apt metaphor for this entire low era. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

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I'm taking this personally, @kaine.senate.gov .

“Negotiating your own insurance” will result in everyone getting the dirt-cheapest junk plan which covers virtually nothing, because most people are terrible at risk assessment.

Trump: "I look at Crockett -- this is a very low IQ person. And I look at somebody who comes from Somalia where they don't have anything. All they have is crime."

Yeah, anyone paying attention last week when Republicans laughed off Schumer’s offer to end the shutdown in exchange for a year-long extension of ACA subsidies could see this coming. The GOP wants to kill the ACA, this is how they’re going to do it, and they’re salivating at the chance.

How does the fucking WHIP betray the caucus and minority leader? I mean, isn't that grounds for immediate loss of your post. You are supposed to whip FOR the leader, not against.

You know it is honestly remarkable that my former boss did this after I sent her an email I am certain she read that said that providing aid or comfort to insurrectionists is grounds for disqualification from office under the US Constitution. Legendary honestly.

And the fun part is Senate Republicans can vote for it knowing it’ll never become law, and House Republicans can say they would have voted for it if Johnson had let it go to the floor. Democrats just gave vulnerable Republicans an out…for nothing.

I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.

JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.

this thread is MADDENING. how soon can we primary Whitehouse?

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

I know this and yet still got upset because the elections actually gave me hope and I let my guard down

these are the dumbest people on earth.

"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."

I've said it before, and I will say it again. We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do. 8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.

both parties are more vulnerable right now to a hostile internal takeover than at any time in the past. the problem w dems is theyve convinced people we must defer to their genius leadership and every time they lead us off a cliff.

Thune will hold the vote for formality. It won't pass the GOP-controlled Senate, if presented as a stand alone bill. If it somehow gets through the Senate, Johnson will ignore it. Durbin and Thune knew that. They all knew that. We know it.

Thinking of this quote from Mamdani’s victory speech.