Resign.

Chuck Schumer gave the go ahead. He recruits his scapegoats and taps someone like Chris Murphy to go play the tough guy publicly but its controlled opposition. They're all in lock step and none of them oppose the president.

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So they’ll get blamed for the rates going up. I don’t see the problem.

who is your actual enemy

A reminder of why we are here today.

what the moderate turncoats in the senate are missing right now is that there is no back to go back to.

“The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus.”

yes correct elections have consequences, and the theory of victory is figuring out how to convince the idiot median voter of these facts, not just making a couple million people who work for you go without a paycheck for over a year because it makes you feel good

if we get rolling RIF prevention and very short CRs until 2027, that is actually almost a win.

Primary time

primary every democrat, i don’t give a shit, but the cause of your suffering is the republican party and there are a lot of you who need to learn to hate them more — and i do mean hate — than you hate your allies

this is, per usual, the dumbest fucking thing anyone has ever said

Yeah I think the dynamics of what happened here are more like Schumer effectively being coupled by the people who were always against this and viewed the GOP’s intransigence as a sign it wasn’t working

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I think a lot of you just don't realize how catastrophic the premium increases will be! Or how valuable "we shut the government down for a month and a half to try and prevent this" will prove once that pain hits!

this is designed in a lab to be maximally enraging *because* it is true. this die was cast in 2024 when dems lost all control and everything from then to now that immiserates you is the fault of republicans, who won’t listen and don’t care, which is lightning level enraging.

I don’t care about that. I care about the general election. I just want voters angry about the economy in November 2026.

I think I need to get off this site the rest of the night before it brings me too far down, but one last reminder before I log off 👇

The Democrats are not at fault for anything going badly in your life right now.

He then proceeds to say the leader should be an LLM trained entirely on Jed Bartlett speeches and it’s also on the blockchain.

Lamest opposition party ever

I'm one of Fetterman's constituents, indeed, I was a Fetterman voter in 2022. I will be voting against him in the 2028 primary. With that said, you people need to take a fucking break from politics; you're pickling your minds. Never forget: This is the Republicans' fault. It always will be.

I say again, SENATUS DELENDUS EST. Having a legislature that's both deliberately unresponsive to voters & deliberately antimajoritarian is lethal to representative government

“It’s not my job to judge the president”

coming around to "people cannot understand political parties do not exist" alongside "people cannot understand how evil Republicans are" as theories of American political dysfunction

The answer to this is: "Republicans are starving people unless we agree to make healthcare more expensive. How do we compromise with that?"

because exactly enough members voted for it, none of them from the 2026 class, many of them retiring.

My non-cynical take is that the GOP had a credible commitment to end SNAP, the ACA in total, increasing RIFs, etc., and the Dems only option other than to let people suffer was to choose who would fall on the sword.

The entire center-left to left spectrum is just Eagles fans, and you can't convince me otherwise

Right this is why I'm pro filibuster nuking but only once we get power. But sadly this group of Senators will never do that either so that's the reason to be depressed about this all.

yes, exactly. i understand why they would make this choice, and i can even respect it. but it is career ending, because you don’t have the nerves for what will have to come next.

… and again, exactly. Ditto. I respect the logic of folding; I’m also firmly of the conviction that the times demand senators made of sterner stuff.

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

two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame

I understand people being angry that we didn't get everything we wanted. I want people to understand the cost of holding out even longer.

It's what the voters wanted when they voted Trump last year

what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms

Julius Caesar crossing the rubicon with the 10th legion:

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

Miss you so badly bby..

I think I've been quite reasonable at understanding the score and why things have needed to go on this long, and indeed could be argued to go on longer (which I wouldn't wholly disagree with) But you're gonna argue I should just go without a paycheck for another 13 months easy-peasy fuck outta here

speaking of sinema, you might notice that zero republican senators have basically swapped parties because they're just in it for the clout. the primaries are not vicious enough

hot take: the actual problem the Dems are having is that they're NOT playing politics with peoples' well-being and actually want things like "people get to go home to their families for Thanksgiving"

The dark truth is that the institutional political parties have very little power after years of reforms, campaign finance chicanery etc. It isn’t ’the Democrats’ who are caving since there is no one thing. It is particular politicians.

I am once again asking progressive Democrats to stop allowing this absolute snake who nonetheless possesses some political talent to pretend to be one of their foremost progressive leaders.

That, but also the sin eaters should never know the warm embrace of the party again.

DNC actively calling out the senate is... significant.

No Kings includes Angus