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You know this thing I've been saying for several years is typically something I say about employers but now it seems relevant to our government YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH YOUR ABUSER TO STOP ABUSING YOU

The thing about government shutdowns is that they're manufactured things that never need to happen. They're bullshit that adversely affects the lives of normal people because politicians love posturing.

i think if you make a video with a thumbnail that says HE'S DONE or IT'S OVER you shouldn't be legally allowed to continue to make videos about that subject

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

Well, at least everyone suffered for nothing.

I want to see food hitting the face of a minimum of two (2) Democratic US Senators by the end of the week

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

A few thoughts 1: basically every democrat outside the senate opposed this 2: it seems like most dems *in* the senate opposed it too (jury's out on who exactly) 3: this was the first vote, not the last 4: the house will have to come into session to pass this and that'll probably be a shitshow

there are so many of us, so so many and very few of them

Caving for nothing means that Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown because they could have taken this shit deal weeks ago.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

This one. I know people are hurting, I know it's bad. I would never suggest anyone directly impacted be ok with any of this. But this isn't harm mitigation, which I could at least understand. This is just giving up and in.

Not a single senate Democrat should be politically safe from this day forward. Not one

Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.

85-year-old democrats negotiating with the jaws of defeat: hey bud you hungry?

The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption. But that would require believing in things.

they need to learn what it’s like to be afraid of us.

And if you’re defending this and you’ve never been poor, you can fuck right off. I’ve been poor. I was on food stamps. The ACA saved me when I was uninsured. I’ve been hungry. None of the people who voted for this will go without healthcare or a meal, but most of us are one layoff away from poverty.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

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.

Every Dem who votes for this deal will prove they're not competent to hold the position. Today's GOP cannot be treated as dealing in good faith. This would put the blame for this shutdown and any others on the issue on the Democrats. It's not just bad policy, it's stupid.

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It's a joke. A classic American tall tale. Pecos Bill found himself sinking in quicksand. Alone and without any tools to rescue himself, he simply reached down and pulled himself up by his bootstraps. This has, over the years, become a euphemism for "do it yourself without help."

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

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

I love playing "Malice or Cowardice?" every day. it's my favorite game

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

I will not only blame the Senate Democrats who are caving. I will blame them all. They needed to keep their ranks in order. If this happens, it's the most spineless political retreat imaginable and it will harm millions upon millions of Americans. Chickenshit, self-neutering nonsense. Cowards.

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

Surely this has already been done right

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled

So yeah, Schumer is fucking awful. But there’s enough Democrats supporting this debacle that it’s obviously more than a one-guy problem. The party that consistently presents itself as the only bulwark against fascism keeps surrendering to fascism.

Shutdowns weren't a thing in the US either, until they were invented by the Carter administration. It's not some natural, immutable characteristic of the US system of government, although people (not the OP) talk about it that way.

I think the big thing everyone is missing here in the “affordability/std of living” thing is that if you don’t feel like your housing, healthcare, and/or food is secure, it doesn’t really matter how fucking cheap a flatscreen TV is, and there are a lot of people who can barely afford the essentials

This is the Way. 😄

FUCK YOU JEFF

I stopped giving advice how to get into games narrative a while ago because nothing I did is particularly relevant now beyond "make your own games to learn" which is always true whether or it gets you an industry position.

The majority of US voters, so far as I can tell, flatly do not care about trans people one way or another. They aren't necessarily especially friendly to them, but they clearly find the notion that they're supposed to obsess over them distinctly offputting. (Despite major efforts by the right!)

Yes -- it is entirely possible that a critical mass of Senate Dems will defect for inadequate concessions, but don't *assume* it will happen based on anonymously sourced behind-the-paywall Axios stories

just when you think it couldn't get any worse than yesterday

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

Where this prediction failed was in its refusal to recognise how deeply jealous, selfish, and cruel boomers are.