Because many struggle with math…

Even the Dem centrists at Third Way are mad about the deal moderate Senate Dems cut with Republicans to end the shutdown: "We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."

Chuck Schumer currently in mid-air after the football was pulled away.

Rick Scott is right, government funding for health insurance is such a scam. Google “Rick Scott Medicare fraud” to learn more about this important issue

OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.

SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS AN HSA AND YOUR KID NEEDS SURGERY OR YOU GET CANCER????? I am going to go insane that anyone things a personal savings account is a replacement for insurance.

To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.

Voting to fund the government means you voted to fund everything the government is doing. That's the whole point. It's not about some narrow this or that on the margins. You own the whole enchilada, you're saying "yes, this overall package for everything the government's doing is acceptable to me."

LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.

When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.

MARIA: “What will you do when the ACA subsidies expire (and health insurance premiums skyrocket)?” DR. OZ: “I don’t want to show our cards.” 🤔

Please take this seriously Some DC press confuse the issue and spout the leadership rhetoric for access They don't have to They shouldn't It's bias Many of us who've been at this for awhile are clear: This was SCHUMER'S doing It's how he works Don't believe everything you hear This 👇is the truth

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Trumps approval is at biblically low levels you cowardly geriatric dolt.

Nobody is begging for this milquetoast school-voucher-loving, cop-bootlicker Zionist, and the sooner centrists accept that and find a better candidate, the better off we'll all be (From a Jewish PA voter who has NEVER voted for Shapiro and never will)

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

So many takes about Democrats being cowards, or stupid, or naive, or whatever. They’re bought. Everything they do makes sense if you stop assuming they’re representative of anyone but a few big donors.

Every time Congressional Dems do something politically inexplicable, just assume there’s money to blame.

Your favorite Italian-origin fusilli and macaroni are poised to disappear from US supermarket shelves. Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import & antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of US stores in Jan

thanks trump

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Thanks to eight senate dipshits, these jokes are now you're only affordable health insurance options.

To put things just slightly differently: Congratulations, Mr. Schumer, you just made Democrats part of the bums voters are going to want to throw out in 2026, if not sooner.

@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @durbin.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @angusking.bsky.social @shaheen.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov THIS 👇🏽.

Yep: "Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."

lets assume the deal is as described and the GOP doesn't renege on any of it. that means we get: -gov't funded thru 30 jan -snap thru 30 sep 26 -reverts staffing to 30 sep 25 GOP gets: -De Facto repeal of Obamacare (the vote on ACA subsidies will fail. there aren't 12 gop to go along with it.)

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

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.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

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.

People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?

Prescient

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.

Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike. Again, requires believing in things.

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

Even more true today: Democrats are ripe for a base revolt like the GOP in 2015 when Trump went down the escalator.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

2/2 You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together. -Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places. -Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

This.

Agree. Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them." This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

she called it

I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate

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

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

That's exactly what it is, it's like they took Trump's half-assed post and tossed it into ChatGPT for Government to create an outline. It's preposterous and will be an administrative nightmare, especially because people are supposed to be picking plans for next year *right now*.