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This is what "vote blue no matter who" gets us. Weak, bad dems who have no affinity for any sort of party platform. They just printed a "D" next to their name.
Well we knew dems sux its the gop that suxed more and shouldn't even have a chance. Vote blue until no more red.
yes but we have lost. For good, maybe. And 'vote blue no matter who' incremental change didnt work to hold the line against steady rightwing pressure and rightwing change year after year. We've slowly lost the society FDR created. The ideas are scorned by the party that created them.
Chuck is a schmuck.
You don't negotiate people who have a proven history of not dealing in good faith.
Why the hell do dems think republicans are just gonna play nice? And why vote for this fucking bill? Are they idiots?
Worse, they’re liars. They work for the oligarchs while wearing a pride flag.
It's exactly like Collins and Manchin. They put up a big show of fighting and then just vote for it anyways.
The DNC must be abolished if this is their version of opposing the destruction of our civil service.
Seriously. They honestly think that they can help move along and destroy the country and that 1) everyone will forget in 18 months that they voted to capitulate and won't remember if they voted for a shutdown, and 2) that they will STILL easily pick up wins in 2026 if they capitulate.
God, fucking useless.
We have tried to tell liberals for decades this is what their party is. And they kept punching left when they should have been listening
I knew the corporate dems would cave. Especially Gutless Chuck do-nothing Schumer.
If you are commenting or reacting, take the 2 minutes to call your senators and tell them how useless Democrats are showing themselves to be. 5calls.org.
If you haven't figured it out, they don't listen to us
JFC WTF GFY U POS.
These fuckers are so spineless. It's no wonder the US has gone full fascist.
Schumer has a spine. Granted it's only when working class people try to enforce the rules on him.
I’m so fucking angry at this. They all have to fucking go.
They sold us out long ago.
The primaries will be a blood bath for Democrats. I’ll bring the bath bombs and soap for the bubbles.
Primary them all.
Democrats need youthful leaders who are actually willing to work.
My expectations are in the basement at this point. And yet, they still fail to meet them. Jesus fuck.
This spineless, gormless, feckless idiocy shouldn’t surprise or disappoint me any more at this point, but here we are. I must admit to feeling spikes of fury at the thoroughly manifest incompetence of our “opposition party”.
Democrats are enabling again. Why do we even have 2 parties at this point
Dems roll over at the promise of a belly rub
The fossils are selling us out. We’re fucked in a way that has no precedent.
They like trip and his plan. They’re complicit.
Its like they literally never want to win an election again.
I've said for years our goal is to never win an election, but to keep leftists from winning.
AOC should have run against him when she had the chance.
This country still has centrists (GOP lite) for some reason. The Democratic party would spend as much money as they need to make her lose.
Or illegally collude like they did to Bernie.
Was it illegal?
Morally bankrupt to say the least
No, it wasn't. Political parties have no true legal requirements to hold primaries or anything such thing. They are private clubs that get to set the rules.
Primaries allow for the illusion of choice.
Schumer has to go
If we somehow make it through this all these fucking spineless democrats need to be held accountable for enabling these traitors and recalled.
Great, we have a coalition in power. Except that coalition is formed of the Nazi party and the Democrats who capitulate to their every whim
I actually can kind of see what they're doing? So what's the strategy here? Are they wanting to do the cloture and move for a vote to the floor? But then that would mean that they are hoping GOP is going to flip that would ultimately push to a shut down. They're really hinging on GOP to have enough non-Trump loyalists to do that but I can't really see it happening.
So yeah this kind of shit is also what is caving faith in for democrats.
You're overthinking it. They don't in any way expect Republicans to sink a Trump bill. Hell, they already have a yes vote from Fetterman. They just want to lose without it looking like full complicity.
The Republicans could have made this a majority vote. They get a few of those each year, but they didn't want to blow one on a continuing resolution. Luckily the Democrats are here to give them that for free.
Make Repubs cave - obstruct obstruct obstruct!