Hopefully she will run for his seat in the future.
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His vile cowardice is something I'm seeing people talk about, but the sheer stupidity of it isn't touched on.
CHUCK. HE IS GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! THE D NEXT TO YOUR NAME MAY AS WELL BE THE STAR OF DAVID ON YOUR CHEST YOU DUMB FUCK! DICTATORS DO NOT LET "OPPOSITION" PARTY MEMBERS LIVE. NO MATTER HOW HELPFUL THEY WERE IN GIVING THEM POWER!
Like are you fucking stupid?
Any dem that has been in an elected position longer than 10 years is the cause of this.
I am an Independent and think both sides suck on the whole political spectrum in this country. I'm also from NY and both of my Democratic senators voted to pass this blank check to Trump and Elon.
The Democrats have gone about dealing with Trump and his disciples in Congress the completely wrong way from day one. They try to be civil and favor the traditional ways of solving things in Congress. They have basically been bringing a pink plastic toy baseball bat to a gun fight this whole time that Trump has been in office this term.
And because of that, here we were with 2 horrible choices for them. But one choice would have shown that they had enough of the B.S. and had some kind of a spine. The "right" thing for Chuckie to do was to be united and stand firm that they wouldn't approve this CR and force a shut down unless they had a say in some of the solutions in the bill. Pain was coming either way, why not go down fighting and show that you were on the right side of history?
Given the past month and a half (holy shit it feels like it's been a decade) and the track record of Elon and Trump so far, I am very afraid of what is coming in the next month and a half -- let alone when this budget fight resumes in September.
AOC needs to form a new party or at least go independent with Bernie. I'd really like an alternative to the Democrats because I'll never be voting for them again.
No. She's on a path that will shape the democrats of the future. If she leaves she will become irrelevant, and she knows it.
Democrat voters are tired of compromising. MAGA thinks they want to burn the US down so they can "own the libs" ... well let's fucking do it. Let's test their theory in the laboratory of life.
The same New York Democrat machine behind all the establishment Democrats put AOC there too. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
We will NEVER make progress by compromising with those who will not compromise with us in return.
No "SLAM" this time?
We can't afford slamming anymore
I hope she primaries him. Vote all those decrepit elders out of office.
Unfortunately, he's not up for reelection until 2028, at which time he'd be 78 years old, so probably wouldn't be running anyway.
And by then all of the positive things our government used to do will have been demolished we'll all be too sick and exhausted to care anymore.
Is this your first time? American politicians don't give up power just because they are old. Feinstein, McConnell, Biden, Thurmond are just a few examples.
sharply criticized Chuck Schumer called Schumer’s decision a “betrayal”
That’ll show him.
The only silver lining here is the remote possibility of progressive Democrats breaking out to form their own party. At least then the US will have a legitimate opposition party.
You realize this was your last election right? It's not going back to normal.
I guess we will see won’t we. I’m still voting in 2026 and 2028. I’m not going to be discouraged by all the nihilists on the internet that are trying to convince me I’m powerless. Maybe I’ll find that process is finished but I’m not rolling over or giving up. Hell you could be a Russian bot trying to make us feel apathetic about voting by just vaguely going … “ you guys realize it’s all over right ? Yea keep on sucking on that copium pal! 😈”
Quit sucking your own dick
Yeah they had their last election, ever, back in November. If they ever hope to get election back, they'll need to actually fight for it instead of sitting on their butts.
it's a lose lose, you either push the funding through, and lock in existing funding, and bypass any weird shutdown bullshit, or you push for a government shutdown where (apparently) the executive can just make up funding numbers and start moving money places.
So, take your pick:
- do something: Maybe everything fucking explodes
- do nothing: everything is already exploded, but we're atleast aware of what's happening
You force the shutdown, otherwise Congress has abdicated it's role.
Somebody got to Schumer IMHO.
About half the seated Democrats right now need to be primaried hard. How did we have a more coordinated opposition party during Trump's first term? It's worse this time around and they are showing absolutely no will to fight.
what are you supposed to do? The congress controls the budget, literally as defined by the constitution, the executive is currently trying to pretend that isn't the law. And the supreme court doesn't exactly seem content about doing anything over it, so it's not like you can do much as the congress. You literally can't win here, we have to wait for all the lawsuits to hit for anything to begin happening.
Hmm, yes, it's almost as if we have a government that isn't functioning and there seem to be no options that are legal under the current government...
what are you supposed to do?
Schumer went from "we have to be a united front" to "I'm gonna vote for what republicans want!" He pretended to hold the former position for less than a day.
So uh, not that.
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