Most of these Senators have a net worth of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. They love Trump. He is cutting their taxes. (but not yours)
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Schumer, the fuck dude?
Unpopular opinion: Republicans/Maga want to destroy the public sector. Why give the Republicans what they want? The dems stand for the public sector. Fight the Republicans but please use other means than shutting down a sector that is already under attack of Maga.
The dems stand for the public sector.
Do they?
The Republicans control both houses. If they can't get a CR passed by themselves, they need to make significant compromises to pass a bipartisan bill, which they haven't done. That's basic politics and it's been the case for hundreds of years.
Acting like this is the Democrats fault is nonsense. If the government can't pay the bills the people of the country need to finally see the incompetence and disdain for the American people that this administration has.
As for the public sector workers, if you think this will save them you're completely mistaken. This buys them weeks or a couple of months at most. Maybe a government shut down will remind the people what public servants do for them so they can start opposing this butchery of the government.
If the Republicans wanted that they'd have done it.
Trump could have just vetoed the spending bill when it came to his desk. He didn't need the Democrats to bow he just wanted to see if they would.
I always forget about Angus King... How does that dude always fly under the radar?
I'm a Mainer and will be sure to call his office. It's so pathetic the Democrats and King dropped our only leverage for free. When it's the Republicans trump they always pull a stunt regarding funding the government.
Traitors. Get rid of all of them.
Cuck Schumer primary assfuck him immediately
unfortunately he cant be removed till the end of his term, but he can be removed as senate minority leader, immediately, and removed from all his committees. Lets see if the dems have the stones to do that. If they dont, they are all complicit.
They'll get riiiiight on that
not
Call your senator and ask them to remove him
Don't like the guy, but no need to kink shame
This was the only bit of leverage democrats had, the future of US democracy now lies with the judiciary, any future elections will be a farce.
The judiciary that is irreparably compromised already?
That's the one
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I don't care if it's cloture or the actual bill itself...
There should be zero Dems voting "yes" on any-fucking-thing these MAGAt bastards want.
Blatant and complete obstruction is the only way to play this hand for the foreseeable future.
Those Dems that do vote yes... 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕
Cloture vote required 60 for passage, final passage is only a majority. Cloture is literally the only time the minority party can assert itself, and they just gave it up.
The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.
Jeanne Shaheen already announced that she's not running for reelection...and she STILL voted for the CR. Not to mention that 4 of the other Dems are from the bluest of states.
What fucking bullshit.
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Cowards. All of them need to go
But Fetterman just blasted the Dems for showing up at a fight with a casserole. How did he turn to then serving the casserole?
It's interesting that no one in the media talks about how Fetterman was one of the most progressive politicians, then he had a stroke and started taking the maga side on a lot of things.
It tracks with a lot of other anecdotal evidence (e.g. Tila Tequila becoming a nazi after an aneurysm, some lady in a recent Channel 5 video said she became pro-Trump following a head injury in a car accident, a couple of people in my personal life, RFK Jr. obviously). I'm not saying all magas are brain damaged - there's many different reasons I'm sure. But someone's gotta at least start asking the question. There is at least this study which ties brain damage to religious fundamentalism, which isn't exactly politics but it's pretty darn close.
Yes, let's not forget the country has been taken over by religious zealots who believe in the rapture among other things.
Ironically we are the ones who are cooked
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That's the last time I vote for Gary Peters. Good riddance. Fucking cowards!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The Tree of Liberty.
When party stops representing the people it is time for the people to begin representing themselves.
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I just contacted both my senators to thank them for their no votes and to encourage them both to work on removing Schumer from his minority leader position.
This is why we need a real party of the left rather than fascists and fascist-lites. Because when push comes to shove the fascist-lites will always side with the fascists and betray the common man
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Hawaii has been sucking recently
They also gave us Tulsi Gabbard.
They really Schatz the bed
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