Schumer Will Lead Senate Democrats To Pass Poison-Pilled Republican CR
Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate...
America has been sold to the oligarchs. If the citizens want any sense of freedom they’re going to have to step up to the plate and take some swings at the oligarchs
So he folded like a wet piece of paper. Can't say im surprised
Holy fuck you feckless fascist-enabling imbecilic dipshit. Jesus tapdancing christ, you complete fucking wilted parsnip. Reach into your purse and find your balls, you unequivocal fucking cunt. What the actual fuck is wrong with you, you entirely indelible santorum stain.
I got a noise complaint from the screaming fit I had upon reading he regrettably has an inverted hyper-vagina instead of testicles. (It's a terminal illness)
I immediately tried calling every single one of his offices just in case someone was there late.
I will be calling when they open tomorrow.
F#*K Chuck! I’m done with this nonsense!
If we are going into a Civil War scenario, I am glad it would be under Trump's influence. I don't want my enemies to have a smart or iron-willed leader. Preferable for him to be charismatic, so that all the Magats follow him when he runs Fascist America off a cliff.
That is pretty much the only bronze lining to his purge of leaders, soldiers, and workers: They will end up working with the good guys, lending their skill and drive to our cause.
You stupid, rotten, useless cunts!
THEY ARE TERIFIED.
Why isn't MSNBC on the vigil? Why isn't CNN on the offensive? Why did the WP sell out its editorial column?
THEY ARE TERRIFIED.
You don't even know how bad it is, because the commercial entities that the US has entrusted with their information are now looking out for themselves.
THERE'S A REASON THAT THE PRESS IS THE FOURTH COLUMN. and we get to see why in the worst way.
Defeating Republicans with complete submission. Maybe they'll wear matching colors to show they're voting it in protest.
Yep.
The CR hands a lot of purse strings to trump directly, it's cause and way more at the presidents discretion.
A shutdown is 100% the move here.
But Schumer is a neoliberap thru and thru. So he's going to do what the money (and Israel) want. And that means bailing out trump.
We can't fight fascism with neoliberalism, because both groups do whatever they can for the largest check.
It controlled opposition, and the only way either of them can win an election, is when they're the only two options.
I heard they have black paddles and everything.
Call your senators, they can still block this despite Schumers push. This is not a done deal. The vote is tomorrow. If all republican vote for it, they need 7 dems. 8 with Rand Paul who has said he'll vote no. (Republicans are not using reconciliation so it needs the the filibuster)
Many senate dems are publicly coming out against voting for cloture (meaning they won't vote to let it get through the filibuster). As of what I last read, around 10 dems are thought to potentially vote to let it pass filibuster. Most of those are still not sure. We only need a handful more of those to become noes and it will get blocked. Some yeses have flipped to noes because of public pressure. We cannot let up now
Link to find direct numbers your senators
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121
Fetterman hears me.
Fetterman don’t care.
Fetterman is an asshole for sure, but he's also inconsistent. He does sometimes vote the right way, and sometimes doesn't. He is less pressurable than other dems, but it doesn't mean he can't be pressured at all. It is still worth calling him. If nothing else his staffers hearing those calls might talk to other dems about how widespread they are and help other dems flip
Wow. Literally just heard this chode on NPR talking a big game followed by Tim Caine that it was going to be a hard "no". So much for the "we stand united" against a fully packed R bill that never hit discussed with the Ds.
Absolutely fucking spineless. They have literally given up on even trying to look like they are against what is going on.
Appeasement. Cowards, the lot of them.
At this point how many times do people need to get that Dems won't fight for you even at their lowest popularity.
The only way murica comes back is with a revolution. No politicians give a fuck about anyone but themselves and their family. Glad im not murican
Jesus fucking Christ we need a working families party so bad in this country. Why isn't Bernie, AOC or any other leader starting to coordinate such a thing?
AOC has been saying things according to MSM.
Bernie is he’s doing a coast to coast tour right now. He’s getting huge crowds
I really hope he's in the recruitment phase for something.
Because it's just not feasible without election reform. Over 99% of legislative offices (both state and federal) are held by either a Republican or a Democratic nominee. We're on presidential election away from it being 60 years since a 3rd party presidential candidate received a single electoral vote. And Perot won just shy of 19% of the national popular vote in 1992. We need a progressive groups funding progressive primary challengers, and progressive voters turning up for them.
We need a progressive groups funding progressive primary challengers, and progressive voters turning up for them.
We need fair primaries.
Honestly, I think a civil war is going to be needed if America is ever going to be fixed. It would be nice if I am proven wrong, but things really don't feel good right now. :P
It will be hard, but it's not impossible. If you start organizing early you could get enough pissed off people. It would probably end up collapsing one of the parties in only one or two election cycles (likely Democrats) anyway.
keep calling because people on bsky are saying ossoff is now leaning towards no
If their phone lines aren't available: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Same. Team. Not ours.
Both sides want this, I don't know how else to process the fact they don't do anything to stop Trump, but do everything to stop a new face to stand up against Trump.
what a failure.
Yippe! Even more spineless than we thought!
Not even a day after this spinless asshole said they'd stand strong.
I guess all the endless calling our representatives just means fuck-all doesn't it?
Yeah, pretty much.
But here's my final correspondence to my Democratic Senators
I want to share how absolutely disappointed I am with the Democratic party and how they are handling being the opposition party thus far especially with this latest round of budget bills that screw over the working families by cutting Medicaid/care. Not even one freaking day after after stating that Democrats would stand strong and not vote for this abomination of a bill, your leader goes and announces they're going to vote for it.
This party has no spine, no convictions and won't stand up to fascism and continues to roll over and vote for anything the Nazi-salute party shoves your way. I am absolutely sickened at this lack of leadership and standing up against these fascist and honestly, I don't see a point in voting for Democrats moving forward when this is the lesser of two evils but then again, I'm sure leadership here will vote to remove our right to vote soon in the grandest gestures of capitulation so I guess there's that.
Protest if you can. If not, ask the groups what support you can offer with a list of skills such as logistics, spreadsheet, security, secure com, policing tactics, etc
Can we get these old spineless fucks out already?
First you have to beat them in what democrats hilariously call primaries. If they have primaries at all.
Spineless pieces of shit. Empty suits.
And people have the gall to shame people who stayed home and refused to vote for Kamala.
(Note, I voted for Kamala. You have to point that out or liberals shit themselves.)
We need to let the Democratic Party die completely. They are captured opposition.
Liberals pretend that it was democracy vs. fascism on the ballot in 2024. It wasn't. Democracy wasn't on the ballot. What was on the ballot were two choices:
Those were the only two choices. Just like Democrats now, Kamala and friends would not have made any meaningful change. They would have just coasted, sitting on their asses, doing nothing until Trump or someone worse rode into office in 2028.
Democrats didn't even bother preparing for Project 2025, even though they had the whole thing detailed in advance.
If Democrats aren't going to use what power they have while out of office, they don't deserve to be put into office.
We need a new party, a popular front that will start by crushing the Democrats and then move on to crush MAGA. We cannot kill MAGA until we first kill the corporate Democrats. They're a captured opposition that sucks all the oxygen out of the room and prevents any real good from happening. In many ways, they are worse than Republicans. At least Republicans are honest about their evil.
We need a new party, a popular front that will start by crushing the Democrats and then move on to crush MAGA.
So make it then.
Other more progressive better parties already exist. They don't get votes. What is your party going to do differently to get votes?
But why make a new party when you can vote out establishment corporate Democrats in primaries, remaking the Democratic party? Seems pointless to start from square 1 when the Dems are right there ripe for a take over.
when you can vote out establishment corporate Democrats in primaries
the party fights against progressives in the primaries harder than it does against republicans in the general.
Honestly i think it would be easier and faster to take over the republican party sometimes
Thanks for voting for Kamala.
If we get to vote for President in 2028, do you think your new party will have killed the Democrats yet? If not, will you vote for the Democratic candidate again? If not, do you think there will be another chance in 2032?
I've voted Democrat my whole life out of the lesser evil thing. I think I'm going to vote third party at this point because things are getting eviler and they are part of the problem.
My question is if I vote Democrat again, will they simply maintain the status quo and do nothing until the next fascist runs on blowing up the system that they are defending that isn't working for anyone and wins again?
Because so far that's all that has happened. Oh yeah there was also that guy that won on "hope" and "change" and gave a handout to insurance companies instead of a public option.
After citizens united and before they are all owned by the same elites that crush everyone else. One party just does it under a cross and the other does it under a rainbow flag.
I don't know. I do know at this point that you might as well just write "Jesus" on the ballot instead of voting for Dems. In theory, voting for Jesus at least comes with a tiny minuscule chance of divine intervention, while voting for Dems just guarantees craven horseshit.
Check out the Working Families Party.
It would take at least three election cycles before a 3rd party to rise enough to genuinely challenge one of the parties, and in the meantime the Republicans would be fucking up the country, probably irreparably.
And that's only if they allow elections at all, or at least fair, unrigged ones.
This spineless weenie needs to get out of the way and let AOC take his place.
Ahh democrats. Showing the real face. See ya in 2028
Go on, centrists. How is this a Good Thing Actually?
Not a single spine in congress. None.
These days the only hope I have left for the US is that everyone on the left become a dem party member and primary the shit out of all these "high road" cowards.
Trump and co won't stop, and there won't be a backlash if it's not supported politically.
This assumes they even let you run. Or that you can afford to run or that they don’t pour millions of dollars into beating you.
We are absolutely fucked beyond a complete revolution, as much as that will hurt a lot of people.
TIL Schumer means Shitweasel in Yiddish.
As I said in the other thread, Republicans could have waited a week or two, got their act together on the budget reconciliation bill and then reopened the government without a single democratic senator. Closing the government hurts democratic interests and the republicans reopening it without democratic votes doesn't help democratic interests either.
We already have a party that is know for being stubborn, hurting it's own constituents, and not getting anything in return besides it's base praising how tough they look - we don't need a second one.
Cool. As an opposition party you make them do that.
You don't fucking work with the Nazi party, who is currently actively dismantling the government, because you are afraid your defense contractor constituents won't be happy.
The democrats got literally nothing from the republicans. That's absolutely not compromise, it's just being an ashamed republican.
Like I said in another thread. The shut down is temporary, what they put in that bill is not.
What you're conveniently ignoring is that Republicans only have a handful of reconciliation bills. Democrats should have forced them to burn one.
And Democratic interests? The government being open isn't going to stop Elon from gutting social spending. Forcing concessions that rein him in just might.
This is just such a bone-headed take.
The government is already shutting down though, the point is to not give the executive branch a blank check to spend because they're ignoring the courts. But I agree for different reasons that this move serves the party interests.