"Democrats are being callous" against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.
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I think the Democratic leadership learned from the last debt ceiling debacle, where they did whatever the GOP and Trump wanted and got pelted with figurative rotten eggs by everyone who was paying attention.
The Obamacare subsidies are an easy hill to die on. They are available to anyone who makes less than a high middle class income, and for a great many Americans, they are the absolutely only way they can afford health insurance.
A self-declaredly populist movement like MAGA should know better than making health care unaffordable to millions to pay for billionaire tax cuts and corruption.
I think the Democratic leadership learned from the last debt ceiling debacle
No, they dont have the backing of a biased DNC anymore. So they're trying to paint themselves as progressive warriors.
Newsom was the most noticable, but Schumer and Jeffries are doing the same thing. They realized they're actually going to have competitive primaries, and that negotiating with trump virtually guarantees they lose their next primary.
It's pure self preservation, they still need replaced. And we absolutely can not afford to keep them in office, let alone leadership positions.
I'm not nearly that cynical about literally everything the Dems do, but I'm absolutely cool with replacing the 70 year olds. (Schumer is 74.)
Outside of Bernie, they relied on the DNC squashing primary challengers, then being the only option in the general.
That's why all the big neoliberals are putting on these acts, they're more scared of midterms than Republicans are. They need to suck up all the oxygen so real progressives don't heard, and billionaire owned.media is happy to help.
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And for the record, Bernie needs primaried too, everyone does. Healthy primaries is how we make sure we win generals.
Healthy primaries is how we make sure we win generals.
If we can learn just this one lesson from the last presidential, we will be in so much better shape.
The most cowardly creature on the planet is an American politician - every last one of them. They are feral animals, and the only thing they understand is fear, which is why they attempt to use it on us so often. They think we are just as cowardly as they are.
So put the pressure on them, and they will back down every single time, and if they don't, then pressure them harder, and then you vote them out, and if they don't leave, you CRUSH them mercilessly.
These people work for US, and that is not rhetoric, it is literally the truth. They need to know that we expect them to do what they are told, because if we are forced to do their jobs for them, it will be very, very bad for them.
The biggest losers are Schmuck Schumer and Jeffries, who are at least 50% responsible for Trump regaining office. They sat back and let the MAGAs steal the election right before their eyes, and then immediately declared it "Fair & Square," with no investigation at all.
Sure, the guy has cheated at literally EVERYTHING he has ever done for his entire life, but the ONLY time in his life that he didn't cheat was the one election that would literally keep him out of prison for the rest of his life? How does that make any sense at all. We KNOW this guy extremely well, and we are supposed to believe that he did any honorably and in good faith. The Dem leadership may be that stupid, or weak, or scared, but I'm not.
If they were doing their most basic jobs of defending America from its enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, they could have had Trump and his henchman arrested the moment that Biden was sworn in, but they let those jackals run free, and steal the next election.
IF we regain our country, we obviously have to crush, purge, and imprison MAGA Nazis for their crimes, but we should also ruthlessly purge these simpering weak ass Democrats who didn't do their jobs, and ran away from those mean old scary MAGA twerps when we needed them most.
I'd rather have them engaged in a futile struggle to save their useless asses than flat-out capitulating at the first hurdle as they usually do.
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The thing about this "populist" movement is, they are liars.
Billionaire owned media will never call an actual populist a populist...
They want to keep it a dirty word, when it literally just means putting the average citizen's needs above the needs of the wealthiest.
If we don't have populism, the alternative is an oligarchy. Those are the two ends of the scale, we can get something near the middle, but it at least has to be fair.
If the wealthiest have an advantage, they'll never stop accumulating wealth.
And wealth is finite, for them to accumulate more, they got to take it from someone else.
MAGA is a populist movement. Actually representing the will of the people is not required to meet the definition of "populist".
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The Obamacare Subsidies are Tax Credits. MAGAs give tax credits to any old Sociopathic Oligarchs just for asking, yet they can't allow one for American citizens so they can have HEALTH CARE?
Back in the Spring, we were all pissed off at Schmuck Schumer after he bent over and helped the MAGA Nazis keep the government open, because they said they'd negotiate on whatever the Dems wanted.
Six months later, and they haven't negotiated anything, and now they want to end healthcare. They give Sociopathic Oligarchs any tax break they demand, but they can't give one to the American people for their fucking HEALTH CARE? These people are psychopaths!
Now they are demanding that Dems end the strike, and THEN they'll negotiate? That's what they said last time, and now they're taking our health care away. If we give them our health care so they can open up the government and continue to abuse us, what will they take away in 6 months? Our freedom of speech? Our courts? Our ELECTIONS? OUR FREEDOM?
Nope, keep it closed down until they give us what we demand. The country they want to open isn't the country we want to open anyway. We're better off leaving it shut down, they'll do less damage.
Chuck Schumer would fold in an instant if the republicans agreed to name the bill "the bipartisan bill of cooperation" and put $500 towards the Department of Education. The republicans won't even give him that.
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When assessing the bias of an article, look at how it ascribes all of the agency to one party.
Chuck Schumer sounded as if he were relishing his standoff with the Republicans
What Chuck Schumer is doing right now, it’s sickening.”
Democrats are maximizing the leverage they have
Outrage followed from Republicans, who printed out the Senate minority leader’s remark on posters and condemned it
the White House took it upon itself to increase the misery for government employees when Russ Vought, the director of the office of management and budget, began following through on his threat to carry out layoffs.
Notice how Republicans never simply do anything? The one action this article ascribes to Republicans is "following through on his threat".
Republican layoffs are deep inside a complicated sentence, well beneath the fold. But the HEADLINE, is...that the minority party refuses to vote for a bill they didn't get any input into. The fact they weren't allowed any input is unmentioned in the article.
So the Republicans control all three branches of government, including both houses of Congress, and it's the Democrats' fault that they can't pass a budget?
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
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I am pleasantly surprised that they didn't fold. Hopefully they keep it up.
"What Chuck Schumer is doing right now, it’s sickening."
Who was it that called a recess early and hasn't backed down on ACA subsidies?
I must have Mike confused with Chuck.
The Speaker of the House has the power to keep everyone in session for as long as it takes to pass anything. Instead of voting over and over until anything passes, he's sent them away. The Democrats COULDN'T vote to pass right now, because only Mike Johnson can call them in to vote.
Democrats refuse to fold
check the temperature in hell.
Cold.... REALLY cold
Keep at it, don't barge. This is the biggest move they've done in this term, and I want them to stay strong.
I want them to win.
GOP cut billionaire tax and now say they can't afford healthcare and shut government over it. Dems just watching and owe nothing.
Just for clarity, if every single R votes yes and every D voted no, would the budget pass? Of does it require a larger majority that the GOP doesn't have?
The GOP has 53 senators. Under current Senate procedural rules, they need 60 votes to pass a budget.
Having said that, they only need 50 votes to change Senate procedural rules. However, for reasons I do not comprehend, Senators from both bodies have been surprisingly resistant to the idea of removing or adding exemptions to the 60 vote requirement.
Because simple majority would swing back the other way in no time and there would be little the current majority party could do. Every two years it’s likely to change these days
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Obviously it requires a larger majority, otherwise they wouldn't be in this situation. I think it requires 60%
I wouldn't say "obviously" because I wouldn't put it past the GOP to just have some refuse to vote along just to blame their opponents for the fallout, especially when they wanted that fallout in the first place.
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