This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
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The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
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HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
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Lovely, smart, well-informed lady, but it’s obvious her most effective years are behind her.
I also notice that there’s not a lot of geriatrics in the criminal cabal that’s taken over. Excluding the head criminal, of course.
He's had his job sitting on his hands while nazis take over for 28 fucking years. My entire life.
The DNCC refuses to support young people or their ideas.
When older Dems retire, the party casts around for "moderates." This is a years long fail.
Parodies. You're all parodies of yourselves.
https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lpqxhja52c2v
At least make it a bigger challenge. The Republicans might be thwarted. Why take that option off the table?
Highly unlikely in a 48 hour time frame, but history is full of bizarre unexpected events. We might get lucky.
They had the votes regardless. This bill is 100% on MAGA GOP. Why do we never blame them.
(Yes there are too many senior Dems who need to retire)
But don't blame Dems (dead or alive lol) for a bill literally all Dems voted against and all but 2 Rs voted for.
the refusal of the party as a whole to buck against seniority is what kneecapped the harris campaign.
if joe put his ego aside for once and offered kamala the same courtsey obama offered him and clinton, she'd be pres
It's fucking MATH bitch
asking voters to fight for decrepit old people who can barely show up let alone fight for them is asking to lose.
meanwhile the dems who are have the fight get sidelined for ego.
That's literally how this works. Run every 2 years, try to win the majority.
MATH is MATH, mouthbreather.
There was no way in hell that this would not get passed
I voted for Bernie in both of those, a primary did exist.
The DNC rallied behind a center-right candidate in both situations, but that wasn't a lack of a primary - that was the DNC primary always being fucking broken.
This is how the DNC has always functioned, and it has always been broken this way.
The rot has always been there.
You know this...
In this case ignoring they'd still have had the vote. This allowed them a few more GOPers to do theater with their votes.
POINTLESS.
No. We lost because the Republican Party has lost it's fucking mind and wants to purge people instead of protect them
I do not want to hear one more person blaming Democrats for the rest of my very short life
Recognize your mistakes & stop blaming others
Step up to the plate & do something about it
Get to work we don't have much time left
Throw monkey wrenches in everything you can & slow down the process
But you need to begin with a hard look at yourself because no one should be blaming Democrats - we should be lining up behind them to give them all the ammunition they need to get the job done
It's a slippery slope and it's your job to make you don't slip
Focus on the problems and stop distracting people from what they must now go and do
Medicare saved my life, now they're taking that and our work away.
Fuck anyone who supports Trump.
Bitching that the out-party didn’t block something they couldn’t block, and then saying the failure is *still* all theirs because they didn’t win, is pro-GOP bullshit.
I hope you’ve called your Senators and demanded they shoot the bill down, since that’s where it heads next. I hope you’ve called your rep and told them your views.
I do vote every primary to get these losers out of their offices and get new younger politicians.
The Ds are the ones who are steering us off a cliff because they refuse to listen to their constituents, refuse to change or adapt.
If we’re out of power, what should we do? Sit patiently? Or maybe reflect on why we’re out of power and fix it?
Anyone following Alejandra Caraballo knows how the GOP are respobsible for this, but to just say "this is all GOP and they have to own it" is insufficient. We KNOW that but we can do more to fix the state of affairs.
1. Blame the GOP for this bill. 100% full stop.
2. Always do the work to improve the Democrat party.
These should be entirely separate imo. Why muddle the message at all about who passed this horrible bill.
Dems not showing up because some candidates were old was a stupid choice.
What you DON’T do if you want things to be better is attack Dems when they do the right thing en mass.
Dig?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/not-done-yet-us-senate-republicans-plan-changes-houses-trump-tax-cuts-bill-2025-05-22/
Even if all those Dems who passed away were there today. The GOP would have passed the bill.
Representatives must have a greater extent of information and stability of character, and they should be 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 the period of life most likely to supply these advantages.
We have now lost three House members this year due to age and infirmity. I'm closer to 70 than you are and I agree.
In January there was hope because the margins were so tight. That is all gone now.
Kinda like double dipping
https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/us-news/last-8-congressional-deaths-were-all-dems-boosting-gops-razor-thin-vote-margins/
I'm with David Hogg.
Also
"We will push out any young people who don't follow our rules"
Youth alone is not a qualifier for office, just like age is not.
Fascism runs on suicidal logic—it devours the future to preserve the illusion of control.
And large parts of the Democratic Party aren’t outside that dynamic.
They hoard power, silence renewal, and protect the status quo—
even as the system turns on its own.
#EndTimesFascism #Othering
Has no grasp of risk assessments, opportunity costs, and damage control...
Results matter.
"David Hogg: Democrats Should Mimic 'Young' Republicans Like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan"
"David Hogg doubled down on a generational slight against “old” Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi versus “young” Republican leaders such as Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan.
https://www.newsweek.com/david-hogg-nancy-pelosi-marco-rubio-paul-ryan-age-republicans-millennial-baby-1083336
If establishment Dems are so hell-bent on their party fading into irrelevancy, then maybe the younger Dems they refuse to include should strike out on their own and leave the establishment in the dust.
geriatric hubris is a huge problem in every industry
We are suffering the results of that.
Trump is a symptom. The real disease is a culture that cheered greed, normalized inequality, and mistook control for stability.
Swapping faces won’t fix it.
We have to confront the system that let it fester.
One of the very few good aspects of the House of Lords is it's a way to accommodate geriatric politicians who refuse to leave the Westminster gravy train
The job requires:
a) a worldview that matches your constituency's
b) the physical wherewithal to do the work and complete a term
These people are DECADES out of step, and dropping like flies. They're simply the wrong people for the job.
The age barriers make more sense.
If Nancy Pelosi were 55, she'd be an awesome candidate---but she's not.
I had shit libs screaming at me about how Gerry Connolly was fit to hold office up to the literal second that they announced his *death*.
We also need to vote in the primaries if we want to replace old candidates.
Anyone who cannot do that bare minimum for themselves and the country is a fucking idiot.
If you lose because people won’t go out to vote, your job is to figure out how to get them to vote. Complaining at them because they didn’t hasn’t worked the last few times and it won’t work now.
They have talked about & offered solutions for all the things that voters CLAIM they are concerned about.
Yet voters still stay home & believe GOP BS.
Because they are fucking stupid.
“The American Population is stupid” is something I generally agree with. But then the job is getting stupid people vote for you while still enacting good policy. The Democratic Party is failing at that
Blaming essentially powerless individuals instead of the massively powerful systems that lord over them is the essence of conservatism.
It takes practically zero effort.
And to be clear, it is not contempt for regular people, it is contempt for STUPID and LAZY people who refuse to do the bare minimum for themselves and their country by at least voting against the GOP.
How many elections do you need to lose before you'd be willing to try something different?
We can’t confront and defeat evil if we’re being cut down every 5 minutes by them.
They gotta go.
Thank you, I needed the laugh 🤡🤣
I used to be like you tho, thinking the parties were definitely two different things—but they’re really just two sides of the same shitty coin, and maybe one side of the coin is really shiny, but don’t let that distract you from getting a better coin.
We're going to lose healthcare because 215 Republicans voted for it.
We lost Roe because a majority of Republican SCOTUS judges voted for it.
We lost the election because Republicans (and Indies) voted for Trump.
GTFOH with your blame shifting.
Did I wake up on a different timeline?
Went to sleep on one where he stepped back and Kamala Harris ran for the democratic ticket.
But okay
Then they had another two years in which Biden could have made good on his pledge to be a one-term bridge candidate and stepped down to allow a primary.
But, hey, gerontocracy!
By the history written on it Joe was the 'presumptive candidate' in that time, but sure, he did say he wouldn't step down a few times and did an early debate
I thought the problem is that the other party doesn’t play fair and they are now Fascists
The centrist democrats who play nice with fascists are a secondary but still material problem
https://bsky.app/profile/themistocleswall.bsky.social/post/3lpr7ma34dk2c
Term limits & age limits are not the answer
Pass knowledge, pass the torch, term limits.
You honestly believe that the bill passed because Democrats are old and not because the GOP have the house? It would have passed REGARDLESS.
You're also saying that a young person with breast cancer should not run for office.
But yeah, you can run the country if you're 100...
It’s blah blah blah blah!I smell fart & it’s coming from everywhere. Gasp, it means the picks’ for pander to timid tastes?!
Do you NOT FUCKING REALIZE they started the fucking war SOLELY TO INFLUENCE THE FUCKING ELECTION??
There's nothing Dems could have done to end the war before the election.
Now all you "but Gaza" fucknuts elected Trump and now the Israelis can genocide ALL THEY WANT and we've got trans people being KILLED HERE NOW to boot. THANKS, MORONS.
Nowhere has the reluctance of boomers to give up power be more detrimental as in politics, the judiciary, and pop music.
AAAAAND:
HOW MUCH MOOOOORE TIME DO SO MANY OF THESE "BRILLIANT INTELLIGENT AWARE VOTERS" EVERYWHERE *NEED*??
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#ObliviousIntellectualizingAdNauseum...
"The Smarter You Get, The More Ignorant You Realize You Truly Are." -proverb
We don't have a Democratic House.
Maybe they’ll get the hint?
Now instead of getting some of what they want they're getting none of it.
Stripping trans care is no glitch. It’s design.
Cruelty isn’t a side effect—it’s the strategy.
End Times Fascism doesn’t need reason. Just obedience.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/success/mandatory-retirement-age-boards-ceos/index.html#:~:text=There%20is%20an%20exception%20in,a%20minimum%20of%20$44%2C000%20a
They literally do not need to negotiate if they all vote in favor.
This tone deaf talking point defies reality. I have not been wanting to say this, but fuck Blue MAGA maybe real.
Adding to the already giant doomer Dem zeitgest is unneeded and in this case, inaccurate.
Dem here.
Clinton lost MI, Wai, and PA, the 3 key states that gave trump the EC win by around 77k votes.
Voters who went 3rd party and who switched to
Obama didn't have the numbers in the Senate to stop McConnell. Kennedy was sick and Frankin wasn't seated. But y'all have to blame someone - anyone other than 3rd party and
Our country is being destroyed because leftists and white people can't get their fucking shit together. White people CONSISTENTLY vote in favor of racists
All y'all who helped enable this shit we have now had to fucking do was NOT VOTE in a way that enabled a rapist, liar, fascist felon, anti-science,
We're the Dems killed or did they die? We won't know.
I'm not mad at old people at large, I'm mad at a specific bloc of humans that led us to this point with their lazy bullshit.
If you literally can’t win an election without progressives, shouldn’t you be bending over backwards to get their votes? Seems like a poor plan not to get the support of the people that keep “making you lose”
2. The thing about RBG not retiring is that after 2014 it wouldn't have been safe for her to retire. Republicans would have blocked Obama from filling her vacancy just like they blocked him from filling Scalia's.
But it also didn't help that a lot of leftists SORELY need to learn perspective - and how to walk & chew gum at the same time.
Every step of the way the Democrats have stopped short of doing something because 'nuclear buttons' scare them, but republicans use them every time they gain power.
Joe didn't challenge SCOTUS on Roe.
There's no point maintaining decorum in fist fight
Maybe it's 100% true to you, but the rest of us aren't buying it. Stop looking for soundbites and start describing real problems.
I find it absurd to assume that 5 nonvoting Republicans were all secretly planning on voting no. That's not how this works.
This is a terrible target for our anger.
2 Repubs slept through the vote. 2 voted no, one voted "present." Who knows what would have happened if they knew the vote came down to them.
The squishy ones might even have exacted worse cuts just to get the House majority to the "yes" it so desperately wanted.
The reason for all of this, is that the democrats are nearly as far right as the republicans.
Yes, I wish we had those seats, but it wouldn't make a difference in this congress, or particularly this vote.
We don't know about the other two situations -- one can never know what would have happened.
Blame the villains, not Democrats.