MAGA were able to kick 14 million people off of healthcare because three Democrats in Congress died of foreseeable causes. It’s time for Democrats to stop treating public office as a retirement home. - ThreadSky

maxberger.bsky.social • 5 days ago

MAGA were able to kick 14 million people off of healthcare because three Democrats in Congress died of foreseeable causes.

It’s time for Democrats to stop treating public office as a retirement home.

Reposted from southpaw

Passage of Trump’s cruel multi-trillion tax and spending bill depended on intrasession Democratic deaths.

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psaltis.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes, RBG should have retired, Connolly should have stepped aside, Biden should have withdrawn earlier (though at least he did withdraw eventually).

But ultimately the responsibility here falls on Republicans—leaders and voters.

psaltis.bsky.social•4 days ago

What Democratic leaders need to do now is to get massive numbers of people in front of senators’ offices and in public spaces to express their opposition to this hideous bill.

jenaschiller.bsky.social•5 days ago

C'mon we can be extremely ticked off about the Dem leadership propping up Connolly and not lie that that's the reason. All three Rs who took the cover would have voted and it's disingenuous to make the Republican bill about Dems.

feelsbadshyam.bsky.social•4 days ago

The reason the GOP has the opportunity right now is that 7 months ago, Dems badly lost an election b/c they destroyed what little remained of the party’s credibility, refused to address the economic situation, and refused to tie all of our crises as the nation straight back to oligarchy.

feelsbadshyam.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Democratic Party is the lever that rational people have some influence on. The GOP is stuck in fifth gear. Demanding they do better will not yield results, and neither will leaving the Dem party to its own devices.

choubacha.bsky.social•5 days ago

Maybe, it’s close!

But the bill isn’t law yet, it could still get defeated or heavily modified in the senate and public opinion could help.

harryiii.bsky.social•5 days ago

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, they are running a young, committed social organizer like David Hogg out on a rail.

cmcdade.bsky.social•5 days ago

Or, hear me out, we set up the hospice beds on the floor of Congress. We can use the time before they all die to set up the Ouija boards we'll need to maintain contact with our esteemed representatives.

kathmandu513.gobirds.online•5 days ago

Nope. MAGA kicked 14 million people off their Healthcare because Americans voted to put Republicans in charge and Republicans voted to take away Healthcare for 14 million people.
Stop it right now.
Even if Connolly was alive Dems did not have the votes to stop this.

cc2much.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gutless opportunists, passing laws in the dark

samglazer.bsky.social•5 days ago

There’s still a really long way to go. No way this bill passes the senate as is.

jeffwaldorf.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's worse than a retirement home, they're treating it like a hospice ward while actively alienating young progressives.

tsutsunm.bsky.social•5 days ago

I get that the dems generally suck, but over 200 assholes votes yea for this bill. The fault lies at the feet of the shitty cult members of the GOP.

feelsbadshyam.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yelling at the GOP doesn’t do shit. Yelling at voters will do worse than nothing. The only people left to push are the Democratic Party.

differentperson.bsky.social•5 days ago

we already know they suck. why do you people insist on yelling at them when that doesn’t do shit?

moonstruckella.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes, we know they're bad, what does that do for us

cyanescens.bsky.social•5 days ago

For real this is really pissing me off!

It’s hard not falling into despair reading the news these days & posts like this, which are rampant on here this morning, make it harder. If you want to have a conversation about Dems treating Congress as a retirement home fine, but don’t lie about shit

cyanescens.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Momentum Training Institute”? Is this what you/they do? “Looks like a lot of people who care about the country are slipping into a deep depression, how can we keep up or accelerate this momentum?”

cyanescens.bsky.social•5 days ago

MAGA came a step closer to doing that, but they haven’t yet & saying that the battle is already lost only serves to depress & demoralize people who anyone with a platform should be trying to get riled up to fight instead!

cyanescens.bsky.social•5 days ago

Leaving aside for another time that the case for this being the fault of elderly Democrats rather than the GOP and the voters who gave them a majority is weak

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