I'm sorry I just find it incredibly hard to believe that Schumer alone and five odd lackeys are the only ones who have a read on what the shut down will mean and all of the unions, the house and all of their constituents are reading it wrong
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If this were any other country, Schumer, Durbin, Gillibrand, and Jeffries all would have resigned by now, totally out of office, not just their leadership. Even a dictatorship would shuffle these losers out for total incompetence.
This is one of the problems I have with the "term limits are bad" argument because what you end up with is people who view this as a lifetime appointment if they win more than twice and you end out with representation in name only
That's a flaw in electoral systems, one for which term limits are way too broad a fix. Basically there should be no such thing as single-member geographic districts, they always cause this disconnect from voters regardless.
To me the “term limits are bad” argument has always at its core felt anti-democratic because at its core it’s saying that voting against incumbents is bad
But surely the inverse is truer: if term limits are bad, then voting *for* incumbents is always bad, because it should be literally impossible. By contrast, the argument against term limits is nonetheless extremely okay with incumbents being voted out, perhaps every election if the people wish.
"If the same people keep winning, it's undemocratic to let them take office" is questionable to me. I grant that you can easily wind up with a highly nonrepresentative legislature! But term limits don't actually cause the composition of the whole to look more like the composition of the electorate.
There’s an entirely anti-democratic party primary infrastructure here that wrecks the general election every cycle. The actual elections in this country are primaries, not the general, which is where all this occurs
I get how structrually given our system there's a desire to maintain institutional memory/make it harder for corruption but they're already letting the lobbyists run the show, they're already taking the checks, whatever guardrail this was supposed to be has failed & it reads anti-democratic
Agreed, and the solution to institutional memory problems is never to simply insist that someone can’t leave, it’s to spread knowledge around, especially during onboarding.
As a Jewish person to be blunt, you and the rest of the corporate neoliberal Dems have moved beyond being spineless Vichyites to being an obsequious spineless band of weasel Judenrat - I’d rather you @ least tried to be like the Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighters.
Trying to convince the voters he's the smartest dem in the room. I trust Aoc on a lot of things and this is one of them.
New Yorkers should and must primary him.
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Democrats need new leadership.
Hell, leadership at all.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/03/pale-horse-dgaf-about-you-american.html
Schumer and the stooges: "We're gonna keep it open to protect federal workers."
As a Jewish person to be blunt, you and the rest of the corporate neoliberal Dems have moved beyond being spineless Vichyites to being an obsequious spineless band of weasel Judenrat - I’d rather you @ least tried to be like the Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighters.
New Yorkers should and must primary him.