The Senate Democratic Caucus was unified on a ‘clean’ one-month CR that would have kept the government open and given Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation. I’m disappointed that our Republican colleagues wouldn’t join us in that effort.
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I will continue to fight against Donald Trump’s reckless, and in many instances, illegal attempts to gut the federal government. He is testing our system of checks and balances like they haven’t been tested in my lifetime. The fight continues.
Please take the decent course and resign immediately. Gov. Pritzker can appoint a senator who will represent Illinois with courage and conviction. If you care about this country and the constitution, I implore you to listen to your constituents and resign NOW!
Thank you for taking the time to do this. But as they clearly showed us yesterday, the Dems who tossed their votes to the Repugs, they don't give a damn about their constituents. It's all about the money and power politics.
I dunno, claiming their going to codify Roe v Wade for decades and never even attempting it should have been clear enough that they don’t give a damn about their constituents lol
Too late, Dick. You had your chance to fight. This was the one chance the Democrats had and you blew it. We will remember who fought hard and who did it. Us Illinoisans will make sure you never get back into office if you’re up for reelection again. You won’t even come close. We will primary you.
I wish, wish there was some quid pro quo, but this scumbag bent over for nothing. He violated his oath to protect the Constitution and the republic for nothing in return.
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO RETIRE OR RESIGN, DICK. YOU'RE BEING A DICK TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND TRUE AMERICANS. YOU MUST BE TOO TIRED TO FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
#TermLimits
#ByeByeDickDurbin
#DickDickDurbinRetire
It's funny that he sells the country out by helping pass the CR, puts out this bs statement like he's fighting for everyone and casts a meaningless vote against it bc he thinks everyone is stupid. What a worthless sack of shit.
You really must think people are fucking dumb. Since you've basically told Republicans that you'll swallow anything they put out if "shutdown" is the alternative
- they have O reason to ever negotiate w Dems. Republicans didn't need a blank check to cont burning down govt. Coward.
Consider Judas. If not for Judas Mary Magdeline would not have witnesses the Astral Body of Jesus walk out from his tomb.
This is what Christians don't understand but Spiritualists from Sweden, learning from Emmanuel Swedeborg began to understand before US Gov. blacklisted Psychics & Mediums.
“The fight continues” … without you! You just rolled over! You’ve lost my respect. I thought you would fight for the country like you did student borrowers but no. What do they have on you? There has to be a reason for this!
Blah blah blah blah. Words. Nothing more. Just words. From a coward. You had a chance to push back with those checks and balances you’re talking about. And you caved.
You and the Vichy caucus capitulated today. The economy has lost 3 trillion dollars, millions of federal employees have their livelihoods in limbo, our data is at risk, and you've taken the one lever of leverage and thrown it away.
Save your bullshit justifications. You killed the democratic party
It's like losing at Tic Tac Toe! Yes it happens occasionally. But when our side loses almost every time, when it should be at least a tie, it's like...
How are we so dumb that we can't even play Tic Tac Toe?
How do we not even have a plan. A well thought out plan. One that was tested for weeks.
It's not the 1980s or 1990s anymore. Empty platitudes after you knife your House colleagues in the back & spit in the eye of every American are seen for what they are, as are you.
Insulting! Dems must stand and fight, take the case to the American people. I’m a lifelong Dem and I’m beyond angry at the Party’s weakness and lack of fight. Get out and MARCH w us, rally Americans. But no, just roll over and give them carte blanche to destroy the Country and our lives. Resign
You cannot continue to do something you’ve never started to do. You and Schumer need to resign from leadership and make way for people who actually want to lead and fight. I am disgusted by your cowardice in the face of this outrageous Republican blackmail.
Shutdown is what trump wants to do so is playing into his hands shutdown huge mistake it will make u FEEL GOOD but a strategic loss. Schumer voted yes to allow other DEMS to vote no.
He cancelled interviews and hid from anyone who wanted to ask questions for a week - so no one actually knows what he was thinking. And he didn’t prep his base with any info.
He was outmaneuvered by Johnson. If he won’t fight, he needs to step aside.
No, Trump and the Republicans didn't want the shutdown. They wanted this CR because it hands the power of the purse to Trump instead of congress. The CR is a faster step toward dictatorship.
The shutdown would have forced the GOP to the bargaining table and it was possible to get a better CR.
I disagree. They don’t actually want a shutdown bc there are things they want to do that actually require a semi-functioning government. And a budget must get passed so they would have to negotiate.
No, go back and look at who voted which way in the house. Everybody from the swing district voted no. They are reading the room. The establishment Dems from safe districts? Not even willing to fight. Midterms are gonna be a hot mess cause there's gonna be a lot of primarying from within.
I was mostly talking about centrist voters and the House is slightly better at fighting than the Senate. But it’s the centrist Dems who have been pushing the party to the right and punching left.
This isn't about centrism its about Durbin's bad tactics. We can disagree on policy, but almost no Democrats think what Durbin and Schumer did today was smart on any level.
He wouldn't have wanted it for very long if Dems had pinned on him and kept calling it "The Trump Shutdown" in the media.
This "High Road" shit has to stop. You can't "High Road" people that don't have a floor to how low they're willing to go. Dems start need to using the Rep book against them.
NO HIGH ROAD THE STRATEGIC ROAD. a shutdown to make yourselves feel good not helping a thing. I def agree w no shutdown and felt Schumer fell on sword to allow most DEMS to vote again. Not saying im right. The MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE REASON WE ARE IN THIS HELLSCAPE IS BC WE LOST THE ELECTION.
imho 8 is not a majority of democrat senators & Schumer isn’t the right leader if he acts like a king—cause he can’t get majority behind his cowardice POV which doesn’t meet the moment we’re in.
Vote him out of leadership—we want to oust GOP in midterms.
It's time for the party to split. the establishment Dems are gonna dirty the water and make everybody think all the same both sides are the same. Time for a national DFL.
They’ve been playing this game forever! I posted the other day how thinking back that’s it’s always been a game. They beg and beg for money because (insert drama here) and sometimes they win sometimes they lose and they just shrug and say next time. But this time the game was changed. Do or die!
They’re just leaving us to die! Democracy to die at the very least! I wouldn’t even be one bit surprised if the Dems who voted yes took money from them to do it. I feel sick 🤢
The Dems must unite if they want to stand a chance of winning anything ever again. Instead of a split, we need to retire Schumer and his entire age cohort (including you, Nancy.) They're long past done.
If they can retire Schumer, great, but haven't we been asking for that since Trump 1.0? We're never winning anything by rolling over.The tea party movement moved the right wing the direction they wanted to go. An actual left wing block is exciting to a lot of people who are left of the current DNC.
No, they can caucus together, but this business of making policy that favors big business, taking money from big business, saying this is a problem and then not actually doing anything about it, that's all gotta stop. We lose the midterms entirely if it's just more vote blue no matter who bullshit
No split, purge. It will be easier to bury and replace the surrender monkeys than it will to launch a new party and defeat them that way (and the purge will not be easy either.)
Ranked choice voting, and I would like to see the electoral college go back to the one to 30,000 ratio specified in the constitution rather than holding to be parallel with the capped house. I think things have gotten more and more skewed since the capping.
Are you serious? We're closer to a full scale genocide in this country than we are to ranked fucking choice voting. Buy a gun and organize your shit if you want a chance.
Hard disagree with ur assessment. The progressive movement is a joke and just GOP lite. Ranked voting is a bad alternative as well. The party is dead & we all nd 2 figure a way forward after we oust a fascist regime. People still thk we r voting our way out of this disaster???😆🤦♂️🤦♂️
So please don't paint us all with the same brush. I'm a moderate when it comes to fiscal issues and a liberal when it comes to other issues. So I will not always agree with you but I do agree that his actions were abominable.
Yes, I definitely distinguish between the resistance Democrats and the establishment Democrats. A person doesn't have to look at too many voting records before they figure out quickly who is who
I disagree with you only to extent. I'm 68 years old and I guess I would be an establishment democrat because I've been a democrat since I turned 18. Even before if you can't work in on campaigns when I was in junior high school and high school. But I find what the senator did cowardly.
Length of time has nothing to do with establishment versus resistance. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both clearly on the resistance side of things and they're both getting pretty high scores in this aging game. It's about who is willing to stand up and say no. Rankin. Omar. AOC. Who else?
Yeah but it only takes 20 of them to call for a a new vote on leadership. If they don’t do that it’ll show us all they are okay with his leadership. And I don’t see them doing it.
You seem to believe that these things aren't planned and discussed. Didn't need a majority. They only needed enough Dems in "safe seats" to flip and vote for cloture.
Durbin and the others went along. They watched the massacre when they could have acted to stop it.
They always seem to have just enough people to defect to republicans. It’s always Lieberman or Sinema or Fetterman or whoever else. I’m tired of waiting for the mythical perfect democratic congress to arise and do something. This seems to be standard procedure for the Democratic party.
You seem rather confident there WILL be midterm elections. At the rate Trusk are enthusiastically burning down the United States, I am not very sanguine about the prospect.
It doesn't matter that it was only 8. The minority leader whipped his caucus to vote to capitulate. He found enough willing to do so. The party must be remade and these cowardly fucking losers must never see a leadership position again
Yes, the focus has to be on the Repugnicans... Take the message to them that the reason their checks aren't coming, the reason prices are up, the reason the Parks are closed is Trump and Musk.
you know they all get together and talk about their votes before casting them, right? and it wasn't 8 (the minimum for passage), it was 10. They want this. They'll do whatever it takes. remember the parliamentarian?
Honestly Leslie, I've fought and fought and fought only to be stabbed in the back by the ones who are supposed to have my back. I'm near done with this crap.
8 is all they needed. the rest of them were allowed to make the populist choice to publicly save face. be more critical of the political reality you live in.
Fuck you, you fucking coward. You voted against democracy for a pat on the head from our self-proclaimed king. Eat shit you fucking traitor. You can’t both sides this shit. Votes count, words don’t.
LIAR!!!!! You have shown the entire world that you don’t fight for the people who elected you! The people you are supposed to represent! Instead, you give in the the traitor. It’s time for you to step down!
Senator, you can only use the word "continue" after you start in the first place. Giving the Republicans everything they ask for is called "capitulating." We'll give you a minute to look that up.
If you call that fighting we're in deep trouble. This CR will be worse long term pain than any short term pain a shutdown would have caused. Tell me you to old to fight without telling me you to old to fight 🤦🏽♂️
I’m a constituent and called your office repeatedly to urge you to vote no. However, I could never reach an actual person or even leave a message. I’m very disappointed in how you’re representing me, Senator. Please fight for us.
Hard to believe you due to the fact when the moment came to fight you surrendered. Your words have no value or trust anymore. You've lost the confidence of the people who needed you in this moment to stand up but instead you fell to your knees.
look how bad you're getting ratio'd on this post.
how about abdicating your seat and admitting you're criminally out of touch like you should've done 25+ years ago you absolute brontosaurus
Exactly, take a seat!!! #TakeDownTheTen along with the rest of you cowards!
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) SCHUMER
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
I can’t wait to protest you at every opportunity until you resign in shame. I have always been proud to call you our senator but you have abdicated your responsibility and lost all respect. Your cowardice and acquiescence to authoritarianism is noted. Just retire if you have no fight left in you.
These 9 Senators think we will forget. We WILL NOT FORGET!!! They will be voted out. They have just ruined peoples’s lives.There is no excuse for what they have done This is their, their families legacy.Their children, grand children will have to live with what they have done. I hope they’re happy.
Resign now. It would've been far better for the American people if your seat was vacant in Friday than your being there to collaborate with nazis and cosign the murders they're committing through deprivation.
I am one of your constituents and cannot wait to vote you out of Illinois. That said, your ejection from public service should pale in comparison to the shame you now live with for capitulating to autocracy.
Sorry to jump on your reply but the entire senate is muting me.
Dick, be real, right now you’ve retreated to your wife’s arms and lies. You’re sipping booze with the tv off, willing to geld yourself to get that vote back.
Sadly you gelded yourself to vote yes. Another lie for your wife to tell you
How do you fight Trump's agenda BY VOTING FOR HIS AGENDA??? As your constituent, you need to resign and make way for someone who will even PRETEND to fight for us
You fucking gutless traitor. You just lost your "fight" against Trump when you crawled up his ass on this first fucking bill. I hope your staff quits and your constituents spit in your face. Your fucking career in politics is ending in shame. THIS COWARDLY VOTE will be all you're remembered for.
Checks and balances only work if the people in charge of them have the courage to enforce them. If this is what we can expect of you "fighting" then God help us.
We will never forget what 10 Democrats in the Senate has brought upon the United States of America and its citizens.
Their names will be etched in our history books for the rest of time.
They along with this administration are the harbingers of Destruction of the Constitution so many died for.
Exactly!! He talks about checks & balances & then admits how Trump is trampling over what necessitates them in the first place? And, he did nothing about it given the chance?
Who votes for this self-serving clown that mocks them with posts like this?
We need a good Dem to step up and step up now, announce he or she's primarying Durbin and get to work, calling out his feckless cowardice at every step.
It doesn’t look like you’re putting up any fight whatsoever. In fact I can’t tell if you’re a coward or a collaborator. The insanity of the United States is impacting people globally. If you tired old men aren’t willing to, step out of the way for those who will.
Your refusal to hold the line shows a failure of leadership. This is not what "meeting the moment" looks like. The government is already, in effect, shut down - you just don't seem to realize it.
Illinois Dems need to get their act together and stage an intervention with Durbin. Time for him to go. If he doesn't retire, refuse to finance his reelection campaign. AND primary his ass.
Unbelievable, Senator. Your name is not one I was expecting to see on this list. You have lost my vote, assuming voting will even be a thing in the future you are helping usher in.
DID YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED YOU??? YOU REPRESENT THEM!! THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CONTACTED THE SENATE TO TELL YOU TO VOTE NO. I’M YELLING BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL HARD OF HEARING!!!🧏♂️
You helped pass a cr that takes $880 billion from Medicaid, Medicare, and food for the poor. Do you think any of those millions of people care about ANY OF THIS SHIT when they will die from your actions ?!!
They are WORSE than Trump,
Musk, and all of the far right in this country. At least those monsters show who they are. These guys try to act like they are helping us while bending us over. Decade after decade after decade.
Switching to independent after the primary next month. I am done with the party of cowards. I'll switch back to Dem to vote against Fetterman if he runs again.
Yeah, I cheered when he won because he at least seemed better than Dr. Oz. Now it turns out Pennsylvania isn't purple, it's yellow. And we get Oz anyway.
I hope your conscience is clear when you see the millions you helped take away healthcare and food from dying. BREAK OUT YOUR MAGA HAT AND WEAR IT PROUDLY
why would they join you, you fucking idiot? you do whatever they want you to do. you cucked old motherfucker, you don’t have what it takes and you should have retired years ago.
literally fuck you durbin. you useless piece of shit.
Sen.Durbin, when that failed in no way, shape, or form, do you agree to a CR that the Democrats had ZERO input on. Shame on you and I am now ashamed that you are my Senator.
Wrong. Dems must stand and fight, take the case to the American people. I’m a lifelong Dem and I’m beyond angry at the Party’s weakness and lack of fight. Get out and MARCH w us, rally Americans. But no, just roll over and give them carte blanche further destroy the Country and our lives. Resign
Oh,wow, you’re disappointed! Republicans in the Senate must be so horribly discomforted by that. I bet they might lose a minute or two of sleep over your disappointment. These people have declared war on our system of government, and you’re talking about “disappointment.” We need outrage & action.
That’s nice but the rest of us have to live with this budget bill and are disappointed that you’re either a useless coward or the dumbest motherfucker alive. Retire you washed up clown
What are we missing? Would the shutdown have given Trump Mush carte blanche to continue gutting the government? What does funding the government to 30 Sep do for the country… please explain
This will be your legacy. Everything that happens from here on out, the pain and suffering inflicted on YOUR constituents, will be tethered to YOU. If you’re not willing to put up a fight, then get the fuck out of the way. Beyond pathetic.
You're disappointed that they did exactly what you knew they would do, but instead of changing your behavior to prevent it you decided to be complicit?
Blame the Republicans all you want but you just gave them more power to destroy democracy. Not that it isn't already looking like it's on life support already.
You are not fit to serve. The Republican opposition should not have been a surprise to you, particularly since their intransigence and contempt for you is perennial and well documented.
Why would you be so naive to think they would work with you??? They play dirty to get what they want. It's time the Dems start fighting back. I'm tired of this passive behavior. I've voted Democrat for 26 years since I was 18. I don't think I can continue. I will never vote republican.
What could possibly make you think that the republican members are interested in bipartisanship as you voted on a bill created in an exclusively partisan way?
They are intersted solely in control and elecating their fascist worldview, and you are not made for the times we're in.
And yet the Dems will join them to let them do whatever they want? Pathetic. Get off the idiotic bipartisan band wagon and begin to fight for our country.
At that point, you needed to stand up to them. The last opportunity for negotiation. The last leverage of your votes was given up too easily in my opinion. We are less comfortable with Dem Congressional leadership.
"Our Republican Colleagues." Jesus, you just don't get it. No matter how many times McConnell and the GOP knifed you, you still view them as "colleagues." I don't know why you care about them more than the American people, but your legacy will be as a Vichy fascisct collaborator. Scum.
Congratulations, you appeased the fascists. Maybe you should open a history book and see how that turned out in Europe. You've cemented your legacy on the wrong side of history.
Resign the leadership position and prepare for retirement. Your response to this situation the country is in is dated and ineffective. I won't send a dime to the DNC until you and Schumer are demoted.
Why would they join you when they can ignore you, and you'll just roll over like a good dog when they need you too. Pathetic. You should resign immediately. You're a disgrace
Are you a bit slow? How have the past, oh 10+ years of behaviour of the Republicans shown that they would be bipartisan? Maybe you could employ a toddler to help you understand.
Dick-- if you and Chuck are so tired, spineless and worried about having full weekends that you don't feel like fighting back against the fascist movement that has taken control of our country, then you need to step down and let Dems who are willing to fight take control of things. Now.
Why would they ever have agreed to this without the Democratic senators using the leverage they had, the filibuster? If the Republicans were going to hand you a clean CR, they would have done that in the first place.
no one cares what arcane process you think would be better. we care that fascists are currently demolishing the united states and selling it off for parts. we care that the party we thought was against that is either complicit, cowardly, or incredibly daft
Instead of the bully punching you and taking your lunch money, you gave it to him on the condition that he absolutely, positively won't do that again. And by God, he surely learned a great lesson.
You are a coward. As an ex Illinois resident of almost 20 years I used to be so proud of you but you proved to be spineless. Do you have any negotiation capabilities whatsoever? Shame!
There are only so many opportunities to fight. We have to use every single one of them if we are going to reverse this country’s spiral towards fascism and you chose to cave. You’ll be forgotten in history and forgotten by the people of Illinois in 2026. You are a traitor to democracy.
Unified on a useless stunt that was never working. No one is fooled. You got rolled by the keystone cops GOP house and had no plan. So you rolled over hoping for a belly rub. Fuck you, Senator
Won't vote for you ever again sir: was counting on Illinois🦅Always enjoyed voting for you, but this was a time to show a tyrant we're not playing🇺🇸Chicago's St Patrick's Day will be a sad walk to the death of democracy🍀Enjoy your cushy tyranny🦅
I'm from Illinois and have voted for you EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
You're disappointed with Republicans? Boo hoo! Have you been paying attention? WTAF? You had a chance to take a stand and you crumpled. You're helping trump and the GOP destroy this country.
At age 80 and after all this, if he’s so clueless as to run again in 2026, I’ll work hard to give every D primary challenger a better shot that Durbin. I’ve voted for him every single time he ran; never ever again. Not another cent to DNC until Chuckles steps down from Min Leader role.
I also have supported him. No more, but doesn't matter he got richer, going to retire. Durbin doesn't care about Illinoisians. Wife and 4 kids never again Durbin.
They are no longer Republican or colleagues! Need you to wake up to that fact. They are cowards afraid of being primaried and loosing their wealthy jobs or being attacked by the MAGA mob. They are no longer public servants!
The Democratic Senate minority leader promoted the rise of fascism in the United States today after deliberately misleading his constituents and Democratic voters.
This is an historic day.
Remember, the ten “yes” are cover for others. The Democratic Party is rotting from the head.
Here’s a perfect example you and your fellow crustaceous fossil Chucky “lead” the Senate Dems?! You’re no better than the Uvalde police or Neville Chamberlain.
You weren't united on a one-month CR because you voted for cloture on a different bill. You're lying. You're just a complete liar. No one is fooled by your BS.
So why vote yes for cloture? What am I missing here? Vote no and force the Republicans to provide the clean CR. They aren't going to join you willingly. It's not 1997 anymore Dick.
What fight? Are you fighting? Your words may say that, but your actions do not. Disappointed? The words you have chosen make it sound like this environment is unfortunate, when are you going to get angry and fight for our democracy, for our country??
You and other collaborators who did not vote no on cloture should be ashamed of your cowardice and failure to mount an OPPOSITION when our democracy and gov’t are being demolished. Resign your leadership pos. NOW along with Schumer, Schatz, Gillibrand, Cortez Masto & Shaheen. We need leaders NOW
Oh and also, aside from you idiots being weak, you literally allowed Trump to start defunding libraries. Thanks for being a piece of shit obsessed with norms. Please fuck off and retire so my kid can maybe grow up knowing people fought for her. Cause you obviously won’t.
Shove it. You betrayed us. I will work to support the Dem who runs against you. You betrayed us. You know there is no Republican who would ever have voted with you. Total bullshit. Time for you to go.
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What did they promise you?
You're more interested in killing free speech online than upholding and defending the constitution.
#TermLimits
#ByeByeDickDurbin
#DickDickDurbinRetire
If you think your constituants are going to believe you, you're a bigger idiot than I thought.
Sorry, "DICK", but you should probably switch parties, those are magat tactics and they don't work with us. The Left reads.
- they have O reason to ever negotiate w Dems. Republicans didn't need a blank check to cont burning down govt. Coward.
This is what Christians don't understand but Spiritualists from Sweden, learning from Emmanuel Swedeborg began to understand before US Gov. blacklisted Psychics & Mediums.
Save your bullshit justifications. You killed the democratic party
How are we so dumb that we can't even play Tic Tac Toe?
How do we not even have a plan. A well thought out plan. One that was tested for weeks.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." ~ Mark Twain
This is 2025 & Trump/Musk are in power.
It's not the 1980s or 1990s anymore. Empty platitudes after you knife your House colleagues in the back & spit in the eye of every American are seen for what they are, as are you.
You voted *for* MAGA today, liar
Big Uvalde cop energy by your Vichy caucus here.
He was outmaneuvered by Johnson. If he won’t fight, he needs to step aside.
The shutdown would have forced the GOP to the bargaining table and it was possible to get a better CR.
This "High Road" shit has to stop. You can't "High Road" people that don't have a floor to how low they're willing to go. Dems start need to using the Rep book against them.
But getting the Dems to legitimize and vote for any law whatsoever that gives him absolute power?
He wants that even more.
There are no red lines for these senators and this act is stupid on the merit and on the politics of it
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@shaheen.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
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imho 8 is not a majority of democrat senators & Schumer isn’t the right leader if he acts like a king—cause he can’t get majority behind his cowardice POV which doesn’t meet the moment we’re in.
Vote him out of leadership—we want to oust GOP in midterms.
Cory Booker, Warren are two who should replace them.
Schumer was wrong. And he fucked up.
As a former Republican I do not understand the lack of cohesiveness. Get a message together and coalesce behind it.
Instead we have Schumer who was out maneuvered by Mike Johnson. 🙄 🤦🏼♀️
Tiny silver lining. But one that matters. They’re talking about leadership fucking up.
It’s going viral.
Doesn’t matter what we are called. In the end, it’s about a simple majority of voters keeping the toxic GOP philosophy out of power.
We need #RankedChoiceVoting & folks who keep their jobs by backing America.
Nothing about the 10 who caved to cowardice was right. That’s not a majority of the senate & that is about posturing/covering asses.
We're not 8-10 senators away from "progressive leadership"... At some point you need to realize the depth of the problem.
I get it. Hawaii has a lot of military. And he doesn't get get that he betrayed them.
https://bsky.app/profile/love2laugh4ever.bsky.social/post/3lisbqynj322m
Where folks land on policy is what should be debated where a simple majority carries the moment
Btw I’m a proud independent—tho very progressive re rights
Durbin and the others went along. They watched the massacre when they could have acted to stop it.
Right anger, right message.
That would require him taking a principled stance and well...just look...
No principles to be found in his vote.
He should resign now since he has already "left the building" so to speak.
Only two had the conviction to vote for the GOP bill.
The others need to find their spine & risk their jobs for the country.
We should insist! That’s the fight we can impact.
IMO we have the majority of senators but the wrong leadership who encouraged cowardice.
Time to tell Dems to stop covering their asses & be brave.
Fall in line.
But the leadership is too weak to push this.
This is not progressive. The Dem Senate and House are not "progressive"
Just like GOP self delegated themselves into MAGA, we need that for DEMs— Gov for and by the people.
Pro government that’s humane, kind, ironically, Jesus-like, 100% for rule of law & constitutional republic mechanics vs laws which are unjust.
As a former Republican, I do not understand this acquiescence as if it is a foregone conclusion.
May the courts be with us.
Seriously.
But then, that's what you've been doing since DADT.
Not some ephemeral other.
YOU. Personally.
And YOU failed.
We've seen where the two party system leads now:
One big Nazi tent.
Illinois deserves better than your reptilian ass.
You aren’t fighting, you’re surrendering.
how about abdicating your seat and admitting you're criminally out of touch like you should've done 25+ years ago you absolute brontosaurus
Take a seat.
1) Durbin
2) King
3) Schatz
4) SCHUMER
5) Cortez Masto
6) Fetterman
7) Peters
8) Hassan
9) Gillibrand
10) Shaheen
Resign or be removed.
Anyone have a protest planned?
Get real.
What's he gonna do? Give it to me and wait 6 months until his position is stronger?
Git bent
Dick, be real, right now you’ve retreated to your wife’s arms and lies. You’re sipping booze with the tv off, willing to geld yourself to get that vote back.
Sadly you gelded yourself to vote yes. Another lie for your wife to tell you
R: You’re from Illinois!
Durbin: And a spine.
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Angus King
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Chuck Schumer
Jeanne Shaheen
Their names will be etched in our history books for the rest of time.
They along with this administration are the harbingers of Destruction of the Constitution so many died for.
So don’t hold your breath or you might suffocate while waiting for them to “continue the fight (tm)”.
Who votes for this self-serving clown that mocks them with posts like this?
He is definitely past his use by date.
But Americans fight Nazis. I won’t vote for you again.
Go fuck yourself, Dick.
Dem senators:
Musk, and all of the far right in this country. At least those monsters show who they are. These guys try to act like they are helping us while bending us over. Decade after decade after decade.
You won't continue to fight, because you haven't. I do invite you to start to fight even if it's far too little and too late
Or resign in favor of someone who'll fight
You capitulate and kneel in obeyence
You did this. They capitalized on your weakness.
literally fuck you durbin. you useless piece of shit.
You brought a disappointed tweet to a fight for democracy. Utterly useless.
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We’re not stupid, Senator.
Eat a dick, Dick.
RESIGN YOU FVCKING POS.
"I'm disappointed that our Republican colleagues wouldn’t join us in that effort." And you still voted yes. Complete bullshit.
They are intersted solely in control and elecating their fascist worldview, and you are not made for the times we're in.
They aren't your "colleagues" you senile fucker!
When have the Republicans ever sought bi-partisanship?
Do you know the definition of the word opposition?
You're disappointed with Republicans? Boo hoo! Have you been paying attention? WTAF? You had a chance to take a stand and you crumpled. You're helping trump and the GOP destroy this country.
Ready to canvass and donate to your primary opponent.
Is that the motto now? Fn pathetic.
This is an historic day.
Remember, the ten “yes” are cover for others. The Democratic Party is rotting from the head.
YOU FAILED YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND YOUR COUNTRY!!!
You’re an absolute failure as a representative of the voters.
You weren't united on a one-month CR because you voted for cloture on a different bill. You're lying. You're just a complete liar. No one is fooled by your BS.
If he has ai summarize them then it will congeal into a big "you betrayed your constituents will for corporate money."
He needs the slap in the face this thread provides
Sorry no one has updated you.
You conceded the fight before it had even begun.