Connolly had already said he wasn't running for re-election. (and please, make sure you complain when a younger member gets cancer and dies while in office)
I love how the problem is Democrats, but not the Rs that wrote this bill and shoved it thru.
Well that won't save them. They didn't vote no. End of story. I am sick to death of these assholes too afraid of bring primaried to do their damn jobs. I am finished & they have now declared war on America.
No surprise that they would vote for this. All that grandstanding earlier from the fiscally conservative members. Trump only has to go up to the Capitol like a boss, and everyone falls in line.
The Republicans who didn't vote for the bill because it wasn't harsh *enough* were allowed to make their protest votes since the bill would pass without them.
And all you fuckwits who said "It'll never pass the filibuster" - They wrote it so it can't be filibustered. We should NEVER have seated an insurrectionist. NEVER. This congress destroyed America @reed.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @magaziner.house.gov
GOP resistance to Trump over "principle" seems to evaporate like dog urine on a scorching sidewalk. How utterly predictable. Theatrical spineless puppets.
anyone making a single American feel bad for not trusting democrats is doing so in absolute bad faith at this point. they’re literally grasping for power until their dying breath and doing absolutely nothing but fucking this earth up for everyone who comes after.
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Are you saying that the result would have been different if two Dem Reps had not died, or are you trying to make some other point. If all Dem seats were filled and all voted No, the repugs would not have let 2 Reps vote NO, and/or 3 Reps not cast any vote. Same result.
And the other one died like 48 hours ago, yeah? The implication that the bill would’ve gone down to defeat if only we had those two Dems assumes the R’s couldn’t whip two of their 3 defectors to yes when they probably could have if they’d needed to. :(
It’s up to the governors of their states to schedule the special election to fill the seat. Republican governors have pushed out the election dates until late this fall to create this advantage.
We won’t get them. It seems collecting Social security and a paycheck is what they prefer to do instead of making sure this shit doesn’t keep happening.
You are correct imo. There is no chance Republicans would destroy their careers and correctly lose Congress for a generation if they were not sure Dump is going to find an excuse to cancel next year’s midterms.
Their ignorant, exploited fan base are the ones most dependent.
They didn't understand Project 2025 and bought lies. They hoard guns and might be hateful, but it is usually things like this that make them see the ones they hated, differently.
Republican voters did this. Document where they live, who they work with and who their family is. When Americans retake power, this information will help streamline recovery.
In fairness, it seems likely that had our Dems' two seats still been filled, more Repubs would have voted yes.
Surprise: 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 *𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵* 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩.
Schweikert is my rep. Apparently our call campaign almost worked. We promised to primary the fuck out of him if he voted yes. Apparently shots should have been more specific.
GOP keeps trying to sell itself as the Party of the "working class", but continues to FAIL miserably. They're not the Party of "fiscal responsibility", "family values", "law & order", "limited government", or "compassionate conservatism" either.
If they were alive, those two would have voted with their fellow Republicans. Don’t be fooled it’s all for effects. Trump has purged the party of any principled Republicans, at this point any that remain are either corrupt or cowards.
Dem leadership stymied how it could have happened.
"We filled our ranks with extremely old sick people who refused to give up power and can't figure out what went wrong. We're going to try and elect the ghost of Dianne Feinstein to fix the situation"
Aren't there substitutes in these scenarios? In Finland if a member of parliament leaves office for any reason be it resignation or death, they will automatically pick the person from said party who had the the most votes after the person who was picked to parliament in the first place.
Nope! A Republican in Texas died at the end of last year or early this year (can’t remember). Abbott refused a special election, worried that it would flip to a democrat, he said the seat will be left empty until elections in 2026. Taxation without representation!
What a system.. We have substitutes for representatives on every level be it the government, regional council or municipal council. No need for new elections if a rep leaves their position for any reason.
The inference in this post is not factually correct. The GOP had three reps miss the vote. They would have had them there if their votes were needed. Yes, Dems need an injection of youth in the party. But let's not lie like the GOP, stick to the truth.
#HouseDemocrats
#SenateDemocrats
Anyone over the age of 70 has got to start realizing you can't hold on forever; you are becoming a detriment to this country holding on to office when you should be grooming someone to be elected to the position. Shame on you. Shame. You did this #HouseDemocrats
Very few. Their constituents have disconnected the actions of their representatives from the consequences. They only want avatars for their anger and fury.
They would have had the votes either way. Getting really tired of dems bashing dems. If we can't unite, why should independents or low information voters have any confidence in this party?
Abbott intentionally waited as long as he could to set the vote to fill Turner’s seat and then placed the vote out as far as he could. Texas just had elections, and it could have been filled 2 weeks ago, but Old Wheels thinks he can be president so he’s kissing up now
Rep Connolly(D) from Virginia died Wednesday. This vote was strategic and planned. Moses Johnson is a sock puppet. The higher power is in charge. Project 2025
Ron don’t do this. The Rs could’ve gotten the additional nonvoters if they’d needed them and you’re just encouraging people to focus on democrats instead of attacking the people actually voting for this monstrosity.
Connolly lied about his cancer prior to the election. He could have resigned at any time instead of dying in office and leaving a vacancy. He died a selfish cunt.
The vibes, bro. Republicans would’ve been inspired by his noble sacrifice and all voted to oppose the bill in his honor, followed by a slow clap like in that movie Rudy.
Unfortunately, so is sitting by and doing nothing, if you're an elected Dem.
Why wouldn't we hold our elected officials accountable? They are the ones who are not using the power that we gave them. Also, why would anyone vote Dem ever again if they weren't able to prevent facism in the first place?
a) the dems all voted against the bill, they didn’t do nothing
b) the last sentence of your post is so dumb it’s reasonable to wonder if you’re trolling. “not enough people voted for the good guys last time, so why would anyone ever vote for the good guys in the future” is a terrible argument.
Your reading comprehension could use some improvement as well. My last sentence didn't say that enough people didn't vote for the good guys, it said that there are clearly no good guys if facism took over that easily. Again, why would anyone vote in favor of a weak government?
You're laser focused on the one & only bill that the Dems opposed & ignoring the dozens of times they voted with MAGA (as well as the past several decades of "harm reduction" that has gotten us nowhere) but hey, if performative politics is your thing, who am I to ick your yum?
Why can’t both be true? I have enough bandwidth to criticize democrats and criticize/see Republicans as an existential threat. I also can say that one is the bigger threat and still criticize them both.
We need to recognize that we are competing on an unequal playing field against MAGA/Trump in which they are incapable of being self-critical of their own. Not asking to be blindly loyal but laying blame for the bill at the feet of Dems lends credence to the lies Republicans spew every day
You are correct. These folks woulda made sure it passed anway. Playing the game of voting "present" or not voting at all gives them the margin needed. 🤬
Respectfully disagree. Look at my past posts—I’m no crazed anti-Dem leftist. But the party’s support of extremely old, frail, and sick candidates does a disservice to the millions of us who voted for Dem reps to keep the majority so slim. They absolutely deserve criticism for this.
Why would you ever expect Rs to do something for the greater good? Ds at least pretend to care about the greater good and IDEALLY should be more willing to leave office for the greater good
I don’t know what I said that you’re disagreeing with. Of course I expect republicans to do terrible things. And when they do I’d encourage people who don’t like that to criticize them, instead of joining a circular firing squad.
But the right doesn’t give a shit about criticism. The Democrats at least feign concern, which leads us to believe we can appeal to their sense of morals. Republicans have no morals and are only appeased by personal gain.
how about instead of whining about that, you focus on all the ALLEGED fiscal hawks who happily voted "yes" to add to the debt and deficit. Perhaps pointing out how they don't care about those things until Dems are in charge and want to HELP THE PEOPLE.
We need term limits for Congress. Desperately. It was NEVER meant to be a career. 12 years. 2 terms for Senators and 6 for House Reps. And if you served 12 years or would exceed 12 years you can't run for the other House of Congress.
No. We don't have term limits for Congress. But we need them. The GOP has spent decades gerrymandering and suppressing votes. The GOP won't lift the cap on House reps because that's the only way their gerrymandering works. They can only win by cheating so it's what they do. We can stop it.
Misleading...the seat in Texas has been open for months because Abbott refuses to call a special election...stop with this bullshit and blame who really is to blame.
How arrogant and stupid this is. Arrogant to think the few rich are more important than the rest of us and that we will pay taxes to support them and stupid to think that trump and his ilk won’t go after the rich when they have the money. There are more of us.
True, but Harris, Garbarino, and Schweikert all would have voted yes if it came down to it. They were “allowed” to vote present/abstain because of who is missing
Because Republicans still would hold a quorum. There is basically nothing Dems could do to stop this. The fact that you don't know this means you should shut up and learn more before you complain.
Fuck off you asshole. So they have a quorum. So they do pass it. At least every single Democrat walking the fuck out would show where we are to all the people. You fuckers think you can follow the rules with Nazis. This is why you LOST TWICE and BOTH HOUSES. Europeans would be fighting for blood!
And 186,000,000 Americans should be so angry that they are at the doors of the Capitol and the White House to end this Nazi regime and remove Nazi Republicans once and for all. It shouldn’t have even gotten this far. Instead they follow the rules Nazis break all the fucking time.
When they know they’re going to lose anyway, no it isn’t. What it says to the people is “we’ll just stay here and play business as usual.” If they ALL walked out and stood at the steps and told the press “this nightmare is all on the Nazi Republicans”, that message would be huge. And yes, say Nazi!
If just ONE more republican voted no then it wouldn't have passed.
How would they have known that?
Additionally, let's say they do avoid the chamber. Now the even crazier Republicans can add more insane amendments to the bill, because they only need 111 to pass it.
So the two Rs, one who voted present, and the other who didn't vote at all, are both cowards. If they voted no. It wouldn't have passed. Cowards and losers just the same. ALL republicans need to be removed from office. Mike Johnson is a loser and should fa e imprisonment.
House passes (215 to 214) Trump spending bill to kill Medicaid and leave over 14 million Americans without a means for healthcare, while dumping $4 trillion more into debt and making billionaires RICHER!
GOP should never be allowed to recover from the intentional destruction of citizens lives!
One Republican voted “present” and two didn’t vote. Those three votes were available to them if needed. Had three Democrats not died in office, almost certainly the bill would have still passed.
exactly - I'm sick of all the Democrat bashing when Republicans are responsible for all this horrible bullshit. I'm on a blocking spree today. I aint having it.
10 of the 11 recessions from 1953-2020 were under Republican Presidents. This will make it 11 of 12 through 2025. The GOP has been the least fiscally responsible party for over 70 years. They have never cared about Americans, just enriching themselves.
215 were sworn in on January 3rd. 2 died in March (Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-TX) died March 4, 2025, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) died March 13, 2025), and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) died yesterday.
215 - 3 =212
2 republicans voted NO along with all 212 Democrats
I'd bet that they ran because the Democrats knew the seat might flip to red. It's easy to criticize, but they felt the best thing to do was run. Pretty sure the Republicans would do the same, but y'all love blaming everything on the Dems.
The Democratic party is a complete Corpratist shill Clique. They are forcing out true voices for Progress and sticking to their rigid love of Hierarchy.
We deserve a third Left Wing party.
Genocide Joe was a joke, so much so that we now have Trump.
David Hogg being ousted by the DNC is disgusting.
It's so frustrating we were forced to do the usual "lesser of two evils" vote when Trump was actively talking about how he was going to turn the US into full on Fascist Dictatorship. Now we are being taken for a ride, and the establishment of the Democratic Party keeps missing the mark.
Yes, indeed, the two-party system is a big issue. Please search for "two-party system" in here https://opip.lol/wake-up-america/ where I make the point in more detail.
Hey, I get it, the Dems have become vanilla milquetoast corporate sellouts but not voting for Harris was tragically shortsighted. The voice for Palestine would have been amplified, rather than disappearing. Maybe Krasnov and the R’s will implode this horrible era of greed with both parties.
She was hamstrung, Biden’s approval rating was shit. Corporate, status quo Dem Leadership and vision needs to be shredded. Fuck Morning Joe and every flaccid, sell out, that appears on it.
yiou guys are in perpetual fear so no matter when this happenned yould be just as terfried. And its only getting worse so if we doint do it now yourbrain will freeze that way and youll be terfried forever
I mean I voted for Harris, but I just believe we deserve better, especially at this point. Harris was making a lot of sense early in the campaign, the reports of manipulation by Bidens team are frustrating. I agree this is definitely not the pressing matter at hand. Hopefully 2026 will be better.
This Bill of Theft is a declaration of hot class war.
The institution of Private Property must be abolished, Private Property is NOT to be respected. It is a time when extreme actions actions of righteousness must take place.
Elias Rodriguez in his selfless heroism is a guide.
That’s one of the bad side effects when it’s all seniors and elderly holding in to power for no apparent reason and now we all get to pay a hefty price, literally 🤬
All this tells me is three republicans were allowed to sit out because two Dems had died. If it was 216, two of them would have flipped to make it 217-216.
Watch: Murkowski, Collins, and/or possibly McConnell or Grassley maybe (or someone whose state will be hit hardest by the big 🐂💩 bill will vote against the budget because the GOP will have enough to pass it.
And it still would have passed had they not. What's what the Dem dogpile from media sources these days. Dams just flipped a ruby red Trump +55 in November state Senate seat by a much bigger margin that he won. Can we report on that please?
Because we continue to allow folks in their 70’s to run for office. We need people in their 30’s and 40’s who can relate to younger generations to fill these seats.
So how long have I been saying it? #Republicans are killing children, women, immigrants, the poor... I forgot to add the elderly. They are murderers. As @meidastouch.com is now agreeing, there's no mincing words. Cheaper guns & tanning beds, though. https://www.youtube.com/live/YWtCUIba8XU?si=Jkh4YVYZ648TTtVo
They should be forced to vote, none of this present or refusing to vote bullshit. They knew this was a shit bill and didn’t want their names on it so they chose the cowards way. No vote…no pay!
They wouldn’t have stopped republicans from writing a bill that hurt Americans. Could they have hindered the passing? Yes, but Gym could have added tax breaks for silicon implants and hair plugs to add more non-voting republicans.
Republicans are against Americans. Plain and simple. 🤷♂️
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They don't expect pushback in the midterms?
I love how the problem is Democrats, but not the Rs that wrote this bill and shoved it thru.
Good fucking Lord.
https://bsky.app/profile/franken-pattern.bsky.social/post/3lp656unhg225
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/07/greg-abbott-special-election-sylvester-turner/
These are not Christian values.
KKKristian? Yes.
CHRISTian? Absolutely not.
Mike Johnson sucker punched VETERANS & his own constituents in the dark of night, as he smiles about it. With pride.
Smug, deep-seated depravity.
Congressional republicans have cast their lots.
@democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Trump owns the Republicans.
They didn't understand Project 2025 and bought lies. They hoard guns and might be hateful, but it is usually things like this that make them see the ones they hated, differently.
We share the same enemy now.
A spark to the fuse.
begin if folk’s self interests
are impacted negatively
enough.
Whether or not that will
effect political change
remains to be seen …
In the end though, my bet
is economic damage will be
the prime mover as people
start to lose everything.
Could get wild.
Yes, the age of the Democratic party is an issue, but I don't think the deaths made a difference.
Organs.
Surprise: 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 *𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵* 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩.
They ARE the Party of "make the rich richer"
Resist!
"We filled our ranks with extremely old sick people who refused to give up power and can't figure out what went wrong. We're going to try and elect the ghost of Dianne Feinstein to fix the situation"
WE'RE FUCKED!!!
#SenateDemocrats
Anyone over the age of 70 has got to start realizing you can't hold on forever; you are becoming a detriment to this country holding on to office when you should be grooming someone to be elected to the position. Shame on you. Shame. You did this #HouseDemocrats
Why wouldn't we hold our elected officials accountable? They are the ones who are not using the power that we gave them. Also, why would anyone vote Dem ever again if they weren't able to prevent facism in the first place?
b) the last sentence of your post is so dumb it’s reasonable to wonder if you’re trolling. “not enough people voted for the good guys last time, so why would anyone ever vote for the good guys in the future” is a terrible argument.
Jesus.
Think your rep is too old? Vote for their opponent if they're primaried.
Just remember, these people are in office because THEIR CONSTITUENTS VOTED FOR THEM.
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ONE FUCKING VOTE!! SMFH
And why not it's how they got the supreme Court.
Why didn’t Democrats stand up and literally start beating the shit out of Republicans?
Why didn’t Democrats do like in Europe and disrupt everything?
Why do they alway lose?
If all Democrats are there and vote no (which they did) then Republicans need 217.
This anger is entirely understandable, but it makes things WORSE to avoid being in the chamber.
How would they have known that?
Additionally, let's say they do avoid the chamber. Now the even crazier Republicans can add more insane amendments to the bill, because they only need 111 to pass it.
All the Dems walking out doesn't stop a vote from taking place.
Committing assault would get folks arrested, jailed or expelled, & then we'd have even fewer Members in the House.
European governments run on different rules.
Dems don't always lose.
But in the House, the majority rules.
Assault would show people to fight back instead of going to camps.
Europeans fight to win.
Dems lost the entire government to a rapist TWICE, both Houses, and SCOTUS.
But do nothing. It’s working great.
GOP should never be allowed to recover from the intentional destruction of citizens lives!
• Republicans were in office at the start of 9 of these 12 recessions.
• Democrats were in office at the start of 3 of them.
Since 1948 according to ChatGPT
Beef Wellington
Laced with Death Cap Mushroom
215 were sworn in on January 3rd. 2 died in March (Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-TX) died March 4, 2025, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) died March 13, 2025), and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) died yesterday.
215 - 3 =212
2 republicans voted NO along with all 212 Democrats
212 + 2 =214
We deserve a third Left Wing party.
Genocide Joe was a joke, so much so that we now have Trump.
David Hogg being ousted by the DNC is disgusting.
The dems are disgusting
The dems are DISGUSTING
AND THEY MUST BE CHARGED WITH THEIR CRIMES
The entire 1789 constitution is undemocratic and more so than just the damn electoral college
Its design lets the shit two parties dominate
It must be replaced
My vote for her didnt matter because she was a good girl for nazis
The institution of Private Property must be abolished, Private Property is NOT to be respected. It is a time when extreme actions actions of righteousness must take place.
Elias Rodriguez in his selfless heroism is a guide.
The DNC needs to FORCE people out when they are no longer effective or able to conduct all duties of their office
They died - sad. We get screwed for generations - criminal.
But the difference between three votes and four votes is like the difference between night and day...
Maybe Mike Johnson has finally learned how to count votes, and he gave three members permission to "rebel" by voting present.
But if our absent members had been there, Harris, Garbarino, Schwikert & would have been ordered to vote yes.
https://democrats.org/news/democrat-clinches-huge-upset-victory-in-ny-state-senate-special-election-wins-district-trump-won-by-55-points-in-november/
I'd check the autopsies for 'natural causes'.
These are truly sick members in our society that are the bottom feeders in the freedoms we enjoy.
TRump is a pustule on America's ASS
Support and VOTE FOR DEMS!!!!!!
Republicans are against Americans. Plain and simple. 🤷♂️
In history vote, how do you not have all members accounted for.