The filibuster is a trap that forces the minority to save the majority from its worst impulses. The majority should get rid of it because they will one day be in the minority.
And now they won’t use it @schumer.senate.gov is all about optics & protecting their money NO TO CLOTURE @wyden.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
Fight for clean CR - why won’t you fight?
Ok, I might be wrong, but isn't NOT coming to an agreement on a budget and handing the shutdown of the government over to Trump on a silver platter *worse* than agreeing to a budget?
I used to argue against the both sides-ism, Schumer has made me a sucker.
It's us against them and by them, I mean the MAGAts, Schumer, Pelosi, and the rest of the complicit assholes that have sold us out to Trump/Musk and ultimately Putin.
can we please get a left leaning coalition finally. will you please stop having brunch with collaborators and start listening to people to the left of center
Forget about Putin. The threat to the American people is almost purely internal.
Its rich vs. poor. The rich have the money and the mind to deflect away in any direction but towards themselves. Don't fall for it. All this Putin talk is just more distraction to keep the culture war going.
Shall we go back to the 50s with high tax rates strong unions and Jim Crow?
Cause that's what we got last time we focused on rich vs poor and ignored white supremacy. White supremacy/Christian nationalism is the appeal. They're why poor people back Republicans. Ignore them and they'll still use them
Jim Crow only existed due to slavery having just ended.
What White supremacy is doing now is deporting Central and South Americans, but that is only happening for those White supremacists having power through being rich.
I read Yglesias’ take on why the Dems fold and it summarizes as, “we have to help them kill the government slowly because otherwise they’ll kill the government quickly.” And I’m like, huh?
They can't use it because of decorum. They must maintain the norms of it existing but not break decorum by using it. This is standard dem leadership playbook.
What is your expectation of what Dems will gain? Are you really that interested in balancing a new carveout for funding bills against no back pay for hundreds of thousands of feds
I feel like that’s all anyone’s been doing here. The shutdown doesn’t surrender Congress’s power of the purse. It doesn’t let Musk & Trump shave the federal government in the cruelest ways they can think of. Once a compromise is reached, *they can start the whole government up again*.
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Close down govt = no courts open to shut down trump.
CR is the better of 2 evils.
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Fight for clean CR - why won’t you fight?
They work for the Republicans, who work for the Villionaires, who work for Putin.
It's us against them and by them, I mean the MAGAts, Schumer, Pelosi, and the rest of the complicit assholes that have sold us out to Trump/Musk and ultimately Putin.
I'm begging you since 1996
Its rich vs. poor. The rich have the money and the mind to deflect away in any direction but towards themselves. Don't fall for it. All this Putin talk is just more distraction to keep the culture war going.
I recommend focusing on rich vs poor. End that, and the rest goes down the toilet with it.
Cause that's what we got last time we focused on rich vs poor and ignored white supremacy. White supremacy/Christian nationalism is the appeal. They're why poor people back Republicans. Ignore them and they'll still use them
What White supremacy is doing now is deporting Central and South Americans, but that is only happening for those White supremacists having power through being rich.
Eat the rich. Problem solved.