I hope we're talking about an underfunded nursing home or something , because these traitorous pieces of shit don't deserve basic decency. you have to give that to receive it.

An Andrew Cuomo-era nursing home.

the democrats had an amazing election where they won every contest they were in. I can't fathom a worse time to fold

That's your answer right there: the moment the election was over, they went back to screwing over the voters on behalf of their owner donors.

If the election had been a week from now, they'd have caved by Thanksgiving at the latest.

I can’t fathom a worse time to fold

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I mean, it isn't magic. They also had more pressure because of snap running out. Also, some of them, like Fetterman, always voted against the shutdown.

When will people understand that it's mathematically impossible to pay off the national debt? Debt = money. The more money you print the more national debt you have. As long as you back your currency with debt instead of hard resources then paying off the national debt is as impossible as finding unicorns and dragons to ride.

That doesn't undo the other 40 years of his time in gov. He has been instrumental in damning this country.

McConnell was instrumental in putting Trump into office and letting him get away with Jan 6. No one should let him off the hook for all the damage he’s done.

Why not both?

We're organizing locally, and won the last set of elections. But that doesn't mean we can't still expect resistance on the national level when there was an overwhelming victory in the last slate of elections.

Anyone quoting Joe Hill is all right by me.

Democrats are controlled opposition, or they act exactly as controlled opposition would act.

We need to start judging them based on their actions and get rid of them at every chance possible.

People always talked about age limits for elected office, I think the same holds true for wealth. You / your family worth $$$M/B no more government service for you. It will never happen, nice to dream I guess.

It is left vs right. To left is to be anti rich. To be right is to be pro rich.

Ding ding fucking ding.

They did to the people suffering the shutdown what tRump did to the people who voted for him. Told them what they wanted to hear, that he was gonna help them, got their vote, then walked away. We were ready to help weather the storm for our communities over the holidays. All the dems had to do was keep the message unified and refuse to budge until they put back what they removed. Heaven forbid these rich fucks, who share the same airspace as us normies, potentially miss flights and their rich donors lose profits over the busiest travel period of the year.

Honestly, this would be the time for a general strike. We already did the legwork to help provide for those who would have gone without SNAP. Lots in my area set up little pantries at work, donated supplies to places catering to underprivileged families, and were ready to help neighbors over the holidays. None of that disappeared this week. I personally plan to refuse holiday shopping and continue giving what I can to food banks and local childcare facilities.

Unfortunately, we're too disorganized and too many are forced to live a tightrope between poverty and wage-slavery to really see this on a grand scale. Still, I'll be the change I want to see and not begrudge those without the means to do the same. Despite the govt. and their rich-cuck donors, we only really have us and our communities to rely on.

There isn't really a good answer. They had the leverage (finally) and could have compelled something useful.

They get off on losing. I suspect some of them are beating off right now--the human suffering they have enabled must be intoxicating.

You know Schumer was directing them, right?

you could have at least bothered to name two Democrats if you're trying for an example.

This is Fetterman erasure.

Politicians aren't new to talking among each other & forming factions. They had 41 days to get there.

keeping leadership in the loop

Awareness doesn't mean leadership could stop them. If leadership positively encouraged them or didn't try to discourage them, then that would mean something.