Optics. They need to be taking more extreme measures. The fact that ICE is funded for quite a while is not a good reason to capitulate to the republicans. They continue to prove, time and again, that they are unwilling to take drastic action to stop the fascists. They’d rather play by the rules, and lose.

What a stupid game.

I agree. Our rights are not a place for compromise.

Agreed. Totally agree.

If only one side ever compromises, it’s not compromise, it’s capitulation.

I’m more in the way of limiting expectations as well as pointing out that every measure, every appointment, every vote is a new battle.

We’re in the place we are because dems have been capitulating for as long as I’ve been voting (longer, probably.)

(I may be pissed at klobechar for voting to confirm appointments.)

Edit to add: maybe they shouldn't have voted to approve cloture, hmmm?

I feel like most folks dislike TSA enough that them being understaffed may be seen as a bonus.

I remember after getting pepper sprayed in DC at a protest against W’s Iraq war being told, “we need more and better democrats, vote for better ones in the primary and then whoever wins the primary in the general”

I’ve been doing that for over 2 decades now. Nothing has gotten better, everything has gotten worse, the party is effectively openly corrupt and openly controlled opposition.

I remember the gut punch in the lead up to 2020 when Bernie Sanders was winning primaries and the entire party decided to coalesce around Biden, all the other centrist candidates dropped out and threw their support behind him so he could win a bunch of primaries in states that would go on to vote Republican in the general election. But it was enough, the party was able to knee cap a better candidate and get Biden in office.

I remember thinking then that we had not pulled the country back from the edge of disaster, we had merely pressed pause. That a Biden administration wouldn’t do the things necessary to prevent another trump. Four years later I get to watch as a lawless paramilitary kills people in an American city that’s effectively under siege by the federal government while king trump is somehow back in the White House.

I’ll probably still vote for the Dems in the elections because it’s the best tactical move, but I’ve found it’s a terrible strategic move. The party is a failure, it is completely captured and currently aligned with fascism. They are sending me pleas to donate to their fight fund while their members cross the aisle to vote to give the ICE more money, more power, more funding.

The Democratic Party will not save us, they show us again and again they have no interest in that.

Who are the morons voting for these "worst democrats" in the primaries?

Why are there so many of them?

How do we hold them accountable for their contribution to the problem?

When they side with the Republicans, the worst Democrats are no different than the Republicans.

So you honestly think dem leadership is better as they keep supporting or not even challenging Trump?