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Ahead of Democrats’ meeting, Republicans floated a new offer that would reportedly entail “rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal to end it,” according to Politico.
Okay... so their offer is, stop standing up to us and let us finish gutting healthcare, and we'll rehire the people that we fired to punish you for standing up to us? Am I getting that right?
Republicans are shitting their pants right now.
To be fair, the president has been doing that for years.
It’s all the rage. Everybody does it. It’s all I hear abooooiuuuuutttttt…. whew.
Remember when certain voters started wearing disposable underwear to rallies?
I just sent that to my Trumper buddy. Like we're crazy for empathy and protesting, while he forgot about diapers and ear bandages.
And yet they are not backing down. All I can think is that there are a hell of a lot of them in the Epstein files and Trump has them by the balls.
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein was the first or the only guy blackmailing United States politicians for Israel?
Nope. Just the most effective.
How can you even know that? The most effective intelligence agents are the ones that don’t get caught/killed.
Of course, I don't know that. You asked me what I think. My opinion is that he was the most effective.
Compared to who though?
Yes, and then they will fire those rehires again after just a minuscule amount of time has passed.
Just like they have done with a couple agencies.
And we'll fire them again right after that because cruelty and lying is the point of this weird weird game
Imo its better to not negotiate with terrorists.
Yup. You got it right.
Hopefully the Dems aren't stupid enough to fall for it.
As the Senate Democratic caucus met privately on Thursday to discuss the party’s approach to the ongoing government shutdown following key electoral victories earlier this week, progressives sent a message to any centrists thinking of breaking ranks: “You cave, you lose.”
Those were the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has vocally warned Democrats against abandoning their push for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies as a necessary condition for any deal with the GOP to end the shutdown—now the longest in US history.
Always cutting progressive names outta headlines..
Please don't fold like a cheap suit, despite your historical performance.
I mean, I don't especially think that the GOP is going to fully change course on health care. And I doubt that the Democrats are going to block the budget until Trump leaves office (though that'd be one for the history books).
In my book, what matters for the Democrats is flipping the House in 2026. Whatever happens on the shutdown
forcing the Republicans to use the nuclear option so that they don't need a supermajority in the Senate, the Republicans back down by conceding on health care, or the Democrats back down by conceding on health care, whatever, and how each side manages to set public perceptions around this
is aimed at shaping the midterms, which will matter.
Right now, the only way the Democrats have a chance at the midterms (assuming they aren't overrun by some manufactured emergency to keep Trump and whoever he likes that day in office for life), is if they do keep the shutdown going until there's a Democrat president in office.
The problem with that of course is that it means the "small-government" Republicans and the Libertarians get exactly what they want.
Due to the current administration’s shenanigans, states are needing to step up anyway. States came together to get the COVID vaccine out to their people, and to help one another track illnesses. I can see more cooperation like that in the future if the BS keeps up (which it most likely will). My state is already trying to figure out alternatives so we don’t have to be so dependent on the federal government.
That's contradictory. The midterms happen next fall. The next presidential election isn't for 3 years.
The midterms happen next fall - and hopefully any new Dems elected vote to keep things closed.
lol you still think there’s going to be fair midterms?
If the government stays shutdown they won't have half the amount of muscle they expected, it could be more difficult for them to fuck with things without those funds. I do hope dems force republicans to end the shutdown.
After this years elections, hopefully yes.
You cave and we’ll have your heads (politically speaking, not physically).
The politics of life.
Yup.
This is it.
Dems cave and they're going to lose a critical chunk of their base.. Probably forever. It'll be a deathblow.
And it'll be massively fucking stupid considering they just dominated this election cycle, which is a message to them that they do still have a lot of support and that Americans don't see the shutdown as their fault.
HOLD. THE. FUCKING. LINE.
Primary anyone that caves.
Its time to ratchet back to liberal. Fuck the center.
