In this current political climate, we have MAGA and Republican popularity tanking and then for some reason, these bumfuck Dems are diving on that grenade for them.
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'Absolutely Pathetic': Senate Democrats Denounced for Caving to GOP in Shutdown Fight | Common Dreams
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MAYBE if YOU weren't so Selfish you would Realize that RICH People were starting to be Effected so they HAD to Pass this and Reopen the Government!
This is exactly why they caved.
Democrats are primarily backed by big money donors. Their constituents are billionaires too, just a different set of billionaires than Republicans’ constituents.
There isn’t a party that represents the people, just two different factions of billionaires who are fighting over their share of control over the government.
I weep every night for those poor billionaires. Those corpos and their immense struggle. But as a lowly poor I could never understand the depth and wrought of their suffering.
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MAGA: We've got historical disapproval numbers, people are fleeing our party, we just faced a Blue tsunami the likes of which haven't been seen in a generation, and we're in the midst of a crisis with no end in sight for which the majority of Americans blame us for.
Senate Dems: Hold my beer.
It's a good thing they're all retiring because they're a bunch of insanely naive pathetic cowards... Oh boy oh boy you "secured" a vote where Republicans will just repeat their "no, fuck your healthcare" but in the form of a vote.
Bravo.
They're not all retiring, the ones who aren't just aren't up for re-election next year, giving plenty of time for people to forget about it.
They're all retiring at the end of their terms if they like it or not.
Just make sure we have a good candidate in the primary. And we need to actually support people who are better before their primaries.
They’re all retiring at the end of their terms if they like it or not.
I wish. Voters tend to blindly vote for the same people over and over.
Yeah. We need to fight that in a smart way.
You can't just say all Dems are bad. You can't just say all incumbents are bad. Term limits aren't the answer, and probably wouldn't help with most of these.
We need to get good candidates in primaries and support those candidates. Now is the time to be doing this. We need someone to step up for that seat, ideally this month, and we need to get behind them.
Ideally it'd be someone with enough history to show they're not a Sinema.
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Almost like Schumer planned it that way
Once again demonstrating a remarkable facility for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It sounds like several of those who caved are resigning at the next election, so it really looks like they just decided to screw everyone over on the way out.
This was organized, the rest of the party is in agreement; these ones were just the ones to fall on the sword because they're the ones who can't be punished
Reminder that Jeanne Shaheen’s own daughter is running for house and herself has stated that she would have voted against it. Shaheen has fucked Democrats in New Hampshire up for a generation. Hassan isn’t running for re-election in ‘28, which explains her vote.
And NH has a Q infestation of scammer grifter libertarians (I mean the ones in NH are especially scammy and grifty)
NH needs some good role models
YEP! NH wanted to be a confederate state so badly.
Same for that pile of shit that calls itself Dick Durbin. It's retiring, so it does not care who it fucks over.
"What Senate Dems who voted for this horseshit deal did was fuck over all the hard work people put in to Tuesday’s elections." —Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.)
I like this guy
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I despise the corporate Dems almost as much as MAGA. They are spineless cowards who would be more than happy to fall in line if it was their side that had a version of Trump.
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Catherine Cortez Masto — Nevada
Dick Durbin — Illinois
John Fetterman — Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan — New Hampshire
Tim Kaine — Virginia
Angus King — Maine
Jacky Rosen — Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen — New Hampshire
Technically seven Democrats and one Independent, since Angus King is among those who caved
Double whammy for NH. "Live free or die?" LOL.
Unfortunately the number of senators and when they're up for reelection show that these are just the sin eaters.
Any Senate Dem that doesn't call for Schumers removal is complicit and needs to be primaried
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I am willing to bet this was on some level retaliatory for Mamdani's election. All these senators represent a faction that's currently sundowning. For them, this kind of action is a message.
That would make no sense. That would make this random lashing out just to hurt people. That's a MAGA thing.
It is pretty clear that they are aware of how unpopular this decision will be: it's the exact number of senators needed to pass it, and I believe they're all people who have announced that they will retire after this term.
Clearly nobody who wants to be re-elected wanted to be part of this. That still leaves the question of why? Even if you accept that you're out of politics after this, why would you tarnish your name like that? What other benefit do they get out of this? What favors are being pulled behind the scenes here?
the question of why?
It protects their investments for them and their families. Political tidal shifts on corporate ownership of critical infrastructure like housing is unacceptable for their economy. And their electability?
they're all people who have announced that they will retire after this term.
They are expressly the ones that can afford this action: explicitly burning goodwill to secure wealth. They're spending currency that has no value to them.
It doesn't even have to be backdoor dealings. It is all very front door.
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Dear democratic party: as a voter in a state that went from purple to more red, I was still voting for you in every election and outside of the blue cities. Was. I would rather vote for a pile of dogshit than your party again.
Vote for a progressive who attacks this kind of betrayal. They exist, and they need to take over the Democratic Party.
Let this betrayal fuel that final push.
Or run as that progressive politician…
PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT NOT NAMED BERNIE OR AOC!!!!
Feckless fucks
Don't forget to write in "Guillotine" in 2026!
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