not up for reelection soon? durbin is retiring!
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Huh, she went on Fox News to drop this? And late last night Ro Kahnna immediately started posting on X about Schumer needing to go? And he's been on a press circuit all day since saying the same thing.
If there was anybody tied to this who had a history of using the press to spread narratives and help orchestrate coups, I would say this almost has all the normal markings of an orchestrated coup. Nobody immediately comes to mind though so, oh well.
Wait wait - so the minority leader knew what his party was doing??!?
“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded. “And I think it’s important to remember who’s responsible for why we got into this shutdown. We are here because we are concerned about the health care costs rising significantly on millions of Americans, and we didn’t have any indication before the shutdown started that our Republican colleagues were willing to address it.”
Normally TNR isn’t as fucky but “either he was scheming the whole time or he’s unable to control his party” is pretty much the most uncharitable spin that can possibly be put on it.
It seems like they got a guaranteed healthcare vote which they didn’t have before (MAGAs were just going to trash it then move on and not speak of it again), they got everyone’s jobs back, they got everyone guaranteed back pay, and they got language to say the MAGAts won’t do that again.
Not to mention we cleaned their fucking clock in the elections, and everyone gets food and gets to travel to see their families during the busiest travel-and-food-related holiday of the year. Plus, they’ll see them back at the OK corral in January to lock in the healthcare or else we go again.
Federal workers get paychecks, which, kind of a big deal normally but more so at holiday season, and they racked up some wins while the republicans got a funded three months.
It doesn’t look like the huge “blink” right-wing-owned corporate news sewers want to paint it as.
OH! AND the House will swear in our deciding Epstein vote, which should make for some interesting holiday reading for all the MAGAts and those of us who may see them on the holidays.
That might be the whole shootin’ match, really. Healthcare subsidy vote notwithstanding.
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