WOKE. I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THAT FAT ORANGE FUCK IS DEAD.
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scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Now is not the time to roll over.
America will become unrecognizable unless we fight back.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
I've worked in Dem politics for a while now, and this is up there among the most catastrophically stupid things I've ever heard a senator say out loud. It is inconceivable that these eight senators could be this short-sighted.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.
Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.
Polls were turning on them. (link in reply)
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
“Once again, the American people have been sold out by the pathetic US Senate Democrats who helped Trump seat his disastrous and corrupt cabinet before rolling over in March, and again just now.”
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scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
What are the odds that a decent part of the calculus of the the 8 Democratic Senators who caved — who, on average, are 70 years old — is that they just really didn’t want to risk their flights back and forth from DC getting fucked up anymore?
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS agrees to hear a case that would decide whether mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after should be counted. A ruling for Republicans could upend mail voting, potentially disenfranchising large numbers of voters.
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scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
this is their real agenda: stop government programs that help Americans who are struggling financially
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Republicans in Congress extended tax breaks for billionaire corporations, but they refused to extend tax credits to lower health costs for working people.
While Trump and Republicans inflict pain on people, Democrats’ most important job is to fight back.
This deal is a mistake.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
It's a bad deal.
Everyday life - making it better and more affordable - must always be our bottom line.
For months, I’ve been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket - so much that some will lose coverage altogether. Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news.
Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
A few more thoughts from last night’s vote.
First, let’s stop pretending Trump cares one bit about the economic pressure regular Americans are under.
He treats hardship as something to exploit. He believes pain is leverage. That is who he is and who he has always been.
And Washington Republicans are right there with him.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
On a call with House Republicans, Johnson says he will not commit to a vote on ACA subsidies, I'm told.
They'll take one vote on the minibus plus CR Wednesday or Thursday. He's urging members to be disciplined with messaging — which, he says, means not discussing the subsidies.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
#2 here is crucial:
“Dems run real risk of depressing a base that just began to think they were fighting/had a winning hand”
10 thoughts on the shutdown. But, really, you don't have to reads these. there's a lot of takes out there.
1. Dems clearly lost on their main objectives: extending subsidies+ ending rescissions. Can't spin that
2. Dems run real risk of depressing a base that just began to think they were fighting/had a winning hand
3. Dems succeeded in elevating health care as a salient issue.
4. Trump does now take ownership/heat for premium hikes to come
5. Hostage taking works. Especially around SNAP and flights. Lawmakers got spooked.
6. It's not the worst thing in the world so try and save hostages!
7. But it doesn't bode well for future shutdown fights (and there will be more) that Republicans know they can do this.
8. And yet.... Dems have apparently removed SNAP as a hostage for any future shutdown fight (not insignificant)
9. Dems believe that RIFs are now off table. The CR language forbids them (and if they extend the CR, they will remain forbidden). Plus, judges have ruled you can't RIF during a shutdown (should we end up back in one).
9a. Trump will surely challenge this.
10. Almost all of this won't impact the midterms. At this point in the 2013 shutdown people were convinced Republicans had just screwed themselves. Within days everyone was talking about a failed website launch related to the health care law whose subsidies we just waged a shutdown over.
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scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Why are Ds upset that Senate Dems agreed to end the shutdown? Dem expectations in 2025 are VERY different from what they were in 2017. Back then, 59% were willing to make compromises w/ Trump. Now, just 32% with 65% saying “stick to positions”
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
If there was any doubt remaining Gavin Newsom making it clear he’s ready to lead the Democrats in a more aggressive direction.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
An aside: Angus King’s son is running for Governor of Maine as a Democrat. Dad just nuked his chances of winning that primary.
scrapper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Spending seven weeks telling folks you're fighting for the health care of tens of millions of people and then ending that fight without any concessions on said health care doesn't feel like a win to me.
I also disagree that Dems couldn't have won the ACA concession. They were winning the public argument, and Republicans were definitely feeling pressure.
But meanwhile, you had this small group of moderate Dems telegraphing their willingness to make a deal over the past several weeks, which gave Thune and company enough breathing room to hold out and expect Dems to cave.
We could have won the ACA extensions. This was a matter of weak hearts.