~20 hours ago I wrote…
I’m really shocked they didn’t cave [within the first week or two]. I was nearly 100% certain they would.
I’ll work on my Nostradamus more.
So its like you unionized went on strike and then after a couple of weeks you go back to work with worse conditions from the bargain than what you went in with.
The democrats think a clever use of leverage is strongly stepping a rake.
The democrats and their strategies
Stepping on a rake so hard the tines pierce your foot
You won’t get hit in the face then, it’s the perfect strategy
Just when it started to work. It’s so god damn fucking stupid.
They spent the past year pathetically whining about they just couldn’t fight Trump and their supporters just needed to wait and vote. Then they cave in not even one week after a wave election where just about every single Democrat who was running for something won their seat.
Why do the liberals hate it so much when the Democrats get called a controlled opposition, it’s so self evidently true.
yOu JuSt DoNt UnDeRsTaNd PoLiTiCs
If the Dems are controlled opposition, there’s no one on their side. That’s legitimately scary and could mean the only way to get proper representation is revolutionary action, which is even scarier and seems impossible. No surprise really that people who are currently fairly comfortable are reluctant to believe it.
for all the talk of “trump always chickens out” it seems like the real acronynm should be DACO eh?
joke aside, dems absolutely got a call from major donors over the shutdown saying it was time to wrap it up, id be curious to see if it was the airlines or supermarkets that was the bigger factor
TACO is some of the wildest copium I’ve ever heard.
You had Chuck Schumer calling Trump TACO for not bombing Iran, then Trump actually goes and bombs Iran. Then people said TACO again because apparently he didn’t bomb Iran enough or invade.
Libs will be saying TACO as we enter full on nuclear war at this point.
it was kinda funny when it was the tariffs at first but ur right libs went wild with it and like dared trump to bomb iran like it was a good thing to do so???
Shitlibs can’t take their feet off the gas.
Could totally go for some posadist tacos rn.
I knew this was gonna happen because they’re just controlled opposition but damn you can’t even act like you give a shit?
They didn’t do shit all year because their strategy is to punish people for not voting em so here it looked like they were atleast going to put up a show and then… Poof
The script writers are getting lazyidk when they act like they give a shit they tend to do stuff like
lolOr them doing Hamilton
Chuck Schumer should kill himself
Woah woah woah, hold up there
And his family
Or his imaginary friends he consults when being a little wussy boy
No, that’s not cool.
Chuck Schumer’s family should kill him
And then themselves?
who cares
In his case; yeah maybe.
inb4 removal
I’m not the CIA, I can’t make people kill themselves.
The deal would include a December vote on a Democratic proposal to extend ACA tax credits for one year, multiple sources said. It would take 60 votes to pass.
Funding the government through the end of January in exchange for a vote that won’t pass…
The agreement is expected to include language that would, at a minimum, undo the federal layoffs that President Trump implemented during the shutdown.
…and a bunch of people who have probably found new jobs getting offered their old ones back
The deal would include a December vote… 60 votes to pass.
Democratic Chorus: “We got a pinky swear on shit!”
Holy fuck they really outdid themselves - didn’t they.
Hey they got the
Everything that happens after is just democracy playing out the way it’s supposed to.
Democrat lawmakers are doing violemce against me.
Not their trash policies and capitulation that will almost certainly get me killed, but how spectacularly stupid they are. It’s so stupid it hurts to read.
and a bunch of people who have probably found new jobs
Have you looked around at the job market recently???
Funding the government through the end of January in exchange for a vote that won’t pass…
Ah but have you considered that this will let them get Republicans on RECORD as voting against it which they will use in attack ads come 2026 mid-terms? Oh yes, their master plan is all coming together thanks to the consultants. Of course those same consultants will tell them in July 2026 that actually that doesn’t play and you shouldn’t harp on those votes and why people’s Obamacare is now $2000/month and instead advise that they triangulate for “moderate anti-abortion centrist voters” and other fairy-tales so they tack right.
Yeah, I guess if you view this exercise solely through the lens of winning elections and successfully fundraising, the shutdown has been a success.
The Democrats got their press long enough to get a CIA agent governor and an overall high dem turnout (with donations to match I’d wager), now they can give up because there’s nothing more to gain for them.
when you realize this is happening a month before the luigiversary 🤔
They’re doing it to avoid the people rising up. Siding with fascism rather than risking even the mildest forms of leftism.
god it’s only been a year?
normie lib update: my dad, who has prior peddled the “Biden was the most progressive president since FDR” line and was subscribed to Jen Rubin’s Substack just a year prior is now cursing out Chuck Schumer and calling for everyone who caves to be ostracized from politics
At least, when the dems cave we can get a lot of mileage out of pointing out their class collaboration. I’ve been doing my best to plant seeds about how our blue state gov’s inaction against ICE, all while his state troopers actively protect them, amounts to nazi collaboration, and even normal libs seem pissed off enough to actually be receptive to this idea.
There are absolutely huge fissures in both dominant ideologies in this country right now that seem likely to only spiral further out of their control; it’s a really unique moment for us to exploit.
and even normal libs seem pissed off enough to actually be receptive to this idea.
That guy that keeps yapping, Pritzker, all the libs seem to love him and yet he has done less than shit against ICE.
calling for everyone who caves to be…
I want to finish that sentence another way. But that would be fedposting.
yeah he’s not there yet, but who knows how things will play out. it’s interesting how even some hyperpartisan laymen are beginning loathe their masters. Very interesting that the only base of uncritical support left may be party staff and colleagues. I will watch this situation with interest. I am quite interested in what may result from this.
Is there a good “Join us” meme for situations were we can hope liberals move left? I googled but I got nowhere.
Ninja edit. There’s Darth Vader’s “Join me” but I can’t figure out a way I like to make that work.
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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-not-visit-edits
come on down to Communism
we got
rolly pollys [shiny Chinese train]
And whatever goofy names/pictures you can come up with for free housing, voting for your boss, free medical care, not bombing people, and free education.
On the subject of lib dads, my almost 80 year old “progressive” liberal father still thinks the Democrats are these leftwing pillars of opposition to Trump, who is the cause of the US’s slide into fascism rather than a symptom (an inevitability of the fascism that has always been embedded in US liberal “democracy”). He was using my own reliance on SNAP and how I wouldn’t be able to get food this month as proof that I was foolish to oppose the Democratic Party, telling me “I know you think Democrats and Republicans are the same, but you wouldn’t be losing your only way to buy food if a Democrat was president!” When I tried to start explaining the Overton Window to him, he said “There’s still a left and a right and the Democrats are on the left,” and refused to speak to me further when I said something about how that was like thinking the Wiemar Republic was a great left wing pillar of opposition to the rise of the right in 1920s Germany.
I have little doubt that he’ll see this pathetic caving by the Dems and think it was an unfortunate but necessary political move made because the good Democrats really want to help poor people get their benefits back. He used to watch Amy Goodman and likes the Motorcycle Diaries movie so he thinks he’s a leftist.
Meanwhile on Bluesky.
just left snippy messages for schumer and gillibrand. first time for everything i guess!
202-224-3121
“Snippy”, eh? I’m stealing that for my parodies. What a fantastically lib word.
Absolute tagline material
Bluesky is in “Call your senator right away!” mode. It’s pathetic.
lol they “left a message” for a senator’s public number that gets probably 100k calls a day? Literally screaming into the void. Zero difference from yelling at a wall in your house, except that if you did that your neighbors might hear you instead of nobody
Go to the window, open it, and say…
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”“I’m mad as hell and my pathetic Democratic Senator can go fuck themself!”
It’d be a bit funny if they all fed-posted in their rep’s voice mail boxes
In the next few days - before I nod off to sleepy town - I will try to get myself to dream of that.
Only you can make your dreams reality
hypothetically a few thousand phone calls from their constituents would accomplish something but being rude where an intern will hear you isn’t worth much
C’mon. The reality of this is not binary. There’s very large gray area between pleading by “being snippy” and being hostile by saying “Schumer can go fuck himself.”
right, “snippy” is rude. the average liberal is so concerned with civility they would probably not f-bomb a voicemail
i’m 50-50 on whether that person in particular thinks chuck will personally listen to the messages
I seriously don’t know what “snippy” means to the average lib. Is it something like…
“Senator Schumer - I’m tempted to use the f-bomb in this message. It illustrates how deeply disappointed I am in you. Furthermore I am crestfallen that…”
i’m 50-50 on whether that person in particular thinks chuck will personally listen to the messages
I think the average phone call lib knows Schumer won’t ever actually hear them. Yet they cling to some kind of phone call cargo cult thing where if enough people like them make phone calls - the senators will hear them. It’s like “Field of Dreams” I guess.
Yet they cling to some kind of phone call cargo cult thing where if enough people like them make phone calls - the senators will hear them. It’s like “Field of Dreams” I guess.
a fuckload of phone calls and physical mail does make a difference if they start doing the math and get worried about not having votes when they want to get re-elected, it’s just really hard to actually get that much political engagement from burgerlanders in a non-election year. it’s a little cargo-culty but it’s not as feckless as the no kings shit.
By having the vote on Sunday - Schumer made phone calls 100% irrelevant. But I guess if panicked dem voters had been calling for weeks - maybe that would slightly worry the DC dems. In this bifurcated sportsball reality - I don’t think the DC dems care very much about angry voters.
a fuckload of phone calls and physical mail does make a difference
source?
SOPA and PIPA in 2012 is the one i remember. there might have been a couple since then but it’s not super common
This is why when calling your legislators, it’s always important to start off the voicemail message with the magic words: “I know where you live and I have seen where you sleep”
My mum is a hopeless 1960s “we protested our way out of Viet Nam” type who dragged me to one of the rallies. I proposed a sign saying “We’re running out of witty slogans” which seems about right for the zeitgeist.
So the shutdown was pointless?
Not for Schumer. I assume the donor class called him up to kvetch about horrible holiday air travel. They will be very pleased with the shutdown ending and they’ll throw the necessary millions at him he needs to win his reelection. For the people of New York State - I’m sure he has a PR plan about what he claims is some shit like what the dems agreed to is “good deal for the American people”. Sadly it will probably work. He’s never lost an election.
Per the NYCrimes
It contains something that many Democrats were quietly pressing for: a provision that would call federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown back to their jobs. It also would provide funds to ensure that federal workers who were furloughed during the shutdown can receive retroactive pay.
lol they’re trying so hard to pretend they got literally anything out of this shutdown. Hooray! We got concessions to address the effects of the shutdown that would not have existed were it not for the shutdown. Amazing win for the people!
The short-term spending bill would additionally bar the Office of Management and Budget from implementing any additional mass layoffs of federal workers through Jan. 30.
Did you hear that? They’re going to have to wait 2 entire months!
The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that’s over with it’s time to wind down.
The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that’s over with it’s time to wind down.
Holy shit did that make me laugh!
Did you hear that? They’re going to have to wait 2 entire months!
And the Republicans don’t even fucking have to do that lmao. It’s gonna be so obvious to everyone else on earth when the Republicans renege in like 2 days because they already got everything they wanted
The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that’s over with it’s time to wind down.
Update: I’m laughing again.
I knew they were controlled opposition but this is going above and beyond the call of duty
So, how will they keep that vote about
out of the house next?I don’t know how but they will find a way. The dems are big on Idiotic Grand Bargains.
As long as the incorrect idea that the two parties are meaningfully opposed to one another hangs on in the back of your head, you’re gonna keep being surprised by this shit. Just remember that they effectively take turns at being controlled opposition.
The spirit of James Buchanan has never left the Democratic party. The mindset that led to the compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act runs in their blood and through their souls.
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaerlich.bsky.social/post/3m5a7x5nark2q
Keremy Chao @jmchao.bsky.social · 58m We didn’t call Jan 6 witnesses for testimony during the second impeachment because people had Valentine’s Day plans. There are some self-centered bad people in office.
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so chuck gets what he wants, but he votes no to keep his hands clean. classic.
