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wildcat09

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  1. The nos all need to be primaried too. Unless you see them move to remove Schumer from leadership in the next few days, it's a safe bet that many of them are chickenshit and only voted no because there were enough yes votes to give them cover. Assuming they don't do that, none of them can be trusted because none of them can be honest with their own voters.
  2. No, this is wrong. He fucked this up in a half dozen different ways, if not more. He assumed that Johnson wouldn't be able to pass a CR out of the House and that he wouldn't get pushed into a tough decision, and he never contemplated any alternative scenarios. That's why the House caucus is fucking incandescent with rage right now; he let them go out on a limb and vote against this only to turn around and betray them. If he'd told them a month ago, WHEN JOHNSON WAS LOOKING FOR DEM VOTES, they could've at least tried to negotiate for something better than this. Then he tried to cover his own ass by lying to the public about his caucus' stance while going hat in hand to the literal enemy to beg him for help covering his ass. Schumer needed to decide a month ago whether he and his caucus had the stomach for shutting the government down and coordinate with the House leadership on strategy. It's a disqualifying mixture of stupidity, laziness, and cowardice that makes Kevin McCarthy look competent by comparison.
  3. Schumer has really shot them all in the dick with his bungling of this. It'll be a lot harder to message now than if he hadn't handled this whole situation like a fucking dumbass. But ultimately Trump and the GOP will get a majority of the blame because they're pissing everyone off with their insanity right now and this is just gonna be connected to that. And if the Dems make a few popular demands (e.g. eliminate DOGE and get rid of Elon/Vought) and ultimately get a better CR passed any public hits they take from this will be long passed by the time the midterms roll around.
  4. It's not a close call. It's not easy, but it's not a close call. The argument against a shutdown is that Dems don't really have any leverage anyway and letting the government shut down means Trump/Elon/Vought can choose to shut down whatever they want. But they're already doing that. Courts will continue to function but DOJ staff will be greatly reduced, and hobbling the DOJ's ability to defend Trump is a good thing, not a bad thing. The argument for a shutdown is that Trump is weaker right now than he will be in six months if they let this CR pass. He's shocked a lot of people who still remember when things were actually pretty good just a couple of months ago and he's galvanized a furious opposition again. If Dems cave on this CR that opposition will splinter and another six months of Trump's insanity will cause a lot of people to just go numb and tune it all out. Besides, he and Elon and Vought have been shutting the government down for nearly two months already. Passing this CR will effectively ratify their crimes and essentially cede Article 1 powers to Trump. It will render Congress a rump institution. Better for Congress to just shut down and not operate and not fund anything for the next 3.5 years than that. That's not even getting into how the bill defunds DC's cops, probably so they can replace them with some ICE shitheads who will arrest any troublemaking protesters. And they don't really want a shutdown. Elon may sort of think he does occasionally, but he's a fucking idiot. If there's a shutdown Trump and the GOP will get the majority of the blame because the shit they're doing right now is wildly unpopular and people want it to stop. There's a reason the GOP unified to pass this fucking thing and it's not any 4d chess shit. Trump can't even fucking play checkers, much less chess, and is already talking about supporting a primary challenge against their lone holdout. He doesn't want a shutdown. These guys are fucking bullies, which means they're cowards. There's nothing a coward is more afraid of than someone fighting back.
  5. Schumer thought he could cut a deal with Thune to get votes on some proposed amendments that were doomed to fail in exchange for the cloture vote, so he could pretend that the Dems fought. All he wanted to do was lie to voters on his own side to pretend he wasn't really surrendering, but Thune either told him "lol no" or didn't even respond.
  6. Schumer has a mutiny on his hands. No clue how the cloture vote ends up going, but he may not have the votes and he's betrayed his caucus, house Dems, and Democratic voters so thoroughly and openly that there's not really any way he can remain part of the Dem senate leadership.
  7. Along those same lines, Matt Taibbi is either the dumbest person alive or pretending to be:
  8. Because they've already said they didn't detain him for violating any laws.
  9. Oh yeah, Tesla has never misled its shareholders before.
  10. The law protects everybody or the law protects nobody. Pick one.
  11. This is just a lie.
  12. Does it count as sodomy if one buries their own head up their ass? Asking for Ana.
  13. Get this bullshit propaganda disguised as JAQing off out of here.
  14. Why would you be ashamed of banging a woman who is solidly average in appearance? That's not what shame is for.
  15. I member when slacks was saying the Senate couldn’t vote to impeach him after 1/6.
  16. Negged for describing Bari Weiss' rag as having high credibility.
  17. I'm honestly impressed by @realgreggym's ability to make a post that is not only so perfectly the literal exact opposite of reality, but has been proven to be so to every person with a functioning brain this quickly.
  18. Delaware might as well abolish the business judgment rule. Short-sighted doesn't even begin to describe it.
  19. It's just Paradox (games) brain. Someone showed him Crusader Kings or Hearts of Iron and he was like "wait, you can move the lines on the map?" And then he realized that's what Putin was doing and wanted to join the fun.
  20. Yeah, that's pretty obviously it.
  21. I'm honestly stunned that someone who's been pretty politically engaged for decades hasn't heard of Sam. He's not Dan Rather or anything, but he's very well known on the left.
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