Absolutely useless

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    You have meek fuckers in leadership because that’s who the corporate/wealthy donors want there. If you want to get rid of them you’re going to have to get rid of the money and influence that put them there.

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    They’re not meek, they profit from the status quo.

    These people have no business in governing modern day people, these dinosaurs need to be let go.

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      they benefit and profit by not being the blame of the GOP whom they are also grifting form.

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    Here’s the actual story, Schumer relented one day after GOP and DNC megadonors threaten to pull funding away from 10 Democrats.

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    Only if you’re ready for a decades long campaign to flip towns, cities, districts, and state level legislatures like it took the republicans from 1972 to just a month ago.

    That’s what we’re up against.

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      The US needs to break the two-party system so minor parties and independents actually have a chance at representation.

      Of course there’s no incentive for the establishment to do that. Is there any way for new candidates to run with the major parties, but on a platform to introduce preferential voting when they have the numbers? I don’t know much about factions within US parties, but they certainly exist in my country, and can transform parties quickly if they think they have election-winning appeal.

      It would have to happen bottom-up, as you say, so people can get comfortable with such a big change. Also, people are much more likely to elect independents at a local level.

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    Absolutely. I’ve been calling my Senators since Thursday telling them that if they don’t publicly call for Schumer to step down, then they are culpable for his decisions. Supporting fascist enablers is supporting fascism.

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      It’s because the Moderates (aka. Republicans in blue suits) control the party and it’s been this way for far too long.

      It’s the same reason Nancy Pelosi kept stepping on AOC’s toes and even worked to keep her out of key committee positions, despite her being popular with a lot of Democratic voters.

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        The DNC is a zionist first organization. Members winning is secondary to zionist rule over America.

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    no one is this meek. this is collusion. they’re complicit, and it’s not by accident. they’ve always been this way.

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      This is the correct take. Dems are owned by corporations, conservatives are owned by oligarchs (and corporations, but I don’t think corporations are too happy with what’s going on with Trump and Musk)

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        And Musk and Trump are just mad that everyone thinks they are weird spoiled assholes, so they are seeking revenge on…everyone.

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      Democratic politicians suck up Super PAC money the same as Republicans. It’s just that Republicans just do other forms of corruption out in the open because they know their voters are too stupid to notice.

      Trump scamming people with memecoin currency, MAGA doesn’t care.

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    We’re not going to give Donald Trump what he wants, so we’re going to pass this spending bill that gives him everything he wants! That’ll how 'im!

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        So we should just give him everything he asked for on a silver platter with no resistance whatsoever and not offer any meaningful alternatives?

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          It’s like invading Iraq when a bunch of Saudis that hate Iraq attack you. You have to ask yourself “is this exactly what they want me to do?” And then “If I want my revenge, whom should I attack and how?”

          Attacking federal workers on behalf of Trump is not the way to “Stand up to Trump”

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      It’s really hard to remove bought politicians when it’s the rule and not the exception

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        That’s why I am 99% certain America gets a civil war. When half the population are so mentally ill that they support Trump, and the other half so brainwashed they blame progressives for Trump — the only group that has consistently warned that conservatism and neoliberalism will result in fascism — you can’t simply “deprogram” them.

        One major reason Europe rebounded after WW2 is because the vast majority of fascist “true believers” died in the war, and fascist leadership was executed. Europe essentially had a political and sociological “reset”. Without that, America’s cancer will continue to grow and fester. If civil war does not happen, or the fascists win it, the world gets US fascist imperialism and WW3 in the 2030’s; give or take a few years.

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    I’ve often been a defender of Democrats being realistic, but Schumer is on some bullshit here.

    It’s unclear what, if anything, Schumer got in return for his decision to allow the House bill to proceed

    Says it all right there. The Republican bill was just a list of laughably insane things they knew Democrats would oppose so they could blame the shutdown on them. It actually cuts funding of DC’s local budget forcing them to fire teachers and even cops. Again, nothing to do with the federal government. It just grabs power from a local government and says that they can’t use their own local tax revenues to educate kids and fight crime. It’s complete rabid insanity that has no point other than to bully a blue city. And Schumer’s like “Sure, ok. whatever.”

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      The budget also cuts medicare and medicaid by some pretty substantial amounts, among many other government programs.

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        This is the CR. This allows for more time to work on that budget… which only needs 51 votes because of reconciliation.

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          Ah, ok. Kind of weird that they would even bother with a CR when they could just move the debt ceiling with the budget proposal? Still, a weight is lifted knowing that it isn’t coming to pass right away.

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    It’s long past time for Schumer and most of the timid OLD dems, to step aside. We’ve had enough of failing. We need to elect people that are capable of fighting back.

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      He’s very dependent on donations from the banking industry, it’s all there on OpenSecrets. Both NY senators voted to end cloture because that’s where wall street is. Gillibrand seems to be avoiding criticism for some reason but it’s the same exact story for her. Wall street was already suffering from the Trump tariff decline and couldn’t take any more from a shutdown.

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      Well he’s a zionist. And the zionists bought both parties but preferred trump in power. So yeah.

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      You mean like recently? No. It’s been a lot more than a feeling since 2016, for me at least. A known fact I guess you could call it?

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      I felt that about the lot of them since the state of the union address.

      they’re giving off strong “fuck you, got mine” vibes.

      I doubt any of them realize the following though.

      What do you get if you take everything away from a person?

      you get what you fucking deserve.