cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52806677
The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.
His dumb attempt to set this up to try and avoid the blowback he got the last time he caved is infuriating. It’s like he can’t possibly standup for what he thinks is right. If he believes we should never shutdown the government, he should say so and own the consequences.
I can’t tell if he’s incredibly cynical or condescending that he thinks we’re all morons that can’t see through his lame attempt to frame the narrative.
No, Schumer needs to resign immediately and never ever have any input to politics again, this was an awful betrayal of everybody who grinned and bore the suffering from the government being closed because they knew it was Republicans holding us hostage.
Schumer has betrayed us all by normalizing betrayal like this, by encouraging us to take a deal with the strongman out of fear because maybe people won’t hold the line when you come under the crosshairs and maybe you will just be sweeped under the rug because your suffering was too cynical for the opposing narrative to handle…
This is honestly the singlest biggest US policy failure of my life time, I cannot believe how badly Shumer blundered and betrayed my future with this.
People are going to die because of how Schumer behaved here, many tens of thousands of people. Schumer is a disgrace to the Democratic party and is a living breathing argument as good as any that the issues at the heart of the DNC are terminal and fundamentally resistant to change necessary to survive, the future be damned.
man, i’m just as pissed as you, but you put it way better than i ever could have.
The eight senators were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Angus King of Maine, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, but Levin said many more centrist lawmakers were likely “in on the play.”
On **MSNBC Monday, Shaheen acknowledged that Schumer was “kept informed” of the eight senators’ negotiations with the GOP regarding reopening the government.
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“The coordinated nature of this—none [of the lawmakers who voted yes] are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate [minority] leader to stop it,”
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Okay, so, someone remind me… what’s the name of the political ideology for when you want libertarian left life-cherishing hippie policies for almost everything, but with the exception of tankie Stalin deathsquads only for establishment dems?
Sanity.
