At some point the people falling for this have to realize that they're falling for this again and again and get mad that they're being treated like fleeced marks. Read Huck Finn for what happens when con men push their luck too hard. If you're being fooled now, join us when you catch on and get mad.

Can't be overstated what a disaster this is going to be.

They'll be blamed for everything and achieved nothing.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

I've gone without pay, and ate it bc I knew that it was the right decision, but Senate Dem leadership caved and now I'm just fucked all around. My dad's pension program for San Diego MTS cut healthcare for pensioners and now wholly relies on Medicare and Medicaide. This is going to crush millions.

Over 8,500 Flights Disrupted Sunday As Government Shutdown Snarls Air Travel Hundreds of flights out of major airports were delayed Sunday, including in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.

Hundreds of flights out of major airports were delayed Sunday, including in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

They got their base to tune in, the people who are the kind of sickos who would vote in a primary, and said "we are stabbing you in the back now. Here we are plunging the knife into your back."

It's astonishing anybody at all still buys this. Embarrassing really!

Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol

At some point after Falling For It Again and again and again you have to get at least a little bit mad at the people rug pulling you, unless you're genuinely unable to tell you're getting rug pulled. Americans love to be marks but we hate when it's obvious, why aren't you as angry as the rest of us?

People like this will continue being fooled by the Democrats and after a while you start to feel bad for them. Like, don't you have any self respect? Can't you see you're being fucked with? That the people you give so much loyalty to absolutely do not care about you? We say this to Trumpers too!

How can anybody vote for a Democrat knowing they are gonna do you like this? Don't you have any self respect?

3. Republicans were playing good cop, bad cop, crazy cop.

Good cop: Senate Republicans
Bad cop: House Republicans (Johnson)
Crazy cop: Russ Vought + Trump

Vought's plan was always to use impoundment/rescissions/starving people + firing feds to force Dems to surrender on the power of the purse.

2) If it weren't these eight, others would have been found to get the Senate to exactly 60. This is pursuant to a strategy.

Their goal was to partner with more 'reasonable' Senate Republicans to pass full year CRs that reflected bipartisan priorities.

Senators are not your allies, they are your enemies. The Senate is a corrupt institution that exists to fuck over regular people. Always has. It's just never been more visible.

Goddammit, be a fucking leader. This sucks.

He fucking orchestrated this, by getting 8 politicians not up for reelection to vote for this and acting like he and none of the other people facing elections have anything to do with it.

They are all fucking complicit.

This guy is lying to you right to your face.

The other 20% don't want the Senate to exist at all because it shouldnt

Probably true

The Democrats will not save us, winning elections will not save us, only dismantling this entire system from the top down and making a new system entirely will save us. The sooner enough people understand and accept this and live it in their lives, the sooner things can get turned around.

All of them sold you out, there's a reason its those ones specifically, they aren't up for re election next year

Yes

Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?

These guys think they're endgame in an RTS and its time to start building monuments

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

What if we stopped buying stuff we didn't absolutely need to survive. Not for a week, but until it all falls down.

We're not ever voting our way out of what's coming.

ICE, CBP, the FBI, and the police should be banned immediately and disarmed.

There’s such a concerted effort to present Mamdani’s win as narrow and effectively predetermined by NYC being deep blue but no one who trots out this line includes that he beat a (formerly) popular Democratic governor (twice), not some empty suit GOP placeholder

Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!