Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.

I don't plan to let anyone forget it.

From a Bluesky post on which the author chose to disable quote-tweets (fair enough, and I wouldn't quote it if I weren't complimenting it: "Instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.""

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

He doesn’t know how to do politics. Or lead. Those are the main job qualifications

Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?

Schumer put it together and Durbin whipped just enough votes

Because Schumer wanted this

Yes. But, we need a real opposition party that fights back. They have to use every political advantage they have.

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!

That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

I spent literally all of yesterday in a cascading series of flight delays and we all did that for nothing but giving the GOP the knowledge that doing that will make you cave immediately? You know they’re going to do that every time now, right?

This is why they had aides making noise outside their meeting so the press couldn't hear those details.

You need to go. l don’t know if you hate us or you love Trump, but you had some leverage for a minute and you apparently couldn’t stand that. We need leaders who will fight for us.

I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.

Democrats successfully backed Trump into a corner where he was on-the-record advocating to starve Americans and let their healthcare costs go up.

And now 10 cowards in the Senate are about to bail him out in exchange for NOTHING.

l don’t believe Schumer was against it.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

Yes. This. WHAT THE HELL???

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

What is his problem? Does he hate us?

Demonrats

Nope. She kept saying no and he kept pressuring her and giving her more alcohol. And then she wrote about it. That’s all that happened to him. He didn’t go to jail.

That is exactly why it made a lot of Gen X women angry. People went through this kind of stuff and laughed it off and don’t want to process it so they get angry at the wrong person.

Eeek. l forgot the details. But even so nothing HAPPENED to him except she wrote about the date. That’s it. He was embarrassed for the way he acted. People who act like that should be embarrassed. And if he hadn’t been wearing that “Time’s Up” pin she wouldn’t have called him out.

What happened to Aziz? He acted like an asshole and someone wrote an article about him acting like an asshole. That can always happen to anyone.

Last year l learned the phrase “falling for the okey doke” and it seems to apply well here.

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Popsicles are actually really important when a kid has a fever and is dehydrated. Especially if they can’t keep much down. EBT SHOULD cover popsicles.