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Not sure why it’s relevant what district they’re in. The point of getting elected isn’t to get reelected, it’s to do things in the best interest of your constituents

The GOP doesn't care if they're seen to be gutting the ACA, it's what they've always wanted, and they've said so. This also relies on Dems having good messengers to tell people why their premiums are going up...good luck with that

So basically, after over a month of the pain caused by the shutdown, Dems got literally nothing, and are back to where they were pre-shutdown, and the GOP gets everything they wanted. Plus now, the GOP knows for sure that Dems will always back down from a fight

And Dems made sure they got it, at a moment when the public put the blame on Republicans and elections around the country made clear that public sentiment was against the GOP. Now Republicans know (as if they didn't already) that Dems will always back down

Obviously not and literally no one is ever saying that, that’s idiotic. But functionally, would there even be any difference? They’ve gotten everything they want and even gotten some piece of shit democrats to help advance their agenda. Would it be any different if the senate were 100 republicans?

…if she actually believed in it, maybe she should have kept pushing it instead of getting talked down by her corporate donors. But that would require her believing in something in the first place

2007: If you think central planning China can compete with the innovation of new financial products, an unregulated mortgage industry, and the smartest investment bankers in the world, good luck with that

It is the way democrats do it

Also "prevent cuts to SS or Medicare"....codifying their platform of "we will stop more bad things from happening," who wouldn't run through walls for that??

There's a lot of great stuff in here, but my favorite might be having increase min wage to $15, and then slightly higher up, increase min wage to $12. Dems get a lot of shit for negotiating against themselves, but I've never seen it in a goddamn polling chart before

They’re owned by the same people who bankrolled Trump and the rest of his cronies

Feel like the much more likely and logical explanation is they don’t actually care or believe in anything, and are owned by the same donors who bankroll republicans.

They’ve shown literally no interest in stopping anyone, they don’t need my help

Also they’d have to be pretty fucking stupid to think that this administration is going to negotiate with them in good faith on cabinet picks. They’re Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

lol and who did they stop exactly? They’re sure doing a great job of stopping the baddies from getting into these positions and destroying the country. They must be playing some 4D chess that will reveal itself in several years

If these people are obviously crooks, why are our elected representatives continually signaling their approval of them? Besides the fact that they don’t actually believe in anything. Give me one good reason and I’ll concede the point, but not holding my breath

We already acknowledged it wouldn’t have changed the outcome, keep up. Explain to me why they would possibly vote to confirm? If it doesn’t indicate approval of the agenda, I’m not sure what else it could possibly do. How else should we interpret that?

No one here is making anything up. They objectively voted to confirm some of the worst people to ever serve in federal govt, and you still haven’t provided a halfway plausible reason or defense for them to do so

Bold to assume I agree 90% with the feckless Dems on this list. Also strange to say they were doing their jobs or opposed to said evil when they vote to confirm that evil, doesn’t really strike me as opposition — particularly when they don’t do anything else to oppose them

Criticizing your elected representatives for being awful and not believing in anything isn’t a grift. It’s how democracy is supposed to work

Imagine getting angrier about criticizing these amoral Dems voting to confirm some of the worst people to ever work in government than about the votes themselves. No wonder Dems continue to feel entitled to our votes

If it makes no difference, why did they vote to confirm these explicitly grotesque people? The difference it does make is to signal approval for the agenda and the nominee, since it’s purely a symbolic vote

Because Dems are obsessed with appearing bipartisan despite the inherent failures of bipartisanship and don’t actually believe in anything.

If you vote to confirm someone who will obviously advance Trump’s grotesque agenda, then you are complicit in advancing Trump’s agenda. It’s pretty simple. There is objectively no defense for voting to confirm a single one of his nominees

Their job is to vote in the best interests of their constituents. Even if 51% of their constituents wanted Kash Patel or Brooke Rollins, but the rep believed they’d be bad for their constituents, they also shouldn’t vote to confirm. That part is also pretty simple

That’s objectively not what they said… regardless if any of these Dems thought that any of Trump’s nominees were qualified, then that’s also a huge problem. You should objectively never vote to help advance a terrible agenda, it’s pretty simple

The other obvious problem with this premise is that…Harris didn’t run on progressivism or as a progressive. Though he’s obviously happy to distort reality to fit his narrative.

We should be so lucky

I wonder if public safety/crime is a more salient issue for women, and propaganda that Mamdani will defund the police/Cuomo's talking nonstop about hiring cops is having an effect

lol someone updated her wikipedia today to call her a "journalist"