Jim Teeth

I think in our analysis you trust us to take a position but at least analyze the alternative. In this case there is no alternative. There is no political advantage to this deal. None.

If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:

-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump

Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

I’m pretty sure the Democratic politicians are holding the football and the Democratic voters are the kicker.

That’s the only conclusion one can reach from the evidence. Most Democratic politicians are fine with what Trump and the Republicans are doing. The root cause of all of this is the oligarchs. We won’t have functional politics until we resolve the ologarchs.

It appears I was just a few days off on my estimate.

Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.

The Democrats are going to get pilloried if they went through all this and end it for magic beans. If they were going to take the magic beans they could have done it a month ago and saved a lot of people on SNAP fear and pain. Schumer should not be party leader.

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

I can’t answer that. The wind is at their backs and he will be primaried. He is doing nothing but ginning up the mob who’ll follow him everywhere. It makes no sense for the caucus or for himself.

Most people think the President of the United States can snap his fingers and do what he wants. Trump is eager to reinforce this, in principle and practice. If you fold now, he gets the credit. Go back on your terms or not at all. Sometimes politics is a slow bleed.

Rep Yassamin Anasari has set up a table and a sign saying "Mike Jonhnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files, CHANGE MY MIND" outside Johnson's office.

Absolute queen shit

The tariffs on bananas and coffee are just an incentive for soybean farmers to switch to growing bananas and coffee in the Midwest.

Once soybean farmers switch to growing bananas and coffee everything will be fine.

Donald Trump suffers from delusions. I assume there’s a staffer who’s job is to use generative rendering to produce videos that reinforce his delusions.

ICE is the American Schutzstaffel.

Tax the oligarchs from billionaires into millionaires.

Its too bad we can’t raise taxes.

The eyes. Thats a lot of cocaine.

Drugs.

We also need to talk about their flair.

Trump wouldn‘t be fighting so hard to conceal the Epstein Files if he wasn‘t all over them.

I use my credit card the way other people use debit cards. I don‘t even have a debit card. So if my credit card gets refused by the store they will just lose the sale.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Vintage black and white photo of two children standing in a garden, both wearing Jewish stars badges.

8 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Raphaël Pais, was born in Harlingen.

In November 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Jansje. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber together with their mother Roosje.

Could have been a slip to the institutional/organizational “we.”

Schumer is a jackass, but he made the right move here.