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@shaheen.senate.gov you are worse than worthless. Why did you even bother to do anything if you were just going to go back to the very first thing they offered you. You wasted everyone’s time and broke our trust. Worthless.

@senangusking.bsky.social I’m furious about your capitulation. What good are you?!

Fuck all of them @democrats.senate.gov

This is a joke, right? Put some steel in your spine. You’re killing is with a death by a thousand cuts. My god. This is unbelievable.

@kaine.senate.gov what are you guys thinking? Do you think we’re so stupid that we should be satisfied with the promise of a vote? Why did you even waste everyone’s time with this if you aren’t going to hold the line. Keep the government shut down until you secure people healthcare. Grow a spine!

They should be shamed anywhere they go until they’re in a desk job at a cubicle somewhere.

@durbin.senate.gov just leave already. You’re not helping anyone anymore.

@schumer.senate.gov you need to go. Right now. We’re sick of you and your betrayals. Get out now already. Done with you.

@democrats.senate.gov you all can fuck off. Don’t ask for any money because you don’t know what to do with it.

Then you better hold the line.

@democrats.senate.gov hold the fucking line already. Enough excuses. Every time you capitulate the cost to repair gets higher.

@democrats.org hold the fucking line already. Every time you cave the cost goes up. Stop failing us.

@schumer.senate.gov I swear if you cave in this shutdown fight we will never forgive you. Ever.

Proportional representation needs to be in as many state constitutions in those old slave states as we can get. The white majority concede when they have to and retrench when they can, generation after generation. System needs to be designed around them.

@elienyc.bsky.social I saw you on @rolandsmartin.bsky.social today. If we would start fighting for proportional representation, end single member districts and lift the cap on the House, we won’t need to ask for white permission for representation through the VRA approval.

Megan Kelly mad at Bad Bunny for not being white.

@joyannreid.bsky.social a few weeks ago you did a rant on why the right is so angry despite having everything they want. I think we got proof of the actual answer this week. They’re mad because they can’t “gerrymander” the culture.

The proof? Bad Bunny.

“As long as we obey, everything will be ok.”

You think those goddamn right wingers are mad about too much slavery in museums?

Wait until historians start opening entire new wings dedicated to how a real estate conman and the GOP collapsed one of the world’s most open societies into a dysfunctional fascist clown show.

They’re gonna be pissed.

The two party system is amplifying polarization. It has to end, now.

To stop authoritarianism, the two-party system must go. Is it finally time to break the duopoly?

@prorepcoalition.bsky.social we should talk

This would be FDR level boldness we’re talking about here, but the Republican Party has already shown us that they don’t mind rigging the entire system without our cooperation. Can we discuss?

I think what we’re going to have to do is start a movement to get the Democratic Party to destroy the two party system. People think that we have a two party system, but what they don’t understand is that this system is an emergent effect that comes from a small number of statutory laws.

And that chokepoint I believe is in how the house is apportioned. Now I know what I’m about to say he’s gonna sound far-fetched, but I need somebody like you a lawyer to think about it.

Also, because they’ve corrupted the system, it is now tuned to produce different variants of DJT. What we have to do is find a choke point above the system where we can reset the rules of the game.

But the Republican Party has corrupted so many pieces of the system that it feels like we’re having a fight on all fronts at once and so we are feeling like it’s a death by 1000 cuts.

@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social I’ve been reaching out to all kinds of people. My training is in systems, thinking in systems analysis. I think we’re thinking about this all wrong. We’re fighting the fight down in the trenches,…

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It would be like resetting a huge part of the system.

Those are things I think we can deal with at the statutory level. If we can get the house, senate and presidency we can do phase I of ending Republican autocracy. Getting the house and senate would give us a ton of leverage in the meantime.