Stephen Therry

NO.

And I have a swampland for sale in Florida.

We have to assume that every Senate Democrat who's not publicly calling for Schumer's ouster signed off on what happened Sunday.

Fun fact: the White House tennis court was partially converted to a basketball court by President Obama. It was then converted back to a tennis court by Trump. How ironic if we could convert the ballroom to a basketball court and call it the Obama Basketball Court!

King’s point is that it didn’t work because Trump was cutting SNAP benefits. But lower courts had required Trump to pay full SNAP, and while Trump *probably* would have won at SCOTUS, that outcome wasn’t guaranteed and would have been known soon anyway.

Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.

Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.

Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.

Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.

I also have a great swampland in Florida to sell her.

If the shutdown ends, how long until Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is sworn in?

Thinking of bipartisanship with the Fascist Party at this point, after everything they went through with them is pure madness.
The institution will not save us.
It's time for Americans for the "No Surrender" movement and tell Democrats we won't stand for this capitulation.

Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.

Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.

Deals with this regime are meaningless.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

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.

It's cool when a member of Congress says there's no point in standing up to the bully who is literally taking our tax money.

We do not have a federal government.

She’s gonna Manchin her way into history.

Remember Manchin and Sinema? When we told you they were the rotating villains and not having any pressure on them from the Party is the proof of silent complicity to capitulate? Well now you have it.

Democrats got historic wins last week in 10 years, Republicans were about to cancel the fillybuster for their own detriment in the long term and this King guy is telling us with a straight face "it didn't work"?!?!

fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand.

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All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The majority of whom?

Democrats can't defeat Trump-MAGA authoritarianism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people.

We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.

It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.

Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.

More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.

Of course, they are now going to say the present economy is a disaster now that they have a scapegoat to blame their obvious and unavoidable failure.

Politicians like Pelosi, Schumer and Hoyer were just coming into their own. The lesson they took was that the party had gotten too liberal in the late '60s and '70s, and the Reagan Revolution was payback. They became convinced that the United States was a center-right country and that they had to accede to that unfortunate reality. For that reason, the wing of the party that had backed Ted Kennedy in the primaries against Carter in 1980 could be safely ignored. Reagan won a landslide re-election four years later. Maybe the country just wasn't into Democrats. In 1988, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis let a nearly 20-point lead in the polls slip away as he lost to Reagan's hapless vice president, the tongue-tied patrician George H.W. Bush, despite the Iran-contra scandal and eight years of GOP control. That only further persuaded the Democratic elite that liberalism was on the outs.

Pelosi publicly praised the one who truly started the mess Americans are deep in right now. All her political decisions are based on the right's whim. www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteve...

WELKER: Should the 300,000 Oklahomas who rely on ACA subsidies be prepared for their costs to skyrocket?

LANKFORD: We're trying to find a way to be able to help

(That's a yes!)