Ahead of Democrats’ meeting, Republicans floated a new offer that would reportedly entail “rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal to end it,” according to Politico.
Okay… so their offer is, stop standing up to us and let us finish gutting healthcare, and we’ll rehire the people that we fired to punish you for standing up to us? Am I getting that right?
And we’ll fire them again right after that because cruelty and lying is the point of this weird weird game
Yes, and then they will fire those rehires again after just a minuscule amount of time has passed.
Just like they have done with a couple agencies.
Republicans are shitting their pants right now.
To be fair, the president has been doing that for years.
It’s all the rage. Everybody does it. It’s all I hear abooooiuuuuutttttt…. whew.
Remember when certain voters started wearing disposable underwear to rallies?
I just sent that to my Trumper buddy. Like we’re crazy for empathy and protesting, while he forgot about diapers and ear bandages.
And yet they are not backing down. All I can think is that there are a hell of a lot of them in the Epstein files and Trump has them by the balls.
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein was the first or the only guy blackmailing United States politicians for Israel?
Nope. Just the most effective.
How can you even know that? The most effective intelligence agents are the ones that don’t get caught/killed.
Of course, I don’t know that. You asked me what I think. My opinion is that he was the most effective.
Compared to who though?
As the Senate Democratic caucus met privately on Thursday to discuss the party’s approach to the ongoing government shutdown following key electoral victories earlier this week, progressives sent a message to any centrists thinking of breaking ranks: “You cave, you lose.”
Those were the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has vocally warned Democrats against abandoning their push for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies as a necessary condition for any deal with the GOP to end the shutdown—now the longest in US history.
Always cutting progressive names outta headlines…
Please don’t fold like a cheap suit, despite your historical performance.
I mean, I don’t especially think that the GOP is going to fully change course on health care. And I doubt that the Democrats are going to block the budget until Trump leaves office (though that’d be one for the history books).
In my book, what matters for the Democrats is flipping the House in 2026. Whatever happens on the shutdown — forcing the Republicans to use the nuclear option so that they don’t need a supermajority in the Senate, the Republicans back down by conceding on health care, or the Democrats back down by conceding on health care, whatever, and how each side manages to set public perceptions around this — is aimed at shaping the midterms, which will matter.
lol you still think there’s going to be fair midterms?
After this years elections, hopefully yes.
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Right now, the only way the Democrats have a chance at the midterms (assuming they aren’t overrun by some manufactured emergency to keep Trump and whoever he likes that day in office for life), is if they do keep the shutdown going until there’s a Democrat president in office.
The problem with that of course is that it means the “small-government” Republicans and the Libertarians get exactly what they want.
Oh good. Bernie is considered a “progressive” now? A millionaire with multiple houses, who’s taken in no homeless people with his megawealth, has only ever donated proceeds from books he had ghostwritten when put under duress is a leading progressive?
We need to start electing real people.
Who would you like to see elected instead?
Someone with a net worth at or below US average (~$200,000.00), who actually remembers trying to make ends meet on minimum wage, who owns no more than one home (preferably someone who rents). Oh, and preferably someone whose earnings mostly come from either a full-time W2 job or gig income (Uber, Lyft, etc.), not book sales or capital investment.
Most of his money is from book sales and he owns 2 houses. A $2-3m networth is far from mega wealth.
That’s at least 1 more home than he needs to live, and even $1m counts as megawealth compared to the national average.
This is why no one loves you
I’m sure they are so progressive that they’ve housed a ton of unhoused people and freely give up their own food as well. It’s the only measure of progressive!
/s because of today’s political climate
