• chingadera@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Incoming Monday morning announcement: This week’s venues have been postponed or cancelled due to “unforseen circumstances, weather, or another barely almost believable lie we can attach to it instead of just admitting that we had indeed fucked up.”

  • NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Objective question: What was his alternative, better choice?

    EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes. I guess trying to understand is frowned upon.

    • crusa187@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      Not giving up what was literally the only meaningful leverage Dems had, and voting NO on cloture for the spending bill.

      Chucklefuck Chuck claimed that the resulting shutdown would have opened the door for the presidents to sow chaos and discord with firings, but that’s a braindead argument because this is exactly what they’ve already been doing since day one. Instead of doing the bare minimum to protect us, Chuck recruited other rich Dems to capitulate and protect their own pocketbook. It’s disgusting and has paved the way for the $4.5 trillion robbery that is about to commence.

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      18 hours ago

      A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

      Then there would be two options:

      • Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
      • government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

      Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          20 hours ago

          the government is up to radical evil shit right now. spending bills, as the republicans have demonstrated for years, are great leverage to suspend the opposition’s agenda. better to vote no, reject cloture, and force the republicans to at least pretend to play nice