They spent the past year pathetically whining about they just couldn't fight Trump and their supporters just needed to wait and vote. Then they cave in not even one week after a wave election where just about every single Democrat who was running for something won their seat.
Why do the liberals hate it so much when the Democrats get called a controlled opposition, it's so self evidently true.
yOu JuSt DoNt UnDeRsTaNd PoLiTiCs
So its like you unionized went on strike and then after a couple of weeks you go back to work with worse conditions from the bargain than what you went in with.
The democrats think a clever use of leverage is strongly stepping a rake.
The democrats and their strategies 
Just when it started to work. It's so god damn fucking stupid.
Chuck Schumer should kill himself
Woah woah woah, hold up there
And his family
Or his imaginary friends he consults when being a little wussy boy
The deal would include a December vote on a Democratic proposal to extend ACA tax credits for one year, multiple sources said. It would take 60 votes to pass.
Funding the government through the end of January in exchange for a vote that won't pass...
The agreement is expected to include language that would, at a minimum, undo the federal layoffs that President Trump implemented during the shutdown.
...and a bunch of people who have probably found new jobs getting offered their old ones back
The deal would include a December vote... 60 votes to pass.
Democratic Chorus: "We got a pinky swear on shit!"
Holy fuck they really outdid themselves - didn't they.
Hey they got the 
Everything that happens after is just democracy playing out the way it's supposed to.
Democrat lawmakers are doing violemce against me.
Not their trash policies and capitulation that will almost certainly get me killed, but how spectacularly stupid they are. It's do stupid it hurts to read.
normie lib update: my dad, who has prior peddled the "Biden was the most progressive president since FDR" line and was subscribed to Jen Rubin’s Substack just a year prior is now cursing out Chuck Schumer and calling for everyone who caves to be ostracized from politics
At least, when the dems cave we can get a lot of mileage out of pointing out their class collaboration. I've been doing my best to plant seeds about how our blue state gov's inaction against ICE, all while his state troopers actively protect them, amounts to nazi collaboration, and even normal libs seem pissed off enough to actually be receptive to this idea.
There are absolutely huge fissures in both dominant ideologies in this country right now that seem likely to only spiral further out of their control; it's a really unique moment for us to exploit.
and even normal libs seem pissed off enough to actually be receptive to this idea.
That guy that keeps yapping, Pritzker, all the libs seem to love him and yet he has done less than shit against ICE.
calling for everyone who caves to be...
I want to finish that sentence another way. But that would be fedposting.
yeah he’s not there yet, but who knows how things will play out. it’s interesting how even some hyperpartisan laymen are beginning loathe their masters. Very interesting that the only base of uncritical support left may be party staff and colleagues. I will watch this situation with interest. I am quite interested in what may result from this.
Is there a good "Join us" meme for situations were we can hope liberals move left? I googled but I got nowhere.
Ninja edit. There's Darth Vader's "Join me" but I can't figure out a way I like to make that work.
So the shutdown was pointless?
Not for Schumer. I assume the donor class called him up to kvetch about horrible holiday air travel. They will be very pleased with the shutdown ending and they'll throw the necessary millions at him he needs to win his reelection. For the people of New York State - I'm sure he has a PR plan about what he claims is some shit like what the dems agreed to is "good deal for the American people". Sadly it will probably work. He's never lost an election.
Per the NYCrimes
It contains something that many Democrats were quietly pressing for: a provision that would call federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown back to their jobs. It also would provide funds to ensure that federal workers who were furloughed during the shutdown can receive retroactive pay.
lol they're trying so hard to pretend they got literally anything out of this shutdown. Hooray! We got concessions to address the effects of the shutdown that would not have existed were it not for the shutdown. Amazing win for the people!
The short-term spending bill would additionally bar the Office of Management and Budget from implementing any additional mass layoffs of federal workers through Jan. 30.
Did you hear that? They're going to have to wait 2 entire months!
The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that's over with it's time to wind down.
The shutdown never-surrender shtick served its purpose for the elections, now that that's over with it's time to wind down.
Holy shit did that make me laugh!
Meanwhile on Bluesky.
just left snippy messages for schumer and gillibrand. first time for everything i guess!
202-224-3121
"Snippy", eh? I'm stealing that for my parodies. What a fantastically lib word.
Absolute tagline material
Bluesky is in "Call your senator right away!" mode. It's pathetic.
lol they “left a message” for a senator’s public number that gets probably 100k calls a day? Literally screaming into the void. Zero difference from yelling at a wall in your house, except that if you did that your neighbors might hear you instead of nobody
Go to the window, open it, and say...
~~"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"~~
"I'm mad as hell and my pathetic Democratic Senator can go fuck themself!"
hypothetically a few thousand phone calls from their constituents would accomplish something but being rude where an intern will hear you isn't worth much
C'mon. The reality of this is not binary. There's very large gray area between pleading by "being snippy" and being hostile by saying "Schumer can go fuck himself."
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaerlich.bsky.social/post/3m5a7x5nark2q
Bluesky libs are making me laugh.
Anybody who votes for that bullshit needs to be primaried.
Pilloried, too.
https://bsky.app/profile/empath75.bsky.social/post/3m5acwkcy522e
Pillory as a verb - nice. They're mad! But I would bet money that next year the average Blueskyers (and those two accounts too) will be doing what libs always do. They'll be talking about the importance of voting(!) even if the candidate isn't "perfect". All this primaried and pilloried stuff will be long forgotten.
The pendulum is going to keep swinging back and forth between vapid democrat HOPE^TM^ and CHANGE^TM^ and Trump clones until the climate death of the earth. Enjoy the ride, the spectacle!
HOPE^TM^ THE ABYSS^TM^ CHANGE^TM^
for all the talk of "trump always chickens out" it seems like the real acronynm should be DACO eh?
joke aside, dems absolutely got a call from major donors over the shutdown saying it was time to wrap it up, id be curious to see if it was the airlines or supermarkets that was the bigger factor
I knew this was gonna happen because they're just controlled opposition but damn you can't even act like you give a shit? 
They didn't do shit all year because their strategy is to punish people for not voting em so here it looked like they were atleast going to put up a show and then... Poof
The script writers are getting lazy
So, how will they keep that vote about 
out of the house next?
I don't know how but they will find a way. The dems are big on Idiotic Grand Bargains.
I knew they were controlled opposition but this is going above and beyond the call of duty 
The spirit of James Buchanan has never left the Democratic party. The mindset that led to the compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act runs in their blood and through their souls.
voting caused this
fell for it again back to back world champions
Scumfucking useless motherfucking DEMOCRATS 
Something-something Tony-like solution something-something.
Transphobic riders?
US politicians just love taking a massive diarrhea on their own citizens (and foreign but just to keep it domestic)
These Democrats are so easy to hate
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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