I feel like the plan they’re going for now is to make the shutdown a next year’s problem. It’s pretty much guaranteed to happen again at this point in 2026, right around re-elections again too.

If the pinky swear promises don’t come to fruition, then it’s likely going to be a worse shutdown than this one was. That doesn’t bode well for Republicans at midterms if those promises aren’t kept by that same token.

What will suck is people are going to have another year of higher costs because of the knock-on effects of the tariffs and higher insurance premiums now due to the ACA cuts.

Blue states need to be making up the difference for what the Federal government has failed to deliver on. We need each other more than ever to weather the storm of financial hardship caused by the Republicans in office.

There is no hope left. The only cure for the corruption is to cut it out. Guillotines make for an excellent blade for excision.

Billionaires are desperate to turn people away from the Dem party, because they can't buy the next Dem presidential primary.

You're pissed at Schumer? Good, he's a giant ineffectual piece of shit

But now that he doesn't have a corrupt DNC behind him, his days in office are numbered. So are the rest of the neoliberals and especially the ones who voted with republicans.

Don't blame the party for what single digit number of assholes did. And definitely don't leave the party by refusing to vote in Dem primaries.

Even if there's nothing that could ever make you vote D in the general again, vote in every D primary and pull them left as hard as you can.

The only way neoliberals get the DNC back, is if people don't vote in the next Dem presidential primary, a neoliberal squeaks thru, and if they become president, they name a neoliberal chair.

And neoliberals aren't above sabotaging the Dem party to get the reins back.

It like the buy/sell ads for gold...

When billionaire owned media shits on the Dem party, it means the DNC is against billionaires.

When billionaire owned media supports the Dem party, it's because they own it

Wait wait - so the minority leader knew what his party was doing??!?

“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded. “And I think it’s important to remember who’s responsible for why we got into this shutdown. We are here because we are concerned about the health care costs rising significantly on millions of Americans, and we didn’t have any indication before the shutdown started that our Republican colleagues were willing to address it.”

Normally TNR isn’t as fucky but “either he was scheming the whole time or he’s unable to control his party” is pretty much the most uncharitable spin that can possibly be put on it.

It seems like they got a guaranteed healthcare vote which they didn’t have before (MAGAs were just going to trash it then move on and not speak of it again), they got everyone’s jobs back, they got everyone guaranteed back pay, and they got language to say the MAGAts won’t do that again.

Not to mention we cleaned their fucking clock in the elections, and everyone gets food and gets to travel to see their families during the busiest travel-and-food-related holiday of the year. Plus, they’ll see them back at the OK corral in January to lock in the healthcare or else we go again.

Federal workers get paychecks, which, kind of a big deal normally but more so at holiday season, and they racked up some wins while the republicans got a funded three months.

It doesn’t look like the huge “blink” right-wing-owned corporate news sewers want to paint it as.

OH! AND the House will swear in our deciding Epstein vote, which should make for some interesting holiday reading for all the MAGAts and those of us who may see them on the holidays.

That might be the whole shootin’ match, really. Healthcare subsidy vote notwithstanding.

Huh, she went on Fox News to drop this? And late last night Ro Kahnna immediately started posting on X about Schumer needing to go? And he's been on a press circuit all day since saying the same thing.

If there was anybody tied to this who had a history of using the press to spread narratives and help orchestrate coups, I would say this almost has all the normal markings of an orchestrated coup. Nobody immediately comes to mind though so, oh well.

I'm calling it now.

Israel told this lot to cave so the US Gov would reopen because Israel is plotting something.

Maybe they're gearing up to attack Iran again.

Maybe they're prepping to fully annex Palestine.

Idk why, but we know Israel has a firm grip on the GOP and most Dems. It wouldn't surprise me if they need the US gov open and just functional enough to send them more bombs and arms to slaughter more innocent neighbors.