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The Resistance: Demo(n)crats in the Era of Trump

Need to finally start r/culturecrossfire to gauge the audience.
 
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Democrats brace for Nancy Pelosi's possible retirement

The former House speaker is expected to make an announcement about her political future after Tuesday's elections.
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Some of the quotes in this are hilarious tbh, like the person wishing she'd stay 10 more years. I think Pelosi had her strong points and she's certainly better than Schumer but I don't think you can act like she was some unmitigated success story either.

The failure of the DNC to nurture the next generation of leadership while its elders clung on to power is something it will be reckoning with for many years to come.
 
Big wins at "lower" levels but equally important to state impacts...


"In Georgia, Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson will be the newest members of the state's five-person public utility regulator after earning roughly 60% of the vote. It's the first time Democrats have won a nonfederal statewide office there since 2006 and one where soaring energy costs and displeasure with incumbents dominated the race.

Also in Pennsylvania, Democrats swept the top "row offices" in the purple-hued Bucks County, electing the county's first-ever Democratic district attorney and defeating an incumbent Republican sheriff a year after Trump narrowly won there. Democrats similarly notched commanding victories in county executive races in Erie, Lehigh and Northampton counties, all bellwether counties in recent presidential elections.

At the state legislative level, Mississippi Democrats have broken a GOP supermajority in the state Senate after flipping two seats in that chamber plus another pickup in the state House.

In many local races across the country, Democrats touted victories that will reshape their communities, like the flipping of all three city council seats in Georgetown, S.C., the unseating of the last remaining Republican city council member in Orlando, Fla., and winning back mayoral races in Connecticut.

For the first time in a half-century, Democrats control the Onondaga County legislature that includes Syracuse, N.Y. Democrats saw a city council seat in Charlotte, N.C., switch parties for the first time since 1999."
 
Wow, HQ just did an FCS breakdown for FCS elections.

Good on Georgetown, it's not a big city by any means but the coast of SC is drifting further and further away from the deep red interior as more transplants and northern retirees move in. Charlotte and its surrounding counties are also undergoing this transformation and will look very different in ten years.
 
These Dem senators are like a boxer who's won almost every round yanking their own arm away from the referee just before the decision is announced.

I'm worried that justice Brown caving to Trump on food and now the senate Dems tonight will entrench the exponential hikes for health care and inhuman SNAP cuts.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1987704522391630139

I hope I'm not proven wrong, but this feels like the last straw for Schumer. Everyone (well, almost everyone) in the party is pissed, he's completely ineffective and he's gotten away with being a fucking loser for way too long. Even Hakeem Jeffries is unhappy with this.

There is zero reason for him to stick around. I know, the Dems suck and all that, but this has to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Either they remove him or they continue to eat more shit than usual.
 
As soon as I saw "possible Senate deal to end shutdown" as a headline I didn't even have to read the article to know the Democrats folded like Superman on laundry day. A supposed separate upcoming vote on healthcare that will never be allowed to happen.

Maybe this is just the Dems saying "okay, fine, see how your voters like this," knowing this later vote on subsidies/credits would never happen. It's a fucked up punish-off between the two parties whether it's feeding people or keeping them healthy.
 
Tim Kaine was so focused on doing whatever the GOP wanted that he missed how his state voted last Tuesday.
 
You'd think Angus Young would have a basic understanding of politics by now but, no, he's just a dumb bitch.

www.mediaite.com

Ezra Klein Warns Democrats Not to Fold: ‘They’re Winning This Shutdown’

Ezra Klein first urged Democrats to draw a hard line on ACA subsidies, arguing a shutdown was a necessary stand — a stance that helped catalyze the standoff.
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FFS even Ezra Klein knows these 8 Dems are getting this wrong.
 
I read that 2 or 3 of these fuckers who bent the knee are retiring/not running next year anyway so clearly they didn't give a shit about the repercussions. Let the future leaders deal with it I guess.

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Here Are The 8 Senate Democrats Who Folded On The Shutdown

The decision to fold on the shutdown is likely to fan the flames of the Democratic Party’s raging discontent with its elected representatives.
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  • Dick Durbin (Ill.)
  • Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
  • Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
  • Jackie Rosen (Nev.)
  • Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.)
  • John Fetterman (Pa.)
  • Tim Kaine (Va.)
  • Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats
“It’s a win for those people that are so insistent on protecting our health care,” King said. “Our judgment is that the best way to do that is to get a bill on the floor. Is there a guarantee it will pass? No. Is it a guarantee it will pass? In the House, there is actually some very strong interest in the House.”

“This was the reality, SNAP recipients suffering, nothing happening on ACA,” Kaine said. “The vote tonight will be full, and not just last year’s, but full and robust SNAP funding and a path on the ACA. So from suffering and no path, we’ve now got robust benefits and a path.”

“We also have an opportunity now to put Republicans on the record on the ACA,” Cortez Masto said in a statement. “If Republicans want to join us in lowering costs for working families, they have the chance to do so. And if they do not come to the table, they will own the premium increases they cause.”

Like Republicans truly give a fuck if they're on the record???? They already were "on the record" by not agreeing to the fucking deal and increases as it was! You literally just gave them an OUT to implement food assistance again and they will still literally argue that the Dems are to blame because they came to the table too late, could've lessened the hurt by simply agreeing to this deal much earlier, etc. You dumb fucks.

“This bill is not perfect, but it takes important steps to reduce their shutdown’s hurt,” Durbin said. “Not only would it fully fund SNAP for the year ahead, but it would reverse the mass firings the Trump Administration ordered throughout the shutdown.” Those criticizing the deal “need to understand how the Senate works,” Durbin said on CNN.

This clown... He's assuming that Trump will reverse the mass firings (just see his fucking tweets at the Air Traffic Controllers on people who may've worked 2nd jobs and his ire at them/threatening to NOT GIVE ANY BENEFITS TO THEM PERIOD) and trusts Republicans/Trump to not just ignore this shit. God I'm just livid.
 
After 60 years or whatever in the senate, you'd think Durbin would've learned something by now.
 
The master legislator, Dick Durbin, forgot the whole other cameral.
 
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