The government shutdown looks like it will end sometime this week.
  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    5 months ago

    This isn’t 8 deluded idiots standing on idiotic principle.

    It’s a carefully stage-managed operation to scuttle the fight for even a few crumbs of healthcare.

    Notice how every single one of these motherfuckers is either retiring or not up for re-election any time soon. They even rigged it so Schumer could vote no and take a little of the recent heat off himself.

    The rot in the Democrat party goes all the way to the core. There’s no reforming it.

    • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      I don’t think it’s Fetterman.

      I mean, yes, him too. But why do you assume that this wasn’t a deal that Schumer and friends worked out, where a bunch of people who are retiring or in safe districts or suffering from brain damage agree to take the fall?

      • Dick Durbin is the minority whip
      • Schumer didn’t want to do the shutdown in the first place
      • I now don’t hear anyone in Democratic leadership out yelling about how these assholes betrayed everyone, like they did when Mamdani won the primary or Bernie participated in one. It’s all just a suspicious silence, and oh well, thoughts and prayers and let’s move on.
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Distraction … endless distraction.

    That is what America politics has become. It’s been like that a little in the past but now it will be the norm.

    Endless nonsense and crisis … just crisis after crisis.

    The US government has basically fallen. It doesn’t work as intended anymore and does the opposite.