I've already recruited one person to show up with me. Four more invited and pending response. He'll not have a pleasant appearance here.
Let me guess: it's one of those books that nobody reads but that somehow end up being bestsellers anyway?
Political organizations buy them by the pallet full and they then end up in dollar store bookshelves years later.
lol the Bay Area is going to fuck him up, guaranteed.
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."
No doubt.
please please do, seriously fuck this loser
Objective question: What was his alternative, better choice?
EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes. I guess trying to understand is frowned upon.
Honestly a clean spending bill. He capitulated to garbage that didn't need to happen for reasons that also have no positive recourse.
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 first point would never happen because the R's can play hardball.
The second point would have everyone blaming the D's for the shutdown.
There was no good option.
I think you guys might need to skip straight to Maidan at this point
Bribed in that they don't want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn't go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.
its passage was inevitable. iirc republicants had the option to ram it through as a reconciliation bill anyway (simple majority, no 60 for cloture needed).
he basically just 'saved' this year's reconciliation for something else--that'll probably be even worse.
either way there's no reason to assist the republicans install monarchy
“Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject.”
For anyone else out of the know
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.
