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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.
Thanks for taking time to help me understand.
QUICK NOW DOUBLE DOWN EVERYONE AND DOWNVOTE THIS CURIOUS ASSHOLE WHO BETTER UNDERSTANDS, AND HAS FANTASTIC MANNERS!
I see you're a new account, but that doesn't really happen here. I'd also appreciate not having people insinuate that it's normal.
Yea! Wait...
I think you guys might need to skip straight to Maidan at this point
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.
It doesn't matter. Those who actually pay attention to politics would know who is at fault, those who don't, know trump is the president.
Also what this administration is doing is ensuring that the next election no longer will matter.
I don't get why so many Americans still don't see it.
Congress completely capitulated to trump, courts are trying to fight, but this administration is now ignoring them, institutions were taken over by DOGE and won't do anything.
We got to a point that this won't get unfucked without massive protests. The irony in this all is that April 19 is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary war.
And on that anniversary we are turning into monarchy it seems.
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.
Their donors clearly wanted trump. Also all everyone trump is doing right now showed very clearly that unless we do massive protests, the election from 2026, 2028 etc won't matter. We will still have them, but if they lose they simply won't certify them.
vote no
Which would have shut the government down. And again, objectively speaking, how would that have been more favorable?
the government is up to radical evil shit right now. spending bills, as the republicans have demonstrated for years, are great leverage to suspend the opposition's agenda. better to vote no, reject cloture, and force the republicans to at least pretend to play nice
Thanks
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.