August J. Pollak
@augustjpollak.bsky.social
Your face is good. I am a Soos.
Should be: Van Hollen
Likely will be: Booker or Schatz
Does not have a chance of it being: Warren
Likely will be: Booker or Schatz
Does not have a chance of it being: Warren
Who should be the next Democratic Senate Leader? Warren, Warner, Blumenthal, Murray, or Booker?
I'm not afraid to go with someone a bit older. We don't need them there for a very long time and become a lifer like Schumer or McConnell did. It should be a revolving door.
I'm not afraid to go with someone a bit older. We don't need them there for a very long time and become a lifer like Schumer or McConnell did. It should be a revolving door.
Chuck Schumer must be replaced as leader since he cannot keep his caucus in line.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Should be: Van Hollen
Likely will be: Booker or Schatz
Does not have a chance of it being: Warren
Likely will be: Booker or Schatz
Does not have a chance of it being: Warren
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Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
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These guys really think we're stupid.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These guys really think we're stupid.
Breaking: Incumbent Democrat actually acknowledges they are older than the polio vaccine
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Breaking: Incumbent Democrat actually acknowledges they are older than the polio vaccine
I’m sorry but these “finally, the Epstein files vote” libs are completely fucking insane. It’s going to die in the Senate ten seconds after the House vote and they think it’s somehow going to weigh on voters’ minds more than Dems agreeing to destroy their own healthcare plan.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’m sorry but these “finally, the Epstein files vote” libs are completely fucking insane. It’s going to die in the Senate ten seconds after the House vote and they think it’s somehow going to weigh on voters’ minds more than Dems agreeing to destroy their own healthcare plan.
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these are the dumbest people on earth.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
these are the dumbest people on earth.
We joke a lot on here about the “just want brunch” libs, but that’s really shorthand for the new class of the Democratic base, which is people who are satisfied simply with wanting better things to happen and that sense of superiority is enough, even when those things never actually get done.
the democrats over years have intentionally tried to cultivate a base of suburban home owning high engagement liberals who watch a lot of TV news and can and will max out an ActBlue donation and never considered once that they too might one day start to notice patterns of behavior
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We joke a lot on here about the “just want brunch” libs, but that’s really shorthand for the new class of the Democratic base, which is people who are satisfied simply with wanting better things to happen and that sense of superiority is enough, even when those things never actually get done.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
You don’t. The message here is at the end of the day, you just have to keep voting for them anyway and expect it to be different this time. It’s a good thing there isn’t a word for that or anything.
I don't understand one piece of this. How do we enforce a pre-election demand other than by threatening to withhold votes in the election?
Without a credible threat to withhold votes, the demand becomes an easily-called bluff.
Without a credible threat to withhold votes, the demand becomes an easily-called bluff.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You don’t. The message here is at the end of the day, you just have to keep voting for them anyway and expect it to be different this time. It’s a good thing there isn’t a word for that or anything.
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This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
Go ahead and bitch at me, I don’t care, I’ve seen what makes you cheer, etc.: Ossoff doesn’t get my vote until he says he’s not voting for Schumer as majority leader. That’s it. That’s the line now. If you don’t like it, yell at him, not me. I ain’t changing my mind
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Go ahead and bitch at me, I don’t care, I’ve seen what makes you cheer, etc.: Ossoff doesn’t get my vote until he says he’s not voting for Schumer as majority leader. That’s it. That’s the line now. If you don’t like it, yell at him, not me. I ain’t changing my mind
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And then their response is to scold people who didn't show up rather than giving those people a reason to show up.
They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.
They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.
the Dems keep operating like this cynical shit has no effect. It’s why their core voters don’t fucking show up. When they say “we fight for you” nobody believes them, because they constantly pull shit like this and say “what else are you gonna vote for.” But then people STAY HOME.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
And then their response is to scold people who didn't show up rather than giving those people a reason to show up.
They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.
They can't be this stupid. It's malicious.
I know we probably overemphasize “political tone deafness” as a concept, but millions of voters are genuinely scared they are going to die from not being able to afford healthcare and Senate Dems genuinely don’t seem to understand why those voters don’t think flight delays are a bigger issue
Dems are very proud of themselves for their “savvy” willingness to tell their base to simmer down and let the experts work. What they don’t seem to understand is the intangible, but very real, damage that does to the enthusiasm of their voters, who feel abandoned. And then the “experts” fail!
The Dem base wants the shutdown to continue because it’s the only time we’ve felt like our electeds were representing us: trying to squeeze the GOP instead of squeezing us to accept concessions; directing their anger at the Republicans instead of at their own voters for wanting them to resist
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I know we probably overemphasize “political tone deafness” as a concept, but millions of voters are genuinely scared they are going to die from not being able to afford healthcare and Senate Dems genuinely don’t seem to understand why those voters don’t think flight delays are a bigger issue
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
In retrospect, I think it’s a lot easier now for a lot of people to understand why voters don’t care about a guy having a Nazi tattoo when the guy who has a Nazi tattoo isn’t the one putting out press releases effectively declaring he doesn’t care if you die
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In retrospect, I think it’s a lot easier now for a lot of people to understand why voters don’t care about a guy having a Nazi tattoo when the guy who has a Nazi tattoo isn’t the one putting out press releases effectively declaring he doesn’t care if you die
Seriously, what is the over/under on how many monthly payments it’s going to take for the Blue MAGAs to process that Democrats just killed Obamacare, like do they think it will still exist in three years when maybe there’s a possibility to get the subsidies back, how do they think this works
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Seriously, what is the over/under on how many monthly payments it’s going to take for the Blue MAGAs to process that Democrats just killed Obamacare, like do they think it will still exist in three years when maybe there’s a possibility to get the subsidies back, how do they think this works
Wait, does EVERY centrist Dem have a fake family they run their decisions by
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Wait, does EVERY centrist Dem have a fake family they run their decisions by
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If you’ve historically been a “vote blue no matter who” type, it’d be cool if you could use this moment to understand why vilifying leftists who actually do think it matters is basically a psyop you accidentally fell for. This is why people warn you about guys like Newsom.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If you’ve historically been a “vote blue no matter who” type, it’d be cool if you could use this moment to understand why vilifying leftists who actually do think it matters is basically a psyop you accidentally fell for. This is why people warn you about guys like Newsom.
These are incredibly, incredibly stupid people who need to think all of you are incredibly, incredibly stupid, so they don’t have to reconcile with how incredibly, incredibly stupid they are.
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These are incredibly, incredibly stupid people who need to think all of you are incredibly, incredibly stupid, so they don’t have to reconcile with how incredibly, incredibly stupid they are.
I keep thinking about what a great message going into the elections where they are trying to regain control of the Senate it is that they care more about preserving the minority’s right to filibuster their agenda than preserving Obamacare.
I guess senate Ds got tired of winning really quickly.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I keep thinking about what a great message going into the elections where they are trying to regain control of the Senate it is that they care more about preserving the minority’s right to filibuster their agenda than preserving Obamacare.
Any senate Democrat who supports keeping Schumer as leader should not get your vote. That needs to be the line you have to draw. Sorry, I realize that might seem hard; so is not being able to fucking afford healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Any senate Democrat who supports keeping Schumer as leader should not get your vote. That needs to be the line you have to draw. Sorry, I realize that might seem hard; so is not being able to fucking afford healthcare.
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
Again, if you are in the like 80% of the Democratic Senate caucus who opposes this bill, how are you not insulted by this statement? Is courtesy and decorum that important to all these people? Does no one who works with him get to call out what obvious bullshit this is?
Schumer: "I must vote no. I can not, in good faith, support this CR. ... Make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this pain on them."
He stops short of urging his colleagues to vote "no."
He stops short of urging his colleagues to vote "no."
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Again, if you are in the like 80% of the Democratic Senate caucus who opposes this bill, how are you not insulted by this statement? Is courtesy and decorum that important to all these people? Does no one who works with him get to call out what obvious bullshit this is?
For nearly ten years, Democrats have fought off more than a hundred—a HUNDRED—Republican bills to destroy the Affordable Care Act.
And now, tonight, they’re going to pass one themselves.
And now, tonight, they’re going to pass one themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
For nearly ten years, Democrats have fought off more than a hundred—a HUNDRED—Republican bills to destroy the Affordable Care Act.
And now, tonight, they’re going to pass one themselves.
And now, tonight, they’re going to pass one themselves.