And I wish more people understood that ten "good enough Dems" are DRAMATICALLY more useful than five "perfect Dems you agree with on everything." Having majorities is orders of magnitude more important than the specifics of the members making it up.

If you want to go and fund a noise-machine equivalent to what the RW billionaires bought to manufacture that, I'm down. What we have going for us is that they're currently not finding their propaganda cannons which is why these things are dropping off the radar.

Their was a culmination of a dozen different things but mostly a response to what was understood to be a promise by Obama to back a revolution.

Last time we were here in March I heard (and participated in, tbh) a lot of the same talk but in the end voters have a goldfish memory for things like this and whatever atrocity Trump does in July is going to have a much more profound effect on November.

Frankly history shows us that when states fail in their duties to the poor, what happens isn't that people rise up to change their govt, it's people drop out of the political discussion altogether and fend for themselves.

Both are black letter parts of the compromise and the SNAP funding is for a full year. You can choose not to believe it, but history shows that, since Musk left, funding that has been allocated has mostly been spent accordingly.

... There was no good way out of this, but there were a lot of bad ones. I don't think this will matter much in the end, though, except in that it sets the stage to do it again in January without risking SNAP or federal workers jobs.

... The only upside to going longer would maybe have been getting Rs to kill the filibuster but that, tbh, was less likely than them agreeing to an ACA extension which would never have passed the house or been signed by the president. ...

... Would happen to people's views of government writ large if we fucked up their holiday plans and let govt workers and soldiers them starve in the streets. The blowback on that wouldn't have made people prefer Democrats, just hate everybody. ...

They can't go on forever, though. That's a failed state and that's not what any of us should want. Shutdowns are, historically, a tantrum that doesn't result in meaningful change and this one was no different. I didn't want it to end like this, but I was also really nervous about what...

... There was no good way out of this, but there were a lot of bad ones. I don't think this will matter much in the end, though, except in that it sets the stage to do it again in January without risking SNAP or federal workers jobs.

... The only upside to going longer would maybe have been getting Rs to kill the filibuster but that, tbh, was less likely than them agreeing to an ACA extension which would never have passed the house or been signed by the president. ...

... Would happen to people's views of government writ large if we fucked up their holiday plans and let govt workers and soldiers them starve in the streets. The blowback on that wouldn't have made people prefer Democrats, just hate everybody. ...

They can't go on forever, though. That's a failed state and that's not what any of us should want. Shutdowns are, historically, a tantrum that doesn't result in meaningful change and this one was no different. I didn't want it to end like this, but I was also really nervous about what...

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Why not?

IDK, Kelly getting radicalized is pretty significant. He refused to endorse Schumer as leader this morning