only 8 of them were needed, and they knew it was extremely unpopular. they sometimes do this coordinated thing where a small number of them do the unpopular thing and take the flak, while the others can tell their voters “I voted against it! I voted my conscience!” but they all got the job done.

he explained it pretty well. He doesn’t think we’re at a crisis point. he thinks they’re just playing politics like normal. CR Bill bad, Shutdown worse.

He also made clear that, in his view, it’s not a real Constitutional Crisis unless it comes from the Supreme Court region of Executive Tyranny.

Yeah, i get it. I’m still not sure either. Cuz politically, I *want* the shutdown too. Hang it around the Republicans necks, demand hearings for the DOGE horseshit they’re calling a department. Full investigations!

But none of that happens if it shuts down. Then we hand it all to Trump/Musk.

9 other dems sided with him and voted for Cloture, 10 total.

And the dems are shitty at messaging. This is known. They’ve been lousy at it since this started, they were lousy at it during the 2024 campaign, and they’re lousy at it today.

I left Gillibrand a couple of fired up voicemails i slightly regret.

But at the same time, i still think its time for leadership to change. I think AOC primary’ing Schumer would be amazing.

*And* I think he may have been right. There may a good chance we’ll never know, and that’s a good thing.

It’s shitty, and he messaged it in a shitty way, but the choice may have been between “shitty politics with shitty nazi republicans” vs full V-for-Vendetta government shutdown & emergency powers takeover by Trump, Musk, Vogt.

Shitty politics we can come back from. Emergency powers? i’m not so sure.

i thought *exactly* this too, until i heard his reasons. The gov is not “already shut down”, it’s broken. It’s been hacked apart and is being undone, but we still have the courts and a mass of resistance in the agencies.

With a shutdown, it goes full Emergency Powers to the Trump Axis of Nazis.

3/ Trump is bragging that border crossing and immigration in general has plummeted just in the last couple months. But that's actually super bad for the health and resilience of the economy.

no joke. it’s a non-violent solution. If the school is gonna ignore the bullying, why they gotta come down hard on words?

If babyfingers donny got so annoyed because other countries put up tariffs in response to his tariffs, maybe he shouldn’t have started a trade war against people who are so much smarter than he is.

“How could this happen?” bsky.app/profile/rude...

Republicans: “Its not enough to let the children starve. We must starve the working animals, too."

If Donny Tinyhands is so annoyed that other countries are putting down tariffs of their own and hurting US businesses, maybe he shouldn’t have started a trade war against countries run by people so much smarter than him.