The House Democrats have an amazing opportunity to tell Senate leadership to fuck itself.

Absolutely. And they should be celebrated.

And every single one of those results are unilaterally being dismantled by an extremely atypical Administration. Every achievement you worked for is disappearing.

"Then" is disappearing to the "now." Americans need these protections, now. We need leaders.

Typically, agreed. But you cannot consider something a compromise when one side gets everything they want while another consistently - consistently - gets empty promises & broken vows.

Decades of this. The American people deserve more than "Well, we tried." They hunger & deserve party of results.

Schumer plays by a set of rules that Republicans threw out over ten years ago. Better than anyone else, he should know that antiquated pleasantries and compromise don't work on Trump's Nazi tactics.

Yet here he is, compromising. Americans deserve actions, not antiques. Schumer needs to step aside.

The only silver lining to any of this, & we're talking a lining that makes electrons look like three lane highways, is that Johnson has no excuse to keep the House from opening.

Should millions of Americans lose healthcare so Trump faces Epstein? Hell no. But fuck him after fucking America anyways.

Missing the first line had visions of Texas, and the dialogue still worked really well.

Fetterman hasn't been a Democrat since his stroke. Like Trump, he should have resigned for medical reasons long before now.

Note: not making light of stroke victims. Instead, highlighting the severity of experiencing one, as well as the consequences of ignoring its effects on everyone it touches.

What voter in their right mind would trust a Democratic senator that trusts the word of Mike Johnson or Donald Trump?

GOP vs Dem negotiators:

"If you don't do as I say, I will shoot this hostage."

"You wouldn't dare."

- shoots the hostage.

"Okay, okay. I'll do it." - does the thing.

"Good. Now, if you don't do what I say next, I will shoot this other hostage. Remember, smile for the cameras."

Reublicans: we win by failing every moral purity test we come across.

This is a psychological bluff: Trump is betting that the Supreme Court doesn't want poor Americans to think he's taking $2k away from them, & complicating any clawback if he loses the case.

In reality, thousands of small businesses need that money returned to continue employing poorer Americans.

The tried & trusted method of getting Democrats to cave against the lower & middle class: make them choose between virtue & principle.

Republicans have no virtue & no principles when sucking America dry, so this isn't an issue for them. Only option is vastly popular unrest. In that case, see above.

There are a number of creators on OnlyFans who would probably be creating other things if not for tuition, healthcare, insurance, food, income inequality, glass ceilings, or

Oh maybe the number of men paying for their content anonymously but not getting judged nearly as hard as the women are.

Ugh.

Imagine a world where people are compassionate to another, some even swearing an oath to keep people healthy regardless the cost to themselves - and it actually including, "I won't make seven figures but I'll make people's lives better every day."

Shocking notion.

So instead of using the Federal government's collective weight on insurance companies to lower prices or eliminate profits on denying coverage, Trump's solution is to give up on the idea of any group standing up together against them.

Nothing says "lower prices" like giving up before negotiating.