Yep.

I'm honestly not sure Johnson will be speaker long after the house reconvenes.

It would not surprise me in the least if the GOP ousts him because it's pretty easy to tie his actions to their asswhooping last week and he's refusing to do his job.

But you keep dooming.

This isn't getting anywhere NEAR enough attention 👇

So starvation would be off the table for Rs to weaponize against Dems. They got federal employees paid. And they got a clean path to fight the ACA battle in like March, is it? But the meltdown driven by leftists was an inevitable outcome.

The thing that people are going to remember is that the shutdown happened under a Republican trifecta. That’s it. No voter is going into 2026 thinking about arcane senate procedure. I don’t think most people even remember the previous shutdown fight just 8 months ago! A year is a LIFETIME.

All of this is downstream from a theory of politics that dominates this country which says that only Democrats have agency

The "touch the stove" site all of a sudden forgetting what the thing theyve been braying for for months actually entails.

Morally its a bad deal that is gonna hang millions of ppl out to dry on their healthcare. Strategically its a deal that pisses of a lot of the D base. But politically? Politically Rs fought tooth & nail to do a really bad thing while voters hold them accountable bc they have a trifecta government.

Your incandescent rage is damn true. I've been dealing with the fact that people I knew didn't take the threat of R's seriously and I spent god knows how many hours trying to motivate them to vote to just no movement. Strangers were worse.

And it *fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.* Sending ya love.

the fundamental problem is we need everyone who ostensibly caucuses with the democrats to get anything good done at the federal level, because every member of the gop is at their core actually fucking evil. so many folks ignore that fact because of their gop-voting family/friends/neighbors etc

Yeah. Which is the biggest problem of all.

Exactly. And I have had it with people saying that the Demcorats just wanted to kill their own momentum because they were sad that the party won last week. That's just stupid and conspiratorial. They were looking at a SCOTUS who would let Trump starve people. We don't have power - yet.