An enraged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) again lashed out at Senate Democrats over what she called Friday evening an “inexplicable abdication.”

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    The are owned. They are responsible to what happens now. They are not for the people, they are for themselves.

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    inexplicable? this is what they do. this is what they’ve done as long as I’ve been aware.

    has this woman ever met a senate dem? this should shock exactly nobody. we all knew this was who they were. that’s why nobody voted for them-the fascists would do a coup, and they would just hand over power, so what would the point have been?

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      only if we’re going to get on that john brown timing we should go in with a better plan. not saying not to go in on that john brown timing. john brown and john g fee both did important things and i think they both were recuired to make forward progress and our current problem is we haven’t enough browns and we have too many fees

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    I’m waiting for the day that AOC is president and Lemmy starts painting her like Obama. Never good enough…

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        Content with saying everyone is terrible and not having any shade of difference. Content with saying everything is shameful… content that everything is genocide. Content that everything is just as bad as anything…

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          Content with saying everyone is terrible and not having any shade of difference.

          Content with so little difference. Content with a margin that never changes as centrists chase fascists to the right because they want to move right, with the pretext that they’ll gain republican voters by abandoning people they’ve always wanted to abandon.

          Content with second worst to fascism.

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    It’s frankly incredible just how devoted the US Democratic party is to losing. They’re so ridiculously ineffectual.

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    My YES vote is not an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is [100 percent] about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. -Fedderman

    For fuck sake man, have you looked around? Shutting down everything and nerfing this tool’s ability to direct anyone to do anything would be less chaotic than it is right now.

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      fetterman was always a hack, i dont think he really cares about “working families” after his stroke.

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      You can’t blame him. He is brain damaged. That’s why he’s conservative. He’s the only DEI hire that should be removed.

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        alot of stroke often turn into a nutty right winger, or a nutty right winger christian. tila tequila, kevin sorbo, or had brain damage from other sources. i was watching a video of someone with schizophrenia and how he fell into the right wing/fundamentalism rabbit hole and said it was a very dangeorus mix.

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    They knew they were going to get crapped on for this. I’m glad she’s saying it, but Fetterman and Schumer don’t give a shit you can believe that, and I see no reason to think the rest of them do either.

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      fetterman is a no brainer in voting for it, but the others have same donors as the gop probably threatened them to pull funding thier livelyhood.

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    I have been thinking about this and im no longer sure this was a bad move. With what trump is doing now in tearing apart the government. It can be fought in the courts. With a shutdown he would have cart blanche to furlough anyone he wants and keep paying his insiders and the courts could not say boo because shutdown. Further he could say all bad effects are because of the democrats because shutdown. At least now the courts can fight it and the bad effects are all from his poor decisions.

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      Even if the right move was “give up and do what the Republicans want,” they still did a terrible job. House Democrats held the line and stuck their necks out, only to get blindsided, and Schumer shouldn’t have signaled that there’d be a fight right before he caved. The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and only a handful of people in the party seem to even be trying to do anything.

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      Federal courts can still operate after government shutdown. While most of their funding comes from the Congress, they have their reserve funds and others sources like fees from court document filings.

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        they can operate but because of the shutdown employees have to be furloughed and they can choose anyone. when they fire someone it can be done without cause or break laws that can allow the courts to undo it but there will be little ability to undo a furlough that is because of a shutdown.

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      You’re missing a fundamental truth here. They control the government. If they wanted to shut it down they could have done that. This bill was better for them than a straight up shut down.

      There’s also the other problem which is if someone needs your votes on a bill to pass it then you should be able to negotiate things into said bill before you vote for it. That’s politics 101. Chuck Schumer has failed at the very fundamental aspect of politics here. He gave away his vote for nothing. Or as I suspect gave it away because he’s okay with everything in the bill because it’s what he wants as well.

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        It would have looked incredibly bad for them to shut it down. They are the party in control. Its their bill. Its not like shuttding down is way better its merely a win win for them. Its only the minority party where it makes a differnece. All previous cases where the presidency was not looking to simply tear apart the government a shutdown was bad for them but since it effectively does what trump is already doing it would not really matter much for him.

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          They very very very obviously don’t care if they look bad. I honestly don’t understand how you could have any other impression. They got what they wanted. Plain and simple. They made this bill so bad that it was worse than a government shutdown and Chuck Schumer still accepted it.

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            I mean I made my point but will expand. Under shutdown. They furlough anyone they want. They say any bad effects are from the shutdown (democrats). Courts are powerless to say who gets furloughed because its a shutdown (as opposed to unlawful firings). After shutdown they fire furloughed people because hey they got by without them during the shutdown (even though they really didn’t). They got what they want either way but since the government is the only one challenging the illegal behavior its in some ways better with the shutdown especially when they can blame dems for it. I honestly think the shudown is preferable for them as long as they can say its not their fault.

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      I’m glad someone is saying this.

      While I understand people don’t want to give Trump any wins, choosing the shut the government down is the wrong hill to die on. Given the chaos that DOGE has caused, and the executive branch throwing around their power completely unchecked, shutting down the government would plunge america into chaos.

      I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Trump had a plan to frame the government shutdown as “government inefficiency” and use it to grab much more executive power.

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        Let the Republicans take the blame for bring it all down.

        Oh wait, you’re right. The Democrats would never blame them either.

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    I honestly feel like they did it on purpose because they know the cuts are gonna hurt rural states more, which sucks if you’re not heartless. But hey buyer beware.

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      It’s right there in the article.

      We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

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        That is what Democrats have always done. AOC endorsed these people. This is not a surprise to anyone who paid attention the last 20 years.

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          You’re blaming the wrong person, but it has reached the point where people need to seriously consider what the point of the Democratic Party is if they won’t even offer a token resistance.

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            AOC is there to offer the token resistance. The democrats are doing what they have always done; capitulate to the right because they too are bought and paid for by Republican donors.