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Democrats ended the shutdown because it was impeding the attack on Venezuela and military operations generally, because troops were about to go unpaid. It's the best explanation for their seeming "cowardice" or "incompetence." I've seen speculation that it's about preserving the filibuster to hamstring a future democratic president (lol), and that might be a factor, but foreign policy and American militarism is likely at least as important and probably much more so. It's so obvious that I'm ashamed of myself for not thinking of it earlier.

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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

could be.. but I'd think if that were the case there would've been more than just 8 democrats

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're just 8 Joe Liebermans

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

henry wallace was the last good dem VP, Gore was the last one who didn't turn out to be completely abhorrent.

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