Political Memes

No, it is not fucking 4d chess.

Yes, we were always going to lose healthcare. trump only wants to destroy Obama's legacy.

But the Democrats chose the absolute most demoralising time possible to cave and still only used their sacrificial lambs who aren't up for reelection next year.

They uses the shutdown to win last Tuesday. Now they want to go home.

If the GOP fail to uphold their side of the deal, they can just shut the government down again, right away, with a clear and obvious justification.

This is 100% incorrect. Come January, if the Democrats try to drag their feet on funding the government again, the Republican fascists can simply pass a continuing resolution to override the Democrats and prevent another shutdown. Those eight Democrats just gave up the only leverage they'll ever have to bring back ACA subsidies.

(The reason the Republicans couldn't just pass a continuing resolution now to end the shutdown is that it can only be done once a year, and they already burned it on the Big Ugly Bill.)

Selling today for tomorrow erases all the pain that was suffered for a promise to do the same tomorrow. Neither party is in our favor. Burn it to the ground.

Defeatism and capitulation haven't gotten us very far these past 10 months.

The majority of Americans (52%) blame Republicans for the shutdown and Trump's disapproval rating was up to 63%.

All they had to do was sit and wait. The heat was on the Republicans.

But no, let them off the hook like centrists always do. This country is in desperate need of a progressive wave.

The ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has promised a vote in December which, I'll tell you right now, probably means we aren't going to hear about this again in a meaningful way. You'll see reporting that the subsidies have expired and that's it. Sure this was likely going to be the outcome but there isn't going to be a dramatic vote where the public will lay blame on Republicans unequivocally. This shutdown was that opportunity for accountability and the Democrats blew it.

What. You are overthinking this. I'm sorry to tell you politics in this country is far stupider and more evil than you have been led to believe.

We could have had not only healthcare subsidies but actual single-payer healthcare if the Dems had any balls or actual principles at all in the last decade and a half.

There is nothing smart about this, it's just greed winning out. Schumer was pressured with either promises of payouts or threats of discontinued payouts, so he did what he's fucking done before, he organized the vote, secured the individual votes, then backed out at the last second and voted against his own proposal so the accountability doesn't land on him.

Trying to rationalize that ACA was "doomed from the start" is capitulating with the vile fucks who want to take all our money and hard work and then let us die in the goddamn street. Fuck off with this 4Dchess coping. Fuck the democrats, fuck the republicans, fuck anyone who tries to tell people that there's anything good or smart happening in our leadership.

People are going to die while the donors dine in Gatsby-themed ballrooms.

The vote in January only requires a majority vote which the Republicans can push through without any Democrat support. They have no incentive to work with Democrats for that vote.

You're projecting competence on people who never meet the moment

They're not going to fix healthcare in January. They're not even going start a fight over it. By January, open enrollment will be over, and the fight will already be lost

If they had just waited until Thanksgiving, they could have gotten anything they wanted. There would have been consequences, and the blame would be squarely on Trump

Now? This was all for nothing. Maybe Republicans gave up some ground on the off cycle elections... But all of this was to force a negotiation

Then, days after getting a seat at the table, they immediately fold. Hell, reopening everything until January might have been the opening offer

of course it would have happened

all the dems had to do was nothing

If money is power, then capitalism is a form of government, and that is exactly what we see happening.