Crumbling like wet tissue paper for nothing in exchange is absolutely not worth it.
The Democratic Party made their sacrifices worthless.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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anyone else feeling political fatigue?
I'm tired of voting for people that don't seem to listen to us or fight for us
That was precisely why Schumer did this, to put a rising populism in check by cynically sabotaging it while superficially pretending to be against the sabotage like the spineless weasel Schumer is.
Schumer was responding to the "threat" of the likes of Zohran Mamdani (who Schumer REFUSED to endorse which is pathetic) not the threat of Trump and fascism which Schumer does not perceive as a threat whatsoever especially because his donors don't either.
Think of this as a much worse, much bigger version of coming in and breaking a worker strike at the worst possible moment ON PURPOSE as somebody claiming they are "on the workers side" to specifically destroy the solidarity and moral among the workers striking so they will be more pliant in the future towards accepting worse conditions.
This will go down in history as one of the largest betrayals of working class power in the US in modern history. Not in terms of how evil it is, what Trump and cronies are doing is way more evil in terms of raw impact, but this... this took an overbearing desire to undercut those who are resisting the "wrong way" to fascism and there is something SUPREMELY evil about that and I will never, ever forget or forgive.
You think it's ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they'll topple the emperor.
Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?
If anything it catalyzes the need to pivot away from limp old Dems to those who will actually defend the Constitution and rule of law.
It wasn't worth it at all. The ACA was the legislation that defined the entire Democrat platform this millennium. Even when it was watered down from what we had hoped (Fuck you, Joe Leiberman), it still was far better than nothing. Personally, the ACA keeps me alive. It massively expanded access to health insurance, especially for the poorest who now could get healthcare without as much worry about it impacting their finances. Letting these subsidies die is essentially letting the ACA die, it's just one more step to repealing it entirely to be replaced with nothing at all, because we know the reason the Republicans won't show us what their healthcare plans are because they don't exist or are so fucking evil that they don't want to share them until they've already rammed them through.
The DNC has fucking ruined the party by focusing far more on their own personal power within the system rather than helping people. Pro-tip, kneeling in kente cloths was never going to stop black Americans from being mindlessly murdered by a largely white supremacist police force. Doing nothing about the police, and in fact giving them more funding is part and parcel to why we see so many police departments not just not protecting their citizens from ICE, but actively helping ICE terrorize their communities. Thanks, Biden, handing those cops a shitload more money really worked out, huh?
Please us "Democratic" when using it as an adjective. "Democrat" is the noun.
When you use "Democrat" as an adjective, that's the Republican framing - intentionally bad grammar because supposedly it sounds better to emphasize the "rat" or something. Because their brain never advanced beyond 6th grade.
Please let's stop letting the Republicans frame every piece of language and every conversation with how they define things. You're letting them dictate reality when you do that and change your language to placate them. By bending to their definitions you're essentially proving to others that their definitions are somehow correct, and allowing them to continue to frame the narrative. You're giving them power over the conversation. Please can we stop doing that and letting their abuse of language control how we speak? It's deeply clear from the context of the rest of my comment that it is not a Republican framing. They don't believe in words or use them responsibly so trying to route around their chicanery doesn't actually do anything except let them frame the argument.
Further, it's a fucking comment on the internet. I'm not a journalist, I am allowed to have bad grammar. Fucking grammar police over here. If that's really all you have to contribute to the conversation: how about you just don't instead?
Schumer made sure it wasn't.
It wasn’t. Their suffering & struggle meant nothing. Thanks democrats for folding under pressure.
It wasn't "nothing"
In addition to getting everything the republicans wanted 40 days ago and nothing the democrats wanted 40 days ago, they also got a federal ban on hemp-derived THC, and gave republican congressmen the ability to sue the federal government for millions of dollars for being investigated for trying to overthrow the government on January 6th. You would be paying your employer a paycheck if you let the democrats negotiate a raise on your behalf.
It wasn't.
Fuck Chuck
What we have here is a football asking whether it's sacrifice was "worth it" at the end of a game.
Unfortunately for them, I've never seen a sport talk about the contributions or sacrifices the ball made.
Bingo. Not the first time the football had to take one for the team.
Schumer’s getting pretty old. Might be time to call a vet.
It was not.