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Anonymous wrote:I listened to his floor speech and his Chris Hayes interview and he completely convinced me. This is a Biden administration budget and we need to be talking about why the Republicans just voted for a bill with funding for things no longer operating.

agree...but still concerned about why there is not more noise. We need more Larson yelling followed by action.

Remove the part where they remove 1b from the DC budget, and they are still cutting spending so is not the Budget Budget.

Schumer caved. Trump won.



Again

The Dem position is now: “what leverage?” They’ve capitulated entirely. Surrendered and are retreating to regroup for September, but the country won’t be the same by September.

Anonymous wrote:I listened to his floor speech and his Chris Hayes interview and he completely convinced me. This is a Biden administration budget and we need to be talking about why the Republicans just voted for a bill with funding for things no longer operating.

Because they intend to keep shutting the government down illegally, anyway. Stand up and fight for the love of god.

Schumer holds his position primarily because of his fundraising ability. That was fine eight years ago when Trump wasn’t actually accomplishing much, the Dems were much more organized, and Pelosi was there to provide the brains. But he’s clearly unfit to lead the Dems in present circumstances.

What’s shocking to me is the Dems had weeks of advance notice about the CR and never developed an opposition strategy. If the Dems are going to trigger a shutdown they need to agree on a message and a counter-proposal. That the Dems had neither is on Schumer.

Anonymous wrote:If they shutdown trump and Elon decide who to keep as essential and then they have all the cards. This was a brilliant move by trump.

Nothing dump does is "brilliant" Evil and corrupt but not brilliant.

Anonymous wrote:I listened to his floor speech and his Chris Hayes interview and he completely convinced me. This is a Biden administration budget and we need to be talking about why the Republicans just voted for a bill with funding for things no longer operating.

agree...but still concerned about why there is not more noise. We need more Larson yelling followed by action.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to really like Chuck Schumer.

Me too. I almost feel like the complete lack of inaction is more than meets the eye. We know the "president" behaves like a mafia boss-whats going on behind the scenes. We also know he's owned by Russia. I trust nothing at this point but goodness knows we need a hero. and we needed it yesterday.

^lack of action-I meant

Anonymous wrote:I used to really like Chuck Schumer.

Me too. I almost feel like the complete lack of inaction is more than meets the eye. We know the "president" behaves like a mafia boss-whats going on behind the scenes. We also know he's owned by Russia. I trust nothing at this point but goodness knows we need a hero. and we needed it yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:And effs over DC by preventing them from spending $1B of the city's own, non-federal money for literally no reason. None. Will come from schools, police, etc.

How much does the federal government give?

Not the issue. They are punishing DC children for no reason at all. Keeping them from receiving our city's own tax dollars.

That's just it, are they your city's own tax dollars?
Is the federal government providing a million dollars, a billion dollars, a trillion dollars, makes quite a bit of difference.

I doubt you actually care, but the vast majority of the 1 billion is LOCAL and is coming from the current FY budget Congress itself approved last year.

If anyone were really concerned about federal dollars in DC, the GOP could have carved that out instead of an across the board cut they have never done before.

It's cruel, short-sighted, and will hasten the coming intentional economic collapse.

Do you feel any less smug now?

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Anonymous wrote:If the government shut down, then all of the Continuity of Government entitlements would disappear. Absolutely no politician wants that. The government will never shut down. Putin has provided Russians with bunkers. Except for the COG fraternity/sorority, we peon Americans don't even have foxholes.

This was all true yesterday when Schumer announced that the Dems would not support the CR. It makes me sick to think about it but something happened in the ensuing 24 hours. This is very bad.

Perhaps he read my post here that Trump wants Schumer to shut things down.

You think you're the only one who knew this?

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Anonymous wrote:That fossil of a Senator has been unable to articulate a clear message for the Democratic Party. This establishment creature is behaving as if everything is normal as Trump craps on our allies, cozies up to authoritarian criminals, ignores ethics laws and dismantles federal agencies. And now this vote to support the Republican budget which has no clear logic.

Dump Chuck and find a minority leader for the Democrats who can lead the party into an effective resistance to the chaos and stupidity of the Trump administration.

Resistance is futile. What we need are better policies and candidates for the future.

Nope. We also need people who can elaborate and REPRESENT now. As well as in the future.

It’s done. Democrats are the problem. We have no representation in this government or this country. I am so upset but I know there is no hope.

Republicans are creating this. Democrats resisting or not is not the central problem.

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I listened to his floor speech and his Chris Hayes interview and he completely convinced me. This is a Biden administration budget and we need to be talking about why the Republicans just voted for a bill with funding for things no longer operating.

Anonymous wrote:Schumer makes some good points that a shutdown would give trump and musk what they want - more power to get rid of government employees. They can furlough people and never bring them back. The NY Times has an opinion piece by him that details this.

I agree with this. I don't think he's very effective overall, but this is the right call.

If Dems replace Schumer with AOC then trump and republicans hit the ultimate jackpot that will pay dividends for decades. Dems couldn’t make a worse move.