Here is the list of spineless cowards who think capitulation is an effective strategy against fascism:
- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
- Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
- Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania (basically a moderate Republican at this point)
- Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
- Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
- Sen. Angus King of Maine
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
If you live in any of these districts, your senator is a fucking moron. Sorry.
Those eight are just the rotating villains of the week. This capitulation was planned and carried out by the entire DNC leadership, particularly Chuck Schumer. Schumer was in close touch with the eight throughout negotiations, and arranged the timing with them.
The Democratic Party is not on our side. No politician is going to ride in on a white horse and save us. If we want our species to survive, we’re going to have to save ourselves.
In other words, we need a general strike.
#Politics #GeneralStrike
If you live in any states where senators voted no, you can do your part by calling up your senator and asking them to remove Chuck Schumer as senate minority leader. Fetterman might be a “moderate Republican”, but Schumer’s basically a full on MAGA Republican wearing a blue shirt with a D on it at this point.
Say what you will about Schumer, he is also pissed that these Dems are breaking rank. In this moment, he understood what needed to be done.
EDIT: a lot of folks on Reddit are pointing out that Schumer is supposed to be the Senate leader, so he still deserves plenty of blame if he can’t keep his party whipped in line. The pattern of Senators that defected (all Senators that are not up for reelection in 2026) suggests that Schumer might have even encouraged this move behind closed doors. No hard evidence of that latter point, but there’s enough there to be rightly pissed at Schumer himself.
Schumer 100% knew about this beforehand. These people were selected because they’re not at risk of being primaried, to protect the traitors who wanted it dead because they were worried that they wouldn’t have ACA to campaign on next season if they actually managed to protect it.
One of the votes (Dick Durbin) is literally the minority whip.
Schumer planned this and picked eight fall guys.
Just long enough for people to see the effect it will have on their insurance (since we’re past the open of open enrollment), but not long enough to do anything.
Cowards
Fetterman really changed after the stroke, by most accounts.
“Moderate Republican” … sure, like that’s a thing.
I think we call it a Democrat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe?
I used to think this, but he’s come out hard against Prop 50 in California, and if you’re claiming to be an anti-MAGA Republican you have to recognize that Texas is rigging the game not just because of their own shitty racism and anti-Americanism, but because Trump explicitly asked them to, so this issue is not internal to Texas, it’s an attack on American Democracy.
If Schwarzenegger’s non-alignment with Trump’s authoritarianism ends at actual concrete actions to counter a direct power-play by him, he’s unaligned in name only.
I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution. But I haven’t followed him, has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.
But I also recognize the urgency of the moment, and I respect that Prop 50 has limited the blast radius and time in effect.
I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution.
Which is exactly what Texas is doing, and Prop 50 is designed to be a reciprocal response; it’s not California just going, “well if you’re going to rig yours we’ll rig our’s better!”, it’s California nullifying the gerrymandering in Texas by matching it 1-to-1. If you’re anti-gerrymandering, Prop 50 is what actually discourages it, by making it pointless to do.
has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.
He generally doesn’t weigh in on what federal laws he thinks should change now, he stays pretty California-internal.
OK, fair point.
