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What I can’t comprehend is there are many here who try and defend the indefensible.

They have zero skin in the game. Their health insurance is fine. It’s completely abstract for them.

how many people starve, lose their job, or lose their home. They don’t care if Congress never reopens as they have ceded their power to their master. This was the only humane solution.

what part of REPUKES DO NOT FUCKING CARE IF ANYONE HAS HEALTH INSURANCE do so many people not seem to understand?

That's why it was imperative for senate Democrats to hold the line no matter what once the fight began in earnest. There are no moral victories here. They just look like weak, spineless, gelatinous goop with no principles...at least none they're willing to actually fight for.

The American people deserved better than this. We must be better than this.

Doubt if his glory will last a day as his party is having a civil war over America First with the top Republican podcasters being anti genocide and against giving our tax dollars to other countries. Candace Owens this week beat out Joe Rogan as top podcaster in the world. She recently apologized for telling her listeners to vote for Trump. She said he’s not America first and his policies kill Palestinian children and Palestinian Christian’s. It’s getting interesting as MTG, Tucker, Matt Gaetz, Massie, Candace, Rand Paul & Fuentes are anti genocide and want NO more money going to Israel, Ukraine, Argentina etc. Megan Kelly is kind of in the middle with Mark Levin, Josh Hammer and Ben Shapiro on the obviously losing Trump side.

Trump or Schumer?

The fact that Dump is now getting booed in public was all the more reason to continue fighting him and his shitty agenda without blinking or bending the knee. Where do you think our numbers are going to be after this latest cave-in, the stratosphere?

This can't continue. We have to do better than this.

At least wrt Tim Kaine.

I had a mentor like that long back. He was actually a genuinely decent man and a good scientist. It is never the creeps or sleazebags who are as challenging as nice and competent people with ideas or politics you just know are terrible.

Unlike the Zucks, Google/Palantir Creeps and Musks who really are just frauds, it’s more confusing when a person is competent and decent but has really huge cognitive biases (like taking these Si Valley creeps at face value as people who are invested in …well anything but greed).

Creeps are almost easier to deal with.

I have at times hated him as a “sellout” etc. But I don’t think that’s accurate. I think it is just different when you know the people who to many of us are mere abstractions and where we are largely good with their remaining as such.

Where you or I could see a life
-sucking blackhole of evil, people who actually know those creeps might have this mind warp where they see them as well meaning if flawed humans.

I am okay with nuance up to the point where I have to see these new Goebbels clones of Si Valley as reasonable or well meaning humans.