Leaders Lead with Leadership, No I Will Not Specify How

The path forward really was to force Republicans to open the government through chicanery or ending the filibuster and still doesn't give us enhanced subsidies.

And I don't know what you'd have to give them for that and you can still keep the caucus onside, let alone the party activists.

Where I am, for what little it is worth, is that the defectors were in fact defectors, and they blew the political opportunity. But we were not on the verge of extending the enhanced subsidies unless you can think of a way to get *House* Republicans on board.

Thank you. I was going to say something like that. Dems don't have a magic button. What was the end game here? It looks like there were no good options. Voters handed the federal government to reactionary nihilists. But as ever, only Dems have agency.

I learned a lot tonight, namely that a critical mass of people on my side had no clear idea what they actually wanted out of this beyond hopes that if the shutdown broke enough stuff, they'd get whatever was on their wishlist, and their preferred time horizon was "indefinite."

Shit is going to be fucked up as a result of them refusing to vote for the qualified Black woman and if you thought that we were going to keep it all you’re delusional. People still need to eat. People still need to work. If people had shown the fuck up in November we wouldn’t be here

I hope people realize every reckless post they lobbed over the past 12 hours on here and the other site will be used against them and us between now and November 2026.

Ossoff who voted no while being arguably the most vulnerable 2026 Senator? The youngest Senator? The progressive former investigative filmmaker who eviscerates Republicans any time he’s in a Committee? Well he is a Jewish guy so it makes sense these antisemitic morons wouldn’t want him reelected.