• takeda@lemm.ee
    33·
    17 days ago

    A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

    Then there would be two options:

    • Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
    • government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

    Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.

    • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
      2·
      17 days ago

      Bribed in that they don’t want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn’t go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.

      • takeda@lemm.ee
        1·
        16 days ago

        Their donors clearly wanted trump. Also all everyone trump is doing right now showed very clearly that unless we do massive protests, the election from 2026, 2028 etc won’t matter. We will still have them, but if they lose they simply won’t certify them.