TheCunningLinguists
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Somebody please primary this old man, we need a changing of the guard.
https://www.ms.now/news/senate-face-plants-health-care-obamacare-premiums
Dec 11, 2025 7:22 PM
TheCunningLinguists
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Somebody please primary this old man, we need a changing of the guard.
https://www.ms.now/news/senate-face-plants-health-care-obamacare-premiums
makesense
To be fair, they didn't agree to vote to exactly the only thing Dems wanted. There was one plan that some Republicans and some Democrats liked that would've extended the credits but added a couple more restrictions on who was eligible, but Republicans wanted to push their 'HSA' plan (that also included a law that would prevent states from using Medicaid on illegal immigrants at all).
CraftyGiant
They call it obamacare when they fuck up, and call it the ACA when it helps their voting base.
scummy fuckers.
ziggystardust7
He traded the shut down for a promise from the worlds most prolific liar
ilovebigmutts
99% of politicians are scum.
glovelyday
Don't blame Ds for ending the shutdown, itxs all the GOPs fault. The Ds just didn't have the votes to do anything else. If the government was still shut down the GOP would be fine with it, but millions of working Americans would be missing paychecks, going hungry, and small victories like this would not hsppen:
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KatInTheCorner
Course he's happy, he's got plenty of money and no moral code. Sleeps like a baby.
HeywouldJablowme
We could not pick a worse possible time to have this particular Democratic party. They are fucking useless. In fact they're only strategy is let Trump hurt em. Then they'll vote for us
Iaimtomisbehave
Everyone knew the the current criminal administration and their boot licking lackeys were never going to let it get to a vote. Doesn't matter what the opposition is doing though, keep punching: https://indivisible.org/ .
fractalsphere
Anyone with half a brain knew that the 'promise of a vote' meant that vote was never coming.
onecowboytoo
The promise of a vote doesn't mean they will vote for it.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
blaghart
Dont forget the Democrats who volunteered to be the party scapegoat and the Democratic senators hiding behind them. As is the usual Dem MO on progress:https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-democratic-senators-hiding-behind-joe-manchin/
or0b0ur0s
Airlines were about to lose money and rich people were going to have trouble landing their private jets. That's the line that couldn't be crossed so that the working poor & children could have healthcare.
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
He is a “Surrender Democrat”. He killed us all.
veronicablood
SO BASICALLY THEY ALREADY KNOW THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY MORE ELECTIONS IN THE USA, HUH?
Buffoonery
Repubs are arrogant crooks and liars. Dems are just a bunch of broke-dicks.
TofuGolem
This is exactly what Chuch wanted. Every single establishment Democrat needs to face primary challenges from liberal candidates.
idrinkcheapbeer
Charlie Schumer:
CitrusyGarlic
Insurance is such a disgusting scam. The premiums are going up because all the profits are way down and it's hard for them to make a buck, right?
.....RIGHT??
thekadeshi
Well I wouldn't say they've been "down," Bob.
Clockworkdancerobot
Thanks Chuck, you shmuck.
StephenDaniels
National politics is much, much more complicated than you think. The Democrats handled this about as well as it could be handled. The filibuster wasn't about getting the subsidies back. The last election took them away. The filibuster was for making it crystal clear to the voters who wants them to have affordable insurance and who doesn't. That job has been done. Now we tighten our belts and wait for next November and then make affordable HC the first thing the new Congress passes.
taez555
drunkbs
lol, he thinks that we're on his side. He thinks he's the opposition party, that's cute.
mrthewhitee
Wow, I was sure they were gonna be reasoned with for the first time in my life time, but nope. Fooled us all again I guess. /s
mrthewhitee
But in all seriousness at least the Dems got a vote tally of all the gop voting against Medicare that they can campaign on next year.
They can add it to the other 100 vote tally against Medicare. I'm sure the 101st will turn the tide. (OK /s again lol)
MeestowKitty
Campaign for what? He's setting up a war with Venezuela so that he can use war powers to suspend the elections and arrest his opponents as "enemy agents."
mrthewhitee
/s
glovelyday
Bullshuy! This is the GOPs fault, not Schumer's. Without the majority the Ds can't do shit. This is the GOPs fault, not the Ds.
idrinkcheapbeer
see, this kind of response is the problem. Schumer absolutely caved. He led the way to democrat compromise on ending the shutdown with nothing but a promise that the GOP absolutely lucy footballed.
TheCunningLinguists
Chuck didn't have to agree to end the shutdown. It was his call since the Rs didn't have the votes. He could've held out for funding the subsidies.
glovelyday
And hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be diggingn in dumpsters to find their next meal. Grow up. This is the GOPs doing. Holding the 99% hostage to get billionaires tax cuts.
Dustorm
You goalpost moving wank-clown
TheCunningLinguists
And now 40 million Americans get to choose between skipping health insurance, or digging in dumpsters for food while they pay for health ins.
glovelyday
They were fucked anyway. The GOP has the votes, they were just dragging it out to hurt people.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
While I agree that its bullshit that corpo Dems dropped the fight and left me as one of the people who will be shit on for health insurance like hell... This is the GOPs fault ultimately. I would have preferred the shutdown continue to further damage the bullshit facade put up it was ultimately an unwinnable fight. Still fuck the spineless fuckbags who decided that people like me needed to be the ones to get in the ring.
bippityboppitybuttsex
So, a reminder that it wasn't his turn to betray the American people this time... other Democrats were in the rota to fuck the American people.
UmmonPrime
Yes, but since he's the minority leader, he gets to take the blame for not "keeping his people in line"... politics.
bippityboppitybuttsex
'Not keeping his people in line'?
I assure you, they are doing precisely what they were told to do... all the people who voted with the Republicans to end the shutdown are either retiring or not running for reelection until 2030.
JustAGamerDreamin
Yeah, weird how that worked out, almost like the party leadership told them to do so.
Eyeetsass
It’s all a charade. They couldn’t fail this hard on accident. There’s a ton of bribe money, and blackmail going on. The establishment democrats kneecapped the party when they chose to run Hillary instead of Bernie. Had they run Bernie we wouldn’t have ever seen a Trump first term, and he would have fucked off. Instead we got the first term, and he learned from it, and doubled down on being a Dictator. Now, here we are.
Grendels2dCousinOnceRemoved
Don't think so. If they'd nominated Bernie Sanders in 2016, Trump would have actually won the popular vote as well as the electoral vote. Those who like Sanders are enthusiastic, but that doesn't make up for a lack of numbers. He would have won some of the New England states, and possibly NY, and possibly OR, WA, CA and Hawaii ... but that's it.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Every time a progressive Democrat runs against a Republican, they win.... because they speak to the needs of the working class.
Hillary was an AIPAC, Corporate Democrat who existed only to serve Corporate interests... she didn't give fuck one about the working class (and still doesn't).
Trump spoke to working class issues and then fucked the working class. Twice.
somerandomusernamething
By what data? Polling shows that most people who voted trump in 16 did so because they were tired of the status quo, and Bernie offered to break that.
Yours is a centrist Dem viewpoint ungrounded in what has actually been happening these past 10 years. Look at Momdani for reference. He won when both Democrats and Republicans were against him.
bippityboppitybuttsex
I don't think it is that nefarious...
I think the corporate Democrats (usually identifiable by their AIPAC money) just take turns fucking over the working class.
My favorite are the Fettermans, Sinemas, Gallegos, Manchins, Durbins who talk a good working-class game, but are no different than Republicans...
Eyeetsass
The party lost the working class to MAGA. Biden, and Harris had no socialist offerings, and wouldn’t condemn Israel. A formal conspiracy isn’t necessary when interests align.
somerandomusernamething
The DNCs priorities are:
1.) Protect the interests of the rich, and slowly increase their wealth.
2.) If it doesn't conflict with 1, help the people.
As an entity, every action from Dem leadership follows that priority list. It's not a conspiracy, or intent of harm, it's just a priority list.
GOP list:
1.) Funnel money to the rich as fast as possible
2.) Create culture wars against minorities with little voting power.
swedeonamoose
Now see this is why you need more parties, so that they can compromise with other parties on the same side of the spectrum and only be slightly less useless than they are now.
Elonth
This and getting rid of "first past the post voting" Give us a priority ranking system for fucks sake.
breothskin
Sadly in any FPTP voting systems, the system always reverts to two parties over time. It’s why ranked choice is the only reasonable step forward.
TheCunningLinguists
I agree that a Parliamentary system would be an improvement, but unfortunately most Americans can't manage counting higher than 2. I think the more achievable goals are ranked choice voting, followed by elimination of the electoral college.
orphanhammer3000
¿Por que no los dos?
chaotropicagent
Gully dwarves together strong!
chaotropicagent
Bupu for president!
lovehandlesmessiah
[Shakes dead rat on a string at Congress]
chaotropicagent
Price for healthcare? Not more than two
TonawandaBlue
johndoejersey05
Scattercat
This is firmly in the "Did Democrats do it? Yes. Was it bad? Yes." category. They had the news cycle on their side, popular opinion, and the Republicans had nothing but bad choices, and then they pissed it all down their legs because the money wanted them to.
Badprenup
Yeah I'm not one to bag on Democrats when they do a good thing that isn't perfect, but I'll absolutely call them out when they do stupid shit.
And I can't think of a single decision Senate Dems have made since Chuck became minority leader in January that wasn't the *worst* choice possible.
If Schumer had to choose between ham or turkey sandwiches to feed starving kids he would immediately open the nearest septic tank and start scooping the contents into bowls for them to eat.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
I mean, you'd get pretty pissed at the guard you hired to protect your family if he kept letting in the family-killing-mob every night that you pay him to block the fmaily-killing-mob.
He's not doing his job. He's actively making the problem worse, in fact, and aiding the family-killing-mob. Who he was specifically hired to stop.
TonawandaBlue
The security company you hired to protect your family advised that your have a full crew of 20 guards, 24-hrs a day. But you opted for one guy part-time. But sure, don't blame the mob. Blame the company that you ignored.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
That's not a good counter-metaphor, homie.
TonawandaBlue
It's your metaphor, jackhole