For Sweet, the feelings of frustration are only compounded by a feeling that she was betrayed by the Democratic-aligned senators who broke with the party on the health care subsidies.
She said that she understands that many workers were desperate for a paycheck. But she thought standing firm on the issue of the health care subsidies was worth her sacrifice.
“There are other federal workers who understood what we were holding the line for and are extremely unhappy that line was crossed and that trust was breached,” she said.
The DNC needs to go.
anyone else feeling political fatigue?
I’m tired of voting for people that don’t seem to listen to us or fight for us
That was precisely why Schumer did this, to put a rising populism in check by cynically sabotaging it while superficing pretending like the spineless weasel Schumer is to be against the sabotage.
You think it’s ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they’ll topple the emperor.
Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?
If anything it catalyzes the need to pivot away from limp old Dems to those who will actually defend the Constitution and rule of law.
Schumer made sure it wasn’t.
It wasn’t.
It wasn’t. Their suffering & struggle meant nothing. Thanks democrats for folding under pressure.
It wasn’t “nothing”
In addition to getting everything the republicans wanted 40 days ago and nothing the democrats wanted 40 days ago, they also got a federal ban on hemp-derived THC, and gave republican congressmen the ability to sue the federal government for millions of dollars for being investigated for trying to overthrow the government on January 6th. You would be paying your employer a paycheck if you let the democrats negotiate a raise on your behalf.
It wasn’t worth it at all. The ACA was the legislation that defined the entire Democrat platform this millennium. Even when it was watered down from what we had hoped (Fuck you, Joe Leiberman), it still was far better than nothing. Personally, the ACA keeps me alive. It massively expanded access to health insurance, especially for the poorest who now could get healthcare without as much worry about it impacting their finances. Letting these subsidies die is essentially letting the ACA die, it’s just one more step to repealing it entirely to be replaced with nothing at all, because we know the reason the Republicans won’t show us what their healthcare plans are because they don’t exist or are so fucking evil that they don’t want to share them until they’ve already rammed them through.
The DNC has fucking ruined the party by focusing far more on their own personal power within the system rather than helping people. Pro-tip, kneeling in kente cloths was never going to stop black Americans from being mindlessly murdered by a largely white supremacist police force. Doing nothing about the police, and in fact giving them more funding is part and parcel to why we see so many police departments not just not protecting their citizens from ICE, but actively helping ICE terrorize their communities. Thanks, Biden, handing those cops a shitload more money really worked out, huh?
Crumbling like wet tissue paper for nothing in exchange is absolutely not worth it.
The Democratic Party made their sacrifices worthless.
Fuck Chuck
Schumer’s getting pretty old. Might be time to call a vet.
What we have here is a football asking whether it’s sacrifice was “worth it” at the end of a game.
Unfortunately for them, I’ve never seen a sport talk about the contributions or sacrifices the ball made.
Bingo. Not the first time the football had to take one for the team.
It was not.
What sacrifice? Did they volunteer not to work? Fuck I hate this goddamn country. The people are stupid, the news outlets are prop machines and the very core of our government is run by morons, the elderly and sociopath Nazis.
They went 40+ days without a paycheck, many were required to work regardless of that fact and so were unable to get side gigs. You are either a troll or one of the morons you speak of.
I imagine the previous poster’s point is that the federal workers might be victims, but they couldn’t make a sacrifice becuase sacrifice is a willing choice one makes. The workers may have suffered, but they didn’t make any sacrifice here becuase it wasn’t their choice.
eat shit
i personally know people that suffered over this
Fuck you. I didn’t say people didn’t suffer. I didn’t say I was happy about it. I didn’t say anything like that, but you fucks on this goddamn platform have the reading comprehension skills of a tree stump.
imagine knowing all those things then feeling the need to still posted the drivel you have
you are a fucking garbage human
