These votes demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration. Its priority is to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the US military while diverting popular opposition with calls for meaningless cosmetic changes to the administration’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.

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    Lmfao DHS will not run out of money. Remember when a private donor gave $130m to the military to cover wages? Yeah, that will happen again.

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      130M is fucking nothing. The “Big Beautiful Bill” that the GOP passed previously via VP tiebreaker and house reconciliation gave the DHS 85 Billion dollars. It’s going from $85,000,000,000 that they’ve already spent down to $0.

      In theory, the GOP could do another similar bill with reconciliation, but why they haven’t is unclear and any DNC resistance would be futile.

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        I’m just pointing out that there is a private part willing to fund ice. You still seem to be of the opinion that this is going to end. Please wake up, for your own sake.

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          Look, if some mix of 7 DNC and IND decide to cross the aisle to fund the DHS and ICE, then you will have every right to be outraged about them crossing the aisle to fund the DHS and ICE. You’re not, in my opinion, justified to be mad about funding the IRS, SNAP, Medicaid, Housing Development, Education, Forestry Services, etc.

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              Oh, I’m a hardcore democrat. Yeah. I say, figuratively, Fuck Trump but I would literally consensually fuck Obama.

              People who oppose the DNC are, in practice, opposing taxing the rich, opposing socialized healthcare, opposing free education, etc. They oppose progress.

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                  To choose one of countless examples: 214 DNC and 4 GOP voted aye on the discharge petition to force the vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

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                    And… they don’t actually release but 1% of them. So, what did the DNC do again?

                    I dunno about you, but “redacted” is not “released” unless they are hiding something.

                    And “redacted” == failure.

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      DHS got 75 billion to spend over the next decade in the BBB already…

      The funding bill that just passed covers most of the government till September, but DHS just till end of next week, like 10 days.

      They’re not gonna run out of money, but they have to burn that 75 billion down while all the good shit that wouldn’t have gotten any money gets funded.

      Like, if you’re not happy with this, what would it have taken?