I find it suspicious that it was the exact amount of votes needed, all of whom just happen to not be up for reelection next year. Feels like they just happened to be the senators for whom it was “safest” to piss people off.

Some lessons I learned from Trump’s first term that so many people apparently did not:

• He’s not gonna learn his lesson
• Republicans are not going to swoop in and save us from what other Republicans are doing
• His supporters are fine with what he’s doing, and if they aren’t they’ll be fine with it after conservative media tells them to be fine with it
• He will not face consequences for what he’s doing

I would love to be proven wrong, but keeping these things in mind helps me to avoid unnecessary disappointment.

Genuinely astonished at how dogshit the Democratic party is at negotiating or even just behaving like an opposition party. How do you walk away with a worse deal than the one you were offered before negotiations started?

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.