It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
Oh I disagree that the Democrats won’t be more pathetic than this.
It literally was. His approval was collapsing. Why the fuck is this so hard for anyone with an ounce of power?
They like retaining power more than actually standing up for what is right.
I got news about that retention with the direction we are going
Pretty sure all the ones that did this aren’t up for election.
These slimy fucks just used the shutdown to win the elections.We need to impeach them, or somehow get the electorate to have a memory longer than a goldfish
The ones that voted are either A) Retiring, or B) Not up for Reelection in '26, yes.
They almost certainly did this either under pressure from the air travel lobby to not let this disrupt the thanksgiving air travel season, or because they were actually worried that Trump was going to get enough votes to nuke the filibuster.
STOP thinking about Yourself and START thinking about the Rich People who’s Private Jets were being Grounded and Stocks going DOWN! This was ALMOST becoming a TRAGEDY! It’s a GOOD thing Dems caved when they did before something CATASTROPHIC happened like
MILLIONS of Children going Hungry!MILLIONS of Working Class Families losing Healthcare!Rich people Feeling UNCOMFORTABLE!Oh, I think about the rich… Lately, I’ve been thinking about them a whole lot.
I’m pretty sure some of their flights out of DCA were moderately delayed. It was horrific!
I imagine they see reality quite differently from people younger than them do. Like a box was built around them to keep them blind. Nothing else makes sense.
Uhh, more Americans blamed Republicans and Trump’s approval tanked.
This guy is full of fucking shit. There was no reason relent and it would’ve set Dems up for success next year.
Primary them all.
When they say “standing up to Trump didn’t work” they actually mean that their corporate donors got mad at them and threatened to cut them off
Wish we could, bud; none of them are up for reelection.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
How the fuck would he know?
Oh boy is that sad. Standing up to Trump works just fine. To put it politely, you get fucked for sure when you roll over, at least when you stand up there’s a chance.
Millenials, Gen Z this is your chance. Start running to take congress and senate positions in the next elections. Or find new people to support. Things do not have to stay the way they have been. There is enough of the voting population outside of the boomer gen now to change voting outcomes but you need to put yourself out there and not hope for someone else to do it for you.
In the meantime, do what you can with your spending. Don’t send any money to billionaires even if that means giving up stuff you currently buy. Time to start starving the billionaire class since the (current) governments are owned by them.“Man who climbed halfway up small hill before giving up says reaching the top is impossible”
Then nothing works and it’s civil war…maybe try something else first.
Did King really believe this, or were there other reasons why he caved? His son, Angus King III, is running for governor of Maine, and Senator King’s decision may have been a misguided attempt to help him. King is also not up for reelection until 2030, so perhaps he thought he could escape electoral consequences.
Isn’t the election already over? How does caving now help? And if the gubernatorial election hasn’t happened yet, well, vote for the other Democratic candidate, I guess?
LESS THAN ONE FUCKING WEEK AFTER SWEEPING ELECTION DAY
While King does caucus with Democrats, he isn’t an explicit member of the party anymore and hasn’t been since the 90’s
2025 elections said what? 🤔
Unfit for office.
If he thinks it doesn’t work, then why doesn’t he resign? The whole point of having senators is that they have some power and if they simply don’t believe they have any, then they literally serve no purpose. And it’s one thing to fight against Trump and lose and realize that you were mistaken, that you thought you had some control. But it’s another to keep working your job and collecting the paycheck while openly admitting you’re powerless.
Trump was willing to starve the hostage, they were not. Simple as.
I do not believe this had anything at all to do with hungry people.
As someone far more astute than me pointed out, they caved at the same time flights started to get cancelled, not when people were about to go hungry, nor even when they missed their SNAP disbursements.
It’s the big donor issue of flight cancellations, not the welfare of citizens, that dictated it’s time to end the shutdown now and not a month ago.
