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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired! New ride coming soon.

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Indeed.

It's pretty wild to see what the Tesla Takedown people have built from nothing, totally organically in just two months. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Sen. Mark Kelly is ditching his Tesla

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.

Yes a shutdown would have consequences. And a Republican President, Republican House, and Republican Senate would be responsible. They have acted in a unilateral and unprecedented way. Democrats cannot cave. They must fight back.

WYDEN: Do you believe in a nursing home there should be a registered nurse available around the clock? DR OZ: As you know, that's a complicated question WYDEN: No it's not. We need a nurse in a nursing home. Not too complicated.

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

They’re mocking the Dems now

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you. Be safe! Shop somewhere else.

AOC: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal… just to see some senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face.

I will save everyone the time. No, he doesn't.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

This is the way…

The base does not seem happy with senator Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer should have been replaced 8 years ago. One of the main reasons for the rise of American fascism is the cowardice from appeasement ‘centrists.’

It is not required for any other Senate Dem to vote with Schumer. Stand up for the people. Stand up for the party. Unite against this and lead where he won’t.

Hey folks – my phone system is having some tech difficulties and hanging up on callers that opt to leave voicemails. Your calls are important to me, so we're working hard to get it up again, but to be clear, I’m a NO on the CR, so if that’s why you’re calling, I hear ya!

Kaine: "A bully can take something from you, but you shouldn't hand it over to him. So I'm voting no."

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown. Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down. Why vote to legitimize Trump's coup?

Smithy

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

CNN reports that in a private meeting, Senator Michael Bennet erupted, accusing Democratic leadership of having "No strategy, no plan, and no message on this spending bill" (direct quote)

WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

NEWS: We polled our locals yesterday before Schumer's surrender asking what they would do to hold accountable Senate Dems who cave on the GOP bill. 67% said they'd show up at town halls or public events to express their anger. 78% said they'd support primary challenges. We'll see where this goes.

That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for. “You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

"When faced with two awful choices, pick the one that requires less courage." - The Art of Losing, by Chuck Schumer

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Nancy Pelosi urges Democratic senators to go against Schumer and vote NO on the Continuing Resolution.

Hassan grills Dr Oz about promoting a bunch of scam "medical" products on TV, including "raspberry ketones." She notes that "it seems to me you are still unwilling to take accountability for your promotion of unproven snake oil remedies to millions of your viewers."

Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture: Angus King (ME) Amy Klobuchar (MN) Jacky Rosen (NV) Brian Schatz (HI) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Gary Peters (MI) Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.

maybe he means boom as in he is blowing it to pieces

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If there are Democratic Senators who plan on voting for the GOP budget, other than Fetterman and Schumer, they should say so now and articulate their reasoning. Elected officials should not hide their intentions from their own constituents.

Imagine the kind of husk you have to be to go out and do this for a living.

They estimate this operation has cost the U.S. over $16M which is low because it doesn't count the photo op flights in and out by Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth. They built 1600 tents that ICE can't use because they are inhumane. My latest. Subscribe for free! open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Warnock on whether he’s no on the bill AND cloture, says “If I weren’t a preacher, I’d tell you what kind of ‘no.’”

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..." abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...

The FDA has apparently raided a company that sells poppers. A reminder that RFK Jr. believes the anti-LGBT conspiracy theory that poppers cause AIDS. www.them.us/story/rfk-jr...

Does she ever work? Where are the Epstein files? She lives on Fox every damn day. An Attorney General who spends more time on Fox than some of their hosts.

I googled this to make a joke about how she should compare notes with this other person, and folks,

Congrats Chuck Schumer you have thoroughly misplayed the funding fight. You’ve done everything possible to take ownership of it, despite democrats having no levers in govt. Are ya new?

racial discrimination to the trump administration is when you offer admissions to anyone who isn’t white www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Merkley: "I am even more hell no. You don't stop a bully by handing over your lunch money, and you don't stop a tyrant by giving him more power. That is exactly what this House Republican spending bill does."

Ah. The good old town hall

News you can use! This is getting interesting.

we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"

these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future

I knew immediately

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A plane has crashed with no survivors found in Greenville, North Carolina.

they are trying to systematically crack down on all LGBTQ people, trying to erase us all, make us suffer, instill fear in us. any democrat willing to throw us under the bus for “convenience” needs to be disposed of

Appeasement is what Trump wants. Fuck that, and fuck him.

Meiselas: That’s our message to you from the MeidasTouch Network: Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.

Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.

So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.

NOW: Almost 100 people are outside the home of @schumer.senate.gov calling on him to vote NO on cloture and NO on the disastrous Trump-Musk budget

I completely understand Schumer wanting to avoid a shutdown - they’re destructive, and they harm a lot of folks who don’t deserve it. What I *don’t* understand is Schumer saying that Dems were unified in opposition only to change his mind a day later. He looks like a jackass.

They gave up their dignity and bent the knee, betraying both their customers and their country. And they did it for money. Money they had no need for. The result? They lost billions and billions. The worst deal with the devil ever.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

HASSAN: If directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the last or follow the president's directive? DR OZ: The president would never do that HASSAN: That's absurd. And a disappointing answer.

🚨 BREAKING: 11 young people were arrested after Schumer locked the doors on us—we showed him how to fight, but he couldn’t even face us. His cowardly deal gives Musk the keys to our government while working people suffer. If he won’t fight for us, he’s unfit to lead. Step up or step aside.

It will be tremendously funny if Schumer gets publicly humiliated by an angry groundswell of Dem voters working their individual Senators who all bail on voting for cloture. There is no way he can continue in leadership if this happens, and it should.

Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.

My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.

America was founded on the concept of checks and balances, but Republicans in Congress are bending the knee to those who seek to gut our government from the inside out. We have the power to stop the cessation of power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I urge a no vote on the CR.

Check out my new post! I do an emergency video analyzing the current fight over govt spending and the sheer maddening missteps of Schumer and others adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

What is wrong with giving a new leader a chance? A new approach, a fresh approach. Someone who has integrity, leadership skills, represents a key state, has guts and the confidence of the base. Time to put ego aside and screw seniority. This is my nominee.

Trump has no empathy. Schumer has no courage. You need someone with courage to stand up to a bully.

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

arguments over who would get blamed for a shutdown are insane. the median voter has no idea this is happening. the median voter knows one fact about politics and it’s that Donald Trump is the President

He has to go. @chuckschumer.com

Donald Trump just congratulated Chuck Schumer on his decision to vote YES on the Republican CR. @schumer.senate.gov , you are on the wrong side!

Wow. Pelosi coming out HARD against a yes vote, and hard against Schumer's argument specifically.

Pressley on Trump praising Schumer: "I don't think we should be moving in any way to elicit praise from Donald Trump, who has no respect for Congress and the power of the purse, who is by the hour rolling out executive actions that are lawless ... this is a hostile govt takeover. He is a dictator."

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

Kaine: "No Virginian when I was on the campaign trail was talking to me about Greenland or the Panama Canal or trying to make Canada the 51st state. They were talking about bringing inflation down, and that's what Donald Trump said he would do."

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I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes. What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

seems like a small point but i wish reporters would stop calling it DEI when the white house internally calls it DEIA. they remove the A because it stands for accessibility. they want to ruin the lives of disabled people but they don't want to talk about it publicly.

Senate democrats appear poised to remind everyone why people didn't show up to vote for democrats in 2024.

How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????

Pam Bondi: "If you're gonna touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out, because we're coming after you."

Everything is so unbelievably stupid right now.

Have we ‘won’ anything at all?