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This is the Trump/Johnson Shutdown of 2025.

Earlier this year, we had the Trump/RFK Measles Outbreak of 2025.

Call them what they are.

The survey results that I'm seeing show that Americans do understand what's happening and that Republicans are shooting themselves in the face. But there's not an election happening tomorrow so it takes time.

Well, you see, Republicans are such a terrible party that they make Democrats look like they're worth voting for.

I'm curious how effective the mass propaganda on every website and in all the airports etc are going to be. People are stupid and they're going to hear that narrative over and over and we all know the Democrats aren't going to effectively counter it

They already killed the filibuster. They have have suspended the filibuster three times already. Why would they have to remove it this time?

-They bypassed the filibuster to go around CA EV standards

-Then they Reinvented the budget process to set the BBB to $0 which somehow got them around the filibuster to pass the BBB.

-Last month they "Deployed the nuclear option" and changed Senate rules to confirm a block of 48 Trump nominees.

Nothing is stopping them, they have already set precedent you can ignore the filibuster whenever you want.

Personally I'm banking on them refusing to negotiate long enough that Americans get desperate enough to drag them into the streets and finally treat them the way fascists should be treated.

I do think republican donors owning all the major media leads people to only see the worst messagers in the party as they censor the better ones'

Media isn't owned by people sympathetic to Democratic talking points.

Doesn't matter what your message is if no one plays it.

Yup.

We're in an abusive relationship with our federal government. Keep it shut down until Americans revolt and deal with the fascists. Then we can reorganize it and try again.

Ratchet effect has worked out great for them thus far

Because that is historically what they have done. Republicans know that can take advantage of Democrats “weakness” of being able to compromise. The illegal firing of furloughed workers is metaphorically the Republican terrorists executing hostages until their demands are met. They don’t care about the damage they are doing, but they know their opponents do. They have also historically used the tactic successfully.

They expect it has worked in the past. They will keep executing their hostages and they will keep blaming their own willful destruction on those who won’t just give them everything they want. What they are too stupid to realize is that many of their hostages are their own people, and the only thing that makes a rightist reconsider their sick ideology is when it comes back to bite them personally.

Because the hierarchy of society that most politicians support demands employees who are terrified of leaving their exploitative jobs. Money is a powerful motivator, but even more powerful is the health of you and your family.

And at the same time, a very sick citizen does not generate economic benefits to them, so there's no reason to make serious care available and/or not crushingly expensive. Better to drain as much as possible from them before the dead weight succumbs to those pressures than direct any revenue that could given back to "job creators" as tax breaks of subsidies.

It's also why political and media personalities will brag about how quickly the county recovered from COVID. It wasn't an economic miracle, it was sacrificing lives at the altar of capitalism. It went hand in hand with our absurdly disproportionate number of deaths.

Why we don't storm their houses and string them up from lamp posts (or, I suppose, vote them out), I don't know.