President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Huggy]

You're right, Canadians are tired of going to the doctor or the hospital and having nothing to bench about but wait times. I look forward to packing my credit card next time I go to the doctor,

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Primary their ashes.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I'm so beyond tired of Schumer and Pelosi. Two old ashes looking to protect theirs.

 

[garrow]

White House withdraws CDC director nomination just before his Senate confirmation hearing

 

[Twirling Time]

Jeffries whipped his caucus (all but one) successfully but Schumer wan't willing to do his. Even with a 7-vote cushion.

Time to chuck Chuck?

 

[tapintoamerica]

I'm not into shutting down the government in general. In this case, I fear that a shutdown would have given Trump an avenue to deliver further cuts to several agencies or to eliminate them altogether.

 

[WriteThinking]

Democrats apparently really don't want to do anything to stop Trump. How could they go along with the Republican budget? This was one of the few ways they could show displeasure and disagreement right now, and they choose to go along with it instead? What a bunch of chickens.

Nothing they're doing already was stopping Republicans. And this wont, either. Democrats should have let any shutdown be on Trump and the Republicans. The bit about no offramp? Yeah, exactly.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...2025-senate-vote-trump-democrats/82317937007/

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal government, or shut the government down by denying their vote and risk facing political backlash and blame.

After days of waffling and demanding a shorter-term funding extension that Republicans rejected, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tipped the scales.

He announced Thursday night that he would vote to support the GOP funding bill, despite strong opposition from the Democratic base, arguing that the consequences of a shutdown would be "much, much worse" than the funding extension.

Schumer made the case on the Senate floor that a shutdown would allow the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers to "cherry pick which parts of the government to reopen," giving them even more power over the federal government they have sought to remake.

"If we go into a shutdown, and I told my caucus this, there's no offramp," he told reporters Thursday night. "How you stop a shutdown would be totally determined by the Republican House and Senate, and that is totally determined, because they've shown complete blind obeisance, by Trump."

 

[Starman]

Schumer made the case on the Senate floor that a shutdown would allow the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers to "cherry pick which parts of the government to reopen," giving them even more power over the federal government they have sought to remake.

THEY'RE.
GOING.
TO. DO.
THAT.
ANYWAY.

 

[Twirling Time]

I'm of the opinion of let's show all the cards now, rather than six or seven months down the road when people are normalized to Herr Trump and his Orange Shirt J6er thugs running amok.

 

[qtlaw]

THEY'RE.
GOING.
TO. DO.
THAT.
ANYWAY.

Clowns simply refuse to remember history.

How did the MAGA movement start? With the Tea Party. What did they do? Threaten to shutdown the government unless they were heard. They did exactly that.

Hey Schumer, guess what? You've been so ineffectual you are basically left with the Tea Party playbook, use it.

They've already dismantled 50% of the government, why not shut it down now?

What is the upside to caving in? You get your paycheck??

 

[garrow]

Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."

 

[FileNotFound]

Clowns simply refuse to remember history.

How did the MAGA movement start? With the Tea Party. What did they do? Threaten to shutdown the government unless they were heard. They did exactly that.

Hey Schumer, guess what? You've been so ineffectual you are basically left with the Tea Party playbook, use it.

They've already dismantled 50% of the government, why not shut it down now?

What is the upside to caving in? You get your paycheck??

The thing is, the rules from 15 years ago no longer apply.

This is not going to be a popular viewpoint here, but Schumer is right on this one. This vote was the least bad option.