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Who'd've guessed the Democrats would refuse to vote in favor of cutting health insurance subsidies for millions of poor Americans in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires?
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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I’m pleasantly surprised by their backbone
I am too.
On the one hand, it's a pretty simple and obvious principled stance. But on the other hand, the Democrats haven't shown much in the way of principles in quite some time.
Maybe this will be the start of a grand rebuilding of the spine we all believed that they had circa 2008.
I hope it changes too.
I’m sure it’s still some scheme to cover for the ratchet effect. “We tried. It was the longest shutdown ever!”
I know the Democrats always let us down, hell Schumer created this situation in the first place
But they are doing the thing. They will probably disappoint us, but they are doing the thing. You have to leave room for a miracle
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Mailed my congressmen to tell them not to give up, come hell or high water.
The joke is that this hits small business owners hard because it makes it even harder to compete with big companies that can offer benefits. The GOP just loves to target their base.
I think they just love to target non million/billionaires. They've just been able to dupe the gop base.
the gop couldve easily ended the shutdown themselves without the Ds, they have the numbers. its just that they dont want to take the blame for the shutdown.
I’m pretty surprised they haven’t just rolled over, TBH.
One side wants to keep health insurance affordable for millions of hard working Americans, the other side is willing to starve children to keep that from happening.
they need democrats to cave, so they blame them. all REPUBLICANS need to do is remove the filibuster and push the shutdown to end anyways, of course its to prevent the release of epstein files.
Well, democrats are backed into a corner by a violent mob called the GOP. All they can do is wait it out and refuse to negotiate while the GOP voter base goes broke and gets angry. The hope is that the GOP mob goes after their GOP leaders and votes them all out, but that probably wont happen.