The GOP playbook has always been to ignore the Democrats when they’re in power, and then when the Dems are in control, do two things. First, they DEMAND bipartisanship. If it doesn’t have the support of every member of the senate, then it’s rank partisanship. And second, they vote against literally anything that any…

Honestly, I’m more pissed at the idiots in the comments throwing out the same platitudinal crap.

It begs the question: who is dumber? The coal miners, or the people who indicate that capitulation to the coal miners is the good and right and proper way to ::checks notes:: govern a whole-ass country?

Hey, now, we’re not supposed to talk about how third-way centrism is a massive failure and antithetical to real progress, because that’s what’s going to get trump (re)elected (as opposed to people being frustrated with said lack of real progress).

When will establishment Democrats learn that you can’t have an effective party if you insist on playing purity politics and having a temper tantrum every time you don’t get your way?  This moderate circular firing squad is why Democrats keep losing. You have to think about the good of the party, and stop attacking…

Democratic Party’s willingness to self-implode rather than cede any power to the left.

But-but, we have to be happy for the little Sinema will agree to. It’s more than we would have gotten otherwise. Isn’t that enough? /s

Joe Manchin is not a fucking Dem and the Democratic party needs to have some fucking standards as to what constitutes being an actual Dem.

I saw that. Sinema and Manchin are gonna be the downfall of the Dems. They’re going to vote with Republicans most of the time, and push against any real change. Then in the next Congressional election the Republicans are gonna go right back to their usual routine of saying “See? Those do-nothing Dems can’t govern.…

This pussyhat and wig wearing twatwaffle must be dealt with harshly at the polls and in the media. Sure would be a shame if her extramarital affairs or dodgy tax schemes came to light. Not a fan of slutshaming, but if she won’t get in line with the rest of the dems, she can be treated politically worse than McConnell…

Something tells me that Joe/Kamala is gonna want those 17 million votes sometime within the next four years. Manchin and Sinema are trolls that must be dealt with quickly. Someone must summon the Mothman to handle Manchin, and we may need help taming a jackalope to get Sinema on program, but I am hopeful it can be…

“But something tells me that Manchin’s constituents, while probably benefiting greatly, don’t want “government handouts”.”

There’s no need to defend the bill to me. I get the point and agree that technically something’s better than absolutely nothing. I’m just sick and tired of being told that, especially in a crisis. And I’m even more tired of people defending it. Demand better.

Yup, eat a shit sandwich and technically you won’t be starving anymore.

Oh, I know. But she was a female bisexual Democrat from Arizona, so a segment of Democrats had been fawning all over her, and was irate that she was not receiving as much attention as the ‘Squad’.

I have some shocking news for you: Capitalists are going to raise prices whether the wage goes up or not. The wage hasn’t been raised in for-fucking-ever and prices have still gone up. Prices for fast food in Europe (with a much higher minimum wage) are negligibly higher. Your plan just guarantees that fewer people…

Describing Dems as tripping over their own feet to make things better for people seems....like a generous description.  This is a wildly popular bill, across partisan lines, and yet Dems put up basically zero fight when a couple moderate Dems pushed to make it worse for no good reason. 

“They deserve to win because they aren’t the GOP” yeah absolutely not.

*Standing ovation*