“...you are making it seem like the original protesters were defending segregation.”

I mean:

you give really bad, dumb advice

Her critics in the mainstream, like conservatives, seem to conflate Sarsour’s anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, shutting down a vital dialogue on Zionism and Israel’s continued and unlawful occupation of Palestinian territories.

It works on so many levels!

You don’t roll up in your regular ride when you’re about to commit a senseless homicide. You get a car that you can ditch quickly and walk away from clean.

That poor rando is the only man who truly knows how Reince Priebus feels.

Holy shit...

If the Democrats wanted to give in to the Republicans on this they could have done that any time in the last several months. There’s a number of red state Democratic Senators who probably wouldn’t have minded getting some “common-sense bipartisanship” juice by playing ball with the GOP. They didn’t. Not one inch.

Yeah, and 20 million people who didn’t have insurance now have insurance.

Right and my point is that if what they’d voted on last night had actually been a bill that anyone intended to be a law, it would have passed regardless.

My point is that if Democrats were so eager to flip then last night’s bill should have been able to get Manchin at least.

The Democratic establishment’s version of compromise is giving Republicans 90% of what they want

1) They are offering better solutions

Look, I’m not saying that isn’t a distinct possibility. And if that happened, it would be wrong. I’m saying that this is the right play today. Political brinkmanship benefits precisely no one, especially at this point in the election cycle. If the Dem response to this today was, “See assholes, this is why we need…

Agreed, as long as the 8% isn’t about actual humans’ inalienable rights. I’m not down to compromise on abortion rights, LGBTQ+ protections, black lives matter, disbaility rights, or any of the other shit that Dems sometimes flee from. Dems better work as a coalition to protect those like they did the ACA.

This. A million times, this. We keep doing this whole “it’s about 92% what I want, but that missing 8% is really bugging me. Fuck it, burn it to the ground.” It’s the same fucking reason people wouldn’t vote for Hillary, and now we have a potato chip in the White House.

Whatever.

Schumer held together a caucus that ranges from Sanders to Manchin (a guy who literally shot the original ACA in an ad). But of course we need to find the negative in everything because we wouldn’t be Democrats if we weren’t always looking for something to complain about.

This is not a good take. He’s trying to paint Republicans into a corner with this line. If they don’t come to the table and try to repair ACA, they look unreasonable and it gives Dems even more campaign fodder than just the votes of the last week. They get to be the adults in the room and Republicans will be the ones…