• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
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    11 days ago

    The negotiators argued that Republicans’ “flat refusal” to move on Democrats’ earlier proposals made clear that “this is the best possible offer we could secure.”

    You fucking twats

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      10 days ago

      The best possible offer is “we give up because the Nazis turned out to be stubborn”? Absolutely useless. They gave up on the one thing that was revealing the Republicans’ real nature to MAGA voters.

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      After a sweep in elections that took place less than a week prior.

      This isn’t a bunch of deluded idiots acting on principle, it’s a stage-managed operation to scuttle the fight for healthcare, and it goes right to the top of the Democrat party.

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        Been resisting the idea of the Democrats being “controlled opposition”, too conspiracy theory, but fuck me, at this point I got no counter ideas.