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That's one way of framing it... "The dynamic is abuser (GOP) and enabler (Dems)." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/overriding...

Wishful thinking but hey reality can be tough to handle 🙄

This is the fundamental problem with centrist democrats. They support Republicans more than their base because they don’t like the policies their base want. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @chriscillizza.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Apply the Mitch rule

You see, Dems think some mythical moderate bloc that is just so easily swayed in either direction will be inspired to vote for them if they just work EXTRA HARD to complete the group project. Ignoring the obvious point of that bloc being a wind sock, if true, and that they are helping fascists.

Fucking unbelievable, they are addicted to losing straight up...

Again, so fucking embarassing. If you think, in this environment, anyone persuadable on the center/right cares if you’re blocking judges you should not be in your job. There is no such voter or demographic outside of maybe David brooks and guess what he hates you anyway.

It’s treason

Not unserious: Collaborating.

Not a great sign for the future of court reform, should Democrats win.

Michigan here 🙋‍♂️ True, Slotkin and Peters are idiots.

peters is on his way out and slotkin is former CIA. peters doesn't give a shit anymore and slotkin just has evil in her veins

And leadership should be calling them cowards and Benedict Arnolds! Barred from committees for a decade!

In the photo above: two great reasons to vote for Abdul on August 4th! abdulforsenate.com

The judges they approved of REFUSED to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Their refusal was a signal that they did not want to anger trump. In my opinion their refusal was also a signal that they would defer to the administration on matters of law. Shame on those Senators for being complicit!

Could not agree more. There is no defensible position to approving any of trumps nominations. None.

Again, Democratic senators, I urge you to withhold unanimous consent on everything! Force everything to a full debate & roll call vote! Throw as much sand in the gears as possible!

I keep wondering why the Dems do this. All I can think of is: the Dems have almost no leverage against Trump, but the Dems still get a few concessions out of him. So how? They hold up appointments to get a deal. It stinks, but what else can they do?

My elected representatives cower in fear at the suggestion that they do something they can't do from their offices, over zoom, or in their three-piece.

Three. Three. Three.

'if we don't confirm this unethical, incompetent nominee, the next one will be worse' is not a good way to run a government.

nobody gets anythinged until all the epstein files are release per the law. congress passed last year. 'i'm gonna vote no on your nomination because trump has not released the epstein files. in the meantime, i have questions for you.'

"To date, Peters, Slotkin, and Fetterman are the only Democratic senators to return blue slips for any of Trump’s second-term nominees. Thanks to their generosity, the full Senate confirmed both Martin and Pozos earlier this week by votes of 62-36 and 49-44, respectively." Glad they aren't my sens!

@slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov ....don't be a Schumer Stooge your whole career

Many Dem senators hate their own voters just as much as GOP senators hate theirs

Dems instead of playing hardball, be like...

Anyone voting for ANY nominee for any position needs to be primaried out at the next possible moment. Just absolutely fucking stupid. Rejecting any and all trump nominees should have been one of their main priorities since January 2025.

Elissa’s strategy…Peters is useless. Fetterman…man fuck that guy

We have the worst fucking senators.

That would require the Democrats to actually be on our side.

Elisa Slotkin and Gary Peters are worse than useless and Haley Stevens will be more of the same. Vote for Abdul on Aug 4, Michigan

Sure, I take actions that knowingly lead to the deaths of huge numbers of people, but who's to say that qualifies as "killing"?

Vichy Dems

Not to mention trumps parents, his wives and children and his lie that his father was born in Germany?

Beginning really to have doubts about @slotkin.senate.gov What is with her?

Controlled opposition

There's no mention—in this blog—of caseloads. There's no distinction between district & appellate positions, or their functions. Save the red cards for the Justin Walker & Aileen Cannon types, who lack knowledge of legal process. At the appellate level, save it for malicious actors, like Emil Bove

Ooh, edgy! Some people think the answer to childish, petulant right-wing zealotry is childish, petulant left-wing zealotry. I think the answer is serious adults who know what they're talking about. Lots of Trump appointees have ruled against his Administration. Let's get that type of judge.

Why does anyone expect these same people, if they ever return to power, to undo the damage the GOP has done?

He's retiring. A progressive is on the ballot for August, but we'll see. I don't trust my own state.

@slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov you two are such useless bags of shit.

Ugh. Gary Peters-out and Elissa Slopkin, Republican Lite money-grubbing failures who should be tarred and feathered.

Its time to really honor Mitch McConnell and his legacy. Don't vote for any new judges. Don't even hold hearings on them. Grind everything to a halt.

It is my un-verified opinion that dark billionaire money is being used to sabotage democratic primary elections in favor of corporate/fascist friendly candidates.

While sending me emails and texts all day telling me how they are “fighting “ tooth and nail to save democracy, while simultaneously voting for Trump’s appointees, is why I am done listening to their bullshit. F Tim Kaine.

The next republics will have ranked choice or multiple voting instead of the decrepit, calcifying failure of first-past-the-post.

Not unserious. Wholly owned.

Mitch would not allow a single post to be filled. Just saying.

#GameIsJustGame

This is the reason I went from donating tens of thousands of dollars in the last few election cycles to spending absolutely zero this year. I saw every one of the candidates I sent money to vote yes for trump cabinet members and judges. Between that and AIPAC 💰 I just can’t.

Worse than unserious

fetterman might be able to claim brain damage for excuse but the other two fools can't.

Its comical to me that Slotkin thinks she has the juice to run for President. She's is going to be a one and done senator for Michigan when it's all over.

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Individual voters get "vote blue no matter who" yelled at them even when they explain that they already do, they just want the blues they voted for to do better, but apparently we can't say it to senators who keep voting red unless it's the entire caucus doing it

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Please don’t help the bad guys! @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

Elissa Slotkin—along with a sizable number of other Dem senators—has repeatedly voted to confirm the nominees of the man who instigated a violent and deadly insurrection at the U.S. capitol. That’s unforgivable. I made the mistake of donating to her in ‘24. She’ll never get another nickel from me.

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They did this in 2018 too. Helped the Republicans turbo run through a bunch of judicial confirmations and in exchange mostly got stuff they were entitled to regardless.

She IS with the program. You need to find her replacement now. Sorry for being so vociferous we have the same problem in Colorado.

Most are blue MAGA. Slotkin is the worst offender.

The democrats are not an opposition party

Elissa Slotkin is a (possibly) pro-choice Republican. Can't stand the sight of her. I have $1000 sitting here waiting to be given to a competent person who will primary her. She barely won her election and should be easy to beat.

Republicans held a Supreme Court seat open for almost a year! Why are the dems being so accommodating?

This is a bright red line. Why are so many Democrats crossing it on a revolving basis to cooperate with Republicans?

Fetterman, of course, is a Democrat the same way Attila the Hun was. Not at fucking all.

Yes, they are all unqualified. If for no other reason (there are many) than they were appointed by a fascist administration. No brainer.

Not how this would go down on the shop floor @slotkin.senate.gov

None of them is Brent Scowcroft, Condoleezza Rice or Stephen Hadley. A lot of people work in US intelligence, and you should be grateful that some of them aren't Republican True Believers.

During the George W. Bush administration, Elissa Slotkin served as a CIA analyst and a national security staff member.

I 100% assumed that the person in the picture was photobombing as a reference to this.

Just another example of why Democrats are so very weak. Then realize many of these Democrats are really Republicans, who could never win as a Republican. Oligarchs control both Parties.

@fetterman.senate.gov is more interested in being liked by FOX then in representing PA voters. He knows he’s got one term

Bingo! I would put it more that they are of and for the upper 20 % income group. It's their base, their source of opinions, their true constituency. Not enough to elect them though, so they have to cosplay some concern for the "underprivileged" 80.

I can't believe people still don't understand this even after the Rubio confirmation

They go to the gym with republicans even the Jewish space laser lady at some point

Is there some donor-funded/insider “bipartisanship” leaderboard that helps these scabs get corporate money?

More or less. She’s a Reagan Republican.