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100% But I think given the way the US politics work the only way the dems can win is to be a REALLY REALLY big tent. A progressive isn’t going to win in middle America you need old dems for that shit.

Reported that four senators loudly fought against this in conference yesterday. Murphy was one of them, along with van Hollen, Warren, & Sanders. Can't have Klobuchar (#2) replace Schumer. She's my senator & caves all the time. Also, Schatz, Masto, Warner (who engineered this s##t) need to go too.

Schumer is a Pathetic POS! The surrender was orchestrated & Americans see through their façade. The people have told the dems we want fighters. We showed up with the largest protests in US history. Fuck status quo democrats! #DemandBetterDems #FireSchumer #FireJeffries #FightBackDemocrats

Thank you for getting the precise details. It does appear that there was some collusion to select defectors who don't have elections coming up soon. They are not as vulnerable to blowback.

I recorded the show and will listen to it tomorrow. I'm interested in Lawrence O'Donnell's thoughts because, for the life of me, I cannot figure out what their motivation was to cave on something the majority of us did not want.

And replace him with whom? Are we going to have to hold him or her to a high standard when we have to deal with the Dems who caved? I was more worried that the filibuster was going to go away due to pressure from Trump, telling the Senate GOP to nuke it. And that would have been really bad.

It would have meant a national abortion ban, SAVE Act, killing all of ACA, transgender health care, and many other things the GOP had on their agenda with a simple majority vote and causing new precedent. Maybe you need to walk back from it unless if you have a good reason why he needs to go.

J.D. Rees@jdreesiii.bsky.social

I will not donate anything to any incumbent Senate Democrats between now and the 2026 midterms unless and until @schumer.senate.gov @chuckschumer.com agrees to resign from his role Senate Minority Leader. It is past time for new leadership in the Democratic Party—especially in the Senate.

Y'all need to go bigger than Schumer. Klobuchar is #2 & my senator. She caves all the time. Warner is in leadership & worked out the deal with Repubs but then cutely voted no on the floor. Schatz, who betrayed us on the CR in March is also in leadership. They're VA's bad as Schumer. All need to go!