A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.
Then there would be two options:
Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.
Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.
Bribed in that they don’t want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn’t go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.
A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.
Then there would be two options:
Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.
Thanks for taking time to help me understand.
QUICK NOW DOUBLE DOWN EVERYONE AND DOWNVOTE THIS CURIOUS ASSHOLE WHO BETTER UNDERSTANDS, AND HAS FANTASTIC MANNERS!
Yea! Wait…
I think you guys might need to skip straight to Maidan at this point
The first point would never happen because the R’s can play hardball.
The second point would have everyone blaming the D’s for the shutdown.
There was no good option.
Bribed in that they don’t want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn’t go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.