@mekkaokereke

I'm one of the people who don't currently have a congresscritter.

And, my senators are Cancun Cruz and Crony Cornyn.

Correct me if I'm wrong. . . I thought the entire point of Vote Blue No Matter Who was that the party would stand for us if we stood for them.

Note: Don't anyone give me sass when I point out that Schumer and the other establishment Dems are as ready to fuck us as the Gender-focused Old Perverts are. If they do the same shit, they're the same assholes.

@mekkaokereke It truly is some Hot Garbage that the US Government is the one employer in the entire country who can get away with requiring their employees to work without pay.

I've never stolen food from a grocery store. Maybe that's because I'm a good person? But most likely that's because I've never needed to.

I haven't experienced the sting of having a full time job while knowing that I still can't pay rent or feed my kids.

I haven't lived that.

So I am supremely unqualified to speak on the sacrifices that "we" should continue to make, or to opine on the short term vs long term trade-offs.

Because "we" are not sacrificing.

If I wanted the shutdown to continue, I should have figured out a way to keep the people's pay, but stop the work.

@mekkaokereke

In their fight against Putin's tyranny Ukraine has had to live without civilian flights for 4 years.

@mekkaokereke To what degree, if at all, do you think the shutdown affected the recent elections? Was that the thing dems were waiting for?

I'd rather they more effectively tell the "Republicans are starving poor people to force Democrats to capitulate and help them take healthcare away from poor people" story than cave now.

@mekkaokereke I can see it now... "It worked last time and they caved, let's do it again!"