These votes demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration. Its priority is to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the US military while diverting popular opposition with calls for meaningless cosmetic changes to the administration’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
Schumer and Jeffries are controlled opposition: There’s no reasonable explanation for their actions.
Twenty-one Republicans—primarily from the fascistic House Freedom Caucus—voted against the bill. The Democrats responded by supplying the exact number of votes needed to offset Republican defections.
Were the Republicans just unwilling to accept the reduced ICE budget, or actually against it?
Irrelevant when the Democrats give them the votes regardless. America, lost in 2 terms. They said it couldn’t be done
See my other comment. Unfortunately click bait headlines abound and everyone needs to read the whole thing. Democrats signed it because it keeps the gov open until Sept while cutting ICE and CBP in 2 weeks.
America has been coming into its final form ever since Jerry Falwell successfully melded religion and politics. That gave you Reagan, Trump, and everything that comes after.
People are reading this backwards. This bill funds the gov and military through September, but cuts ICE and CBP in 2 weeks.
It doesn’t matter anymore
I really don’t understand how this can be viewed as anything other than a win.
Necessary social programs, including taxing and auditing the rich, are getting funded through September while the entire DHS runs out in 2 weeks. That’s fantastic. That’s the best fucking news I’ve heard since before the second Trump term began.
Because people only read the headline and the same negative comments always get the most upvotes.
My theory is if 21 Republicans voted against it then there’s got to be some good things in there.
I don’t understand your position. Can you help me understand your point of view?
I’m stuck in my point of view, and all I can think of is if 20 nazis figured they could build another concentration camp for children, if they didn’t vote for a bill, would that make the bill that continued funding the first one good on the whole? Even if it funded some libraries?
Ask yourself why the house freedom caucus is voting against it. It’s because they wanted more funding for ice and more damage to the working class and less oversight on the rich.
The Republicans are running all three branches of the government elite class supporting Democrats are helping. We got to take wins when we get them.
While Trump is building concentration camps throughout the country for people to spend their whole life in! It’s so thoughtful of him to not only have a jobs program to build them, but to also house people! Let’s hope he also puts signs above the warehouses with something like “Work will set you free”
That’s exactly what loses all funding in 2 weeks as a result of this bill.
Sadly, Dems will cave and pass funding for DHS with extremely little or even zero changes.
Even if by some miracle they get “promises” to make changes to DHS, ICE, etc. There will not be any follow through.
I really don’t understand how this can be viewed as anything other than a win
Wsws.org is one of those sites it’s really hard to take seriously, and their articles that do get boosted here are still the sanest takes from the website.
It’s basically rage bait, it’s hard to believe their writers can consistently misinterprete so much
Because the priority right now isn’t social programs and funding for shit Trump will just cut when the GOP gains unopposed power and eliminates democracy FFS. Getting a cookie by funding the elimination of democracy and the dissolution of rights isn’t a fucking win.
If Trump has that power he hasn’t demonstrated it, nor would any sort of congressional vote actually matter in that context.
If he demonstrates it, it’s too late to stop…
Enlighten me, then why hasn’t he?
Because he doesn’t have it yet, obviously.
You have to ask yourself, “What would Leon Trotsky think of this?” Then you’ll understand where the Worldwide Socialist Web Site is coming from.
You can peruse their Marxist library if you need more ideas.
Good cop and bad cop, but both cops. Build an opposing faction within the DNC that refuses to cooperate with establishment dems. Take the party over.
Cancel the dnc and rnc.
Yep, it’s like having one manager at work who is really cool, and makes it easier to work, and another manager is a screaming tyrant who makes every moment at work horrific.
We’d all rather work for the nice boss, but make no mistake, they both have the same corporate objectives, just different ways of accomplishing it.
Both parties are just lackeys for the Sociopathic Oligarchs.
This wouldn’t work, the establishment has too many systems in place that would prevent this. We need to think outside of the system.
The entire election system prevents third parties. MAGA took over the gop so it can absolutely happen. They aren’t all genius political actors they are fallible, have vulnerabilities and can be out maneuvered by a large enough politically active base.
The entire election system prevents third parties.
Yes, that’s why I said you need to think outside the system. You cannot reform the Democrats, and you cannot reform the US electoral system. Revolution is absolutely mandatory for people to live free.
The difference is that MAGA isnt a threat to the status quo, if anything they are reinforcing the systems to protect it
Yes it was. Status quo wasn’t fascism with Trump a dictator.
The status quo is fascism
No it isn’t. Where are you getting that from?
The last 150 years of British and American history in particular, really the whole history of European (Western/white) civilization since the Holy Roman Empire. “Fascism is colonialism turned inward” and all that.
Reform is a surefire failure
Then explain MAGA taking over the GOP. If the status quo can’t change, how could it change for them? This defeatism is useless and projection of your own sense of powerlessness.
They are reinforcing the systems that protect the status quo
What’s happening isn’t the status quo.
Yes it is, the only thing that’s changed is the mechanisms defending it.
No it isn’t, that’s an absurd claim.
Unlike the Democrats, the GOP didn’t have a superdelegate system in 2016. If they had such a system, Jeb Bush would’ve won the primary.
So its possible.
How the tide has turned, a year ago this post would have had 100 downvotes by now with defenders of blue fascism foaming at the mouth defending their party and their actions. Better late than never.
The worst part about being leftist is always being right too early.
Public disarmament by exploding “in place”. Might send a message even to those hard of thinking that putting random things up in the ass is a bad idea.
I, too, sometimes say words in random order.
Seriously though, what?
