Pretty much. Remember the shutdown that folded like a cheap Democrat?

https://www.ms.now/news/democrats-backroom-negotiations-shutdown-rcna243352

“Senator Schumer knew we were meeting with Senator Thune,” Shaheen said. She started filling him in “as soon as we started meeting with Republicans” — the day after the government shut down.

Asked if Schumer was supportive of the bipartisan talks, Shaheen deflected. “I think you’d have to ask him that,” she said.

But asked if Schumer ever tried to dissuade her from these negotiations, Shaheen simply said, “No.”

Yawn, wake me when the Democratic leadership actually doles out consequences for these assholes.

Yup, this guy did not meet the moment at all by standing up for free speech against rich oligarchs. Maybe he truly believes his “boths sides” BS, lord knows there’s plenty out there, but damn when you can’t even muster a defense for your friend of 13 years when like you said, he’s got fuck you money. That combined with the BS apolitical both sides thing, says a whole ton.

I truly hope he finds out.

Dude is the stroke addled version of Manchin.

I believe that statement from the Trump appointed board as much as I believe in the statement “Tommy Tuberville can absolutely name the three branches of the US government.”

In actual sports?

.002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes

In the minds of Idiot America?

It’s very much an outsized concern. 73% of Americans were uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on sports teams that do not match their sex at birth. and even in the Democratic party,

Democrats are more divided on the issue. A slim majority (55%) said they would be not too or not at all comfortable with athletes playing on teams that do not match their birth sex, while smaller shares said they would be somewhat comfortable (21%) or extremely or very comfortable (23%).

I think there are those who are playing dumb, like Cruz and McConnell, but you’ve got your Tubervilles and your Mark Wayne’s who really have drunk the middle school, edgelord koolaid.

End of the day though, dumb or playing dumb, you’ve got a whole party who continually tank the economy ever time they get into office and an electorate that eats up their lies.

In our time, the economics profession has undergone tremendous change for the better, and those neoclassical nostrums have been subjected to intense scrutiny by a new generation of economists who have seen with their own two eyes that markets do not always self-correct (another neoclassical assertion) and that sometimes, government intervention is required to achieve good ends.

Republican politicians didn’t get the memo. ** Nor did the American electorate. ** So it’s very easy to tell people, for example, that you’re going to open up federal lands to more drilling, and there’ll be more oil, and prices will go down. That’s about as much economics as your average person remembers from high school, and it makes intuitive sense.

That’s your actual root cause right there.

Can’t say I’ve ever worked with the steelworkers union personally but I’m friends with a former engineer that worked at one of their plants.

U.S. Steel was in trouble twenty years ago when they refused to upgrade and keep up with the times in terms of technology and kept with their old, busted manufacturing because “shareholder value” despite my friend trying to make them aware it all sucked. End result is what we’re seeing now due to corporate incompetence.

Also, the workers weren’t exactly the brightest either and even at his plant, they voted against their own interest all the freaking time where we were at.

And btw, steelworkers:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/trump-inroads-union-workers-pennsylvania/75962349007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/podcasts/the-daily/9-11-anniversary-mamdani-ground-zero.html

25 years later and we’re also finally learning that Republicans and moderate Democrats lied to New Yorkers about the air quality post attack, covered it up, and now thousands are dying from cancer most likely due to this with clusters happening all over the place.

And what’s telling is that the DNC is doing not a damn thing about this guy. They’re still keeping him in the ranks, still giving him support.

God damn, not only didn’t read past the headline, didn’t even bother to read the very first line of what OP graciously pasted into the body of the post.

This is why we can’t have nice elections.

Voters would need to look at voting in the primaries for progressives that will actually fight because no liberal Democrats they keep election will always capitulate at the slightest discomfort.

At this point, I wouldn’t put it past him to convert and have a sister wife.

Remember when SPAAAAACE FOOOORCE, used Star Trek as their logo.

Those were the good ol’ days.

El-Sayed’s comment was a response to that. His claim is that if Vance’s Papaw would have seen a Muslim candidate in the bigoted terms that Vance articulated—as inherently posing a threat to “working people”—then he also might have seen Usha Vance in a similar way.

As a immigrant that grew up in the same Midwest environment, there’s no might.

And yet here we are with you supporting people who vote with Republicans and slow marching toward fascism.

Do better.

Sad that this is all you have with this comment. Your other comment was much more insightful.

Yeah, those voters who were in the Uncommitted and Abandon Harris movement.

https://www.leftvoice.org/michigan-democratic-primary-referendum-on-uncommitted/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/democrats-abdul-el-sayed-progressives

Yeah there were consequences of not voting but that little movement of conscientious objectors did end up fueling progressives and the rest of the voting populace to think about why they abstained and has had an effect on politics and for how little it was seems to have had a outsized impact on things moving forward. No one is saying there weren’t consequences to that decision, their whining about the consequences after were annoying as hell, but their impact was and is being felt in today’s politics.

And there we go. Just like a Republican to complain about the lack of discourse and then do fuck all to address a damn thing. Got it Charlie.