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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.

vote no

its passage was inevitable. iirc republicants had the option to ram it through as a reconciliation bill anyway (simple majority, no 60 for cloture needed).

he basically just 'saved' this year's reconciliation for something else--that'll probably be even worse.

Honestly a clean spending bill. He capitulated to garbage that didn't need to happen for reasons that also have no positive recourse.

Not giving up what was literally the only meaningful leverage Dems had, and voting NO on cloture for the spending bill.

Chucklefuck Chuck claimed that the resulting shutdown would have opened the door for the presidents to sow chaos and discord with firings, but that’s a braindead argument because this is exactly what they’ve already been doing since day one. Instead of doing the bare minimum to protect us, Chuck recruited other rich Dems to capitulate and protect their own pocketbook. It’s disgusting and has paved the way for the $4.5 trillion robbery that is about to commence.