(I was asked to move the post here)
Regardless of this shitty news of Senate Democrats caving we must keep going:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146
Also Schumer wanted this to happen! (Thanks TallonMetroid for this source):
https://prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-does-schumer-keep-trying-to-cave-government-shutdown/
🇺🇲 But Don’t Panic! Organize.
(Search for that GIF phrase online to understand what I mean if you don’t know)
Never forget the Senate Dems caving today. But also dont let it make you any less hopeful or driven to get things done. We still have momentum. We still demolished GOP a couple days ago. We still can switch to real Progressive candidates (Actual Left) instead of Moderates (Center-Right on World Politics stage) that have failed us for decades
So as a fellow American doing and getting others to do together I highly request all of you to do as well!! Collaborate, and get others active across the country!!! There are many of us doing and refusing to back down!! Join up with your cities/towns/states that are nearby you in-person and online
Here are things that can be done (Pick any):
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Protest!!! Strike!!! (The main goal of a protest is getting people together to make connections so we can get things done together after the protest. Remember every movement is only as strong as people doing and there are many of us that are.)
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Get other people doing as well (Help them connect them to in-person & online communities because with more of us doing the stronger we collectively are. Organizing, Logistics, & Collaboration is the foundation of any movement. Informing Each Other, Strengthening/Growing Each Other, Learning, Doing Together, etc is the main goal we must all strive for!!)
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Support Run For Something by sending good people who will actually do the job to be trained as progressive candidates. Also volunteer to help them with their current/future candidates and those in office
Edit: (Remember everyone. Moderate Democrats in USA are Center-Right in World Politics. They might as well be 2 sides of the same coin
If you are a voter who wants real change put in progressives, or indpendents that actually lean left in World politics
Run For Something trains progressive candidates to run and win. Couple days ago they won big for various elections when we had that very good day
They also have on Substack: RFS Feel Good which gives weekly updates about everything they have accomplished in & out of office
Volunteer to help more candidates & current officials to get things done!!)
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Support Elias Law Group by getting more law people to help them out on cases internationally. Financially support them too since they have been doing overtime for the people
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Talk to any military/police people so they know they are not alone. So they know that the people care about them and so they don’t side with the fascists. If you are directly part of any military branch/police department of those then highly recommend you all have discussions with anyone that is high risk of not being on side of the people with others around.
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Talk to Mexico/Canada/International Allies part of Government/Regular Citizens from those Other Countries to form Contingency Plans for USA in Case of any Emergencies/Situations to Have in Place. Also so we get any assistance we can get from them: food/medicine/etc. Also to have in place ability to form a Myanmar N.U.G.-like organization as moments notice to manage all USA Military/People/Etc in case things go nuts
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Get creative: Food, Medicine, Community, Transportation, help people switch to Open Source Software/Apps/Hardware many alternatives on https://alternativeto.net/
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Show them what FAFO means!!!
Hope, Action, Community, & National/International Allies are the most powerful things to have right now. Read this and never lose hope no matter how hard they try to make it seem. Make your own hope in every way and for others! Make yourselves resilient!:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/hope-key-in-meaningful-life
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/hopeful-people-live-better-lives-study
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/hope-quotes
Also we can become like the Nordic countries & Canada that live well but we must do for what we want!:
https://www.visitdenmark.com/denmark-pavillion/press/why-does-denmark-have-such-high-quality-life
https://denmark.dk/people-and-culture/happiness
Strength in Unity!! Power to the People!!! They try but they will not break our resolve!! Together we are making this country what it should be for us all!! Keep each other safe and show them what a real American is capable of!!! They have gone too far for too long and this is beyond party lines at this point!! Finally, show this post to other people so they too can be hopeful & amped up!! Save it, believe it, & let’s move!!
The US needs recall elections at the federal level.
Yeah we do. But there isnt many people pushing for that
It would probably take a constitutional amendment. The last of those to be proposed that got ratified was in 1971. Proposing it would take supermajorities in both chambers of congress or a supermajority of state legislatures. It would be unexpected for congress members to propose their own recalls, and the state legislatures approach has never been done before. While possible, challenging.
Why is this AI generated photos??!?
Because actual photos of these people look too soulless
I didnt know it was ai generated image I just screenshot then used the one I found online
It’s always fetterman
Fuck remember when he first showed up and seemed like a down to earth progressive dude, but it turned out he was just playing and was a con. We were conned by a con all along.
fucking scabs
If you try to vote them out in the general, a republican wins.
It takes less votes to vote them out in the primary, and as a bonus you’re not just voting against them, your voting for who you want.
That needs to be the main message for the next three years.
And we have to start early, and we have to do it often. Because billionaire owned media has a bigger reach and runs 24/7 coast to coast
None of the people that voted are up for re-election. That’s why they were the ones to vote.
I’d love to say that people aren’t naive enough to think these are the only problematic ones…
But here we are.
Just look into the reps you can vote for, evaluate if your House/Senate, and especially state side reps aren’t doing enough. If they’re not, now’s the time to groundwork for 2026 and 2028 elections.
Durbin and Shaheen have stated they will not seek re-election when their terms expire in 2026. Fetterman, Hassan and Cortez Masto will not be back on the ballot until 2028. The rest – King, Kaine, and Rosen – are not up for re-election until 2030.
That’s precisely why these were the ones who voted. No way this wasn’t sanctioned by dem leadership.
dem leadership.
Waaaay to vague of a term.
We can’t afford to be vauge, or to pretend that the Dem party is a unified monolith.
Current Senate/House leadership are the problem, and were chosen before current DNC leadership. And they were only chosen by other sitting dem politicians because the old DNC leadership would cut off funds to entire state parties if someone from there went against them.
The reason elected progressives are comfortable calling out Schumer today, is they no longer have to fear retribution from the DNC for it.
That’s a huge fucking win, and honestly something I didn’t think I’d ever see.
Like, if there was one single thing holding the party back, it would be that…
And we fucking fixed it 9 months ago but most people still have no idea.
The ouster of David Hogg and the attempted ratfucking of Mamdani happened under your alleged savior’s watch.
Would love to see announcements of (more progressive) folks running against these 8. I commit to boosting any I see.
Join up with/ Volunteer for Run For Something we are getting things done and what you’re saying would definitely be a great thing for everybody in it to hear. Together we got this.
We gotta continue switching whoever we can off of billionaire-owned media “news” outlets, & social media
Who “enhanced” these photos? And why? It’s so fucking annoying.
It was shared online so used it for this post. Have no clue where it is originally from.
The US Democrats are hard right by developed nation standards. The Republicans would simply be in jail in most places. The so called progressives would still be considered conservative on most issues.
I’m far to the left of US Democrats and no doubt I’d be called a conservative in Europe.
Doubtful, given the broad lurch rightward that we’ve been seeing in most places
In most of Europe if your were trying to conserve things, that would mean you wanted to preserve Universal Healthcare, Unions, Public Education, Public Transportation, the Social Safety Net and even the Environment.
That would put you to the left of even the local Neoliberals (which themselves are usually to the left of both US parties).
Real conservatives even in Europe have been overtaken on the right by the “we need to change things” Neoliberal wave of the last 4 decades and especially in Europe were the established structures were far more rights-based and pro-people than the US, most of that wave of change has been to destroy all those rights-based pro-people things.
Very true and agree for mainline “moderate” & fake ones who pretend to be progressive dems. Run For Something though has been getting young real progressives in & getting things done
Their track record speaks volumes. Their community impact as well of actually accomplishing things. Read the RFS Feel Gpod on Substack
I just hope everyone here can at least volunteer with people already in office from RFS to see they are actually doing then assist in the effort. Then encouraging others to assist upcoming new candidates for their things too
We can’t keep going head first with the same party members/political affilistion who keep failing us
*European standards not “developed nation standards”. The democrats are not center right compared to Japanese politics nor South Korean politics and both are developed nations.
That’s true. I stand corrected.
Isn’t Fetterman basically not a Democrat now anyways?
Correct. J. Fetterman is a turncoat now.
Yeah from what I hear it was basically only AFTER his brain damage that he swung hard to the right.
It wasn’t the brain damage. He just stopped lying after the polls closed.
It should have been obvious when the party didn’t try to ratfuck him.
I mean… seems like he was wolf in sheep’s clothing from day 1. Yeah he conned a lot of people!
He’s a democrat through and through. Look at how he caved to fascists like that. He’s a natural.
That too I read about that as well
I love how far Americans have come as a society. 50-50 gender representation wow. Oppressing the poor and crushing the middle class no longer has a glass ceiling!
As someone from NH I am ashamed of Jeanne and Maggie.
Odd
John fetterman has been a disappointment almost the entire time he’s been a senator.
Remember folks, these 8 were CHOSEN. This was not a mistake. They are the least likely to need or be reelected the next time. Don’t vote for the ones that let them slide. The Democrats are NOT on our side, either, folks. They are Republicans in wolves clothing. They are ALL beholden to their pet billionaires. This country deserves where it is headed because we all fell asleep at the wheel. Time to replace all these fools with young, uber progressives like the new mayor of NY. THAT is what the people want.
Remember folks, these 8 were CHOSEN.
By themselves?
Also the bill recriminalizes some cannabis products, so that the booze industry and the private prison industry will be satisfied.
More than that, they voted to make you SUFFER for 40 days, first, on the promise that they wouldn’t do what they ultimately did.
I don’t know why anyone’s even slightly surprised. It was obvious all along that they were playing chicken with an opponent who literally does not care if they all crash.
Please make a post on that because I have a feeling you will be able to say that better than me in that regard about the 40 days
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Yeah that was super surprising. Can’t believe that shit you would never expect it from Maine
