If they wanted to shut down the government they could just not present any bill at all.

Now the changes they did are codified.

Are you sure? It was 62-48 I think they only needed 60.

Also freaking Rand Paul voted no.

Yeah, he or Dr Oz, that was really a shitty choice.

The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.

Seems like he did it, because he has a very important book tour https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/14/2310308/-Schumer-s-Book-Tour

And fighting for us would mess up his schedule.

Heh the choice of colors for the bars really fits this administration.

For them it is easier, because as I understand they didn’t sign any contract yet, just were planning to.

Oh I see what you mean. Yeah that’s an important detail which would make the title more clickable and they still didn’t put it there.

No it doesn’t, it says it

But this is great that Jewish Voice for Peace is doing this.

Right now he was arrested as a pretext for antisemitism. This is why I’m glad a Jewish group is protesting this, because this is really testing the water what the reaction will be and if we don’t react they will go after test of us.

Seems like next target is trying to arrest people protesting in front of Tesla dealerships.

The book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder is must read for current situation.

If you can’t get the book I found an audiobook on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OUWwdflJsU&list=PLJfmMQGc3lnIQFSxEHyCrenv4e9GiZfpx

Give them some time.

Any foreigner should avoid visiting US or buying US products to put pressure too.

It is crazy to advocate for it, as I live in US, but this administration needs pressure from everywhere.