Thread by @JuliusGoat

Democrats: ok, we’d like to do something, maybe...good?

Republicans: hell no

Democrats: haha, ok we see where you’re coming from

Republicans: eat shit

Democrats: what if we made it worse?

Republicans: kiss my ass

Democrats: ok we made it much worse

Republicans: lol so?

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1395887295862038530

Don’t scale it back to placate. Double it to show them you mean business and ram it the fuck through, and then send through another one that’s THREE times bigger to teach them not to fuck with you. People want a real solution, nobody cares that Lisa Murkowski didn’t vote for it.

Name the bill the “Republicans are insurrectionist traitors act” and then make unblinking eye contact with them as you vote for it.

In that case I guess they'll go back to passing a bigger bill unilaterally. Let's see what happens.

Meanwhile anyone who still needs in 2021 to be convinced the GOP are bad faith actors is probably a bad faith actor themselves, so I oppose the attempt.

https://twitter.com/Ramb_Stonk/status/1396188801190424577?s=20

People who can still ascribe these long-game strategy motives to Democrats every time they hit their own foot with a chainsaw ... I don't get you, I sort of pity you, but also I almost envy you. It must be nice to have that level of faith, however little the evidence supports it.

The problem with bipartisanship — beyond the fact that it wastes time — is it reestablishes the lie that you need permission from a conservative minority before exercising democratic power: no matter how obvious the proposal, no matter how pressing the need.

Weird but the GOP never "risk suburban voters" by passing party-line votes.

Almost as if people elected these "representatives" to make the laws they promised to make during a specific term and expect them to just get it done and don't really pay attention to the 3D chess.

People keep telling me "Twitter isn't real life" but then also turn around and expect me to believe the average voter is going to be outraged OUTRAGED if the Senate changed their procedural rules around the filibuster.

People. Want. Their. Lives. To. Get. Better.

I’ll never understand how “let’s once again try to work with obstructionists” is seen as the pragmatic realistic approach, while “we accept that obstructionists only want to obstruct so let’s find ways to circumvent them” is seen as unrealistic naiveté, when the opposite is true.

Oh no I would hate for Republicans to become obstructionist and violent, that would surely be our fault if they did.

https://twitter.com/claymore729/status/1396229969785786378