Honestly, in one way it’s nice that so many people are finally aware of Chuck’s fuckery for his entire time in Congress. That people are finally able to wake up and go “Wait he’s always been like this? Was I just unaware or was it down low?”

In another way, it’s sad there’s still people across Lemmy, Reddit, Mastodon, etc. who are happy he supported the bill with 9 other Democrats, saying that a shutdown was worse for America and giving Trump and Musk what they wanted was better.

At some point, those people are as braindead as MAGA shitheads.

That would explain the absolute brain-dead takes he presents - beyond ~1 ft, the air exchange in snorkels doesn’t work right and you end up breathing less oxygen.

Trump could have simply done that by just not signing the bill and get his shutdown.

because in the long medium term sooner than I imagine, those things are going to happen anyway. Presenting it as a choice between “saving (some) fed employees” vs “fucking them over” is disingenuous. The actual choice is between “ceding power and the news narrative” vs not. People are upset that the Dems keep doing this, despite the long history of “working across the aisle” not working.

To address your specific points: just because there are things the Republicans want, doesn’t mean they’re “good” for them (see: all? of their policies). In the case of federal employees, passing the “CR”* isn’t going to get them paid–the GOP doesn’t care what the laws say (obviously). The Dems should be obstructing other ridiculous funding bills as well, because the only thing they can do is be in the news cycle for obstruction (and then using that time to sell progressive policies that most people agree with). That’s the only leverage they have. This appeasement threw that away. The hive of scum and villainy is only going to continue their illegal cuts, and the correct response is to fight back, not to lend them more legitimacy. Dems have tried that for decades and this is what it’s gotten us.

*: it’s not really a “continuing” resolution, as it has a bunch of Trumpian garbage in it that wasn’t in the previous appropriations bill. They’re just… calling it that, and Senate Dems have tacitly endorsed it as such.

Or passing bills to selectively fund only the programs they like while leaving the Dept of Education and others unfunded?

That’s exactly what they did. This wasn’t a clean continuing resolution. In the bill was language that effectively retroactively legalizes Trump’s ability to strip parts from the budget as he pleases. Previously he was doing this in violation of the law. Now he’ll be doing it in accordance with the law, and it will be far harder for the courts to stop him.

This wasn’t a continuing resolution. It was an Enabling Act.

So R2O is just forever barred from covering Democrats’ being enablers of Trump’s bullshit because he (rightfully) said “This will cost them the election against Trump, this doesn’t help them or the public”?