(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!!
7 whites and a pick me sold out America.
Why are you focusing on their race? Why are you asserting their vote had anything to do with their race?
Look at the picture dude, if this was a police lineup the republicans would be telling you what percentage of the country commits the majority of the crime without actually thinking about what that means.
Well I'm thinking about what this means, and i see 6 white traitors. What the fuck else am I supposed to see?
That’s just making excuses for overt racism.
Yeah but for a good reason! Show me a minority member of the caucus who supports this. If they don't exist, maybe this action is one by a bunch of affluent, out of touch, inbred-ass looking white people. Why are the only cowards we can point to here these 6 white cowards?
Also, why do they look so fucking goofy? Is it cause they have blue Mayflower blood and refuse to mix outside that? Like Jesus these people are starting to look like the Ptolemaic dynasty, who refused to breed in Egyptian blood for 300 years and instead fucked their own cousins until they all looked like monsters.
There’s no good reason to excuse overt racism. There will never be a version of racism that is acceptable.
Oh I dunno, I think sometimes people earn being see a certain way. Who did chattel slavery, who did debtors prison, who did Japanese internment, who did segregation. Like every horrible thing that has happened to people who aren't Mayflower looking has been perpetrated by inbred looking freaks with no melanin to speak of.
Like obviously white people aren't a monolith, like other ethnicities and ancestries. Having money is a huge differentiator, but when you come down to it, even poor people with a certain hue are treated a certain way in the American justice system.
The US doesn't change until you stop being able to point to these cowards who make decisions like this who all look the same, went to the same schools, the same country clubs (that are invite only to keep out the colored people).
You are just trying really hard to justify overt racism.
You will never be part of the solution until you address your racism.
Oh interesting point! Counterpoint, who did the final solution?
Racism was by far a larger motivating factor than skin color so people like yourself were the ones responsible.
Oh interesting, looking at myself in the mirror in pretty sure I'm not in the group that did Juneteenth, I'm actually more likely to be deported to a torture prison than flex my skin color based authority. But kk!
You tell me.
I dont know you to know how racist you are so Im asking why are you focusing on race when that shouldn’t be a factor?
I dont know you tp be able to determine how racist you actually are. I just know that your previous statement was focusing on race for no reason.
Like oh I don't know guy why would anyone assume a bunch of white politicians in a country that was built on the mass enslavement and mass murder of non whites might be influenced by race? Especially when some of them have a history of racism to boot.
I think you meant to respond to the guy above me.
I was agreeing with you...
I know. I just found it weird where the reply was. I'm a dingbat.
FWP my friend. If you ever need an excellent example of a craven coward, just look up "white liberal" in the dictionary.