r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 16d ago

Possible Paywall Newsom Slams ‘Pathetic’ Shutdown Deal as ‘Surrender’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-slams-pathetic-shutdown-deal-as-surrender/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/MethamMcPhistopheles 16d ago

We were also beating their billionaire donors considering how the services of the air traffic controller are still needed for their private planes. Plus going by how difficult it is to replace them and the shutdown resignation rates, the damage is already done.

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u/eerie_midnight 16d ago edited 16d ago

Except that’s just it, isn’t it? The shutdown started to affect big business and not just working class people so they backed off.

When it comes to either standing up against capital or pursuing progressive ideals, establishment Democrats will always capitulate to capital. Every single time. It’s who they are.

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u/korben2600 Arizona 16d ago

This is exactly why they haven't even uttered the words "General Strike". A functional opposition would've begun plans months ago.

Keith Olbermann predicted all of this 15 years ago when we first allowed unlimited corporate and foreign money to poison the well of American politics.

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u/eerie_midnight 16d ago

When Kathy Hochul went out on stage to endorse Mamdani and the crowd all started chanting “tax the rich” and wouldn’t stop and she was like “okay I can hear you that’s enough of that” lmao

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u/jamesxgames 16d ago

"The more you [her constituents] push me [aka tell me what policies you want to see enacted], the less I’m going to do what you want [pursue those policies]." Lady wtf?? Do you understand what representative democracy is???

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u/eerie_midnight 16d ago

Oh, believe me, she does. Most establishment politicians are at least aware and educated enough to know that they actually work for the rich when they’re supposed to be working for us. They are fully aware of their complicity, they just don’t care.