Look how easily the right convinced Democrats that they were the problem [View all]

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..the 'Biden old' canard didn't start with Democrats. It originated as a whispering attack from republican operatives.

When it became a refrain of Democrats against their own incumbent president, it was clear that the ploy had been successful and would devastate our chances in the presidential election that should have been a slam dunk.

Supporting President Biden in that political fight wasn't merely something that was essential to our own party unity, it was a political imperative in the fight against the republican nominee.

How so many in the party, including many in the TOP Democratic leadership, circled back around that reality and came up with the insistence that Biden had to drop out isn't actually a mystery. It was deliberate ratfucking, a trolling operation that used ostensively Democratic sources to essentially stir up an unlikely campaign against the best hope we had in that race months before the election.

Here we are today with the same thing being perpetrated against BOTH Democratic leaders, both as accomplished as the Democratic presidents they served alongside of, bashing and dragging them for the weak hand voters stuck them with in the last election.

If you don't think that anti-Democratic party leader refrain originated from anti-Democratic sources, or isn't being exploited right now by political opposition forces, you're not paying enough attention.

The zeal in which this ratfucking is being exercised by some contradicts any concern for Democratic party 'messaging' as their public haranguing has no bounds, and no concern at all for the effects and consequences of what's essentially a public campaign against the Democratic party.

How perfectly naive of them to not recognize their acquiescence to the 'Dems in disarray' mantra that's the favorite go-to of the media ratfuckers.

How wonderfully subversive. This is supposed to be the height of political flexes; made popular by the Green Party ratfuckers, and, most notably by the Gaza ratfuckers in the last election.

There's no political 'courage' in handing over your own Democratic leader to the opposition, just as there's no courage in handing over the federal government in a shutdown for Trump. Musk, and Russell Vought who is and an actual architect of Project 2025, and who's pledged to inflict 'trauma' on federal workers.

Speaking Sunday on ABC's "This Week," the Rhode Island Democrat said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and some other Democrats allowed the legislation to go through on Friday because they feared the damage President Donald Trump and his allies could do if the government shut down.

"The key to the shutdown here is that in an ordinary world, the executive branch wants to get out of the shutdown, wants to go back into normal operations," he said. "With these MAGA extremists in charge, they don't necessarily want to come out of shutdown."

Whitehouse told host Martha Raddatz that the OMB would have gotten extra power to restructure the government if there were a shutdown: "There's a guy over at the Office of Management and Budget named Russell Vought. He's got a little sidekick over there named Mark Paoletta."

He elaborated on his concerns: "These are very extreme people and OMB gets wild powers during a shutdown. So what we'd be doing is probably voting first to bring the Department of Defense back out, then voting to bring Homeland Security back out, then voting to bring veterans back out — while they went through other agencies of government they don't like so much and said that this part of the agency, that part of the agency, is unessential and, therefore, we're going to reduce in force all the employees. We're going to remove it, stop funding it, shut it down and then you get a very, very different government."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/sheldon-whitehouse-understands-why-some-of-his-fellow-dems-voted-to-avert-shutdown/ar-AA1B20AQ

Democrats may well be hampered by a corrupt republican party that changes the rules to accommodate their anti-democratic agenda whenever they encounter a pesky obstacle like the law or the Constitution.

But Democrats are not at all advantaged by publicly dragging them for what republicans are in complete control over. And you'd think it would be obvious, but when you open up a big squabble over why out-of-power Dems can't stop a party in control over ALL branches of government, including the Supreme Court, all you do is divert from the fight against Trump and republicans.

That's especially true here, and on other Democratic advocacy pages on the internet. You're not actually speaking to the Democratic leaders when you post here. When you're railing against our own party members here, you're potentially influencing people reading to adopt screeds against the Democratic party. No one should afterward be surprised that millions of previously energized voters fail to show up on election day after the dragging that took place by our supposedly own hands.

It's political neophytes who can't seem to politic beyond their own antipathies toward elected Democrats to actually confront republicans, and that's really a shame. Calling for the removal of BOTH Democratic leaders just weeks into the session is glaringly foolish politics and counterproductive to the political interest of a minority party that needs support to regain the majority.

And it makes no sense at all to leave that task to elected officials who are legislating, not campaigning right now, as they continue to fight the republican budget and other MAGA priorities in committees and in chambers of Congress.

What responsibility are WE going to fucking take for the health and support of the party? Like I said, tearing at the Democratic leadership and dragging them in public isn't actually the political flex against republicans that it pretends.