Sergio Díaz

PoliSci PhD student. Owner of the all-powerful purple shirt.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

CONTROLLED OPPOSITION

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

If you are one of the ~24,000,000 Americans who depends on the ACA exchanges, I need you to understand that @SenateDems just voted to guarantee that your premiums are going to ~double when the enhanced premium tax credits permanently expire at the end of the year.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Right now is when democrats have leverage. Trump’s approval rating is 37%, America is blaming republicans for the shutdown, the election was a landslide. THEY NEED YOUR VOTES. If you can’t extract healthcare subsidies right now you’re just a complete bitch. Unfit for leadership.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Then force them to end the filibuster! That's a concession on their part, they would ideally have it in place! Doing what they're doing lets Trump have his cake and eat it too!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

America deserves better.

[Henry Burke @burkehenryt]

Why would the media and voters *not* blame Democrats for the shutdown now? They shut down the government for four weeks only to accomplish nothing. This just shows voters that this wasn’t some principled stand for healthcare

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

For years, I’ve criticized the Democratic Party.

This is why. Not due to hate, but out of love for the working class.

This version of the Democratic Party at the federal level has enabled a genocide, refused to hold a robust primary in 2024, and is now caving on healthcare.

Democratic voters deserve better out of the party expected to stand up for them.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Democrats are folding on the shutdown just so they can send a “Republican Senators just voted to end YOUR healthcare!” fundraising email in six weeks.

[Sergio Díaz @sdiazsierra]

Any @TheDemocrats candidate for US Senate going forwards should publicly commit to the abolition of the filibuster as a matter of civic democratic virtue.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

At first it seems Democrats are always caving to Republicans. But when you watch it happen over & over again you eventually wake up & realize it’s more sinister than caving. Democrats are COLLUDING with Republicans because they serve the same donors & same corrupt system as them.

[Sergio Díaz @sdiazsierra]

@SenatorHassan Spineless. kowtowing to bullies and fascists.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If this is true, then the surrender is even worse.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

This “deal” dramatically hikes healthcare premiums and only exacerbates the affordability crisis.

It should be rejected, as should any politics willing to compromise on the basic needs of working people.

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

Republicans understood there is no opposition party, just a grifting machine that exploits and then betrays its own voters over and over again

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

If you're mad at Schumer for once again caving like the idiotic coward he is, one thing you can do is work to block his candidates - like Haley Stevens in MI and Janet Mills in ME - whom he's handpicked because he knows they'll also be idiotic cowards when the time comes.

[Sergio Díaz @sdiazsierra]

"The Republican's own this now" That's why 8 democrats voted for it.

[Sergio Díaz @sdiazsierra]

This, exactly. The current @TheDemocrats leadership is not interested in the task of governing or in the task of being an opposition party.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Democrats caved because they didn’t want Trump to nuke the filibuster because then they’d have to actually do something next time they take power. Maybe the most useless political party in all of recorded history

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

People are under-estimating the savvy of Senate Democrats. If they had lost the elections on Tuesday, they would have had to cave to Trump. But since they won, they had to cave to Trump.

[Sergio Díaz @sdiazsierra]

@SherrodBrown Thank God some common sense.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Schumer saw we were winning elections so he had to stop it