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by ethbr1 464 days ago
They're busy trying to pass a continuing resolution on Republican-only votes the keep the government open.

Because heaven forbid both parties compromise.

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The compromise between fucking insanity and good governance is not agreeing to go half way into fucking insanity.

Meeting an unreasonable person half-way is giving them a blank cheque to become more unreasonable.

All it does is tell them that you're a sucker.

Depends on what cards one is holding.

Getting half of what one wants and not being driven off a cliff can be preferable to smiling in moral smugness while the car arcs through the air.

Past behavior of this administration strongly predicts that your reward for kowtowing to its value-compromising demands... Is becoming the target of further value-compromising demands.

It doesn't engage in positive-sum games.

It doesn't have to.

Strictly in terms of self-interest, sometimes compromise can be the optimal move.

If they're willing to self-harm for the cause, then the optimal move is to grab the wheel and yank it yourself to change direction and stop the car from careening off the cliff.
Or at minimum, not gas it up.
> smiling in moral smugness while the car arcs through the air

Sorry, why is this metaphorical car arcing through the air again? What's that all about?

> trying to pass a continuing resolution on Republican-only votes the keep the government open

They can’t. They need Democrats in the Senate [1].

It should honestly fail without a provision defunding and deauthorising DOGE.

[1] https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/10/congress/jo...

One of the big questions is what happens to all the money Congress has allocated?

The budget keeps allocations the same, but now that for example Mark Rubio announced USAID is to be entirely eliminated, it's remaining 15% of programs moved into State Department, what happens to that money? https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-ai...

Expectations are that it's just treated as a giant slush fund for whatever the executive feels like. Whether Dems do anything to curb DOGE's chainsawing act or whether they try to wrestle with what happens to these "savings" is something Dems have a chance right now to tangle with, and much less leverage in the future. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-dems-pick-up-their...

I’m sorry there is only one party which is consistently doesn’t compromise at all. It’s a party of bullies and it’s a party which brought us here (and will bring us somewhere much worse). I’m afraid by now the only option forward don’t compromise with them at all, they understand only power.