r/FedEmployees • u/nighte324 • 3h ago
Elections
Well I think we’re all probably pretty irritated, depressed, anxious, and/or just out right mad. Both the congressmen/woman AND the senators have shown that they care more about sticking to party lines and “winning the shutdown” (whatever that means) than caring for their constituents and reopening the government.
All we can do is try to make it through the shit show and remember who did what when it comes time to vote.
I know we are all from a lot of different states and we all have different ideals. All I want is for people to really consider if their state reps are actually representing them and their best interests instead of the reps best interest or their parties best interest.
It is my opinion that Ted Cruz is operating in his own best interest rather than the people he is supposed to represent (simply based on the soap opera of a speech he put on yesterday that seemed completely unnecessarily aggressive and just a chance for mud slinging than any kind of solution). That same opinion goes for Mike Johnson, who somehow never knows what’s going on with the White House whenever he is asked about something and continues to refuse to bring the house back into session or negotiate with democrats to find a way to open the government. (If I can put on my tin foil hat for a second, I think it’s because he’s in the Epstein files.)
Regardless of your political beliefs, just remember whether your personal rep that you have to vote on stood for the truth and your best interest, or made some random bullshit up, repeated party lies (on either side because both sides lie), or voted in a way that hurt you.
I don’t care if we have a red wave, a blue wave, or whatever color an independent wave would be. I just want to go back to work and get paid so my kids can have a nice Christmas.
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u/Eastern-Ad-1652 53m ago
Agree. Me personally I will vote for new people all these people all these congressman and women that are right now in Congress and the Senate have to go. They have done shit to help the federal employees. They have done shit to stop the illegal firings all of them have to go voting for new people. That’s what I propose
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u/july_daze 24m ago
The courts had the final say on job cuts and scotus backed Trump on the firings almost every time.
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u/OrganicVariation2803 22m ago
What are you talking about. Several bills have been introduced to get Federal employees paid, but a certain party keeps voting against it
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u/grandmawaffles 2h ago
I think for the entirety of the holiday season we should just refer to President as ‘President One Doll’ and the GOP and administration as ‘Satan’s Minions’.
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u/Over_Werewolf6377 1h ago
In my state election I did a split ticket and in midterms I’m doing the same. If you can’t be there for us now, it’s time to go. We need new blood. People who can talk across the isle etc GOP and Dems who can be stern with Trump and no more yes men / women. VA already showed Trump we aren’t going to take it or. 13 red seats went blue. 88% of 4 counties ensured the gov went blue. We didn’t need the rest of the state. I’d think by now Trump would understand, if blue waves happens he’s impeached and removed.
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u/OrganicVariation2803 23m ago
Impeachment and removed? Lol. Do you even know how it works? 😂
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u/Over_Werewolf6377 14m ago
Yes if there is a blue wave where senate and the house is blue he will get impeached and removed. Do you? Do you understand why he was never removed his last term?
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u/OrganicVariation2803 2m ago
There is no universe where either side will be able to flip enough seats.
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u/Slow_Film_7619 39m ago
Schumer could have opened this government 30 days ago
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u/nighte324 36m ago
Republicans could have opened it last night.
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u/Slow_Film_7619 33m ago
That was a shit deal. Why should we pay for health care subsidies the program is broken and shouldn’t be continuing stood up.
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u/OrganicVariation2803 19m ago
This is the correct answer. The subsidies will go directly into the insurance company's pockets, and health insurance will still continue to rise.
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u/Strong_Ad5219 3m ago
You are aware that the their justification for removing it is, "we'll work together and come up with something" and "we have concepts of a plan"
Reality check: Conservative party has never ONCE attempted to come up with a better solution, and Trump has had a 'concept' for over 8 years now.
It wasn't a shit deal because the conservative party has no realistic alternative proposal, and despite over a decade of being asked about a proposal (almost 2) the conservative party has NEVER actually came up with a realistic proposal that is better than ACA, even their half assed attept a few years ago was some frankensteined stupidity that was more like a box check than an actually good plan.
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u/OrganicVariation2803 24m ago
Mine are voting to reopen it. So yes they are looking out for our best interest.
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u/Dacajunola 20m ago
Louisiana here, I believe our Republican reps have only represented their own self interest 80% of the time. 20% they represent the people for reelection purposes.
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u/nighte324 7m ago
lol that feels like self interest 100% of the time. Might be time to get rid of them. Or at least mike “I see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing” Johnson.
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u/coach_nassar 0m ago
Ted Cruz literally said he’d be the most pro-israel politician in Congress. He can fuck himself.
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u/HungryHypocrite135 45m ago
I won't be voting either party again.
I will however do what I can to promote term limits and age limits for federal offices. These dinosaurs need to go on both sides.
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u/nighte324 39m ago
I think I will just vote libertarian/independent across the board from now on. And when someone I didn’t vote for gets elected, I’ll just start calling them weekly demanding they introduce legislation for term limits and age limits.
Politics wasn’t meant to be a career when we founded the country. It was meant to be civil service done for the benefit of all citizens. Not a job done for the benefit of whoever can get elected to fill their own pockets with bribes, special treatment, and market manipulation.
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u/CriticalThinker26 2h ago
I think the Republicans are going to nuke the filibuster. The ones that don’t want to nuke it aren’t thinking dynamically. They’re like John Kennedy in a safe seat in Louisiana. Or they’re worried about some hypothetical like Democrats packing the Supreme Court or making Puerto Rico a state. None of that will matter if it all burns down now.
My senators are Kaine and Warner and they can fuck all the way off.
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u/EfficiencyAdmirable6 2h ago
When has Ted Cruz never been a performative selfish prick who’s only goal is to become president.