I like to study what animals are around before I’m in an unfamiliar habitat so I know what to expect. I’m not really afraid of any animals unless the situation calls for it. There’s a number of potentially dangerous animals that live around here, all are incredibly unlikely to ever attack me. The risk of catching Lyme disease from a tick is what really concern me more than any wild animal I might encounter.

You’re exaggerating and misrepresenting for dramatic effect. Hyperbolic nonsense like this doesn’t contribute anything positive.

Yes, abstaining is an option but its effectively no different than voting no in this context. They could have also not voted as a bloc, but that’s an even worse scenario for them for what should hopefully be obvious reasons.

If a dumb vote about a pointless thing is enough to turn off a voter then I don’t think they really were in the party base. They sound more like someone who is looking for an excuse. Certainly they are someone who doesn’t understand what “the perfect is the enemy of the good” means, and doesn’t understand how dire the circumstances will become if Republicans retain the House. The reality is shit is super fucked and fixating on stupid things like this is exactly what Republicans want. It is exactly why they made this vote happen, it was intended to smear and divide. Now here we are seeing it in action.

I really wish you guys would understand you are being played by Republicans. They do this to divide us because they know we’re weaker that way.

Because voting no will be used to smear them. That’s the whole point, it forces Democrats into the position where you can hit them with brutal attack ads around this topic if they vote no. Democrats obviously are not neonazis Charlie Kirk supporters who have just been waiting for this day, its a silly accusation. They are just in a shitty situation where either way they vote sucks and they have to choose the least bad option. It happens all the time, especially when they are outnumbered as they currently are. Politics is dumb and messy like that in Congress.

Yes, and if Democrats had the votes to stop this that would be relevant. Until there’s more Democrats in Congress the Republicans get to keep doing what they want regardless. In this instance, for a piece of completely irrelevant legislation that has no real impact, the political context of this moment requires them to make a dumb vote. Republicans put this to vote exactly to create this situation where people like you are mad at Democrats instead of Republicans. It’s the consolation prize for not being able to smear the no votes after the Democrats were smart enough not to fall into their trap.

This is a meaningless vote, whether they voted yes or no had no impact on the outcome and the outcome is not significant. Another day honoring a piece of shit in America has no real impact on anyone, we’ve got plenty of them already. All it did was defuse the trap Republicans had set for them, and piss off people who don’t understand how Congress operates.

Tactics and strategy is how you win.

It’s just political strategy to avoid getting dragged. This legislation is passing no matter what they do. By voting en masse like this they eliminated a cudgel the Republicans were going to use against them. There’s a lot to be pissed at Dems about but the idiocy going on here is not them coming out of the closet as neonazis, its Dems backed into a corner doing what they can to get out of it. Congress is always stupid like this, it’s how the game is played.