‘I’m not stepping down’: Chuck Schumer defies Democrats’ calls over funding bill
Party leader faces backlash over his decision to support Republican-led bill to avoid government shutdown
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He then further elaborated that each step would be six months apart and accept Republican demands.
If people are calling for you to step down, you're not united.
Oh? How so? Because from where we're sitting, you've not even begun to fight.
Seriously. When are you gonna start?
That's literately what you did with the spending bill.
Excuse me sir. I didn't do anything with the spending bill.
-me, and chuck schumer
Sorry. Wasn't meant to be directed at you. Just a little frustrated with Schumer is all.
Oh no worries, i didn't take it like that.
We know. You would rather stay publically humiliated but still get your bribes from your owners.
Who knows, Biden was talking this way up until the end too. Never give up hope.
Chuck Schumer has been in office since 1975. He's been a senator since the Matrix came out. He's also retirement age. As of 2025, Chuck Schumer's net worth is estimated to be around $81 million.
Just food for thought.
You’re causing me pain on so many levels
That was my thought, too. He can't quit, because he has to help Israel.
To be honest, if I were an American Jew, I would be getting worried. Right now, everything might seem fine and dandy. The immigrants, muslims, Latinos, trans and leftists are being targeted, not Jews.
But Yaakov Shapiro already warned, the Zionist messaging is painting a target on the back of Jews, by telling the world that they are loyal to Israel instead of their own country, the USA.
And when the fascists really have the power, then they won't care about deporting poor Haitian and latino immigrants. They'll just let them work for slave wages.
No, they will start setting their sights on how to take stuff away from rich minorities.
You just know Elon Musk will gladly take over Meta and OpenAI from Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman.
It's also to keep increasing the wealth of conservative billionaires.
The dems should just start bringing bags of feathers and pots of tar to their meetings. Real casual like.
I've got a bag of chicken shit ready to bring to chicken shit Ed Cases' office.
Corn syrup stays sticky at room temp and is easier to clean out of the carpet.
I think death is the point though...
Death? Tarring and feathering wasn't an execution, it was a humiliation.
I've been lead to believe that to be correctly tar and feathered the tar must be applied thickly and to the whole naked body. This causes a slow and agonising death via the complete shut-down of normal skin function.
I've found numerous cases of tarring and feathering and no intentional deaths. It was typically meant to humiliate someone rather than kill them, which is why it's not considered a method of execution.
What does "complete shut-down of normal skin function" mean?
The skin can't breath or sweat under a full layer of tar and ends up like a full body case of advanced trench foot causing numerous complications.
The context was medieval full body and naked tarring though and it was something I was told as a child around 40 years ago.
This is easy to explain. Chuck Schumer is an asshole.
Can we mandate he legally change his name to Schmuck Schumer?
It's time to chuck Schumer!
The only time a neoliberal plants their feet and fights is when it's against Dem voters
They're not on our fucking side.
Fuck him and fuck any Democrat in Congress that isn't publicly and privately pressuring him to go.
I really like when Jon Stewart makes fun of him. Makes my day
Well if he don't wanna step, maybe he needs to be knocked down.