Chuck Schumer struggles to meet the moment as Democrats call for leadership
Consider he can't handle to NOT voting for another fascist cabinet member, yeah, screw this ineffective asshole.
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Schumer is a deer in the headlights at this point. If we’re being generous, he’s useless. If we’re being honest, he’s a fascist enabler. And fascist enablers are fascists with extra steps.
I’m going to say something controversial to some of us: It’s because Jewish people are the fascists this time around. Israel is a militarized police and tech surveillance state whose leader will be ousted if the war stops so he went on the offensive. Chuck is receiving money from AIPAC and doesn’t want the campaign cash to stop so he’s looking the other way while the fascists take over.
Zionists to be specific. It’s not all Jewish people.
Every Jewish person I know is opposed to aid for Israel, supporting their genocide and very vocally supportive of Gaza/palestine and very critical of Israel-the-country
It’s not that he’s Jewish. He’s just a prick.
As a Palestinian I keep feeling the need to bring up that we have no issues what-so-ever with Judaism or people of Jewish faith. But I hate Zionism to my core, and I strongly commend Jewish people against Israel. Please personally thank your Jewish friends for making a choice
It's telling how people in the imperial core generally can't distinguish between judaism and zionism. That's how deeply ingrained the indoctrination and propaganda goes. The widespread conflation of judaism and zionism is a completely normalized form of anti-semitism.
And it is intentionally pushed by Israeli PACs.
And Netanyahu himself.
I'll pass it along, but I can tell you they're going to be a bit confused and say "it's just the bare minimum," or "it's just the right thing to do."
(that was their response when I expressed my own gratitude and appreciation.)
Those are some good people. I hope one day the average politician is more like them
There's a super reform synagogue in my town, their president is an out lesbian, they turned out for blm marches, host families traveling to get medical care for their sick kids, etc.
And they're generally super pro-Netanyahu, pro-NeoNaqba.
It's baffling to me that you can understand that there is rampant racist police violence in the US, and not in Gaza or Jenin.
Zionists are the fascists, not Jewish people.
Schumer Pelosi and Warren need to retire or be voted out.
This is Hakeem Jeffries erasure.
See also: Durbin, Cuellar, Clyburn, Hoyer, the entire Blue Dog Coalition, King, Coons, Klobuchar, Tester, Rosen, Hassan, Peters, to just name a few of the feckless Dems (and one independent Senator who caucuses with Dems but often votes with the fascists) who still value "bipartisanship" over the wellbeing of the people they're pretending to represent.
What’d Warren do?
She's useless, all Dem leadership is
There's no time left for voting them out. We've already had our last free and fair election.
Nothing said here reflects reality.
He's on his ass ... which is remarkable since he's talking out of it at the same time.
That piece of shit was coming here on his stupid book tour. Friend and I had plans to go challenge him before he cancelled when he realized he's unpopular. Schedule a new tour, Chucky. We're dying to see you.
Maybe that’s why he’s also struggling to get his message heard
Christ if this is success, what does failure look like
People like him are the reason why the Democrats dont truly qualify in my eyes as an opposition party.
He's not struggling to meet the moment, he's struggling to hold his own party down. Make no mistake, that traitorous bastard is a collaborationist Vichy-Democrat, a blue-dog-Republican snake. He wants as little to be done about the exploitation of the nation as possible, so he and his doners can reap the rewards.
Please primary all these dinosaurs, they were old when I was still young. I don't know your process but please get more progressives in the house and send this current batch out to pasture
Schumer’s seat is only up in 2028 but if enough of his allies - preferably in safe seats - get primaried in 26 and the new progressives hold them in the general election (and hopefully win some back from GOP) I expect he will be forced out of leadership for the next Congress
It has to have enough shift to progressives or else he will take credit and stay on. He will also be ousted if Democrats lose again but in that scenario MAGA will continue unchecked for 2 more years at least
Lol, that one took me a second.
"Struggles" is being generous. He is intentionally not fighting. The elderly leadership and all the AIPAC loyalists within the party major road blocks to any form of fighting back.
I mean, if they haven’t already it’s because wiki is slow walking the edit.
They are busy moving the database to somewhere in Europe. Give them a bit.
I have despised this craven, insipid, spineless weenie ever since he collaborated with a clumsy Republican smear campaign to ruin Al Franken's career.
Since then, he has been ineffective at best, and has been a cowardly collaborator at worst. It's time for this loser to be removed from office, let AOC take his place, and be replaced as Senate Minority Leader by someone bold enough to go toe-to-toe with the MAGA Nazis.
Good job New York. Keep electing this geriatric dust collector.
"Struggles" doing Atlas level lifting here.
Not ‘struggles’, simply ‘fails’
Still too generous; "fails" implies that he even tried
There's no struggle. Dude has always been fash.
Chuck Schumer Struggles to Meet the Moment as Tuesday Unexpectedly on Calendar Once Again.
More like coward sell out shows his true intentions.
JESUS CHRIST! Get these old, ineffective fucking fogeys out.
He cannot meet the moment.
RETIRE!
As an old white guy, I’m really tired of old white guys.
It’s not him. Make room for the new blood.
Why is nobody sending him a series of strongly worded questions!?!
Chuck Schumer is running the bet that the GOP will implode before the whole country goes up in flames.
It's solely a hedge to save his party and capture as much power as possible.
Maybe it works but it was never for you. Unless you believe the democrats are actually "elites" that deserve to be in charge.
Personally, I think their time has come and gone and it's a crying shame they were never once put together well enough to do something for those that come after.
How sad for him. The times call for someone in his position to do more than going through the motions and other ineffective and performative bullshit
Why is this guy called a leader when all he does is immitate a mall Santa on Christmas Day?
In this very interesting video Tom Nicholas describes the transition from modernism to post-modernism to a new thing called metamodernism.
One thing he points out is that post-modernist political parties of all stripes avoided having actual stances and thought just playing the part of a politician - wear suits, use the right hand gestures, say the right words - was enough to get elected.
This is almost exactly what Schumer is doing here. As a post-modernist politician he can create his own reality and ignore actual facts.
Nobody appreciates the artistry that goes into writing a good angry but very polite and subservient letter these days.
Who's the old dude for us non Americans
"Leader" of Senate Democrats. I put that in quotes because I'm not seeing any leadership out of the guy. He needs to go.
Despite his name being the title and half a dozen times in the article, it will forever be a mystery.
I mean what does he do, is he like the opposition leader or something?
He's the most senior Senator in the democratic party, he's as entrenched as they come.