Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
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Spineless punk ass bitches.
Complicit punk ass bitches.
They don’t give a shit. All they care about is how it affects them politically. Which means they’re also fucking idiots because this isn’t even smart politically.
I guarantee you they’re worried about appearing soft on crime/immigration. They’re stuck in 2015 and I wish we could send them back there.
Seriously this is an unbelievably dumb fucking move. They cannot be this fucking dumb.
More and more I wonder who it is that actually calls the shots for these Democrats? Who is that gives them their orders. Obviously it's corporate donors just like it is with Republicans, but who are they?
Did they really let Venezuela happen because they didn't want to look weak, or do they share the same incentives as Republicans courtesy of the oil industry?
Schumer, at least, has proven himself to be a person who will claim one position in public while encouraging others to do the opposite, which is his real position. He'll take a stand for the right thing only when he knows he has enough people doing the wrong thing that he will be defeated, and then he'll publicly shrug and regret that there was nothing more he could do. He's dishonest and cowardly and does not serve the voters.
Jeffries is just an insubstantial man who blows in the corporate wind. And also just blows.
Then you have people like Ro Kahnna making a very public display of allegedly fighting for equality and justice while Peter Thiel pulls his fucking strings from backstage. Calling for the U.S. to recognize Palestine as an independent state while downplaying his own investments in Palantir and history with other silicon valley billionaires like David Sackler.
It just makes me wonder how many billionaires are actually funding both sides and directing Democrats to play off of each other in this never ending one step forward and two steps back bullshit of calling for the right thing as a publicity stunt, only because they know it will go nowhere and be blocked by a simultaneous counter measure they're running at the same time..
Primary them in a few months. Then, we build an actual party and hopefully redo this whole fucker because this hasn't been working for decades.
This is contingent on democrats running honest primaries.
Not if it's overwhelming. Unless they pull the Biden/harris shit again, then yeah. But that would surprise me. If they do that, we can move straight to burn this mother fucker down so no one can have it mode.
Collecting politicians is the new hobby among billionaires. Anyone can buy a car, yacht, even a rocketship, but to actually own and control a politician? That's valuable.
Theil is putting together a nice collection, starting with Vance. Musk had Trump in his collection for a while, but Trump likes to remain a free agent. He's in the unique position to be able to collect Billionaires instead.
And we're just down here, standing in the rain. That is rain, isn't it? They wouldn't actually be pissing on us, would they?
Well if nothing trickled down they would look like a bunch of liars and con artists... So if anyone asks, yes it's rain.
Also, Thiel and Trump have been lovey dovey since his first term, he was just smart enough to keep fairly quiet about it. I suspect he actually brought Musk (and all the other tech bros) into the throuple to be the scapegoats for everything he's been planning for over a decade at this point.
I wrote that in March of 2025, but in hindsight, I've started to suspect that what I always assumed were "failed" COVID tech policies, were most likely just a preview of what we're seeing in Trump's second term as he pretty openly attacks and destroys democracy and the United States. Policies hidden behind bold faced lies that were always intended to fail in order to accomplish the exact opposite of what the administration claims they are doing.
There's obviously no way to prove this, but I honestly believe the true goal was probably always to spread COVID misinformation online, especially information regarding masking during the earliest days of the pandemic.
Why would the tech side of the Trump administration care about keeping people from masking? My guess is because the beginning of the pandemic also happened to coincide with the earliest stages of Thiel et al. rolling out Clearview AI's facial recognition technology and collecting surveillance data.
“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.
Bruh how is it not here and now? If not now, when? if not you, who?
Yeah, right now send like a pretty fucking appropriate time!
If they were controlled opposition what would they be doing different right now?
This. The democratic establishment functionally appear to serve the same interests as their supposed opponents.
Fine, fuck it, rope for them too, hang out like Mussolini did.
Fuck these goddamn traitors.
Sadly no, but there's always the Gaddafi treatment.
Didn't they shove a rifle up his ass or something?
Sure did.
A knife.
This is it.
Civil shutdown which forces those in government who might do what’s needed to do it.
It requires hardship though.
There's the Democrats I know
Schumner, Jeffries unable to speak coherently with all the donor dick in their mouth.
Schuemer and Jeffries are not just useless, they are intentionally useless fuckwits. As with Johnson, they must be removed from office.
Donorcrats and Turdpublicans alike are traitors.
One might call them controlled opposition
THESE TWO ARE CONTROLLED
All of them are controlled.
The largest blame belongs on the GOP, but let's be clear... Competent democratic leadership could have prevented all of this.
These crooked, shit ass democrats like Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi - even RGB - are soaked at this point in the blood and despair of the American people.
RGB cold in her grave is to blame for our troubles now? Fucks sake if it weren't for her we would be miles worse. Stop taking one persons missteps and snowballing it into apocalypse. There are so many active agents of chaos already alive and well.
Seriously, a random time traveler stepping on a butterfly and consiquently the dinosaurs still existing make more sense that that garbage. You have the benefit of hindsight. Just like alcohol and weed, please use it responsibly.
RGB made the situation far worse by being a selfish greedy justice who refused to resign at a reasonable time. She held on FAR longer than was reasonable and as such deserves the blame.
Whenever I see these two in a picture in my feed I know some pusillanimous bullshit is going down in the Democratic Party without even reading the headline or article
Not a time for a change in leadership but a time to obtain some leadership. Any leadership at all. Sometimes that means at least saying "Fuck You" to the people running this new system of government.
Tf is wrong with these dipshits
Controlled opposition.
They dont give a fuck about the average citizen. These are the same people that voted to slash funding Medicaid just a couple months ago. These are the same people that voted against impeaching Trump a couple months before that. These people want Republicans to pass every shithole bill they can because it's better for their bank account in the long run and the typical rube will blame the Republicans for it happening.
These two croaking would probably do more for the world than Trump. They're incompetent at best and traitors at worst.
Anyone who doesn’t stand on the right side of this issue need to be thrown out regardless of their political views.
The Controlled Opposition Party at it again. Showing the world they won't do a damn thing to actually make things better. These corporate and AIPAC sponsored Dems need to go.
Uhh….
Go ahead and call them complicit. This probably what they mean when they say they are 'playing the long game'. Idiots.
The spineless shitlib corrupt politicians have once again shown their loyalty and its to the capitalist class. Once again those who seek to reform the system are consistently proven little more than controlled opposition.
This is why we must abolish capitalism in its entirety, there is no room to compromise with reactionary filth.
IF Dems ever take power again, the first thing they have to do is get rid of these treasonous DINOMAGAs. They are 50% of the reason that MAGA regained power. There is no way the virtuosically incompetent MAGAs should have survived the Biden Administration, they are far too stupid, but they had plenty of help, support, and cover by these two cowardly, insipid little bitches.
If they are anything like Biden then they will be calling for more support of ICE as Biden did with policing.
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
Incrementalist centrism is woefully inadequate to stop fascism, even if its practitioners were interested at all in doing so.
It's almost like we've been right this entire time, weird.
It's not like centrists actually believe in incrementalism anyway. They didn't incrementally work towards helping netanyahu commit genocide. They can get out of their own way when it's the only thing any centrist has ever wanted or will ever want.
Important to remember that Jeffries has ties to the Kushner family. Also Chuck Schumer is in love with and subservient to his imaginary Republican friends.
If they were compost, at least they would be providing value for the planet.
Just food for thought.
If they were, it would be even more toxic than a Monsanto product.
In fact it’s food for microbes.
Schumer is the new McConnell. Determined to wreck the efficacy of the Democrats.
Thanks, pussies.
Who could have possibly known that genocide supporters are unreliable allies?
Us but they called us "useful idiots" for being able to recognize patterns and behaviors of the out of touch rich fucks who support this.
Schumer is a republican politician, of course he won't join Democrats
That's why aoc and zohran not endorsing a challanger to Jefferies is so stupid
Of course. The Dems' donors won't allow any real opposition to fascism.
Ineffective and out of touch leadership needs to step aside. AOC really ought to primary Schumer in 2028, but Democrats need different congressional leadership way before then. And Jeffries is so robotic to me. He never has the backbone when it's needed, just like Schumer
Fuck Schumer, Pelosi and all the old ass Democrats.
Both parties are literally owned by the Israeli,s and the same Zionist oligarchs. Until we fix this fact nothing will change
Man, I mean what will the Baileys say of this?
I recognize that the knee-jerk reaction to end ICE is probably not the best solution.
But, read the room. Your constituents are begging you for strong leadership actions.
Why? What has ice done for anyone?
Every country on Earth has a version of "immigration police". The catch is that some governments aren't quite as malicious the current US administration. Some are even more than the US.
Most of them are not designed to emulate the SS.
He’ll write them a strongly worded letter, at least.
At most.
They’ll be enabling mass graves. They’re not on our side
We need leaders that want to try new things and aren't afraid to fight back. This is not normal and if they are afraid then they need to step aside and let others lead.
Fire those sunza bitches!