Chuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar
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As if we needed further evidence that Schumer is a worthless, contemptible piece of shit.
Chuck needs to go. Come on New York you are fucking the country with this shit.
So, are you going to do everything possible to depose him? Or will you keep throwing a tantrum, refuse to vote, and let the regressives steamroll more?
Since he explicitly said that his job is "too keep the left pro-Israel," his silence is perfectly in line with his job description.
It is enough to make one wonder in what country the Baelis reside.
That's cause he's a pos who enables this regime and Israel's too.
Schumer and Jefferies both need to be removed.
I genuinely think things will devolve to the point that Americans using political violence against the establishment democrats is the only path forward. It's fucked up. But I feel like it's the only way America doesn't devolve into a nation ending civil war. Actually. Cuz looking from the outside I don't see the outcomes of any of your elections moving the needle anymore.
Voting out republicans doesn't solve the problem of establishment democrats preventing newly elected democrats from fixing anything.
edit: Hopefully I'm wrong. But this is what I believe will happen.
I don't know that violence is entirely necessary, but working toward the DSA becoming its own thing and letting the Establishment Dems crash in to the hard reality that nobody supported them in the first place, they just disapproved of them less than the absolute mayhem on the right should probably happen.
Upvoted; but please understand, I'm not describing what I want to happen. I'm applying my weapons grade autistic pattern recognition to my background in attending and paying attention to history classes.
The Republicans and Democrats are the sword and shield of the wealthy elites respectively.
I agree with you, it's not necessary. But I'm warning you that it's inevitable. Those are not mutually exclusive!
Obviously not everyone is going to agree with me on this. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I don't think anyone should rule it out, I just don't think the death blow to the elites is going to come from partisan politics anyway. I think we're past the tipping point where the system as built can be salvaged.
That's beyond the scope of what I'm saying. I only mentioned wealthy elites to illustrate the role establishment dems play in subverting progress.
MMW USA will either play an integral role in the global working class uprising, or no longer exist in it's current form by that time.
The only way the dsa will ever have any actual power is if they tea party the democratic party. Remaining a third party will in most districts in the US just make them a spoiler that gets republicans elected.
This is the answer. If people want change, they need to get active and primary democrats with the candidates they want.
Wishcasting some kind of third party into existence is naive and the outcome is we get more Republicans in power and life gets remarkably shittier as a consequence.
If we somehow get ranked choice voting, it'd be different. But right now there is only 2 viable choices in the general. Do what you can for the primary and hopefully you feel better about voting in the general. Sitting out or voting third party is just helping conservatives and their agenda being waged on America.
I specifically didn't say their own party. Although there's something to be said for fighting for a 3 party system, it's simply not practical given the structure of the constitution. The only way to have an effective 3+ party system is starting over from scratch. The USA would not survive such a ground-up overhaul.
Yeah, I dont think reforming the Dems is possible anymore. I had hopes but it increasingly just seems like me huffing hopium. Dems wont charge your family for the bullet for your execution, but they will still pull the trigger when their klpetocrat rulers tell them to-- same as the GOP. Some would say that lesser evil is the best we can hope for, I think we should all disagree and have a real government.
If we're taking violence, I'll start with Republican's, thanks.
But Schumer is Republican.
Yeah, the Murc's Law vibes are strong in this thread. Attacking....Democrats? First? What is even happening?
Dem Centrist leaders will cheer you on, then knife you in the back when you're fighting, then when you have finally got the republicans vlying anquished on the floor, the dems will lift them back up and forgive everything they did. Centrists are as much your enemy as your friend. Its literally in their name, "centrist".
I said start with, not end with.
Which is exactly my point fyi. If establishment democrats continue to undermine the democratic will of their voters than inevitably their voters will turn to extra-democratic solutions.
Call it what you will. Says more about you than it does me.
Americans don't get to gripe non-Americans wishing acceleration on them. Full stop.
lmao no you wont
Not the way you seem to want propaganda man
So…. You don’t advocate for violence against MAGA, just the Democrats. Got it.
Welcome to fuckin Lemmy where every fucking thing the republicans do is a democrats fault for some dumb fuckin tankie-ass reason.
It's a Murc's Law paradise in some of these threads. It's beyond ridiculous.
If I wanted to get that kind of opinion, it's all over the place in every corner of the "liberal media" and the extremely right wing media.
Yeah. I’m seeing that. It’s like they aren’t clever enough to hide their bias though.
I think they were saying that it will take both. So it’s a bit of a both sides argument, but really it’s an accelerationist or total collapse argument if you really follow through on those actions.
Anyone that doesn't actively advocate voting for the most progressive candidate in every primary and then preventing republicans from gaining power at any cost in the general is an accelerationist.
Yeah it sucks, but it’s the only rational solution in the current rules.
Of course he hasn't. Omar actually cares and isn't a corporate ass licker. She is exactly what Mr. Stern Letter Glasses On The Tip Of His Nose Schnuck doesnt want in the Democratic party. Omar getting denaturalized and deported would be a win as far as he is concerned.
That's because Chuck is, what we Americans call, a pussy. Always has been a sniveling politician who follows the money. Yet New York continues to elect the little fucker.
Dudes part of the domestic enemies club.
If you think Schumer's a pussy. then he's done his job well.
He exists for you to think he's a pussy. That is literally his purpose, and is literally the job his
employersowners pay him for.And he has a history of being a no-holds-barred fighter for what his owners want.
Yeah, he seems to fight for what matters (to the donors).
For context, Marjorie Taylor Greene has said more in Omar's defense than Schumer.
She's trying to make her own persona/platform/character, so she's craving attention hardcore.
For sure, and don't get me wrong, this is meant as a condemnation of Schumer, not praise for Greene.
I wouldn't believe him if he said he stands in support of Omar, but he doesn't even care enough to lie like Marge did. Schumer isn't even pretending to give a shit about anything that isn't Israel. There's no veil anymore. These old fucks are too lazy to even play politics in their job as a politician.
I think Schumer knows he's a dead man walking. He won't be reelected in '28, and he won't be Majority Leader if they take back the Senate. Jefferies (unfortunately) has a shot of hanging in; he's just as weak and feckless as Schumer, but he kept his caucus together on the shutdown, while Schumer caved. That's why even normie centrist Democrats want him out, and why he can't even be bothered to pretend he's a political leader anymore.
Fuck Schmuck
Because he's a scumbag AIPAC shill, like most politicians in the US.
Schumer is the epitome of the establishment.
The indifference of good men, worst kind of evil
There's nothing good about Schumer, so that's not applicable.
Nor will he. His job is to sit down and shut up.
Or help Trump. That is what he seems to do most often.
Good cop bad cop. Both cops get paid from the same source.
Silence is compliance. Deplatform.
Old guys who are entrenched, whether democrat or republican, should finally get the hell out of dodge and let the next generation take over.
We give them the option to take what they have and cut ties with the rest. If they go out kicking and screaming, SEIZE IT ALL!
This, especially for all the Republicunts with heavy ties in the current admin. Lay it out and give it to them like this. Look, we know for the last couple years during Trump, your finances have grown exponentially. Through wildly illegal means. So, it goes like this, you forfeit all of your ill gotten gains and walk away peacefully. We remove all the bullshit laws that were created and disperse the money towards the deficit and less fortunate. if you have one negative thing to say, just one! WE TAKE IT ALL! And you get to meet Mr. Guillotine!
That's quite extreme, but then again, so is today's world.
They wont. They will need to be dragged out kicking and screaming. Very few of them seem to be honorable or decent people.
Voters can always vote them out.
That's what I always thought but the big money guys like elon seem like they can now buy elections. It's the only thing that makes sense to me considering trump winning a second term.
People like JD? He's the "next generation", I guess. Or a few generations down, actually. He's Gen Y.
Not sure what age has to do with it. Or the number of terms.
The answer is to primary fuckers like this with someone better. No matter how old they are.
Omfg. People. Chuck Schumer is a conservative. ALL neoliberals are conservatives. Always have been. That's why we're in fascism now.
There is no peaceful way out of conservatism. As long as they continue to exist, we will continue to be oppressed.
Chuck Schumer has consistently opposed the current admins use of ICE, he was the reason the DHS and then just the ICE were without funding until GOP budget reconciliation.
Get out there and vote because lives depend on it.
And then he gave up and gave the GOP absolutely everything it asked for. He was putting on a show that lasted a couple weeks. Your defense of Schumer is as dishonest as his "resistance" to fascism.
Get out there and vote for progressives, not conservatives.
Incorrect, no DNC voted for the GOP budget reconciliation. Not even Fetterman. It passed 50-48 in the Senate and 215 to 214 in the house.
It's not conservativism we are stuck with, it's liberalism. Republicans are the conservative side of liberalism
It's important to keep in mind that the wealthy have spent hundreds of years fighting to make sure that people in the US believe the word "liberal" means the opposite of what it actually means.
So instead of downvoting your response because of what it says, people will downvote you because of what they THINK it says.
Of course not. Its his full time job to "fight for aid to Israel, all the aid it needs", he said so himself. He doesnt care at all about Omar, or any of us --except maybe as sources of funds.
Because he's a scummy MAGA. When this is over, we need to investigate him and Jeffries, and we'll probably find that they've been getting paid by MAGA all along. Nothing else explains how they were so cooperative with MAGA at every step. They are 50% responsible for the rise, and re-rise of MAGA. We will always be under MAGA rule as long as the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries are in charge
Jeffries having a closed door meeting with Jared Kushner tells you everything you need to know about where he’s at.
Folks if we get the blue wave everyone needs to write their reps and tell them they cannot put Schumer or Jeffries anywhere near speaker or majority roles. It’s essential for ensuring we have a chance of the new congress doing what really needs to be done.
Too late. They're in and nothing will remove the fucking leeches.
Correction: Nothing peaceful will remove them.
They can always be primaried when their term is up.
It takes time to draft a 17 page letter that no-one will read.
tax-funded technically politically neutral letter novels shall save the world once more!
The longer he takes, the stronger the words. This is shaping up to be his strongestly worded letter ever!
Schumer doesnt publicly release these allegedly strongly worded letters either. For all we know they are poems extolling the strength and grandeur of Trumps manly bearing, and sloppy thanks for Trump doing whatever Netenyahu tells him to do.
No surprise from this limp-dick, but ...I am surprised her squad have not been super vocal about this....like front page vocal! (I've read some articles/commentary here and there, but nothing very strong from them.)
On the other hand (arc),
Whew, fortunately someone wrote a stern letter. Okay, we're back on track.
Yeah, it's not enough, but it's better than absolutely nothing, and more than they would have done for Omar than if this had gone down in 2017 I think
He is a total scumbag.
Well Zionists hate all Arabic people, so...
Can't agree there, the government of Israel has gotten along really well with the government of Saudi Arabia for example. If you murder journalists and protesters and otherwise repress dissent they will try to work with you.
Please don't conflate the elite Saudis with the rest of the Arabic speaking world. When money and power are concerned, the Israeli government will placate. When it comes to average arab people, they will persecute and subjugate.
The kleptocratic ruling classes of many Arab countries have happily aligned with Israel, openly or covertly, in opposing legitimate Arab democracy. And that's not limited to the Saudis and the Gulfies. Look at Sisi and at the king of Morocco for two other prominent examples.
And this means that Zionists will treat ordinary Arabic people with respect, dignity and humanity - or are you still conflating the goddamn elites with ordinary Arabic people again?
Like seriously, Arabic people are second class citizens in Israel - and we're not even talking about the beta Israelites.
I'm sure the Epstein class Arabs are well taken care of when approached by Israeli elites, this has already been established by the previous commenter - but it's still not an argument against what I said.
Read what I actually said please.
Ha, Zionists hate everybody. They are the Chosen People.
And Islam hates everybody, they are God's select. So there's a wee bit of conflict there. A thousand years of this clown show.
It'd be a tidy summation if it were true, but its not historically accurate. Jewish people got along just fine in Muslim lands until zionism resurged. There has been 100 years of violence, since zionism-- which is racism.
Indeed, over thousands of years there have been times of peace.
However, you must ignore "Zionism resurged" and "Islamic State resurged", which is my point. That "resurgence" is the problem, you see... that resurgence that will always be waiting in their most Holy Tanakh and Koran.
Christians have the same issue, it doesn't take much for a resurgence of fundamentalists. Because these holy books are fundamentally murderous.
I wonder where that aspect of Zionism originated...
I hate to say it, but one of the big three is not like the others.
Mainly in the Austro-Hungarian empire, at a time when the government there was relaxing the long-standing policy of discrimination against Jews, enabling them to assimilate. The Zionist leaders were panicked by the possibility that assimilation might erase Jewish identity, and by the alternative possibility that a reactionary backlash against equal rights might lead to further persecution. The latter is what ended up happening.
The diagnosis of the risk was correct. The problem was with two linked features of the proposed cure: ethnonationalism and colonialism.
And yeah, for centuries, Islam treated its second-class citizens less badly than the Christians did. That didn't make Islam a human-rights paradise, but consistent discrimination was more bearable than the Christian kingdoms' pendulum swings between tolerance and pogroms.
All three have a lot to answer for over the years. I could do without any of them, but I think humans would find some other bullshit excuses and narratives around an invisible friend to justify subjugating other countries and subjugating others within their own country...
Humans will always find some other bullshit excuse and narrative... but only the religious get tax-free status over and above any non-profit.
We certainly shouldn't be passing their tax burdens onto everybody else, for any religion. They are all unfathomably wealthy already, no need to add to their gigantic pile of gold.
They are all infested with a smug superiority and have proven willing and able to murder all who won't submit to their rule.
They are dissimilar in some ways, but the most important thing is that they are all murderous and all have scriptural support to be murderous.
But yes, one of the big three is not like the others. For example, there are no PRIDE parades in any Islamic state.
I hate that man's stupid face.
Schumer has an "Israel-first" mindset.
The guy's a DINO, both literally and figuratively. SMDH...
Of course not, her politics are antithetical to serving the needs of the billionaires and Chuck knows which side his bread is buttered.
This.
It’s cause he’s racist
Don’t worry he’s typing up a very stern response that will be sent out after Christmas.
chuck the cuck
Now that's an insult to cucks. Schumer has no redeeming qualities
His handler hasn’t given him the ‘stern letter’ to pass along slamming the conduct.
One more reason to support term limits for Congress.
Yes, we'd lose a few of the "good ones", but it would keep corrupt fucks like Chuck from staying in power too long. The net positives would far outweigh the net negatives.
The problem isn't that he's 75, the problem is he's been in office almost 30 years. He's corrupt and he has the support of a corrupt machine.
I still am baffled by how people think term limits will do anything to help.
Isn't he dead? Old bag of dust still as useless as ever. Him and demented donny should be put in thesame old people home
She's already been declared guilty by Trump. What more do you need?
/s
Why would Israel's controlled opposition in their colonial-occupational government openly oppose the deportation of his enemy? Of course he is rejoicing with his fellow Epsteinite-unipartymen, raping children and drinking their blood on some new private island.
Chuck is as much an enemy of the people as Trump, but more insidious than outright evil, by presenting himself as an ally to and leader of the left-wing. He's nothing more than a bulwark for the Zionazis and a concierge to the other powerbrokers.
Does anyone have proof of life for Chuck Schumer?
Maybe he has the same minor condition like Mitch McConnell. Must be awesome to have all these 'experienced' people still in congress without any term limits. Surely does not stand in the way of progress because they fully comprehend the modern world.
I'll say a few words: fuck, shit, dammit
Nah, fuck chuck shitbird
Vote his useless ass out of office. That moron had every chance to prosecute Mango Mussolini and completely failed.
The oligarchy will never charge one of their own
Of course he wouldn't.
To be fair, Trump is intentionally doing this at this time to try to distract from the high gas prices, grocery prices, etc, his war caused. Immigration is, sadly, the thing he polls the best on, especially in red states. Republicans are desperately defending senate seats in red states like Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, and more. The more we talk about immigration, the less gas prices will be on past Republican voters minds, the more likely they will be to go out and vote for Republicans.
Schumer would love to have Democrats or Independents that caucus with Democrats in states like Texas, Alaska and Nebraska. Remember it will be 6 years before they are up for election again, that’s a long time to have these seats. This also may be a once and a lifetime chance for Democrats to get seats in states like these, unless Trump is stupid enough to keep the Iran War going through another couple of election cycles.
This is like the 2006 midterms under Bush. 2006 flipped a bunch of Senate seats, then 2008 flipped even more, and the Democrats ended up with 59 seats, and a Republican flipped to give Democrats 60 which enabled them to override the filibuster without completely ending the filibuster.
Yes but Prezzy Trump might call me a mean name and I don't like being called mean names!
Why would he the DSA squad will endorse him anyways.
Who will win at being the worst old guy alive? That's the problem with people after 70... Very unreliable at staying awake permanently. But they got a good 10 years before 80 and 20 to being 90 or dust.
God bless their dusky clunky hearts for all the bad things they have done and will still do.
Because democrats condone actions from republicans, they always have.
Because Chuck Schumer doesn’t think goys are fully/equally human to what he considers the chosen people.
Trump is doing him a favor if he success with this. Those pesky leftists keep making his political life harder by calling him our good his ineptitude. He could just sit back even further doing jack shit. Hell, he probably wouldn't even need to mumble about 'strongly-worded letters' if she and others on that end of the party were gone.
Chuck knows what she's done and has cut ties. The writing is on the wall, she got too greedy and stole such a gigantic pile of money that not even Schumer can defend her.
She's been in office for eight years and is now a multi-millionaire on less than 200k a year. Fancy that. Not even Chuck can ignore that level of corruption. And that's saying something.
You have no idea what you're talking about. This, "investigation," is outwardly about fraud on her childhood immigration documents, and in reality an attempt by Trump to denaturalize a political opponent. It has nothing to do with imaginary embezzlement.
Also, Schumer has never defended her. He's a hard-core Zionist and she's a critic of Israel. He's called her antisemitic in the past for criticizing AIPAC. He and Pelosi hung her out to dry on multiple occasions; he hasn't suddenly, "cut ties," because of, "what she's done."
Her net worth is high because she's married to a hedge fund manager. If you think politicians and their families shouldn't be allowed to trade stocks, fair enough, but it's (infamously) not illegal, and completely unrelated to what's beijg done to Omar right now.
200k is like being paid for 4 speeches for some of those folk.
Cool story MAGAzul but I'll still take a greedy Omar over a genocidal Nazi Israeli pretending to be an American any day of the fucking week.
Um, didn't she marry into money?