Senate leader’s job is to do more than just occasionally vote. If schumer wont do the job he needs to get the eff out of the role of minority leader.
Senate dems can call for an election of a new minority leader any time they want. Its an internal to the party process. Why arent they firing him? Schumers not doing his job, but all the other dems in congress are sitting around with their heads up their rears not forcing the issue.
You’re making the assumption that he’s not doing EXACTLY what his role is meant to be right now. He’s doing it perfectly.
The disagreement here is on what his role says it is on paper and what his actual role is in this illusion of a Democracy people keep screaming about. These people aren’t lazy. They aren’t dumb. They are doing exactly what the people they represent want them to do.
We live in a representative Republic but the people being represented are a small small minority of the population. The people that politicians represent are the people that give them money. How long we gotta pretend?
How long we gotta ask questions like “why aren’t they doing X when all the lies I believe about our government tell me they should do X”.
Until they fear the population MORE than they fear the 1% nothing will change. And they sure as hell don’t fear losing voters in the Democratic party. They LOVE not having any power and just collecting donations to sit on their asses. The Democrats are really happy in their position right now. Why would they make an effort to go against their donors wishes when their donors just want them to sit on their ass and occasionally do some performative filibuster record or government shutdown record that inevitably has no impact on policy.
Chuck Schumer does not represent his constituents, he represents his campaign contributors.
The Democrats of the past decade are the Washington Generals to the Republicans’ Globetrotters. They only exist to give the illusion of opposition. They get dunked on and then collect their paychecks.
Hello fellow MikeFromPA fan. At least that’s where I’ve heard this analogy a lot.
There’s always a reason.
The head is in the ass for warmth.
Is he one of those on the side of Israel? Regardless of how even their actions are?
Yes he’s an Israeli asset. He will do whatever his handlers from AIPAC tell him
So he’s probably fine with Trump’s actions on Iran. No notes.
Don’t you dare accuse him of doing nothing!
Literally thousands of fundraising texts and emails have already been launched!
But were they strongly worded??
Nope. Best we can muster is a limp-worded response.
Fundraising for Israel
Democrats now are the Republicans of 30 years ago. Everything has moved to the fucking right…and Chuck Shumer sucks corporate cock just like the Republicans.
You mean, AIPAC-owned Chuck Schumer? Of course he’d keep Trump because he’s doing Israel’s bidding, because they have evidence of Trump raping children with Epstein.
Came here to say this. He’s not going to do anything that won’t help Israel. He’ll allow America to fall into the shitter before bailing on AIPAC.
We need to replace these people with actual true progressives. Mainstream democrats are blue fascists. They are not meeting this moment. They must be removed from the party. Here’s how:
Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.
- Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
- Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
- Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
- Don’t punch down.
- Don’t punch left.
- Educate yourself, politically.
- Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system
Schumer literally cannot take action on impeachment. He’s a Senator, impeachment starts in the House.
Talk to Mike Johnson if you want to get impeachment rolling. LOL. Good luck with that!
A senator, and minority leader, is more than a dude who complains and votes whenever they can, and occasionally calls the president an unhinged asshole on social media.
Homie could walk from skyscraper to skyscraper in NYC calling out CEOs individually and gather an insane crowd behind him doing so.
Make a spectacle, get attention, start trouble. There is a genocide and a war on. Paint “impeach” on your chest and start running around the Lincoln memorial, lol. He can do shit, obviously, because he has a huge pulpit.
But he won’t. And he doesn’t deserve this defence simply because he doesn’t have the votes.
It’s not a matter of not having the votes, he literally has no official role in impeachment until the House passes it first.
He could say “Yes, lets impeach the fucker!” but it has no more weight than you or I saying it until the House passes it first.
Of course it has more weight! He’s Chuck Schumer. He could go on a bunch of news shows and say it. He has a platform. Politics isn’t just about voting and procedures. It’s about influence, persuasion and inspiration.
Hakeem Jeffries is House Minority leader, not Schumer.
I think you greatly overestimate what that power actually is. Most Americans know Sanders and AOC better than Schumer. Even if he has the name recognition and respect that some of the other party celebrities have, it would still be shouting into a void.
Being vocal isn’t going to cause Mike Johnson to suddenly put articles of impeachment up for a vote and there are not enough Republicans in the house that would force the issue.
The dems run their party from the inside. As the eldest crypt keeper Schumer has control of a cadre of dem reps who will vote for whatever he tells them to. He has enough of them that he can often single handily win or sabotage (mostly what he does) whatever the democrat party is doing.
Schumer’s political platform is Israel First so he and Trump have been getting along swimmingly this term. That is why he won’t use his leverage to get impeachment votes.
Yup. A human turtle ground Obama’s ambitions to dust as Senate minority leader. They are definitely capable of more than they’re doing.
OK as a non American I’ll take your word for that. But he still could have stated that if it reached the Senate, the Democrats would support it.
Well of course the Democrats are going to support it, just like they supported it the last two times Trump was impeached.
Coming from the opposition, that doesn’t mean much, like when the Republicans impeached Clinton over a blow job.
Even if impeachment made it through the House, I doubt the Senate would hold him accountable.
I’d also argue that most establishment Dems don’t actually support impeachment. They view it as divisive.
Personally, I’d want to divide myself from naked fascism…
The senator from Israel is doing his job.
Surely the Baileys support impeachment by now, right?
He is complicit and should visit the Hague upside down
Schumer is a hardcore Zionist and always has been. He won’t publicly express it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s delighted to see what Trump is trying to do to Iran.
Yep. A whole lot of dumbasses fall for the usual ageist psyop against people like Schumer. The real problem is how these people are bought and sold, not their age, FFS.
Didn’t he say outloud that his only job in office was to support Israel?
Schumer said, “I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs.”
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Schumer is a coward and we shouldn’t expect that to change anytime soon
If only Schumer were merely a coward. No, he’s doing exactly what his constituent—the state of Israel—wants.
Can’t wait for Peter Thiel’s good little doggy to be president. I’m sure this will smooth over neatly.
This guy is more useless than a solar-powered flashlight with no battery.
Schumer’s just playing the smart game, waiting until Trump’s approval is 0% before raising any alarms.
Sure, politically unsavvy people will say, “Oh, a psychopath is at this very moment doing war crimes won’t our elected leaders represent us and stop him,” or “Please, please, you useless hump, just lift up even one finger to stop the most dangerous demented narcissist in the greatest position to do harm in the history of the world.”
But c’mon. Don’t be an idiot. You people are worried about “reality,” but this is more important than reality. This is politics. The most important thing is never ever risk any political capital on anything ever.
I’m not sure if I’m just being autistic and missing some obvious sarcasm or if you’re being for real
I… Like, I really was trying to be sarcastic. I tried. Like, with the italicized words for over-the-top emphasis? Like, isn’t waiting until “0%” just too absurd to be taken seriously? Or putting in quotes “you useless hump, just lift up even one finger”…? Help me, what am I doing wrong?
I’m sorry, my bad, just an autistic moment. It’s just getting harder and harder to tell these days.
Should have ended your comment with ‘/s’.
It seems like Schumer is in the Epstein files.
Chuck Schumer is a goddamn traitor
