• Soapbox1858@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    I heard part of an interview with him on NPR over the weekend promoting this book. During the interview he essentially says that anyone who opposes Israel’s actions in Gaza is antisemitic.

    So there are plenty of reasons to be pissed at him besides his capitulation on that bill.

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    16 days ago

    This republican in democrat clothing needs someone in his face. Scream at him once for me if he comes to your area.

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      16 days ago

      FILTHY NAZI COLLABORATOR

      That is the phrase Schumer needs to hear every single time he appears in public, for the rest of his miserable life. Fucking collaborator.

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    16 days ago

    Anyone that can go should go tell him what a bitch he is. Can’t believe there’s actually some people out there that would attend this on their own time and enjoy it…

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    17 days ago

    Objective question: What was his alternative, better choice?

    EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes. I guess trying to understand is frowned upon.

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      A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

      Then there would be two options:

      • Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
      • government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

      Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.

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        Bribed in that they don’t want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn’t go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.

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          Their donors clearly wanted trump. Also all everyone trump is doing right now showed very clearly that unless we do massive protests, the election from 2026, 2028 etc won’t matter. We will still have them, but if they lose they simply won’t certify them.

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      17 days ago

      its passage was inevitable. iirc republicants had the option to ram it through as a reconciliation bill anyway (simple majority, no 60 for cloture needed).

      he basically just ‘saved’ this year’s reconciliation for something else–that’ll probably be even worse.

      • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        “Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject.”

        For anyone else out of the know

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      Honestly a clean spending bill. He capitulated to garbage that didn’t need to happen for reasons that also have no positive recourse.

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      Not giving up what was literally the only meaningful leverage Dems had, and voting NO on cloture for the spending bill.

      Chucklefuck Chuck claimed that the resulting shutdown would have opened the door for the presidents to sow chaos and discord with firings, but that’s a braindead argument because this is exactly what they’ve already been doing since day one. Instead of doing the bare minimum to protect us, Chuck recruited other rich Dems to capitulate and protect their own pocketbook. It’s disgusting and has paved the way for the $4.5 trillion robbery that is about to commence.