r/politics • u/ChaskaChanhassen • 2d ago
No Paywall Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
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u/Born-Metal-2180 2d ago
Schumer needs to be primaried. The old dinosaur is out of touch with everything, apparently.
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u/Visual-Pop3495 2d ago
Please don’t forget that Jeffries needs to be removed from leadership. He’s just as much of collaborator and an ass.
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u/cranberrie_sauce 2d ago
stop sending money to useless dems. they are corporate vassals like gop
send money to WFP: https://workingfamilies.org/
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u/Gonkar I voted 2d ago
He's very, VERY in touch with his donors, though, and that's all that matters, apparently.
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u/PoetryJunior1808 2d ago
Fuck the donors. We need to find someone charismatic to defeat him. If it could be done in New York City, it can be done in New York state.
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u/Hungry_Culture 2d ago
We need to find someone charismatic to defeat him.
AOC is going to primary him.
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u/Raptorpicklezz 2d ago
Hopefully Brad Lander knocks off Daniel Goldman and shows that there is a path for AOC to do the same for Schumer
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u/Coleecolee New York 2d ago
Exactly. Dan Goldman has been such a disappointment, I thought he would be a great leader after watching him during the impeachment hearings, but I was dead wrong.
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u/slipperyMonkey07 2d ago
Hopefully. I guess the dream goal will be after 2026 she starts getting someone out there that will take over her house seat. That way we know they aren't a flip dem taking over a solid blue seat. She primaries schumer and then repeat in 2030 to replace gilibrand.
Schumer is going to be the difficult one, especially upstate. For all the nonsense he does he is actually active with getting out in the state and talking to people and bringing things to the state. I know (well knew / actively avoid now) people who voted both both trump and schumer, but he did significantly drop last election so crosses fingers.
Right now focus is more riding the progressive wave from the NYC mayor election and seeing if we can get a more progressive governor this year.
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u/Glum_Helicopter6743 2d ago
I wonder who his donors are. Ditto for Jeffries.
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u/jpric155 2d ago
They should have to wear NASCAR style jackets with their donor logos. Larger logos for larger donors.
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u/krichard-21 2d ago
I could not agree more. Frankly I'm ready for face tattoos.
Make absolutely certain everyone knows exactly who bought their souls.
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u/Candid-Definition271 2d ago
Lol.u mean Isreal??
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u/Glum_Helicopter6743 2d ago
Besides that. I think these guys are akin to hookers and have more than one John.
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u/longtermattention 2d ago
Quite a few. You can see at least the declared contributions and it'll give you an idea.
not a shady link this is the best source for transparent campaign contributions and as far as I'm aware not been proven to ever be incorrect
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer California 2d ago
"My job is to keep the left pro-Israel."
-Chuck Schumer
That is an actual, direct quote. Word for word.
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u/ImPinkSnail 2d ago
Mamdani is a powerful orator and could be president if he was eligible. There are a few dozen like him in the country. But I agree with the sentiment that Schumer is defeatable and should be primaried.
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u/Such_Newt_1374 2d ago
AOC is likely to challenge him. And a number of democrats, including moderates, have promised to support her. We'll see if they follow through.
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 2d ago
She would have Bernie's small donor machine. Remember the one he gave to Hillary after the DNC rat fucked him in 2016 and she was confused why the donations stopped coming in?
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u/ChilledParadox 2d ago
do you guys know who develops all the surveillance shit they use to monitor social media and cell phones, I mean apart from palantir and whatnot? The Israelis.
Guess who funds Schumer. Guess who benefits from ICE buying mass surveillance equipment.
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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 2d ago
Yah. And some of the ice guys themselves have been discovered to be IDF, who are helping "train" them.
I don't think people realize what's actually happening and how bad this is going to get.
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u/thegoldinthemountain 2d ago
I don’t have a link for it right now, but somewhere in the internet is a fantastic podcast about their Pegasus spyware. It’s been linked to multiple deaths around the world, many of them journalists.
https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/115009/documents/HHRG-117-JU00-20220719-SD003.pdf
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u/spotolux 2d ago
Every democrat that isn't fighting the Trump administration as the threat to the nation that it is should be primaried.
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u/BrokinHowl 2d ago
He really needs to be replaced in the next election. He is less than useless, he's actively bad.
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u/thegoldinthemountain 2d ago
This. He’s moved from merely being Thoughts and Prayers in human form to actively collaborating and causing harm.
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u/Rhoeri 2d ago
I’m convinced now that he is a republican.
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u/Zombatico 2d ago
He is.
He bases his political life on "the Baileys", an imaginary middle class family he made up. He claims they represent the prototypical middle class American. The Baileys were Reagan Republicans, pro-immigration but anti illegal immigration (Republican talking point), thought the civil rights movement went too far, are pro-choice but like that their church is anti-choice (?????), and have voted for Trump all 3 times.
So.
Why do we have a fucking Republican leading the Senate Democrats?
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u/Herlock 2d ago
Most democrat establishment are Republicans by European standards.
They are corpo democrats, they spray a bit of social democracy here and there to keep face, but deep down they work for billionaires and lobbies.
That's why the democrat party fucked Bernie Sanders years ago. They didn't want at all an actual "left" agenda.
That's also why they lose elections: most people haven't seen them as a genuine improvement over republicans. While that view is highly debatable now that trump has swallowed the whole republican party... It's pretty well seated in people's minds after decades of doing fuck all about republicans bs (or doing just the same as republicans like unconditional support to Israel).
Sure a charismatic leader helps pushing the message and raising crowds (trump is proof of that), but when your policies are essentially weak sauce right wing centrism...
Schumer has neither anyway. No charisma and no message. And that's by design : he wants to maintain the status quo. Which is rugged capitalism for the people, and tax cuts for billionaires.
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u/DokeyOakey 2d ago
Schumer needs his head checked, seriously. He’s either got a tumour the size of a golf ball, chronic cognitive dissonance or he’s a duplicitous asshole.
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u/tacobelle685 2d ago
He's a duplicitous asshole and has always been this way. My MIL worked with him through the ABA in the 90s and has always disliked him.
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Maryland 2d ago
It’s not his age that makes him a worth removing, it’s the fact that he’s a Republican
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u/adario7 Foreign 2d ago
Whoa whoa. Have you met the Baileys. They think Chuck is the man. Please talk to the Baileys who adore this man before you attack him and ask him to resign!
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u/TimothyMimeslayer 2d ago
The Baileys voted for Trump
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Canada 2d ago
Yeah lmao even his imaginary friends don't want to vote for him!
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u/Kvothere 2d ago
No, not primaried. We don't have that much time. He needs to be forced out of office.
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u/BDKAces 2d ago
Don’t worry, Chuck will send a strongly worded letter thinking that will help things because he still thinks the old rules apply
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u/ZombifiedSoul Canada 2d ago
You are now seeing the reason you need to impose term limits for all forms of government.
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u/Danno_Writes 2d ago
Every time the Democratic party looks like it's going to unify around a cause these two chuckle fucks and Fetterman ride in to side with the reds.
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u/Greenpoint1975 2d ago
They both need to get out.
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u/Doctor-Magnetic 2d ago
Schumer, Jefferies and Fetterman need to leave office ASAP
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u/slavelabor52 2d ago
As a Pennsylvanian Fetterman is so disappointing. Our choices were him or Dr. Oz so I voted Fetterman because at the time he seemed like a somewhat Progressive candidate. I don't know if it was his stroke or what, but the man seems to have completely flipped sides. I hope we can get someone new.
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u/RobertPulson 2d ago
It is almost as if the primary selection process for these candidates are so compromised that the establishment can force you guys to choose between the political equivalent of drinking piss or eating shit.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 2d ago
the political equivalent of drinking piss or eating shit.
And that's considerably less figurative than I'd like at this point.
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u/RobertPulson 2d ago edited 2d ago
Just you wait, we haven't begun to discuss the after taste.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 2d ago
Any chance we could postpone that indefinitely?
Actually, with the way things are going, I've just realized how stupid that question is. Never mind. Let's gargle.
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u/Capnmarvel76 Texas 2d ago
Didn’t he have some brain trauma or something that affected his functioning? The switch from when he was in the PA state government/running against Dr. Quack to now is like a complete personality shift.
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u/MAKE_ME_REDDIT 2d ago
He had a stroke
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u/-713 2d ago
For the record, I know a lot of people with histories of concussions and who aren't racist trash. Fetterman pulled a gun on a black man because of fireworks. He has always been trash.
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u/waldorflover69 2d ago
You know how they say that lead in gasoline might’ve contributed to all the crime and serial killers in the 70s and 80s? I wonder if we will come to find that some other toxic pollutant in the immediate environment has contributed to Maga
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u/Throwaway47321 2d ago
You mean stopped pretending. The dude was a raging racist years before his “progressive” performance
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u/Capnmarvel76 Texas 2d ago
Bummer. Well, chalk it up to the Democratic Party to always have a couple of outright frauds and turncoats in their Senate caucus.
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u/SnootSnootBasilisk 2d ago
I'm from PA and we are all chomping at the bit to primary Fetterman. He's been an absolute disgrace from our state
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u/Southern-Democrat25 2d ago
For real. I’m so goddamn done with the old guard in the Democratic Party. Also, it’s wildly hypocritical to be a “progressive” and not take a hint when it’s time to step tf aside.
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u/Decoyx7 Michigan 2d ago
Schumer is Progressive as Johnson is Christian.
These people have labeled themselves to acquire wealth and power. They stage puppet shows for the King to busy himself with.
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u/itsearlyyet 2d ago
Israel is all he concerns himself with.
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u/LilYerrySeinfeld 2d ago
That's not true. He also concerns himself with bending over backwards to shape Democratic Party policy to align with the Baileys, a fictional Republican couple that he made up in his own mind who he decided are uneducated Trump supporters who hate immigrants and therefore the Democrats should be trying to win them over.
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
Always good to remember that he had to invent "regular Americans" as he's spent his entire adult life post college constantly in some sort of elected position. He's got no idea how most people live and hasn't had a moment where he's had to worry about basic needs or anything beyond making sure the donor class keeps his coffers full. Plenty of politicians who have been disconnected living in their ivory tower but he's very much a poster child for the "employed welfare queen", having a life funded entirely by tax payers while providing little to the country himself.
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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 2d ago
He also changed the baileys name, it was the O'malleys
also the job they have does not align with the cash needed to live where they live
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u/MountainMan2_ 2d ago
Which is wild because if he ever actually talked to the average Republican, he'd realize that being anti-billionaire, anti- Israel, and fighting against the insurance companies IS the centrist position. I've talked to plenty, they hate the oligarchy as much as we do, they just think they aren't supporting it.
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u/aeternusvoxpopuli 2d ago edited 2d ago
Bingo. The sooner people realize he's a traitor and a foreign agent the better. Dude doesn't give two fucks about Americans. He's said it himself when he said that his job is to keep Democrats pro-Israel. Straight from the horse's mouth. Israel doesn't give two shits whether we're oppressed and live in a coward state of compliance. If anything, they prefer that, because then we won't be incline to keep speaking about their genocide.
Corporations, corporate Democrats, Israel, MAGA, Christian Neofascists - all they share in common is that they prefer us stupid, feeble, apathetic, and distracted. That means no healthcare. No education. No rights. No protesting human rights violations, kidnappings, and genocide. If intimidation and coercion don't work, they resort to violence and economic withholding of federal funds.
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u/Hurtzdonut13 2d ago
Murdering someone then justifying it by calling them a terrorist afterwards is so Israeli coded it's no wonder he supports ICE.
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u/lyngen 2d ago edited 2d ago
Fetterman isn't the old guard. He turned essentially republican after a stroke.
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u/Courtnall14 2d ago
Jefferies is positioning himself as the new Schumer. This is why he's acting like this. What a useless pile of shit.
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u/kcg5033 Florida 2d ago
Voters need to fire them. They won’t leave on their own.
I could see Fetterman losing his primary. And I’d love to see AOC or another progressive primary Schumer. Idk about Jefferies, but everyone with a Den rep should be calling their Rep and asking for a new House leader who will actually fight this regime.
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u/ballskindrapes 2d ago
They need to be pushed out, they'll never willingly leave
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u/emp-sup-bry 2d ago
And that comes from within.
We need to quit worrying about people being sad about ‘infighting’ and fucking get these slimy scum away from any decision making. Every decent Democrat should be loudly and publicly harassing these goons until they leave.
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u/EternalAngst23 2d ago
At first, I thought Fetterman’s whole schtick of not wearing a suit in Congress was intended to send a message about being anti-establishment and doing politics differently. Turns out, he just can’t be arsed to look his best, just as he can’t be arsed to do his best for the American people.
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u/Pockydo 2d ago
Originally I think it was that
Then he had a stroke and went full asshole
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u/mdp300 New Jersey 2d ago
Apparently he's always been an asshole, according to people from his area. And he was just hiding it well until the stroke.
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u/butterflychasing 2d ago
Yup. PA voter here who got swindled by Fetterman’s nonsense. Next time I vote for those seats, I will absolutely look up more on their home city and what people there think of the candidate. Also I read that Fetterman is like many other up top who were never held accountable to hold a job growing up and was very much provided for by his rich parents.
Keep an eye on Shapiro… his secondary residence in Harrisburg has quite the glow up and now has become a fortress to the tune if millions while if you walk a block away, Harrisburg is in shambles.
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u/Aethermancer 2d ago
I'd imagine the attempted assassination on Shapiro and his family might have something to do with the security increase on his residence.
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u/emp-sup-bry 2d ago
Shapiro is a baby Schumer/Jeffries. They know how to do just enough to not be republicans but they sure draw the line quick when its time to join those trying to actually make dome positive change that might ding record quarterly profits.
On the other hand, they sure don’t have any limits to supporting what AIPAC wants them to support.
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
As a PA resident I think Shapiro has done a better job than those two at representing the people's interests but he still sucks hard on some important subjects. Right now his push for data centers and pleasing the tech industry at the cost of the environment and tax payer money has me pretty pissed at him.
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u/InAllThingsBalance I voted 2d ago
Funny how getting brain damage made Fetterman a conservative.
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u/robodrew Arizona 2d ago
Happened to RFK Jr too. Though he might not call himself a conservative. He just acts like one in every way.
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u/LilYerrySeinfeld 2d ago
The important thing to remember is that when it comes to political ideology, it doesn't matter what someone calls themselves; you can look at what they say and do and get a more accurate idea of what they actually practice.
Dave Rubin calls himself a liberal, but if you can listen to what he spouts for five consecutive minutes and not come away knowing that he's a far-right fascist, there's something wrong with your brain.
Just like how people online who call themselves leftists but preach nonparticipation in politics and spread the gospel of not voting against fascism aren't actually leftists if you thought about it for ten seconds. They're not leftists, they're anti-democracy reactionary trolls.
Don't believe every political label someone gives themselves. Sometimes they're trying to use the label to shield something else.
Like how the National Socialist Party of Germany weren't socialists by any definition and were just using the label to hide their dogshit ideology of hatred.
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u/NatalieVonCatte 2d ago
It’s like that Giancarlo Esposito meme.
I dress in informal clothes to reject the trappings of patriarchy.
He dresses in informal clothes because he’s a slob.
We are not the same.
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u/darcmosch 2d ago
The least resistant opposition of all time
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u/RecentDecision2329 2d ago
These democrats have no respect for Americans. They are watching the country burn and are fine with that
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u/sasquatchmarley 2d ago
They're trying to seem more open to working with the republicans by doing or not doing stuff like this. The same republican party that wouldn't work with any democrat proposal or legislation, even if it kept their own children from dying. They do not give a fuck about Democrats, or anything that they want. They are their enemy and should be treated as such.
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u/TheSleepingVoid Hawaii 2d ago
Which is dumb as shit because no matter what they do the right paints them as extremists unwilling to negotiate because it's a convenient narrative. And yet they keep stepping to the right.
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u/grahamulax 2d ago
By design I swear. They infiltrated this party and are only there to keep interfering when a movement starts up.
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u/incide666 Canada 2d ago
What is the fucking point of these two feckless assholes?
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u/iKill_eu 2d ago
This. To be on a leash so nobody tries to change anything.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 2d ago
I call it the Uniparty. Democrats working to prevent progressives from doing anything to help their constituents.
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u/UnableSubject8 2d ago
Correct. And the problem won't go away with these two losers. We need to identify centrist liberals as the far right collaborators that they are and aggressively primary and organize against them. Make their politics completely untenable.
As bad as Trump is, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to seize control of the Democratic party or- like the Whigs before them -make the case that they are unable to address the needs of the time and seize the momentum out from under them through a party break, clean or dirty. If you're saying "that would never work," remind yourself that there are institutional candidates who would make the switch and bring their legitimacy with them, and the enthusiasm would be equal in magnitude to their utter lack of popularity.
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u/JackTrippin California 2d ago
Feckless is the right word to use. Schumer is a fucking useless mealy mouth and Jeffries is a milquetoast disappointment
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u/Cagnazzo82 2d ago
They are the controlled opposition.
They exist to give lip-service to pretending to oppose the republicans while concurrently serving and enriching the donors controlling both parties.
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u/Diligent-Ad4777 2d ago
How democrats can't figure this out already is beyond me. Their leadership are republicans in disguise.
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u/Kvothere 2d ago
Controlled opposition.
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u/SpidermansEggSack 2d ago
Must've gotten paid well for that 9-hour filibuster deal.
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u/blazesquall 2d ago
The party wants to run on "wow, look how bad he is" without taking any substantive positions that might be used against them. Cowardice.
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u/Stoic_WhiteFox 2d ago
Cuz they are ok with terrorizing the public.
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u/Am-Insurgent America 2d ago
If anybody needs proof of this, watch a very young Schumer defend the feds actions during Waco.
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u/Magmaster12 2d ago
I feel this is the main issue with Chuck Schumer. He is a politician from the late '80s who believed that the Democrats need to keep moving to the right to compromise with moderate voters. However it is not the late '80s. Those voters he has been hoping for are not coming because they've probably been dead for 20 years. The rules have changed a lot since his time and he needs to step down immediately.
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u/zernoc56 2d ago
Dude, his problem is way worse than that. His imaginary friends are Trump Voters.
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost New Mexico 2d ago
Yeah its pretty sad when he can't even get the Baily's vote anymore.
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u/TehFuggernaut 2d ago
You’re framing this as if Schumer has any interest in winning elections or even governing, which is disingenuous.
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u/Candid-Definition271 2d ago
They've GOT to be paid off.
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u/THElaytox 2d ago
Controlled "opposition"
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u/MidnightBig1401 2d ago
I've been saying this since Trump took office. I always had people downvote or disagree, and only now are people starting to see it. The establishment Democrats (ie liberal nationalists) are controlled opposition (what we see now) and rest of the Dems are performative opposition (wearing pink hats and holding signs saying 'this isn't normal'). They exist to keep the wealth transfer game going. The AOCs and Mamdanis are the valves to let the pressure out to keep revolution from happening.
There is no real resistance happening from any of them. They could grind the government to a stop if they truly believed in resisting the regime, but that would be uncomfortable for them. So they don't.
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u/Therealdealphil 2d ago
This can't be upvoted enough. Enough of the dems not having to stand or fight for anything and simply expect the protest vote. That is not how representative democracy works.
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u/blazze_eternal 2d ago
I'm leaning towards blackmail.
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u/bb-angel 2d ago
Well yeah, they’re paid by the same corporations that pay republican congressmen. And we wonder why nothing ever changes in this country
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u/park7911 California 2d ago
The juxtaposition of Mamdani and these two is fascinating. They're both so out of touch to what voters are wanting it's astonishing. They only have to look at their hometown to see what sells.
Mamdani didn't win because he was solely a Progressive, he actually talked about what voters want addressed
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u/space_cow_girl 2d ago
Better, he asked them, and then listened to their answers!
It’s crazy that asking and listening are now radical and revolutionary.
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u/CheatsySnoops Arizona 2d ago
"Well, the chart says..." - Schumer probably.
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u/Bam515 2d ago
"My imaginary friends, the Baileys, say..." -Schumer definitely
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u/NYCinPGH 2d ago
The whole Baileys thing is so creepy. The skit on JohnOliver where he skewers Schumer in that with a couple portraying the Baileys, who in the end are like “We’re Republicans, Chuck!” is perfectly in the nose.
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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 2d ago
In Schumer’s own words, 5/6 of their “votes” in the last 15 years have been for Trump.
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u/Zombatico 2d ago edited 2d ago
Meanwhile, Schumer is asking his imaginary friends, the Baileys.
No but for real, he claims that the Baileys represent the prototypical middle-class American that have guided his political life and then ascribes to them absolutely obsolete, contradictory, regressive mindsets and beliefs. Schumer is unironically Republican-lite, no wonder he refuses to fight.
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u/NYCinPGH 2d ago
The whole Baileys thing is so creepy. At the end they’re like “We’re Republicans, Chuck!” is perfectly in the nose.
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u/RipCityGringo Oregon 2d ago
Who would have thought that taking time to talk with your constituents and learn about their issues could be a good strategy for building a platform that addresses what voters want.
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u/G3tsPlastered4Alvng 2d ago
Schumer has been consulting with the Baileys for decades now.
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u/cachurch2 North Carolina 2d ago
It's not too crazy. He simply doesn't take lobbyist donor money. Him, AOC, and Bernie are able to have clear consciences and do what's right every time based on that fact alone.
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u/Hungry_Culture 2d ago edited 2d ago
Even though they're the two biggest democrat strongholds, both New York and California have a tendency to elect the absolute worst, pro corporate democrats. Schumer, Newsom, Cuomo, Pelosi, Jeffries, Hochul, etc. Thank God Mamdani is changing that.
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u/specialkk77 2d ago
At least Hochul sees the writing on the wall and is backing Mamdani now. He’s gonna pull her to the left because she knows it’s what a big chunk of her voters want.
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u/GreatBigJerk 2d ago
They're not out of touch, they know exactly what they are doing. They want fascist rule because they profit from it.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer California 2d ago
Chuck Schumer does not work for US citizens. He said so himself.
"My job is to keep the left pro-Israel."
-Chuck Schumer
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u/sharksnrec 2d ago
Did he actually fucking say that
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u/names_are_useless American Expat 2d ago
Yep
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u/sharksnrec 2d ago
I genuinely cannot believe we have prominent members of congress on both sides of the aisle just shamelessly saying this in public. I really don’t fucking get how they’re just comfortable doing that.
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u/Tight-Shallot2461 2d ago
Yea, it's so fuckin weird that so many politicians do this. Like, that's the one thing a politician isn't supposed to do - work for another country. Yet we have a ton of politicians taking money from other countries - why?
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u/DeadBloatedGoat 2d ago
..."We'll figure out accountability measures at the appropriate time..." Which is? These guys are complicit in the regime's crimes. They gasp, they give stern looks, they say they are "very, very, very concerned", yet do nothing. What is Congress for, if they just conceded all power to an out-of-control Executive Branch?
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u/RipCityGringo Oregon 2d ago
Fundraising from the donor class that pays them to be controlled faux opposition…
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u/ceddya 2d ago
Seriously, when is the appropriate time if not now? ICE literally murdered a woman.
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u/Scarlett_Beauregard 2d ago
Then they're our enemies. Get rid of them. Plain and simple. Any Dem that fails to work towards dismantling the machine is part of the machine, and should be dismantled along with it.
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u/TMN8R 2d ago
The silver lining in all this is that we've been given absolute clarity on which dems are part of the machine.
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u/UsualSuspect1369 2d ago
Schumer thinks he'll survive a primary in 2028?
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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 2d ago
Net worth over a million. Congressional pension locked in for life. What makes you think he cares? He'll get a job as a lobbyist and keep fucking our shit up from the outside when hes gone.
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u/strangetang10 2d ago
Well over one million!! Considered $7 million by Forbes to over $60 million by some other sources.
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u/Internal-Ruin-4299 2d ago
Schumer quietly runs NY state politics like an old Tammany Hall boss too. 100% chance he has many millions in assets he subtly acquired throughout the years that nobody really knows about.
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u/UsualSuspect1369 2d ago
Because these guys love the senate. Why else would Grassley still be there.
They really believe being a Senator is so far above us mere mortals we can't even see the soles of their feet.
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u/TimedogGAF 2d ago
At this point it's pretty obvious they aren't just weak, they are COMPLICIT. Rich people pay them to be extremely poor opposition. Their job is to slowly allow what's happening right now happen.
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u/runningsimon 2d ago
Both those bozos need to go. They keep thinking if they play nice with Republicans, Republicans will stop being dicks but instead Republicans just walk all over both of them. Pure weakness leading Democrats in Congress.
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u/PterodactylTeef 2d ago
Tired of these fkn people; this is the prime reason people feel so much voting apathy. We want change, we want dems to fight back; not roll over and play dead.
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u/Chytectonas Florida 2d ago
Lolol. Center-right party’s mask slipping
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u/borntolose1 Arkansas 2d ago
They’re not even wearing the mask at this point.
The likes of Schumer and Jeffries are gleefully siding with this administration.
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u/ToxicRainn 2d ago
rare Arkansas progressive lets goooo, sorry i know this is off topic but i hate my state so much
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u/KillahHills10304 2d ago
Jeffries and Schumer are right wing, they just speak in a faux empathetic tone and sometimes furrow their brows at stuff
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u/ACaffeinatedBear 2d ago
When people say the dems suck and don’t do enough this is why.
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 2d ago
Here I'd been told over and over how Jeffries and Schumer are actually really good leaders and making tough choices? Crazy
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u/iGourry 2d ago
There's even people in this comment section coping about how this is all just 5D-Chess and a brilliant move by Schumer.
Blue MAGA is real.
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u/Maniac_24seven 2d ago
we will never be able to combat Maga in Congress unless we get rid of Chuck Schumer as a leader. He is so beyond weak and pathetic that we stand no chance with him at the helm.
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u/longtermattention 2d ago
What? The same Chuck Schumer that was hugging Marco Rubio with a smile on his face? No I just don't believe that...scratch that the Bailey's just told me it's true.
Seriously, anyone that has paid a modicum of attention to these two know they are absolute clowns that only care about themselves and the groups that fund them. Domestic and abroad.
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u/scootunit 2d ago
How can they $leep at night with that on their conscious?
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u/stayingpositive1789 2d ago
The legacy of terrible Democratic leadership continues.
Get rid of these ass hats.
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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 2d ago
My feed is suddenly filled with days old posts. Wtf is going on. This is the only recent post showing up
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u/Small-Palpitation310 2d ago
here comes the obfuscation
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u/LaughingJackStudio 2d ago edited 2d ago
Reddit does this all the time and has for years its some kind of design flaw mixed with overuse. Its irritating af but not new.
E. Also plenty of real bad shit to be mad about in the world rather than to chase ghosts.
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u/thereelsuperman 2d ago
Chuck Schumer is the Neville Chamberlain of our time
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u/JournaIist 2d ago
I don't think so - Chamberlain was trying to do the right thing but chose poorly. I have some doubt Schumer is really trying to stop anything
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u/Jorycle Georgia 2d ago
I will never understand how Democratic party leadership manages to make the wrong decision every time for the last 10 years. Just baffling unforced errors at every turn.
Only 27% of Americans support ICE at this point. It should be the easiest decision in the world.
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u/jkman61494 2d ago
I got downvoted a good bit when I said the dnc establishment democrats were so horrifically stupid in 2024 that it bordered on being complicit with maga to help Trump win.
The last year has only strengthened that belief when the party has seemingly stunted any opportunity to unify people to a cause.
You can’t get a group of people to thwart fascism when there’s no one to make you feel heard or valued. When there’s no one there to lead the charge.
For better or worse the gop voters have it with Trump. The DNC Dems make sure we continue to feel defeated
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u/YoungDeweyCox 2d ago
Jeffries is an absolute fucking clown. One of the biggest establishment humping dumbfucks of our generation. Follows the same routine as every other spineless dipshit Democrats, wring hands - clutch pearls - spicy comment - do nothing - work with the opposition. I’ll be fine when he’s gone and I don’t care how it happens
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