#chuck shumer

[liberalsarecool]

Democrats need younger leaders. Senate Democrats need a fighter. The old guard is lost and not up for the challenges.

[billyengland]

Chuck Schumer goes full douchebag on American taxpaying citizens and basically says the government can do anything they want to you. Democrats think they're fixing their horrible approval rating by mocking people who don't enjoy paying taxes for wasteful spending and useless programs.

Listen to the disdain with which he mocks the American taxpayer! Approval for the Democrats are headed for single digits due to Schumer and the DNC's groupthink.

Why doesn't he donate all of his illicitly obtained millions to the government if he feels so strongly about it?

[thedailyelm]

It seems like it’s time to talk about the job of minority leader again. I swear I just did this, but oh well, more info is better than less.

It’s herding cats. The job can be simplified down to “herding cats.”

Dems do not all have the same values or the same way of governing by those values. This is sometimes because we are a big tent with many disparate points of views and sometimes because their district, or state is purple, or even red, and we need to make sure a Dem keeps the seat. And Sometimes it’s a combination of both.

That means there is no other member that could convince some members to vote a certain way. You, as their constituent have more power. You can contact their office, and protest in their district and make noise on social media. Their vote is based on their assumptions about their district, so CHANGE THEM.

Everyone talks about Nancy Pelosi. But you have to remember, that was when she was SPEAKER, not minority leader.

She didn’t bring anything to the House floor until she had the votes to pass it. That’s not what Leaders Jeffries and Schumer aren’t doing.

They don’t get a choice when something comes to the House or Senate floor. That is up to Thune and Johnson.

So we’re not always gonna have the votes because Dems have absolutely no say of when something gets voted on.

Dems might not even KNOW until an hour before the vote, or sometimes less.

I can’t overstate this.

Schumer and Jeffries and whips Senator Dick Durbin and Rep Katherine Clark whip as best they can given these facts, but they aren’t magical superheros. If a member doesn’t want to vote with the Dems, they’re not gonna vote with the Dems.

It doesn’t matter is Schumer turns himself into a pretzel, that fact isn’t gonna change.

He is not responsible for that person not voting with us. He can’t be. For the aforementioned reason above that he is not a superhero.

But that doesn’t make him BAD at whipping.

In fact, the best example I can give is the one most of you blamed him for the most: the Government Shutdown.

Those 7 members wanted to give in THE WEEK the Shutdown started. Some of them would have caved that first day.

Through painstaking negotiation over and over again, Schumer was able to hold them off till after the November election.

That was NOT easy. These cats did not want to be herded. But because of his efforts, we won BIG in the off year general election.

Could another leader have done the same thing? Maybe. Could the most progressive member of the Senate have? I don’t know.

There’s a fine line between herding effectively and alienating. Blue dogs and progressives all have Democratic values but don’t agree on how they need to be implemented.

Not to mention, this wasn’t even about how big the tent is, but rather how much of a given district is military and government employees. There was nothing Schumer could say that would convince these members that their constituents could go another week, two weeks, month etc., without being paid. Period.

I don’t think that would have been different with leader Murphy or Murray or Van Hollen. The facts wouldn’t magically change.

The job of the leader makes them unpopular by design. You are not popular with the cats you are herding. And you’re certainly not popular with the owners, when you have to explain that you tried your best but their cat still wandered off.

But that’s the job.

I’m not saying this is always the case. There are a few times that the House Democratic Caucus chooses not to whip that they might have some success if they had. Same goes for the Senate. And of course Schumer’s own votes are his own choice, so yeah, the Israel weapons vote was incredibly disappointing.

But stop thinking that other members have no agency. The best minority leader in the world can’t necessarily keep their minority caucus together.

We don’t know what Speaker Jeffries is like, but we DO know that Majority Leader Schumer managed to pass the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and Sciences Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act with the slimmest of majorities.

That said, Chuck Schumer has been in this position since 2017 and it’s time for him to step down in January. No one wants the job right now, just listen to Senator Whitehouse laugh when you ask him if he does. But it’s time.

Not some secret vote that’s going to divide the caucus the next time he fails to be a magician, but rather, convincing him that it’s time to give someone else a shot.

The thing is, you don’t vote. So, you might not like the next person who wants the job. Just saying.

[thingstrumperssay]

Welp. Schumer's a traitor who decided that letting you die is preferable to a government shutdown.

Edit: And also these people.

[onlytiktoks]

[potatooni]

Y'all stupid y'know.

Okay so this is something that's been bugging me since the last US election. I've seen so many jackasses online blaming people, in particular Gen Z, who didn't blindly voted for the Democrats for all the current problems, as if none of this would've happened if Trump lost. Newsflash fuckers: it all would've happened regardless because Dems and Reps are ultimately identical.

Both parties have always collaborated on key issues and the Dems never really did a damn thing to prevent the Reps from making everything worse. Even when they have all the majorities they never do shit with it and only ever twiddle their thumbs and do worthless virtue signaling like those stupid anti-police violence stunts that didn't address the problem at all. Even if Harris would've won the exact same anti-migration, anti-trans and even anti-health masures would've been introduced and still passed. Harris would've also taked revenge on the pro Palestine activist like Trump does right now aswell as introducing similiar border policy. And don't come to me with all that "oh no, Gen Z doomed us all and the Dems would never do anything bad" Fuck you. Look at Shumer just straight up making Elon's government cuts legal because "muh government shutdown" (wich is such a pathetic justification). Serioulsy how politically naive are you people? Atleast many Gen Z voters (not exclusively mind you but this post is about them and how they're unjustly vilivied by gullible idiots) had the intelligence and balls to shit on both Harris and Trump and either didn't vote at all or voted for random third party candidates that atleast somewhat align with them. Because that's what you're supposed to do during elections and not follow those retardet MAGA/Vote Blue No Matter Who cults like the stupid sheep you seem to be. The Dems actively and deliberately destroyed the little bit of good will the Harris/Walz campaign built up by copypasting all the stupid identiy politics Clinton crap from 2016, where they also did everything in their power to prevent Bernie from succeeding just because he ran on a way better platform. It had nothing to do with Gen Z not turning out for Harris. And stuff like that isn't a pure US issue either. Remember how UK Labour actively attacked and tried to drag down Jeremy Corbyn aka "Mr. Based" because he dared to actually adress the real issues of the population? Yeah. People and their problems don't matter to politicians. Only their own power and money does. That goes for ALL parties in every single country in the world. They're ALL THE SAME. So yeah, to all you dipshits who whine and moan about how people are getting deported now and shit: the Dems would've done the same, they'd just used a different language and justifications. Also, I've got no fucking clue who Chappel Roan is but EVERYONE OF YOU BRAINDEAD SHIT NUGGETS owe her a huge ass apology for coming after her after the only thing she did was speak the absolute empirical truth. Like seriously, I was born in '92 and have been politically aware for decades now and it's just staggering how fucking clueless all you twats are. Good lord.

[tiredgirlvent]

Chuck Schumer has betrayed the Jewish community but now is writing a book on anti semitism?

Anti semitism that he himself ignored ( tho Jewish ) and saw what was happening on college campuses and Jews being attacked in the streets and did absolutely nothing!

I can understand why people are angry about this .

[istesque]