Schumer’s the best man the Republicans have in office
The ineffective Democratic leadership ain't going away unless we make them.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
2nd favorite is fetterman, and gillibrand comes in 3rd, another is from texas who has been pardoned by trump.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
There is no comparison between any Republican and any Democrat. The worst Democrat is probably Fetterman, who became more conservative after a traumatic brain injury, the only DNC senator to support funding the ICE, and even he opposed 11 Trump cabinet appointments while the most any Republican opposed was 3, Mitch McConnell. Every Democrat is better than every Republican, hands down.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Fuck Chuck.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
brem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Chuck the cuck fucking sucks butts
Chuck LeFuck fucking hates the Canucks
Chuck lugs truck nuts into his guts
If Chuck could chug butts he’d be a butt glutton, aw shucks
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
and his joke stealing cousin? amy schumer, not surprise she supports israel too.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries have been on the stage long enough, and nobody has found them entertaining at all. Time to give them the hook, and get some real talent on the stage.
The rise, and re-rise, of MAGA is 50% their fault, and they haven’t done one single thing to demonstrate that they deserve a THIRD chance to protect us from the MAGA Monsters. Both of them are entirely useless, and Schmuck is even worse than Jeffries, if that’s even possible.
All this corrupt old fuck cares about is Israel and Insider Trading. He has never done one single thing to advance a true Democratic agenda, or protect this nation from being conquered by Treasonous Pedophiles.
When this is all over, and we are putting MAGA Traitors in front of a tribunal, Schmuck & Jeffries need to be heavily investigated, too, and we’ll probably find out they were collaborating all along.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve always despised Chuck; 40 years in office and counting.
They’re not going away unless they die. Wake up
Look at Mitch McConnell, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, hell look at Trump.
When this country was founded, there was no way to conceive that we’d live for 80+ and people would hold an office for their entire life, accumulating treasures like Smaug
kreskin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. I felt the same about Biden. He was a bumbling shmuch for his entire long career.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Republicans want to abolish the minimum wage and keep healthcare tied to employment
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And Democrats just want to never raise the minimum wage again and keep healthcare tire to employment. That’s why Schumer is still going to be Senate Leader, he’s a.safe bet for the donors.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fundraiser-in-chief
Senate Majority Leader isn’t House Speaker. You command little procedural power and have no real tools to discipline rogue Senators.
The post is largely just an award for sucking up the most private money and distributing it to friendly Senators during tight reelections. The real power of the office is to throw $30M into a Michigan primary on behalf of your friends in Israel.
teslekova@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Procedural power over nominations and when to vote on bills is absolutely huge and can shape the nation as a certain vegetating turtle has shown over his career.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Procedural power over nominations and when to vote on bills
Is set by the Senate Committee Chairs, not the Senate Majority Leader. The Judiciary Chair holds significantly more power over SC nominees than Schumer, which is why Dick Durbin holds so much clout within the party and John Cornyn losing his primary was such a big deal within the GOP.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
As long as you have people like Chuck in charge of the Democrats you’ll never see anything meaningful happen. That they fight tooth and nail against the DSA is also telling.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
CHuck and hakeem, even they are shielding for people like slotkin, booker, and others in the DNC.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Chuck Schumer’s seat was won January 2025 and he won’t be up for another election until 2028, so this post is essentially useless for all purposes except attacking the party as a whole before the 2026 midterm elections.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
This post is about Chuck’s role as Senate leader specifically, not as a senator. When the new congress is in season next year, he intends to continue to be the chief spokesperson of the Democratic party.
Not useless per se, but the position is elected by the other senators within the party, not by the people. So if you don’t want him representing the Democratic party to the White House and the Senate, you should start calling your representatives and complaining now.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
That might be a sound argument if instead of attacking Schumer it was promoting literally anybody else who might run for the position.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Non-US user - how old is that guy?? He looks like he should be hovering around a nursing home shouting racial slurs at the staff.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s 75 years old, considered young for most senators.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Him and half of our leaders. They’re addicted to the power and won’t leave it. It’s just one reason you know corruption is rampant. These people don’t want to retire despite having a guaranteed paycheck and healthcare for the rest of their lives.
Aneb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah they are welfare queens who just sit and collect paychecks. Then they vote to ban welfare for the poor and disabled. Cuck Shumer like his cronies on both sides of the aisle take from Americans and receive buyouts and bribes from Oligarchs.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s funny about power is usually when you have power, you do something with it.
What have these old fucks done with their power other than just taking in tax payer money to line their own pocke…
Nevermind.
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
He looks like he will forget what he was saying mid sentence.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Neo-liberals are traitors and need to be dealt with as such.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Traitors to whom? Their primary allegiance was always to the capitalists.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They’re supposed to be beholden to their constituency. Allegiance to their campaign contributors and to schemes to enrich them personally is literally corruption.
Granted privileging property owners over the working class is baked into the Constitution of the United States, but we’ve had multiple reckonings during which we collectively reaffirmed we want our society to be a pluralistic liberal democracy. And the capitalists curse and swear vengeance every time.
(And, as Marx predicted in Das Kapital the capitalists immediately look to recapturing government institutions. It’s what they do. And so far we’ve failed to adequately punish them when they are caught trying.)
(Also, this phenomenon isn’t unique to the US. After rights in France were established in the Napoleonic Code, they were rolled back during the Bourbon Restoration, requiring a second revolution and a lot more piled heads. The French public began to realize even good kings are arbitrarily followed by tyrannical kings.)
At this point the US public is beginning to understand what’s at stake, why we need independent regulatory bodies, why rule of law has to apply to everyone, that capital never sleeps. And more of the Democratic party is tired of corporate shills. (More identify as moderate than progressive, but the platform they want is progressive. UHC is super popular.)
On the other hand, capitalists come better prepared with higher tech every time. The MAGA propaganda machine is very powerful and uses proven brainwashing techniques. And we don’t have a cure for that.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised you’re not being heckled by the libs right now for being a useless, idealist.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Mostly we heckle the people saying you shouldn’t vote, or should vote 3rd party, when the ubernazis are closer than ever to total domination. I think most people are of the opinion that, between actual elections, everything possible should be done to get better nominations and replace the old guard democrats.
deacon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When people throw around the term controlled opposition, Chuck Schumer is who I see in my minds eye.
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The more progressives want him to step aside, the more private interests will offer him to stay.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
IDK, he was literally just elected again in Jan 2025.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
schumer and hakeems is just covering fro the rest of the DINOs from being primaried. BOOKer, slotkin, GILLIBRAND and others.
64bithero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
US politics is the definition of insanity. Oh and greed.
LSTNYER@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Just, like, go away. Once you were respected but now it’s come to light you are just a shill that will do or say anything for the right amount of “donations”.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck Chuck
Cherries@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuuuuuuuck this guy. In the spirit of his own political strategy, for every Schumer we lose, we will pick up an El-Sayed or Mamdani. The change cannot happen fast enough.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck of ZioNazi
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You gotta take the Senate to be the majority.
Baby steps. Or not. Steps. Whatever.
frunch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He really makes an appealing case, lol
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
his first words is always “Israel FIRST”
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Leeching away as usual I see
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If we’ve learned anything in the past decade it’s to keep old white guys out of politics.
dk00001@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Vote some in and recall them for others as needed, unlike what’s happened in the very recent past with the other party - gotta find a way
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I’ve already contacted my senators twice to voice my hope that they don’t vote for the gerontocracy. I also contacted Schumer’s office to ask him to retire, for the sake of our country. Not that I think it’ll do much, but it’s something.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m sure it’ll give them something to use for kindling.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Better than just posting here like most do.