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Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
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Spineless punk ass bitches.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Spineless punk ass bitches
Complicit punk ass bitches.
They don’t give a shit. All they care about is how it affects them politically. Which means they’re also fucking idiots because this isn’t even smart politically.
I guarantee you they’re worried about appearing soft on crime/immigration. They’re stuck in 2015 and I wish we could send them back there.
Seriously this is an unbelievably dumb fucking move. They cannot be this fucking dumb.
More and more I wonder who it is that actually calls the shots for these Democrats? Who is that gives them their orders. Obviously it's corporate donors just like it is with Republicans, but who are they?
Did they really let Venezuela happen because they didn't want to look weak, or do they share the same incentives as Republicans courtesy of the oil industry?
Schumer, at least, has proven himself to be a person who will claim one position in public while encouraging others to do the opposite, which is his real position. He'll take a stand for the right thing only when he knows he has enough people doing the wrong thing that he will be defeated, and then he'll publicly shrug and regret that there was nothing more he could do. He's dishonest and cowardly and does not serve the voters.
Jeffries is just an insubstantial man who blows in the corporate wind. And also just blows.
Then you have people like Ro Kahnna making a very public display of allegedly fighting for equality and justice while Peter Thiel pulls his fucking strings from backstage. Calling for the U.S. to recognize Palestine as an independent state while downplaying his own investments in Palantir and history with other silicon valley billionaires like David Sackler.
It just makes me wonder how many billionaires are actually funding both sides and directing Democrats to play off of each other in this never ending one step forward and two steps back bullshit of calling for the right thing as a publicity stunt, only because they know it will go nowhere and be blocked by a simultaneous counter measure they're running at the same time..
Primary them in a few months. Then, we build an actual party and hopefully redo this whole fucker because this hasn't been working for decades.
Primary them in a few months.
This is contingent on democrats running honest primaries.
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“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.
Bruh how is it not here and now? If not now, when? if not you, who?
Yeah, right now send like a pretty fucking appropriate time!
If they were controlled opposition what would they be doing different right now?
This. The democratic establishment functionally appear to serve the same interests as their supposed opponents.
Fine, fuck it, rope for them too, hang out like Mussolini did.
Fuck these goddamn traitors.
I am obligated every time someone brings up Mussolini to remind everyone that Mussolini was not overthrown and executed by a plucky band of rebels who raided the capital, his removal from power and subsequent arrest was performed by his own government and the king of Italy at the time.
Mussolini was facing growing political and social disapproval and the rioting and insurgency happing throughout italy made the country lose faith in him, as well as the coming storm of allied nations getting closer and closer to Italy prompted his own government to depose him and hand him over to the opposition.
We can still beat this through political means, and kind of need to, otherwise we don't have an actual army behind us, we don't have a leader or support from anyone, we don't have secure coordination nor popular enough public sentiment to have anything close to a rebellion or coup. Yet.
And even if all that did come together, we would need a plan to deal with the fact that even if we solved everything and got rid of every last fascist in power in the USA, we still have to live next to the tens of millions of people who didn't want this action nor vote for it, people who have a lot of community power, social capital and vast stockpiles of weapons and ammunition.
You want to defeat this, you have to hunker down and get involved in your community. Hold protests, march, yes if enough people are getting together go ahead and demonstrate your willingness to disrupt the system. But the best thing you can do is form social connections and get enough people demanding better local and state representation. We need community back, less sheltered, atomized world-views and more broad-scale opposition.
I am obligated every time someone brings up Mussolini to remind everyone that Mussolini was not overthrown and executed by a plucky band of rebels....
Sadly no, but there's always the Gaddafi treatment.
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There's the Democrats I know
Schumner, Jeffries unable to speak coherently with all the donor dick in their mouth.
Schuemer and Jeffries are not just useless, they are intentionally useless fuckwits. As with Johnson, they must be removed from office.
Donorcrats and Turdpublicans alike are traitors.
One might call them controlled opposition
THESE TWO ARE CONTROLLED
All of them are controlled.
The largest blame belongs on the GOP, but let's be clear... Competent democratic leadership could have prevented all of this.
These crooked, shit ass democrats like Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi - even RGB - are soaked at this point in the blood and despair of the American people.
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Whenever I see these two in a picture in my feed I know some pusillanimous bullshit is going down in the Democratic Party without even reading the headline or article
Not a time for a change in leadership but a time to obtain some leadership. Any leadership at all. Sometimes that means at least saying "Fuck You" to the people running this new system of government.
These two croaking would probably do more for the world than Trump. They're incompetent at best and traitors at worst.
Tf is wrong with these dipshits
Controlled opposition.
Anyone who doesn’t stand on the right side of this issue need to be thrown out regardless of their political views.
They dont give a fuck about the average citizen. These are the same people that voted to slash funding Medicaid just a couple months ago. These are the same people that voted against impeaching Trump a couple months before that. These people want Republicans to pass every shithole bill they can because it's better for their bank account in the long run and the typical rube will blame the Republicans for it happening.
The Controlled Opposition Party at it again. Showing the world they won't do a damn thing to actually make things better. These corporate and AIPAC sponsored Dems need to go.
“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.
Uhh….
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
Incrementalist centrism is woefully inadequate to stop fascism, even if its practitioners were interested at all in doing so.
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Go ahead and call them complicit. This probably what they mean when they say they are 'playing the long game'. Idiots.
IF Dems ever take power again, the first thing they have to do is get rid of these treasonous DINOMAGAs. They are 50% of the reason that MAGA regained power. There is no way the virtuosically incompetent MAGAs should have survived the Biden Administration, they are far too stupid, but they had plenty of help, support, and cover by these two cowardly, insipid little bitches.
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The spineless shitlib corrupt politicians have once again shown their loyalty and its to the capitalist class. Once again those who seek to reform the system are consistently proven little more than controlled opposition.
This is why we must abolish capitalism in its entirety, there is no room to compromise with reactionary filth.
Important to remember that Jeffries has ties to the Kushner family. Also Chuck Schumer is in love with and subservient to his imaginary Republican friends.
If they were compost, at least they would be providing value for the planet.
Just food for thought.
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Schumer is a republican politician, of course he won't join Democrats
Schumer is the new McConnell. Determined to wreck the efficacy of the Democrats.
That's why aoc and zohran not endorsing a challanger to Jefferies is so stupid
Of course. The Dems' donors won't allow any real opposition to fascism.
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Ineffective and out of touch leadership needs to step aside. AOC really ought to primary Schumer in 2028, but Democrats need different congressional leadership way before then. And Jeffries is so robotic to me. He never has the backbone when it's needed, just like Schumer
Fuck Schumer, Pelosi and all the old ass Democrats.
Both parties are literally owned by the Israeli,s and the same Zionist oligarchs. Until we fix this fact nothing will change
I recognize that the knee-jerk reaction to end ICE is probably not the best solution.
But, read the room. Your constituents are begging you for strong leadership actions.
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