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Senate leader's job is to do more than just occasionally vote. If schumer wont do the job he needs to get the eff out of the role of minority leader.
Senate dems can call for an election of a new minority leader any time they want. Its an internal to the party process. Why arent they firing him? Schumers not doing his job, but all the other dems in congress are sitting around with their heads up their rears not forcing the issue.
You're making the assumption that he's not doing EXACTLY what his role is meant to be right now. He's doing it perfectly.
The disagreement here is on what his role says it is on paper and what his actual role is in this illusion of a Democracy people keep screaming about. These people aren't lazy. They aren't dumb. They are doing exactly what the people they represent want them to do.
We live in a representative Republic but the people being represented are a small small minority of the population. The people that politicians represent are the people that give them money. How long we gotta pretend?
How long we gotta ask questions like "why aren't they doing X when all the lies I believe about our government tell me they should do X".
Until they fear the population MORE than they fear the 1% nothing will change. And they sure as hell don't fear losing voters in the Democratic party. They LOVE not having any power and just collecting donations to sit on their asses. The Democrats are really happy in their position right now. Why would they make an effort to go against their donors wishes when their donors just want them to sit on their ass and occasionally do some performative filibuster record or government shutdown record that inevitably has no impact on policy.
Chuck Schumer does not represent his constituents, he represents his campaign contributors.
The Democrats of the past decade are the Washington Generals to the Republicans’ Globetrotters. They only exist to give the illusion of opposition. They get dunked on and then collect their paychecks.
There's always a reason.
The head is in the ass for warmth.
Don’t you dare accuse him of doing nothing!
Literally thousands of fundraising texts and emails have already been launched!
But were they strongly worded??
Nope. Best we can muster is a limp-worded response.
Democrats now are the Republicans of 30 years ago. Everything has moved to the fucking right...and Chuck Shumer sucks corporate cock just like the Republicans.
Yeah but 40 years ago the dems were trying to out "tough on crime" the GOP by asking for even harsher mandatory minimums (which involved one Senator Joseph Robinette Biden). Actually I'm pretty sure this was also going on to a certain extent in the 90s as well.
Dems have always found ways to suck and it's not just because of where the Overton window is sitting currently.
You mean, AIPAC-owned Chuck Schumer? Of course he'd keep Trump because he's doing Israel's bidding, because they have evidence of Trump raping children with Epstein.
Came here to say this. He’s not going to do anything that won’t help Israel. He’ll allow America to fall into the shitter before bailing on AIPAC.
We need to replace these people with actual true progressives. Mainstream democrats are blue fascists. They are not meeting this moment. They must be removed from the party. Here's how:
Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.
Schmuck Schumer has too many priorities before the American people - Israel, Insider Trading, MAGA, and several more.
Schumer literally cannot take action on impeachment. He's a Senator, impeachment starts in the House.
Talk to Mike Johnson if you want to get impeachment rolling. LOL. Good luck with that!
A senator, and minority leader, is more than a dude who complains and votes whenever they can, and occasionally calls the president an unhinged asshole on social media.
Homie could walk from skyscraper to skyscraper in NYC calling out CEOs individually and gather an insane crowd behind him doing so.
Make a spectacle, get attention, start trouble. There is a genocide and a war on. Paint “impeach” on your chest and start running around the Lincoln memorial, lol. He can do shit, obviously, because he has a huge pulpit.
But he won’t. And he doesn’t deserve this defence simply because he doesn’t have the votes.
If Schumer had the power he still wouldn't cause that's who he is. A coward that doesn't rise to the occasion, that says some serious words to the press then goes to his club to forget. He is definitely in the democratic party tho, that's about all I can say to his accomplishments.
OK as a non American I'll take your word for that. But he still could have stated that if it reached the Senate, the Democrats would support it.
Everyone is throwing the impeachment around like it means something, again. With majority republican Senate, the pedophile being impeached for a third time will just be another notch in the belt for him as he will take it with pride because Senate will most definitely acquit him, again.
This time is different; however, because it won't even make past House to get to Senate since he has his greatest admirer Mike "I know nothing" Johnson in charge. The pedophile made sure all the cards are in his favor this time around, and it certainly shows.
It's particularly funny for the attack to be against Schumer who is in the Senate and impeachment starts in the House.
Hakeem Jeffries is House minority leader.
You are correct however schumer is still worthy of critique and emphasis. It only requires a low effort response like: "Within my capability, I'll make sure we have cooesponding support in the Senate if the house introduces it."
Schumer is a hardcore Zionist and always has been. He won’t publicly express it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s delighted to see what Trump is trying to do to Iran.
Yep. A whole lot of dumbasses fall for the usual ageist psyop against people like Schumer. The real problem is how these people are bought and sold, not their age, FFS.
Didn't he say outloud that his only job in office was to support Israel?
Schumer said, “I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs.”
Schumer is a coward and we shouldn't expect that to change anytime soon
If only Schumer were merely a coward. No, he's doing exactly what his constituent---the state of Israel---wants.
He is complicit and should visit the Hague upside down
Schumer's just playing the smart game, waiting until Trump's approval is 0% before raising any alarms.
Sure, politically unsavvy people will say, "Oh, a psychopath is at this very moment doing war crimes won't our elected leaders represent us and stop him," or "Please, please, you useless hump, just lift up even one finger to stop the most dangerous demented narcissist in the greatest position to do harm in the history of the world."
But c'mon. Don't be an idiot. You people are worried about "reality," but this is more important than reality. This is politics. The most important thing is never ever risk any political capital on anything ever.
This guy is more useless than a solar-powered flashlight with no battery.
Can't wait for Peter Thiel's good little doggy to be president. I'm sure this will smooth over neatly.
It seems like Schumer is in the Epstein files.
I'm surprised he didn't jump right on it after seeing the terms of surrender we agreed to with Iran.
If those stand I am legitimately a little concerned that Israel might try to nuke Iran because Iran will exit all of this in a much stronger position than it entered and that's bad news for the genocide gang.
Chuck Schumer is a goddamn traitor
Schumer, your skin is hanging off your bones. It's time to retire.
Schumer is useless, but the Senate doesn't impeach.
And they make it sound like impeachment would work, but anybody with a couple brain cells knows it won't. He was impeached twice for actual crimes and went on to get elected again, you think impeaching him for threatening language is going to work?
This is just another story based on tweets.