EVERYBODY is calling for Schmuck to be replaced.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
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Both Schumer and Jeffries need to go. Jeffries went on TV not long ago and said he doesn't support dismantling ICE or passing Medicare for All.
For a quick, easy way to directly write to your congresspeople to tell them to oppose Schumer & Jeffries, you can sign these Resistbot petitions:
Response I got from Neal. This is why I voted against you in the primary!
While definitely worth signing to cover all our bases, I just want to clarify that each Resistbot petition is sent directly to your specific elected representative/senators as a letter/email from you, their constituent :)
And as someone else posted an example of, gets an automated form letter and sent straight to a trashcan. Do you really think anyone is reading those emails?
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And secretly met with Kushner to "discuss affordability"
Why was his primary against a democratic socialist cancelled?
Sorry, do you have some context here? I hadn't heard about that
Because he would have lost and that's not what the establishment wants.
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He has one job and he will now do it
Oh damn that's right it's Schumer that said his job was to Israel not Jeffries. Guess I can't tell one shitheel from the other. Though I suppose a guillotine wouldn't be able to either.
Hakeem Jeffries is also one of the top recipients of AIPAC. I think his famous quote was "Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever. "
Oh, I thought his job was to write strongly worded letters to the gop
Please. He doesn't write those. He's got a handful of interns that will gladly draft a milquetoast worded letter for him to approve of.
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries should be in leadership positions. They are quite literally part of the problem.
Jefferies literally just met with Kushner before the election. Now, I don't fault anyone for trying to deal with the White House, someone has to if they want to bring costs down, but doing so before knowing the strength of his own position is either foolish or telling.
Contact your representatives and tell them to keep Jeffries and Schumer out of party leadership roles. We're done with meaningless decorum and excuses for doing nothing.
Hey, thanks for this prompt. It directly led to me calling my representatives about this!
Good work! Democracy doesn't begin and end at the ballot polls so it's good to see others doing more to move the needle.
Schumer is a effectively a moderate Republican. He has publicly and repeatedly (for nearly 2 decades) said he uses an imaginary couple named Joe and Eileen Bailey, and what they would think if they were real, to decide how to vote in the Senate.
The world was first introduced to the Baileys in Schumer's 2007 book, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time. According to Oliver, Schumer mentions the swing-voting, middle-class couple an astonishing 265 times in just 264 pages.
"I have conversations with them… one of my staffers once said I had imaginary friends to the press, got me in some trouble," Schumer says in a clip Oliver played.
Schumer describes the couple as Reagan-era Republicans — socially liberal but fiscally conservative. He's offered up intricate details about their fictional lives: their love of Kung Pao chicken, Joe's habit of singing the national anthem at Islanders games, and Eileen's father's chilling run-in with prostate cancer.
Note, the Kung Pao chicken, Islanders games, and prostate cancer are all imaginary! Rather than talking with actual voters, Schumer just makes up imaginary voters pretends to talk to them! Why is this delusional man even in a position of leadership? He literally talks to imaginary 'Reagan Republicans' to decide how to vote. He does not even belong in Congress, let alone in a leadership role.
Edit: For anyone who would like to laugh and or cry about this, here is a youtube link to Jon Oliver's segment about Schumer and his imaginary friends.
The guy is running a local LLM in his septuagenerian head. It’s trained on models that are 40 years old and that represent people that would be in their 80s now. smh
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The reality: Democrats lost to Trump in ~~2012~~ 2016 and 2024.
What Schumer and Jeffries explicitly say they want: To go back to the way things were in 2024 (roll back all of Trump's policies).
Likely result of doing so: Democrats continue to lose to Republicans.
Obvious conclusion: Democrats need to push an actual policy that gives people am economic reason to vote for them and makes the donor class uncomfortable. "A Return to Normalcy" is a losing strategy.
Trump's incompetence has granted us a reprieve, but the next fascist we elect may be younger, smarter, more capable. We can not fuck this up.
Trump has always suffered from incompetence. Trump v1, we saw this in spades.
During Biden, GOP/alt-right used the four years to consolidate power, find further vulnerabilities, and capitalize on them under Trump v2. GOP fucking wrote what they were going to do and then they fucking did it.
The DNC suffers from wanting to appeal to centralists, the largest bloc of voters that can actually swing an election. They know that progressives and anyone left of the DNC will vote dem because of the fucking two party system.
If progressives want change, NOW is the time to capitalize! Now is the time to support progressive candidates, set up election committees so when the primaries come up in 1.5 years, they will be front and center.
The reason the DNC doesn't pander to progressives is that we don't give them a reason to. We start too late. We hem and haw through the primaries, bitching and moaning that we don't have Jon Stewart. The number of progressives that are breathing a sigh of relief yesterday was palpable. Yes, celebrate the win, but we didn't "win". We have an opposition that we can influence more than the other candidate.
We need to fucking take these new politicians to task.
And, at the same time, find even more progressive candidates and encourage them to run. I want more candidates Chris Gallant. We need more Zohran Mamdanis. We need more Allison Montgomerys.
We need more Gen Zs.
I'm fucking tired of the DNC going to progressive candidates and saying they need to stand down because they won't win. I want progressives to throw the DNC the middle finger and say, "You go left or we're leaving YOU." I want the DNC to be the third party.
So yes, take the victory lap everyone. But start looking for progressives NOW to run in two years.
Don't wait two months before primaries.
The problem with progressive candidates is that they stand largely alone, with constant ankle-biting from other Democrats. No fucking wonder Progressive positions aren't popular in practice (despite being popular in theory), because the entire fucking DNC is always talking down progessive policies and labelling it radical. They don't fight for shit and the public never hears strong, consistent arguments for progressive policies.
We have enough trouble fighting uphill in this media environement, we can't afford to have the party splintered on messaging key issues.
Centrist dems think their job is just to take the most popular positions that already exist, at the same time as they're forbidden from upsetting the donor class. That leaves us with culture war issues that favor Republicans and divide us instead of economic issues that favor Democrats (ie the dreaded populism) that can unite us.
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"Hear, Hear!" Ask AOC to become Majority Speaker or give her a higher leadership role.
Best they can do is strongly suggest she run for a different office next time.
Then attempt to sabotage her campaign. (Again)
Jefferies needs to be stopped too.
IMO every aipac politician should be boxed up and shipped to Israel.
The us government is the equivalent of a public computer at a prison. It's infected and it needs to be wiped.
If they mess up coming out of this midterm win, I will be astounded if they are able to take the presidency. Dems will never have another chance like this to really demonstrate a new vision. I hope they don't fumble it.
Honestly, it’s still up to us. It’s us, as constituents, that won the midterms.
We need to demonstrate the new vision. Our congressmen are there to represent what we want, they’re not there to come up with stuff we may want to see happen.
That means you have to write them and tell them exactly what you want to see. It’s not just about winning a vote, make sure they hear what you have to say.
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Schumer belongs in an old folks home along with Trump. They can play cards and talk about how much they support Israeli genocide there and smile as they watch people on YouTube kick a baby. They don't belong in politics anymore.
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It is really for the best in a change of leadership unless people really want to down the line repeat the cycle that got us here.
No Chuck!
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