Now don’t upset him with this meme or he will write a very stern email and send it to you in 5-15 days.
and will pretend to not end a shutdown by having sacrifical lambs to do it, or prentend not to fund ICE.
This man may be the inspiration for the joke “If you give a Democrat politician three wishes they’d negotiate down to one and then wish for something they think Republicans would like”
chuck is basically a republican that cant be elected as an R, likewise many in tHE dnc ARE like him. 13 in the senate was shielded from being chosen to end the shutdown.
Chuck is complicit at this point. He hasn’t done a fucking thing in decades other than complain and finger wag. Hes fucking useless.
the DNC freaked out over zohran winning, surely they wont let that happen again.
Parliamentary trick to intimidate morons without glasses
Chuck is doing a lot … a lot of MAGA bootlicking.
Fuck Chuck
hes doing alot for AIPAC/israel wants.
That has a nice ring to it.
Oh, but he does a lot of things. Mainly in support of the fascist takeover of the US.
You jest, but his glasses are now at 30 seconds to midnose after your comment.
It’s because he was rich and powerful before any election, and knows he’ll be rich and powerful after. We are in the information age. We don’t need vastly disproportionately powerful people anymore. We have a mostly universal understanding of what human rights look like, (golden rule) outside of the core human rights we can spread the decision making out more. You can put anyone in chucks shoes and over time they’ll become as ghoulish in 40 years. We don’t need CEOs, presidents, the Supreme Court needs to be something like 20 judges with term limits. Spread the power out more. It made sense 250 years ago but now. The people in power are always corrupt.
He’s got a gun loaded with stories about the Baileys and grenades filled with strongly worded letters.
baileys is just a stand in for his billionaire/aipac backers.
I used to think, if I had the money one day, I’d commission a statue of Mitch McConnell and drive it around in a truck, letting people pelt it with rotten food. Now I think, it should be a statue of him and Mitch embracing, possibly while double-penetrating an American flag.
Cool, more dividing the party and not even an attempt at providing something of substance.
Fine. Vote for young radicals in the primaries because the past has shown that anything but boldness won’t move the needle. Vote DSA, even if you’re uncomfortable with them. The controlled opposition establishment should make any Democrat more uncomfortable at this point.
If you’re not doing something different to what you’ve done in the past, there is no hope for making sure fascism stays dead. A failure to enact change will not keep things the same or return them to normal, but ensure that things get continually worse.
Comments like these have got to be ragebait.
I got to be real I’m no fan of Chuck Schumer but let’s say you were in his shoes right fucking now what could you do? The Democrats have been voted out of every lever of power. I’m all for criticism but it needs to about something they had power over.
They don’t do much of anything when they are in power, that’s the problem. Much of this blame can be placed on Chuck.
Example:
They controlled the House, Senate and Presidency in 2021, Chuck Schumer was Senate Majority Leader, and still didn’t grant Dreamers legal status because a Senate Parliamentarian, a position with zero actual power, said they couldn’t.
This was one of their campaign promises and when they had the opportunity to do it, they backed out at the last second.
When they do have power, Democrats do not wield it.
Bruh. There is a whole lot they could do they clearly don’t. Like it’s not even some advanced stuff, it’s the most basic shit. They don’t even care about resisting Trump in the ways they could. The best recent example is how they caved in the Shutdown, while it was literally working and they had the best elections in a long time. They just blundered their entire leverage without any reason while they had the public support and could have protected the citizens.
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Yeah, I agree with you there caving in the shutdown was cowardly and to be clear none of what I’m saying is in defense of the man.
It just have trouble thinking it’s him that’s the problem and not the system itself.
He IS the system.
In a large sense, yeah the systemic issues we find ourselves in are largely born from lack of education and increasing alienation caused by the decay of capitalism into techno feudalism and I won’t wash his hands of his part in keeping that fester but I also know that we all knew what was at stake this time around.
They are not mutually exclusive.
No of course not, meant only to imply that it does not rest solely with him
How about actually using his power? There is SO MUCH he can do, he’s the senior, ranking Democrat, everyone gets their marching orders from him.
They can vote against funding ICE for one, they can stop giving up power and folding on issues like the healthcare, he can organize structured filibusters to stop damaging policy, he can publicize what’s being said behind closed doors and demand registered democrats pay attention to what’s going on to pressure the system with their old-money and influence, he can make legal threats and organize impeachments of everyone from the president to cabinet members down to the goddamn cleaning staff. And I’m not even like, a constitutional lawyer, I don’t know jack shit and I can think of dozens of things he could do. Imagine what he could do as a “expert” on policy and procedure.
He can start realizing that his time is drawing to a close and we need active, powerful social protections and social policies in the US instead of the shit he advocates and votes on, which is the all the shit that led us here in the first place. He can do SOMETHING AT ALL.
He has done fuck-all and stayed in the shadows except to disappoint people. If he was actually powerless then he needs to fucking demonstrate it by showing us him actually trying to DO something.
This guy gets all the same donors as the GOP, he’s part of the same system, he’s been preserving it for decades, maybe centuries, I dunno how far this goes or what they’re all huffing together back there, but he’s not looking out for Americans, he’s deranged and lives in a weird bubble-universe of civility politics and made-up families he cares about who praise his every decision, and that’s not even an exaggeration, he has talked about it in depth.
We need to flush every incumbent democrat, empty the container, refill it with something that hasn’t gone bad ages ago.
I agree with all of this, he has been a disappointment and his apathy has been a large part of why there haven’t been enough progressives in US politics. I agree on all points but it just feels like that lays on more people’s heads than his.
Maybe they wouldn’t have lost those positions if they had any amount of spine whatsoever. Why would I want to vote for someone who is literally just a limp dick?
True and we should hold them accountable for the state of the Democratic party. The current state of the USA started at education and ended at the voting booth. Can’t blame Mr. Schumer for that one.
I’m not one to blame for the democrats for what republicans are doing but the current democratic leadership at the federal level has failed to lead the narrative here. It’s all coming from governments and congressional/state officials.
Chuck is an embarrassment and the democrats need to replace him and with someone other than another fucking boomer.
I’d agree with that entirely.
I’d do what the republicans did for over a decade and stymie every attempt at the takeover.
Mitch McConnell literally got a fucking Supreme Court pick pushed off by 3 months to the next president you’re telling me the best Schumer can do is shrug his shoulders and go “whelp”?
Yeah I gotta agree with you, while I’m not a fan of party politics it seems the necessary evil of such a system
When Democrats are in charge Republicans mount effective resistance to liberal reforms; when Republicans are in charge they can do whatever bullshit they want because “you didn’t vote for the dems: this is how democracy works!!”. An example from this year in the House:
This week [i.e., January 16th 2026], the House passed H.R. 7006. While framed as a standard appropriations measure, it advances core elements of Donald Trump’s extremist agenda—especially on abortion, public health, and foreign policy. Worst of all, 153 Democrats joined Republicans to pass it. The House passed H.R. 7006 in the same week the Senate rejected extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy support—setting millions up for higher premiums. Meanwhile, this bill offers no material relief for working families while entrenching ideological restrictions and harmful priorities.
Source: 153 Democrats Vote Yes to Pass H.R. 7006
Democrats folded on the government shutdown, we got nothing for it, and now they’re rolling over again. Democrats also have a rotating set of scapegoats who will vote yes on Republican-lead bills:
A small band of moderate House Democrats teamed with Republicans on Thursday to pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, overcoming a revolt by most Democrats furious about ICE’s aggressive operations in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.
The vote was 220-207, with seven Democrats breaking with their party and voting yes. The House also passed a separate package of bills to fund other federal agencies in a broad, bipartisan vote in a bid to avert a partial government shutdown on Jan. 31. …House Republicans were in a celebratory mood after the vote, and aides were seen taking Champagne bottles to a private room just off the chamber floor… Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., flanked by GOP colleagues, said at a news conference after the vote. “The House has now passed all 12 appropriations bills, the Senate will soon do the same, and the president is going to sign them into law — what a concept.”…
Source: House passes sprawling spending package as Democrats split over ICE funding.
“There’s nothing we can do!” They cry, as they vote to further the Republican agenda.
This is largely because Democrats haven’t had a majority capable of passing without at least a couple decenting Republicans for a long time and Republicans are very very very good at keeping the party in line.
Now should Democrats play the same game? Perhaps you could argue it’s a moral failing not to but I think a lot truely believe in freedom of the vote much more that Republicans do. However I will admit it’s disheartening to see it so repeatedly abused.
He’s been a senator for 27 years and Democrat leader for 8-9 years. His power isn’t his vote. It’s building party strategy and convincing the people that Democrats are essential to governing. He hasn’t done bubkis. The party has been weakest under his leadership. He needs to be primaried and GTFO. New York has better.
I agree with you on all your points, I think it was pretty clear from my initial comment that I’m speaking about this point in time. You can absolutely give him trouble over the blunders during his career of which there’s many but this specific situation is truely not his making.
No he’s as responsible as the GOP for failing over and over again to fight fascism with anything but “stern letters” and frowns. I feel no qualms in blaming weakness for failure.
But I know it’s not just weakness, he’s been the useful stooge for controlled, managed appearance of opposition for decades. This isn’t the first time he’s disappointed, it’s not even the first time THIS MONTH.
I hope he ends up in chains honestly. I know it will never happen, but he’s more than complicit, he’s ONE of them.
Don’t support people mindlessly, support ideas and actual progress.
I agree with you, Schumer has mismanaged the party and spurred voter apathy but we all knew what was at stake. He didn’t force the votes.
Use your bully pulpit to inspire and organize your constituents. Crack the whip as party leader to forbid DINOs from undermining party solidarity. Support upcoming progressives around the country with party financing, media favors, and vocal promotion instead of undermining and ignoring them. I could go on, there is so much shit Schumer could be doing, things a competent and supportive leader would be doing. His lack of performance comes not from his minority party position but from the things he could but is literally not doing. This isn’t about inability, it’s about intentional ineptitude.
Yeah I’ll give you that, the Democratic party has done everything in its power to undermine progressives and to appeal to Republicans, a strategy that has definitely led to voter apathy.
Use the fillabuster rule and block ICE funding. Keep the government shutdown indefinitely if necessary. Compromise back to pre-Trump levels of funding to ensure the government does re-open, and enjoy watching the new ICE hires get fired due to budget cuts
This is the absolute minimum
This is the first take I’m 100% on board with.
Supposedly ICE has their own separate funding which would not be impacted by the shutdown.
No, the shutdown would be if the budget isn’t approved. Whether or not ICE is funded from congress doesn’t matter, they can shut down the government to demand an end to ICE occupation, they can use their power. They are whinging and whining that Trump and his cabinet need to do this and that, but they’re not answering the implicit question back to them: “Or what?”
You’re going to have a lot of people who didn’t vote get mad at you for saying that.
oh, this shit again from you. you need new material. you infantilize Kamala so much that she is no longer responsible for her success or failures. it’s always the voters fault, blah blah blah.
When the choice is between Harris and what we have now it is the voter’s fault.
Maybe a bit of Harris’s fault for not sitting down and personally explaining what the choice is.
Maybe a bit of Harris’s fault for not sitting down and personally explaining what the choice is.
Yes, it was. It was on the entire party establishment for not being alarmist enough, and on the entire party NOW for not being alarmist enough. We are in 3rd Reich level fascism and they still act like we live in a stable liberal democracy. They refuse to rock the boat and admit how dire things are because their narrative cannot perceive the rules being different. By not rejecting the status quo they legitimize it. By treating this blatantly corrupt dictatorship as normal, they make it the baseline for all future governments.
What they should be doing is literally risking their lives. Filibustering, running desperate campaigns, calling the immigration facilities concentration camps and ICE Trump’s personal thugs who are above the law. They should be honest about Trump making the constitution meaningless, about the entire system of liberal democracy being dismantled completely. If that makes Trump become more heavy handed with lawmakers, that would be good. If it causes him to suspend Congress, that’ll make the resistance to him even more popular. Make him destroy the illusion of civility, as nothing they’ve been doing within the system has slowed him down.
You’re so close to getting it that it’s fucking depressing.
I don’t fully blame them.
They called it out the first time, they tried to convict and impeach him but they got blocked every way.
Then after Jan 6 and Biden nobody thought he would get back in again but the American voters did with a massive helping hand from all the tired and disillusioned and now we’re here.
This should have never happened and now all I hear about is Bernie’s failed primary in 2016 and I keep asked why haven’t these voters organized a take over or anything but they’re too busy blaming the party and finding reasons why people aren’t left enough for them to support.
Don’t be depressed about what I say be depressed that it has to be said but no one will listen.
Next you’ll tell me that we would all be a brunch if we had voted for Kamala.
I mean, yeah but the current problem started with education and ended with the voting booth.
Now what we can blame Schumer for is voter apathy by leading a party the prioritized appealing to Republicans instead of progressive and spurring apathy but I still think we all knew what was at stake at the voting booth this time around.
I’d say the chances that there’s armed thugs taking over states and shooting Americans would probably be zero.
Not sure about brunch.
I’m sorry that the violence you were okay with happening overseas has come home to roost but I don’t think that makes Kamala morally superior in any way. If this upsets you I suggest you reflect on your complicity with genocide.
That’s a lot of accusations with very little facts.
Far as I can tell both the Palestine and Ukraine genocides are worse now and Trump’s kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation while threatening to invade another.
How has the genocide gotten worse? They just seem to be doing the same exact shit the Biden admin was doing, right down to planning to parcel out Gaza to American companies. The course has held if anything, and Harris certainly wasn’t trying to distance herself from that plan. If you voted for her, you were okay that happening just with different people benefitting.
She may not have kidnapped a foreign head of state but they had no problem killing Venezuelan citizens with economic sanctions, the immiseration caused by this blamed on Maduro and used as part of the justification for the coop Trump executed. They were literally building a casus belli to do this themselves, or at least creating the conditions for a domestic coop they could fund and arm.
Edit: if anything Trump’s inept execution of the coop has left a power vacuum that could be filled by someone who isn’t a US sock puppet, unlike that Nobel Prize winner the dems were probably grooming as Maduro’s successor.
You’re just going to brush off Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians?
it’s been the exact same since biden was in office
No it really really hasn’t
Oh believe me, I know.
