ANALYSIS: The Senate Democratic leader is increasingly finding himself out of step with both his party’s voting base and his colleagues in Congress, writes John Bowden

Consider he can’t handle to NOT voting for another fascist cabinet member, yeah, screw this ineffective asshole.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1631·
    1 个月前

    Schumer is a deer in the headlights at this point. If we’re being generous, he’s useless. If we’re being honest, he’s a fascist enabler. And fascist enablers are fascists with extra steps.

    • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
      5732·
      1 个月前

      I’m going to say something controversial to some of us: It’s because Jewish people are the fascists this time around. Israel is a militarized police and tech surveillance state whose leader will be ousted if the war stops so he went on the offensive. Chuck is receiving money from AIPAC and doesn’t want the campaign cash to stop so he’s looking the other way while the fascists take over.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        611·
        1 个月前

        Every Jewish person I know is opposed to aid for Israel, supporting their genocide and very vocally supportive of Gaza/palestine and very critical of Israel-the-country

        It’s not that he’s Jewish. He’s just a prick.

          • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            111·
            1 个月前

            It’s telling how people in the imperial core generally can’t distinguish between judaism and zionism. That’s how deeply ingrained the indoctrination and propaganda goes. The widespread conflation of judaism and zionism is a completely normalized form of anti-semitism.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            30 天前

            I’ll pass it along, but I can tell you they’re going to be a bit confused and say “it’s just the bare minimum,” or “it’s just the right thing to do.”

            (that was their response when I expressed my own gratitude and appreciation.)

        • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          29 天前

          There’s a super reform synagogue in my town, their president is an out lesbian, they turned out for blm marches, host families traveling to get medical care for their sick kids, etc.

          And they’re generally super pro-Netanyahu, pro-NeoNaqba.

          It’s baffling to me that you can understand that there is rampant racist police violence in the US, and not in Gaza or Jenin.

      • ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 个月前

        Elections need to be publicly funded. Money in politics is the source of America’s decline.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        3·
        29 天前

        Trump’s a goy. So’s Vance. A lot of the white nationalist MAGAts would be happy to murder Jews if they got the chance.

        Likud’s influence on both Dems and Republicans is indeed pernicious, but it’s money in politics and the peddling of foreign influence that are the underlying problems, not Jewish people.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        211·
        1 个月前

        This is Hakeem Jeffries erasure.

        See also: Durbin, Cuellar, Clyburn, Hoyer, the entire Blue Dog Coalition, King, Coons, Klobuchar, Tester, Rosen, Hassan, Peters, to just name a few of the feckless Dems (and one independent Senator who caucuses with Dems but often votes with the fascists) who still value “bipartisanship” over the wellbeing of the people they’re pretending to represent.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        2·
        30 天前

        There’s no time left for voting them out. We’ve already had our last free and fair election.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    47·
    30 天前

    “Polls come and go. Our party is united. We’re on our front foot, we’re stepping forward, going after Trump and having real success,” Schumer insisted.

    Nothing said here reflects reality.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        6·
        29 天前

        That piece of shit was coming here on his stupid book tour. Friend and I had plans to go challenge him before he cancelled when he realized he’s unpopular. Schedule a new tour, Chucky. We’re dying to see you.

  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 个月前

    He’s not struggling to meet the moment, he’s struggling to hold his own party down. Make no mistake, that traitorous bastard is a collaborationist Vichy-Democrat, a blue-dog-Republican snake. He wants as little to be done about the exploitation of the nation as possible, so he and his doners can reap the rewards.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
      15·
      1 个月前

      Please primary all these dinosaurs, they were old when I was still young. I don’t know your process but please get more progressives in the house and send this current batch out to pasture

      • michel@lemmy.ml
        6·
        30 天前

        Schumer’s seat is only up in 2028 but if enough of his allies - preferably in safe seats - get primaried in 26 and the new progressives hold them in the general election (and hopefully win some back from GOP) I expect he will be forced out of leadership for the next Congress

        It has to have enough shift to progressives or else he will take credit and stay on. He will also be ousted if Democrats lose again but in that scenario MAGA will continue unchecked for 2 more years at least

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    34·
    1 个月前

    “Struggles” is being generous. He is intentionally not fighting. The elderly leadership and all the AIPAC loyalists within the party major road blocks to any form of fighting back.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    1 个月前

    I have despised this craven, insipid, spineless weenie ever since he collaborated with a clumsy Republican smear campaign to ruin Al Franken’s career.

    Since then, he has been ineffective at best, and has been a cowardly collaborator at worst. It’s time for this loser to be removed from office, let AOC take his place, and be replaced as Senate Minority Leader by someone bold enough to go toe-to-toe with the MAGA Nazis.