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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    1·
    15 小时前

    Why is this guy called a leader when all he does is immitate a mall Santa on Christmas Day?

    • orcrist@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      They are though. He’s done, he knows it, but he won’t leave and it takes time to force powerful old men to retire.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    45·
    3 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·
        2 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.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 天前

    Chuck Schumer is running the bet that the GOP will implode before the whole country goes up in flames.

    It’s solely a hedge to save his party and capture as much power as possible.

    Maybe it works but it was never for you. Unless you believe the democrats are actually “elites” that deserve to be in charge.

    Personally, I think their time has come and gone and it’s a crying shame they were never once put together well enough to do something for those that come after.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1621·
    3 天前

    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·
      3 天前

      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.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 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.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        611·
        3 天前

        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.

        • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          2 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.

          • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            111·
            3 天前

            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·
            3 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.)

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        211·
        3 天前

        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·
        3 天前

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

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    3 天前

    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.

  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 天前

    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·
      3 天前

      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·
        3 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

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.eeEnglish
    842·
    3 天前

    This is the man who said his purpose as a Senator is to serve Israel. He should move to Israel. I wouldn’t be surprised if he already has Israeli citizenship.

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    34·
    3 天前

    “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.

  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 天前

    How sad for him. The times call for someone in his position to do more than going through the motions and other ineffective and performative bullshit