I made fun of Schumer just a couple days ago for being a super ghoul only laser-focused on elections while ignoring the human cost. But - holy mother of fuck - is he a super ghoul.
“There’s going to be some powerful ads,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the chamber’s Democratic leader, before rattling off potential scripts for advertisements that are set to begin airing as early as next week. “‘My daughter had cancer. She was doing fine. Well, all of a sudden, her health care was blown up.’ ‘I worked at this rural hospital for 30 years. I put my heart into it because I wanted to help people. I was fired.’ Stuff like that is going to really matter.”
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Democratic groups are also looking to expand their advertising blitz to prominent podcasters, who would read ad scripts on their shows.
They are so excited.
Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, said the bill’s passage made his party’s long shot dream of winning back the Senate much more realistic.
“To know this bill is to hate it,” Mr. Schatz said in an interview. “But once it’s enacted, people will start to dig into its individual provisions, and, frankly, they are all terrible and unpopular. So our job is to point out, when kids get less to eat, when rural hospitals shutter, when the price of electricity goes up, that this is because of what your Republican elected official did.”
In 100% unsurprising news item #1 - There isn’t a single word about that they want to do about anything if they get back in power.
In 100% unsurprising news item #2 - ICE becoming a powerful Gestapo is also not mentioned at all.
The following shitty article is not worth its own post but it’s on the same theme as this post so I’ll leave it here. Of course - the reporter doesn’t mention ICE. Did Jeffries speechify for nine fucking hours without saying anything of note about ICE?
I’m absolutely love it when things are wasted on political performance bullshit