Well sounds like the Democratic leadership to aggressively court disgruntled voters and listening and addressing their concerns is off to a great start with this.
Duh. Schumer works for Israel, not the USA.
What’s that on his neck?
a Hicky from Netanyahu
It’s time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and get dragged off stage.
He’s an active traitor. Insidious.
AoC needs to primary him
Attack on Chuck?
Exactly.
Sie sind das Essen und ich bin der Cortez!
(Sorry to German speakers, I don’t speak it)
I used to think he was merely useless, now I think he’s a collaborator.
Now?!
I used to, but I still do.
Yes.
Yeah this clown and like half the Dem establishment needs to go. Maybe more than half. I’m not one for the “both parties are the same” bullshit, but between the enablements and the not listening to constituents, it is clear that many of these people are incapable of performing the duties for which they were elected.
Their duty is to Israel first, America second. We need to primary any Dem who takes AIPAC, or other Zionist groups, money.
Guys, you just don’t understand. His job, as he stated, is “to fight like hell for Israel.” This other stuff is just peanuts for him.
Maybe he needs to go be a politician in Israel then because I’d prefer that he “fight like hell” for the US at the moment.
Not just Israel. He’s also here for the Baileys!
From Wikipedia:
Schumer has long claimed that his political decisions are guided by an imaginary middle-class couple, Joe and Eileen Bailey (initially O’Reilly), swing voters living in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa
Specifically an imaginary couple who voted for Trump twice. His guiding imaginary couple are Republicans.
If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to Jon Oliver’s piece about Schumer and the Bailey’s and how the imaginary swing voters he bases his policy decisions on are really Republicans.
Fuck those people. I’m from long island, I know people from Massapequa. They probably love ICE.
Maybe he should join the Knesset if he cares more for Israel than the US.
It’s a conflict of interest for sure.
Even better, Trump takes the focus off Gaza, that’s a big win for Schumer.
The DNC is controlled opposition and the fact that centrists are in denial about it puts all of us in great peril.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory right there.
No, proven fact. Proven again and again and again.
What is preventing you from knowing what your eyes can see?
The Washington Generals were controlled opposition for the Harlem Globetrotters. They never actually tried to win.
Democrats do try to win and succeed about half the time. What my eyes see is that Republicans don’t want Democrats around to stop them from enacting more fascist policies. Democrats so far are one of the only major obstacles to that end.
If that obstacle is a speed bump that just lies there while it’s rolled over then sure.
Realistically, what do they have the power to do that they aren’t already doing?
Even if they aren’t controlled opposition and just completely incompetent, worthless, hypocritical assholes, their actions results in the same so F these guys.
That I can agree with.
I dunno, even if they aren’t, they are so ineffective that they kinda are doing that anyway
When you’ve got one side that mostly follows the rules and one side that mostly cheats, the side that cheats will usually win.
Most of the Dems aren’t really trying to follow rules or not tho. They’re just kinda sitting there watching it all happen.
Realistically what do they have the power to do that they aren’t doing? Republicans have control of the House, Senate, Judiciary and 27 state governorships.
Really? Cause they are both bought by AIPAC lol
People love blaming the Jews. The National Association of Realtors spent more than the AIPAC last cycle.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/top-pacs/2024
People? Im a jew. Fuck you nazi bootlicker. How many realtors have committed genocide?
By your logic, AIPAC is running the government based on how much they donate. If you are being logically consistent then you should also believe realtors are running the country.
Schumer literally said himself that his job is to fight for Israel.
That has been the position of nearly every US politician in both parties for the last 40 years. He also calls for a real ceasefire and a two party state, recognizing Palestine has just as much right to statehood as Israel.
Meanwhile when Trump was asked if it’s his job to uphold the Constitution, he said " I don’t know".
If you don’t have at least one of the phrases “controlled opposition” or “manufactured consent” in your comment, you’re not really a good bootlicker for left-wing authoritarians.
In b4 “All authoritarians are right-wing” and “No True Communist” objections.
What left-wing authoritarians??? What fucking year is it??
“No True Communist”
No country claiming to be Communist is actually Communist.
That’s not what I said. Can you answer the question I posed?
It’s 2026.
Jokes on them. I favor parties that advocate for the extinction of the human species. Left or right doesn’t matter so long as humanity is wiped out completely.
That just sounds like a description of fascism.
Fascism needs people to rule over. Extinction, by definition, means nobody to rule over upon success.
Fascism must always have a target to persecute. The logical end game is everyone is dead.
I have held my nose and voted for this rat-fuck in every election of my adult life. I keep hoping someone who actually cares about New Yorkers will primary him.
You can do more than hope. Find a qualified challenger and volunteer on their campaign if you have the time. Stump for them in your area.
Only way to get elected if you’re north of Westchester County is to get appointed to the position first.
I wish I was exaggerating, but Hillary Clinton and Bobby Kennedy are the only non-NYC/non-incumbent senators the state has elected in nearly 70 years.
Mamdani is proof that NYC is ready to embrace a non establishment Democrat. I hope a good challenger to Schumer emerges
House Democrats found themselves in the familiar position this week of seething at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for negotiating a deal with Republicans to keep the government funded.
Why it matters: While his caucus remains behind him, Schumer is becoming persona non grata for much of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
“I’m gonna continue to tell you that Schumer needs to get the hell out over and over and over until he does,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios. “He continues to demonstrate to us that he can’t meet the moment,” she added. Another House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer insights into private conversations among lawmakers, told Axios: “The main feeling among members is a lack of trust in his strength and ability to strike a hard bargain.” State of play: The House voted Tuesday to pass an appropriations package that funds the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, State and Transportation until September.
It also keeps the Department of Homeland Security funded at 2025 levels until Feb. 13, which is meant to give Senate Democrats and the White House enough time to hash out a final deal on ICE and Customs and Border Protection reforms. But while Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have said they won’t accept anything short of reforms of those agencies, their GOP counterparts have cast doubt on the prospect of a quick deal. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) went so far as to tell reporters that a deal by Feb. 13 was an “impossibility,” floating a year-long stopgap funding bill to keep DHS open. What they’re saying: Jeffries has essentially threatened to allow a DHS shutdown if his demands aren’t met, saying in a statement Tuesday, “Absent bold and meaningful change, there is no credible path forward with respect to the Department of Homeland Security funding bill next week.”
But Schumer, asked if he would make the same ultimatum at a press conference with Jeffries on Wednesday, told reporters, “I’m just going to say we’re sending them a proposal and we await their response.” Senate Democrats — unlike their House counterparts — have the ability to block a DHS funding bill because it takes a 60-vote majority to pass it in the upper chamber. What we’re hearing: Some Democrats, worried that the threat of a DHS shutdown is not enough to force Republicans to the table, feel Schumer gave up the party’s best leverage by cutting a deal to reopen the rest of the government.
“Every time that we are winning, we seem to somehow sabotage [it],” Ramirez fumed, noting that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has already ruled out several Democratic demands.
Said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.): “Personally I was of the opinion … that, ‘What are we going to get in 10 days that we didn’t get?’” A second House Democrat who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Axios that “all those spending bills, that is the most leverage,” and that “many folks in the [House] Democratic caucus wish that we had more confidence in Schumer’s ability to navigate a good, tough deal.” Yes, but: Some progressive House Democrats are still confident that the DHS bill is enough leverage to secure some concessions.
“I don’t think Republicans want a DHS shutdown,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told Axios. She added: “If Donald Trump wants to … issue the State of the Union with the entire Department of Homeland Security shut down, I think that is a terrible indictment of his leadership. And I do think they care.” Jayapal and Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) both argued that public opinion against ICE is another piece of leverage for Democrats, with García telling Axios: “They 'ought to be worried how their policies are faring with the American people.” The bottom line: “It could be a huge failure” for Senate Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez says, if they fail to secure the reforms the party are demanding.
“The stakes are quite high.”
Massey, the Republican on the outs, told the dems they have to actually hold out for something concrete.
Jesus christ, maybe massey should be appointed to lead. How are there no challenges to democratic leadership? Not now, not, ever? What is wrong with the party? What is wrong with us for accepting this?
Massey has more balls than the entire DNC combined
Too bad balls doesn’t equal decent values.
It takes a lot of courage to buck the party right now. He probably would make a good leader, the stances of the leader on issues really aren’t important right now either, getting concrete concessions is. Extracting information from oversight is. Producing political messaging, from press releases to questioning administration/government officials, to digging up dirt on perversions of the administration. ie exporting government data to private data banks owned by thiel’s faction from doge contrary to law.
We need a leader that can help the party members do these things. Their own politics aside they need to want to fight, maybe that’s schumer’s problem, he doesn’t want to upset the baileys, the fictional family he cites as real to justify playing to the right despite the baileys seemingly hating him and voting republican.
I say give massey a chance if no one else will throw their hat in the ring. I’d give it to Marjorie if she was still in the game, she at least had the backbone to stand up.
Said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.): “Personally I was of the opinion … that, ‘What are we going to get in 10 days that we didn’t get?’”
You only got what you got because you funded DHS for two more weeks. Now you have all the leverage because social services aren’t on the chopping block anymore.
Get rid of him and they’ll replace a mirror image of him. The same way they replaced Pelosi with a black to version of Pelosi.
What a primaryable face.
Cuck Schumer
Am I the only one that thinks if they can get ICE to follow the laws and have recordings would be a positive change?
Not negotiating and leaving all as is right now seems worse
I’m sure that you’ve got some good company there like Henry Cuellar, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Tom Suozzi, and the others who are naive enough to think you’d get ICE to follow laws they already aren’t following and not murdering American citizens if they only had body cams when one of them was literally filming his execution with his camera while violating SOP.
First, there is no reason I can see to think that ICE will follow the new laws they pass. They are not following the law now. Second, why would cameras make a difference? We have clear video evidence in at least two murders committed by ICE and there has been now action taken to prosecute or even reprimand the murderers.
The only viable option for the democrats in Congress is to use the GOP playbook and extort the administration by shutting the government down until they comply.
if they can get ICE to follow the laws
They can’t though, and to think that’s a possibility seriously misunderstands the situation.
The point of a fascist death squad is not to follow the law. If they’d intended to follow the law, they wouldn’t have created illegal anonymous death squads with no oversight and free rein to attack whoever they want.
Recordings or body cams will change nothing. They all know there’s a hundred cameras pointed at them when they do something and they do it anyway, they know there is no accountability.
