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[–] [S] 105 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

Senate leader's job is to do more than just occasionally vote. If schumer wont do the job he needs to get the eff out of the role of minority leader.

Senate dems can call for an election of a new minority leader any time they want. Its an internal to the party process. Why arent they firing him? Schumers not doing his job, but all the other dems in congress are sitting around with their heads up their rears not forcing the issue.

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  • [–] 61 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    You're making the assumption that he's not doing EXACTLY what his role is meant to be right now. He's doing it perfectly.

    The disagreement here is on what his role says it is on paper and what his actual role is in this illusion of a Democracy people keep screaming about. These people aren't lazy. They aren't dumb. They are doing exactly what the people they represent want them to do.

    We live in a representative Republic but the people being represented are a small small minority of the population. The people that politicians represent are the people that give them money. How long we gotta pretend?

    How long we gotta ask questions like "why aren't they doing X when all the lies I believe about our government tell me they should do X".

    Until they fear the population MORE than they fear the 1% nothing will change. And they sure as hell don't fear losing voters in the Democratic party. They LOVE not having any power and just collecting donations to sit on their asses. The Democrats are really happy in their position right now. Why would they make an effort to go against their donors wishes when their donors just want them to sit on their ass and occasionally do some performative filibuster record or government shutdown record that inevitably has no impact on policy.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Is he one of those on the side of Israel? Regardless of how even their actions are?

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  • [–] 55 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Democrats now are the Republicans of 30 years ago. Everything has moved to the fucking right...and Chuck Shumer sucks corporate cock just like the Republicans.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Yeah but 40 years ago the dems were trying to out "tough on crime" the GOP by asking for even harsher mandatory minimums (which involved one Senator Joseph Robinette Biden). Actually I'm pretty sure this was also going on to a certain extent in the 90s as well.

    Dems have always found ways to suck and it's not just because of where the Overton window is sitting currently.

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  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You mean, AIPAC-owned Chuck Schumer? Of course he'd keep Trump because he's doing Israel's bidding, because they have evidence of Trump raping children with Epstein.

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  • [–] 73 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Don’t you dare accuse him of doing nothing!

    Literally thousands of fundraising texts and emails have already been launched!

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago*

    We need to replace these people with actual true progressives. Mainstream democrats are blue fascists. They are not meeting this moment. They must be removed from the party. Here's how:

    Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.

    1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
    2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
    3. Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
    4. Don't punch down.
    5. Don't punch left.
    6. Educate yourself, politically.
    7. Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system
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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago

    Schmuck Schumer has too many priorities before the American people - Israel, Insider Trading, MAGA, and several more.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The senator from Israel is doing his job.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Everyone is throwing the impeachment around like it means something, again. With majority republican Senate, the pedophile being impeached for a third time will just be another notch in the belt for him as he will take it with pride because Senate will most definitely acquit him, again.

    This time is different; however, because it won't even make past House to get to Senate since he has his greatest admirer Mike "I know nothing" Johnson in charge. The pedophile made sure all the cards are in his favor this time around, and it certainly shows.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's particularly funny for the attack to be against Schumer who is in the Senate and impeachment starts in the House.

    Hakeem Jeffries is House minority leader.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    You are correct however schumer is still worthy of critique and emphasis. It only requires a low effort response like: "Within my capability, I'll make sure we have cooesponding support in the Senate if the house introduces it."

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Schumer is a hardcore Zionist and always has been. He won’t publicly express it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s delighted to see what Trump is trying to do to Iran.

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  • [+] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Schumer is a coward and we shouldn't expect that to change anytime soon

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    He is complicit and should visit the Hague upside down

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Can't wait for Peter Thiel's good little doggy to be president. I'm sure this will smooth over neatly.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    This guy is more useless than a solar-powered flashlight with no battery.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Seems to me he's doing exactly the job he's being paid for. :|

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Democratic Senators need to vote for new leadership

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    It seems like Schumer is in the Epstein files.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm surprised he didn't jump right on it after seeing the terms of surrender we agreed to with Iran.

    If those stand I am legitimately a little concerned that Israel might try to nuke Iran because Iran will exit all of this in a much stronger position than it entered and that's bad news for the genocide gang.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm surprised he didn't jump right on it after seeing the terms of surrender we agreed to with Iran.

    Hey it takes time to get video pr done, or at least recreate his last Taco video condemning trump for being too nice to Iran last year

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Schumer's just playing the smart game, waiting until Trump's approval is 0% before raising any alarms.

    Sure, politically unsavvy people will say, "Oh, a psychopath is at this very moment doing war crimes won't our elected leaders represent us and stop him," or "Please, please, you useless hump, just lift up even one finger to stop the most dangerous demented narcissist in the greatest position to do harm in the history of the world."

    But c'mon. Don't be an idiot. You people are worried about "reality," but this is more important than reality. This is politics. The most important thing is never ever risk any political capital on anything ever.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I'm not sure if I'm just being autistic and missing some obvious sarcasm or if you're being for real

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    I... Like, I really was trying to be sarcastic. I tried. Like, with the italicized words for over-the-top emphasis? Like, isn't waiting until "0%" just too absurd to be taken seriously? Or putting in quotes "you useless hump, just lift up even one finger"...? Help me, what am I doing wrong?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry, my bad, just an autistic moment. It's just getting harder and harder to tell these days.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Trick to figure out: ask yourself what the person would have to believe to make the comment earnestly, and what they'd have to believe to make it sarcastically.

    Either that poster thinks its good that Schumer is doing nothing as America commits warcrimes, or they think its very bad.

    There's not a lot of people who'd will come out and say "its good that Schuner is ignoring literal warcrimes", so it's obviously the latter.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There’s not a lot of people who’d will come out and say “its good that Schuner is ignoring literal warcrimes”, so it’s obviously the latter.

    I wish I had your optimism. I've argued a lot with liberals, centrists and the like who would argue that circles are square to defend the Democrat establishment in the past, so a completely incoherent position and a complete lack of actual values and beliefs doesn't even surprise me that much.

    Still, there was enough doubt in there for me to ask, so I suppose that's good!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Yes, but they wouldn't confront the fact that they're enabling warcrimes, they'd just pretend they're powerless and its 's fault for not voting hard enough.

    Meanwhile the someone mocking libs will rub libs complicity in their face every opportunity.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Chuck Schumer is a goddamn traitor

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Schumer, your skin is hanging off your bones. It's time to retire.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    Schumer literally cannot take action on impeachment. He's a Senator, impeachment starts in the House.

    Talk to Mike Johnson if you want to get impeachment rolling. LOL. Good luck with that!

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    A senator, and minority leader, is more than a dude who complains and votes whenever they can, and occasionally calls the president an unhinged asshole on social media.

    Homie could walk from skyscraper to skyscraper in NYC calling out CEOs individually and gather an insane crowd behind him doing so.

    Make a spectacle, get attention, start trouble. There is a genocide and a war on. Paint “impeach” on your chest and start running around the Lincoln memorial, lol. He can do shit, obviously, because he has a huge pulpit.

    But he won’t. And he doesn’t deserve this defence simply because he doesn’t have the votes.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It's not a matter of not having the votes, he literally has no official role in impeachment until the House passes it first.

    He could say "Yes, lets impeach the fucker!" but it has no more weight than you or I saying it until the House passes it first.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Of course it has more weight! He's Chuck Schumer. He could go on a bunch of news shows and say it. He has a platform. Politics isn't just about voting and procedures. It's about influence, persuasion and inspiration.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you haven't noticed, you're talking to a zionist.

    https://lemmy.world/post/44296221

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Me: "Israel is committing all 5 definitions of genocide, has been doing war crimes for decades, and needs to be subject to tribunals in the Hague."

    Lemmings: "But you won't let me say we should exterminate the Jews! You're a Zionist!"

    😂

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think you greatly overestimate what that power actually is. Most Americans know Sanders and AOC better than Schumer. Even if he has the name recognition and respect that some of the other party celebrities have, it would still be shouting into a void.

    Being vocal isn't going to cause Mike Johnson to suddenly put articles of impeachment up for a vote and there are not enough Republicans in the house that would force the issue.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    The dems run their party from the inside. As the eldest crypt keeper Schumer has control of a cadre of dem reps who will vote for whatever he tells them to. He has enough of them that he can often single handily win or sabotage (mostly what he does) whatever the democrat party is doing.

    Schumer's political platform is Israel First so he and Trump have been getting along swimmingly this term. That is why he won't use his leverage to get impeachment votes.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If Schumer had the power he still wouldn't cause that's who he is. A coward that doesn't rise to the occasion, that says some serious words to the press then goes to his club to forget. He is definitely in the democratic party tho, that's about all I can say to his accomplishments.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    OK as a non American I'll take your word for that. But he still could have stated that if it reached the Senate, the Democrats would support it.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago

    Well of course the Democrats are going to support it, just like they supported it the last two times Trump was impeached.

    Coming from the opposition, that doesn't mean much, like when the Republicans impeached Clinton over a blow job.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think Johnson has to start it, does he? I think any member can initiate it, and if a couple of Republicans vote with the Democrats, that should be enough to make it pass. Unless he shuts down the House, of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Any member can initiate it, and in fact already have, but it's up to Johnson to bring it to a vote which he will never do.

    So far, the only House members bringing impeachment articles are Democrats and Democrats do not have the ability to force votes in the House because it's currently Republican controlled.

    That COULD change in November, but the new House won't get seated until January, 2027. That will be the soonest we could see impeachment voted on.

    But none of that matters unless the Senate flips as well, we need a 60 vote majority in the Senate to overcome the filibuster and a 67 vote majority to convict and remove Trump, the Democrats aren't even CLOSE to that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Not even a strongly worded letter?

    PRARY HIM

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    If there was ever a time Schumer was known as controlled opposition, this would be it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    God, what a cuck. Cuck Boomer never living his legacy down.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    He must be as demented as the president. Why does the US have all these fossils in the government? Maybe term or age limits could be an option. But that means their stock portfolio will suffer. On both sides of ailse BTW.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Schumer is useless, but the Senate doesn't impeach.

    And they make it sound like impeachment would work, but anybody with a couple brain cells knows it won't. He was impeached twice for actual crimes and went on to get elected again, you think impeaching him for threatening language is going to work?

    This is just another story based on tweets.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    “Let’s impeach Donald.”

    Weird that he won’t.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I get the frustration but what I would hear is "Let's waste time doing another failed impeachment that solidifies Trump's position, makes us look stupid and costs us in the midterms."

    Trumps defense would be that he has free speech in negotiations and all people would hear for a month is that Democrats are putting free speech on trial, a sentiment Republicans already hold.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    See here's the thing. we have tried that "impeachment and removal" thing twice already. It is a waste of time if the senate won't commit to the removal part.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    we have tried that "impeachment and removal" thing twice already.

    You guys have done the impeachment thing, but it stalled before it got to the removal part.

    Y'all gotta follow through on the entire process.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Bought and paid for by the goofy old phuckers (gop) just appeal to his sense of wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Dear Leader has something on him.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    If only there was a chance to remove Schumer.

    Oh right, Yankee retards threw that away by allowing the election meddler to get into power unopposed.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I like how users here are making up some false reality in their head where Schumer somehow has the power to impeach as a Senator. I mean come on people, has he ever voted to convict Trump in the past? Would he even do it if he got the chance?

    Whoops, I probably hurt someones antizionist feelings because of the facts.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not disagreeing with you on that. But the fact that a hardcore zionist has already voted to convict Trump in the past still stands.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    I love how you pretend that besides voting, representatives have nothing to do and no tools to do it with.

    On a separate note, I'm surprised you havent been banned from the politics thread yet. You've been banned everywhere else havent you. Your comment stream is mostly you talking about various threads you've been banned from. Why do you suppose that keeps happening to you?

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