Being a “New Yorker” I have never been a fan of Schumer’s and frankly when he became senate Majority leader - I switched parties to independent. I have always felt he lacked imagination, urgency and was going to be a downfall for the Dems. What a disaster.
I am a yellow dog Democrat. I won't vote for any Republican. (That was a period.) I do not want to see Democrats divided.
But I think that this is much ado about virtually nothing. I worked for the government. I lived through government shut downs. Shumer and the others had to flip a decisional coin. 2 bad options. Heads they win. Tails we lose. too.
The least common denominator amog us and some patriotic Republicans is the sell out to Putin. We lost the cold war. Republicans who support Ukraine are calling out Trump/Musk. We should take advantage of the situation.
Schumer used the excuse, that was obviously specious, that if the CR didn't pass Trump would do some bad things. Fact is that Trump has and will do bad things regardless of the CR. Schumer was obviously warned off, intimiated, scared, because the day before he said that he wasn't going to vote for cloture, he voted against the CR but that was performance, of no effect.
As to dividing the democrats, that happened in the House where to a person they voted against the CR and after Chuck voted for cloture, Hakeem Jefferies and AOC arose in one voice and denounced him, two people on the oppposite side of the ideological aisle.
The yellow dog Democrat was a term used in 1928, but the two parties were still American, not bifurcated between a hostile foreign power (Russia and Musk) and loyal Americans.
This is not the 1920's, 1930's, 40's,.50's, 60's, 70's 80's . 90's or even the 2000's, and2010's, it is not politics as usual, the heart, soul and liberty itself is on the line, and anyone who tips even a toe over the line, is faciliating the end of not only Democracy, but Liberty.
And Chuck did just that, he joined the forces of evil and Trump even publicly thanked him.
Trump shot across Schumers bow when he said he was a Palestinian and not a Jew.
It was then that Schumer realized that Trump was powerful enough to determine one's ethnicity. More powerful than tradition, more powerful than science.
And with all that he has done, is doing and watching the free world grovel at his feet.
He is indeed not King but Emperor of Oceania, the Technate of America.
Thom wrote a book, The last days of ancient sunlight, about climate change and fossil fuels.
Time for a new book, but will it get published in the new order of Trump, the sun has set on liberty, and we are living in the twilight.
Democracy is not a goddess to be worshiped, but it is the liberty that both enabled and is nurtured by democracy.
Without liberty we are little more than slaves, working, struggling to live one more day.
The Democratic Party has no leadership and has not had for too many years. Until Dems find a spine and unite their colleagues and voters, fascism will reign and grow as the nation itself implodes economically, morally, and leadershipwise. Politics today is fueled by petty greed among a few billionaire nerds, who like Trump, are bullies with no real friends - just allies and sycophants who want in on their action. As I posted yesterday, there really are no political parties today.
Schumer did offer reasons for not shutting down the government, which he did explain. However, he failed to appreciate the temper of the voting public and missed an opportunity to channel rage into unity. Not all Dems are deaf - Sanders, Warren, AOC for instance. But party unity is best exemplified by dorky DINO Fetterman who should have been expelled from the party the day he left Mar a Lago.
My immediate reaction to Schumer's "Yes vote" was WHAT!!?? Then I did some reading and realized that, if the government did shut down, it would allow the Orange S.O.B. to destroy our government faster and even more out of sight. OK.
Here is another distasteful reason to keep the government working. I prefer to think about who will be protected, rather than who gains:
I don't want to give them any ideas. But I lived through times when judges were not deemed "necessary" to govenment functions, when our entire staff was included, etc.
I was involved in litifgation vs Obama's DOL -- and we lost. BTW we were never repaid for the time lost.
Yes, follow the money. There is a reason he flipped at the last minute. I agree with Thom, he has to go. I'm done with holding the party together mentality, this is how we got here to begin with. As for Trump, I'm not a Trumper but I have to give him credit, he lied about A LOT, but not about what he was going to do when in office.
He stated 'Dictator on Day One' and this is what we are getting, can't say he lied about that, and I know that with all the voter purges etc. he technically did not win, but he still had 77 million votes!
He DID lie. His strings are being pulled by Koch's A.L.E.C. , the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo. You haven't heard from any of these groups since the election, have you?? They are NOT on vacation. The goal is to eviscerate the government and PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING. A Libertarian's dream. The Post Office is on its way, Social Security also, The Weather Service. They are firing all the meteorologists ... who do you think will be forecasting hurricanes?? Why a private company will be selling its services to the government and making a healthy profit.
My point is, he stated he was going to do all of that during his rally’s, and then I’m not even mentioning the fact that he incited an insurrection. The fact that he was even allowed to run is HUGE. He promised retribution, he stated dictator on day one - given the history what else do we need to know?I don’t have to wake up, I’m fully awake thank you.
Tom, Chucks reasons were specious. He said that he was afraid of what Trump might do, if the CR wasn't passed (then like a hypocrite pulled some Kabuki theater and voted no on the CR,.
Fact is that he knows it, I know it, you know it, all of us know it, that regardless of the CR Trump would continue doing bad things and destroying our government..
His excuse was "the dog ate my homework" fallacious. Trump got to him, either by calling him a Palestinian or not a Jew, or by his usual MO, blackmail. He has dossiers on everyone, why do you think Graham and Rubio lined up to kiss his ass, and Rubio endures humilation.
Sen. Cortes-Masto is my senator, and I was preparing to send her a message today to express my anger about her vote until I heard Barbra Boxer's explanation for that position. I have felt for a long time that Schumer and others were too weak and worried about protocol. But I have also worried that it is a mistake for Democrats to attack our own people. Boxer said that the danger of having a shutdown was that Trump would use that as an opportunity to defang the courts, which are essential in keeping him in check. If he gets away with defying court orders that argument may be moot, and I am still inclined to believe that forcing a showdown with the R's is the only real option. We would be hoping that they would be blamed. But it is important to remember always that Democrats were put in this position because of the betrayal of Republican leaders, the media, and ignorant voters who believed what they wanted to believe. Attacking Schumer is not going to get us far. We need to keep reminding the public, including MAGA, that we were all betrayed by the economic royalists like Musk and the billionaires in Trump's cabinet, and the people must be protesting everywhere, every day, and the courts must start locking up Trump's attorneys for contempt. The people have been our only hope all along and it is crucial to show MAGA and the fence-sitters that they were used and betrayed by Trump.
How are we attacking our own people, when they are playing for the other side, Robert.
Barbara Boxers explanation and Schumers are fallacious and specious. Trump is, while I type, ignoring the Constitution, the Courts, judicial rulings and in broad daylight, how much more harm could he do, he has effectively destroyed all cabinet positions, Departments, including one that will make you happy, the Department of Education.
So somebody please tell me, what Trump could do in the dark, that he hasn't done in the daylight.?
Lots But I don't want to give them any ideas. I've laid some of this out previously. CJustice Roberts worked on it when he was in the Reagan administration. It may precude any vestige of democracy -- shared government.
They could have made their case for the vote, but didn't. Apparently they have not noticed that their voters are concerned about becoming Russia-like. Why would they notice when they are only in office to entertain themselves and make some $$? If they weren't ALWAYS so weak and such rollovers, AND if they had made the case, this might not be such a big deal. But I have been screeching about lack of leadership and strategy for well over 20 years and Pelosi and Schumer have collaborated to keep themselves in control - but the Party extremely weak.
This is an email I sent yesterday to my two CA senators and to Senator Whitehouse. I will be sending to more today. Jen Rubin on Contrarian says to forget about Schumer. No way.
"Democrats have the lowest approval rating ever. We got nothing. Talk is cheap. Actions matter. Schumer caved. It was an act of betrayal. Period. You have no idea. Schumer should be removed. If you do not do that, Dems will keep their low approval rating at a time of the worst president in history. Nice job. Get some backbone. it is almost too late."
Is it psyops Daniel? Is it really? From what I've seen, on and off the internet, even Democratic voters are fed up and disgusted with the spineless leadership, we need new, invigorted left wing populist leaders, not old tired race horses that have been plodding around he DNC paddock, like Schumer, Biden, Durbin, well all the Septugenarians and Octogenarians.
The future of this country needs to be determined by the people that are going to live in that future, not old farts like me that have at best a decade left, and that decade sitting on our enfeebled asses.
Not really. We need to unify, but we must unify around a stalwart, not a wimp. We have unified around wimps, and look at the result. We are living in horror.
We need fire breathing leadership Daniel, not more of the same old milquetoast that has led to the unforced error that is Trump and MAGA.
It is not personalities, it is policies, and the Democrats should have been aggressively pushing polices in everyday speak..flood the zone with propaganda instead of defensively reacting.
Trump, Bannon, Rogan, Kirk they hurl a charge and the liberal response is defensive... not me, and then a long winded response.
We need to go on the attack, be aggressive, push, push, push use their tactics against them.
Schumer has been a disappointment. Importantly - he changed his vote after Trump attacked his Jewishness. Trump said Schumer wasn’t a Jew anymore - now he (Schumer) was a Palestinian.
Was that comment a warning coming from someone or somewhere outside the USA?
I don’t know. But the timing of the comment and Schumer’s changed vote on the CR should be considered.
I disagree with Schumer and believe he should step down as leader of the Democrats but Trump’s comment should also be investigated by the Democrats themselves within their caucus. They need leadership that refuses to be intimidated
I don't think it was the comment Trump made about Schumer turning into a Palestinian led him to do a complete turn around on the vote. I think he had a come-to-Jesus talk and followed the money.
I do agree, but the Palestinian charge was a warning shot. You know damn well, that Trumps power, given that he is a Roy Cohn, protege, is blackmail, a dossier on everyone that is important. That is why Ladybug is fellating him instead of some dude on Grindr. that's why Rubio is acting like a chained dog.
And I bet there is one hell of a lot of stuff in the Epstein files, he will only release the stuff about his enemies.
It's endemic to everyone. The statutes of limitastions have run on me, byt sometimes I had to resort to the decisional coin. Sometimes all evidence is in equipoise.
The moment I learned that “Indivisible” was pissing off Dem “leadership”, I signed in to my Act Blue account and put that organization at the top of my contribution list (thanks Rachel!). Whether they’re spineless or insensate, we can’t afford leaders who pine for the good old days while the fascists destroy our manifestly fragile democracy.
Schumer should step down! All 10 Senators that voted in favor of the psychopathic spending bill are enablers. Who are they doing it for? Not the Democratic Party. I guess the new twisted strategy is pandering to MAGA. Reach across the isle and grab a chainsaw.
Schumer needs to step down before NY elections so Gov can put another Democrat in until the end of his term! Maybe AOC needs to be in the Senate now! Dems need new fresh leadership that will challenge instead of rolling over and playing dead! The othe NY senator, needs to be herself and not follow her master! She is at least trying to protect Medicaid!
Schumer should be a janitor (no insult intended) not a senator. Hen is now a traitor to the USA. Just how much is muskrat paying him? Or how much is Trump paying him? At any rate he's an idiot and he needs to be gotten rid of. The Senate Democrats need to elect a new leader who is pro-american not pro- fascism or Pro Russian.
I no longer consider myself a Democrat. My reply to all the fund raising text's I get trying to shame me into donating by asking if I have become a Republican, or worse a Trumpy; my reply is I have joined the ACLU and any spare change I have now goes to the ACLU which, as far as I am aware, is the only organization still fighting. Schumer's action Friday has hardened me in my decision. The rest, save a few old warhorses like Bernie, and newbies like AOC, are head down in the bunker hoping to save their jobs while the GOP brings up a flame thrower.
Rubio has discretionary authority within the law to decide if someone can be arrested and deported. This an obscure provision, but no way around it. Going after Rubio in public looked to be the only recourse I can see. The authority, a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), reads: “An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.”
In other words, the provision – section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the act – gives the secretary of state power to deport any person who is not a citizen or national of the US, if they meet the threshold for "reasonable ground” of belief that they may have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the nation. Interestingly, the “quotas and ideological litmus test” of the INA, enacted in 1952, “were widely understood at the time to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet agents,” the Jewish publication the Forward pointed out this week.
Bullshit. There will be hearings, even if they are not APA hearings. I've been at this for 50 years. At one time deportation hearings were APA "fair" hearings, but that ended in the Eisenhowert administration when Congress in its stupidity, determined otherwise. We even hold deporation, asylum hearings in foreign countries. -- arguably can be zoom hearings.
If he fails to obey, contempt and sanctions. In another venue, consensus said that Homan's reaction could end his career.
Is it possible that a few Democratic Senators bit the bullet for the party? Did they all want this to pass but wanted to make it look like most were willing to fight? Otherwise, why else did a few go against the rest of the party? Why did a few pass it to save us all from something worse when supposedly most of the party was willing to shutdown?
Too late Thom. You have had precious little criticism for the Zionist, McCarthyist, warmongering lunatic who like Nancy Pelosi has rolled over for whatever their donors want. This is what Biden/Harris/Obama cheerleaders get for selectively criticizing Republicans while lionizing Democrats for working in the interest of American empire. How many Substack pieces of yours are about the genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank? None that I can find, because the genocide shows who the Democrats really are. They stand for nothing. And now Gavin Newsome speaks against the trans community as he preps for his presidential run. All the things you grandstand about mean nothing to the Democrats. Their only concern is donor cash and votes. Period. Because you are either brainwashed or are doing so to your listeners, you are unable to grasp the concept of the two political parties merging into one which has happened before our eyes. The Democrats set the stage for Trump and you enabled them. Liberals find their scapegoats--Putin, Trump, pro-Palestinian protestors, progressives (the few that remain), and now it's Schumer. Schumer IS the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party shares most of the same donors as the Republican Party. If Harris's cozying up to Liz and Dick Cheney didn't prove that, then read this:https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-election-is-so-close-because
This internal Dem sniping and fighting is insidious. This was a tough call. They are only going to get tougher. There are very good arguments on both sides. We need to get a grip! Trump is our enemy. His devoted acolytes are the enemy. Everyone else is a potential and essential ally. You can’t build a vital coalition and then be like Trump and try to crush people you tactically differ with. Stop this nonsense, please, and get back to fighting Trump!
Leaders would have been exhibiting leadership and strategy for months already and would have been able and willing to make the case, rather than constantly be weak and useless and then just turn on a dime and expect us to follow them, despite never having shown us any reason to believe they know what they are doing.
I get the sentiment, but I don’t think there’s anything Chuck Schumer could do to save us. What we are experiencing is a bit like an alien invasion. The film, War of the Worlds comes to mind where the world is overmatched and infernal invaders are finally subdued because they were not vaccinated against earthly pathogens and viruses. Or the scene in Independence Day where the US launches its nuclear-armed warplanes to take down one of the alien vessels and finds that the aliens have a shield that protects that makes them invincible — until a VERY unorthodox young pilot and confused, distraught nerd accidentally team-up to find a path to salvation.
We need to be thinking about tactics and strategies that leverage‘natural defenses’ and innate vulnerabilities. Conventional politicians fighting over CRs won’t cut it. The Republicans have us on our heels because they are breaking all conventions. Well, we need to break some too, including the ones where you play by rules that have been usurped by a depraved Queens-bred and Kings idolizing conman.
Schumer is one of my Senators and this latest caving in just got me nuts. I called and got auto hang up when I mentioned the person I was calling. It's enough. You hang up on me and I no vote for you - quid pro quo. I am tired of his weariness and play by the book when you have a mad man and Congress making up their own rules. So I want someone new, someone unafraid and willing to go toe to toe with the Orange buffoon. His time is up and over - he needs to go home and stay there.
Being a “New Yorker” I have never been a fan of Schumer’s and frankly when he became senate Majority leader - I switched parties to independent. I have always felt he lacked imagination, urgency and was going to be a downfall for the Dems. What a disaster.
I am a yellow dog Democrat. I won't vote for any Republican. (That was a period.) I do not want to see Democrats divided.
But I think that this is much ado about virtually nothing. I worked for the government. I lived through government shut downs. Shumer and the others had to flip a decisional coin. 2 bad options. Heads they win. Tails we lose. too.
IMHO the answer at this time is shared government. Trump is taking advantage of our dissension. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/democrats-unite-we-have-a-coup-to?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=zc69i&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The least common denominator amog us and some patriotic Republicans is the sell out to Putin. We lost the cold war. Republicans who support Ukraine are calling out Trump/Musk. We should take advantage of the situation.
Schumer used the excuse, that was obviously specious, that if the CR didn't pass Trump would do some bad things. Fact is that Trump has and will do bad things regardless of the CR. Schumer was obviously warned off, intimiated, scared, because the day before he said that he wasn't going to vote for cloture, he voted against the CR but that was performance, of no effect.
As to dividing the democrats, that happened in the House where to a person they voted against the CR and after Chuck voted for cloture, Hakeem Jefferies and AOC arose in one voice and denounced him, two people on the oppposite side of the ideological aisle.
The yellow dog Democrat was a term used in 1928, but the two parties were still American, not bifurcated between a hostile foreign power (Russia and Musk) and loyal Americans.
This is not the 1920's, 1930's, 40's,.50's, 60's, 70's 80's . 90's or even the 2000's, and2010's, it is not politics as usual, the heart, soul and liberty itself is on the line, and anyone who tips even a toe over the line, is faciliating the end of not only Democracy, but Liberty.
And Chuck did just that, he joined the forces of evil and Trump even publicly thanked him.
Agreed!
Trump shot across Schumers bow when he said he was a Palestinian and not a Jew.
It was then that Schumer realized that Trump was powerful enough to determine one's ethnicity. More powerful than tradition, more powerful than science.
And with all that he has done, is doing and watching the free world grovel at his feet.
He is indeed not King but Emperor of Oceania, the Technate of America.
Thom wrote a book, The last days of ancient sunlight, about climate change and fossil fuels.
Time for a new book, but will it get published in the new order of Trump, the sun has set on liberty, and we are living in the twilight.
Democracy is not a goddess to be worshiped, but it is the liberty that both enabled and is nurtured by democracy.
Without liberty we are little more than slaves, working, struggling to live one more day.
Well said.
The Democratic Party has no leadership and has not had for too many years. Until Dems find a spine and unite their colleagues and voters, fascism will reign and grow as the nation itself implodes economically, morally, and leadershipwise. Politics today is fueled by petty greed among a few billionaire nerds, who like Trump, are bullies with no real friends - just allies and sycophants who want in on their action. As I posted yesterday, there really are no political parties today.
Schumer did offer reasons for not shutting down the government, which he did explain. However, he failed to appreciate the temper of the voting public and missed an opportunity to channel rage into unity. Not all Dems are deaf - Sanders, Warren, AOC for instance. But party unity is best exemplified by dorky DINO Fetterman who should have been expelled from the party the day he left Mar a Lago.
My immediate reaction to Schumer's "Yes vote" was WHAT!!?? Then I did some reading and realized that, if the government did shut down, it would allow the Orange S.O.B. to destroy our government faster and even more out of sight. OK.
Here is another distasteful reason to keep the government working. I prefer to think about who will be protected, rather than who gains:
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/03/four-megabanks-on-wall-street-hold-3-2-trillion-in-uninsured-deposits-which-may-explain-senator-schumers-pivot-to-the-gop-to-stop-a-government-shutdown/
Trump is already shutting down our country and in broad daylight at that. What more harm could he do if the CR wasn't passed.?
I will answer my own question. Nothing, nada, zilch
You are right but I think it will be faster and farther from sight!
I don't want to give them any ideas. But I lived through times when judges were not deemed "necessary" to govenment functions, when our entire staff was included, etc.
I was involved in litifgation vs Obama's DOL -- and we lost. BTW we were never repaid for the time lost.
I'm afraid you don't know what you don't know.
My thoughts exactly.
Yes, follow the money. There is a reason he flipped at the last minute. I agree with Thom, he has to go. I'm done with holding the party together mentality, this is how we got here to begin with. As for Trump, I'm not a Trumper but I have to give him credit, he lied about A LOT, but not about what he was going to do when in office.
He stated 'Dictator on Day One' and this is what we are getting, can't say he lied about that, and I know that with all the voter purges etc. he technically did not win, but he still had 77 million votes!
He DID lie. His strings are being pulled by Koch's A.L.E.C. , the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo. You haven't heard from any of these groups since the election, have you?? They are NOT on vacation. The goal is to eviscerate the government and PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING. A Libertarian's dream. The Post Office is on its way, Social Security also, The Weather Service. They are firing all the meteorologists ... who do you think will be forecasting hurricanes?? Why a private company will be selling its services to the government and making a healthy profit.
WAKE UP!!!!
My point is, he stated he was going to do all of that during his rally’s, and then I’m not even mentioning the fact that he incited an insurrection. The fact that he was even allowed to run is HUGE. He promised retribution, he stated dictator on day one - given the history what else do we need to know?I don’t have to wake up, I’m fully awake thank you.
Tom, Chucks reasons were specious. He said that he was afraid of what Trump might do, if the CR wasn't passed (then like a hypocrite pulled some Kabuki theater and voted no on the CR,.
Fact is that he knows it, I know it, you know it, all of us know it, that regardless of the CR Trump would continue doing bad things and destroying our government..
His excuse was "the dog ate my homework" fallacious. Trump got to him, either by calling him a Palestinian or not a Jew, or by his usual MO, blackmail. He has dossiers on everyone, why do you think Graham and Rubio lined up to kiss his ass, and Rubio endures humilation.
Arby;s got the meats, but Trump has the goods.
Sen. Cortes-Masto is my senator, and I was preparing to send her a message today to express my anger about her vote until I heard Barbra Boxer's explanation for that position. I have felt for a long time that Schumer and others were too weak and worried about protocol. But I have also worried that it is a mistake for Democrats to attack our own people. Boxer said that the danger of having a shutdown was that Trump would use that as an opportunity to defang the courts, which are essential in keeping him in check. If he gets away with defying court orders that argument may be moot, and I am still inclined to believe that forcing a showdown with the R's is the only real option. We would be hoping that they would be blamed. But it is important to remember always that Democrats were put in this position because of the betrayal of Republican leaders, the media, and ignorant voters who believed what they wanted to believe. Attacking Schumer is not going to get us far. We need to keep reminding the public, including MAGA, that we were all betrayed by the economic royalists like Musk and the billionaires in Trump's cabinet, and the people must be protesting everywhere, every day, and the courts must start locking up Trump's attorneys for contempt. The people have been our only hope all along and it is crucial to show MAGA and the fence-sitters that they were used and betrayed by Trump.
How are we attacking our own people, when they are playing for the other side, Robert.
Barbara Boxers explanation and Schumers are fallacious and specious. Trump is, while I type, ignoring the Constitution, the Courts, judicial rulings and in broad daylight, how much more harm could he do, he has effectively destroyed all cabinet positions, Departments, including one that will make you happy, the Department of Education.
So somebody please tell me, what Trump could do in the dark, that he hasn't done in the daylight.?
Lots But I don't want to give them any ideas. I've laid some of this out previously. CJustice Roberts worked on it when he was in the Reagan administration. It may precude any vestige of democracy -- shared government.
Please find the appropriate judges and let's get going on contempt charges RIGHT NOW PLEASE??!!
They could have made their case for the vote, but didn't. Apparently they have not noticed that their voters are concerned about becoming Russia-like. Why would they notice when they are only in office to entertain themselves and make some $$? If they weren't ALWAYS so weak and such rollovers, AND if they had made the case, this might not be such a big deal. But I have been screeching about lack of leadership and strategy for well over 20 years and Pelosi and Schumer have collaborated to keep themselves in control - but the Party extremely weak.
Excellent analysis Hartmann.
May I add, Schumer claimed that shutting the gov down would defund the courts and Trump would go hog-wild. Trump was doing that already!
The Courts won't save us, they can't. By design, the court system moves at a snails pace, and endless appeals work in Trump's favor.
Our only leverage was voting NO on cloture. That's gone for 6 months, but what then Schumer?
So, the courts won't save us, Congress won't save us. What's the answer?
We save ourselves. If at 80 F-ING years old, I'm ready to fight, why isn't anyone else? I want leadership; to be inspired!
Count me in Terry. I totally agree with you, and have no respect for the party loyalists and institutionalists that have brought us down this path.
This is an email I sent yesterday to my two CA senators and to Senator Whitehouse. I will be sending to more today. Jen Rubin on Contrarian says to forget about Schumer. No way.
"Democrats have the lowest approval rating ever. We got nothing. Talk is cheap. Actions matter. Schumer caved. It was an act of betrayal. Period. You have no idea. Schumer should be removed. If you do not do that, Dems will keep their low approval rating at a time of the worst president in history. Nice job. Get some backbone. it is almost too late."
"The lowest approval rating ever." Psy ops works.
Is it psyops Daniel? Is it really? From what I've seen, on and off the internet, even Democratic voters are fed up and disgusted with the spineless leadership, we need new, invigorted left wing populist leaders, not old tired race horses that have been plodding around he DNC paddock, like Schumer, Biden, Durbin, well all the Septugenarians and Octogenarians.
The future of this country needs to be determined by the people that are going to live in that future, not old farts like me that have at best a decade left, and that decade sitting on our enfeebled asses.
You are buying it. Divide and conquer.
Not really. We need to unify, but we must unify around a stalwart, not a wimp. We have unified around wimps, and look at the result. We are living in horror.
We need fire breathing leadership Daniel, not more of the same old milquetoast that has led to the unforced error that is Trump and MAGA.
It is not personalities, it is policies, and the Democrats should have been aggressively pushing polices in everyday speak..flood the zone with propaganda instead of defensively reacting.
Trump, Bannon, Rogan, Kirk they hurl a charge and the liberal response is defensive... not me, and then a long winded response.
We need to go on the attack, be aggressive, push, push, push use their tactics against them.
Schumer has been a disappointment. Importantly - he changed his vote after Trump attacked his Jewishness. Trump said Schumer wasn’t a Jew anymore - now he (Schumer) was a Palestinian.
Was that comment a warning coming from someone or somewhere outside the USA?
I don’t know. But the timing of the comment and Schumer’s changed vote on the CR should be considered.
I disagree with Schumer and believe he should step down as leader of the Democrats but Trump’s comment should also be investigated by the Democrats themselves within their caucus. They need leadership that refuses to be intimidated
I don't think it was the comment Trump made about Schumer turning into a Palestinian led him to do a complete turn around on the vote. I think he had a come-to-Jesus talk and followed the money.
I do agree, but the Palestinian charge was a warning shot. You know damn well, that Trumps power, given that he is a Roy Cohn, protege, is blackmail, a dossier on everyone that is important. That is why Ladybug is fellating him instead of some dude on Grindr. that's why Rubio is acting like a chained dog.
And I bet there is one hell of a lot of stuff in the Epstein files, he will only release the stuff about his enemies.
Meet the rock and the hard place. Not that complicated.
When stuck between a rock and a hard place it is because you (third person) put yourself there.
It's endemic to everyone. The statutes of limitastions have run on me, byt sometimes I had to resort to the decisional coin. Sometimes all evidence is in equipoise.
Yeh, I got you,often, especially as of late, I find myself holding two conflicting opinions.
And it is frustrating when both are true,but lead to undesirable conclusions and actions.
So flip that coin.
The moment I learned that “Indivisible” was pissing off Dem “leadership”, I signed in to my Act Blue account and put that organization at the top of my contribution list (thanks Rachel!). Whether they’re spineless or insensate, we can’t afford leaders who pine for the good old days while the fascists destroy our manifestly fragile democracy.
Schumer should step down! All 10 Senators that voted in favor of the psychopathic spending bill are enablers. Who are they doing it for? Not the Democratic Party. I guess the new twisted strategy is pandering to MAGA. Reach across the isle and grab a chainsaw.
Schumer needs to step down before NY elections so Gov can put another Democrat in until the end of his term! Maybe AOC needs to be in the Senate now! Dems need new fresh leadership that will challenge instead of rolling over and playing dead! The othe NY senator, needs to be herself and not follow her master! She is at least trying to protect Medicaid!
Schumer should be a janitor (no insult intended) not a senator. Hen is now a traitor to the USA. Just how much is muskrat paying him? Or how much is Trump paying him? At any rate he's an idiot and he needs to be gotten rid of. The Senate Democrats need to elect a new leader who is pro-american not pro- fascism or Pro Russian.
I no longer consider myself a Democrat. My reply to all the fund raising text's I get trying to shame me into donating by asking if I have become a Republican, or worse a Trumpy; my reply is I have joined the ACLU and any spare change I have now goes to the ACLU which, as far as I am aware, is the only organization still fighting. Schumer's action Friday has hardened me in my decision. The rest, save a few old warhorses like Bernie, and newbies like AOC, are head down in the bunker hoping to save their jobs while the GOP brings up a flame thrower.
Rubio has discretionary authority within the law to decide if someone can be arrested and deported. This an obscure provision, but no way around it. Going after Rubio in public looked to be the only recourse I can see. The authority, a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), reads: “An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.”
In other words, the provision – section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the act – gives the secretary of state power to deport any person who is not a citizen or national of the US, if they meet the threshold for "reasonable ground” of belief that they may have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the nation. Interestingly, the “quotas and ideological litmus test” of the INA, enacted in 1952, “were widely understood at the time to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet agents,” the Jewish publication the Forward pointed out this week.
Under the Consitution, people who are accused have the right to a hearing. Even aliens.
Has Trump evidenced any intent to abide by the Constitution? I have seen none.
One can't rely upon the institutions, when the institutions don't hold and are ignored.
Bullshit. There will be hearings, even if they are not APA hearings. I've been at this for 50 years. At one time deportation hearings were APA "fair" hearings, but that ended in the Eisenhowert administration when Congress in its stupidity, determined otherwise. We even hold deporation, asylum hearings in foreign countries. -- arguably can be zoom hearings.
If he fails to obey, contempt and sanctions. In another venue, consensus said that Homan's reaction could end his career.
Rubio is a chained dog with a shock collar around his neck. Forget Secretary of State doing anything other than what his master commands.
His master is Norman Braman.
Is it possible that a few Democratic Senators bit the bullet for the party? Did they all want this to pass but wanted to make it look like most were willing to fight? Otherwise, why else did a few go against the rest of the party? Why did a few pass it to save us all from something worse when supposedly most of the party was willing to shutdown?
Too late Thom. You have had precious little criticism for the Zionist, McCarthyist, warmongering lunatic who like Nancy Pelosi has rolled over for whatever their donors want. This is what Biden/Harris/Obama cheerleaders get for selectively criticizing Republicans while lionizing Democrats for working in the interest of American empire. How many Substack pieces of yours are about the genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank? None that I can find, because the genocide shows who the Democrats really are. They stand for nothing. And now Gavin Newsome speaks against the trans community as he preps for his presidential run. All the things you grandstand about mean nothing to the Democrats. Their only concern is donor cash and votes. Period. Because you are either brainwashed or are doing so to your listeners, you are unable to grasp the concept of the two political parties merging into one which has happened before our eyes. The Democrats set the stage for Trump and you enabled them. Liberals find their scapegoats--Putin, Trump, pro-Palestinian protestors, progressives (the few that remain), and now it's Schumer. Schumer IS the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party shares most of the same donors as the Republican Party. If Harris's cozying up to Liz and Dick Cheney didn't prove that, then read this:https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-election-is-so-close-because
I was waiting for Putin's apparatchik to show up with his usual irrelevant screed, trying to turn the conversation and the subject in Putin's favor.
Nice try Boris, big fail.
I hate to admit it, but I agree with most of this, and it's so true about donor cash and votes.
But that's every party's thing.
Which is reason enough to find a way around the party system we currently suffer under!
Under totalitarianism not a problem.
This internal Dem sniping and fighting is insidious. This was a tough call. They are only going to get tougher. There are very good arguments on both sides. We need to get a grip! Trump is our enemy. His devoted acolytes are the enemy. Everyone else is a potential and essential ally. You can’t build a vital coalition and then be like Trump and try to crush people you tactically differ with. Stop this nonsense, please, and get back to fighting Trump!
Leaders would have been exhibiting leadership and strategy for months already and would have been able and willing to make the case, rather than constantly be weak and useless and then just turn on a dime and expect us to follow them, despite never having shown us any reason to believe they know what they are doing.
I get the sentiment, but I don’t think there’s anything Chuck Schumer could do to save us. What we are experiencing is a bit like an alien invasion. The film, War of the Worlds comes to mind where the world is overmatched and infernal invaders are finally subdued because they were not vaccinated against earthly pathogens and viruses. Or the scene in Independence Day where the US launches its nuclear-armed warplanes to take down one of the alien vessels and finds that the aliens have a shield that protects that makes them invincible — until a VERY unorthodox young pilot and confused, distraught nerd accidentally team-up to find a path to salvation.
We need to be thinking about tactics and strategies that leverage‘natural defenses’ and innate vulnerabilities. Conventional politicians fighting over CRs won’t cut it. The Republicans have us on our heels because they are breaking all conventions. Well, we need to break some too, including the ones where you play by rules that have been usurped by a depraved Queens-bred and Kings idolizing conman.
Schumer is one of my Senators and this latest caving in just got me nuts. I called and got auto hang up when I mentioned the person I was calling. It's enough. You hang up on me and I no vote for you - quid pro quo. I am tired of his weariness and play by the book when you have a mad man and Congress making up their own rules. So I want someone new, someone unafraid and willing to go toe to toe with the Orange buffoon. His time is up and over - he needs to go home and stay there.