Chuck Fucking Schumer
Doesn’t get more pathetic than this:
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led government funding bill that has fiercely divided Democrats under pressure to impose limits on the Trump administration.
Schumer told Democrats privately during a spirited closed-door lunch and then made public remarks ahead of voting Friday, which will be hours before the midnight deadline to keep government running. The New York senator said as bad as the GOP bill is, a shutdown would be worse, giving President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk “carte blanche” as they tear through the government.
Why the fuck is this filthy-rich asshole the public face of the Democratic Party? That’s a rhetorical question. It’s because it’s the Corporadem Party. Progressives need not apply.
Abject failure. He’s up in 2028. AOC! AOC! AOC!
I am so tired of the feckless Dems. It’s bad no matter what happens. But fergawdsake take a stand and stop being scared. Government employee unions are telling you to vote no. Your job at the moment is to be seen opposing everything the Trump, Musk and the Republicans are doing.
‘Oh, no, they’ll say mean things about us. We can’t have that.’
In a system dominated by private money, it’s a miracle Democrats are even around to take pots shots at. The real problem is the private equity funding of our political system, all the while posturing that money has no impact on outcomes. What a crock…
I have considered it and must admit I have no better proposal, aside from Britain’s short election season. The old public option didn’t work. Ironic that a Dem, Obama, deep sixed it in 2008.
It was Clinton who perhaps successfully exploited a moment to switch party allegiances from unions and minorities to corporations, but by this condemned the party to losses in 2016 and 2025. God bless Obama the Perfect, but he continued Clinton’s pro-corporate policies, bailing out wall street but abandoning main street, going public against teacher unions, and cutting out the public option. Obama should accept some of the responsibility for Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. His watch is responsible, politically, for some of the electoral conditions in 2016.
An equally perplexing problem of the private equity money that distorts the hell out of our court system. It is bizarre. It is Baroque. It is a mess. Justice can be bought in the good ol’ u.s.a.
Yes it can, and at a price only the rich can afford.
I don’t understand why the dems messaging is “we will vote no on this horrible bill and the government will shut down but with what president musk is doing the government is basically shut down alread
I rarely look on the bright side but I think it’ll finally get rid of him as Leader. Sen Warnock was quoted suggesting as much as well…