Everyone’s angry he did something they didn’t like - not one has mentioned what they think he should or can do.
Is he supposed to start burning the place down?
Get arrested?
Hold a rally to foment more anger and fundraise?
Introduce a bill that’s DOA?
What exactly are people expecting?
Is he supposed to start burning the place down?
Get arrested?
Hold a rally to foment more anger and fundraise?
Introduce a bill that’s DOA?
What exactly are people expecting?
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Electing a bazillion democrats in 2026 and filing and winning lawsuits are the best actions we can take.
Everything else is theater.
It’s important to be politically active but without giving false hope.
If you think this can be stopped non-judicially before 2026, I don’t see how that’s done without a violent revolution, which MAGA would fight. Rallies won’t stop him.
(…it’s not a radical notion)
We've spent months making derisive jokes about how high ranking democrats will probably break out the "big guns" and send a strongly worded letter.
Schumer somehow manages to live down to our expectations.
The real question is, why aren't you mad?
I’m furious - at republicans and non-voters.
More than 114 lawsuits have been filed by democrats and independents against this administration. They are working their way through courts.
I won’t be kneecapping any democrats when we should be working to elect more of them.
In fact, it's part of our civic duty.
AOC and Sanders are out there bringing the message in red states and doing outreach.
By contrast, a strongly worded letter seems feckless.
We deserve better from Schumer.
They are diverse and don’t all do the everything the same way.
I think the rallies and the statements are great. Neither is more effective at ending dictatorship than the other.
Two things matter most now:
Elections and lawsuits.
The rest is for feels.
I'm happy to have him as a democratic vote, but he's failing in the leader part of his job title.
Schumer's response gives the impression that Dem leadership thinks everything is fine and should continue responding to things with the old pre-fascist "follow the norms" playbook.
NO democrats think everything’s fine. None.
He might be replaced but it won’t change much.
Apples and oranges.
Or are you saying current democratic representatives should also be breaking law and ignoring court orders?
I’m trying to understand exactly what the “gun” is in your gunfight analogy.
Didn’t seem like much to ask but you don’t seem to know - which is kind of my point.
I’m not looking to win anything and I don’t think letters, rallies, filibusters or gov shutdowns will stop anything.
If Chuck Schumer...there is a whole list on what he could have done rather than bowing down to the CR
Useless
@schumer.senate.gov
You demand he shut down the gov’t. which means Americans who depend on gov checks have to go without?
Trump then blames dems for hurting Americans and starts rapid-firing more executive orders and DOGE firings in place of law since gov’t is closed?
The problem is not Democrats.
He’s at 39% approval. Fighting him won’t be unpopular
I really don’t think just having someone with more alpha-male machismo is going to stop the executive orders, violations of law and DOGE destruction.
He could’ve filed a resolution in the senate to condemn Trump’s weaponization of antisemitism to subvert the constitution and extort institutions.
He could’ve led protests.
Instead, he wrote a letter nobody will read.
He could organize visits to ICE detention facilities in every state by MOC and put faces and names on those being held.
He could avoid scheduling self serving book tours.
I mean, if you’re criticizing the man because you think condemning the regime isn’t strong enough, at least be realistic about the effectiveness of what you’re saying he should do.
None of that stuff will stop or slow this regime.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-leads-senate-democrats-in-amicus-brief-slamming-president-trumps-lawless-removal-of-inspectors-general-calls-for-more-transparency-amidst-the-chaos-of-the-administration
I won’t be minimizing/attacking any democrats while republicans demolish democracy. We will need every last seat in 2026.
There are a lot of Congress members who obviously live in a bubble and have no idea what the general public is going through. Schumer leads that caucus.
https://bsky.app/profile/upwardfalling13.bsky.social/post/3lklxyjxta22p
But keep being angry at democrats. I’m sure that’ll help us.
I don't agree with everything you're saying but I know you got it right. It's just very frustrating.
My point is you and everyone else are incapable of telling him how to do his job because you don’t have a peaceful solution for this any more than he does, because it’s unprecedented in America.