In addition to his political savvy, Chuck Schumer also offers cutting edge communication strategies ranging from an op-ed in the New York Times to an interview with the New York Times
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😂 “Cutting edge communication” = writing for the NYT while TRUMP and MUSK dismantle democracy?? Schumer is fighting fascism with opinion pieces while democracy burns! We need ACTION — not elite media tours. WAKE UP and DEMAND leadership that actually fights back! 🚨🔥
If Democrats had voted in unison against the funding extension, and Trump took that opportunity to shut down ALL federal agencies, including the essential ones, the first SS, Medicaid, veterans’ payments that failed to go out, whom do you think the public would blame? Dems would take the blame.
Literally the thing you're saying they wanted to do is a thing they could have done but chose not to.
You're suggesting that the Republicans wanted a shutdown but voted against it hoping that Democrats would do it for them, but were foiled by Schumer and a small group of Dems voting WITH the GOP?
The vote was on a 6-mo funding bill because not even Republicans could agree on a final budget. A symbolic stance by Dems would mean very little. Yes,Trump will try to shut down essential agencies anyway, but with the govt still open, he won’t be able to blame Democrats.
Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov does. not know what anti-semitism is growing up in the Bronx. Try growing up Jewish in the South. Fuck him and his privilege.
Schumer protects the wealthy. He’s more concerned about the Dow than seniors losing SSA, Medicare or children losing Medicaid. He cares not for any USAID recipients, veterans, park rangers, teachers, Ukraine, or anyone who’s not donating lots and lots of money to his campaign. This is reality. 🤷🏻♀️
The Democratic Party is long overdue for a change in leadership and strategy. It's time for the younger generation to take over and to focus on the core issues - economy, healthcare, and education.
But he pulls in that 80 year old white Zionist cash. I guess that's why the other Senators made him their leader. IDK. No one is going to become a Dem while he's the head of the party. Very stupid DNC members or whoever runs the party.
Murphy spent the final 15 months of the 2024 Election cycle assuring Democrats that doing Clinton era triangulation on Immigration - adopting virtually all of the Stephen Miller premise and policy on immigration - would help Democrats win in 2024
Schumer was obviously on board with this completely idiotic strategy as well; it's not JUST Murphy who is responsible; but there's zero reason to believe he's any more capable of handling the present moment
not only did Democrats not win by using this triangulation strategy - they massively radicalized the american electorate by spewing identical rhetoric from trump and miller from back in 2015
months after Dems - the only opposition party to trump and miller, remember - started doing this in public, the popularity on mass deporation shot up from ~30% to ~65%
do you think that is a coincidence (it clearly is not; it was obvious that this would happen if Dems adopted the Miller worldview)
Well, Senate Dems could in fact do that very thing.
Funny that not a single one has even mentioned it.
Not one peep.
Perhaps people should withhold support until they do.
He has to go and take all of his elite coastal limousine Dems with him. His Democratic arrogant attitude cost us the 2016 & the 2024 election. If it hadn’t been for COVID we would have lost the 2020 election.
REALLY! A book tour right now! That tells me everything I need to know.
You mean the guy who is charging people to listen to him speak while his Dem colleagues go out into the public to listen to people & their concerns for free….yea that douche can go jump off a bridge cuz he is full of himself…actually I mean he is full of sh$$!!!
You bros are so good at going after lifelong democrats instead of the actual men betraying the U.S., shredding the constitution, and building a christofascist government of, for, and by white men. Like you. So brave.
I was going to rent a Chicken Suit and get a "Chuck Schumer" T-shirt but unfortunately the Senator from Vichy is not coming to Boston! We get Homan and jack booted thugs instead (Like too many other cities)!
God that interview in today’s paper was awful. He needs to step down. He’s got no fight in him. He clearly misunderstands what’s needed in this moment.
Murphy just came out in support of Schumer's leadership and I am fucking done. Done. Noem and crew defied a judge's order on the deportation and no one is going to do anything about it. So I'm done with the entire Senate. Unless a senator explicitly states Chuck goes, they go.
That’s politics. Lots of lawmakers came out in support of Biden in the beginning… then once there was a groundswell for Biden to step down, Murphy got on the Kamala train.
In this case, though, it needs to be the Senate to start the groundswell, and I have never seen a bigger bunch of weak ass hand wringers in my life. "Oh no, whatever shall we do. We've tried nothing and are all out of ideas."
Biden clearly should have stepped down a year before he did? how he could have let us all find out when he was completely confused & delusional during a public debate was just disgraceful & an embarrassment I will never forget
He's the wrong man for the times, just like Merrick Garland was. Now the Dems have to decide whether they place nice and let Schumer drag them and the country down, or they show some backbone.
Until Schumer can prove otherwise he is corrupt and complicit. The time for the presumption that his motivations are naive has passed. He had every bit of information for all the sources he could ask for that he needed to block the CR.
We shall welcome them in the streets, we shall welcome them on the beaches, cuz showing them decorum is gonna make them totally change their hateful ways. 🫶🏻
You can't leave a message on his taxpayer funded phone lines which only operate 9am-6pm when the Senate is in session and 9am-5pm M-F when it's out of session. Nothing says constituent service like Chuck.
I feel as though he knows he blew it. He's incapable of doing anything differently. He's always been a nice guy, but he can't throw a punch. He's got to go. We only need people who can punch back right now.
"call an unscheduled meeting of the Conference at the request of 20 percent of the Members"
"until one candidate receives the votes of the majority of Conference Members present and voting, at which point such candidate shall be declared elected."
I know right? To protect someone? Another Bluesky comment on Schumer’s account Friday said his daughter is a lobbyist for Amazon. If true, that can’t be good.
he's actually a very good public speaker. He isn't of your generation. He was the 1st to go to college in his family, I think, with parents who owned a pest control business
He’s just so out of touch and totally clueless what the Dem base is saying. He needs to step down…now. If he honestly believes those against him are from the right, it proves his unfitness.
has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither
What do you call a Democratic Party leader who gives away his power to stop an attempt by Nazis to take over the United States, and then runs to State owned media to make his case?
No, I think that's just called self promotion. It's easy to get confused what with all the double speak and platitudes. But make no mistake, Schumer is a career politician who is only looking out for himself.
I will not buy this book by Chuck.
I’m positive that it will suck.
I will not give him a single buck.
I hope his book tour has bad luck.
Schumer is a trump-musk cuck.
Chuck can take a flying fuck.
@cheriJacobus.bskt.social This is probably why Chuck Schumer will not support your idea. He is afraid of losing his special sources and not being the big voice. Unfortunately for Chuck, his voice is not getting out. We need the daily fact-checked Dem Press briefings like you envision
I have been saying that everywhere I can, Cheri had a great idea. We need to take cues from fox I hate to say it. Get down and dirty, as dirty as they are.
I've been saying this since before the elections. The Democrats have to fight harder and dirtier if they plan on getting our democracy back. They won't get it kowtowing to trump.
Go to @cherijacobus.bsky.social and click on the pinned link to hear in detail her idea to have Dems do a daily press briefing from the Capital. The briefings would be thoroughly investigated and fact checked to give credibility to this voice. For some reason DNC and Dem Congress are not interested.
Forget the Grandpa part but yes indeed show him the door. The mightiest people in Government right now are both the oldest (Sanders) and the youngest...and may they keep fighting in unison for all of us
I listened to that New York Times interview this morning. I was hoping he would say something to help me understand why he voted the way he did.
By the end of the interview, I was thoroughly grossed out.
The kind of gross that makes you feel greasy.
Chuck Schumer is way past his prime….if he really ever had one. People of NY need to stop voting for him. And he needs to be removed as minority leader.
Potential candidates to replace Schumer who have national profiles, and who will strengthen Dems' positions in the Senate: Warren, Van Hollen, Klobuchar, Schiff, Duckworth, Murphy.
Jeez, how did I miss that about Jamie? 🤦🏼♂️ I knew that.
Okay, Amy Klobuchar, maybe. Other possibles:
Cory Booker, Christ Coons, Elissa Slotkin, Rapael Warnock, Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim, John Ossoff?
Did I get any in that group that wouldn't work?
I am looking at the ones that have both been in the Senate long enough, to know all the twists and turns and also, have "put themselves out there", fighting publicly, which means they are comfortable enough to fight in the public's eye.
Having lived in NJ through his entire political career, I think Booker is overrated. While I love Andy Kim, id he up for the fight? I’d support him in any rebuilding situation.
I'd forgotten that Andy is pretty new in the Senate. It needs to be someone that has been there for at least one full term. Experience counts. And someone who has shown a willingness to lead and put on a public face.
I think that either Warren or Klobuchar would be great.
Deets! Cause I’d love to understand more about her. I think she’s done some great things, but not on issues important to saving a democracy. But that’s harsh. How many of us have needed to save a democracy prior to January?
This @vanityfair article on Thiel/Yarvin from 2022 is long but seems to mirror a lot of what is happening right now. if you don’t want to read it have Safari or Google read the article for you. This is their end game. Eat the rich!
I really tried to not make fun, but the part about their plan for the CR changed when it passed the House?
We're supposed to empathize that they were willing to fight until they found out they had to actually do something?
The whole thing was completely disconnected from reality
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They didn't want the government shut down. They wanted to use the threat of a shutdown to get the Democrats to break.
You're suggesting that the Republicans wanted a shutdown but voted against it hoping that Democrats would do it for them, but were foiled by Schumer and a small group of Dems voting WITH the GOP?
@schumer.senate.gov should be feeling naked about now.
Heckuva job, Chucky!
I am confident it will be well attended.
https://www.change.org/p/boycott-contributions-to-senate-democrats-until-chuck-schumer-steps-down
did this happen?
do you think that is a coincidence (it clearly is not; it was obvious that this would happen if Dems adopted the Miller worldview)
Funny that not a single one has even mentioned it.
Not one peep.
Perhaps people should withhold support until they do.
REALLY! A book tour right now! That tells me everything I need to know.
https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lkizk26dws2a
please protest this corrupt lying traitor’s ’book tour’ if you live in any if these cities.
What does this list mean? I do not know who Garin is.
We shall welcome them in the streets, we shall welcome them on the beaches, cuz showing them decorum is gonna make them totally change their hateful ways. 🫶🏻
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"until one candidate receives the votes of the majority of Conference Members present and voting, at which point such candidate shall be declared elected."
https://
/rules-for-the-democratic-conference4q
They are both 1990s style politicians in a 2020s political climate that is vastly different from what they’re used to.
refused to pass other Laws
obstructed the Administration of Justice
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
A Nazi collaborator.
Very appropriate for the Senator from Wall Street.
Don't forget that
I’m positive that it will suck.
I will not give him a single buck.
I hope his book tour has bad luck.
Schumer is a trump-musk cuck.
Chuck can take a flying fuck.
It's a Hall of Fame performance.
Fee fi mo muck,
Fuck Chuck!
By the end of the interview, I was thoroughly grossed out.
The kind of gross that makes you feel greasy.
It read "FUCK YOU, FETTERMAN."
https://blueamerica.crooksandliars.com/2025/02/26/dems-need-consensus-a-good-place-to-start-would-be-fdr-and-josh-weil/
Okay, Amy Klobuchar, maybe. Other possibles:
Cory Booker, Christ Coons, Elissa Slotkin, Rapael Warnock, Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim, John Ossoff?
Did I get any in that group that wouldn't work?
I am looking at the ones that have both been in the Senate long enough, to know all the twists and turns and also, have "put themselves out there", fighting publicly, which means they are comfortable enough to fight in the public's eye.
I think that either Warren or Klobuchar would be great.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
We're supposed to empathize that they were willing to fight until they found out they had to actually do something?
The whole thing was completely disconnected from reality