It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.
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In the logging wars, there were times when the court allowed cutting to happen and within a few days, a higher court would block it.
But during that little window, they cut down as many trees as they could.
I saw them start at midnight and get blocked at 9 am once. They took out like an acre.
I can't imagine anything more disgusting than sleeping on the floor next to Leon, with the possible exception of cleaning Don the Con's bathroom after taco night at Mar-a-Lago.
You know what I think would be a good idea? Your a tv guy, make a dramatization about that. Make it Dateline or America’s Most Wanted style and put it on Facebook or YouTube. Don’t tell people, show them.
ponder this-he had known from Dec that Mar 14 was a potential shutdown date, after 1/20 saw numerous indictions we’re under a repub attack & yet still arranged a multi-faceted book tour indicating he had no plans of gop challenge on Mar 14, only sorry we won’t see the ladles of the View take him on
And to think it was not so long ago that all of us sane people held Schumer in such high esteem. Him, Fetterman -- what is happening in the brains of politicians?
Even his op-ed and interview with NYT was un viewable unless you logged in. Someone call his grandkids STAT, someone needs to explain...everything to him. Or get him to go take a nap and let someone else run the show.
I’m sad about Baltimore. I was going to take myself over there and tell him uncomfortable details about my malfunctioning gallbladder and the surgery to remove it. He ruins all my fun!
Like, "Hey, what's the most out of touch thing we could do at this hinge moment in history? No bad ideas, this is an open roundtable, let's just spitball here."
If you look at Chuck's recent voting record, you can plainly see that he isn't playing for the home team. I wonder what conflict of interest Trump is leveraging against him to make him do such an about face? Now he's publicly asking Trump for mercy while sowing dissent into the Democrat party.
You mean like Bernie did in 2016 when he went home to finish his book-announce a book tour & months later decided to campaign for the candidate that beat him?
And you could tell he didn't want to deal with the shutdown with that tour planned, as he had planned the tour for some time, and you can't cancel your plans when your country is dissolving, then what kind of job do you have if you can't enjoy profiting from it on the side.
So many people being paid to put out fluff pieces for his ATROCIOUS vote. Gaslighting won't work anymore.
DEM leadership is done. We need people who will fight for us not fight for "Or it's always been done this way " "he's been here for years it's his turn to lead" HELL NO tin can/wire brigade
Resisters call in sick on 3/19/25. Truckers, bus and train drivers, unions, air traffic controllers, pilots, cabbies, IT, manufacturing, etc. Please stay home as long as possible. This action will help to get our message against tyranny out and show the world we won’t allow this takeover.
why the fuck would this twat being going on a book tour when congress isn't doing their job checking the executive and the rest of us are in the fight of our lives.
He cannot fathom that his old school government is forever gone. He lives in a past that will never be resurrected. He thinks he can make deals in the gym. He must let someone else take the lead before he completely destroys the Dems.
There once was a man called Chuck,
As a leader he is a bit of a cuck,
He likes to make dealz,
On his books for realz,
And America is just shit out of luck.
The best case is that he's a secret Biden, just too stupid to recognize that he's enabling fascists instead of serving the country because pandering to political optics doesn't deter crime.
Anyone remember that the democraps emails were hacked? And that the hackers were Russian?
And then there's that utility hack, where Russian hackers shut down a bunch of utility companies, so Obama created the cybercrime division of the FBI which traitor45 disbanded...
I'm amazed you guys can't see the Dems obvious strategy here. The old give them enough rope to hang themselves. They know the GOP budget will gut social security and people will suffer because of it, but that's the only way they can win at the next election, make people hurt bad enough to change
And this isn't any new strategy. It's not like we don't attempt to do the exact thing to conservatives when they block our budget. And now we act exactly like them in the reverse scenario. What a truly enlightened group we are.
You'll remove funding for everyone for an indeterminate amount of time. That is millions of at risk Americans under the bus for a protest that will end in what? Yes the CR will also put them at risk but at least it is crystal clear WHO did that. Dems block this and the narrative WILL BE they did it.
But this narrative is broken. What is the plan? We control neither the legislative, judicial or executive branch. This administration is accelerationist libertarians TRYING to dismantle the gov't. Do you really think shutting it down concerns them if they can blame it on democrats?
I understand the anger with Schumer. I do not like Schumer, I do not approve of his record, I think he is a classic liberal that is more concerned with market stability and preserving globalism than he is with actually helping working Americans and the poor.
He’s a professional victim…loves complaining about what the other side is doing wrong, but refuses to step up when they have to take a step back. Worthless.
He’s a decepticon and they all know it. Then they blame it on him
“Oh my god! Shoemore voted against our wills at the last moment! I am so shocked! It’s not our fault. Just like Sinema… and unelected parliamentarian …and switching from Bernie to Biden 2x…and everything else we’ve lied about…”
All that worry for nothing. Ol' Cowardly Chuck has postponed his book tour. Not because he had the sudden realization that it was the wrong thing to do, but because people said mean things to him and now he's all scared.
Chuck is from that Golden Age when being elected meant a few decades of honest insider trading, a few book deals, a cosy side gig or hustle, back when America was great. Voters got mad about that, and let the monsters in. And Chuck does not have monster busting in him.
I think Chuck and lots of other Dems would disagree. They worked very hard over 8 yrs to make this come to fruition. They sat through hearing after hearing figuring out how to keep MTQ and Gym on the Hill. Ooops sorry Merrick, Joe and Jack y’all deserve your props too🤬🤬🤮they are all criminals
Schumer is the new Feinstein. Dazed and Confused. Let's start making that comparison go widespread because everyone now knows she should have resigned years sooner.
Politico reports his efforts to patch things up with Democratic activists isn’t working. Schumer is now to the Democratic Party what Mitch is to Republicans.
The difference is that Mitch—as loathsome as he is—was powerful enough and strategic enough to get that party to this point to begin with. Chuck has ALWAYS been feckless and ineffective, and in recent years in particular more interested in protecting Israel than the US.
I really think this gets at the heart of it. He did good work, once. But now he's just a nice old man who's afraid of conflict. But the Democrats respect seniority so damn much that no one wants to tell grandpa it's time to go to bed.
Some of our fellow Dems need to take responsibility for their own stances of the recent past.
Particularly galling coming from the non-Dem bern/nader camp.
Dems don't hate Dems, our faux left foe has always been this.
They are not new and are oppo, every bit as much as gop.
I’m no giving the Dems another red cent until they re-align towards AOC & Bernie and away from the centrist dupes like Schumer. I will donate to any honest Dem primarying Chuck next time around. New York time to send this asshole packing
I would bet, Russia has intel on Trump, Musk, Vance and democrats like Schumer and others.
After the first meeting with Lawrow in Saudi Arabia, they all came back like brain washed and hell broke loose.
Maybe he just pulled out some files and pictures…
Every sentence he speaks sounds like an aural shrug of resignation. It’s a challenging job that no one really wants but they stay too long nonetheless.
(H Reed, eg). Time to step aside.
Both his daughters work in tech ones even at meta. He’s probably been threatened with their careers if he didn’t vote the way he did. That being said he’s still a traitor to the original democrats you know the ones not cashing lobbyists checks
The poll numbers for the congressional Democrats is shockingly low. The Democratic base is really angry because the party has people like Schumer in leadership positions. Will the frightening poll numbers wake this party up?
Time to #FireChuck @schumer.senate.gov Time for the blue-washed "centrists" learn that the people are pissed at performative symbolic nonsense while betraying us when it counts. Replace with @warren.senate.gov or @schiff.senate.gov or anyone who hasn't received praise from T-ump ever.
We all have to remember who the enemy really is!! That is how they take away our power. Schumer should get out of the way and let real leaders meet the moment.
So his ill-timed book tour must be part of his “relentless fighting”
Golly- we are all so relieved you think doing more of exactly what you are doing now (plus book signing) will move the needle and protect us from a fascist coup
@pattonoswalt.bsky.social he just canceled his book tour for “security reasons” aka there were angry mobs of regular people waiting for him and he is terrified of accountability.
Mr Oswalt, how does a shutdown help anyone who depends on government services? Isn't it simply a childish and futile act? It seems to me that it would be just a failed political move. How would it have helpd?
Senator Schumer did not botched it at all; he save the Democrat Party from being the most hated group in the USA. If he would had shut the government down; with a favorability 27 in the polls. That why Trump wanted him to shut down the government; it would be like quicksand never-ending and his call
I’m still throwing up in my mouth after this @schumer.senate.gov visual. “When you’re on the bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, many inhibitions fade, allowing for more open communication.”
I agree!! if they can have a reality TV star president, and some Fox News anchors… we should be able to have a tv host who actually GETS IT as president. I’d vote for him 💯
So, this is the most important issue today? The government is being dismantled, people are being deported, laws are being broken, but Schumer is the problem? Get a life.
Ya know, if we suspend our disbelief for a moment and believe Schumer’s reasoning, he could have at least gone with the filibuster for a few uncomfortable hours, if only to show the other side that we can be dicks, too.
This is where Chuck and the Don have something in common. They both believe they are doing the right thing and are good for America. They are both dead wrong,
I saw him on MSNBC night before and he explained why. It was because with allowing the congressional body to stay open they have a better chance to continue to fight tRump's & DOGE's attacks. Also, the Courts could've run out of money, allowing for one executive body to have ALL the power.
I've always heard the most dangerous place in Washington, DC is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. I think the safest place is between Schumer and the MAGA agenda.
If it was shut down, F47 and his dismantling team would eliminate more sections of the government. Tough situation with a mentally unstable leader retaliating for every thing he feels somehow affects him. Unless one is groveling at his feet, praising his glory, then they are attacking him.
I HXTE the republicans, but also I don’t really like most of the dems either 🙄 it’s very frustrating that the only party working to do anything for this country is a party that is working against everything I care about 😭 if it was Bernie Sanders doing what Trump is doing, I would be so excited!!
And then he interviewed with Chris Hayes just to hock his book while Trump and ICE kidnap people and send them to prisons in other countries. The Dems are so useless it's hard to believe they aren't complicit.
Pathetic old man cares more about his stock portfolio than he does about the state of our country. That is so emblematic of everything that is wrong right now. He and half the Democratic party need to be primaried about voted out of office.
I feel like the CR vote is going to be the final breaking point for ol’ Chuck and Hakeem with the folks actually trying to do their jobs. Time to clean house.
I genuinely can’t tell if he’s just oblivious to reality or a collaborator. As a child in NY, I was proxy-raised by a pack of Eastern European grandmothers with numbers tattooed on their arms. I listened, I learned. Chuck of all people should know better.
it isn't botching if he is taking the side of those bringing him profit. that is corruption. he is reportedly invested in this whole crypto bullshit thing and has been seen being buddy buddy with trump. scammers gonna scam
It's because we're dealing with fascism and Democrats do not even acknowledge (as a party) that the Republicans have gone full fascist. They can't. They have almost no policies they run on, and they refuse to fight back and stop this. Democrats WILL NOT fix this problem for us.
A good leader plans for all contingencies. The Dems should have been prepared for this situation, but Noooo! Too busy making money. @schumer.senate.gov total FAILURE TO PLAN AND LEAD! RESIGN OLD MAN!
Chuck Schumer just saved all your damn pasty mediocre low info asses knowing you'd run your whore mouths dragging him for it because that's what a mensch DOES.
These are people who have, for a long time now, been made aware of and even collaborated in the handover of power to the Nazi dictatorship. This is their swansong. They are in their twilight years anyway, and have given up, taking this time to make the best of their lives at our expense. Fascists.
Schumer just said on MSNBC or something that he legitimately thinks he can go back to talking to and working with republicans. He’s completely out of touch, removed from reality and hasn’t been the right person for the job for the last 10+ years.
I can't be happy about his complete failure to meet the moment when so many of us who have zero power other than our single vote can't challenge the system with authority to take them down. BUT, I CAN fight back with a pitchfork in my hands, if necessary, on capital steps. And many of us will.
Thats a legit argument. So why was chuckie saying the exact *opposite* with less than 24 hours to the vote? Why did he agree on voting against it when dem leadership met before the House vote, then at the last minute doing an about face and pulling the rug out from under the Dems in the House?
Pressure from an egotistical American caucus that was stupid enough to aid Trump by not voting in the first place along lines of party and principle but not prejudice?
I don't buy this because I think the trajectory is exactly to tear down the government and replace it with something else -- and that will happen with or without a shutdown.
Do you think the lack of a shutdown means that our asses are saved?
I don't see a political upside to voting for cloture.
I don’t think they could have. If the government closed then all military personnel would be required to continue working but without pay. I don’t think they could keep that up for very long.
I'm not 100% sure on that. They've been through enough government shutdowns that there are rules for keeping a couple of politically popular services on life support. I know that Social Security checks keep going out, but I think military pay also gets waived through.
Listening him contort himself to not condemn the arrest of Khalil and not call for Eric Adams to resign was stunning. WTF. Those aren't even hard stances to take. Those are fricking layups.
Sure. Shutting down the govt to prevent Trump from dismantling the govt achieves what? Enables Trump to blame Dems when the shit hits the fan? Distracts from the disastrous trade war? What else?
He didn’t help himself on Chris Hayes’s show tonight either. Seemed disingenuous and callous. His publisher is obviously sweating because this stupid book ain’t gonna sell.
Chamberlain is the scapegoat for a whole class of UK politicians who were pro-appeasement. Chamberlain actually managed to get some serious UK defense procurement and programs happening pre-war that literally saved the UK.
Yeah, he played a bad hand about as well as he could at the time. Without France, it was impossible to intervene in central Europe and the British public were in no mood to lose another generation of young men. He was scrambling to rearm as quickly as possible as you note.
All those things that were...Spitfire...Hurricane....Chain Home...they happened under his watch or were infused with extra money, production ramped up etc. He just should never have waved that piece of paper to camera ...but of course media consultants didn't exist then.
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But during that little window, they cut down as many trees as they could.
I saw them start at midnight and get blocked at 9 am once. They took out like an acre.
I maintain a drunk street rat who once chewed up an article on fascism would be a better leader.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-with-dina-powell-mccormick-and-senator-david-mccormick-tickets-1273359395229?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios
DEM leadership is done. We need people who will fight for us not fight for "Or it's always been done this way " "he's been here for years it's his turn to lead" HELL NO tin can/wire brigade
That’d be great.
Can we get Ian McKellan to DC stat?
There once was a man called Chuck,
As a leader he is a bit of a cuck,
He likes to make dealz,
On his books for realz,
And America is just shit out of luck.
Anyone remember that the democraps emails were hacked? And that the hackers were Russian?
And then there's that utility hack, where Russian hackers shut down a bunch of utility companies, so Obama created the cybercrime division of the FBI which traitor45 disbanded...
“Oh my god! Shoemore voted against our wills at the last moment! I am so shocked! It’s not our fault. Just like Sinema… and unelected parliamentarian …and switching from Bernie to Biden 2x…and everything else we’ve lied about…”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-postpones-book-events-security-concerns-democratic-backlash-rcna196711
I think the easiest explanation is one of two, or even both-
1. He's old and tired and doesn't give a shit.
2. It's in his own personal best interest to submit to Donald.
Given the rampant corruption in the US political system, my bet is on 2.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5198524-schumer-democrats-repositioning/
Schumer is corporate democrat dogschitt. Send him to Gaza for his book tour, or put him out to pasture.
A corporate, PoS boot licker isn’t worthy of Minority Leader, ffs.
for a dollar, Chucky
If you're not familiar with the term, look it up.
#WEARETHEFLOOD
"More failure."
"Even more failure, with a side of money grubbing."
"The most failure you could possibly imagine."
-Schumer probably
It is time to escalate peacefully it numbers that cannot be ignored.
I was clumsily trying to say these critics of Schumer (and before that Biden) never celebrate our wins and hurt our chances in every election.
Particularly galling coming from the non-Dem bern/nader camp.
Dems don't hate Dems, our faux left foe has always been this.
They are not new and are oppo, every bit as much as gop.
After the first meeting with Lawrow in Saudi Arabia, they all came back like brain washed and hell broke loose.
Maybe he just pulled out some files and pictures…
(H Reed, eg). Time to step aside.
Perfect time to leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CpTgy10Bs
Agree: doesn’t understand the assignment!
Needs to resign to make way for bold leaders
His reason to keep job is b/c good vote whip and says more doing of what Dems are doing is working…
No, Chuck it’s not working
Lawlessness & corruption is up & unabated!
https://newrepublic.com/post/192873/chuck-schumer-donald-trump-defense-shutdown
So his ill-timed book tour must be part of his “relentless fighting”
Golly- we are all so relieved you think doing more of exactly what you are doing now (plus book signing) will move the needle and protect us from a fascist coup
Yeah, Chuck crapped the Senate chamber.
Hire Elizabeth Warren
Fuck off, entitled white man-baby.
They’re cowards.
You’re right, he is PERFECTLY wrong for this moment. I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone so colossally WRONG as he is, right now.
Chuck Schumer just saved all your damn pasty mediocre low info asses knowing you'd run your whore mouths dragging him for it because that's what a mensch DOES.
Fuck you're an idiot.
Too old to change,
Too deaf to listen,
Too weak to defend,
Democracy.
Robert Duvall or Larry Linville?
https://archive.ph/2025.03.14-024820/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion/trump-musk-shutdown-senate.html
Do you think the lack of a shutdown means that our asses are saved?
I don't see a political upside to voting for cloture.
S: I have to do this book tour. I’m gonna vote yes.
PR: Don’t do a Target bro. They will reschedule for this and your sales will skyrocket.
S: Nah. I need a break.
PR: Go vote no. Or no $ for you.
Schumer hasn't