It feels like a lot of centrist pundits are rallying around Schumer because they feel the lesson of 2024 was that pushing out the ineffective older guy didn't work, instead of that they probably should've pushed him out earlier to get the new crew organized sooner.
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bernie is older and kicking ass, but chuck is not playing the same game.
IOW I totally agree.
Biden was not ineffective.
I have tried to learn from you.
This is bullshit revisionist history.
FUCK YOu.
Granted, Harris consultanted herself into a loss, when the "they are so weird" line was working.
Marquis de Queensbury namby pampy BS.
How much more effective could Biden have been?
JFC. 🙄
I'm mad at Schumer too, but I'm also wary of DOGE wanting the gov to shut down so they can do more damage
They have no meaningful strategies.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/biden-campaign-democrats-pledge-one-term
“… in the gym, you know, when you’re on that bike in your shorts panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off”
We can’t have a Dem leader who has the HOTS for Republicans 🤦♂️
Either Biden should have announced much earlier that he is leaving and allow a real primary or everybody should have united behind him once he said he will stay in the race. This half-assed BS was impossible to overcome.
I don't disagree with your assessment.
Although having volunteered on the text-team for Harris-Walz not sure how much better (if at all) Biden would have fared with the Gaza issue.
Not shutting down gov is a good thing bc of emergency powers given trump who would be the gatekeeping to any reopen - which wiuld not be democracy but an oligarch funded martial law dictatorship.
Shutdown gives (D) zero power.
When history is written, the first words in the timeline will be an indictment of Biden choosing to run for reelection.
The fever is going to. Real any second now
I don't see how a leadership change on that side helps. Especially compared to all the negativity that is being created from this "backlash".
"What is the center if not one step from the darkness."
They are horrible accessories and midwives to our fascist age.
I knew we were screwed when the vote for him was unanimous. I thought it was absolutely disgusting that nobody came forward to challenge him, knowing what we were going to be dealing with--AGAIN.
Yeah, that's really harsh. Things are going to be like that for a while. This is the ugly "game" that *fascist* bullies force us to play every now and again. Unfortunately.
Can't believe anyone's still looking at Merrick Garland with deference at this point.
That is over 60 years of throwing rocks and hiding hands.
You can not claim federal employees were against a shutdown when the organization that represents them says otherwise.
Ridiculous!
Schumer needs to go. And we have serious work to do to rebuild once he is gone.
There are many reasons, but I settle on this simple one: if Donald Trump is praising you, you are wrong.
1. Would Republicans negotiate with Democrats? NO. Do Republicans behave in any way close to what could be called "statesmanlike"? NO.
It didn’t work.
Schumer was wrong.
That’s the lesson.
We are still pissed. We will ALWAYS be pissed. He has to go.
I don’t care if he keeps his seat, that’s a choice for NY voters.
But he needs to be forced out of leadership.
#EndFascists #EndOligarchs #EndNeoliberals
I don’t wanna get kicked out of Purest Dem club.
Technically in my fantasy I was a time traveler who was tasked with convincing him to drop out and he wasn’t having it.
We need leaders; we demand change! Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin must be replaced as Leader/Whip.
We have got to build trust. We must prevail, no other option. Those two are not equipped.
https://www.kelly.senate.gov/
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/
https://jeffries.house.gov/