The real problem with this shit is that the Democrats in Congress are treating this like an election they need to win* instead of a crisis they need to stop. *and they aren't doing a good job even at that - ThreadSky

jesseberney.com • 19 days ago

The real problem with this shit is that the Democrats in Congress are treating this like an election they need to win* instead of a crisis they need to stop.

*and they aren't doing a good job even at that

Reposted from Chuck Schumer

You’re watching the Super Bowl next week.

Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your guacamole and beer prices.

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thegreer.bsky.social•18 days ago

Mmhmm

rosey44.bsky.social•18 days ago

The Democrats should have stopped him the first time .

barbpoipu.bsky.social•18 days ago

Exactly! The winning ship has sailed 😱

keepingtherepublic.bsky.social•17 days ago

Chuck needs a new comms director ASAP

nestingpuffin.bsky.social•18 days ago

How would you suggest that the minority stop it?

wethetreeple.bsky.social•18 days ago

Delay* sorry

wethetreeple.bsky.social•18 days ago

One senator can detail bills even making it to the floor. That’s how Tuberville held up DOD appointments and promotions for months all by himself

aebuckley2.bsky.social•18 days ago

So lame

remotelyinterested.bsky.social•18 days ago

We've got sweet uncle Schumer fondling the lint-coated Werther's in his pocket and tweeting about fucking tomato prices while our country is being disemboweled.

srsshelter.bsky.social•18 days ago

What the fuck, Chuck?

dachte.bsky.social•18 days ago

There isn't a lot of direct use of power possible for the minority party in Congress to stop a President who has the unwavering support of the majority party in Congress. Even when he's doing crazy and often illegal stuff.

victorha.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yup

henny115.bsky.social•17 days ago

Your complaining is doing nothing to help us.

thornyopinion.bsky.social•18 days ago

Sometimes you have an election problem and sometimes you just have a problem.

springtomind.bsky.social•18 days ago

The response by the Democrats is absurdly weak, and Schumer is really showing himself to not be up to the job.

drdinnertime.bsky.social•18 days ago

Are you suggesting that the eyes of the nation are not glued to the fluctuations of tomato prices?

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•18 days ago

Nothing points out just how ineffective and clueless Schumer is than the assumption undergirding his ‘win in 2026’ that we can sustain 2 years of this. I don’t know if we can make it 2 weeks at current course and speed

hopelovelaughma.bsky.social•17 days ago

They have no power. Musk et al need to be arrested. Unfortunately, who is responsible for that?

maiett.bsky.social•18 days ago

OMFG these Schumer skeets about pizza and guacamole are such a parody of leadership, it's almost like his staffers are desperately telegraphing his incompetence.

alpacahair.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s an old club with few members, but we’re not invited.

jesseberney.com•19 days ago

And of course most of the media is equally unprepared for this moment. It's not that they're too conservative, it's that they genuinely do not have the language to express the level of crisis we are currently experiencing.

The media believes in US institutions and cannot imagine their destruction.

jesseberney.com•19 days ago

To be clear, they'll write stories reporting on the facts! But covering a crisis means treating it differently from other stories.

It means big headlines. It means 24/7 news channel coverage. It means front-page editorials.

There are ways to communicate the importance of what is happening.

jesseberney.com•18 days ago

this is exactly the shit I was talking about

jesseberney.com•19 days ago

One lesson Trump has learned well is that the best way to do improper and illegal shit is to do it out in the open. People will always slavishly defend you. And the media doesn't know how to treat something like a scandal if it isn't covered up.

jesseberney.com•19 days ago

Again, to get back to the first point of this thread, here is Schumer saying it explicitly. He honestly believes his job is to win the next round of elections, not to stop the ongoing Constitutional crisis.

We do not have an opposition party that knows how to oppose.

stellagarp.bsky.social•19 days ago

How are they this ignorant? This incapable? Trump is doing empire -destabilizing stuff.

jesseberney.com•19 days ago

I don't know. I want to shake them like a baby.

cstucker.bsky.social•18 days ago

I can't think of a time when leadership has been as bad as Schumer is right now, but then again, I wasn't around just before the Civil War.

jasper33.bsky.social•18 days ago

And what makes it doubly stupid is that everyone with a brain knew Trump would get meaningless concessions and declare victory. That makes it easy for the Republicans to declare this as just typical Democrat hand wringing

zugernat.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yes. They’re still hoping they can win MAGA votes and are worried about offending them.

noahafrank.bsky.social•18 days ago

The only thing they know how to do is campaign (poorly)

tarnado.bsky.social•19 days ago

how can he be SO BAD - oh, that's right, he's got a made-up couple that he asks what they care about most

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