Ah yes, who could forget the obvious distinction between being an antisemite and "creating the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments"
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Schumer was later quoted as saying "I also don't believe he's a racist, but he all too frequently does exactly the things a racist segregationist would do."
If it quacks like a duck and it waddles like a duck and it swims like a duck, it’s clearly not a duck, but just supporting ducks, perhaps accidentally. PLEASE DON’T HIT ME ELON!
Even this administration’s purported actions to prevent antisemitism include antisemitic neo-nazi coding. He signed 4 executive orders on 1/29/25, but only the one about antisemitism included both the numbers 14 and 88.
Similar to their organizations to fight child trafficking. As if it wasn’t of concern to anyone in America prior to their first term. Easy to con a dumb nation.
He's been very well rewarded for 45 years by playing along. He doesn't want to change the system that has treated him so well. Unfortunately for him, the system has already changed and his gravy train has derailed.
Trump told his casino staffers to fire the Black accountants and hire Jewish ones because they're good with money. He embraces the dual loyalty trope by declaring that Jews who don't support Israel are not real Jews. Schumer is just being a damn coward. He has to go.
Reminds me of the time my (now ex) girlfriend's mother told me her husband (gf's father) "isn't homophobic, he would never hit a gay person, he just has visceral reactions whenever he sees them."
People struggle to comprehend mixed messages on the subject of Israel because they fail to realize the Owners of the America are BOTH fiercely anti-Semitic whilst pro-Israel. It's a bit like the Establishment class in Britain circa 1937 being anti-Germany but pro Nazi.
Trump doesn’t care about Jews, give me a break! He is using them to crack down on political opponents and this would be clear as day to someone who has been in national politics, idk, 50 years??!
He’s also coddling evangelical base and their plans for second coming
Oh, FFS, Chuck, he pardoned the guys in the Camp Auschwitz t-shirt and the 6MWE shirt who vandalized the Capitol building. We've heard the comments he made to an interviewer about not wanting Black people counting his money, he'd rather have Jews. We've heard him blow the dogwhistle too many times.
I remember Mitch McConnell calling Obama not a Marxist Liberal but “creating the feeling of far left elements disproportionately benefitting the middle class and poor.”
Oh, wait…
The left needs their Mitch McConnell and Schumer ain’t it.
The sad thing is the history of the Nazi takeover of Germany is filled with many Jewish leaders saying the same things. These men in leadership can't comprehend the evil that is heading our way.
Trump gave this fellow a full presidential pardon so yeah I can see the case that Trump is whadyacallit "creating the feeling of safe harbor" for this subtly coded antisemitic sentiment
Schumer is stuck in a mindset where, with the right cautious language, and another bid for bipartisanship and agreeing with as much of what the Republicans are doing as he can, everything will be ok again.
Ok, you're fine with permanent residents being detained at the whim of the powerful and probably will find reasons to justify the detention of American citizens as long as you dislike their politics. That's certainly a position that people like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller agree with you on.
If you're fine with people you don't like being illegally detained and imprisoned without trial, what defense will you have when they arrest your friends?
Nah he is just old corrupt dinosaur that ,together with his family, profited mightily from our (1980 onward )system. A system that died back in 2008 but people like him zombified…
And he sees support for Israel and anti-semitism as mutually exclusive. Trump can't be an anti-semite because he supports Israel. Even though antisemites love Israel because it gives Jewish people somewhere to go that isn't here.
I literally am not sure who Schumer is trying to talk to, which is a big reason Dem party approval is declining so fast against popular policies like eliminating cancer research and mass-firing veterans.
It's fun when people show you that Israel and its colonial bloodlust is more important than antisemitism or the safety of actual Jewish people. The wikipedia entry on "new antisemitism" sure is something. Not a good thing, but a thing.
Let’s send Chuck back to school. He can start by studying the work of two Yale profs: Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder. Then we can talk about anti-Semitism.
Why? Why does Schumer feel the need to protect Trump’s personal reputation against people calling him an antisemite? Is he trying to appeal to some group of voters who hate all the antisemitism Trump does *but* think it’s all by accident?
it must be so painful to be a man who once was one of the most powerful people in the world, to see the world slipping past your grasp, and not understand why.
Seems like we should get him out of office and into a nice comfy home where he can write his books and watch TV soaps without having to worry about all them scary politics anymore
Thank you! I came to the comments to ask the same thing! Why is he feeling the need to say this? If he admits the thing we all know, what happens? What does he achieve by this?
this gibberish is yankee talk for what i was told growing up in the south, hearing racist shit from some asshole, where the gibberish is "It's just how he was raised..."
The old guard needs to sit back and let the newer, younger reps take the lead. Some of these people need to retire. Like, yesterday. There is ZERO confidence in the Democratic Party.
old chucky doesn't want to alienate him for when the republicans come to their senses for some bipartisan collaboration which is definitely happening any day now.
Schumer is forever torn between the part of himself that believes in democracy and the part of him that believes in Israel's future as an apartheid state. He can't lead this fight.
And he should not. He's a brilliant strategy guy. He's got conflicting interests. Doesn't mean fire him. DnC didn't train young ppl for when this happens. So they implode ATM. This was gonna happen soon.
This is why Schumer is a genius; he uses the kind of stemwinding rhetoric that lights a fire under the butts of progressive voters and gets them to rush to the polls on Election Day, leading to Democratic landslides.
I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
Norman Jewison
I could almost excuse Schumer if what he actually said was “I do not believe Trump is antisemitic but he is so goddamn stupid he can’t tell whether the people he hangs around with are or not”.
Impeach Donald J Trump as The House of Oversite Committee did in 2019 for Abuse of Power and remove Elon Musk from the White House for Abuse to American Citizens.
By the People, For the People.
So Trump is not an anti-Semite but he enables anti-Semitic behavior for anyone who wants to express it in words or actions. Reassuring. Thanks, Senator Schumer.
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His lack of spine is seriously mind blowing.
And Grassley.
And Graham
And Mitch.
And Pelosi.
Octogenarians need to retire and exit the stage.
Either way, he's working as a double agent.
Dude has lost the plot.
The kids protesting genocide : we must deport them now.
I get why Schumer won’t oppose Trump.
If you know, you know.
He’s also coddling evangelical base and their plans for second coming
who was supposed to tell him about 1488??
Schumer, probably
ELON MUSK DID TWO SIEG HEILS AT THE INAUGURATION
I simply refuse to believe anybody in human history is this fucking stupid and he just doesn’t fucking care. Wonder when he got his gold plated pager.
Oh, wait…
The left needs their Mitch McConnell and Schumer ain’t it.
What do I know?
https://bsky.app/profile/jakemgrumbach.bsky.social/post/3lkvokbieik2h
Gleichschaltung.
Shumer granting Trump a pass makes HIM guilty.
So
I’m thinking his assumption abt Trump here is way off.
Awesome sauce
I would love for Schumer to have a little think about his principles and his spine.
2. The guy was a Hamas sympathizer
Who knows. Who cares. F*ck him and every other appeaser and collaborator.
Yeah yeah. GOT IT NOW. 👍🏾
Is this correct?
@schumer.senate.gov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism?wprov=sfla1
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-decided-chuck-schumer-not-jewish-anymore-rcna196213
… is Trump an anti-Semite? …
I don’t think so.
But he is an opportunist who instinctively knows how to exploit it, though.
I don't disagree. His actions betray his values.
I personally think that Trump is a malignant narcissist who takes advantage of any division between people.
He's an expert at emotional arbitrage.
No, but he was holding the gun when it discharged killing the person that he wanted to see eliminated.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…” 🦆
Schumer is a naïve relic past his prime.
What a disgrace.
As an expression of our compassion, you see
#snark
Norman Jewison
It’s like saying, “He can’t be a racist. He likes Kanye.”
Just realized that analogy really loses something…
There's zero chances of anything else.
Similarities: Chuck is boneless, he is contorting himself, and it’s obscene. 🙃
By the People, For the People.
Is schumer insane?
He can't even bring himself to simply shut up or say 'no comment'. No, he has to redefine it so he can find cover to lie about it.
I wish I was joking, but I'm just ripping off an old Board of Deputies tweet from the last time Trump was in office...
Does that man even talk with anyone these days? At all?
This is the level of head-in-the-sand denial that would've seemed unbelievable 10 or 15 years ago, let alone today.
Antisemitism
Shut up sit down and fuck off
Clearly.
Not buying his book.
Not supporting Democrats—at all — until & unless they get their house in order and defend this country.
We don’t need more cowards.
Read the room, Chuck.