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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 183 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"The Republican bill is a terrible option," Schumer said in his remarks. "It is deeply partisan. It doesn't address far too many of this country's needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."

You fucking twat

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[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 130 points 11 months ago (27 children)

OK democratic leadership, you win; I'll quit voting for your party.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK democratic leadership, you win; I’ll quit voting for your party.

May not matter at the rate we're going.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Just quitting voting isn’t enough, join a local political group. Worst case scenario, they get radical and you’re too into it so you end up on the news. Best case scenario, they get radical and you’re not into it so you go home and plan your meals for the week.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

‘Do this thing, but in the best scenario you’re not doing the thing.’

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[–] killabeezio@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

I said the same shit to my senators and Schumer https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck. If they don't vote no, I won't vote Dem ever again. Tired of it.

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[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 104 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I quit. American politics are a circus sideshow full of dancing turds. At this point, let it burn. The side that I vote for won’t even stand up against this shit, so what good is my vote now?

Just a bunch of rich assholes doing whatever they want.

[–] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It won’t burn on its own. It will only get worse if left unattended.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I’m just so disappointed in the fact that there are so many people in this country that actually voted for this shit. How can people sell themselves out like that, just to be able to say, “I owned the libs loool”

I don’t even know what to think anymore.

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[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Come to Europe. We got ice cream and free healthcare. Also you don’t need a gun to protect yourself when going out for a walk.

[–] littlebrother@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think those of us who want to leave cant..

I mean I KNOW I'm fucked, I'd save my wife...but who would accept us? Likely not one single European nation.

[–] Master@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago (7 children)

All of them will if you have a million in the bank... If not then its a long hard road.

[–] littlebrother@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Exactly...I'm not rich.

So we're fucked.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's why the American people have to do it themselves. Take to the streets. The system has failed you. No one will save you but yourselves.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Just for the record, this is what democrats always do, and it's why they keep fucking losing.

Democrats would rather have trump than have a social-democratic platform, and it shows every time they have the opportunity to fight him and chose to capitulate instead. The democrats aren't a left-wing party, certainly not now, and arguably not since FDR.

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[–] TemplaerDude@lemm.ee 87 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Do-nothing Democrats strike again.

Schumer is a coward and a fraud. The weakest leader in a generation. He should resign in shame.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Schumer is a traitor, capitulator and collaborator.

his response to ice literally kidnapping a man for speech was three paragraphs of "oh yeah totally fuck him hate how fucking Arab he is" before finally saying "but this might be a little bit wrong? uwu" and asking for reasons rather than fucking demanding he be released immediately.

Chuck "blackbagging might be wrong" Schumer. between him and Amy I wonder how much worse a family can get.

fascist collaborator piece of shit.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, is he related to Amy Schumer??

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, he's like her dad's cousin or something like that

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago (1 children)

'People Will Not Forget'

They always forget.

[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)

opposition party? these motherfuckers may as well be on the same goddamn team.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Big surprise, old suits in the democratic party don't represent the modern democratic voter.

There needs to be term limits, especially based on age, and to whipe out any form of stock trading and "donations".

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The reason they're still in office is for 30 years the DNC has put protecting incumbents above all else, including beating republicans.

The DNC power structure is pretty much the opposite of a democracy, but we just got our furtherest left chair in over 30 years, and his performance as a state party leader shows his biggest concern is beating Republicans, and he's accomplished that to great success by just not putting the party in-between voters and the progressive candidates they want to vote for.

It's an incredibly low bar, but one Ken Martin easily clears.

Don't hate the (literally a month old) new blood for the failings of the old.

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (11 children)

"I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."

What's his reason for saying this? How does a government shutdown give Trump more power?

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Citing what I saw on Philip DeFranco earlier, apparently in a shutdown the executive branch has a lot of power in terms of what specifics get shutdown and how.

Was news to me considering the shitshow that happens every time the budget needs to be voted on but with all the DOGEness going on makes sense that there's extra caution around this. Still sucks that Dems rolled over so easily.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 46 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Nothing is stopping the republicans from shutting it down themselves if it was so beneficial to Trump.

And it’s not like they wouldn’t lie and blame it on the Democrats, so there’s minimal risk in voter agitation vs alleged reward.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A congressional recess during shutdown means that nobody would be left to hold Trump accountable. Except, they're already not doing that, so...

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Perfect encapsulation of the state of the Dem leadership:

"Chuck Schumer caving and saying he’ll vote for a blank check for Trump and Musk is demonstrative of why Democrats lose," lamented progressive activist and writer Jonathan Cohn. "Voters so often don’t believe what they [Dem leadership] say because they don’t believe what they say."

(Emphasis and clarification in brackets mine)

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

Literally less than 24 hours after saying democrats wouldn't support the CR

Absolutely pathetic

[–] WorkersCorps@sopuli.xyz 51 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The entire Democratic Party leadership needs to resign and be replaced by people who will actually fight for working Americans.

In November Schumer and the other leaders suffered the worst defeat in party history yet they haven't realized the only thing left for them to do is resign in shame.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

The worst defeat in party history is definitely Reagan 1984.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 47 points 11 months ago

What the fuck.

Cowardly traitor.

[–] oakey66@lemm.ee 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Call your democratic rep and demand that they insist Schumer resign.

(202) 224-3121

At this point, I am Not donating a single dollar more to the party. I won’t vote for a democrat at the top of the ticket and will pick a DSA candidate or green candidate. If the democrats aren’t willing to fight for democracy or strengthen it when they’re in power, I won’t reward them with votes.

Every democrat senator needs to be primaried.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Democrats need to primary all these old fucks the way the crazy maga crowd primaried Republicans

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago
[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"People will not forget!"

Ron Howard: "They Would."

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (17 children)

"VoTe BlUe no mAtTeR who"

Liberals as always would rather side with fascists.

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[–] raymm3852@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] donnager@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Chuck is a pussy and needs to go ASAP

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