"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer told The New York Times earlier this month.
Bro is ineffectual in even his own metaphors.
It's hard to understand how dismissive they're being when their own constituents are reaching out to them. Is this article leaving it out or have they given some sort of rationale for choosing their battles instead of going all out?
What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.
"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.
That's a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.
Jon Stewart had an hour-long interview with Hakeem Jeffries the other day, and it's just painful to watch. Jeffries resolutely refuses to offer even a single hint of anything the Democrats intend to do beyond expressing vague sympathetic feelings towards unhappy voters. It becomes quite clear the Democratic leadership has no intention of even trying to take part in the resistance the USA needs, and would rather drain the energy of any such movement into their morass of vapid messaging, meandering non-promises and wearying inaction.
The senior Democrats have no intention of fighting for the people. Any effective resistance will have to come from elsewhere.
Dear House Democrats,
Fascism is currently destroying the US system of government that you like to call democracy.
Given the influence on the world held by the US, this is a major threat not only to the people you were trusted to represent, but to practically everyone.
If it succeeds in taking over the United States, it will be in no small part your fault.
Kindly do you fucking jobs.
Now.
Before it's too late.
Spineless corporate shills. They don’t want to do the hard work of governing either. They just want a fat corporate paycheck from lobbyists and insider information for stock trades.
progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible
I've seen a lot of people asking how they can get involved and make a difference. Well, there's your answer. If those are the guys the Dems are mad at then they're the ones making the most impact.
Sounds like our democracy is dead, if true.
How many Democratic members of Congress (and their donors) are going to be richer thanks to Trump tax cuts?
The Democrat party needs to end. We can't fight fascist activism by being nice to them. We also can't fight fascist billionaires with "nice guy" billionaires who ultimately benefit just as much, but just don't approve publicly of the methods.
The Democrat party needs to end.
We need a progressive party.
“We are getting paid to lose elections.” Yeah, thanks for the update dickhead.
"unnamed source" "unnamed Democrat"
Why don't these people grow a pair of tits and put their name to their quotes? They're complaining that the Dem leadership isn't being brave and fighting, yet they can't be brave and put their name to critiquing the leaders...? Figure it out.
This is why they lose.
Schumer and his ilk should be run out of town on a rail.
They're too old, too milquetoast, and too entrenched in the status quo to be effective to today's needs.
Their time is up, hook'm off the stage.
Poor guys. If they didn't like it, they should quit.
Democrats "We're suppose to do something about this? Cause we weren't really planning on anything."
This is news? It wasn't exactly a recent development that made voting a choice between picking a conservative party backed by interests or picking a conservative party backed by self-interests.
The former is better than the latter, but it's not much of a consolation prize, considering neither of them give a rat's ass about the people they claim to represent.
do they like getting phone calls to act more oppositional? do they want more phone calls to act more oppositional?
because removed about it is how you get more phone calls to act more oppositional.
and now that the base knows they are getting through, any current elected who is not acting more oppositional is almost guaranteed to get a primary opponent who i assure you is most definitely going to act more oppositional. and primaries are won by the most ideological. being a creature of washington is not going to help those people if they don't get their act together.
this is also not to mention the countless numbers of elected democrats who after biden's debate performance completely fell for the media created narrative and treated joe biden's back not so much like a pincushion but a target fired at by a scattergun at 2 feet. i haven't forgotten and i won't forget.
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