I’ve voted against him every time he’s had a primary challenger for the last 26 years. Maybe we’ll finally get more people to show up in 2028. I’m sick of retirees picking my Senators.
Congratulations, dipshit [Schumer, not OP], you've done something perfectly counterproductive by (a) making it sound like (presumably) something that's less of a blatant Orwellian farce that turned people against it just because of the name, and (b) creating confusion that makes it harder to organize against it because now there are two different names out there.
All part of the plant
I'm going to call my senator and ask him to stuff Chuck into a fucking locker.
senate is joever it’s house now
but yeah for locker stuff that’s fair
Not a dollar to the DNC or a DNC candidate.
Never, ever again.
Honestly, I'm at the point where I support the full-on dissolution of the United States. There's just no coming back from this level of decay of political norms and culture. This isn't going to end without either a peaceful dissolution of the country or a civil war that kills millions of us. I say we just skip the civil war part, grant all 50 states independence, and let the states come back together into whatever new nation or collection of nations they wish to form.
can we get like a 30-day musical chair countdown?
like they give a shit,
Their corporate and rich donors will give them some kickbacks as a thanks. which will be much more than any average citizens can pay.
ROFL Democrats are pretty useless these days...I've been calling my representatives, sending letters, and generally being more politically involved to make sure this terrible reconciliation bill dies in a fire. I hope to oust the republicans who represent Kansas too. They are so cursed and incompetent, spineless and weak in the face of donor daddies telling them what to do.
They're not useless. They're complicit.
Yeah, they are enabling this hostile takeover of government by not actively fighting against it. Even voting yes for some harmful legislation as the good little accelerationists they are, for donor daddies whispering in their ears.
You clearly don’t read congress.gov or watch CSPAN. First, they have no power due to minority. Secondly, they cannot filibuster a reconciliation bill. All they can do is debate provisions and propose amendments. That’s it.
They debated every provision, line-by-line, over four 24+ hour oversight committee hearings. Then Schumer forced the Republicans to read the entire reconciliation aloud over 12 hours. Then they held a record 23-hour amendment “vote-a-rama” to try to limit the provisions.
This is how it went: https://files.catbox.moe/1lwoem.mp4
Weird, I seem to recall the senate parliamentarian pumping the brakes on much of the Dem agenda before reconciliation votes in Biden’s term. Just couldn’t pass 85% of his promised agenda because of that darn parliamentarian and “the rules.” All we heard from Dems then was how there was nothing they could do to counter the revered senate parliamentarian.
Last week, there were whispers about the parliamentarian pushing back on some of the massively problematic portions of this bill, and then whoosh, it was gone. Dems didn’t utter a word further. Media completely silent on the matter. What happened? Millionaire senators all want their tax cuts too huh?
That happened with this bill as well. The Senate Parliamentarian is a non-partisan position, who is charged with the responsibility of verifying the legality of provisions.
Elizabeth Macdonough, the Senate Parliamentarian since 2012, declared the Republican’s provision to exempt Alaska and Hawaii from the Medicare and SNAP cuts was invalid due to the Byrd rule, for example. Murkowski voted for the bill anyway, because she cares more about pleasing Big Oil than her constituents.
https://time.com/7296762/big-beautiful-bill-byrd-rule/
The media wasn’t silent. It was overridden by Trump’s Accusations Auschwitz. You need to watch CSPAN if you want to know what’s happening in the government.
And he came out against Zohran, too. Useless old bag. UPDATE - this was based on a list of Dems that weren't supporting* him that I saw on Lemmy elsewhere. Looks like Schumer has since congratulated him but still not endorsed him. I don't live online and have a job so excuse me for not updating immediately.
I'm not finding that in the news anywhere.
Omfg this is real isn't it
Jesus wept
Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him "owning" the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called "resistance" amounts to?
I hate them and their strategy of "Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don't have to promise anything or stand for anything." They gave 'em though rope alright, except they're not hanging themselves, they're diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.
WE GOT HIM!
I'd be more impressed with him if he tripped on the Senate floor and accidentally gave Ted Cruz a black eye by landing on him.
this has to be satire
2017 - this has to be satire
2018 - oh wow, I didn't know that was a thing
2019 - oh wtf nobody's going to stop him?
2020 - Oh cool, pandemic. He wants to inject bleach and horse juice. Cool cool cool.
2021 to 2024 - the great unfucking
2025 - haha we're so fucked
Call it what it is: the Onerous Bloated Billionaire Boondoggle.
Then insert "no" and "not" strategically throughout in order to bring to an end the tax cuts for the grotesquely wealthy (you can leave the ones for ordinary people) and continue funding essential services.
And insert the requirement that any military or police or patrol force receiving government funds must be fully identifiable while conducting arrest/capture operations.
its like senator klobaucher doing the flag bit, its called half-assing, pretend they are actually doing something when its too late.
The whole Israel thing was just the Democrat Party Establishment practicing how get away with supporting Fascism, abroad were Americans are safe from the consequences so it was easier to get away with it.
Now they're applying all that practice at home.
Trusting democrats to do anything helpful is like trusting Vichy France to do something to stop the Nazis. Collaborators only put up token resistance to act as if they are on your side, when really they are all in for the fascists.
That's just about as close to doing nothing as you can get to doing nothing.
Thanks, Chuck! I'll totally send you three dollars because of this great victory.
So uh... what's its name now?
Whew, and at first I thought the US might have a problem, but good ol' Chuck stepped in to save the day. Back to work, everyone, democracy has been saved.
I read https://spectrejournal.com/chuck-schumer-in-america-a-warning/ today because it was posted on Lemmy, good stuff, I can recommend it
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