This is the problem with older people, they insist on assuming that the same underlying rules exist as when they learned the system. They become mentally inflexible. If he had been younger, maybe he could have assessed the situation as it was in reality and seen the danger.
Wow. He’s a bigger fucking idiot than I originally thought he was. Damn. New York giving Florida a run on the money for biggest fucking idiot in the Senate.
lol 😄
“In his new book Chuck Schumer admits to living in an alternate reality, having absolutely no connection to the real world whatsoever.”
That is astonishingly out-of-touch. In 2024 he thought that? At what point in the parade of GOP testicle-gargling did he realize he was wrong? How did he think they would expel him. Who did he think would do it after they had already expelled every Republican who didn’t fawn over Trump?
Optimistic of you to say he’s realized he’s wrong.
Obviously he didn’t, based on his actions last week.
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Remember, there are 2 reasons why someone might say something. Either it’s the truth, which makes no sense as you pointed out, or it’s a convenient lie, which makes perfect sense for someone who benefits from maintaining the status quo while pretending to fight against it. It’s well past the time to assume people are telling the truth until proven otherwise. It’s time to just straight-up call a politician’s lie a lie from the smell alone.
I think the GOO sent a pretty clear message back in 2021 when they failed to convict Trump in the impeachment trial after the January 6th riot.
I am ashamed to admit that I was a Republican voter years ago, and I voted for Trump 2016, expressly under the hope that the “adults in the room” would be able to steer him away from his worst impulses and generally manipulate him into being a run of the mill American president. Instead the Republicans coalesced around him and let that fucking evil moron call the shots. I have never voted for another Republican since and most likely I never will.
But apparently a career politician can’t learn that same lesson? I call bullshit. It’s the classic question, ignorance or malice? Most people will choose ignorance as the lesser of the two charges if they can help it. I think Schumer knows exactly what he is doing, and why he is being told and paid to do it. Their refusal to remove him from office in 2019 should have been the final sign that they were ride or die.
I have also not voted for a Republican since 2016, though I had already made up my mind about Trump by then and cast my first vote for a Democrat for president that year.
And let me tell you…in the almost-decade since then, I’ve been so radicalized against the GOP I supported full-throatedly for the first 30 years of my life; and mostly because the folks I counted as friends literally threatened my family when I spoke out against Trump.
Since then, and seeing the lies ooze out of the GOP machine in support of Trump, I’ve reflected on the stuff I used to believe and realized just how much of the Republican platform has required lies in order to function. I’m so jaded against Conservatism now that I can’t even stomach the fact that I campaigned for Dubya anymore–because he laid the groundwork for this idiocy.
Anyway, a big part of that has been realizing that the vast majority of Democrats aren’t the evil masterminds that the Conservative political punditry machine told me they were, but instead feckless frauds, well-meaning-at-best.
Schumer knows what he’s doing, yes. But I don’t think he’s choosing the lesser of two evils. I don’t think he’s made any of these choices with any real rational consideration or thought. I think he’s just trying to ride the fraud out to the bitter end, and saying that he “trusted” Republicans is just the latest way to save face and keep the fraud going a little bit longer.
Good on you for recognizing what was happening and changing your behavior because of it.
I also hold the same opinion of Biden
How has he had a career this long with judgement do bad?
He does what the bankers, lawyers and big media companies want. He’s a time-serving mouthpiece, just like that weaselly sack of shit Gillibrand.
Because basically everything in the Democratic Party is fundraising and seniority now and he represents NY and has for years. The way you advance within the Democratic Party is fundraising. So, leadership almost inevitably represents NYC, San Francisco, LA, etc. If you can have a fundraiser with guests from Hollywood, Wall Street, or Silicon Valley, it’s pretty easy to be one of the top Democratic fundraisers.
The only other ways to match that are basically: be independently wealthy, have an unusual level of celebrity and a national profile (like AOC), or be the chair of the appropriations or finance committee or something similarly powerful. There’s no official rule about it but traditionally, Democrats assign committee positions by seniority. So, you get a bunch of out-of-touch old people running powerful committees and easy-to-caricature coastal elites as the main faces of the party in Congress. (Republicans have 6-year term limits for committee leadership and fewer norms around seniority.)
Republicans obviously don’t have fundraising issues since the FEC doesn’t enforce election laws and they have billionaires on their side. Super PACs legally aren’t allowed to coordinate with the campaigns but, of course, Elon Musk, who setup and funded the biggest Super PAC, literally made campaign appearances with Trump and crashed at Mar-a-Lago for awhile. Of course they fucking coordinated.
To be fair he’s like 1000 years old and should probably be in aged care; not government.
To put in perspective how truly old he is… Here are the most popular songs the year he was born.
Did he cling to that belief while voting with Republicans to cede even more power to Trump?
Some say he’s still clinging to it right now
Apparently, Chuck Schumer thinks that clapping will save Tinkerbell. And Santa actually is tracked by NORAD every year.
Older politicians act like it’s 1950, and that algorithmic social media/personality TV isn’t completely dominating how people think en masse.
In his world, Trump would have been pushed out. He just can’t grasp that that so many are drinking the kool-aid and that there’s too much support for whoever’s left to defy it.
Unfit for office.
Even if they did, we would still be saddled with Project 2025.
The true enemy is the Federalist Society. Trump is a distraction. And as Schumer must know this, I can’t trust him one lick.
What an absolutely feckless fucking dipshit.
By the way, thank you for reminding me to call his office again today so that I can remind him, once again, and with a scintillating variety of obscure and pointed profanity, that he is indeed an absolutely feckless fucking dipshit.
Chuck is a goddamned idiot
Chuck Schumer clung to belief Republicans would ‘expel’ Trump, book says
Clearly we need better screening of congress members mental faculties if Schumer is that deliusional/stupid.
Behind closed doors, his Republican colleagues probably talk big talk about how they can quit Agent Orange anytime they like. But like junkies, talking about quitting is one thing, and actually doing it is something else entirely.
