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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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144 years ago today Chuck Schumer's great great grandfather Charlie "Fiddlesticks" Schumer showed up for the Gunfight at the OK Corral armed with only a strongly worded letter.

1/2 On Chuck Schumer: I draw a lesson of sorts from my own grandfather. He would threaten us, teasing, "Am I going to have to SPEAK to you children?" He would follow up with "If you're not careful, you may find yourself SPOKEN to!" Of course, we kids would laugh. "Yeah, speak to us, Grandpa!!"

GODDAMN FECKLESS DEMOCRATS do this EVERY FUCKING TIME! If you don’t have the courage of your convictions, you should not be claiming to “represent the people!” Kicking the can to January doesn’t mean a goddamn thing because they’re gonna cave then, too! COMPLICIT JAGOFFS, THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

Might I suggest a few action items: 1. Call yr senators today to demand removal of Schumer from leadership - the only way to prove their "no" votes were legit. 2. Leaks will come -amplify them. 3. Let Kaine know that we know he subbed for Warner & Warner is on the chopping block. He never denied it.

4. Let NV, ME, NH stew in their own juices but baste if desired. 5. Kaine, Durbin, Fetterman are ripe now for early retirement (in VA after Jan) and should be viewed by them as a desirable alternative. Lobby their govs (VA after Jan) 6. Amplify Warner's primary challengers quickly.

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Sent email to Chuck #Schumer & asked him to resign. I wrote: 1) his “No” vote was transparently craven, 2) he orchestrated this capitulation when #Trump was weak, 3) he is NOT capable of leading in this political moment, 4) Gov. #Hochul would appoint a FIGHTER! www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...

Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans have strong leadership that unites all members of parliament behind their goals. As long as the Democrats fail to establish strong leadership, they will continue to lose elections and plunge America further into misery. Thank you for that.

This is a spit on the face to all of us who have shown up the courage needed to be a resistance force. They have shattered our kneecaps and given more power to the sadistic billionaires to fuck us all. It’s a disgrace to be associated with dems. They’re no different. A bunch of spineless, cowards.

The Dem Senators who voted NO must represent the voters and show courage by removing Schumer. Its the only way to fix this in any fashion to be able to maintain voter support. Everyone is watching to see who will leave the old guard behind and move forward in this critical time. Help us save us!

Omg...you just lost a lifelong Dem...this is a party of gutless self-serving politicians afraid to RESPOND to the people's cries RIGHT NOW... Tomorrow is too late for millions. Deaths, illnesses uncovered because aca is skyrocketed out of our reach... is on YOU! #Dems4SufferingRU

Either Schumer engineered this betrayal, or he is too weak as minority leader to hold his caucus together. Either way, Chuck Schumer must go. Withhold money and primary every senator who does not publicly vote for his removal. In 2026, 2028, and 2030. Always remember their betrayal!

Just left this message at Schumer's contact page: 80% of the American people believe the ACA is worth fighting for. The Democratic party had a landslide election. And you settled for a promise from a regime that lies every single day? Shame on you, sir.

Credit where credit's due, Schumer wasn't one of the eight that caved. Fetterman - PA Durbin - IL Kaine - VA Cortez-Masto - NV Rosen - NV Hassan - NH Shaheen - NH King - ME All conveniently not up for getting primaried to hell for their cowardice next year because Senate terms are too long.

Honestly, that deal wasn't terrible. It would've guaranteed the subsidies while moving forward, and would've forced the issue as a wedge against Republicans right before the midterms. Republicans obviously rejected it because they knew it was going to be bad for them.

Schumer either orchestrated it to try to avoid taking the blame or hes completely ineffectual and weak and has no control of the party and should not be leader....he deserves zero credit

I mean, that latter part is definitely true. I really doubt the former though. This undermines what he was actively trying to do. I can't wait to see him booted out on his ass. But I don't think he's the one to be mad at here. We have eight fuckers that directly deserve our hate.

I can't help but wonder if he didn't negotiate better because he knew enough dems were going to vote yes, so he could safely vote no and neither be held responsible for caving nor for "allowing" the shutdown to continue. But I don't follow his actions closely enough to know.

You can’t even blame the ones who did this. You have a gaping hole where a brain should be and you think you get to be on the left when you act exactly the same as the right

I got asked a while back why I critique the dems harder than the GOP and this the reason. At least we all already know the GOP sucks. The Dems, however, have this bad habit of pretending to fight for something positive and then giving up. It's literally collusion with the GOP and it's poisonous.

Exactly. I want the dems to succeed in stopping the gop. I expected better from them and hoped that pressure would push them to do more.

If there was anyone in the VIBRANT DEMOCRATIC PARTY that is NOT FIT TO BE IN OUR LEADERSHIP It’s Chuck Schumer! He has repeatedly kept DEMOCRATS from being the “WINNER” in these Negotiations. Every time he FOLDS it tells Republicans to just keep pressuring him & he WILL ALWAYS GIVE IN!

THATS IT! WE MUST GET THAT FOOLISH SUCKER SCHUMER REPLACED w/ a REAL SMART AMERICAN LEADER ASAP! SCHUMER ALWAYS backs down bc he does NOT have what it takes to be a LEADER in 2025 BATTLES for DEMOCRACY! HOW can we get him REPLACED? He’s PATHETIC! Nancy Pelosi obviously was the LEADER! NOT HIM!

What has the Shutdown demonstrated? 1. Democrats stand for working people, small businesses, children, and the elderly. 2. Republicans stand for billionaires, ballrooms, nazis, and billionaire pedos.

They have the momentum of the election and the courts on their side, and they did… absolutely nothing. Nothing except make millions of people suffer for 6 weeks only to still have their healthcare fuck them over next year. I hate Chuck Schumer with every fiber of my being. Damn the Democrats.

Pardon my ignorance in the UK, but literally every time I hear that the Dems have a chance to do something, the next day a headline comes up “Schumer fucks up x, y, z”. Could I suggest telling the gentleman his services aren’t required, and booting him up the arse via the nearest window?

It's getting harder for anyone to see them as anything but controlled opposition. They all work for the same deep pockets, and all this crap is just a puppet show to keep the masses from taking the initiative.

The holiday season is prime time for the rich to get richer, must think of the rich this time of year, it’s hard for them. Joking aside.. Boycott Christmas #boycottchristmas No more participating in this holiday for stuff we don’t need with money we dont have Spread it

The math that Schumer implicitly claims is at the root of 8 Senators caving, all of whom are retiring or not up for reelection in 26: Pretty sure it's 0.1555, or about 1/7. So, there was 15.5% chance this happened organically and an 84.5% chance it was arranged.

well. either he voted no genuinely and his entire caucus has decided to stop listening to him, making him a useless leader, or he planned the whole thing to give cover to people who wanted to cave but would be vulnerable in 2026 by conveniently having all the no's be 2030 or retirees