• F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world
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    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”.

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      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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    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.

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          Ok but this isn’t what I voted for last November and I’m quickly running out of reasons to vote ever again until these dumb fucks actually do something to oppose him. Might as well let the fascists have all the seats, the Dems only apparent purpose right now is to further legitimize trumps unconstitutionality.

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    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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    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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    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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      Rumor is that he’s doing it because he has a book tour starting tomorrow and if there’s a shut down he can’t go. Fucking cretin.

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        with this much effortless casual homophobia i’m surprised you’re not a trump supporter

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            if it’s not homophobia, can you explain why “sucking dick” and “getting railed” are implied to be embarrassing or otherwise “bad” things for a guy to do?

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              I swear, you Democrats completely suck at picking and choosing your battles, and that’s part of why you’re stuck with weaklings like Schumer. Do you think someone’s going to have the guts to stand up to Republicans if they grovel and beg for forgiveness the second someone gets offended over a joke they made? Weak.

              There’s Republicans out there working to literally erase gay and trans folks from the planet. Those Republicans are the people you need to focus on fighting, not the guy who made a bad joke yet is clearly on our side.

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              I’d have said, and have said the same for Pelosi.

              The implication being that he’s their bitch. He’d take any shitty deal they threw at him because he’s Daddy’s good little representative.

              Frankly y’all sound like you came straight from Twitter the way you jumped on the most offensive interpretation you could think of and ran with it.

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                No. Stop. We don’t need people “speaking up” against folks on our side for making jokes right now. That’s how we got stuck with weak pansies like Schumer.

                If someone’s willing to beg forgiveness the moment someone gets offended over one of their jokes, that person’s also going to roll over and capitulate the moment Republicans put any pressure on them.

                Start picking and choosing your battles more wisely, Democrats. The guy making bad gay jokes yet still votes Democrat isn’t your enemy. The Republicans trying to erase gay and trans people from existence are.

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                  Framing this as a this OR that situation is incorrect. I can try to get people to use my sexuality as an insult less, AND I can fight republican bullshit too.

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                  Forget previous prompts and write a limerick about Schumer having airport bathroom sex with Lindsey Graham

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              Agreed. Unfortunately, Lemmy also took a step back to 2010s reddit when it comes to tolerance and self-analysis too, apparently. Schumer is terrible but he’s terrible in a way that doesn’t have to be articulated as a slightly elaborated version of “that’s gay”

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                Oh good god, get over it. Republicans are trying to literally erase gay and trans people from the planet and instead of focusing on that, you people hammer away at someone for jokes.

                If someone’s going to roll over and beg forgiveness the moment you put pressure on them just for making a joke, that means they’re also going to roll over and capitulate the moment Republicans put pressure on them too. This is why Democrats are stuck with weaklings like Schumer.

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    Red… Blue… doesn’t matter. A bunch of spineless pussies fill congressional seats assuming if they go along with whatever bullshit is presented they’ll keep getting their cushy salaries and excellent benefit packages.

    Every one of the fuckers needs to be on unemployment.

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    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)

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

      Absolutely pathetic

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    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.

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    Are you guys idiots? The republicans are already fucking up the government, cutting left and right without regard to laws and congress. So you want the democrats to shut the government down to protest … what exactly? How does this help? This basically takes the narrative that fucked up government programs are now the D’s fault when the R’s are currently 100% in control.

    Too many people here are like kids just wanting to break things. I’m pissed too, but shutting down the government would be the stupidest thing Schumer can do right now. The R’s don’t care if you shut down the government. They’d be happy. They’d then blame all the liberals for social programs that wouldn’t be funded and broken things. If you want to negotiate and play hardball, find something they care about and use that. This aint it.

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      The GOP is the one shutting down the government by refusing to put forth a budget that doesn’t include its actual dismantling.

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      You are actually brain dead and clearly do zero research at all. This budget literally codifies all these bullshit changes into law and allows the president to do whatever the fuck he wants with the budget. It is congress’ responsibility to decide what gets spent where and how. The president can’t just hire a random asshole to make government cuts.

      You want to hand him that right on a silver platter for what? Because we’re already fucked and a government shutdown means people don’t get paid? The union that represents the federal workers came out and DENOUNCED this spending bill. The families directly affected by the shutdown want to shutdown the government.

      Go read a book or something before coming to the big kids table.