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I know it is Schumer's last term, u can not Primary him anymore. So many people are very thankful that he represented all the years their interest in Congress, sadly that none of them are Americans.
But Jeffries is still on the game and Chi Ossé is challenging him. We have to get rid of corporate Democrats like him. Jeffries talked yesterday how he will work with republicans together to reform ICE in the right way. There is no right way to reform the Gestapo. There is no place for Jeffries in the democratic party.
ArgentXero
I thought Chi Osse dropped out
Corgimom1013
https://readsludge.com/2025/02/24/dccc-scores-massive-palantir-and-spacex-lobbyist-cash-haul/
shameofslate
I saw someone online refer to Hakeem Jefferies as “AIPAC Shakur” and it still cracks me the fuck up.
rubypilgrim
I am deeply concerned about the midterms, given that a MAGA Republican who supports a return to paper ballots bought Dominion.
TheRedBaron8
Your Democrats are the French vichy right now!
brainkandle1
NYC Council member went missing?
mikeatike
Staffer not member. Tho one would think their name would be in the article.
FlatPlutoSociety
Anyone who is not talking about completely and entirely abolishing ICE needs to be primaried. Reform is nothing. Change of ICE leadership is nothing. It has to completely go, and any candidate who says anything less shouldn't be in government anymore.
khora
Secret police? ICE is neither.
medimr
Don't worry, they'll wipe the boot polish off their lips long enough to blame progressives for everything some more.
onushka
And we are so sorry about it, we should have warn the people harder about Trumps racism and sexism, we should have warned the people that he gives a fuck about peace and that he is a imperialist dog like all the others wo only listens to share holders. So sorry.
shitheadtookmyname
"the Democrat party"
Y'all realize it's the DemocratIC party. And "Democrat" party is an intentional misnaming invented by Republicans, right? OP is only pretending to be on the left for some reason
KPodol
By nature, any leftist opposes the entire US pro-capitalist government as they are all responsible for putting the system in place, not just the republicans. That's the entire point of leftist philosophies. Trump did not come to be despite the system, he came to be thanks to it and what they have built structures over decades that would have inevitably led to fascism. If it weren't him, it would have been someone else.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
It's Schumer's last term?! But he still doesn't fight this administration? Fucking hell
VowelShiftBetch
Career politicians don't challenge the status quo when they're running for re-election because they don't want to get primaried; Career politicians don't challenge the status quo when they're ready to retire because they don't have any incentive to. Congress needs term limits.
unluckyandbored
Corpocrat to the end.
Kungfuandtitties
Not only that he essentially blamed Renee Goods death on Minneapolis being a sanctuary city and there not being cooperation between Ice and the local police force
Sensiblyinteresting
I hope history remembers him as being largely responsible for all of this. He's a fucking traitor
presswc
I am sure Schumer intends on taking some fluffy, lucrative lobbying/consulting gig when he leaves office. He doesn’t want to piss off his daddies before leaving office and will just let things play out. Bar public officials from private industry profiteering like a non-compete would be structured. Corporate money leeches power from the people.
SavageDrums
He's got Zionists to cater to.
CommodusLeitdorf
I mean its rumored he's hanging on till the midterms and then announcing his retirement. Seems he want to hand pick his successor.
In the meantime we all gotta suffer his incompetence and cowardice.
LuminoZero
I hope AoC steals that seat right from his hands.
tinydog
At least he scoots his glasses down his nose and looks over them at the repubs in a mildly concerned manner. 🙄
spangolio
those smug reading glasses literally ground a groove into the side of his skull
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Don't roll your eyes or he WILL send you a sternly worded letter!
NoCutsNoButsNoCoconuts
But not that stern; don’t want to send the wrong messages, ya know.
spangolio
it's such a slippery slope, and if we are a wee bit too obnoxious then we are just as bad as the worst of them, mom said
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Just a reminder that the most basic rule of a primary is, if you lose, you shut up and vote for the Democrat. Period. Whether your person wins or loses, you vote for the Democrat in the general because the alternative is a fascist. The worst Democrat is better than any Republican. End of story.
Skawomplious
Two thoughts. 1) this sort of binary "lesser of two evils" thinking is one of the prime reasons we're in this mess. 2) at this point, it's the only non-violent way out of it.
TheRedBaron8
Your Democrats are the French vichy!
GCRust
What's the difference between a Prostitute and a Politician?
A Prostitute won't lie to you that it's about the money when pressed.
TheobromineAddict
No. Worse than any Republican is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. See: Perfidy, Collaborator, Quisling.
Kateness
The worst Democrats are Republicans.
KPodol
Saying that in a post that shows top democrats literally siding with fascists is quite ironic.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
And somehow they are still better than the best Republican that’s how low the bar is
KPodol
Yet, they are still fascist themselves. If the level is to choose who is the best fascist around, you guys are done.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
There’s a clear worse option but such is life with 2 party
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
What's actually ironic is people who complain that the Democrats aren't doing enough while their own contribution is limited to complaining about Democrats.
Doubly so when the original complaint is that the Dems aren't doing meaningless performative bullshit that will have absolutely no real-world impact. Which is the same kind of whining that helped get us into this mess because people wanted to feel holier-than-thou.
Necrothean
Filing lawsuits is meaningless? Performative?
I WANT THEM TO DO MORE THAN CENSURE ANYONE MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN HITLER, WHICH THEY DID THIS YEAR TWICE, AND SIT ON THEIR HANDS UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR 8 OF THEM TO CROSS THE AISLES. FFS WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE THAT PUT WORDS INTO OUR MOUTHS?
What do they pay you to fondle their balls while they STILL GO TO $50K A PLATE FUNDRAISERS WITH REPUGS ALL YEAR LONG? My God, get a fucking clue and your own ideas, stop letting them spoon feed you excuses.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Yes, that is meaningless and performative. As is wasting time blustering and threatening other legal consequences are never going to happen, like defunding ICE when there aren't even votes for that in the House let alone in the Senate. It's sound and fury signifying nothing.
veronicablood
P.S. None of this would be happening if Kamala Harris was president
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
I hope all the people who whined about how she wasn't good enough are feeling REALLY FUCKING GOOD about themselves today when they see people being murdered, blinded, maimed, raped, and tortured who would be happily going about their lives if Harris had won.
veronicablood
and not a single soul in Gaza was saved because of their non-vote. Not one.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Or Iran. Or Venezuela. Or Minneapolis.
LuminoZero
Look, I voted for Harris, but acting like she would have done anything except delay this is dumb.
They had FOUR YEARS and couldn’t punish an attempt to overthrow the government. This shit was inevitable.
ElectricGears
You know what we don't have with Harris? Everyone involved with the overthrow unconditionally pardoned. Including a shitload of them who WERE SERVING prison sentence. Including all the Republican operatives that planed and coordinated it. And eventually the ringleader, Trump himself when he pardons himself going out the door.
We would also sill have Jack Smith still on the case and he would have brought Trump to trial.
LuminoZero
They had FOUR YEARS to do it and you think they just needed one more. Just one more year! Brazil had that fucker in jail within 3 months of pulling Trump's bullshit.
Necrothean
ONE MORE LANE!!! IF ONLY WE'D HAD ONE MORE TERM FOR THEM TO PROSECUTE! JUST ONE NOTE DEMOCRAT FOR OBAMA TO GET ACTUAL UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE RATHER THAN ACCEPTING THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN! OH WOE ARE THE DEMOCRATS FOR THEY ONLY NEED ONE
MORE
LANE
TO FIX TRAFFIC!!!
Imgur, you've turned into One More Lane traffic designers and I'm tired of it. Obama had a Mandate in one House and was two votes short in they other and all couldn't get anything better. You're dreaming of sugar plum fairies with 1morelane!
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
And yet somehow, even acknowledging that he was two votes short, you somehow blame HIM instead of the people who stood lock-step against allowing ANY kind of improvement in the system.
You're providing cover for jackboots.
veronicablood
you are out of your got damned mind if you think Kamala would have done anything like the "Big Beautiful Bill" and fuck you for saying so.
LuminoZero
Please learn how to read before you respond to me again. I'm honestly not expecting much, but maybe you will surprise me.
veronicablood
I'll give you an hour to read this response, then I will be blocking you:
FUKC YOU. You uck aall the way off, then fuc off some more you absolute piece f shit.