Schumer and Jeffries are absolutely the wrong leaders for this time or peril. Jeffries should be filing articles of impeachment against Blondi, Patel and Bove over the Homan crime. He and Schumer should be all over the teevee screaming about the lawless behavior of Trump and his collaborators. And they should damn well not be asking for a meeting with Trump, Trump should be asking for a meeting with them. They have surrendered in advance...and this is why they will no longer be the leaders in the next Congress. People are sick and tired of their spinelessness.
You're right! Yet if you guys keep voting for these has-beens. You get what you deserve. Pick your candidate at least as seriously as you pick someone to be a shelf stacker at your super market! This Job should have the highest vetting possible in my opinion. Never mind! Too many people wanted a convicted felon, an adulterer, a fraud, a liar an alleged rapist, a pedophile! yet you said he's "my kind of guy!" America, I rest my case.
Jeffries could easily find himself on the losing side of a primary next year unless he pulls his head out of his ass and endorses Mamdani who, in the primary, won Jeffries' district by a landslide. Schumer's goose is cooked. NY Democrats are sick of him and he too could find himself on the losing side of a primary. Regardless, Senate Dems need to replace him sooner rather than later. Jeffries needs to be ousted as leader as well.
I totally agree with all your comments Peter, yet regardless of the primaries (upcoming elections) ballot boxes are being removed. Mail-in voting may not be around! I’m waiting for the next shoe to drop. Also if he states again that god saved him to be president. I’d shoot him myself. Or else stab him with my knitting needle if he comes close enough!! No, I don’t knit even though my ma taught me it never held any interest in my noggin! So I have neither a gun nor a knitting needle to help take trump down. The REAL Americans who still believe that your freedoms, fought for and won by your grandparents needs to be protected, otherwise their struggles were in vain.
Repeat after me - Trump has no control over the mechanism of voting. That is a state matter. Sure, some red states are going to obey his orders about drop boxes and mail in voting, but the blue states will tell him to fuck off. And don't forget, mail in voting is the preferred method for many of the old rural white assholes that vote for MAGA.
"Repeat after me" - I'm a naive idiot that thinks trump alongside Putin and Musk can definitely NOT control the mechanism of what is supposed to be infallible! Those red States are going to make sure (on a State level) that he wins. Ask the the people involved if they believe that trump lost in 2020 and watch their hesitation in answering? Plus, he's already said that he wants to do away with mail-in voting. Do you not listen? The MAGA may not be sharp but they will cross fires, floods and famine to vote for him regardless of the pain it causes them. Because they're fucking masochists! Dada will protect them if they give him their money and their vote.
He is not going to be on the ballot and many MAGAs will not come out to vote for anyone else. As for the red states, yes, they will do everything they can to sway the outcome, but I don't think there will be any safe red states if Trump keeps going the way he is. Even MAGA will feel the pain of double digit electricity increases, double digit increases in food prices, gas at $4/gallon, crops rotting in the fields.
No one on the blue side should use mail in voting. Frankly, I don’t trust who’s handling the voting machines. So what shall we do, Peter? I like the way you think.
Peter, I would love for AOC to run for Senator! She would blow Schumer out of the water. I believe she is our hope for the future of our nation. As far as Jeffries, I believe the party should be looking for a new candidate yesterday. What a disappointment he has become!
Frankly Jeffries and Schumer have been taking big money from the Israeli fund AIPAC so you can't expect any surprises from them but "letters" and dramatic speeches. It really is up to voters to not follow party but follow performance of officials on the ground. If they agree with your values and needs, then tick their box on the ballots. Followed by holding their feet to the fire. Because after all, "power corrupts, but absolute power, corrupts absolutely" so they say.
The single most destructive aspect of modern American society is the thoughtless aspersions cast by those who have never bothered to run for office, and consider themselves empowered by the internet to curse others rather than promoting worthwhile solutions geared towards establishing unity, in order to confront our shared challenges. Congratulations on joining the online torches and pitchforks movement!
Democratic leaders have not been up to the task at hand, but the guilt for what Trump is doing to this country lies squarely with Congressional Republicans who have confirmed his unqualified cabinet members, handed him the power of the purse, ignored the illegal actions of his ICE gestapo and are active participants in the cover up of his history of pedophilia with Jeffrey Epstein.
The pedophile has no guardrails. We can’t even rely on SCOTUS to keep the conman in check. It’ll be interesting to she how Bondi reacts to the convicted felons demands.
She's in a no win situation. She ignores him or refuses to play she's out. SHe follows orders and brings indictments (if she can) she is on the glide path to disbarment and disgrace.
Skitealwedrop, I am guessing she is hoping for Trump's kingship so she will have her position permanently since someone will be designated by the kingmakers to follow him and she expects a role in that as she is working hard to make sure it happens. It is disgusting, but just what a woman can expect in the Trump Court in the white house. We do need to stand in her way!
Skitealwedrop, Bondi has become Trump's pseudomommy. She will protect her Baby Donnie as long and as much as she can. She knows he is incompetent, but to keep herself in a position of power, she will go along with whatever crap he can come up with and try to pretend there is a law that allows it. It is so sad she has become this pathetic sycophant, but maybe she was always hoping for someone like Trump she could cling to since she is not a particularly competent lawyer except with judges who already agree with her position. Her law school should be ashamed, but of course, being a florida school, they are delighted with her rise.
Peter, we do need to keep reminding the American people of who and what Trump is and that his congressional Republican sycophants are at fault and that their constituents have done little to nothing and even if they had, those Republican Senators would not have cared. They ignore the law, the Constitution, and nearly everything else in their pursuit of power and above all, money, and that is why their seats were bought for them by the billionaire oligarchs who really do need to be stopped, particularly Musk who is still deeply connected with the white house and congressional Republicans, and like Johnny ?Roberts, wants to be king.
Very true. You know what bothers me. Republicans have wanted absolute power for decades and they have wanted an imperial president for decades as well. Is this the guy they really want as the imperial president? They could do so much better than a serial rapist pedophile fraudster and convicted felon.
Oh, say not so! They're HOPING! And PRAYING!! Really, really HARD!!!
Seriously: this is tragic. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Although I fear that calling the spineless Dems "the best" would be gross flattery. The time will come, very soon, when their children, grandchildren, and the rest of their families will look them in the eyes and ask them "What did you do to stop this?" And the answer "we hoped and prayed that Donald Trump, and his toadies, would do the right thing" just won't really do, will it?
I really have only one thing to say: Fuck Chuck Schumer, Fuck Hakeem Jeffries, and fuck every single solitary Democrat who voted TO HONOR Charlie Kirk and his hateful racist antisemitic bullshit.
Democrats MUST shut down this illegal administration. Shutting down the government is a first move, (IF ONLY) so we can watch MAGA claim that kidnapping day laborers and disappearing them to Africa is an essential duty.
Shutting down the government would be a gift to this authoritarian regime, thus empowered to furlough millions of federal employees and congressional staffers, and further cut social spending programs. If you believe this tactic would somehow undermine the administration, rather than consolidating power in the executive branch, you might want to acknowledge that the opposition party does not have enough votes to save us from the fiscal crisis a government shutdown would create. Once it begins, no Republican will vote to bring us back from the ensuing catastrophe. As an Independent, I recognize the implications of this crisis, and would prefer to see a strategy that does not blindly cede more power to the White House.
Hapless, feckless, or fraud. The absence of Democratic leadership standing up for Zorahn Mamdani, against Stephen Miller and Benjamin Netanyahu presages failure.
Schumer is saying this so that it’s on the record. When the shutdown happens they can use this as proof they didn’t cause the shutdown. Why are always so mad at the people we screwed over in the first election. If anything we should be yelling at the 90 million voters who stayed home and got us here. As well as protest votes
I totally agree with you Keith, the blame belongs to the voters who stayed home out of protest and didn't bother voting at all in the presidential election. Also, the twits who aren't MAGA but somehow thought Trump would do a better job than Kamala and voted for him! She might not have been perfect for sure but it's no-brainer she was a MUCH better choice than Trump!! Sheer stupidity to think otherwise.
This, (plus the 95 House Democrats that voted for H Res 719) are exactly the reasons people have lost faith in the Democratic leaders in Washington. Other than the Texas State Democratic leaders, and a couple of Democratic Govenors, we have folks that are too afraid to stand up and do what is in our best interests.
You are totally correct. Meanwhile I am receiving more and more requests from various candidates, daily, for money so they can win some election or fight whatever badism—often 15 or more per day.
Not one more cent to these people, who sound tough, but do NOTHING.
The old guard who talk bipartisanship need to go. We’re in toxic times in which the old ways of speaking politely to those across the aisle, no longer work. We need to get down, dirty, and fight like with like. Take the freaking gloves off. Let the Republicans FAIL. Miserably.
I totally agree. This is not a time to act “as it’s always been done”. This is a new horrifying era, created by the Trump regime! New regime, dictatorship in our country, NEW RULES!!!!
There have been plenty of very dangerous men, alive or dead, but the thing with Trump is that he has no one in his 2nd regime who can reason with him or stop him, as he did in his first regime. He has surrounded himself with loyalists and/or people who are terrified of him, including Congress. The judges try, but he and Bondi ignore them. SCOTUS is in his pocket. Some Congress reps, on both sides, have criticized him, but it makes no difference when the dangerous man is so incredibly protected by enforcers, petty, hateful aides like Miller and Wiles, and yields control over billions of dollars, which I am convinced are going to his personal accounts from the US Treasury. He has developed the protocol for controlling this Republic: command control and support from an uninformed or a disbelieving public, throw a fake religious aspect into it, put firm controls over the money running that Republic, and at all costs, surround yourself with fearful, puny, ignorant "yes men/women". Presto, you have it all. His control will explode or implode, however you want to characterize it, just as McCarthy's did, just as Hoover's did, just as Nixon's did, just as Benedict Arnold's did, but will take time and it will take courageous people to fight this scourge not with "meetings" and "words" but with firm, legal policies and the right people in place. You don't take a sponge to a knife fight. Trump has spent his entire life conducting knife fights. He understands how to try to combat those who hate him. I find it very interesting that Gov Pritzker, who Trump hates due to a decades' long feud with the families, stopped, at least for now, troops from entering Chicago, because he didn't use a sponge. He knew what to say to Trump, how to belittle and strongly stand up to him, and how to set up forces in Chicago to fend off this devil.
Everyone loves to criticize what the Dems are doing to stop Trump but where are the alternative suggestions? Shutdown or don’t shutdown? Talk or don’t? Emphasize Epstein, inflation, the assault on constitutional rights….?
Than you and I knew that this is going on and it makes me mad , because everyone saw what he did in the past. He won’t ever change, and thinks he is above the law
Schumer is spineless. I'm proud to be a Democrat, but I've always objected to leaders of my party being to willing to be reasonable in the face of intransigence.
Schumer and Jeffries are absolutely the wrong leaders for this time or peril. Jeffries should be filing articles of impeachment against Blondi, Patel and Bove over the Homan crime. He and Schumer should be all over the teevee screaming about the lawless behavior of Trump and his collaborators. And they should damn well not be asking for a meeting with Trump, Trump should be asking for a meeting with them. They have surrendered in advance...and this is why they will no longer be the leaders in the next Congress. People are sick and tired of their spinelessness.
💯🎯‼️ unbelievable passivity
You're right! Yet if you guys keep voting for these has-beens. You get what you deserve. Pick your candidate at least as seriously as you pick someone to be a shelf stacker at your super market! This Job should have the highest vetting possible in my opinion. Never mind! Too many people wanted a convicted felon, an adulterer, a fraud, a liar an alleged rapist, a pedophile! yet you said he's "my kind of guy!" America, I rest my case.
Jeffries could easily find himself on the losing side of a primary next year unless he pulls his head out of his ass and endorses Mamdani who, in the primary, won Jeffries' district by a landslide. Schumer's goose is cooked. NY Democrats are sick of him and he too could find himself on the losing side of a primary. Regardless, Senate Dems need to replace him sooner rather than later. Jeffries needs to be ousted as leader as well.
I totally agree with all your comments Peter, yet regardless of the primaries (upcoming elections) ballot boxes are being removed. Mail-in voting may not be around! I’m waiting for the next shoe to drop. Also if he states again that god saved him to be president. I’d shoot him myself. Or else stab him with my knitting needle if he comes close enough!! No, I don’t knit even though my ma taught me it never held any interest in my noggin! So I have neither a gun nor a knitting needle to help take trump down. The REAL Americans who still believe that your freedoms, fought for and won by your grandparents needs to be protected, otherwise their struggles were in vain.
Repeat after me - Trump has no control over the mechanism of voting. That is a state matter. Sure, some red states are going to obey his orders about drop boxes and mail in voting, but the blue states will tell him to fuck off. And don't forget, mail in voting is the preferred method for many of the old rural white assholes that vote for MAGA.
"Repeat after me" - I'm a naive idiot that thinks trump alongside Putin and Musk can definitely NOT control the mechanism of what is supposed to be infallible! Those red States are going to make sure (on a State level) that he wins. Ask the the people involved if they believe that trump lost in 2020 and watch their hesitation in answering? Plus, he's already said that he wants to do away with mail-in voting. Do you not listen? The MAGA may not be sharp but they will cross fires, floods and famine to vote for him regardless of the pain it causes them. Because they're fucking masochists! Dada will protect them if they give him their money and their vote.
He is not going to be on the ballot and many MAGAs will not come out to vote for anyone else. As for the red states, yes, they will do everything they can to sway the outcome, but I don't think there will be any safe red states if Trump keeps going the way he is. Even MAGA will feel the pain of double digit electricity increases, double digit increases in food prices, gas at $4/gallon, crops rotting in the fields.
No one on the blue side should use mail in voting. Frankly, I don’t trust who’s handling the voting machines. So what shall we do, Peter? I like the way you think.
I don't know if I agree with everything.. but on some points, you struck a chord. Thx
I agree. We need to find a candidate that can win against Schumer and Jefferies!
AOC will beat Schumer if she runs. Jeffries can be beaten by someone who we don't yet know.
Peter, I would love for AOC to run for Senator! She would blow Schumer out of the water. I believe she is our hope for the future of our nation. As far as Jeffries, I believe the party should be looking for a new candidate yesterday. What a disappointment he has become!
She and Jazmine Crockett, along with Mamdani and a few others, give me hope.
Schumer wasn't running for reelection
Frankly Jeffries and Schumer have been taking big money from the Israeli fund AIPAC so you can't expect any surprises from them but "letters" and dramatic speeches. It really is up to voters to not follow party but follow performance of officials on the ground. If they agree with your values and needs, then tick their box on the ballots. Followed by holding their feet to the fire. Because after all, "power corrupts, but absolute power, corrupts absolutely" so they say.
Schumer begone a pox upon thee for a vile knave 🧐
The single most destructive aspect of modern American society is the thoughtless aspersions cast by those who have never bothered to run for office, and consider themselves empowered by the internet to curse others rather than promoting worthwhile solutions geared towards establishing unity, in order to confront our shared challenges. Congratulations on joining the online torches and pitchforks movement!
I think we're already united in our contempt for dictatorship and those who collaborate like so many Vichy Quislings -- yes, both, rolled together.
What further unity would you like? Run for office so we can unite behind you.
Three questions:
1.) Who exactly do you include in the term "we"?
2.) How did you conclude I wish to run for office, and/or seek your support?
3.) Why do you intentionally conflate historical terminology?
Well-said
They have let Trump destroy this country. Will we even have a next Congree that isn't gerrymandered to a Republican majority for life?
Democratic leaders have not been up to the task at hand, but the guilt for what Trump is doing to this country lies squarely with Congressional Republicans who have confirmed his unqualified cabinet members, handed him the power of the purse, ignored the illegal actions of his ICE gestapo and are active participants in the cover up of his history of pedophilia with Jeffrey Epstein.
The pedophile has no guardrails. We can’t even rely on SCOTUS to keep the conman in check. It’ll be interesting to she how Bondi reacts to the convicted felons demands.
She's in a no win situation. She ignores him or refuses to play she's out. SHe follows orders and brings indictments (if she can) she is on the glide path to disbarment and disgrace.
We’ll see if she is an ethical lawyer and how much she values her license.
We know she's not ethical. We will see how much she values her law license.
Skitealwedrop, I am guessing she is hoping for Trump's kingship so she will have her position permanently since someone will be designated by the kingmakers to follow him and she expects a role in that as she is working hard to make sure it happens. It is disgusting, but just what a woman can expect in the Trump Court in the white house. We do need to stand in her way!
Bondi is corrupt. Read about her past.
Skitealwedrop, Bondi has become Trump's pseudomommy. She will protect her Baby Donnie as long and as much as she can. She knows he is incompetent, but to keep herself in a position of power, she will go along with whatever crap he can come up with and try to pretend there is a law that allows it. It is so sad she has become this pathetic sycophant, but maybe she was always hoping for someone like Trump she could cling to since she is not a particularly competent lawyer except with judges who already agree with her position. Her law school should be ashamed, but of course, being a florida school, they are delighted with her rise.
Peter, we do need to keep reminding the American people of who and what Trump is and that his congressional Republican sycophants are at fault and that their constituents have done little to nothing and even if they had, those Republican Senators would not have cared. They ignore the law, the Constitution, and nearly everything else in their pursuit of power and above all, money, and that is why their seats were bought for them by the billionaire oligarchs who really do need to be stopped, particularly Musk who is still deeply connected with the white house and congressional Republicans, and like Johnny ?Roberts, wants to be king.
Very true. You know what bothers me. Republicans have wanted absolute power for decades and they have wanted an imperial president for decades as well. Is this the guy they really want as the imperial president? They could do so much better than a serial rapist pedophile fraudster and convicted felon.
I totally agree, Peter!
So disappointed in Hakeem Jeffries. I expected SOMETHING from him and all we got is empty platitudes.
This is exactly why the Democrats are losing members and voters. The country is burning down while they twiddle their thumbs.
Oh, say not so! They're HOPING! And PRAYING!! Really, really HARD!!!
Seriously: this is tragic. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Although I fear that calling the spineless Dems "the best" would be gross flattery. The time will come, very soon, when their children, grandchildren, and the rest of their families will look them in the eyes and ask them "What did you do to stop this?" And the answer "we hoped and prayed that Donald Trump, and his toadies, would do the right thing" just won't really do, will it?
😀 lmao Sad, but true, Stephen.
One. Hundred. Percent.
It's possible he meant it to be seen. After all, he's been running a very efficient pusillanimotocracy since last November.
Ame
We are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I really have only one thing to say: Fuck Chuck Schumer, Fuck Hakeem Jeffries, and fuck every single solitary Democrat who voted TO HONOR Charlie Kirk and his hateful racist antisemitic bullshit.
Disgraceful. Is he really an undercover Republican agent?
Time to retire the entire Democratic “leadership” I Congress.
I suppose that's possible. His actions seem to suggest it.
attack at Trump.
Democrats MUST shut down this illegal administration. Shutting down the government is a first move, (IF ONLY) so we can watch MAGA claim that kidnapping day laborers and disappearing them to Africa is an essential duty.
Shutting down the government would be a gift to this authoritarian regime, thus empowered to furlough millions of federal employees and congressional staffers, and further cut social spending programs. If you believe this tactic would somehow undermine the administration, rather than consolidating power in the executive branch, you might want to acknowledge that the opposition party does not have enough votes to save us from the fiscal crisis a government shutdown would create. Once it begins, no Republican will vote to bring us back from the ensuing catastrophe. As an Independent, I recognize the implications of this crisis, and would prefer to see a strategy that does not blindly cede more power to the White House.
Hapless, feckless, or fraud. The absence of Democratic leadership standing up for Zorahn Mamdani, against Stephen Miller and Benjamin Netanyahu presages failure.
Schumer and Jeffries gotta go.
Schumer is saying this so that it’s on the record. When the shutdown happens they can use this as proof they didn’t cause the shutdown. Why are always so mad at the people we screwed over in the first election. If anything we should be yelling at the 90 million voters who stayed home and got us here. As well as protest votes
I totally agree with you Keith, the blame belongs to the voters who stayed home out of protest and didn't bother voting at all in the presidential election. Also, the twits who aren't MAGA but somehow thought Trump would do a better job than Kamala and voted for him! She might not have been perfect for sure but it's no-brainer she was a MUCH better choice than Trump!! Sheer stupidity to think otherwise.
Why do voters not vote?
Let’s get to the root of it, folks ,.
Excuse me, Keith,. Let’s not miss Direct our anger.
Let’s never divide or say anything to divide the American electorate ,.
Let’s put the blame ,.
Squarely, where it belongs,.
It’s our elected officials that took an oath of office that have violated their oath across the board my friend ,.
They operate in their self interest their own self interest ,.
They tell you what you want to hear so they can be re-elected don’t you see my friend? The incentive for them to become what they have. …
Absolutely wrong on all counts. You are being toxic cuz it makes you feel good. You are so wrong
I am not being toxic, nor would it make me feel good,..
We need to see clearly Keith the root problem here ,.
“ Money in politics “
I am an independent,.
I hate both sides equally,.
But I certainly dislike the Republicans far more,..
If the Democrats would supply good governance,.
They would own the White House for the next 30 years,..
Universal healthcare
Living minimum wage
Justice for all
The 2% should pay their fair share,..
Agree to disagree
This, (plus the 95 House Democrats that voted for H Res 719) are exactly the reasons people have lost faith in the Democratic leaders in Washington. Other than the Texas State Democratic leaders, and a couple of Democratic Govenors, we have folks that are too afraid to stand up and do what is in our best interests.
You are totally correct. Meanwhile I am receiving more and more requests from various candidates, daily, for money so they can win some election or fight whatever badism—often 15 or more per day.
Not one more cent to these people, who sound tough, but do NOTHING.
The old guard who talk bipartisanship need to go. We’re in toxic times in which the old ways of speaking politely to those across the aisle, no longer work. We need to get down, dirty, and fight like with like. Take the freaking gloves off. Let the Republicans FAIL. Miserably.
I totally agree. This is not a time to act “as it’s always been done”. This is a new horrifying era, created by the Trump regime! New regime, dictatorship in our country, NEW RULES!!!!
He is the most dangerous man that ever lived
There have been plenty of very dangerous men, alive or dead, but the thing with Trump is that he has no one in his 2nd regime who can reason with him or stop him, as he did in his first regime. He has surrounded himself with loyalists and/or people who are terrified of him, including Congress. The judges try, but he and Bondi ignore them. SCOTUS is in his pocket. Some Congress reps, on both sides, have criticized him, but it makes no difference when the dangerous man is so incredibly protected by enforcers, petty, hateful aides like Miller and Wiles, and yields control over billions of dollars, which I am convinced are going to his personal accounts from the US Treasury. He has developed the protocol for controlling this Republic: command control and support from an uninformed or a disbelieving public, throw a fake religious aspect into it, put firm controls over the money running that Republic, and at all costs, surround yourself with fearful, puny, ignorant "yes men/women". Presto, you have it all. His control will explode or implode, however you want to characterize it, just as McCarthy's did, just as Hoover's did, just as Nixon's did, just as Benedict Arnold's did, but will take time and it will take courageous people to fight this scourge not with "meetings" and "words" but with firm, legal policies and the right people in place. You don't take a sponge to a knife fight. Trump has spent his entire life conducting knife fights. He understands how to try to combat those who hate him. I find it very interesting that Gov Pritzker, who Trump hates due to a decades' long feud with the families, stopped, at least for now, troops from entering Chicago, because he didn't use a sponge. He knew what to say to Trump, how to belittle and strongly stand up to him, and how to set up forces in Chicago to fend off this devil.
Interesting and awesome! Go Governor Pritzger!!
Everyone loves to criticize what the Dems are doing to stop Trump but where are the alternative suggestions? Shutdown or don’t shutdown? Talk or don’t? Emphasize Epstein, inflation, the assault on constitutional rights….?
Than you and I knew that this is going on and it makes me mad , because everyone saw what he did in the past. He won’t ever change, and thinks he is above the law
I love you, Mary,..
Schumer is spineless. I'm proud to be a Democrat, but I've always objected to leaders of my party being to willing to be reasonable in the face of intransigence.
Spineless Schumer, the Capitulator!