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      It made my day when I heard the coward cancelled his shitty pr tour for getting more money from rich donors.

      Can you imagine actually wanting to BUY Chuck Shumers book because you were curious to read it lol?

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    This republican in democrat clothing needs someone in his face. Scream at him once for me if he comes to your area.

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      FILTHY NAZI COLLABORATOR

      That is the phrase Schumer needs to hear every single time he appears in public, for the rest of his miserable life. Fucking collaborator.

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    I heard part of an interview with him on NPR over the weekend promoting this book. During the interview he essentially says that anyone who opposes Israel’s actions in Gaza is antisemitic.

    So there are plenty of reasons to be pissed at him besides his capitulation on that bill.

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      Schumer is an antisemite. Only an antisemite conflates Zionism with Judaism.

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    Anyone that can go should go tell him what a bitch he is. Can’t believe there’s actually some people out there that would attend this on their own time and enjoy it…

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    I’ve already recruited one person to show up with me. Four more invited and pending response. He’ll not have a pleasant appearance here.

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    Let me guess: it’s one of those books that nobody reads but that somehow end up being bestsellers anyway?

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      Political organizations buy them by the pallet full and they then end up in dollar store bookshelves years later.

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        Or are give away as party favors or “thank you” gifts or donated or anything they can think of.

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        That reminds me of a scene in Archer. One of the characters temporarily decides to become a country music star. A foreign dictator becomes obsessed with her. On the day her album drops, she happens to be in that dictator’s country. Instantly, the album went platinum. How?

        Cut to a scene where pallets and pallets of her album are being unloaded - all purchased by that dictator.

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    Objective question: What was his alternative, better choice?

    EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes. I guess trying to understand is frowned upon.

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      A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

      Then there would be two options:

      • Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
      • government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

      Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.

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        Bribed in that they don’t want to risk their donors like Democratic Majority For Israel not giving them money because a govt shutdown would mean money wouldn’t go to the Israeli baby killing machine/ genocide.

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          Their donors clearly wanted trump. Also all everyone trump is doing right now showed very clearly that unless we do massive protests, the election from 2026, 2028 etc won’t matter. We will still have them, but if they lose they simply won’t certify them.

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        The first point would never happen because the R’s can play hardball.

        The second point would have everyone blaming the D’s for the shutdown.

        There was no good option.

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          It doesn’t matter. Those who actually pay attention to politics would know who is at fault, those who don’t, know trump is the president.

          Also what this administration is doing is ensuring that the next election no longer will matter.

          I don’t get why so many Americans still don’t see it.

          Congress completely capitulated to trump, courts are trying to fight, but this administration is now ignoring them, institutions were taken over by DOGE and won’t do anything.

          We got to a point that this won’t get unfucked without massive protests. The irony in this all is that April 19 is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary war.

          And on that anniversary we are turning into monarchy it seems.

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      Honestly a clean spending bill. He capitulated to garbage that didn’t need to happen for reasons that also have no positive recourse.

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      its passage was inevitable. iirc republicants had the option to ram it through as a reconciliation bill anyway (simple majority, no 60 for cloture needed).

      he basically just ‘saved’ this year’s reconciliation for something else–that’ll probably be even worse.

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        “Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject.”

        For anyone else out of the know

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      Not giving up what was literally the only meaningful leverage Dems had, and voting NO on cloture for the spending bill.

      Chucklefuck Chuck claimed that the resulting shutdown would have opened the door for the presidents to sow chaos and discord with firings, but that’s a braindead argument because this is exactly what they’ve already been doing since day one. Instead of doing the bare minimum to protect us, Chuck recruited other rich Dems to capitulate and protect their own pocketbook. It’s disgusting and has paved the way for the $4.5 trillion robbery that is about to commence.