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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces mounting pressure from House Democrats to resign his leadership position after supporting a Republican government funding bill that most House Democrats opposed.

Representatives Delia Ramirez, Glenn Ivey, and the liberal group Indivisible have publicly called for his resignation, with more lawmakers potentially following suit.

Critics argue Schumer betrayed House Democrats by not fighting against a bill that failed to protect agencies from DOGE cuts, while Schumer maintains avoiding a shutdown was necessary to prevent Trump from downsizing government more rapidly.

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm surprised that Sanders is older than both Trump and Biden but retains about twice as much virility as either of them and about four times as much sanity as Trump

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not being a piece of shit tends to have a positive impact on the longevity of your brain, it seems. Yes, I'm calling Biden a piece of shit too.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biden is like Zaphod Bebblebrox, he had his brain split into two. But the older he gets the less he can control which part is talking.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

It so, both parts of his brain are shitty.

Never forget he was a fucking segregationist.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Four times???? We're almost diving by zero here. Sanders is basically infinity times more sane.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It kills me because he did have a heart issue during the 2020 campaign and it really did kill some momentum he had. But obviously it didn't last in any substantive way.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The DNC would never let him. That's the world we are in. The nominal opposition party is too concerned with fundraising and just not being the fascist party to do a damn thing.

We need a leftist tea party or a new party. Both are huge hills to climb, but I don't see the Democrats doing shit.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we need a new party. Schumer is/ has pretty much tanked any chance at a midterm comeback with this form of governance. Democrats have somehow become less popular while Trump lights the world on fire and pisses on its ashes. The brand is toast. No one wants to vote for Democrats and no one should want to be a Democrat.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

The midterms are still 18 months away. 18 months before the last election, Republicans were still bickering over who they wanted their speaker to be and obviously they won that last one so anything is possible.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The tea party was not an organic movement. It was vastly manufactured and funded by billionaires as a Trojan horse for their current Project 2025 agenda. Having billions funneled into your movement makes a huge difference in its success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Tea Party movement was well funded to distract from the real working class people’s movement the Occupy Wall Street movement

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

The book I linked to describes the whole rise of the right in America in great detail. It’s an excellent book and can be rented for free from the Libby library app. Definitely recommend it.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

DNC plan is to swoop in at election time with a batch of zionist war criminal candidates who offer to shit the bed 5% less than trump does, and see if that works.

I wish I was joking but thats literally their plan. Wait for trump to irritate us enough to accept what the donors want without any changes. They learned absolutely nothing in the past 2 decades.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's so damn frustrating

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's never been president. That job ages you a decade or more.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago