Friday, March 14, 2025

Fury as Schumer Caves to Trump-Musk Destruction

Despite loud opposition from constituents and progressive lawmakers against such a move, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took to the Senate floor Thursday evening to announce he would vote to advance a Republican spending bill that critics say would "sacrifice the needs of working people at the altar of the ultra-wealthy" and greenlight further chaos and destruction by Dotard Trump and his Oligarch-in-Chief Felon Musk.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 12:30 PM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk want a shutdown to destroy vital government services faster. It would be a disaster. And we have to alert everyone how much pain it would cause the American people. From my interview on @allinwithchris.bsky.social:

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-- Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) March 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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Senator Schumer is up for re-election in 2028. AIPAC donated $1.7m to his campaign; other donors listed here: www.opensecrets.org

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-14 04:41 AM

THIS kind of cowardly behavior is exactly why I don't send them anymore donations.

And I won't. Not until they grow a set and start standing up to and refusing to cooperate with the moron in the Oval Office and his maga minions in Congress.

At least the Supreme Court seems to be coming to its senses. Tho that is probably just a prelude to another disastrous ruling.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-14 12:42 PM

I don't blame you for not sending in donations. The ones in Congress fighting the hardest against Trumpf are AOC and Bernie Sanders, our most progressive legislators. What does Schumer gain by cooperating with the GOP, when vetoing them is the only weapon he has?

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-14 01:32 PM

Dems are in an impossible situation. If they don't pass the spending bill, Mrump would have even more leeway to fire workers.

"A shutdown is uncharted territory when you've got an administration that, at least in some ways, probably would welcome a shutdown because that would give the president almost unlimited power in deciding who's essential, who's nonessential, holding up agencies," Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, told reporters Wednesday, calling it "a choice between two terrible alternatives."
www.forbes.com
Gotta keep in mind that, unlike pretty much every other prez in hisotry, Trump wants the economy to fail. It assists him in manipulating the stock market and profiting from shorting it.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-14 01:35 PM

Not another dime, not another vote, not another iota of effort to get any democrat re-elected.

At this point dems are complicit in what Shitler is doing.

If you are going to vote magat, you are nothing more than magat scum.

Shut the fucking government down until Shitler is impeached and removed from office.

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-14 01:35 PM

Shut the government down.

Magat scum will initially be thrilled, shitler and musk will cut more government workers (but guess what, they'd cut em anyway).

Let weeks and months go by without a budget. Keep the fucking government shut down.

Eventually even magat scum will feel the heat.

All the while it is the fault of the republican scum who refuse to remove the most corrupt person in our nation's history

6, 9 months is a cheap price to pay for the salvation of our democracy.

You see, having failed and failed and failed, you are left with few options.

It is either this or a king, which is it?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-14 01:39 PM

I agree with TruthHurts. Dems should have shut it down rather than pass: "a bill written by the GOP that some Democrats have said gives the Trump administration broad leeway to dictate government spending, including freezing some funds, without congressional guardrails."

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-14 01:44 PM

Actually, I heard Schumer on TV defend this action, and I think I agree with him. Shutting down the government will only further embolden and enable Elong and the magic incels smash and grab, as there will be nobody to monitor and report on the destruction from inside. The courts, which have been our only bulwark against the destruction of our country would also shutter. Dotard and the Reich want a shutdown, at 30 days he can declare a state of emergency and pretty much usurp all of the Article One powers. Dems have a chance to retake the House in the next two years prior to 2026 if they just win a couple of special elections, and right now things are not looking great for the MAGAt party. Plus, Faux Spews and Twittler would hang the shutdown on Dems, and unfortunately there is no bullhorn as loud as the one on the Reich. It's the best of a bad Sophie's choice.

#8 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-03-14 01:50 PM

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