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Summary

Democratic divisions intensified as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Chuck Schumer for supporting a Republican-led funding bill to avoid a government shutdown.

AOC called Schumer's decision a "betrayal," urging Senate Democrats to reject the legislation backed by Trump and Elon Musk. Pelosi called the bill a "devastating assault" on working families.

Schumer defended his stance, arguing a shutdown would empower Trump and Musk further.

The controversy sparked suggestions among Democrats that AOC might challenge Schumer in a primary.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

AOC obviously didn't get the message. The Democrats have completely given up on the Kafabe of pretending to be an opposition party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

no but you don't understand! IF YOU HAD JUST VOTED, WE COULD HAVE HAD TEN CHUCK SCHUMERS TO VOTE FOR THE FASCIST CRAP! so really everything bad that happened is your fault for not voting. how dare you fail the democratic party like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Traitors for hire.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Are we calling him Cuck Schumer yet?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Start a fucking progressive party already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

sizzling hot take: all political parties end up as tools for elites to capture power

truly a bold and newfangled idea, surely only a few radical extremists could buy into it. surely parliamentary socialists in Meiji-era Japan, for instance, would never derive this dangerous concept from first principles

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As far left as I am, that would guarantee the Republicans would win every election until we get ranked choice vote

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is what we need to be talking about as a country right now. How do we open up the political binary to include viable third parties? Does that require proportional representation? Does that require a parliamentary system?

I know in NC getting a third party on the ballot requires signatures and a portion of the vote in the previous election. Those bars are too high and risky. What is another path?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

False. Bernie would have won.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That'd be a threat if the dems were actually willing to improve the country not just be controlled opposition

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly how I'm feeling these days. I honestly think their preferred state is not being in power, that way they don't have to keep any promises and get to keep their jobs all while doing nothing but complaining about Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I honestly think that both parties like to not be in power for this very reason. All the money and none of the responsibilities. Pretty sweet setup

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Not to mention fundraising

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

As she should.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Dems need to stop pretending Schumer is the only problem, any other dem in his position would have done the same thing including AOC. The party is rotten to the core it’s just a revolving door of sycophants who server wall st and capital. The party is working as intended. Notice how Dems never have power to make actual change, never have the backbone to oppose republicans, and when they have majorities they never use their power for actual progress or at the very least codifying laws like roe v wade ect. They are there to act like an opposition party not actually be one. The working class is perpetually screwed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Hopefully she will run for his seat in the future.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AOC needs to form a new party or at least go independent with Bernie. I'd really like an alternative to the Democrats because I'll never be voting for them again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

No. She's on a path that will shape the democrats of the future. If she leaves she will become irrelevant, and she knows it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

After this fine display by maga and the DINO's I see a schism coming from both parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

the gop's schism of the maga, it already has occured with them, most of them had to embrace maga or risk getting primaried by trump aligned maga gop. there isnt one for the DNC yet

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

We will NEVER make progress by compromising with those who will not compromise with us in return.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His vile cowardice is something I'm seeing people talk about, but the sheer stupidity of it isn't touched on.

CHUCK. HE IS GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! THE D NEXT TO YOUR NAME MAY AS WELL BE THE STAR OF DAVID ON YOUR CHEST YOU DUMB FUCK! DICTATORS DO NOT LET "OPPOSITION" PARTY MEMBERS LIVE. NO MATTER HOW HELPFUL THEY WERE IN GIVING THEM POWER!

Like are you fucking stupid?

[–] Barbarian 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

There's plenty of opposition parties in Russia, for example. They're just all controlled. They use intentional gaffs to throw the election to the "correct" winner. If they start getting too uppity and stop following orders, they get banned from running on some technicality.

Navalny is what happens when even that doesn't work, but he was very much the exception.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Democrats are currently proving that they are controlled opposition.

[–] [email protected] 245 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Challenge him. He's has no business being a party leader if he's as spineless as the Republicans who pushed this bill.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I hope she primaries him. Vote all those decrepit elders out of office.

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