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It would be great if our legislators would serve reasonable term lengths instead of coasting on name recognition and being the lesser of two evils in reelections and literally stroking out at press conferences.
He was always a useless shill and so deep in the pockets of fossil fuel interests that he needs a 12 foot snorkel to breathe.
In other words, an absolute disgrace and COMPLETELY typical of Dem leadership of the past 40+ years
Honestly, in one way it's nice that so many people are finally aware of Chuck's fuckery for his entire time in Congress. That people are finally able to wake up and go "Wait he's always been like this? Was I just unaware or was it down low?"
In another way, it's sad there's still people across Lemmy, Reddit, Mastodon, etc. who are happy he supported the bill with 9 other Democrats, saying that a shutdown was worse for America and giving Trump and Musk what they wanted was better.
At some point, those people are as braindead as MAGA shitheads.
That would explain the absolute brain-dead takes he presents - beyond ~1 ft, the air exchange in snorkels doesn't work right and you end up breathing less oxygen.
But, he hadn't sold his stocks yet! What do you expect to do?
Throw his body into the pit with the MAGAts then cover it with a few metric tons of dirt and wait for the muffled screams to die down
He looks like a caricature
It would be interesting to see if he resigns. Then another point of data can be added to the ever-running observation of where actions actually have consequences in the us government.
He's not going anywhere willingly.
And the rest of the dems don't have enough of a spine to force him out, so he's not going anywhere, period! Yay!
That is not a position you are given. It is one you take.
lol R2O is showing the old stripes
So R2O is just forever barred from covering Democrats' being enablers of Trump's bullshit because he (rightfully) said "This will cost them the election against Trump, this doesn't help them or the public"?
R2O was banned for, cumulatively, months from multiple top communities for spamming. This includes an unprecedented month-long ban from politics
Why did he get marked but Mircowave from lemmy.world didn't? That dude posts dozens articles every day to several communities, R2O never posts that much.
I have no love for Schumer and would love to see him replaced, but to play devil’s advocate for a sec, isn’t shutting down the government what Trump and his cronies want? Say the government does shut down, what would prevent Republicans just leaving it shut down indefinitely until all the furloughed employees quit (the same people they’ve been trying to fire unsuccessfully)? Or passing bills to selectively fund only the programs they like while leaving the Dept of Education and others unfunded?
Trump could have simply done that by just not signing the bill and get his shutdown.
Or passing bills to selectively fund only the programs they like while leaving the Dept of Education and others unfunded?
That's exactly what they did. This wasn't a clean continuing resolution. In the bill was language that effectively retroactively legalizes Trump's ability to strip parts from the budget as he pleases. Previously he was doing this in violation of the law. Now he'll be doing it in accordance with the law, and it will be far harder for the courts to stop him.
This wasn't a continuing resolution. It was an Enabling Act.
because in the ~~long~~ ~~medium term~~ sooner than I imagine, those things are going to happen anyway. Presenting it as a choice between "saving (some) fed employees" vs "fucking them over" is disingenuous. The actual choice is between "ceding power and the news narrative" vs not. People are upset that the Dems keep doing this, despite the long history of "working across the aisle" not working.
To address your specific points: just because there are things the Republicans want, doesn't mean they're "good" for them (see: all? of their policies). In the case of federal employees, passing the "CR"* isn't going to get them paid--the GOP doesn't care what the laws say (obviously). The Dems should be obstructing other ridiculous funding bills as well, because the only thing they can do is be in the news cycle for obstruction (and then using that time to sell progressive policies that most people agree with). That's the only leverage they have. This appeasement threw that away. The hive of scum and villainy is only going to continue their illegal cuts, and the correct response is to fight back, not to lend them more legitimacy. Dems have tried that for decades and this is what it's gotten us.
*: it's not really a "continuing" resolution, as it has a bunch of Trumpian garbage in it that wasn't in the previous appropriations bill. They're just... calling it that, and Senate Dems have tacitly endorsed it as such.