Boomers are the most disconnected and spoiled of all the generations ever. No generation ever before (or since) had it so easy (buying a home for like $30k from a minimum-wage factory-job that required no education while their health insurance covered everything for like $2), denies their children basic necessities for their well-being, are guaranteed social security while preventing its sustainability for their children, and thinks they had it hard. They were born on third base and think they hit a home run.
Your summation is spot-on.
They heard stories of the struggle older generations had, and witnessed the resulting trauma and strength. Having never been through it themselves they developed the worship of struggle and elevation of suffering, as an affectation.
Then they foisted the self-loathing for themselves having never experienced it, on subsequent generations, claiming the subsequent generations were the first ones who never experienced it. And have tried to force suffering on us ever since, in an attempt to make us like their parents.
Truly the John Wayne generation, larping like the hard world gave them moral character, while sleeping in a soft Hollywood bed, coasting on the work left by real people, without even the grit of the ones who took it from the real people.
They thought they were financial geniuses for buying a house when it was cheap and getting rich off inflated prices from a lack of supply.
Schumer and Jeffries need to go now.
He and Jeffries are purple coats. Schumer should be registered as an Israeli agent.
Nether should be allowed much voice or America gets the same shit over again - more trump and his crime spree.
purple coats
Not purple. It's more blue and white.
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Check out this video for how to get Schumer and Jeffries out! They have a petition already with half a million signatures and are talking about how we can build public pressure to kick them out of leadership! Also talking about who we should support instead. Very encouraging! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0quVb4r7y8
Jeffries https://c.org/XDXmJGd7tP
Schumer https://c.org/LWtJgcGnwj
Schumer and Jeffries are conservatives. All neoliberals are conservatives. They take money from the exact same donors. They work for the same oligarchs. They are complicit in the fascism and need to be fkng dealt with.
And, to be clear, these traitors will never leave on their own. Never. Like any other conservative, Schumer and Jeffries must be forcibly ejected from their positions.
There is no peaceful solution to an infestation of conservatives.
The voters have spoken. Now it's time for Democrats to listen.
It must be this reporter's first election ever. He's a good kid.
You've had your chance, Chuck.
Agreed, Schumer is a standard-issue D hack and not up to the job. It would be a pleasant surprise for the Dems to kick him out.
Schumer backed almost as many losers in the Senate as McConnell did this year
So happy to see my new senator already calling for new leadership.
Another cloaked MAGA, get f'ed Schumer. You've watched the Orange Shitstain erode and destroy the USA for nearly ten years. There is nothing to work with beside using the Legislative power to override the idiot and his veto. Retire pronto!
So what are the ways to boot him and Jeffries out now? Not in 6 months, that'll be too late.
Can everyone just ignore those 2 and follow better de facto senate leaders without the title?
What is it with these outdated structures being set in stone and being so fucking easy to abuse.
So what are the ways to boot him and Jeffries out now? Not in 6 months, that’ll be too late.
The leadership positions are elected at the beginning of each term, which will happen at the beginning of January. Between now and then, we can write our Dem Senators and Representatives (be polite and clear--staff tally these), and we can hold demonstrations as two ways to express our demands directly. The more who do this the better.
Bloggers, columnists, and podcasters should be writing articles and conducting interviews publicizing what the people want.
We can't let the old guard redefine goals and set a false narrative. For example, Jeffries just came out and said,
"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf, because life is way too expensive"
He's trying to frame our expecting accountability as just petty "wanting to get even"--don't let him!
When you write your representative, you could include this quote (or one from Schumer along the same lines if writing your Senator). Say that enforcing the Rule of Law is not "getting even", rather it is the only way to cure corruption, which thrives when people in power who break the law are not held accountable. We demand a leader who understands this. Say that he is also implying that we have to choose between holding bad actors accountable or tackling the other issues. We demand a leader who can deal with multiple issues at the same time (or "walk and chew gum at the same time").
IMO we also have to continue with the demonstrations, holding signs that state our demands. If we don't they'll think we're complacent now that the elections are over, and that they can just go back to business as usual. But if we do, they'll realize we are serious and have certain expectations of them. The newly-elected Dems are going to be paying a lot more attention to us than the others (at least for a while!), so we should take advantage of this window of opportunity to make ourselves heard.
I'm the outsider and I've been looking across threads and I don't see real answer to this other than calling your reps.
Now I'm wondering how did those guys got into their positions? And why people or their colleagues can't do (or aren't doing) anything about it.
Couldn't Dems have meeting where somebody propose change to the leadership and somebody else second the motion, then they all vote on it? Or something. Again I'm outsider so..
He's a horror show. AOC needs his job
AOC needs his job
That's going to be challenging considering she's not even a senator.
I think they mean that job, too. They're from the same state.
Have no fear, his AIPAC appointed successor Slotkin is waiting in the wings for the word to become the next majority leader.
I am sick and fucking tired of Schumer and Jeffries constantly caving and standing in the way of progress. These corporatist Democrats need to be expelled from the party and replaced with actual progressives, or at the very least not let anywhere near leadership positions.
It's worse than caving. Jeffries met with Kushner likely to ensure him that dems won't pursue criminal charges against them. Now this with Schumer. These people are traitors.
Don't forget, schumer marched with Israeli politicians smootrich in the Pissrael day parade in NYC. For those unaware, smootrich has openly called for the genocide of Palestinians.
Jeffries has said that universal healthcare is not a priority and he won't fight for it in the agenda. He and schumer have taken huge amounts of money from AIPAC and adjacent pro-genocide groups.
Hope they get primaried from the left in the next cycle.


If the Dems don't make progress and fix some shit this time they're going to be fucked in the next election. They need to deal with these two fuckers now, like immediately. If they let these two assholes put the brakes on the momentum they just picked up with these election victories we are all fucked.
Yup. I agree fully. But I also don't see them doing anything about these assholes.
Vote them out and primary them both out
Neither one represent me, so I have no say over whether they're voted out.
Now that Democrats are winning it’s time for me to be president!!!
LMAO GTFO you old fuck
We CAN"T be Political now! Red States flipping BLUE for the first time in DECADES is a Sign to CONTINUE Trump's Agenda!
-Chuck Schumer!
Maybe he can settle down in a nice west bank place with Joe and Eileen Bailey

"He's with the baileys now" can be the equivalent to telling the kids you're taking the old family dog to a farm upstate where they can run around and be free.
Go home. God. Those two need to sit the fuck down.
Write your reps today. Tell them, simply, no Hakeem fucking Jeffries.
Day one, first order of business, the new congress needs to sideline them. They shouldn't even be allowed to take interviews.
He and Jeffries both need to be shown the back seat.
Schumer just can't get enough of that sweet AIPAC money.
When Israel is higher on his priority list than America.
He'll call it negotiation, the give and take of Politics but in reality, they'll just take and Schumer will just cave.
Get rid!
Schumer and Jefferies both accepted approximately $1.7 million from AIPAC. Each.
Schumer and Jeffries couldn’t even run a bath at this point. Really hoping that they elect new party leaders otherwise the blue wave was all for nothing
Listen to it yourself.
No energy and just minutes of self fellating crap about his greatness of selecting candidates, candidates like Haley Stevens, and not one lick of a concrete item on how Democrats plan to deliver anything to the Americans he claimed to have listened to.
And the Q&A, just pathetic.
Chuck and Jeff gotta go!
Bro fuck this paywall shit i don't need to pay money to be told schumer sucks lmao
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Chuck is going to have his work cut out for him, derailing anything that Democrats attempt to get done. Lord knows, his owners are going to expect a lot of an old fart like him. They might have to dronestrike his grandkids to make a point.
Lol, exit polls show democrats underwater by 8 points with voters. People hate the Democrats, they just hate the Republicans more. Imagine if one of the parties actually listened to voters for once in my lifetime.
I'm already sick of pictures of Schumer and its only been a few hours.
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