‘The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,’ one strategist told Eric Garcia, after the rebuke to the seemingly out-of-touch 75-year-old Senate minority leader
Democrats are pressing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 75, to stay out of future primaries after his 78-year-old pick for Maine’s Senate race dropped out this week, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would drop out of the Democratic primary, essentially clearing the field for insurgent progressive candidate Graham Platner to become the party’s nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Schumer had backed Mills, the two-term governor of Maine, for the marquee race involving the only Republican representing a state with a majority that voted for Kamala Harris.
But Mills consistently polled behind Platner despite a litany of controversies around the oysterman regarding his use of a slur for people with disabilities, and his comments on Reddit from more than a decade ago about Black people not tipping at restaurants and about sexual assault.
I try not to hate people, as a rule. I don’t want to hate anyone, but I do sometimes and I spend lots of time thinking about why that might be and how I can stop. It’s usually pretty simple. Our government makes it so, so fucking difficult to manage that.
Get fucked chuck!
He knows that. He also knows he works for Israel before the USA.
It’s his job, guys. He has a responsibility to his Isreali constituents. He takes that very seriously. Also his imaginary Trump voting couple. Weird fucking guy.
OoooOooooOOh I am the ghooost of Bailey past. WOOOoooOOOOOoooo you have to baaaack Israeeeel.
“It is not acceptable when you are one of 100 people in the country who hold the position of United States senator to go on national news and say, ‘Well, the Democrats aren’t in charge right now, I guess we can’t do anything,’” she said.
Aipac politicians should all be voted out
Politicians should be forced to retire.
Every politician should have an exit vote when they leave office, where their constituents vote whether the politician goes to prison, is executed, or goes free.
I’m sure they would start trying to make their voters lives better.
That actually sounds awesome.
Agreed, I really like such an idea. I think another option of giving them a tip or bonus if they were exceptional would also be nice. A carrot to go with the sticks, so to speak.
Only if their constituents vote on an all-or-nothing bonus. Not individuals tipping politicians because that would easily be abused by the wealthy and is basically a bribe.
Term limits and age limits.
Automatic consequences, too. For example, a president who initiates war (without even declaring it!), has to get congressional approval within 10 days. Failure to secure approval is automatic removal from office, and imprisonment. If thirty days pass without congress forgiving the transgression, execution is carried out, and the general public is permitted to do the deed without punishment.
That sort of thing would make office holders much more reluctant to abuse their stations.
Strongly concur!
I wish Schumer would just buy a lake house, a walk-in closet full of weed, and just disappear
Damn I love this way of putting someone should retire. So good gonna steal.
Every politician in the national and all state capitals should have a taxpayer funded, guided Ayahuasca trip, once a year. It should also be counted as taxable income.
Release the 2024 DNC post-election report, you fucking cowards
Looks like his ego is bigger than trumps? Why doesn’t he listen to what his own voters want? Geez
WHY? Chuck knows EXACTLY what
AmericansIsraelis WANT! That’s LITERALLY the Definition of the DNC!You just shouldn’t be able to claim social security while in office. I mean it’s not the problem here but it would solve so many of the world’s problems right now.
“The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,” Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, told The Independent over text message. “People are hungry for change — the institutions that got us to this point cannot be the ones to get us out of it.”
No idea if the website updated or OP edited to take the name out.
We need outside the party organizations like this to help out in primaries, they deserve the credit and traffic.
Better yet, just resign. 🤷
Heh. As soon as I saw she’d dropped out I thought, “Ouch. Chuck takes it in the nuts. That’s gotta hurt.”
And yes, he needs to hand off the baton already.
He needs someone to take the baton and bash him over the head with it.
It kinda looks like someone did…
Handing off the baton implies to me he has some role in selecting a successor. I don’t even want him to do that. He’s just bad at politics.
Also one of the problems with Mills was being too old, and Chuck is just 3 years younger. Hopefully he takes it personally.
Well he’s the minority leader in the Senate. Give it up, y’know. Amongst the other things
What is it going to take to get Schumer to just fuck off and go away?
Do we really need to send some guy with a hammer?
I’ve been hoping some MAGA Republican would do the job for over a year now :P
