Step off, Chuck! Democrats stunningly warn Schumer to stay out of races after Maine Mills meltdown
2d 20h ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.independent.co.uk
‘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.
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.
Yes, agreed. I was thinking more like a stipend that's been put aside during their years of service. Did a good job? You get the money that was put aside. If not, well it just rolls back into the government's budget for the next worthy politician.
Maybe we could just make their pension contingent on the same exit vote where their constituents decide whether or not they go to jail.
Strongly concur!
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.
I’m fully in favor of term limits. Not a small term limit. Something like 12 terms. At 2 years each, that’s 24 years. Long enough for a respectable career, and they can take a good retirement afterwards. If you enter politics in your 30’s and manage to stay in office that long, you’re retired by your 50’s and can move on to other ventures. It’s enough to ensure congress isn’t constantly full of newbies who don’t know what they’re doing. And it prevents the old voters from screeching about age discrimination, because there is no age cap; old people want old representatives? Those reps simply shouldn't start running for office until they’re in their 50’s or 60’s.
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.
The Senator from Tel Aviv
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.
“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.
WHY? Chuck knows EXACTLY what Americans Israelis WANT! That's LITERALLY the Definition of the DNC!
“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.
https://runforsomething.net/
We need outside the party organizations like this to help out in primaries, they deserve the credit and traffic.
Release the 2024 DNC post-election report, you fucking cowards
In case anyone isn't in-the-know, DNC leadership is refusing to release the autopsy report from the 2024 election season during which Democrats received record funding ($1bn) yet lost even the popular vote. Why? They say so we can focus on the "lessons learned" that DNC leadership arrived at, NOT the report itself and how they came to those conclusive lessons. For all we know, the "lessons" could be manufactured by DNC leadership to stall party reform.
Video by The Majority Report covering it.
Aipac politicians should all be voted out
they should be arrested and tried for being subversive foreign agents who have abused their power to favor a foreign power instead of their own constituents and country.
Get fucked chuck!
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
They have no reason to. He's not in their way at all.
Chuck and the rest of the centrist Democrats are just corporate assholes like Musk without saying the quiet part out loud.
We need populist candidates that will go against the MAGA fascists and the enablers like Chuck and Hakim
Yup. Primary them all - and if they win, don't vote for them in the general, and make it plain you won't so others know not to vote for them.
I will still vote for any democrat over any Republican, but the time of the general is not the time to complain.
Now is the time to complain and primary the centrist fuckers.
Now is the time to seize leverage. If other voters back a centrist, they will lose votes in the general.
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.
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.
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
He needs someone to take the baton and bash him over the head with it.
It kinda looks like someone did...
Better yet, just resign. 🤷
Looks like his ego is bigger than trumps? Why doesn't he listen to what his own voters want? Geez
Leadership should have been purged after the 2016 debacle.
But it's not too late to do that now.
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.
The Baileys will not be happy about this.
The Bailey's will continue to not exist.
That old codger can stop trying to please his imaginary friends and instead try to grasp the concept of retirement.
Did Schumer have a nasty fall sometime before this picture? Like, grandpa, go home, enjoy your family. Hell, let someone younger who knows what's going on be in charge. We're ruled by old people who should have retired a decade ago...
a decade ago
...
adecades ago
Much better.
wait wtf you're right. did someone hit him over the head with a hammer? Why is there a giant Band-Aid over half his forehead????
The Democrats, or more directly their donors, will just use PAC money to do these things, they’ll invent some bullshit names for them like how AIPAC is making up bullshit “progressive” PAC’s to do these same things against progressives who don’t align with their agenda.
Step off Chuck! And also, go step yourself!
Old coots backing old coots. WTF!?!?! Stop voting for these old asswipes, who are slightly less evil than the current GOP. Shove off into retirement Schumer, you stole enough from the US taxpayers.
"People were very ARROUSED..."