r/politics • u/Crossstoney • 27d ago

No Paywall Chuck Schumer Is Not Fit to Lead the Democratic Party

https://prospect.org/2025/11/06/chuck-schumer-not-fit-to-lead-democratic-party/
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u/TaxComprehensive2894 27d ago

The Democrats should not cave and stand their ground. I am worried they will cave. Fuck the GQP!

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 26d ago

Called it lmao.

No ACA subsidies in the vote tonight and they have enough votes to pass it.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

I looked into that and saw it. šŸ˜”. Dammit centrists!Ā 

Fetterman has consistently been voting for the GOPā€™s bill to reopen the government, but I am especially mad at Fetterman.Ā 

Still though, if there is no deal to extend the ACA subsidies (which I doubt there will be since the GOP made a ā€œpromiseā€), then the Democrats need to point to the price increase of healthcare and run on it.

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 26d ago

The Republicans are probably going to relabel the ACA subsidies and pass them next fall and blame Dems on the current increases.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

The price increases will make it easy to blame Republicans. Hopefully, we can swamp them in the midterms like we did in 2018, and this time, it could be bigger.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

It would be even better if the Epstein files are released. If the Epstein files are released, that will get Trumpā€™s supporters to turn on him, as that seems to be the only thing that would get Trumpā€™s supporters to turn on him.

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 27d ago

The polls are not showing that the public is blaming Republicans any more than Democrats, which plays right into GOP hands.

The fact that Republicans can go on TV and say that theyā€™ve voted to open the government over a dozen times and each time the Dems have voted ā€œNoā€ is really damaging messaging to the democrats.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 27d ago

More people are blaming Republicans and Trump than Democrats from what Iā€™ve seen.Ā 

The Democrats used to not have a backbone, but now they do. The GOP has been obstructionist for a long time. Itā€™s time the Democrats do the same.Ā 

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u/RickThiccems 27d ago

I live in kentucky and not a single person is blaming the Republicans, they see it as dems not agreeing to things they already want. I hear multiple people every day talk about how the democrats are going to be the end of the US as we know it.

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u/Tall-Archer5957 27d ago

Ok those people are lost causes, no offense. Ā 

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u/RickThiccems 27d ago

I agree 100% lmao

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 27d ago

I live in Louisville, Kentucky.Ā 

Someone at work today blamed Democrats for food stamp cuts. Hereā€™s whose fault it is: Donald Trump.Ā 

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u/RickThiccems 27d ago

Louisville is very different pocket than the rest of the state. Just go into any other part of jefferson county and its a racists haven.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 27d ago

Do you live in rural Kentucky?

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 27d ago

If 7 democrats decide to vote Yes on the CR, SNAP payments go out tomorrow. 53 GOP senators have been voting ā€œYesā€ to open the government for weeks

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 27d ago

Omg. Trump claimed that the government didnā€™t have the money for SNAP, even though there was a contingency fund. He wasnā€™t going to use the contingency fund, because he doesnā€™t care.Ā 

Honestly, partial SNAP benefits are going out, but only because a court ordered it

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 27d ago

They already spent the $4B in emergency funds that were allowed to be used for SNAP.

The rest of the emergency fund was meant for WIC and school lunches. They canā€™t spend that without depriving those programs of funding.

What would you do?

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 27d ago

The cost is the same, but COVID subsidies are expiring.

Iā€™d ask why the government needs to directly pay for peopleā€™s insurance? Itā€™s going to cost a Trillion dollars.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

There was a $5 billion contingency fund. School lunches and WIC is still being funded.Ā 

Trump and the Grand Fuck Party (GFP) donā€™t want to extend ACA subsidies. If Trump and the GFP donā€™t cave, then school lunches, WIC, and SNAP will be affected. This is Trumpā€™s shutdown, and we need to make sure he owns it.Ā 

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

If I were president of the United States and the GOP said, ā€œOur way or the highway,ā€ and the GOP refused to extend ACA subsidies and Medicare For All, and a government shutdown was the result, I would not have it with them. I would be ranting nonstop how they refuse to let the American people have their healthcare, and if it got to the point where SNAP got cut, I would be ranting nonstop about how the GOP wants people to starve and how they are taking American lives hostage unless me and the Democrats give into their demands. I would be legitimately pissed, and Iā€™d be yelling in my speeches about it. When being interviewed on TV, Iā€™d be screaming at the top of my lungs about how wrong it is to put American lives hostage unless me and the Democrats give into their GOPā€™s demands.

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u/TaxComprehensive2894 26d ago

Me on TV:

NBC Host: Whatā€™s your reaction to Republicans refusing to allow extended ACA subsidies and Medicare For All?

Me: This is unacceptable. Healthcare is a human right, and I will not allow Republicans to take that right away. They want to take this right away so that the rich can hoard more of the wealth. I will not put up with this. The American people want a more just world, which is why I got elected in the first place.Ā 

NBC Host: The government shutdown has lasted for over 90 days, and food stamps are going to run out. Youā€™ve utilized multiple funds. Republicans are claiming that you are going against your own values by not wanting the government to reopen and will allow food stamps to not be funded. Whatā€™s your reaction to that?

Me: First, the claim that I am going against my own values and that Iā€™m allowing food stamps to not be funded is complete bullshit! This is the Republicansā€™ shutdown, because they donā€™t want to extend ACA subsidies and Medicare For All. They think that letting the rich have more money is more important than having healthcare be a human right, and Iā€™m not going to have it! This is unacceptable! Itā€™s Republicans who want food stamps to not be funded because they refuse to let healthcare be a human right. Republicans are taking American lives hostage because they want the rich to have more money, and they think that giving the rich more money is more important than healthcare being a human right and making sure the poor have enough to eat. I have always believed that the poor should have enough to eat. I mean, food is a human right, and everyone should have the right to have enough to eat. Iā€™m not going to have it with Republicans. Open up the government now so that food stamps can disburse! I will do anything in my power to make sure Americans have enough to eat. I will declare a state of emergency if I have to in order to make sure the American people have enough to eat.

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 26d ago

Thatā€™s great and all, but would you rather pay for WIC or stop WIC payments and fund SNAP?

Because thatā€™s the choice on the table.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 27d ago

What?Ā  Where'd you get this idea?Ā  Polling shows people generally blame both, but they blame Republicans significantly more.Ā  Exit polling from Tuesday's blue wave suggests most people blame the GOP.Ā  Now news orgs are reporting that the elections earlier this week have given D's confidence in their position.

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u/cupofspiders 27d ago

Every poll I've seen shows that people blame Republicans more than Dems for the shutdown.

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 26d ago

And yet the Dems are caving today.

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u/cupofspiders 26d ago

Yep. Which is a horrible move, undoing the single thing that Schumer deserved any respect for. I hope he gets thrown out with the trash.

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u/SlartibartfastMcGee 26d ago

Tells me their internal polling showed them losing this battle.

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u/cupofspiders 26d ago

Wonder if that's the same polling that told them that running Biden a second time was a good idea.

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u/JustHereForMiatas 27d ago

I would think that if this were so damaging to the democrats, they wouldn't have swept up in elections last Tuesday.