Consider he can’t handle to NOT voting for another fascist cabinet member, yeah, screw this ineffective asshole.

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    Why is this guy called a leader when all he does is immitate a mall Santa on Christmas Day?

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    How sad for him. The times call for someone in his position to do more than going through the motions and other ineffective and performative bullshit

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    In this very interesting video Tom Nicholas describes the transition from modernism to post-modernism to a new thing called metamodernism.

    One thing he points out is that post-modernist political parties of all stripes avoided having actual stances and thought just playing the part of a politician - wear suits, use the right hand gestures, say the right words - was enough to get elected.

    This is almost exactly what Schumer is doing here. As a post-modernist politician he can create his own reality and ignore actual facts.

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    “Struggles” is being generous. He is intentionally not fighting. The elderly leadership and all the AIPAC loyalists within the party major road blocks to any form of fighting back.

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      I mean what does he do, is he like the opposition leader or something?

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        He does nothing. In theory he would be an opposition leader but he’s happy to play the “not quite as bad as Trump” role, which means he won’t do anything to actually stop Trump.

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      1 month ago

      Despite his name being the title and half a dozen times in the article, it will forever be a mystery.

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      “Leader” of Senate Democrats. I put that in quotes because I’m not seeing any leadership out of the guy. He needs to go.

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    Nobody appreciates the artistry that goes into writing a good angry but very polite and subservient letter these days.