Not that Jeffries is any better, but Dem voters have rejected this ossified system, and, well, Ossoff is doing just fine on his own.
I’m 47. If you are a politician born after I was, I have never been your target demographic. Don’t rely on me to give a flying fuck about you, and don’t rely on people elected to fix your fucking broken system that gave us Trump.
We’re fucking done with your corporate bullshit. You’re already rich enough. Step aside. Like Elon, you won’t even notice the difference in your bank account.
He probably doesn’t piss off the mini-mansion crowd by focusing on the culture war over the class war.
That means all the morons paying rent just to put a roof over their head will fall in line with whatever distraction the party comes up with to avoid fixing the housing crisis.
He absolutely is not. We need someone who will use the same tactics the republicans use. I don’t have the answer, but we can certainly count Schumer and Jeffries out.
Trump is going to veto everything anyway, so…
Still gotta go through it. Aggressive measures focused on the Epstein Files require a backbone that those two do not possess. Curtailing the authorization of use of military force will take guts that they do not have.
I feel like this is an excellent time for a dude like you, Powderhorn, to write a letter to the editor of the Star Telegram or a similar paper in Texas and make this exact point.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I hung up The Powderhorn as a column after a particularly bitter 2006 layoff at a paper where I was the news editor and the opinion editor. My only connection to Texas at the time was choosing to run Molly Ivins when I had the opportunity to shake up the entirety of our syndicated content.
Having decided which letters to the editor run in full, which ones need heavy edits to make any plausible sense, and which were simply useless in their form, I don’t really like the process from the other end. I think the last time I was published in a letters section was about the same time as the layoff … I wasn’t yet willing to give up my voice, and Fareed Zakaria had just written a piece in Newsweek that really rubbed me the wrong way.
I’d told my then-fiancee I’d sent off the letter, and she made sure to pick up a copy the following week, exclaiming “It ran!” My take was a bit more subdued, akin to “Of course it did. You did fall in love with a guy who’s been in journalism for nearly a decade – and started as a fucking columnist.”
But life looks far different 20 years later. Being published yet again is a nothingburger for my ego, and while I still have very strong political beliefs and am not afraid to write about them, I’m content to leave my reach at those I know personally and the very small tranche of parasocial online followers. Also, the pay for a letter to the editor fails to make the juice worth the squeeze.
I’m sure someone with more vigor will make the point better than I could, and unlike anyone in Congress these days, I can sense when my time is over, and it’s the next generation’s turn.
Schumer and Jeffries are controlled opposition, the secret meeting with Kushner and the secret society with Theil all but prove it for Jeffries and Schumer is only there to further the interests of Israel. Together their main task is to kneecap any actual left from the inside and to further the interests of Israel. All of establishment is as corrupt as the right, they’re just more covert about it because they know that once you show your hand, you can’t go back to pretending. They do performative bullshit that never seems to really accomplish anything, it’s just there to try and mind fuck the country into thinking they’re being served and their tax dollars are going to things they need. If we are not able to wrestle power away from establishment now, it’ll be as if the right won anyway. They’ll “stand up to Trump” in useless, performative ways while furthering his agenda, his cabinet picks and judges just like last time. The people will never trust either party again and we’ll be exactly like Russia.
…well you see, he’s good at bringing in corporate money and not upsetting those donor’s goals. And we all know in a society defined by capitalism, it’s the money that matters. And that’s all that matters. Look at the election. People weren’t upset at the blatant bigotry, the Constitutional violations, the unprecedented corruption, and so on. No, they were mad that they were paying more at the pump.
The only defense I have of Schumer that I don’t have of Jeffries is that Schumer seems to read the room better and will bend to the majority of his caucus when needed. He can’t be as progressive as people want, in part, because the Senate is where compromises happen. His job has been to decide when to break gridlock and get a bill passed.
Don’t disagree with you here.
I just think most progressives want to clean house with the tired old guard who have lead us to this point in history.
Yes please
He’s not there for us. He’s there for the billionaires.
