Rundown
Since last week there have been more plane crashes, more cases of measles and bird flu, ICE detained and tortured a legal green card holder, Chuck Schumer caved to republicans and convinced enough Dems in the senate to vote for Trump’s odious continuing resolution (CR). Among other things, the CR included massive cuts to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, food stamps, and foreign aid.
Trump also defied a court order to have Venezuela-bound flights carrying undocumented immigrants return to the US, and as of Monday he declared all Biden’s pardons null and void. And he’s escalated things with Yemen by bombing it. Trump also steed up his campaign to purge the government of everything woke and dei, removing references to Black and women soldiers interned at Arlington National Cemetery.
Also, web pages detailing Black, Japanese, and women recipients of the Medal of Honor were removed. In the case of Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers, a Black Medal of Honor recipient, the url of his web page was changed to include “dei-medal.” Only after public outcry were some of the web pages restored but the pentagon defended its DEI/woke purge. For more information click here.
While Trump has been running roughshod, democratic leadership has been AWOL. This leads me to the topic of this week’s post.
Fuck Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Establishment
Week after week, I’ve been bemoaning the lack of democratic leadership, and nothing epitomizes this more than Chuck Schumer’s betrayal of the American people last week.
Over 200 Democratic senators voted no on the CR, but that doesn’t matter because 12 senate Dems voted for it, giving republicans enough votes for it to pass. Have they no shame?
And Schumer has the nerve to go on a book tour after he slit the throat of his constituents. Well, I say we give him all the time he wants by primarying his ass and every democrat that voted for the CR, and while we’re at it every dem who voted to censure Rep, Al Green of Texas.
Election after election, the democratic establishment has grown further out of touch as it drifted farther right. And every time they lose, they blame progressives for being too radical and themselves for not being centrist enough to appeal to independents and centrist. In reality the right has gone over the cliff and the center is no longer the center. So, what we’re left with is democrats who govern like wannabe Republicans.
Given a choice between these republican-lite candidates and the real deal, those on the right almost always choose the latter. Case in point, Kamala Harris tried appealing to conservatives by campaigning with Liz Cheney and touting her gun ownership, instead of running on a progressive populous platform. And the result is she lost by a thin margin.
Once again, progressives were blamed for voting third party or abstaining. Yet 90 million eligible voters stayed home. Had Harris won over a tenth of these voters she would have won in a landslide. Instead, she pandered to the right and was rewarded with an L.
I am sick and tired of us progressives being blamed for the incompetence of the democratic establishment. Everything we want (universal healthcare, universal college, a tax code where millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, and a government that works for we the people and not corporations) are popular. Just ask Bernie Sanders who’s been packing townhalls because he stays pushing these issues.
But no.
According to Schumer and the democratic establishment we need to move to the right and play footsie with the fascists. Yeah, ‘cause appeasing the nazis worked so well the first time.
Well Chuck Schumer and the democratic establishment can go fuck themselves with a rabid possum. He, Pelosi, and everyone who’s been in their seat for decades need to go. They’ve gotten too comfortable and forgotten who they work for.
Every second Schumer remains senate minority leader is a disgrace to everyone who fought for our democracy. And until someone who will fight for progressive causes and the rule of law takes the reins, we should boycott all establishment democrats. No donations, no canvassing, nothing. Flood their emails, voicemail, and snail mail in such volumes they have no recourse but to respond.
There’s a popular adage that says the definition of insanity is doing something repeatedly and expecting a different result. Every time it’s the same story with the dems; they capitulate to the republicans in the naive hope this time the other side can be reasoned with, and the republicans stab them in the heart ad infinitum.
No more. This insanity must end. Either Schumer et al get out of the fucking way or progressives take control a la the Tea Party.
Till next week, stay safe, don’t obey in advance, and fuck the feculent fascist in chief.