Week Seven: Fuck Chuck Schumer

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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.

Week 5: The emperor is Nude and Enough is Enough

Grayscale photo of person covering his face with bandana holding a banner with words ” enough is enough” at protest

The Rundown

A month into the second Trump administration and all levels of the government are under assault from the manchild who would be king. More planes have crashed, yet Trump continues his slash and burn of the FAA and other federal employees, despite challenges in the courts. He’s also served Ukraine on a silver platter to Putin and signaled he would allow Russia to attack our European allies.

Thankfully judges and some federal employees are standing up to him, Musk, and DOGE.

However, democratic officials have been slow to respond. But some dems like Jamie Raskin, Corry Booker, and JB Pritzker are showing signs of having a spine. But I fear it’s too little too late as Trump purges the government of anyone who won’t bend the knee.

Meanwhile, due to Trump’s tariffs and immigration policies, inflation has skyrocketed along with gas and food prices. The latter has some in trump’s base reconsidering their vote. We tried to tell ya’ll.

 And speaking of voting, there is growing concern Musk, or another actor accessed the central voting machine where all votes in a state are recorded and altered them, a possibility which Intelligence and national security expert Malcolm Nance says is a possibility.

But given democratic leadership’s failure to call for recounts when questions about voting irregularities first arose, I fear this will be 2000 2.0, only this time if we learn that Kamala Harris did win it won’t matter because Trump et al will have succeeded in dismantling our government and selling our country to the highest bidder.

Our only saving grace may be this administration’s incompetence. Because for the most part democratic leadership is still AWOL.

Which leads me to this week’s theme.

The emperor is Nude and Enough is Enough

 In “The Emperor’s New Clothes” a tailor cons an emperor into believing he’s made new clothes for him out of a rare, expensive and invisible fabric. And as the emperor goes about town nude, his subjects pretend he’s wearing the most magnificent outfit ever, because they fear his wraith should they point out he’s naked. Finally, a child shouts, “The Emperor has no clothes,” breaking the charade.

Last week Trump referred to himself as a king and, as with the above emperor, people are afraid to point out his faults, especially the mainstream media.

When Trump first ran, they refused to call out his lies, instead abusing the thesaurus to use any words but lie and liar. And it was this dereliction of their journalistic duty that led to his first and second term in the oval office.

Time and time again the legacy media sane washed Trump, painting him in a positive light while holding the dems to ridiculously high standards. And those that dared say the emperor had no clothes, like Jim Acosta and the Associated Press, have been barred from the White Press Room.

On the other hand, with few exceptions, democratic officials have failed to respond to this administration’s rape and pillaging of our government and democracy. Week after week, they’ve said nothing, or worse expressed a willingness to work with republicans.

What the actual fuck.

Still worse are their social media posts filled with empty platitudes and milquetoast press conferences. The only time democrats seem energized is in the billions of fundraising emails and texts I get every day.

Sorry, but no!

Enough is enough. We need a concrete plan of action from democratic leadership, or they need to get the fuck outta there.

We can’t and won’t wait until the midterms. We need action NOW. Not two years from now. Not two weeks from now. Today.

Every second we wait is another second Trump et al has to destroy our country.

The emperor is nude and a demented fascist, and no amount of spin or sane washing will ever change that. Stand up or be stomped down.

Until next week, stay safe and don’t let Cheeto Benito grind ya down.