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Back in the Spring, we were all pissed off at Schmuck Schumer after he bent over and helped the MAGA Nazis keep the government open, because they said they'd negotiate on whatever the Dems wanted.
Six months later, and they haven't negotiated anything, and now they want to end healthcare. They give Sociopathic Oligarchs any tax break they demand, but they can't give one to the American people for their fucking HEALTH CARE? These people are psychopaths!
Now they are demanding that Dems end the strike, and THEN they'll negotiate? That's what they said last time, and now they're taking our health care away. If we give them our health care so they can open up the government and continue to abuse us, what will they take away in 6 months? Our freedom of speech? Our courts? Our ELECTIONS? OUR FREEDOM?
Nope, keep it closed down until they give us what we demand. The country they want to open isn't the country we want to open anyway. We're better off leaving it shut down, they'll do less damage.
Chuck Schumer would fold in an instant if the republicans agreed to name the bill "the bipartisan bill of cooperation" and put $500 towards the Department of Education. The republicans won't even give him that.
Just to be clear: Schumer is still a worthless sack of shit. The present impasse continues because he's doing nothing. And the one thing he's good at is doing nothing.
Oh, yeah, that's why I call him Schmuck Schumer. I've hated him passionately, ever since he and Gillibrand conspired to destroy Al Franken, a good man who would have enthusiastically stood up against Trump and MAGA.
But Schmuckie-Boy didn't like a strong Progressive rising and challenging for the presidency, and he wanted his friend and Republican-Lite Gillibrand to run, so he cleared the deck for her by stabbing Franken in the back. Then her candidate flamed in out in a few short weeks. They destroyed him for absolutely nothing, and got rid of the best man to fight Trump.
Since then, all he's done is make it easy for MAGAs to have anything they want. IF we manage to regain power, and we finally punish Trump and his henchmen, we should also investigate Schmuck and his treasonous Democrats who fully cooperated with MAGA in their rise. I suspect that we'll find that they were either complicit, or more worried about keeping their insider trading privileges than anything else.
MAGAs love to crow about polls showing Dem leadership with lower ratings than Trump, but just because voters hate Dems, doesn't mean they love MAGA. We actually despise both of them, and would love to throw out support behind a decent candidate who is committed to purging MAGA from society, and then rebuilding a moral America that is committed to the citizens, and not Sociopathic Oligarchs.