Neither Jeffries nor Schumer has called for impeachment or removal in response to the threat. Their refusal to act is sure to ignite further fury as the Democratic Party still manages to garner worse approval ratings than Republicans due to widespread views that the party is weak and ineffective collaborators.

On Wednesday, Schumer, a longtime supporter of Israel, held a press conference criticizing Trump for the war and the ceasefire — making critiques not necessarily of the concept of war with Iran itself, but of the way that Trump is going about it.

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    Schumer is a fucking Republican asset, and Democrats are fine with that

    US politics is beyond corrupt, has been since… Forever?

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      He is not a republican asset, he’s just a member of the ruling class. He’s representing his class interest, not ours.

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        I think you both are essentially right. Like, I don’t think he’s a plant by republicans, but I do think that like Hilary, his values align with republicans, not liberals (I make the distinction of republicans and liberals because most elected democrats are not as far left as their constituents). But I think almost all Representatives are part of the ruling class. In America, you kinda have to be. Either they take corporate money or they own businesses (i.e. are part of “corporate”)

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      A lot of people don’t understand this.

      Early on, only adult men with land could vote.

      In the War of 1812, many people opposed conquering Canada not because it would be morally wrong, but because annexed Canada would give too much power to the abolitionist states.

      Then we had Andrew Jackson, the Trump of the early 1830s, who did a bunch of bad shit. And South Carolina kicked off some prelude to the Civil War with Nullification.

      Pretty much everything from Reconstruction to WW2 was big corporate doing whatever they wanted with the American population. With some disruptions involving angry employees, of course.

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      There was that one time when Grant really tried. He actually made progress too.

      It was all immediately undone the second he was out of office. But he did make progress.

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      Israeli but at this point the GOP are their majority owned subsidiary.

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    Dear Americans: it’s getting really old watching you all cat fight amongst yourselves as if it’s Left v. Right and not rich v. poor. Like… Jesus Fuck. Enough already. The R’s hate you. The L’s hate you. The rich hate you. Same point, three times.

    Fuck.

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      You mean D’s ? Because any “left” worth its name would be doing whatever it can to remove and convict the disgrace currently running America.

      (Although I’m down with abandoning the left/right terminology. It’s outdated and it lets regressives call themselves the “right”(as in correct) side.)

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      There have been studies that the laws and regulations being passed are completely indifferent to the will of the American populace. If you only consider the top 10% (but especially the top 1%) the correlation is almost one to one, the higher the percentage of people in that group want something, the higher the change it is passed in Congress.

      As for how we get them to listen to us now, and undo decades of entrenched apathy, idk. Excessive violence?

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      Americans get it: the politicians benefit from acting like it’s left vs right. It’s a small amount of Americans that don’t get this, the rest of us are stuck with a two party system where unless you are a .1%er you can’t create a new party, and EVERY .1%er supports whatever side won’t tax them.

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        Rich Vs poor IS right Vs left.

        The poor on the right will always defend the rich and the left will always have to fight both because the right wing only want to hurt people.

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    I feel like we are comfortable with the knowledge that Schumer is a Israel plant and controlled opposition but the real disappointment is with Jeffries.

    Jeffries, I am disappoint.

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      He’s a sociopath like Corey Booker. It’s all an act all the time.

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      Why disappointment? Jeffries is an American capital plant; this is very consistent with his track record.

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      Sorry to be off subject… but goddamn. I haven’t thought about that Pic in forever. Was this a real person? Human genetics (?) are fucking wild.

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    I’ve said it many times: the Dems won’t act until it’s too-late, & dictatorship is already certain.

    Either they won’t even enact impeachment until it’s too-late, XOR they’ll have just enacted it, but Trump turns the tables somehow, & so it becomes irrelevant.

    don’t know which, don’t care.

    They’re committed to failing, & they’ll enforce that result, so their unconscious-minds can hold the position/posture of “not being responsible” for the destruction, for the ocean-of-butchery, that will later happen.

    DarwinAwards are earned … even by civilizations.

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