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In reply to the discussion: We Are Following Chuck Schumer's Plan To Defeat Republicans [View all]ancianita
(43,162 posts)52. Awesome historical context! On this point we now agree: "Of course, we didn't know any of that until decades later...."
Because that was one of my main points to you -- about how STEALTH these forces were for decades -- and so we couldn't have known they would converge when they did.
(By the time Biden warned us, we already had an inkling of their power after Citizens United, and to we listened to Biden and literally read from the Heritage Project 2025 book literally every single night of the Chicago DNC, right?)
Know why they converged when they did? Because our party was busy cleaning up after Trump, after Bush before Obama, and then GOVERNING well, by rule of law, in both domestic and foreign matters. All while they were spending dark money to buy off our three branches.
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I believe Schumer is more responsible for the sabotage of Franken than even Gillibrand.
Intractable
Jul 2025
#8
With the exception of Senator Jeanne Shaheen, every Democratic senator voted against the CR,
lapucelle
Jul 2025
#14
Folks who can't make the distinction between a procedural vote and a legislative vote
lapucelle
Jul 2025
#20
That story makes it clear that Democrats didn't vote for the CR, so no, Democrats did not pass the CR.
lapucelle
Jul 2025
#36
I think you're missing the fact that there is no cloture rule in the House of Representatives,
lapucelle
Jul 2025
#49
Did you go to any of the People's Town Halls organized by the DNC and held in red congressional districts ?
lapucelle
Jul 2025
#16
The hairsplitters and nitpickers of today would not have been happy with that either.
Oopsie Daisy
Jul 2025
#17
When Republicans rape, loot and pillage while Democrats watch in helpless silence
dalton99a
Jul 2025
#9
Did you read my post? It's not blaming you at all. It's pointing out how the OP is fact free and evidence-free wrong.
ancianita
Jul 2025
#42
Awesome historical context! On this point we now agree: "Of course, we didn't know any of that until decades later...."
ancianita
Jul 2025
#52
I mean the Republican party is dead and the Magat party is evil, we all know that,
gab13by13
Jul 2025
#18
Our elected Democratic representatives need to really step up to the plate. Only a few have been.
Clouds Passing
Jul 2025
#21
Patience, grasshppper. This isn't a Law & Order episode. Garland's got this.
Scrivener7
Jul 2025
#23
To read your post is to wonder how Schumer ever got to be Majority Leader of the Senate.
MineralMan
Jul 2025
#24
YOU ARE WRONG. Your OP misinforms DU. "Democrats had over 3 1/2 months to do those town halls,
ancianita
Jul 2025
#32
I understand that town halls happened, many were organized by numerous Democratic organizations.
gab13by13
Jul 2025
#45
Yes. I observed the failed tactics of Schumer and Jeffries, from the beginning.
yellow dahlia
Jul 2025
#54