When asked by reporters if Schumer should remain the minority leader, Ocasio-Cortez responded: "I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person. And it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate. You had eight Senate Democrats who coordinated…their own votes on this as well as you have two retiring members, many of them who are also up in several cycles from now, with the hope that people are going to forget this moment
The New York lawmaker added, “A leader is a reflection of the party, and Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them. And so, the question needs to be bigger than just one person. We have several Senate primaries this cycle—I know I’m being asked about New York, that is years from now—I have to remind my own constituents because they think that this election is this year. We actually do have Senate elections this year, and my hope is that people across this country actually participate in their primary elections and selecting their leadership.”
Schumer’s leadership has come under fire following a pivotal Senate vote in which eight Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, defying his recommendations. Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, was among those openly stating, “Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.”
Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, was among those openly stating, “Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.”
To be clear, Peter Thiel’s mouthpiece was demanding he “immediately resign” not that he be primaried.
Kahnna calling for Schumer to immediately resign in the middle of the Epstein investigation seems suspicious as fuck considering Peter Thiel is part of that investigation and that is one area where Schumer has actually been somewhat proactive.
Most Democrats are unhappy with the decision to cave, but AOC and Bernie have given almost the exact same answer to this question, and it hasn’t been that Schumer must resign immediately. It’s that this is a bigger problem than one person.
I hope to see her as president or vice president in 2028, but if not then she would make a kick ass Senate leader. I trust her and I hope people will remember to do the same when “progressive” imposters try manipulate the public using the label they’ve paid the media to give them.
Khanna also wanted the party to kiss elon musk’s nazi ass back when he had that falling out with trump back in early June.
Be that as it may, vis a vis Schumer, one of two things can explain his reaction to it:
- he organized it behind the scenes, and his objections are just crocodile tears, and he’s a fucking traitor
- he didn’t organize it, but could not credibly control members of his own party, and he’s not able or fit to lead the “opposition” party in the senate
Ok, but why do you trust Peter Thiel and/or the establishment to oust him right now and install their own Senate leader.
While the few trustworthy Dems aren’t jumping on the bandwagon to oust him now, it seems pretty odd that the name Thiel’s mouthpiece Ro Kahnna is floating to replace Schumer (Chris Van Hollen) also happens to be one of the last road blocks potentially standing in the way of Thiel’s new crypto bank that just got preliminary government approval.
Lmao what?
I don’t trust Thiel or the DNC establishment further than I can throw them, for very different reasons.
I’m saying the caucus could absolutely oust Schumer as minority leader if they wanted to.
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I’m saying this as somebody who loves technology and progress, but I strongly believe humans are supposed to control tech not be controlled by it:
Fuck the oligarchy
The U.S. sold China their mass surveillance tech, and basically let them test it out for them and work out all the kinks.
During Trump’s first term, Peter Thiel selected a CTO for Trump’s admin, (now his current science advisor) who laid the ground work for this AI race with China bullshit. He argued that China’s mass surveillance (that silicon valley created) is what enables China to gather so much data and gain the edge in AI. To “compete” with China, he argued the U.S. would have to accept something similar, and that any attempt to regulate that technology would only result in us losing the AI race.
Now here we are in 2025, and the psychotic “liberal” CEO of Palantir has just come out and said an authoritarian surveillance state is just the cost we will need to accept to win the AI race.
It’s almost as if both countries colluded to create the illusion of a NeoCold War for their own profit, that they’re now allegedly locked in a race to “win.” In order to “win” this made up war, citizens of each country will just have to accept that a sacrifice of their human rights and privacy, is simply their patriotic duty, so that the handful of wealthy men controlling their government can maximize their profits and continue colluding with each other.
Again, fuck the Oligarchs globally and at home.
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The government is supposed to exist to protect the people from exploitation, not protect the exploiters from the people. Somewhere along the way we got that all kinds of fucked up.
The “freedom” to fall in line and be controlled by a bunch of billionaires who have never actually created anything of their own, who purchased all the tech they are associated with from somebody else, and then have the fucking gall to whine to no end about “meritocracy” and “free markets” while trading government contracts between their small circle of friends to help protect each other’s state run monopolies and destroy any competition that threatens their grip on power, is not freedom and it’s not progress.
Chuck should go back to his crypt
Weird how the comments are defending AOC here. We can agree that she maybe should tread lightly so as not to fall out of favour with the party, but that doesn’t take from the fact that she gave a spineless response here and should be gunning to primary Schumer
She basically said “schumer is a symptom, the real problem is the party itself, we need to primary people and get them out.” Not sure how that’s spineless.
She should say yes Shumer should live then talk about how the problem is deeper
VOTERS ARE ALREADY AWARE THE PARTY IS PROBLEMATIC.
They don’t need it repeated for the umpteenth time. She needs to start making more cutthroat statements and quit tap dancing around the conversation.
If she’s going to run for his position, she’s not gonna tip her hand.
What’s weird to me is the sudden uptick in narratives by real “leftists” trying to paint Sanders and AOC as “moderates at best” as people like Stephen Miller continue to claim AOC and Sanders are essentially radical jihadists, and the media claims the Democratic party is completely divided and turning on Schumer. Yet when you actually read what Sanders and AOC have to say, they’ve both given level headed responses that this is a much bigger problem than just Schumer.
Meanwhile, it’s implied by the media that everyone in the democratic party is on board with Ro Kahnna’s calls for Schumer to immediately resign (although it’s not clear why Democrats would be demanding this sudden resignation without some one in mind to take his place. Obviously it can’t be AOC since she’s not even in the Senate as of now).
The media and even some of the “real leftists” who argue incessantly that AOC and Sanders are now moderates, will also often praise Kahnna as a “progressive” who has the balls to finally stand up for Americans.
Yet nobody (the “real lefties”®️ or the media) ever wants to mention that Ro Kahnna is funded by Peter Thiel and David Sacks, or that as of October, he still held stock in Palantir (just like Stephen Miller, MTG, and several other Republicans). What an odd coincidence.
She has to choose between primarying Schumer or running for president in 2028. The former may be more realistic but it’s certainly not an easy decision.
