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Sanders, Slotkin won’t back Schumer as Senate Democratic leader (thehill.com)

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

“We spent a year and a half talking about costs, corruption and chaos. That was all Leader Schumer’s decision-making and effort to keep our caucus united,” Gillibrand said, also mentioning Schumer’s fundraising and recruiting activities.

“No one has put into the time and effort that anyone has put in the cycle that he did,” Gillibrand said.

Joe Biden is sharper and more energetic than anyone in this cabinet meetings!

The junior senator for AIPAC making an impassioned but nonsensical argument for the senior senator for AIPAC.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 6 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

“No one has put into the time and effort that anyone has put in the cycle that he did,” Gillibrand said.

Big "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?" energy

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

"Have you ever had a dream that, that you, um, you had, your, you— you could, you'll do, you— you wants, you, you could do so, you— you'll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?"

[–] Chakravanti@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 8 minutes ago

...ttuttuttuttutt...

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

Dems need to do something different. I'm super worried they're going to spend too much time on retribution and fuck this up

[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 2 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

So with these two and El Sayed, I think that means we need 3 more dems to stop Schumer from being marked as leader. Pretty sure that reduces the majority below 50 and results in either a revote or a new option

[–] dou9m@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 minutes ago

Pretty sure the point is to force them to keep re-rolling votes to delay everything as much as possible similar to what’s going on with Israel’s PM election. I could be wrong tho, I’m no expert on the legal background of this bs

[–] voicesarefree@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Slotkin, really? Ex-CIA pro-Israel Slotkin?

Don’t get me wrong, Schumer is terrible, I’m just surprised.