Dems need to do something different. I'm super worried they're going to spend too much time on retribution and fuck this up
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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“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.
“No one has put into the time and effort that anyone has put in the cycle that he did,” Gillibrand said.
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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
From the article:
Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) said again earlier this week he would back Van Hollen over Schumer. Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-S.C.) said Friday that she wants “generational change” in Senate leadership, after pledging during the campaign not to support Schumer. Sens.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-Kan.) and Troy Jackson (D-Maine) have said the same.
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
Slotkin, really? Ex-CIA pro-Israel Slotkin?
Don’t get me wrong, Schumer is terrible, I’m just surprised.
One of the best arguments against Schumer is not his centrism but that he's just bad at the job. His bumbling smarmy media responses, his bad senate picks, and his last minute defection on the Republican spending bill are all just bad things for a leader to do. Slotkin may be a centrist, but she's also a newer senator and can recognize incompetence rather than accepting that you just need to defer to seniority.