cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42579679
Jon Queally
Feb 02, 2026Progressive critics of Senate Minority Chuck Schumer had fresh reasons to speak out Sunday after the powerful New York Democrat said that “one of many of [his] jobs” in the US Senate was to fight for ongoing taxpayer-funded military and financial assistance to the Israeli government, a position that has been the focus of growing protest among rank-and-file party members and the public at large in the face of Israel’s brutal genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
“I have many jobs as [Senate] leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs,” Schumer said at a gathering of Jewish leaders and community members in New York on Sunday.
According to Jacob Kornbluh, who provided footage of the remarks while reporting for The Forward, Schumer told the audience that his support for Jewish security funding will only continue growing under his leadership, calling it his “baby.”
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Any politician that answers that their job is anything other than to serve their constituents interests and work to make their lives better doesn’t deserve the job.
He’s had decades to figure it out. Time to give someone else a chance.
Yes, and…
To steer the policies of the nation as a whole in a way that his constituents desire, (or for the good of the nation). His role certainly extends to monitoring and defining what the nation does in the name of it’s citizens.
But he has done none of that, either.
I’ll be cynical, his job is to get elected. The way that has traditionally worked is by making constituents happy.
He is failing at that job because he’ll be primaried in his next election.
As minority leader, his job is to become majority leader. Again, traditionally, by making the nation happy with the party. He’s failing there because right now everyone (other than consultants) hates his fecklessness. Which is a major drag on the Democrat party.
Senators need to show some backbone and oust him as minority leader, he’s failing miserably. They are failing by playing nice with this loon.
I thought he was a US Senator representing New York State. Is New York so expensive he needed a second job?
If his job is representing Israel, and Netanyahu supports Trump and fascism, then Schumer is working hard on destroying our democracy.
It’s what his imaginary republican family wants.
THE BAILEY’S WOULD NEVER DO THAT!
Remember this next time someone claims that the Democrats aren’t controlled opposition to fascism.
Primus~ “If you sit at a table with Nazis, guess what, you are a Nazi!”
Secondus~ “Let’s pass that budget we must keep the lights on!”
Thirdus~ “The Federal Reserve is not a bank cartel”
Fourthus~ “please donate this is last election ever!”
Looking at how piss-poor the Democratic opposition to Trump has been, it’s not much of a stretch to draw the conclusion that, at best, Schumer doesn’t care, and at worst, he’s the captain of the Washington Generals.
His “job” is to serve another country before America. Behold, great leader Schumer.
What a fucking scumbag, cheerleader for genocide, overall garbage human.
Holy shit that’s brazen. We need to impeach him.
We would need the entire Democrat establishment in senate to vote him out as minority leader, then they would need to have a majority vote to impeach. It ain’t happening unless we primary a large number of sitting senators this next midterm.
So yeah, lets primary these fucks.
Primary every one of them.
What do you mean “everyone?”
This ain’t exactly the first time he’s said it
Yup, and the reason he’s minority leader is because he’s helping coordinate these efforts and collecting israeli donations for the whole lot of 'em. They’re all funded by the same people funding the GOP.
The opposition is an illusion.
He’s said it outright?
Yup! As recently as March 2025
What in the actual fuck.
I’m so very tired of the Israel first policy.
We don’t owe Israel any money. Someone explain why the fuck Israel has universal health care and we don’t…
I’m so tired of this guy.
Every time I see his dumb face it makes me upset.
Schumer is a fascist collaborator. He facilitates Israeli fascism. He facilitates Republican fascism.
Cuck Schumer
Its gonna be real fun when more people figure out that the reasons AIPAC isn’t required to register as a foreign lobbying group go all the way back to ‘the whole Bay of Pigs thing’, as Nixon put it.
… Israel kickstarted its nuclear program by stealing fissile material from the US.
And then the investigation into that kinda just… stopped happening, petered out for some reason, and then for the longest time we just had this weird sort of standard where… everyone was ‘pretty sure’ Israel had nukes, but ‘couldn’t 100% be certain’.
Sorta like how the Epstein investigations had been… you know, going on for like two decades, and we didn’t really hear too much about it untill everyone involved fucked up unimaginably badly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
And then of course there’s the USS Liberty Incident which recently got Ben Shapiro to be extremely defensive about, treating the whole thing as definitevly decided to be a genuine accident, when you have a long history of lots of directly invovled and highly informed relevant people believing precisely the opposite, that it was orchestrated to try to draw the US directly into the Six Day War…
You know, like… some kind of half century + long cover up, or something.
By “job” he didn’t mean his actual job, silly! That’s what, $200K a year?
Chuck can make that much in one night with the right “donors”.
I wonder if he gets “donations” from Israel? Hmmm, it’s a mystery
Whelp, we can’t know, Super-PACs are free speech and all oh well our hands are tied. Sorry, no minimum wage increase this year :(
“I will continue to fight for it.,” Schumer continued. “We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, than ever, ever before.”
What’s a little ongoing genocide between friends? Chuck knows who pays him, and that’s who he serves, not the people.
You know, after the Nazis fell, the figureheads in charge of the puppet government in France were put on trial for treason. Just a thought.
TRAITOR
And traitors deserve death. It’s time to start making them afraid. Very afraid.
