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.”
Be that as it may, vis a vis Schumer, one of two things can explain his reaction to it:
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.
I don’t agree with this framing that we can’t expect better results just because oligarchs exist.
Yes they would love to influence politics even more than they already do, but this isn’t an alien invasion… yet. These are people who stand to lose a lot by having influence exposed, and it’s far easier to just bribe existing people to get influence about specific bills than try to create some kind of Manchurian Candidate and put themselves at huge risk of not just losing their own political capital, but also ruining the very party they wish to use to create influence.
We lean on our representatives in house and senate to oust people who aren’t working. If someone else gets up there who doesn’t work, we do it again and we keep fucking doing it until we get someone with integrity.
FFS I am tired of this doomering that discourages active involvement in politics. Yes it’s bad, but we let it get bad, we have accountability to try to fix it.
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.