I heard this possibility mentioned on the news today. God help us all! Is Schumer left-wing enough to be the Dem senate leader? I would think so, lol. Before he got elected to the senate (8-10 yrs. ago?) he was a congressman from some flaming-left district in NYC. It must have been a nest of Communists, lol, his seat was about as safe as it could be. Since he got in the senate, he has had to get votes from upstate which is way more conservative than NYC (except in upstate urban areas.) He softened his tone quite a bit, especially about the un-official civilian disarmament program. But he is still the same flaming left-wing Chuck Schumer below the rhetoric. Despite the Dems being in the minority -- for the time being -- his leadership will tighten the noose just a bit more around the neck of liberty.
Its hard to give a shit about a completely illegitimate government. I take that back, ill give them all of my shit.
yes they do. They influence the market. They hold the fate of millions of careers in their hands. They influence prices. The prices you must pay for basic living necessities. They have guns and numbers. Obviously their control is limited but its not as tho you can do as you please without consequence I smoke pot every day. Fuck the police. They don't have authority over me. But if they do happen to catch me, there is little I can do to.improve my situation without conforming to their demands. -yuri
I agree totally, but I'm just an observer at this point in my life. It's sad, yet amusing in some ways, to watch it all unfold. People (unknowingly) beg for a larger, more powerful government (like after 9/11) that will, by definition, take more of their money and freedoms from them. When Schumer is on the local news I sometimes listen to him; he speaks as a populist, always vowing to solve some local problem. But the solution is always, of course, a more powerful government. I laugh at the masses who don't get this. It is like reading a thousand year-old script of how to gain total control over a population, inch by inch, with their cheering support the whole time. Nah, yer doing fine. Doesn't matter.
Yea it is unfortunate, as much as we can remove ourselves from the nonsense, we are still on earth having to deal with it. I find it odd that people so dearly cherish their lives.
Perhaps! I cherish being free, and i dont feel as free as my spirit should be. It angers and saddens me, but i realize having no fear of death, i have nothing to lose should the time come when i must choose freedom or life. I sometimes feel like i should be doing more to advance the liberty of humanity, at the same time I feel like i will know when the times comes when I will be most effective in advancing this cause. Do people even want it though?
No. If you ask them, of course they will say they want liberty. But at the same time they enthusiastically support The Nanny State, not realizing that they are polar opposites. Everybody wants a bigger government, not realizing what it really means. And the politicians are more than happy to oblige. Presidential debates are usually about who can expand government the fastest, lol.
Usually they claim they will shrink the government then turn around and do the opposite. Maybe consolidating nsa, nro, fema etc, into homeland security is what they mean by shrinking govt?
Yes, you are right. Sometimes the Republican will claim he wants to shrink government, but it always gets bigger anyway. A few years ago I saw a chart, going back about 40 years, showing that the national debt grew more under Repub administrations than under Dems. Of course the partisans will scream endlessly in defense of "their guy" about who controlled Congress, yadda yadda, but the fact remains that no matter who controls what, the state is always in the growth mode.
I'm not a great fan of Schumer, but he's certainly no communist. He's successfully fought to keep jobs in America - but of course the so-called freedom lovers are against that, and are perfectly happy when all the big firms outsource everything to China and put Americans out of work.
A couple things: All democrats are bourgeoisie, no real socialist/communist would vote for them The minority whip will most likely replace him and it's not chuck schumer The senate minority leader doesn't do anything other than wish we was the senate majority leader None of this really matters
Who said he was a communist? Jobs go overseas because of high taxes and burdening regulations -- everything that Schumer stands for.
First of all I was just using the word "communist" flippantly. However, a true American communist would vote for a Democrat before he would vote for someone like Ron Paul -- given no other choice. Anyway, my post wasn't about communists. It's just a word. The whip and not Schumer? You have a crystal ball? All I know is what I read. No, the senate minority leader doesn't do much, but in 2, 4, 6 or whatever years he will be the majority leader. You're right, it doesn't matter to me, although I do have a passing interest in Schumer because he's my senator, part of the circus/entertainment sector of the American politicized culture. I gave up on the idea of voting in 2000. I'm just coasting into retirement, commenting along the way, which is what this thread is. I laugh at it all because there is nothing else I can do. You young'uns will have to live through much, much worse state oppression than I ever will (and there's plenty now, compared to when I was young). Good luck.