Last year, Democratic interest groups and voters berated Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, for backing off a spending fight with President Trump rather than forcing a government shutdown early in his term.

Activists called for Mr. Schumer’s ouster. Some Democratic lawmakers seethed. Protesters jeered outside his Brooklyn home. The outcry reached such a pitch that he postponed public appearances to promote a new book he had written and hunkered down amid questions about whether he could continue as the Democratic leader.

Twenty months later and in the wake of a sweeping electoral victory he engineered and funded, Mr. Schumer’s aides say he has locked down another term in that post, having secured commitments of support from enough Democratic senators to be elected majority leader in a private vote scheduled for next month.

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    NY Times is playing PR and propaganda for Schumer and Jefferies, but if sufficient resistance isn’t given, it’ll become true.

    Everyone who can, call AND write your representatives and tell them to vote AGAINST these chuckle fucks for leadership roles. They have proven indisputably that they are incompetent and pro-genocide.

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    in the wake of a sweeping electoral victory he engineered and funded

    Schumer did Jack shit

    But oligarch owned media is gonna keep giving neoliberals credit.

    The blue wave was because we kicked neoliberals out of the DNC, we need to kick them out of congressional leadership next

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    Call. Your. Senators.

    Seriously. If Chuckles McFuckles gets leads the senate the next 2 years may as well be wasted.

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    And here we go again. The same corporate democrat bozos sticking around like a bad fart in an elevator, firmly committed to doing fuck-all useful like they’ve been doing for years.

    Why is it that the dems always fuck everything up? It hasn’t been 48 hours since they won and they’ve already started ruining everything.

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    Those Republicans aren’t gonna know what hit 'em. We’re bringing out the big guns. Pulling out all the stops. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

    From now on it’s not just strongly worded letters. It’s a one-two punch of very strongly worded letters followed by non-binding resolutions to recognize something they did wasn’t super nice.