• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    No, this was orchestrated. Schumer is a traitor to his own political party.

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      11 hours ago

      The DNC leadership wanted this, this was the intention of the Democratic party, the only ones betrayed were the American people.

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      This was bought off. Not sure why it would have to go through Schumer when each one of them could be bought off individually, specially given their history and the fact that they will not be up for reelection. This was orchestrated, but at best you are looking at a pawn and not those responsible for orchestrating it. The democratic party may be corrupt, but it’s not organized follow and do whatever the leader says corrupt, each of those could have easily been approached independently by lobbyists to vote like they did, and there’s signalling to that effect that the Republicans had to bypass Schumer’s attempts.

      By all means, swap out Schumer, but don’t be gullible enough to think that’s going to fix the problem.