“Very Strong Letter”
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was asked about Donald Trump attacking Harvard and other universities by cutting their funding and kidnapping their students under the preposterous pretense of combatting antisemitism on campus.
Schumer’s solution:
“So we sent him a very strong letter just the other day, asking eight very strong questions about why this isn't just a pretext.“ [h/t Aaron Rupar]
This wasn’t just any old letter, mind you. It was a strong letter. You might even say it was a very strong letter. Also, the letter asked questions, which is a strong thing to do. These were very strong questions, like the very strong letter. Eight very strong questions.
Susan Collins should sue Schumer for plagiarism.
Dana Bash, attempting to prevent her eyes from rolling all the way back in her head:
“Well, you let us know if you get a response to that letter.”
Schumer was also asked about whether he would support impeaching Donald Trump if the Democrats get back power in Congress as Senator Jon Ossoff from Georgia is calling for.
“Well, look, right now President Trump is violating rule of law in every way… And, you know, it's two years, it's too far away to predict.”
So, on the one hand, Trump is “violating the rule of law in every way,” which is precisely what the impeachment power was designed to remedy, but on the other hand it’s “too far away to predict“ whether the Democrats will use the power they have.
This is why I left the party after Schumer flip-flopped on the shutdown. The establishment alternate reality where a strongly worded letter represents a response to a fascist dictatorship needs to be thrown out with fossils like Chuck Schumer.
Politics as we knew it is over. Trump, Musk, Thiel, and the lawless psychopaths they put in power have no interest in politics anymore. Trump and his people know everything he’s doing is deeply unpopular but that’s not going to stop them. This is not about popularity, it is only about power—specifically, white power.
Either the Democrats figure this out right now or they become a Vichy fossil, the last vestiges of the Weimar government in the 1930s—writing strongly worded letters as the Gestapo breaks down their door.
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