Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter
I’m on record as stating how unproductive, foolish and dangerous the recent liberal protests have been, and that’s before you even bring the hypocrisy factor into play. But a liberal protest against Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)? That is taking hypocrisy and idiocy to a whole ‘nother level.
In spite of their previous relationship and the money Trump has donated to Schumer in the past, Schumer has opposed Trump at every turn since he became the Republican nominee for President. Schumer has used his position as Senate Minority Leader to stump against Trump at every possible opportunity, starting on the very day Trump took office:
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, the most powerful Democrat in nation’s capital under the new GOP order sworn in today, used his address at the inauguration ceremony to celebrate a number of groups President Donald Trump has attacked in the past—immigrants, the disabled, religious minorities and the free press.
Assuming the podium at the West Front of the Capitol moments before Trump’s swearing-in, the senior senator from New York acknowledged the “challenging and tumultuous” nature of the present moment. He even at times echoed the anti-elitist sentiments that fired the GOP nominee‘s populist campaign.
But he seemed to disparage the tone of Trump’s bid for the White House, and his proposals to create a registry of Muslim citizens, to “open up the libel laws” to make it more difficult for journalists to publish critical articles, to appoint Supreme Court justices who might reverse the recent gay marriage decision and—of course—to deport millions of undocumented immigrants
“A rapidly changing economy that benefits too few while leaving too many behind. A fractured media. A politics frequently consumed by rancor. We face threats foreign and domestic. In such times, faith in our government, our institutions and even our country can erode,” he said. “Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, whether we are immigrant or native-born, whether we live with disabilities or do not, in wealth or in poverty, we are all exceptional in our commonly held yet fierce devotion to our country.”
Since then, Schumer has basically done everything he possibly can to oppose Trump. Whether it’s Trump’s picks for cabinet, Trump’s recent nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court (both before and after anyone knew who the nominee was), the Trump Executive Orders regarding immigration from terrorist states, or basically anything else Trump has done since he took office… there has been one Democratic leader who has been front and center every single time in opposition, and that is none other than Chuck Schumer.
For the record, I cannot stand Chuck Schumer. I can’t stand basically his entire political platform, in particular his positions on gun control, financial reform, tax increases, and (the failure that is) Obamacare. Not only that, he’s never held any job outside of politics, but has still gotten rich as a result of his corruption and pay-to-play politics, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he used knowledge gleaned from his political position to engage in insider trading. And this is before you even get me started on his opposition to everything Trump does, which is essentially a hyperpartisan play to his voter base.
But, at least in some ways, I have to respect this man. He has done everything possible to oppose Trump at every turn. You have to at the very least acknowledge that Schumer has (and is) working to the best of his ability to subvert Trump, and his powerful position and years of experience as a politician make him perhaps the best possible person to stand lockstep in opposition to Trump. Perhaps no other Democrat knows the game better and has a better plan in place to oppose Trump, and even Schumer knows he can’t oppose everything the President does. Sooner or later, he has to at least allow Trump to put a staff in place, even if he still appears to be working to block it. Were he not to, such conduct will be not only be used against him in his next election, it will (obviously) be detrimental to career.
Which is why it is so shocking that people are protesting him for not doing enough, when there’s perhaps nothing else he could do, short of demanding that he be the one to replace Gorsuch as Supreme Court nominee.
“Senator Schumer needs to know we’re watching him,” fumed Brad Wolchansky, a 40-year-old soccer coach from Flatbush who was carrying a cardboard cutout of a giant eye on Tuesday night.
“He works for us. We need him to be bold. We need him to stand up to Trump and oppose his picks,” Wolchansky said.
He and roughly 3,000 others gathered at Grand Army Plaza around 6 p.m. before eventually making their way over to Schumer’s building at 9 Prospect Park West, between Carroll and President streets.
As they marched, the anti-Trump demonstrators waved signs saying “Resist Trump” and “Show Some Spine Schumer” — while also chanting things like “Stay strong, Chuck” and “Shut it down, shut it down, New York is an immigrant town.”
This is so far out of my realm of comprehension, there’s almost no way to respond. I suppose if you’re a Trump supporter, you have to be happy with this latest development?
In the bigger picture, it just confirms one fact that we knew all along: the protesters have no end goal, aren’t accomplishing anything, and people are starting to get sick of them. They’re basically blowing their protest load in the first weeks of Trump’s Presidency, before he’s even had the chance to push for and enact any legislation from a Congress controlled by Republicans in both chambers. By the time Trump does something that might actually be worth them protesting, “fatigue” from these non-stop pointless protests will have set in, and they will end up being a negative for their own cause.
I can’t help but laugh at the irony.
Protests are highly economical form of entertainment in expensive places such as New York.
Just think how much you save if your a metro sexual snowflake trying to impress a brain washed bitch.
It would cost you a minimum $40 bucks if your a cheap skate in NY for a club and 2 drinks.
I cried because I had no shoes, then I saw a photograph of Chuck Schumer’s wife.
Liberalism is a disease.
The stupid is white hot with liberals these days. However, as the author indicated, it is playing right in to our hands. These people are literally starting to become white noise. Even the smarter, employed Democrat (is there such a thing) is going to look at displays of stupidity like this in utter contempt and cluelessness.
If I were younger and didn’t have a care in the world I’d subvert these groups and go out of my way to make every one of their assemblies look like a scene out of The King of Hearts.
They’ve set themselves up to be catfished into oblivion and they don’t even realize it. I hope they bring COINTELPRO back big time.
Once we recall a few Senators in the next election, we can relegate Schumer to the Committee on Wastewater Preparation and Treatment (only) and be done with his nonsense. I believe an outsized number of Dems are up for re-election next time? Perhaps we can get to a 60-vote majority if Schumer and his ilk keep it up ….
@james, that is correct. They have a very outsized number of seats to defend in 2018. A lot more than republicans. But its not just the number that is worrisome for them. Several of those seats are in states that went for Obama in 2012, but went for Trump this time around. It’s difficult to see a way for them not to lose at least 2 or 3 more seats. This nonsense definitely isn’t helping them out. People like schumer are going to get pushed left, way past anything that could be considered mainstream, which isn’t going to help them with more middle of the road types.
These shenanigans are putting up-for-reelection dems between a rock and a hard place. It really is quite amusing. They can’t cave in to the demands of the crazies like these people without turning off the moderates, but if the crazies see them as cooperating with trump, they’ll be protesting in front of their buildings, interrupting their rallies, etc. These dems need both groups to win, but they can’t please one without pissing off the other. Who knows, they may even start putting up jill stein types to run against them too, syphoning off a couple % of voters. Good luck gentleman, speaking as someone who despises you all, Ill be watching with amusement and disdain.
Seems they are picketing Mcain and Flake’s offices in Arizona, like those 2 weasels, “no offense to weasels” don’t already have a agenda to stop him.
Remember: A neocon is a liberal turned inside out.
All these protesters and rabble rousers really make me laugh. They whine and cry about the election of Donald Trump and demand this and demand that. As if just because they demand something it should automatically be done. There’s no pleasing these people. It doesn’t matter what Trump does. It really has nothing to do with what he does. They’re just mad because they and their loser candidate lost. The only people who even care about these nit-wits is the MSM, and that’s only because the MSM is a part of them and gets these idiots all lathered up with their intentional, biased and inaccurate reporting in the first place. I agree with the author. There is no goal. It actually accomplishes nothing and most people are too busy trying to eek out a living and go on with their day to day lives to really care too much about these nut jobs and societal misfits anyway. The left in general, and the protesters in particular are quickly becoming irrelevant and its only 10 days into Trump’s term! One thing the author left out though, and this is the part that is really funny: The more these protesters cry and whine, demand, chant and carry on the more determined Trump becomes. I actually think it makes him stronger and more resilient. Unlike every other person the left has bullied, Donald Trump will not back down. He will not wilt, yield or fold. The media still hasn’t learn this and apparently neither have the protesters. Things should get very interesting as President Trump continues to implement his policies.
“…blowing their protest load…” Well said.
I keep thinking that Trump is deliberately rope-a-doping these morons hoping to wear them out, as part of his strategy. If he is, mission accomplished.
Actually these people are doing a public service alerting the public to where Schummer’s lair is. Perhaps some jihaaies will take note and join the crowd.
I find it amazing that Mr. Norman is apparently oblivious to – or too afraid to mention – the key to “understanding” Chuck Schumer. He is a Democrat, a liberal, a conniving, slithering asshole, albeit an incredibly active one. All that is true. However, the key to Schumer is that he is a Jew who is genetically programmed to hate the America most TBP’ers love. He does not hate Trump in a personal sense. Indeed, he probably grudgingly admires Trump’s intelligence, ruthlessness and single-minded determination to reach his goal, which is to stop the Jewish-designed plan to dismantle America and replace it (and especially its core population) with some kind of Marxist-inspired, deracinated anthill, presided over by monsters like Schumer. Trump himself probably does not fully understand what a titanic task he has set for himself, but Schumer sure does, as does Steve Bannon. Listen, until you understand the motivation and role of Jewish fanatics like Schumer you will never understand what is really going on in this country. Are all Jews involved? Of course not. But the hardcore bastards like Schumer are no joke. They are a deadly virus that is killing our country. Let us hope that Trump is the vaccine. Time will tell.