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lostnfound

(17,383 posts) Sat May 17, 2025, 06:23 AM May 2025

Is Chuck Schumer still employed?

Quietest dang employee I’ve ever had.

I mean, it’s a leadership position, and I’m not really sure what he might be accomplishing behind the scenes…but isn’t there a need for some weekly reports to his bosses? A strategy, a plan?

In leadership, what matters isn’t effort or a plan for getting the tenth most important thing done on your list. You’ve got to have a plan and action for the 1st through 3rd most important things on your list.

Personally i wish the minority leaders of both senate and house would coordinate messaging so that we make a dent in what Heather Cox Richardson’s substack called “narrative warfare” (credit for the term to Bill Southworth).

Southworth calls this “narrative warfare,” and while it is true that Republican leaders have seeded a particular false narrative for decades now, this technique is also known as “political technology” or “virtual politics.” This system, pioneered in Russia under Russian president Vladimir Putin, is designed to get people to vote an authoritarian into office by creating a fake world of outrage. For those who do not buy the lies, there is another tool: flooding the zone so that people stop being able to figure out what is real and tune out.

Our leaders need to be strategic thinkers, great communicators, and visionaries.
Pete Buttagieg is one who aces all three categories. Obama also. Bernie Sanders is another, whether you like him or not. (AOC is fantastic, but maybe not quite strategic enough, at least not yet. Katie Porter was a great communicator but apparently made a strategic mistake.) Name others.

I may personally tend towards progressivism but I’d celebrate capable, brilliant moderate leaders just as much.
And where is our “narrative warfare”?

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Is Chuck Schumer still employed? (Original Post) lostnfound May 2025 OP

It's probably best Schumer stays out of the limelight; he puts people to sleep. dem4decades May 2025 #1

That statement when he said he wrote a strongly worded letter makes me hope doc03 May 2025 #2

Chuck Schumer, still employed? Paladin May 2025 #3

Really miss him, seeing the Constitution disappear and all. Kid Berwyn May 2025 #4

Not the coordination, strong messaging one would hope for. Look at his website...just about $$ brought home to NY dutch777 May 2025 #5

About as employed as Jefferies is Autumn May 2025 #6

dem4decades

(13,580 posts)

1. It's probably best Schumer stays out of the limelight; he puts people to sleep.

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Sat May 17, 2025, 06:33 AM

May 2025

It would be horrible if he put Senators like Murphy and Booker to sleep and kept them from going out there and rattling cages.

doc03

(38,784 posts)

2. That statement when he said he wrote a strongly worded letter makes me hope

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Sat May 17, 2025, 07:43 AM

May 2025

he stays quiet. He is long past his expiration date to think in this day and age that would scare anyone.

Paladin

(32,208 posts)

3. Chuck Schumer, still employed?

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Sat May 17, 2025, 07:59 AM

May 2025

Not so you'd notice.

Like I keep saying: trump, by his non-stop hatred and ineptitude, is in the process of handing the country back to Democrats---but only if we're smart enough and aggressive enough to take advantage of it. Democratic leadership better get busy, and damned quick...