Chuck Schumer Is Dragging The Democratic Party To Hell

You know what's important for a political party? It's important to distinguish yourself from the other side, specifically if the other side is deeply unpopular and waging a criminal war on Iran that has virtually no support among the American public. Perhaps you want to emphasize the differences that you have from the party that is waging this deeply unpopular criminal war. What would you do? Would you say cut off funds to Israel to yank on their leash, for example, so they stop dragging us into this war? Unlike Trump, who's captured by Israel, 60% of Americans per this new Pew survey now have a negative view of Israel. It is a more than a majority opinion at this point. And if you look for people under 50, it's even higher. It's even a majority opinion with Republicans under 50 at this point. This is as politically salient of an issue as it could be if you wanted it to be, if you weren't also captured by money, Zionist donor money, etc. You could point out that, hey, we're going to cut off arms to this functional colony that is deeply unpopular that has dragged us into this war. You could talk about how when Democrats were in power, you can't talk about Biden. Let's forget about him. But when Obama was last president, he cut a deal with Iran. He was actually the anti-war president in this particular sense. You can go back to the JCPOA. You can highlight the successes of that and show that, no, this guy who ran on being anti-war was a liar. It was a lot more peaceful when we negotiated peace deals. Maybe don't reinforce every single premise that the Trump administration is claiming and say that the problem isn't that it hasn't been adequately executed. I give you the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. The bottom line is that it's still, Iran still has its nuclear stockpile, its nuclear ambitions. Iran still has its nuclear stockpile. Its nuclear ambitions are still unchecked, if not accelerated. And finally, American credibility. The nations of the world are furious at Trump. The Europeans, the Asians, even the Middle Eastern allies. They say, what the hell is he doing? And the United States diplomatic position and credibility in the world is dramatically worse because of this war. So just in summary, just in summary, this war has made us worse off today than before it started. The war made us worse in terms of control of the Strait of Hormuz. The war made us worse in terms of the strength of the Iranian regime. That is not my ******* agenda. I don't have any opinion on that, Chuck. Why do you? Look at your voters, how they feel. Do they have an opinion on that? They can't wait to be better stewards of this illegal and unjust war in Iran. They can't wait for Trump to put boots on the ground and then to lose the midterms so that they can take over and be like, OK, we're in it now. So we're the smart ones. We're going to be a more effective steward of this imperialist machine. But the cat's out of the bag. Their positions aren't so much different on Iran than Trump's are. They just wish he had handled it better. Yeah, it's another process based argument. And it has not changed whatsoever, even with Trump's unpopularity, because we with the 12 day war last summer, we have that clip of Chuck Schumer saying no side deals, another process based argument. I mean, from the right of the Trump administration, essentially saying the problem is that Trump's all over the lot when he was negotiating with the Iranians. Iran get away with everything. He literally said he said, yeah, he was just arguing that Trump is incompetent, nothing on the substance, even though the substance is entirely in the favor of the opposition here. It's the same kind of thing. Oh, not criticizing the war and its underlying premises, but saying that accepting the premises that Trump laid out and just essentially saying that he hasn't done what he said he was going to do. He's done it so messily. You talk about how the objectives in and of themselves are insane. Yeah. And I mean, I can accept that he's a bad steward of the American imperialist project, but I would also argue that he's an inevitable consequence of that project in and of itself. Right. So the idea that you can just have a successively better, good or whatever stewards of unjust wars of like on of choice in the Middle East, but be handled in such a way that it doesn't result in what Trump is ultimately a reaction to and like embodying and making worse is ridiculous. Like the Democrats taking over in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty six and in twenty twenty eight and being the steward of the imperialist project will just make them look bad and make them lose in twenty thirty two. And it's only in their imagination that they they can assume that, like Trump, it will be so bad that no matter how bad things go under them, that, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene won't win in twenty thirty two or something like that. But that's a fantasy because people only have two options and they're constantly having it reinforced for them that the Republicans premises are valid. They're just executing them wrongly. Right. And you only have two legitimate choices. And so another four years of like bad Democrat stewardship of the economy of people's lives will just make them forget what Trump did. And especially since there won't be any accountability coming from the main Democrats, they'll have no real incentive to keep remembering because it'll be embarrassing. People won't want to remember that Trump was able to get away with everything. So they'll just memory hole him. And the next Republican will make all the same promises, but slightly different. And people will fall for it again. Yeah. And the the outside of the fact that Chuck Schumer is an ideological Zionist and is also corrupted by Zionist money and is and the Zionist lobby is in favor of this war. You can see how his political ideology, which has been shaped by those that fundraising and like his long history in the Senate as well. You can see how his underlying assumptions about what the American public want right now are completely diametrically opposed to reality. And we could just take Israel out of it for a second. They don't want another responsible steward of a system that is immiserating them, that people are sick of. That's what his critique of Trump always boils down to, is that he is an incompetent leader of a government that people want to radically change because it's not impacting their lives in a positive way. So everything he says is contrary to the national mood about where people's lives are. So they can talk about affordability all they want. But the criticism, but what affordability is about is it's supposed to be a reaction to the fact that we have a system of taxation that disproportionately benefits the wealthy and that our democracy is not really intact and the government is not responsive to the needs of the people. So when you're constantly reinforcing the idea that all we need is just somebody who's going to execute the things that people hate better, you lend credibility to the wreckers on the right who are always going to be more untethered from the truth and more willing to be wreckers, which is fundamentally what people are interested in right now. It's why they've failed to defeat Trump so many times. And it's even more worse in this situation. Absolutely. And I mean, it's just really a mismatch in the agendas and philosophies of both political parties. Like the Democrats, at least at the superficial level, are so much more focused on procedural legitimacy of validating things by seeming reasonable of commiserating. And you can assume that is done for like naive reasons or because of like a slavish devotion to like the rule of law. Or you can assume that it is nefarious and they're just using that as an excuse to give in to Republicans or be costly and effective. But materially, it's exactly the same thing. And it's just one way in which they're delusional and thinking that they can affect change if they are being legitimate by navigating a system that is clearly, clearly, clearly disproportionately in favor of preventing change from happening. But that's only if you accept that they don't realize that they've contributed to that system getting worse. And if they think that the world can go back to the way it is, and I think this is just part of the reality of Democrats and both the uber wealthy and the American elite, they're delusional. The world cannot go back to the way it is. There is a segment of the American population, probably a very large segment, that are abuse enablers. And so by nature of having that mentality, whether they're making excuses for Republican Party or for Democrats when it comes to treading over large groups of marginalized people, they just think that when Trump says it's over and when America says it's done, everyone in the world just has to immediately accept that. Whether it's Trump saying the Iran war is over and the billionaire class thinking, well, I guess in Iran, we'll just have to accept it. So there's a need to comprehensive off ramp for them. Or whether it's Democrats thinking that once Trump is gone, everyone will just accept that that was an oopsie. Both are delusional now, given the situation that has occurred in the Iranian war. The world is just changed now. And I think there's, again, a segment of the American elite who are just delusional, maybe actually delusional, but they're pushing this delusion that Trump is a hiccup in the system and not something that was inevitable given what was happening and also radically has changed the way power works in the world visibly now. His first term, maybe things were just a little bit more behind the scenes. You can kind of go back to normal. This stuff in Iran, it's a lot more of a complete paradigm shift in the way the economic order works. And it was also set into motion by Joe Biden not doing anything about the genocide when it started. When it was getting really flared up, he could have done something and it would have at least made it more difficult for Trump to get snowballed, whether he wanted to or not, into an Iran war. Not that it would have stopped him, but it might have. Exactly. And the lesson would be obvious, which is like, well, the Democrats, Joe Biden tried to stop this. He stood up to it. Now you can't say anything remotely credible on that front, despite all of this going on. And then we have Democrats. I mean, we have another one here, Shaheen. They are to the right of Trump on this war. They are trying to keep him in it. Yeah, let's play. This is a Senator Shaheen of of of New Hampshire. The president, I think, has not achieved the goals that he set out. Iran still has 50 percent of their missile capacity. They still have the enriched uranium that will allow them to get to a nuclear weapon. And they still control the Strait of Hormuz, which means that while oil, I noticed that the price of the barrel of oil has dropped a little bit today. It still gives them the ability to control what happens through that strait and oil prices worldwide. So I think, unfortunately, the press. So I just got to say that it's Trump isn't giving hasn't. I mean, he's he's given them the opportunity to exert leverage over that area. But the reason that they have power, control of the Strait of Hormuz is geography. And we attacked them and now they are using their geography as leverage. Yeah, this idea that we can do anything like I'm sorry, there was never I've been saying this entire time, the idea we're going to take Carg Island and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. You better be willing to sacrifice thousands of soldiers for no, I mean, that geography was obvious at a certain point. And it was only due to Iran's restraints is really what has kind of allowed for this very tenuous global energy system to maintain itself. But the United States has had made its name on providing for security, security guarantees for that energy trade. And now one central plank of what the Americans can offer as an empire has been entirely undercut because of Trump. You know, absolutely. I mean, just imagine the entitlement it would take the entitlement that leads to just like outright, you know, underestimating your enemy to start a flare up of this conflict with a country that borders one of the main arteries for oil for the globe and just be like, that's going to be fine. That's going to be totally normal, because clearly you either think that, you know, literally that they cannot defend themselves because of how easy it is to disrupt that trade. Or you think that it's just their role to be your punching bag. And both ideas are classically orientalist beliefs when it comes to the north interaction with the global south, where it's just their goal. I mean, it's just their role in that relationship to be our punching bag when we need to impress our domestic voters or to impress Israel or to impress the Saudi princes, we just give them a shot across the bow. We give them a few decapitation strikes and that's just what we do to them. And it's their role to just kind of take it. And maybe they react in such a way that like allows them to save face, but they never do anything that would disrupt our place in the world. And it goes, I mean, it goes back forever, but I always think of the Kissinger quote, which I might be mis-contributing, which is that the global south is a place without history, which is just meant to imply that they have no role or impact on our lives. And a lot of people really think that because it prevents them from understanding the inevitability of blowback. But I think what's making Trump's war on Iran so much more unpopular is not just the context of what's going on. And this is happening in the aftermath of Afghanistan and Iraq and his no war promises and the Epstein stuff. But the blowback is just obvious this time. Everyone can see that this is causing their lives at home to become a lot worse. And there is also just no justification for it. And maybe if there was, they would be a little bit more open to it. But considering how like almost broken everyone's back is, the price of gas going up 50, 60, 70 cents. Oh, yeah. It's unsustainable for so many more people within our society than it maybe would have been, you know, if it was proportionally going up 10, 15 years ago. It exacerbates an existing weakness for him right now, too, because the economy continues to get worse. Tariffs have raised the prices of everything. Inflation has not gone down. And he's now exacerbating his his failure on a central campaign promise by like completely doing a 180 on another central campaign promise, which was no new wars. If you believe a promise from Trump, you're a sucker. We've pointed that out. But we can't deny that that is how he campaigned. Hey, folks, don't forget to hit the subscribe button and check out our daily show. We do it every day at 12 p.m. Eastern for about two and a half hours. We even take phone calls. You should check that out.