Well, a step in the right direction... but Schumer still needs to retire already...
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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Isn’t he 75? At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Edit: I read the above comment before I had my morning coffee, and saw “early” instead of “already”. Leaving this here because at this point 75 does seem like early retirement for US politicians.
At what age is it considered early retirement in the USA?
Dead.
Not even then I mean look at Mitch McConnel
We can't!
75 is when you're done being a junior contributor, another decade and Chuck will be ready to think about running for president
Fuck you, Schumer.
Obligatory fuck Schumer, but even for the crusty old guard corporate democrats, winning the majority is crucial. Once a progressive candidate clears the hurdle to make a challenge, they have to fall in line. It’s that slim and that uncertain.
At least for now. They’re likely planning to drown him in bribes if he wins and hope that moderates him.
Dems getting control means that a couple of turn coats will get a payday.
Schumer's just trying to keep his job.
This is obvious, which is why it mystifies me that performative progressives online aren't celebrating that they're taking over the Democratic Party. They're winning, but they still have to be all "neither party is pure enough for me" in posts.
Democratic Socialists are doing exactly what the Tea Party and then MAGA did to the GOP. Doesn't anyone think we'll all be better off without the Neoliberal DNC and with the DS DNC?
Oh, you mean the guy who has been lying about a fictional couple that he thinks about when he casts his votes? Yeah, I trust him 100%.
I don't know anything about this other than Schumer being a fraudulent asshole. Vote Socialist / Leftist. Fuck Dems. And if Schumer is right about this person / anything, it's by accident or a lie.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said.
Wow, Charlie. Nobody understood that until you explained it to us. What a fucking political thinker.
A fictional Republican couple.
All my homies hate Schumer.
Is there anyone who'd be upset if chuck drowned in his own piss?
I'd be upset that it wasn't my piss.
The Baileys would probably be discouraged.
Would they?
I'd rather he were torn apart by wild dogs, but I'd settle for piss-drowning.
What if he drowned in their piss?
Ah expanding from the cavitations I see. Most distinguished good sir.
Quite an assumption!
He needs him to vote for him for senator majority leader. After that he will shit all over him.
I am hoping that anyone left of center finally learned their lesson from the last election. Vote with your heart in the primaries but come election time join hands with those closest to you and present a united front. Republicans are idiots but even they understand this. I voted for Sayed and I'm happy he won, but if it was Stevens I'd be getting behind her as well.
No more placeholder politicians Schumer.
Well that's an unexpected bit of principle.
I’m worried about Democrats’ new (old) direction of not being the loser party. Who body-snatched Chuck?
Chuck will fold once Trump calls him names again.
I'm glad that the shift towards more progressive politics is being accepted by the establishment. It just makes sense even from a purely rational view of "my side wins", and if that's what it takes to enable actual change then so be it, regardless of what kind of politician chuck is on his own right.
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard
KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
AUG 05, 2026