It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35624613
3 Sep 2025
Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.
This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
This is what happens when you have 70 and 80 year olds in office.
At one point they just don't care about the consequences .... because they won't live that long to see them.
We care because we're young enough to know that the future doesn't look good.
They don't care because they won't live long enough to see the future.
I will always dispute this idea that old people don't care about the world after they're gone. Most old people love the world too, and they love people who live in it and many of whom will outlive them. Most old people don't want to imagine that the world went to shit soon after they died. The ones who don't care are either in despair or old sociopaths, and the sociopaths didn't care about other people earlier in their lives either. You might be right that these old politicians don't care, but they're not representative of old people as a whole. This idea that old people stop caring what happens to the world is very much a young person's idea of old people.
Not old people I met. Trump loving old people don't want the world to go on without them. My dad, and those around him I heard them talk. They think it's their right to destroy the planet.
Some even believe that if we nuke Israeli then Jesus will return. Some of these crazy fuckers are begging for the world to end.