Time to Chuck (verb) the Schumer, Jeffries & TV News

Blind, Deaf & Dumb? TV Pundits Endorse Keeping Schumer & Jeffries as Top Democrats

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To all of those who voted this past Tuesday, I thank you for honoring those who have gone before us, by doing your civic duty. I am particularly happy with the result, as I believe the Republican party failed miserably to serve as a check on the federal executive branch's reckless, abusive and increasingly dangerous exercise of power.

The graphic above or at right was found on BSky.app, posted by 'The Other 99%'. Angie Nixon lost her bid for the Florida senate by only 3%. Schumer reportedly failed to send her funding she had requested. Schumer currently has nearly $8 million in cash on hand according to both the FEC and Open Secrets. And another source says that he has $22 million plus in cash on hand, if you include his PAC accounts. Additionally, Schumer never endorsed Mamdani, was very slow to endorse Talarico who won Texas, endorsed Haley Stevens for Michigan senator who later endorsed Republican Rogers, and endorsed John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who has voted in favor of 50% of Trump's 2025 cabinet appointments.

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Time to Chuck (verb) the Schumer, Jeffries & TV News

Blind, Deaf & Dumb? TV Pundits Endorse Keeping Schumer & Jeffries as Top Democrats

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TV News Failed to Anticipate & Fails to Comprehend

But the job is far from done, and we should not turn away and let those elected go to work, without monitoring and advising them, as to exactly what this past electionwas all about. And by now, many of you already know, that the teleprompter-reading 'journalists' on TV don't seem able to tell the difference between an assinine, celebrity gossip story, and a gaping hole in their news reporting ground.

On Friday night, Brooks and Capehart, who I generally think are ok, showed how disconnected they are from the general populace, when they told PBS viewers that Jeffries and Schumer should stay on in their top Democratic leadership positions in the House and Senate. And Erroll Louis of Spectrum NY1 said the same this week. How blind, deaf and dumb are the TV pundits? Did they not see, hear or process that the voters want change - not more of the same useless, ineffective, objection letter writing to Trump - for which Schumer and Jeffries are so famous?

The TV pundits seemed to imply, that only Jeffries and Schumer understand how the the Senate and the House work. And by implying as much, seemed to completely dismiss the other 99 senators and the other 434 congress[wo]men as morons who are incapable of leading, but only following.

I COMPLETELY disagree with them. Of the top federal government officials, Schumer has THE WORST popularity polling in the nation - even surpassing Donald J Trump, who just suffered the worst midterm rout in the past 30 years. Schumer's poll figures are a net -24% unfavorable, while Trump's are a -19% unfavorable. Trump and the Republicans' losses were comparable to the rout of Clinton in 1994 when Democrats lost 8 senate seats and 54 House of Representative seats to the opposing party. See charts showing Real Clear's poll of polls, which filters out much of the pollsters' biases by aggregating them.

Definition of 'chuck'. Verb. Discard. Dismiss. Oust.

Schumer & Jeffries are Funded by Palantir, AIPAC, Wall Street & Billionaires

Clinton's 1994 loss coincides with the ascendancy of immigrant billionaire Rupert Murdoch's Fox Fake News, when conservative voters started drinking Murdoch's culture war kool aid, which he used to distract them from the real news. Murdoch orchestrated the 'news', so voters would be angered by the culture war nonsense, and wouldn't notice that the pols Murdoch and Fox News helped get elected started to gradually take away Americans' rights and diminish their access to a high standard of living.

This was done by the Republican tax cuts, which took wealth away from younger Americans and future generations of Americans by piling debt on them, while providing billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and friends, with huge tax breaks that was funded by that debt. Murdoch and Fox News Friends also pursued deregulation efforts which allowed the billionaires to obtain increases in market share and pricing power over 'We The People' American consumers by reducing and eliminating competition via mergers. And to complete Murdoch's Fox & Friends charade, their pols threw what I call parade candy, at the voters in the form of a couple bucks tax breaks, which they offset in part by reductions in government services / resources, and of course the huge debt they piled on younger and future generations of Americans.

So, why are Brooks, Capehart and Erroll Louis encouraging Democrats in the Senate to re-elect pols like Schumer into the top Democratic leadership position - even though he is more unpopular than the president whose party just suffered one of the biggest routs in modern electoral history? I'm sorry, but theirs was an incredibly out-of-touch response to what the voters just said. It's as much an appeasement to the billionaires, as Schumer and Jeffries themselves have been. This perspective by Brooks, Capehart and Louis - to stay the course with the current Democratic leadership - shows how socially disconnected, fearful and lacking in clarity, the talking heads and teleprompter-TV-news-readers have become. If you're interested in knowing what's really going on in the world around us, I recommend the quiet, but fast growing, BSky.app social media outlet which is populated by academics, former government & military officials, authors, journalists and just plain folks, like myself. So far the knucklehead celebrities and TV news folks haven't yet arrived, which is what makes BSky.app somewhat refreshing.

Wall St / Billionaire Funding & Influence over Top Democratic Leadership in NYC ...

is all too Similar to Oil Industry Funding & Influence over Top Republicans in Texas 2001 - 2007

It's worthing noting that Schumer and Jeffries reportedly live less than a mile from one another. While I cannot confirm that specific distance, I can confirm that they live less than ten miles apart, in Brooklyn / Queens, where Wall Street and the billionaires can keep an eye on them. This is akin to what the Oil industry did with the Republicans in Texas around the turn of the century. Currently, the President (Trump), the incoming Senate Majority Leader (if Schumer is confirmed), and the Speaker of the House (if Jeffries is confirmed) - all have very deep New York financial industry funding and ties. This is not unlike 2001 - 2007, when the Republican President Bush Jr., Vice President Cheney and Republican House Speaker Tom DeLay all hailed from Texas and had deep funding / ties to the oil industry.

In both cases, even a child can see that this is NOT REPRESENTATIONAL government of a nation that encompasses 346 MILLION people, residing within between 3.5 - 3.8 MILLION SQUARE MILES of land. So I find it no surprise that the TV news pundits are wrong again. Bear in mind that they work in an industry where all of the U.S. TV networks are controlled by billionaires (or close enough), which by logic and implication means that they too aren't representational of the wealth diversity or situational demographics, of the American people and New Yorkers they are supposed to be covering / giving voice to. Sadly, the Brooks, Capehart (and Louis) narrative, although coming from PBS (and Spectrum NY1), really struck me, as to just how out of touch the TV news talking bots really are.

Schumer Gets Millions & Israel Receives Billions - Quid Pro Quo?

According to an October 21, 2025 report in the Buffalo Chronicle, Schumer is one of the largest - if not the largest - recipient of funding from Israeli affiliated donors, including AIPAC. Schumer has led the Democratic Caucus since 2017, when he was reportedly able to jump over the next in line for that position, because of his financial connections.

Since Schumer's ascendance, Israel has received $33 billion in U.S. aid, paid for by the American taxpayer. To date, Israel, since its inception, has received over $330 billion in aid from the U.S. taxpayer, and is the largest recipient of American aid since WWII - in spite of being a nation with a population that is comparable to the city of New York, which translates into us giving about $33,000 to each and every Israeli.

Americans need a Senate Majority Leader who will represent their interests, not those of other nations, and not the interest of the uber wealthy. Chuck Schumer is NOT that guy and neither is Hakeem Jeffries. So I am pleading with incoming Senate Democrats to listen to 'We The People' and Chuck (verb) the Schumer & asking House Democrats to do the same to Jeffries.

Americans are Finding More Informative News Sources on the Web & Thus Making Better New Sources Choices & Hence Making Better Informed Electoral Choices (Whew)

This last election, shows in part, how the electorate is finally becoming untethered from the moronstream TV news media. As well as untethered from their ill-considered narratives [like the one referenced above]. This was only made possible by the rise information destinations on the internet such as social media and web news sites.

I'll have more on this at a later date. But in the meantime, I want to mention that I like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who I see posted on short video clips on BSky.app. He seems to be well grounded and consistently says things that make sense, which is why he is NOT ON TV NEWS. Senators like him make for good government, but not good sensationalist TV News headlines. And because Whitehouse is grounded and intelligent and not chasing TV News headlines, he'd be a great foil to someone like Donald J. Trump, who's unbalanced, immoral, corrupt, makes incredibly ill-considered decisions, lacks the appropriate education and experience necessary to fulfill the roles of his position, picks staff members whose loyalty far exceeds their intellects and competence, and has shown himself repeatedly to be unfit to be our nation's president.