• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Chuck Schumer

    This guy?

    Schumer’s propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke among many commentators. He has been called an “incorrigible publicity hound”.[39] Bob Dole once quipped, “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera”;[40] Barack Obama joked that Schumer brought the press to a banquet as his “loved ones”.[41][42][43][44] Schumer often schedules media appearances on Sundays. Some have cited his use of media as a successful way to raise a politician’s profile nationally and among his constituents.[45] Schumer has appeared on The Daily Show seven times.[46]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer#Political_style

    The guy most known for being willing to do absolutely anything to get the media talking about him?

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      He asked if you considered Chuck Schumer to be “batshit crazy”, not whether Chuck Schumer loves media attention. I think we can all agree that most politicians love media attention, and Chuck Schumer is certainly one of them.

      Are you going to dismiss every piece of legislation Chuck Schumer puts his name on simply because he loves media attention?

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        Chuck Schumer is the moderate leader in the Dem majority Senate, and instead of trying to pass any of the Dem party platform, he’s working with Republicans on this bullshit…

        I guess I should have said this

        Another Republican/neoliberal clown trying to talk about anything besides their political stances…

        But yes, if Schumer says aliens are visiting Earth, then he’s batshit crazy. Which explains a lot actually, I thought he was a sellout, but he’s probably also crazy

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            What?!

            I said:

            Every notice it’s always the batshit crazy ones saying aliens are here?

            And people started asking me if I thought Schumer was crazy…

            So I said:

            But yes, if Schumer says aliens are visiting Earth, then he’s batshit crazy.

            And your response is to say Schumer never said aliens…

            Like, seriously, do you understand how there is absolutely zero logic in the questions I’m getting here?

            If he never said it, why the fuck are all of you bringing him up like some kind of gotcha?

            The bar was really low to begin with, but do you honestly not see the flaw in your argument? Because if so, this is less funny than sad, and I’m legitimately starting to feel bad at this point.

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              You could just not pay attention to this issue? We are here to discuss it. Calling people “crazy” isn’t really persuasive.

              You could present an argument that they don’t really believe and of this, for example.

              In Schumer’s case, his mentor was “batshit crazy” Harry Reid, who was in favour of researching the phenomenon and he is basically carrying on this legacy. I don’t think he would do that if he didn’t believe there was something there. Aliens? Maybe. Let’s do actual scientific research and find out?

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          If you actually read about this it really has nothing to do with aliens and everything to do with black money and aerial safety for our pilots. It’s crazy that finally when we a bipartisan problem everyone freaks out about that instead of the actually issue it wants to address