Did Schumer sell out or was his decision wise?

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00:00I don't care I'm busting out my Kamala hoodie for one for one video at least

00:07because this is what we could have had we could add her and Tim Walz instead we

00:13have Trump and Elon Musk and Chuck Schumer who is going out on a book tour

00:19this week this coming week and next week while Congress is in recess for two

00:24weeks after the events of last Friday how do you think that book tour is gonna

00:32go I was talking to my brother tonight and he was like there's he has to

00:39cancel it doesn't he I guess we'll find out because it starts tomorrow anyway

00:52anybody who's followed me for any length of time knows that I'm a big fan of the

00:56bulwark the website the bulwark calm that is one of my indispensable sites

01:04and will be for the next four years they have great podcasts Tim Miller's daily

01:10podcast the next level podcast with JVL Jonathan V last and Tim Miller and Sarah

01:15Longwell the focus group podcast with it was Sarah Longwell the secret podcast

01:21it's a you know great articles great writing it's a really good site it's a

01:26really good source of information and and last Friday Jonathan V last wrote

01:33and his is a big chunk of his daily newsletter was about Chuck Schumer he

01:40starts off by saying because we've we've now we've all seen that picture through

01:45the window looking into the Oval Office of Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump

01:49looking buddy-buddy Chuck Schumer's negotiation with President Trump seems

01:55to have gone like this Trump we can't pass the CR because we're bad at

02:00governing so you pass it for us Schumer no Trump if you don't pass it for us

02:05the government will shut down and we'll blame Democrats Schumer no Trump we'll

02:11blame the Democrats then do whatever we want with spending anyway Schumer oh

02:16okay I guess we'll pass it then Schumer's capitulation has made people

02:22angry I am one of them so why what is the point of having preserved the

02:27filibuster if you're unwilling to use it why would Schumer roll over without

02:31getting any concessions from Trump our Democrats enablers of a lawless

02:35government or an opposition party which one are they my reflexive judgment is

02:41that Schumer and the Senate Democrats are weak they had a winning political

02:45issue and real leverage they should have either one force the government

02:49shut down and then use the resulting pain to drive down Trump's popularity or

02:53two extracted a foundational level compromise from the administration for

02:59example that Trump and Musk should stop breaking the law but what if my

03:05reflexive judgment is wrong what if Schumer's capitulation is unpleasant but

03:12and then he draws an analogy about wildfires firefighters in the woods they

03:19roll up on a firefighter what do they do if they don't have any aerial view of it

03:25can they accurately assess it can they figure out how big it is is it already a

03:29lost cause how should they actually fight it because they don't have all the

03:36information and the federal government is on fire that much we can see we don't

03:42know the extent of the blaze we don't have overhead imagery we don't know if

03:46it's possible to stop the fire from spreading because it's only just begun

03:50or if the flames are out of control behind the visible fire line in front of

03:55us and and then he goes through Schumer's statement that he gave to

04:07justify you know what he's done you know basically in other words it's like if

04:12Trump has Trump has already broken the law while dismantling the federal

04:15government if Democrats fail to keep the government open it will provide him a

04:18quasi legal pretext to speed up that lawless project no negotiation with

04:25Trump could have produced an enforceable compromise because Trump's a liar and so

04:31is Musk passing the CR for Trump isn't about avoiding a fight it's can it's a

04:36controlled burn in an attempt to slow the fire's progress and then he gives a

04:42counter-argument which is where I'm at said even if Schumer's view is correct

04:46there is still a counter-argument acceleration ISM the acceleration is to

04:51argument goes something like this Schumer is right that Trump Schumer is

04:56right that Trump and Musk will use a shutdown to speed up their dismantling

04:59of the government but that's going to happen either way the politics of a

05:04government shutdown are good for Democrats because Republicans control

05:09the entire government so why not make a stand here accelerate the pain

05:13accelerate the lawlessness establish the Democratic Party as an anvil on

05:19which you break Trump's popular support that's where I'm at so anyway I get I

05:33understand Schumer's argument for this for doing what he did hmm I don't like

05:40it and I think it's wrong and I think it was shitty politics and and I think

05:46he sold out the base of his party again but that's me you know let me know what

05:52you think in the comments

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