Over the weekend, Senator Chuck Schumer – New York’s senior senator – was one of many Democratic public servants trying to deal with the gigantic mess left by Emperor Baby Fists’ Muslim-Ban executive order. As Schumer tried to address the media, he teared up as he described the completely deplorable way immigrants had been treated post-EO. Baby Fists responded by mocking Schumer’s tears and trying to give him the nickname “Fake Tears Schumer.” Keep in mind that Schumer’s great-grandmother and seven of her nine children were murdered in the Holocaust. So, yeah.
Senator Schumer’s distant cousin Amy Schumer decided to defend him on social media. Amy and the Senator first met when Amy volunteered to do any kind of advocacy work on gun-control. This is what she posted:
As I keep saying, we’re not at the point where we can be picky about allies, not when it’s all hands on deck. Do I think Amy is a problematic white feminist with massive blindspots when it comes to racial issues? Yes. But I cosign her message and am with her on this. We need to stick together on these issues which affect all of us.
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Cool with her speaking out but meh she’s still awful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chuck Schumer sucks! He’s the worst Democratic leader to have at a time like this. He spoke at the inauguration ffs. I’d take Harry Reid back, at least he had a spine.
Pie face Amy Schumer is as unwelcome as always
Well she’s not wrong with that message.
Like they said, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
We’re long past the time of being picky about allies. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who was right first and who has been warning about the deteriorating state of affairs for longest. Well, it does but that is a conversation for when – if – the battle is won. Right now, today, it doesn’t matter when a particular person woke up: it just matters that they woke up.
Donald Trump and his middle school insults.
Right. Even if he wasn’t the President of the United States “tweeting,” he called a Senator of the U.S. “fake tears.” WTF, I know am but who are you. He is like a teenager scribbling dirty words on the wall in the boy’s bathroom. It behooves me how anyone, no matter what their political beliefs can defend this person. His level of immaturity is beyond any sense of normalcy. He is seventy years old, he is senile? I’m being so serious, he has the nuclear codes in his possession and this is how he represents himself. Can no one stop him or is Bannon merely chuckling while trump continues his lunacy and he continues HIS agenda on the low. Oh Lord.
I’m scared…..very, very scared for you, America…our own PM in Australia is pretty much the only Western leader to not speak up about this ridiculousness and that makes me scareder….please rise up soon!!
DT insulting Chuck Shumer’s tears is absolutely deplorable. And his followers are lapping it up! It’s disgusting. Had to unfriend someone else on FB yesterday for posting something about Shumer’s “fake tears”
This has convinced me of one thing: Trump’s supporters aren’t just racist a-holes, they’re also heartless bast-rds.
I’ve unfriended a lot of people too, over the past 6 months.
The President of the US calling a senior senator ‘Fake Tears’… wtf is wrong with people, to still follow and believe in him? I don’t generally like Amy Schumer, but this is a bigger and much important issue and really needs everyone.
In a normal situation, I would say that the messenger matters. The message itself can be diluted because of who says it.
But as well know, these are not normal times. People like Handler, Schumer, can perhaps reach an audience that does support trump, in ways other celebs cannot(like Ellen, George Takei, Streep, etc ) because they do walk that fine line (though in handler’s case she is as bad as trump supporters).
It’s a moral dilemma. Can we align with people like schumer and handler if they help stop trump?
I think we have to. The enemy of my enemy, and all that.
So good on her for speaking up, I hope she continues to do it. Every day.
I have to side with bill maher on this one. The left can no longer afford to pick eachother apart with tiny squabbles. Stick together and look at the big picture. Criticizing Amy shumer for her stupid things in the past does not help you in the long run! Fucking hell America, the rest of the world is terrified! Get your shit together!!!
Genuine question and I promise I’m not trolling just watching from Australia and sending love to you all. But I keep hearing some news outlets arguing that the obama administration has done similar bans in the past, can anyone please shed some light on this?
A couple op years ago, a couple of Iraqis (? I think) immigrants who had been given green cards because of their work with the US army were discovered to have been involved in making IEDs. The administration did a thorough investigation and review of the system of granting green cards to Iraqis who had worked with them, and as a result the number of people admitted was considerably slowed down until the review was conducted and an even more thorough vetting system was put in place. I think it lasted about six months. There was no ban. There is no similarity at all, it’s just Trump trying to justify his racist actions.
There are two things Obama did that are getting mixed up and exaggerated:
1) Like Ninks said, vetting for Iraqis was slowed down after they realised they’d let in a refugee when they had already found his fingerprints on a roadside bomb in Iraq. The fingerprint data never made it to the people issuing visas. They fixed the communications between the two countries and re-vetted thousands of refugees they’d already let in. That extra workload is why vetting for new refugees slowed down for a while, but it never stopped entirely, and there was a very specific screening problem and specific fix. It wasn’t vague like Trump’s plan of “seeing if we need increased vetting”.
2) The 7 countries Trymp targeted are the same 7 where Obama removed the fast-track visa-waiver for dual-nationals and people who’d recently visited those countries. It didn’t ban immigration from those countries altogether, just meant you had to get a visa (i.e. go through some vetting).
She’s right. No point in denying it.
Thanks whoever posted that article, don’t know why it’s been deleted
His ignorance about problems internationally, where human lives are at stake and the US can actually be of help, is disgusting