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Schumer postpones book tour due to ‘security concerns’ amid anger from Democrats over government funding fight (keyt.com)

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(CNN) — Chuck Schumer has postponed his book tour events amid anger from within the Democratic Party over the Senate minority leader’s handling of the government funding fight in Congress.

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[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

Someone needs to be talking to Schumer's PR team about concepts like "optics", "timing", and "reading the room" that are apparently foreign concepts to them. You don't all-but abandon the Democrat party by voting for the budget he's going to use to gut American social safety nets, essentially becoming a cuck for Trump, and saying there's nothing the Senate can do to stop him and then go out and launch a fucking book tour days later.

I hope his book tour stops are met with Democrat voters telling him what a fucking loser he is.

[-] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Schumer also had the gall to say that the Democrats have ‘a Real Direction Now’.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I mean, he's not wrong if you count "away from Schumer" as a 'real direction'.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

It's called "downwards".

[-] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

When asked about the future of the party, Schumer stated, “Right, I write about this in my book. We’re finally doing what’s right, righting this ship and heading in the right direction. Right away.“

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

How about talking to Chuck Schumer about the concept of not being an utter coward?

[-] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

He would find this concept more confusing than theoretical physics.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 27 points 3 months ago

What did you think was going to happen you spineless neoliberal!?

Who is going to buy your book anyway? These political books seem like a money laundering operation. I can’t imagine there are so many people lining up to buy these political hacks writings.

[-] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Neoliberalism is one of America’s worst enemies with only MAGAites being worse.

Grisha’s opinion on Liberals needs to be more widespread.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's zero security concern.

He's just afraid of his voters like Republicans are if theirs

This won't even cost him money in book sales though. The way the grift works is PACs but pallets worth, but they do it thru bookstores at individual retail price.

The author gets a cut, then the PAC gives them back to the campaign.

Then the Candidate signs them, and gives them out at events for free but marks on the book they cost $100+.

The big reason journalists looked into it, is some politician figured out which random bookstores are the sample for the Times best seller list and did it there.

After looking into that we realized it's happening pretty much anytime a politician writes a book. It's literally just money laundering PAC money to the campaigns directly

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This has been known for a long time. Nobody is buying the 13802804329th "tell-all" book about Trump written by some no-name politician (I know Schumer has name value, but I'm speaking in general terms here) enough to catapult them to the best sellers' list.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the result was no one gave a fuck.

Bookstores loved it, especially the ones that were samples for the lists.

The list said they'd try to keep a better lid on which stores get sampled.

And politicians decided it was totally cool and perfectly legal for politicians to do this...

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 12 points 3 months ago

I like that Schumer is scared, I just wish Vance was.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I would be more concerned about your books collecting dust on the shelves than security. No republican will buy it and Dems hate Chuck. I hope he has to burn those books to keep warm at night.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

They'll be snatched up and given out at political conventions where mindless people go to collect these books and never read them.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Nobody is going to shoot Chuck Schumer. He's just afraid of the criticism.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

He’s a coward, as we all suspected

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Government is full of traitors...

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

More like he doesn't want to get yelled at by people.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

Was planning to show up with a couple of friends. We’ve rescheduled to go to a local comedy show instead.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The all important book tour.

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