Chuck Schumer is the Dallas Mavericks.
When the NBA team traded Luka Dončić, it didn't merely swap a player—it crushed the hope of fans. The Democratic Senate minority leader is about to do the same.
Last month, in a fit of one-of-a-kind sports lunacy, the Dallas Mavericks made what is already widely considered to be the dumbest trade in NBA history. The team sent its iconic star, Luka Dončić, to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and three bags of potato chips. In the immediate aftermath, Nico Harrison—the Mavs’ general manager—tried to explain the move in basketball terms. Well, we think Anthony Davis gives us a real chance to … blah blah blah blah.
What Harrison did was speak the language of base-level hoops.
What he failed to realize that, in sending away Dončić, he was breaking the heart of the fanbase.
And the spirit.
This is what gets me—and guts me—about Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, agreeing to go along with Donald Trump and the GOP in voting to allow the Republican spending bill to pass and keep the government open. He is explaining it to Democrats just as Harrison did the trade—well, it’s vital to blah blah blah. And, in the process, he’s gutting us like pigs at Helena's Hawaiian Food. Personally, I feel like screaming the way Dallas basketball fans have been screaming for the past four weeks: Dude, you’re not getting it. We need to see you fighting! We need someone to fight for us! Anyone to fight for us! And you’re just letting this evil, awful, despicable, empathy-deprived president walk all over you! Again! Fuck, walk all over us! Again! How can you not see this? How do you not get it? We’ve been getting swatted around and battered around—and you’re just taking it like a little b—! Why? Seriously—why? Why aren’t you getting this? Why won’t you stand up to the bully?
Alas, this is what happens when you’re in Washington for too long, buried in the echo chamber, hearing only what you deem worthy to hear. I’m from New York. I used to dig Chuck Schumer. But he’s lost it. Not merely the pep in his step, but the ability to feel what people outside of the Capitol are feeling.
Like the Dallas Mavericks, he’s not just giving away our star.
He’s killing our hope.
It's impossible for me to see this kind of weak, gutless activity without my first thought being, "What dirt does T---p have on him?"
We've lost not only our soul as a nation. We've also lost our spine.
Let's not wait to vote representatives like Schumer out of office. Let's recall them, one by one, whenever they display this level of cowardice and lack of character.
Well said. Although I don’t think Schumer doesn’t understand our need for strong democratic opposition to the Trump-Musk agenda, I think he quite frankly Scarlett…, doesn’t give a damn.