New Yorker cartoon today: (re Schumer)

[IcyPeas]

[Susan Calvin]

1. Ouch. nt

[rich7862]

2. The shoe fits! He is useless in a fight to keep our democracy. Actually he is just plain useless.

[Xavier Breath]

3. Elaine would get this one.

[yellow dahlia]

4. They took my rants, and turned them into an image.

It is worth a thousand words.

[doc03]

5. Isn't he aware how weak he sounds when

he says he is going to write a strongly worded letter. With all his decades in politics he seems clueless.

[Paladin]

6. Sorry to say it, but Schumer earned that scornful toon, fair and square.

trump is making major errors and overreaches, every single day---he's in the process of gutting his dangerous regime, making his shitty reputation even shittier, and giving Democrats another chance to save this country---if our leadership is smart enough and brave enough to take advantage of it.

Leading Democrats: Get busy! Now!

[lame54]

7. Write it on a fiddle

[calimary]

8. Pretty embarrassing.

Why are you even there, Schumer? What actual good are you doing?

How does this work? You're famous and you're set for life. So what does that mean for the rest of us (besides NOTHING)?

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. The political world changed. Sen. Schumer didn't.

"Rope-a-dope" worked for Ali, but it's not going to work in a political context if he's relying on the common sense of the American electorate.

Today, it's a fight against oligarchs, Nazis, and fanatics. "Let us reason together" doesn't register with a group impervious to reason.

[markodochartaigh]

11. Gingrich saw the possibility

when so many authoritarian Republicans from the South and West were elected under Reagan. He started the zero sum, take no prisoners approach which had fallen out of favor after No Shame" McCarthy's witch hunts became embarrassingly rude. After Gingrich, the Republican far reich-wing were able to gain more and more control of their party. Many elite Democratic politicians and voters really have no understanding that their Republican golf buddies could ever be in bed with, much less controlled by, uncouth rabble-rousing Republicans whose only objectives are power and money. A lot of people on the Democratic side had such fun wrestling with their pet tiger on the Persian rug that it is difficult for them to believe that the tiger has grown up and sees them as prey.

[electric_blue68]

13. Oh, I Hate/d Gingrich! Flame throwing Droog!

[moniss]

10. Pritzker is coming on stronger and stronger. nt

[Steven Maurer]

12. More apt an analogy than the New Yorker even realizes...

Yes, I get that sternly worded letters to a functional illiterate doesn't do anything.

But when Godzilla is rampaging down 5th Street, what do you propose to do instead?

We don't have the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and most of the Supreme Court have been reduced to partisan hacks.

What is Schumer not doing that would stop this?

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. He'll win them over in the Senate work out room

"When you're on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off."