“Schumer is bad at his job,” said one organizer. “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”
After a Democratic “tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections that has been widely seen as “a mandate to deliver big change,” progressives within and beyond Congress have cast doubt on whether the New York Democrats likely to lead both chambers are actually up for facing Donald Trump’s veto threats and fighting for the “bold agenda” sought by US voters.
As critics of artificial intelligence data centers prepared for a Friday protest outside the Brooklyn home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over a “dirty” bill that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is suddenly speaking out about, political organizer Corbin Trent argued that “Schumer is bad at his job” and “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”
Cart before the horse there, friend. When you take money from someone, especially on an ongoing basis, you do what they tell you. It doesn’t matter why they accept it. It matters what they do afterward in exchange for it, and continue to do.
In fact, this arrangement of completing tasks and doing favors in exchange for regular pay is so prevalent that many of us just call it a job, and the payers are known as employers.