{"id":14876,"date":"2025-03-14T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14876"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:23:25","slug":"march-madness-on-steroids-bastards-schumer-throws-contrived-tantrum-after-caving-to-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14876","title":{"rendered":"MARCH MADNESS ON STEROIDS: &#8220;Bastards!&#8221;&#8212;Schumer Throws Contrived Tantrum After Caving To GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update (2145ET):\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>After bending the knee to the GOP and agreeing to vote &#8216;yes&#8217; on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through September, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)\u00a0<strong>offered a contrived outburst on\u00a0<em>MSNBC<\/em>, calling Republicans &#8216;bastards&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>before quickly correcting himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have the conflict on the best ground we have, summed up in a sentence, that they&#8217;re making the middle class pay for tax cuts for billionaires?&#8221; said Schumer. &#8220;It&#8217;s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown,<strong>\u00a0which should divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards, sorry, these people<\/strong>, which is not only all these cuts, but they&#8217;re ruining democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8DESPERATE CHUCK SCHUMER CALLS REPUBLICANS &#8220;BASTARDS&#8221;\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which would divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re ruining democracy!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9i90rfOv9z\">pic.twitter.com\/9i90rfOv9z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1900346896369033309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/schumer-shutdown-two-ways-can-go\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/schumer-shutdown-two-ways-can-go<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}