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LetMyPeopleVote

(161,156 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:03 PM Friday

MaddowBlog-The problem(s) with a Republican senator calling Schumer 'Fuhrer'

“Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders,” said Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio.
https://bsky.app/profile/hategop.bsky.social/post/3llzcg7bt222b

The problem(s) with a Republican senator calling Schumer ‘Fuhrer.’
“Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders,” said Bernie Moreno.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/schumer-fuhrer-bernie-moreno-rcna199766

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in the history of the U.S. Congress, which made it all the more notable when Donald Trump — who is not Jewish — told reporters last month, in reference to the New York Democrat, “He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore.”.....

Three weeks later, it appears one of the president’s allies on Capitol Hill decided to go even further. The Columbus Dispatch reported:

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, called the Senate’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer — the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official — ‘Fuhrer,’ a reference to the title used by Adolf Hitler. Moreno, who was elected in November, made the comment to reporters outside the Senate chamber as members of his caucus struggled to agree on a path forward to try to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut agenda.


“Here’s the main thing you’ve got to understand. Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer’s orders,” Moreno said.

Asked about the comment, Schumer said "Look, let me say this. What Sen. Moreno did is absolutely despicable. It’s antisemitic, plain and simple. It’s outrageous. I lost lots of people in the Holocaust to Hitler. And for him to use those words, first, we demand he apologize immediately, but we also demand that his Republican colleagues start denouncing him on something that is so blatantly antisemitic." .....

Even if we put aside the obvious offensiveness of Moreno’s use of the word “Fuhrer” — especially in reference to the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in the history of the Congress — it’s hard not to notice that he seems to describe an alternate reality with no relationship to our own.
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Thunderbeast

(3,631 posts)
3. They are just ASSHOLES!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:14 PM
Friday

They act like third grade schoolyard bullies who never faced consequences for their speech.

Are we missing Sherrod Brown yet?

Shellback Squid

(9,308 posts)
4. Bernie Moreno is also a thief
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:46 PM
Friday
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/08/09/another-wage-theft-lawsuit-against-ohio-republican-u-s-senate-nominee-comes-to-light/


"In 2023, Moreno settled over a dozen wage theft lawsuits prior to launching his U.S. Senate campaign. He was ordered to pay over $400,000 to two former employees. He was rebuked by a state judge for shredding documents potentially related to the case."

a kennedy

(33,213 posts)
5. You have GOT TO BE KIDDING.......oh, forgot, lotsa Repubs are criminals. Sorry, forgot that.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:49 PM
Friday

My bad.

LetMyPeopleVote

(161,156 posts)
6. Chuck Schumer on Moreno calling him "Fhrer": "It is despicable. It is outright antisemitism. I lost family in the Holoc
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 01:36 PM
Saturday

Maeve

(43,185 posts)
7. Moreno is just jealous that JD is called the worst person to come out of Ohio since Dahmer, so he's up-ing his game
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 01:46 PM
Saturday

Ohio offers it's sincere regrets
Well, the sane among us do.....

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