Joe Lange posts:
It’s being called the “Schumer Shutdown,” but it sure seems like Hakeem Jeffries is the one being FORCED to be in the “spotlight” defending the government shutdown over funding illegals.
Did Trump draw him into the fight by putting a “sombrero and a mustache” on him in a meme?
Jeffries is now being turned into a joke.
The democrat party is actually embarrassing. That’s why they are losing support daily, with no end in sight.
For example:
“Democrats hit new low with embarrassing shutdown livestream as Trump says: ‘Cry all you want’”
“The Democrat party was roasted after hosting a shutdown livestream that only drew a few dozen viewers at a time – as Donald Trump continued to troll liberal leaders.”
“The stream, which lasted 11 hours, was created by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to broadcast the Democrats’ message about the perilous nature of the government stoppage – but it was largely ignored. ‘At times, just a few dozen viewers were watching the YouTube stream,’ Politico reported.”
“‘Later in the evening, Democrats said some 35,000 people tuned in to watch Jeffries. But on YouTube, Democrats peaked at around 1,000 viewers.”’ The Democrat’s YouTube stream was roundly beaten by the White House’s competing video which peaked at over 100,000.”
How long till the democrats cave in? Even the leftwing media is mocking them.
“In the earliest hours of the shutdown, Jeffries’ YouTube channel featured a rotating cast of Democratic House members and influencers, from MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas to progressive Gen Z political YouTuber Jack Cocchiarella to Carlos Eduardo Espina, who has 13.3 million followers on TikTok.
Their mission: to win the shutdown messaging battle.
It did not go off without a hitch. In fact, there were many hitches. At times, just a few dozen viewers were watching the YouTube stream, making it an almost instant joke among Republicans and a source of embarrassment among Democrats — even if some Democrats admitted it was, technically, a smart thing to do, if a failure of execution.”
“I binged more than 14 hours of the occasionally awkward, repetitive — if mostly on message — programming on YouTube (there was also an X stream). But even if it was a physically exhausting and mentally taxing process, it was a revealing window into the Democrats’ larger plight: a struggle to get their message through in an attention economy that prizes watchability and entertainment, making it almost impossible for them to break through the din of President Donald Trump’s neverending newscycle.”
It was so bad that everyone is mocking them.
Who are they taking advice from?
I believe their “4 am talking points” secure site was captured long ago by Trump’s team and they have been constantly led off the cliff since then. “
Republicans and the White House almost instantly mocked the livestream. The National Republican Congressional Committee regularly posted to X how few people were watching.”
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/01/democrats-shutdown-livestream-00591178
This “Schumer Shutdown” has been a complete debacle and I don’t think any of it is a coincidence.
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