Said the NYT interviewer, Michael Barbaro, talking to Chuck Schumer on today's episode of "The Daily," "Chuck Schumer on Governing With (Or Without) Trump" (audio with transcript at Podscribe).
Schumer's answer is, as you will have predicted, evasive. What can he say? Yeah, Michael, I'm a receptacle. I'm a trashcan, a regular spittoon, a toilet, if you will.
How insulting is it to call a human being a "receptacle" of this or that? I see that T.S. Eliot wrote: "The poet’s mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
So perhaps the Senator's mind is a receptacle to be filled up with the numberless feelings of the people — fury, etc. — and the various particles jitter about and recombine into some sort of legislative action. But what?
As with "dilettante" yesterday, I'm moved to search my blog archive for the word. Before today, it had come up 4 times — that's 4 times in 22+ years. The first 2 are quotes — from the NYT and Slate, respectively. Only ##3 and 4 are from me, and oddly enough, both name Hillary Clinton (though neither characterizes her as a receptacle. Here they are (click on the link for the context):
1. "Last May... the mayor opened a flagship welcome center for migrants in the old Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Since then, he has allowed the building, two blocks from Grand Central Terminal, to deteriorate in plain sight. Some ground-floor windows are blacked out, and mattresses hang from a huge metal trash receptacle in the street."
2. "Should you doubt the cup’s cultural significance, I would point you toward a brand new Toby Keith song titled 'Red Solo Cup.' The song opens with these lyrics: 'Red Solo cup is the best receptacle for barbecues, tailgates, fairs, and festivals. And you, sir, do not have a pair of testicles if you prefer drinking from a glass.'"
3. "Maybe you just sit there pleasantly and think: Isn't it clever for Hillary to use the 'Sopranos' scene as a device for informing us about her new campaign song and to include some cute business where she alludes to her concern about health care by having a nice bowl of carrots instead of the onion rings they had on 'The Sopranos'? If so, aren't you the good little voter, accepting the message Senator Clinton hoped to insert in your receptacle of a brain?"
4. "And yet, whatever you think about Hillary, giving Bill Clinton a blow job doesn't connect well with present-day feminist values. Or is this the new thing, not giving a fuck about sex in the workplace? Could Monica Lewinsky ever emerge as a feminist heroine? 'Feminism' is a receptacle of whatever meaning it receives, and the recipients are the women of today, an ever-changing group...."
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how many illegals voted?
Is used condom ===>>> receptacle / respectable
Chuck has to decide if he is up for the dirty messy fight next year over who will be Majority Leader. One of the first destructive internecine brawls I'm so looking forward to watching.
And no matter what, he will get primaried by AOC in 2028; if it were today, he would lose to her.
My bet is he says it's not worth it, and hangs up his spurs.
Yes! Release the Karens!
Democrats are stupid people who don’t realize they are deeply hated by the normies.
I want to nominate ilhan Omar for speaker of the house and sayed for majority leader.
They will spend the next two years convincing everyone Trump was way too nice to them and we need to elect Pinochet.
Clinton’s not a receptacle, she’s a Pantsuited Pantload.
"'Feminism' is a receptacle of whatever meaning it receives"
What a phenomenal quote. Unexpectedly so.
𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳.
Hopefully Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will fix the Schumer problem in 2028. Until then, younger Democratic senators need to rein him in.
The fact that Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, is a Washington lobbyist says just about everything you need to know about the US political establishment.
The Democrats need to jettison these people fast, if they want to remain viable in the long term.
The American electorate has been voting for change continuously since 2016, however dumb some of those choices may have been. The GOP may be running out of steam now, but the Democrats won’t get many more chances.
They’ve already blown it twice, with Hillary and Biden. If they continue to operate as just another party beholden to billionaires and Techbros, MAGA could come back with a vengeance and in even more radical form.
“ How insulting is it to call a human being a "receptacle" of this or that?”
You will have to ask James Carville how insulting it is to call a human being a “used condom”. But that is not as bad as Democrats reenacting the anniversary of Krystallnacht by harassing Jewish businesses in Philly, or Democrat podcasters wanting to dig up Kirk and shoot him again.
I’ll just wait for all the great new policies and the reduction of the deficit.
T.S. Eliot really had his moments.
"Our polling showed only 28% of voters were satisfied with the party. My colleague put it this way, the only people less popular than President Trump are Democrats. "
"So what do we do now?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEpap3TxVs
"Chuck has to decide if he is up for the dirty messy fight next year over who will be Majority Leader."
Listen to the podcast. He expects to remain the leader and he anticipates no competition.
Schumer is not as old as he looks. In fact, he's only about a month older than I am.
In fact, Schumer deserves some credit. He backed a pretty impressive slate of candidates, and the results speak for themselves.
At around the 18 minute mark:
"Do you expect to face any kind of challenge in the election for Senate Majority Leader?"
"No."
"You do not."
"No. I mean, look, our caucus is focused on now moving forward, everyone's very happy with what we all did unified in the last two years. But the focus has to be, as I said before, and I'll say it again and again, to my caucus, to the country, and everybody: If we don't deliver all this will go away. This is just the first step. But I think we're united together to do that."
"And do you think It's good that there's no one running against you? And let, let me just, lemme just put this in perspective. I've covered you for a long time. You have been in the Congress, in the Senate for 27 years. I say this with lots of respect. You're 75 years old, you're about to be 76..."
"I feel a little younger than that."
"... later in the month. Happy almost birthday. What responsibility do you feel to make way for younger leaders in the party?"
"When I say I'm the leader, I'm sort of the conductor I pick, you know, we, we make sure we stay on the same tune...." blah blah blah
“ Listen to the podcast. He expects to remain the leader and he anticipates no competition.”
So it sounds like Schumer is saying that we bring out the crazies for the election then we put them back in the box until the next one. I don’t thing AOC and El-Said agree with that level of moderation.
I’d go with, “spittoon.”
And now people are realizing that the democrats taking over both houses is a disaster…
For the democrats and the traitor republicans that were sabotaging Trump the whole time.
Now they are out in the open for all to see.
I look forward to the democrats plan to lower gas prices.
But over the next two years Trump is going to take credit for gas prices going down. I paid 3.41 for gas two days ago.
The dividends for the country with the world economy being reset are inevitable. The next ten years of Economic Growth will be a result of what Trump did in Iran and the rest of the world.
Meh. I got my supply of popcorn. This is going to be exciting watching Progressives eat their own. Better than going to the movies!!! Maybe I should go out and get some Milk Duds too!!
"Receptacle" has some nasty connotations, but how do you make the same point with less nasty words? "Receptacle" must be related to "receive," so how do you convey the idea that Democrats received votes without voters approving of their agenda (and without their even having an agenda)?
Chuckles Schumer: the Happy Warrior.
Schumer seems to have been AWOL for the last 2 years. Not inactive, he was blocking every thing Trump wanted and stonewalling his nominees. But I don't remember him being quoted much in the news or being prominent on TV.
He shut down the Government, but I don't remember much firery rhetoric. Well, now the spotlight is his. Lets see what he does with it. The sad part is that while Trump can veto bills, if the R's in Congress want to cave, there's not much he can do.
Look for Thune to say "We need to compromise. We cant shudown the Government" Even though Shumer did.
Unlike Thune, Schumer has an agenda and can count on 51 votes for almost anything he wants to do. He wont get rid of the filibuster, because Trump is POTUS. If we get a D president and D congress in 2029, he will get rid of it.
"'Receptacle' must be related to 'receive,' so how do you convey the idea that Democrats received votes without voters approving of their agenda (and without their even having an agenda)?"
Perhaps one could convey that democrats "catch" whatever fraud's being "pitched".
People do not know how to speak or write in an educated manner. "Beneficiary" would have been a better word choice. But what do you expect from people who read the NYTimes and follow the Legacy Media.
Receptacle/recipient. Different connotations. Not so different.
Kamala Harris was a receptacle.
"In praise of the dilettante" by Jay Miller; https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-dilettante-is-the-anti-hero-of-our-over-optimised-age?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Democrats are incompetent and insane. Anti-Democrats and Republicans should have been attacking them relentlessly just as Democrats and their pet mediaswine attacked Trump relentlessly. Republicans are pussies.
How about “bukkake victim?” CC, JSM
A great answer to a game of reverse "name my band".
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