‘So aroused’: Trump’s enemies get weird

News.com.au - 01/02
The American senator Chuck Schumer is one of those curious politicians who somehow managed to reach the pinnacle of his field, and then somehow stayed there in perpetuity, without possessing any discernible charisma or political talent.

The American senator Chuck Schumer is one of those curious politicians who somehow managed to reach the pinnacle of his field, and then somehow stayed there in perpetuity, without possessing any discernible charisma or political talent.

You will not find a duller public speaker, or one whose statements are as trite. He’s like a middling university lecturer who lost all passion for teaching long ago, and so barely even bothers to look up now while droning on and on and on through his notes. The Professor Binns of our real world.

He’s an appropriate replacement for Joe Biden, then, as the Democrats’ chief gerontocrat.

Yet there’s a contradiction here, because sometimes, from this same man’s mouth, you will hear the most exquisitely hilarious thing.

In one such moment years ago, Mr Schumer famously accused Donald Trump of inciting an “erection” against the United States. He was sticking to that theme this week.

“Donald Trump, w...
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