Make that One Million and ONE!
That Hakeem guy feels snakelike but is he a snake for good or evil? Maybe it’s time for a clean slate going forward. Now is the time.
Hey, if he can deliver on the mandate Democrats received in this election, and is willing to deliver, and does deliver, then the measure will be in Democrats’ ability to mobilize voters again in 2028.
If he can, will, and does do that, then I will happily admit I was wrong about him.
We shall see.
Jeffries is there to ensure Project 2025 doesn’t see any opposition from the opposition party.
2 things:
- The person that started the petition gets paid 30 cents for each signature
- No other candidates are up for the position
Summary: performative nonsense intended to distract the Dems. And it’s working.
he was always just a DEI hire, even on his best day which wasn’t all that great a day anyway.
Shit that was fast!
I’m not American so please take that into account, but my perception of the dems is they have a listening problem, both internally and externally. They can’t seem to keep their ears on the ground.
Dems are too beholden to the donor class- the Hollywood crowd- Spielbergs and Streisands and corporatists Dems like Bill & Hillary.
The way politics are financed in the USA perpetuates the need for endless cash grabbing from rich donors. Meanwhile, the common people sit at the back of the bus.
Been that way for decades, now.
That’s because the establishment wing of the party since Bill Clinton’s time has actually been fiscally conservative.
So they don’t listen to the people’s cries when they beg for progress. Because progressivism here is the closest thing we have to social democracy. And yet they get derided as “far-left” 🙄… Please.
The actual far-left calls even progressives “centrists.” But there is no actual far-left in US politics; that only exists among edge lords and keyboard warriors on the fringes of the internet.
Bill Clinton removed glass-steagal to add a clear example.
I didn’t know that, thanks. Could that have contributed to the 2008 financial crisis?
That is mentioned in the wiki entry. It does seem to be a contributing factor
It set the stage, it was just a matter of time after that repeal.
Fuck Jeffries and Schumer, both of those fuckers are selfish assholes who just want to go back to the status quo so they can keep collecting their bribes in peace.
He represents AIPAC and AIPAC won the majority so I guess it makes sense that he is the speaker of the genocide supporting majority
Yerp, a Schumer/Jeffries leadership would mean more AIPAC-funded status quo and “across the aisle” appeasement/compromise.
When will they learn that there’s no compromising with fascism?
They’re not compromising with fascists because they are also fascists. They just think the killing, mass surveillance, genocide, undermining democracy, taking bribes, insider trading, war profiteering, attacks on civil liberties, for profit concentration camps and police militarization should be done more quietly
I saw that half circle infographic with colored dots showing the distribution of party members, but this one had AIPAC in black dots. Currently there 231 AIPAC seats to 164 independent democrats, 11 independent republicans, and 25 uncalled (idk what that means). It really showed how the real distribution of power is in the House, and why none of the problems are going to get fixed. AIPAC party members control the majority still.
Uncalled means they’re still counting ballots.
But yeah I’ve seen that graphic for the previous session but I haven’t seen one yet for the next one. Do you mind linking it?
This just tells us what our work is for the next primary season though. We’re taking chunks out of the AIPAC biparty. Just need to keep biting off forkfulls until it’s enough to make a difference.
I saved it from a reddit thread.
Well when you put it that way…
You know, I’ve always said we need at least three viable political parties. This is not what I had in mind…
The hidden party is not good. But there should be enough independent democrats to kick out Jeffries and Schumer, if the new blood have enough tenacity.
The reach of israel in american politics is insane. Forget the fact that tiktok is owned by an israeli billionaire. Zohran endorsed Jefferies and now Mamdani has been acting weird endorsing it and doing nothing when he promised to arrest nethanyahu for his war crimes.
Zohran endorsed Jefferies
Is that true? I can’t find any sources on that outside of newsweek and politico. Got anything that isn’t a reactionary right-wing rag?
Here is a clip posted by Forbes which has his full, unedited answer to the question, from a few months ago.
Fuck Hakeem Jeffries.
I mean, what more needs to be said at this point.
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i knooow fuck that guy he did such a good job in the elections with all the pac money but that’s ok we can all be doubly racist by taking tupac’s name in vain
good job lemmings
I understand he got the position by being the only person who wanted it.
It might be more productive to name a candidate rather than the more nebulous “anyone but Hakeem Jeffries”. Ro Khanna seems like he could do a good job but I have heard no indication that he wants to do the job.
Ro Khanna for Speaker, that I can get behind!
Some more options: Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Robert Garcia
Feel free to add to the list, and mention your top choices when you email your representatives to say No to Jeffries
FWIW, in her victory speach the other day, Jayapal said she’s heading the immigration subcommittee and that there WILL be investigations and people WILL be going to jail. 🥰
No Jamie. Yes Primala.
I’ll respect your opinion but I’d be cool with either one.
Is there a reason you’re against Jamie? He always struck me as stellar, but if there’s something I don’t know… (I’m bracing myself for heartache…)
Corporate Democrat. Blumenthal too.
Oooh look, zio funded by j-street too.
https://fundvoter.org/politicians/jamie-raskin#fundraising
Normally I’d prefer open secrets but it wasn’t behaving for some reason (non-responsive buttons).
Don Lemon referred to him as “AIPAC Shakur” - love it.
Will this be effective?
No. You have to have a candidate in mind who is willing to stage a direct challenge. You can’t just say “pick someone else”.
There’s only one way to find out. But you know what won’t be effective? Doing nothing.
Yeah I signed, I’m just wondering if it helps.
We all are, bud
I think it’ll be the moment a good chunk of people remember realising the Democratic party can’t be reformed, yeah.
Oh you meant-
Not with that attitude.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting bourgeois politicians to represent you.
That said please forge ahead with all your might and make the newest object lesson all the clearer.
If you think voters turning out for progressives and people advocating for new congressional leadership is “doing the same thing over and over” then your opinion is worth about as much to me as a roll of toilet paper that got rained on.
But hey, even if we’re condemned to roll the same boulder up the same hill over and over again, well that’s better than letting it roll down over us. You’re welcome to disagree, but in that case go ahead and show us what it looks like so the rest of us can move on
But hey, even if we’re condemned to roll the same boulder up the same hill over and over again,
We’re not. The planet is running out of time.
Since you’re unwilling to learn from those who have made the same mistakes before you, please just pay attention to what happens next.You’re the one unwilling to learn.
People made mistakes in the past, yes. That’s no reason not to try again.
We can give up, and the planet will die.
Or we can keep fighting, we can try something new, and we may save it.
Me, personally, I’ll keep fighting until my dying breath if I have to, or until the battle is won and the planet is saved.
You can give up if you want to. But respectfully, stop encouraging others to give up too. Or else I’ll have no choice but to view you as an enemy. And I already have enough of those as it is.
Why are you framing seeking change outside of the electoral system as “giving up?” If you’re going to fight until your dying breath for change, then why pin it all on a strategy that has never worked, and completely reject what has? Nobody is arguing for giving up.
The “trying something new” isn’t to keep falling for the same Democratic party snare over and over again.
The party exists to prevent you from “trying something new”.You only hear “give up” because your imagination has been constrained to action within bounds that are acceptable to the ruling class. When people tell you “this isn’t going far enough” you somehow hear “do nothing”.
Your mind is shackled by crimestop.
Building power outside of the Democratic party is one of the barest prerequisites to getting things moving in the right direction.
Trump wasn’t listening. Now the democrats aren’t listening. Shall we ler them hear us next week at the street side demonstrations?
The only way to make them hear you is to break shit
We need to get this number another digit
Didn’t take long to get it over a million, and we still have nearly two months till the next Congress.
But everyone who signs it needs to also contact their representatives.
Thank you!
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