• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

    “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.

    Sounds like he’s trying to win the midterms.

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      2 months ago

      Sounds like you don’t understand where we’re at as a nation.

      Or what Americans actually want. it’s not a “vocal minority” that want the pedophile, racist, bigoted asshole of a president that is jacking up our cost of living so he can be a fucking king gone. So ignoring that and saying you will do nothing about it IS NOT A WINNING STRATEGY.

      doing nothing except writing stern letters is not going to solve the problem, either.

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          2 months ago

          that’s excessively simplistic.

          Trump did not win “because of the economy.”

          He won because he was able to motivate his base to vote where Harris had been less able to do so.

          Yes, Trump utilized “the economy” as a talking point, but he also utilized deregulation, and immigration (read: general bigotry and scapegoating) as well as LGBTQ+ and christofascist culture war bullshit. Trump’s voters are too stupid to understand that he’s lying to them, so that kind of messaging actually works.

          Harris on the other hand also campaigned on “the economy”- and the cost of living and continued work to supporting not-millionaires; as well as shit like Trump’s former immigration plan and continued support for Israel and so on. harris/Democrat voters are not too stupid to see the problem with some of the things she adopted(immigration, supporting israel) and such like; while souring on economic messaging because Biden had been constantly running that out as if it were amazing while most Americans were struggling. (it took him until like the October before the presidential election to even acknowledge most Americans were still struggling.)

          Basically, Trump won because Harris did exactly what the Jefferies is now doing; and that’s summed up as “Ignoring the American people”.

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      2 months ago

      Sure, drive down the cost of living … by impeaching Trump and getting rid of his dumbass tariffs.

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        2 months ago

        Impeaching Trump will not remove him and is political theater since there is no way they will have 67 senate votes. It should be done anyway as a matter of principle, but should not be a top priority.

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          1 month ago

          since there is no way they will have 67 senate votes.

          They somehow found the Senate votes for making the Epstein files release into law. (A law which the regime is now blatantly and unapologetically violating.)

          What would have happened there if House Dems just sat on their thumbs and said, “There is no way we will have the votes in the Senate for this”?

          The Dems have got to stop assuming defeat before they even try.

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            1 month ago

            It’s also not beneficial to waste political capital on extreme long shots. Impeach as a matter of principal, but don’t make it a primary focus.