House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.
Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.
Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”
The DNC is scared. They see what happened to the old guard Republicans (centrist) they started losing to more right leaning candidates. Now those leaders are gone and we have a crazy right leaning “leadership” in power. The DNC doesn’t want that to happen to them as well. Yet, I think it’s inevitable, we’ve swung too far right and there is too much pent up anger for the centrist to keep power.
They aren’t centrists though. They aren’t anything really. They are all bought and paid for by Israel.
Why do we send them billions every month? Because it reaches them, they skim off the top, and put much it directly in the pockets of congress. How else do they leave office rich? It’s a giant money laundering scheme at our expense.
yep. If they lose their primaries they lose their cash cow which is why they are scared and you can see it the way the lash out at progressive candidates. They know their fucked if there is a competent opponent.
“TOP Democrat” Needs to realign himself to the new political reality that being “republican light” is only going to lose them votes and seats.
The PEOPLE want better!
Mandami and the Democratic Socialists are what people will actually come out and actually vote for. Jeffries needs to get his ass on the train or get left behind.
he has to apologize for being aligned with what voters want? isn’t that, as political scientists call it, the whole fucking point of democracy?
You of course know that america isn’t really a democracy. It’s a republic by design. And of course what it is in reality is a whole nuther something.
It is a democracy, just a shitty type of one. There’s a bunch of different types and only like one is direct representation where every citizen votes on every issue and every time humans have tried that, they get real particular about what qualifies as citizen so it’s all more or less the same. Anyway, if you’re past high school you should probably retire that line of thinking because it’s reductive, useless, and actually false.
Also, I would like to see a workable plan for increasing what we vite for without going full direct. But it’s really hard to remove the influence advertising can have on such thing.
When people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy. That ain’t what we got. We have a representative democracy, often called a republic. And even at that, the party establishment control who we can even vote for. So we only get to choose from the representatives they give us for the most part. So what we have is the illusion of choice.
Nowhere in the world has that form of direct democracy.
Hm, you should maybe google that before you say it.
Provide example. Because there’s no place that has a complete direct democracy with every citizen voting on every piece of legislation like you say.
You put added words that I didn’t say. Nice try. The specifics you picked out tell me you already know the answer. Good job googling. Clearly you also know your are wrong, so now you are trying to change the statement to fit your interpretation of what I said. Fancy.
This dumbass “republic not democracy” take has got to die already.
It’s true. When people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy. That ain’t what we got. We have a representative democracy, often called a republic. And even at that, the party establishment control who we can even vote for. So we only get to choose from the representatives they give us for the most part.
Nobody means direct democracy when they say democracy. That’s not really a thing
You can speak for every single person on the planet. Oh, my bad. Just ust be right than.
A republic is a type of democracy. Specifically, it’s a representative democracy.
When people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy.
And even at that, the party establishment control who we can even vote for. So we only get to choose from the representatives they give us for the most part.When people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy.
This just isn’t true. The majority of democracies around the world today are representative democracies, and people colloquially refer to them simply as democracies.
And even at that, the party establishment control who we can even vote for. So we only get to choose from the representatives they give us for the most part.
That’s partly true to varying degrees depending on what country you’re referring to, but it also isn’t that simple. The methods the establishment uses to control who gets party nominations are mostly indirect (i.e. media manipulating the narrative, PACs and dark money to campaigns, etc.). I think you’re being overly cynical - which is fair - but we have more power than you think we do, we’re just not very good at using it. Cynicism itself is one of the ways that the establishment controls who gets elected.
In short: the establishment has a stranglehold on democracy not because our democracies are fake (flawed, maybe even rigged a bit, sure, but not fake), but because they have us out-organized.
A representative democracy like the US and a republic are literally the same fucking thing
Yes, I was being lazy typing. But when people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy. And based on context, that was the meaning I took.
Take a way the overt racism and bigotry and the DNC and GOP leadership play the same game for the same team.
The point of democracy is getting a paycheck from AIPAC as far as DNC leadership is concerned.
Only through unity and voting for progressives will the US make it out of this quagmire against the Nazi Magats.
It’s time for the liberals to vote blue no matter who.
As long as they push hard progressive in the primaries.
Apologies, I meant it more like the moderate/New York Times liberals need to vote blue no matter who
Sorry, yeah, totally agree.
Man don’t do my man Lurch like that. Clearly Jeffries is a fishman from Innsmouth.
Don’t insult the Deep Ones like that. Jeffries is like the toilet paper stuck to your shoe as you walk out of the bathroom.
You leave useful, functional toilet paper out of this. Jeffries is basically Chthulu in a suit.
Nah Cthulu is willing to exercise power. Bro’s a blobfish, through and through. “But they only look like that from extreme decompression!” Bro do you know how tight AIPAC’s assholes really are?
mamdani endorsed zionist and zionist won, who cares
TIL anyone who doesn’t outright call for the extermination of jews is a zionist.
thanks for proving you are a zionist by amplifying the point of the left wanting to exterminate the jews. Its not my problem 90% jews are zionists
brad lander, one of the endorsed candidates is a rabid zionist.
Damn those rabid zionists and their:
and their:
I don’t think you actually care. It’s just something you use to criticize progressive liberals because they’re not commies.
“work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”
Hilarious that he’s so worked up about a fucking mayor… Like what is Congress going to do to a mayor if he doesn’t want to talk to congressional members?
Stern finger-wagging like they’ve been doing to Trump for a fucking decade. Feckless idiots.
Vote blue no matter who, Jeffries.
Fuck any congressional Democrats that are upset they are getting ousted for progressive candidates…you work for us not them
I just wrote letters to both Jeffries and Schumer telling both of them to throw their full support behind the candidates who won or resign
Most likely, it won’t do much; a drop in a bucket.
But enough drops can fill a bucket, and enough letters can at least bog down their mail handlers, send a message and hopefully get on their nerves.
bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo
Yes. And primaries are when you can put a better blue who on the ballot.
Maybe it’s Jeffries who has some serious work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with American voters moving forwards.
What work to do? He’s mayor of NYC, he doesn’t need to explain shit to jefferies or any other national congressperson.
Oh how fucking adorable that Jeffries thinks Mamdani answers to him.
Of course he reacts like that he’s Israel’s bitch.
So now both Democrats and Republicans are going to use facebook’s and Instagram and content creators to highlight and spread content about how bad Mamdani is doing. Which they have ease of access now since the political left removed themselves from all digital conservations and spaces that are not 100% left.
Which spaces are you talking about that the political left has removed themselves from?
I’m guessing Twitter. Dunno who you’re gonna convince and that dumpster fire tho.
Twitter, Facebook and even reddit to a lesser extend during the 2024 exodus. APIs also had a coordinated lock down across all of them around 2024 as well.
I assert nothing online at this scale is grass roots. The internet is much more tightly controlled than I think we want to admit.
I think comments from leftist spaces like “Don’t roll with pigs” or that they’re leaving these spaces was a coordinated astro turf to clean them up to prepare for next election cycle.
