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Eva Porter's avatar

No, Hakeem is NOT our latex salesman.

Now the question is will Dr Cook Costanza her way to work this morning? I hope so.

I always love a Seinfeld reference.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

She’s not been fired. Tr*mp is threatening to illegally fire her. MSM as usual use headlines to assign more power to The Thing than he really has. This is how we’ve been conditioned to perceive his Executive Orders as newly-enacted laws, which they’re not.

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Eva Porter's avatar

So she will go to work today like normal.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

🤷🏻‍♀️

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SethTriggs's avatar

Well as usual the problem with the pricktator's illegal actions (brought to you by Taney Court 2.0!) is Hakeem Jeffries. I don't even know if there are any consultants left. But hell at this point it's probably time to find who the consultants are and name names, or picket Jeffries' office or something. Whomever it is decreed doesn't have strong enough language or usage of video.

So here's my question: clearly if Democrats want Jeffries' head for not fight and not doing more with less, who is running for his seat? As we know, every single House member is up for next year. The pricktator again shows us the way to do campaigns, make them interminable and start early to give an air of invincibility. And Jeffries is supposedly in a safe Dem district, making it easy for someone to take him out. Where is that person?

That person right now could be setting the stage by loudly flaying Jeffries, or at least leveraging negative stories about him via the rightwing media human centipede. "Strip the bark off him," as Lee Atwater would say.

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belfryo's avatar

Bingo. That's what I've been saying. NOW is the time to switch up leadership. Because if we're lucky enough to take back the house (big if obvly) we would have squandered that win by having Jeffries as House Maj leader. I'd go as far to say there's no POINT in taking back the House with him in charge. There needs to be another no kings protest EXPLICITLY focused on Jeffries and Schumer stepping down. In my eyes, they are a soft enemy that needs to be reckoned with. If we got a POTUS candidate to step down, we can do it to these useless tools

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I wouldn’t go that far. Why would there be “no point in taking back the House” with Jeffries as leader?! Come on. And I scarcely think millions of Americans would show up at a No Kings Day-style protest against Jeffries and Schumer. And no, they are NOT the enemy. We know who the enemy is.

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Stephen Robinson's avatar

Very true. I would add, though, that Democratic leadership can't expect to repeat 2019 and 2020. Trump is far more aggressively authoritarian, so once Dems have power, they will be expected to play offense.

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belfryo's avatar
2hEdited

Here's a better way to put it. If the voters can be bothered to show up to flip the house, then the house can show up to give us the leadership we deserve.

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belfryo's avatar
2hEdited

Still worth taking back the house, no doubt, but so much potential will be wasted with Jeffries at the wheel. And yeah, ‘enemy’ was too harsh an assessment. I’ll go with obstacle instead. The moment we took back the house, Jefferies would think that everything was back to normal and that we could go right back to conceding power to the right again. That's my concern.

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SethTriggs's avatar

At this rate I believe Jeffries and Schumer will be gone way before the pricktator or any other person hurting us will.

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Stephen Robinson's avatar

McCarthy lost his job under Biden, and Boehner lost his job under Obama. There should be consequences for leaders who are not fit to the task.

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Cateck's avatar

After the way the DNC treated Hogg and Kenyatta, I'm not expecting any earth shaking primaries. I really hope I'm wrong but between that and Jefferies refusing to endorse Mamdani, it seems like the establishment party dems are circling the wagons. The old guard has to at some point pass the torch, right?

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Jeffries has been a big disappointment.

You are right about video over text in 2025, at least for most people, especially younger ones. I am an exception, don't know if it's my age, 64, or that I'm just different, but it's easier for me to remember text, to the extent that I can remember anything these days, and easier to refer back to if I need a refresher. However, I realize that is not true for a majority of Americans. Dems should act accordingly. Use text by all means, but mostly use videos and make them short (under 5 minutes) to get your point across. Longer videos can be used as well, but make most of them short so as not to lose your audience.

You mentioned consultants, I have felt since the election that Dems should fire theirs, and maybe some have, but most have not, which is why we get such crap from Jeffries, but you are no doubt right that he agrees with the consultants.

Your analysis about Jeffries "strongly worded tweet" is spot on, and on what he SHOULD have focused on as well.

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Amy's avatar

I prefer text myself but I understand I’m an outlier here (also I don’t need democrats to explain to me why this is a problem).

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belfryo's avatar

Exactly. Its not an either or equation. Do BOTH...But ya gotta do video.

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Wm Dawg's avatar

Yes ! More of calling out the Dems of the duopoly’s “ Status quo” caucus . Please and thank you!!

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