Not to get all consultant but basic common sense would tell us that the big takeaways on Trump firing Cook are (1) this is illegal shit from a fucking aspiring dictator and (2) it affects you, Joe Public, because Trump is going to drive up inflation and leave the Fed unable to do anything about it. (Cut the shit about how unfair it is to Cook—she’s going to be fine personally and good luck getting Jane Sixpack to care about what happens to a woman about to step into a seven figure salary job after this)
Put it in simple terms—“dictator fucko is breaking the law to make inflation go up—you will suffer because Republicans are letting him do this.” No need for anything deeper.
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.
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.
No but I think it would be even more important, because obviously there isn’t any leadership, people assert. So there’s no point in him being in office. Democrats don’t do legislation anymore, so legislative skills no longer matter. So the only job is talking tough and hoping people actually share it and folks know they’re talking. Here’s one example of this: It took several days for people on sites I follow to talk about how Wes Moore was countering the pricktator’s proposed attacks on Baltimore. Because that’s not good at farming anti-Democratic outrage. And also Dems don’t like sharing Democratic social media hits except for a blessed few (and oddly enough, Newsom, which is now becoming another outrage farm field).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah and I think the task is a whole lot easier when it involves destruction. That's part of the secret sauce here. Entropy is the Republicans' best friend. Hell, Ryan lost his job because he couldn't pull that off.
At this point I just want to see names and why those people named haven't thrown their hats in the ring. Because that's telling me that Jeffries and Schumer are just ablative armor to protect their brands otherwise.
I just disagree that what the GOP does is "destruction." It is destructive but there's a difference. They have a clear agenda and they are executing on it. And even if what liberals wish to achieve is harder, that just means we have to raise the bar on what we demand from them.
But the agenda really is destruction. If the federal government's ability to oversee is destroyed, that removes the protections against the minorities they hate (or at least their constituents hate). This is also why they champion states' rights so much; states' rights are only rock-solid nowadays when they involve discriminating against a minority that the unreconstructed hate.
You can raise the bar but in a broken post-Gingrich Congress also hobbled by pay-go that greater demand is just that...greater demand. Frankly given that Dem voters left all that progressive legislation on the table, I am convinced many of them just want lots of grand futile gestures with people who make dunks that make them feel good, and then people can feel nice and pure that they didn't have to compromise or dirty themselves. And the outrage content farms will be flush for years on.
'cause seriously that's a HUGE problem that someone like, say Shouty Jordan over in Ohio is pretty much safe. The perverse incentives are massive. We would have to be actually be electing trolls like that audacious dingbat with the trans people/black people sign at Spanberger's rally to match that level of malevolence. And of course, like Lee Atwater, the unreconstructed media arms are going to make the audacious dingbat Spanberger's running mate.
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?
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.
Not to get all consultant but basic common sense would tell us that the big takeaways on Trump firing Cook are (1) this is illegal shit from a fucking aspiring dictator and (2) it affects you, Joe Public, because Trump is going to drive up inflation and leave the Fed unable to do anything about it. (Cut the shit about how unfair it is to Cook—she’s going to be fine personally and good luck getting Jane Sixpack to care about what happens to a woman about to step into a seven figure salary job after this)
Put it in simple terms—“dictator fucko is breaking the law to make inflation go up—you will suffer because Republicans are letting him do this.” No need for anything deeper.
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.
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.
So she will go to work today like normal.
🤷🏻♀️
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.
They don't need to primary him to remove him from leadership.
No but I think it would be even more important, because obviously there isn’t any leadership, people assert. So there’s no point in him being in office. Democrats don’t do legislation anymore, so legislative skills no longer matter. So the only job is talking tough and hoping people actually share it and folks know they’re talking. Here’s one example of this: It took several days for people on sites I follow to talk about how Wes Moore was countering the pricktator’s proposed attacks on Baltimore. Because that’s not good at farming anti-Democratic outrage. And also Dems don’t like sharing Democratic social media hits except for a blessed few (and oddly enough, Newsom, which is now becoming another outrage farm field).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
At this rate I believe Jeffries and Schumer will be gone way before the pricktator or any other person hurting us will.
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.
Yeah and I think the task is a whole lot easier when it involves destruction. That's part of the secret sauce here. Entropy is the Republicans' best friend. Hell, Ryan lost his job because he couldn't pull that off.
At this point I just want to see names and why those people named haven't thrown their hats in the ring. Because that's telling me that Jeffries and Schumer are just ablative armor to protect their brands otherwise.
I just disagree that what the GOP does is "destruction." It is destructive but there's a difference. They have a clear agenda and they are executing on it. And even if what liberals wish to achieve is harder, that just means we have to raise the bar on what we demand from them.
But the agenda really is destruction. If the federal government's ability to oversee is destroyed, that removes the protections against the minorities they hate (or at least their constituents hate). This is also why they champion states' rights so much; states' rights are only rock-solid nowadays when they involve discriminating against a minority that the unreconstructed hate.
You can raise the bar but in a broken post-Gingrich Congress also hobbled by pay-go that greater demand is just that...greater demand. Frankly given that Dem voters left all that progressive legislation on the table, I am convinced many of them just want lots of grand futile gestures with people who make dunks that make them feel good, and then people can feel nice and pure that they didn't have to compromise or dirty themselves. And the outrage content farms will be flush for years on.
'cause seriously that's a HUGE problem that someone like, say Shouty Jordan over in Ohio is pretty much safe. The perverse incentives are massive. We would have to be actually be electing trolls like that audacious dingbat with the trans people/black people sign at Spanberger's rally to match that level of malevolence. And of course, like Lee Atwater, the unreconstructed media arms are going to make the audacious dingbat Spanberger's running mate.
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?
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.
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).
Exactly. Its not an either or equation. Do BOTH...But ya gotta do video.
Yes ! More of calling out the Dems of the duopoly’s “ Status quo” caucus . Please and thank you!!