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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.”
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This gif sparks so much joy!
This gif is gonna get a lot of use over the next few years I can feel it.
What’s this from??? Is there a miss Rachel mamdani crossover?
Well played!
He smiles even when he cries.
Who’s the guy on the right?
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Oh lol
Who is the woman on the left?
Mother Theresa but good
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.
Take a way the overt racism and bigotry and the DNC and GOP leadership play the same game for the same team.
Fuck Jeffries, he is not a “top Democrat” he’s been a lame duck for all but two weeks of this term because neoliberals lost the DNC and the accompanying victory fund right after his leadership election.
He has no political power in congress, and no one from his own party has reason to listen to him.
He might as well be an empty chair, but he definitely ain’t winning a House leadership position again.
He also just sucks. After the interview he did with Jon Stewart on his podcast, I really knew more than ever what an empty shell of a person he was. I was ambivalent before that but that was the final straw I think. He needs to go. We need real leadership in the Democratic party and he’s not it.
what an empty shell of a person he was.
That’s his purpose…
He was handpicked by Pelosi, and a biased DNC threatened to bankrupt any state party who’s reps didn’t vote for him.
The current DNC has been dumping that money back on state parties for almost two years now. Even if someone thought they might pull the same shit, they won’t have the funds to do it by then, and the state parties are already funded.
The “victory fund” was the stick neoliberals used, and Martin broke it into pieces and passed it around. It the bottom up structure the Dem party was always meant to have.
Mr Jeffries,
I am appalled that you, or any Democrats, think that you get to pick who it is that we, the people, vote for. You are a representative for us. You need to smooth things over with the American people because these others were voted in not because Mamdani is a cult of personality, but because they are doing and saying things the people like and want.
When you and the party can do something successfully, such as codify LGBTQ rights (I.e., gay marriage, trans rights, etc), eliminate corporate government influence, ensure proper health care, and a laundry list of other things then maybe we can take you and your “preferred choices” seriously. Until then, watch change happen from the people that actually have to be in the trenches dealing with all of the American government’s fuckery. Please sit down, kindly shut up, and do your job of representing the people’s needs and not presenting your next potential colleague.
Sincerely,
An American Voter in Illinois
High Five!
I am so tempted to send this as an actual email to his team along with a link to the attached article.
I hope you do. And I would like to see the form letter that you receive in response.
Ah yes the house Democrats known for their fervor, backbone and hard fought results.
You can’t even threaten an enemy properly and you are gonna threaten a fellow Democrat? Fuckin traitors. And they would be dealt with accordingly.
What work to do? He’s mayor of NYC, he doesn’t need to explain shit to jefferies or any other national congressperson.
How about Dem leadership has some “serious work to do” to smooth things over with New York voters for failing to represent them?
Welcome to actual democracy, fuck face. Jeffries is an embarrassment. You want your shitty candidates to win? Put up better candidates. Mamdani isn’t a congressional rep. He can do whatever the fuck he wants and Jefferies can cry about it to Israel, his true ally.
Hey Jeffy, get fucked.
Jeffries is a dead man walking. I hope his ass gets primaried in the future.
Jeffries can suck a fart through a hose. Calling that man inept would be a grave insult to the proud, inept people of the world.
Fuck off with that, DINO
Mamdani for president!
Jeffries and Booker are whores. AIPAC owned whores who would 100% pull a Clarence Thomas for enough money.
Oh where’s that big tent at guys?
Well, its right here in my pants after seeing those awesome primary results.
I got a whole mountain poking outta there
Hey Hakeem, EAT SHIT!
