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.”
This may be the best gif ever made
This gif is gonna get a lot of use over the next few years I can feel it.
She’s the new Mr rogers or for us east Tennessee folk… Dolly Parton.
If you stand against Mrs Rachel… You’re wrong.
Imho
People against Ms Rachel are akin to that time Mr Rogers had to sue the KKK for impersonating him to spread their hate filled message.
Or when Fox News slandered him. At least the KKK was smart enough (barf) to try to imitate his style for evil. Fox is too dumb even for that.
When you attack the helpers, you’re bad.
This gif sparks so much joy!
With my crystal ball, I predict that this gif is gonna become the hottest commodity in the world roughly twice every two years in May and November for a while.
I’m here to invest early
Don’t forget about states with off year elections! Virginia legislature and governor elections are on odd years, and I’m sure we’re not alone. Every year is an election year!
yoinks to hdd. Thanks for sharing this!
Well played!
What’s this from??? Is there a miss Rachel mamdani crossover?
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
Ms. Rachel
Anybody got a link to the full video lol?!
DNC leadership is pathetic. They have the most popular political leader in the country standing right alongside them and they can’t even support the guy, all because they lack the spine to tell their Israeli paylords to suck nut. Fucking corpo leech cowards.
They’re not cowards. They know exactly what they’re doing. Mamdani doesn’t play ball with their established process. He is a threat to their paychecks and control. Mamdani just indicated to all of them “You might be the next one to lose your job if I decide I want someone else in your district”.
They are not cowards. They are strategists prioritizing their own wants above that of the voters and human decency
They are strategists prioritizing their own wants above that of the voters and human decency
Right, that’s what we said. Cowards.
Greed and selfishness aren’t a form of cowardice, as far as I’m aware? To be cowardly, there must be a thing you are afraid of, the fear of which is preventing you from doing something you want or feel that you need to do
Don’t let them off with just being scared. They’re selfish and amoral
greed is the fear of not having.
No, it’s really not, and you give them too much credit by saying that.
Greed for these people is about having the biggest dick in the room. It’s about superiority and “winning”.
It’s far more distasteful than fear
EDIT: And furthermore, having fear doesn’t make you a coward. Cowardice is, again, when there is something you want or think you should do but you refuse due to fear of something.
They just want to be rich. Even if it’s fear of poverty, that’s not cowardice.
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Avarice != Cowardice
Being brave is doing the right thing despite being scared. Being a coward is doing the wrong thing because you’re scared of doing what you know is right. Jefferies is scared of AIPAC, he’s scared of losing the money and power they lend him.
I appreciate that you picked up what I was putting down. So little room for artistry in written communication, nowadays.
I don’t believe he thinks he’s wrong. I think he believes he’s doing the right thing
Again, you give these people too much credit
He’s not scared of doing what’s right. He doesn’t want to do what’s right. There’s a big difference.
He knows better than any of us exactly what Israel is doing to the people of Palestine. He knows it’s wrong, he gets the top secret versions of the stuff we see with children being blown up to pieces.
But he’s scared that if says something against Israel his career is over. They really are cowards.
whoa whoa whoa, if we’re talking SPECIFICALLY about whether they will speak out against Israel, then yes I agree they are cowards.
That’s a very specific issue though. And not indicative of their overall position IMO
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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.
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.”
More like establishment Dems are scared they’ll finally have to do work at all. Why don’t you write a strongly worded letter to Mamdani? Or is that too harsh an action given that’s the same level of opposition you’ve had against Trump?
What work to do? He’s mayor of NYC, he doesn’t need to explain shit to jefferies or any other national congressperson.
“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.
Jeffries needs to get his ass on the train or get left behind.
He’s not invited on the train. He should be tied to the tracks.
Jeffries is a dead man walking. I hope his ass gets primaried in the future.
Hey Jeffy, get fucked.
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.
It makes more sense when you realize they’re just the paid opposition party all these years. It explains all the ratchet effects and lack of real social progress.
I think it’s probably more complicated than that, like sure lots of people in the party end up as paid opposition and certainly the longer they are in Washington making the kinds of compromises they have to make to get anything done the better they get at rationalizing those decisions. But I wholly agree that things need to change from what they are
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?
The point of democracy is getting a paycheck from AIPAC as far as DNC leadership is concerned.
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.
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.
I agree that nearly no countries are direct democracies. But most people don’t really know the difference. Just look how many people assume trump was the choice of the majority of americans. They don’t know what the elctoral college even does. They think that they are in a direct democrqcy, though they don’t know the name.
Cynicisim itself does not mean one doesn’t participate in the process. I onow how it work, I know how badly the cards are stacked against me, but I vote anyway. And I read up on the local elections to make an informed decision. But I know that of the few who do vote, the majority don’t spend much time reading up on cadadites.
And the establishment wins not because it is better organized, but because it has contol of more money.
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.
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.
congress serves the people, not their dem friends. The People
They work for us.
The only power they have is because we LET them have it.
Most of them need to be reminded. Very very much.
Oh how fucking adorable that Jeffries thinks Mamdani answers to him.
How long did Jeffries wait to endorse Mamdani as the NYC mayoral candidate?
Maybe it stings that Mamdani’s successes so far have come despite support from Democrat leadership. Just shows what taking your job as a public servant seriously can do.
If Jeffers gave one single fuck about America he’d step down
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.
