Primary Jeffries lol
Great, one more name on the list of “Dipshits who need to be voted out of power”. What a shame /s.
He can do whatever he wants. We have primaries for this very reason.
Progressives basically won control of the DNC. Did the old guard really think they were just going to get to sit there & do nothing?
Ah, yes. The corporate Democrat plan of doing absolutely nothing.
I saw David Hogg on one of the political shows this morning, and watched him defend himself from attacks by both Democrat (and ex-DNC chair) Donna Brazile and Republican Rinse & Repeat, and he came out on top. He wasn’t taking any shit from Rep traitors or weak-ass Dem weenies.
If they thought they were going to humiliate or intimidate him, they figured wrong. He’s not afraid of these old losers from either party. This guy survived a school massacre, and immediately started standing up for governmental change, all while he was a teenager. He’s got more courage than everyone on that stage combined.
He gained a LOT of supporters with that appearance. He needs to be on a lot more shows, and he should be touring with AOC and Bernie.
he will have to drop his gun control stances if he wants any chance of winning.
Uh, no? He’s already been elected to vice chair. In other words, means he won, dumbass.
I love how weirdos on reddit and Lemmy act like gun control is an unpopular stance, when poll after poll shows that’s completely false. Whether you like it or not, most Americans in swing states want stronger gun control laws.
Sanders? Too old now that biden is no longer in office.
AOC? Women suddenly can’t win because she’s seizing the moment.
Hogg? Not pro-school shooting enough.
There is always some excuse for why we can’t move to the left.
No he won’t.
Doubling down on losing. The DNC WANTS Trump in power
The dnc would prefer a hereditary dictatorship led by the trump family to any progressive in any position for any length of time.
Not enough leftists voted for Harris.
A lot of republicans are going to vote “not Trump” because of the damage Trump is doing now. Those votes will be easier to earn than progressive votes.
When leftists don’t show up to vote, the government shifts right.
Democrats lost in 2016 and 2024 by chasing Republicans who they thought would vote, “not Trump.” They won in 2020 by offering a progressive economic vision. There is no evidence to support the idea that Republican voters will be easier to earn.
Trust me guys, this time the Republicans will finally be done with Trump!
“C’mon guys, just a little further to the right and we’ll start winning! Ignore the last four times we lost by doing this and remember the one time it worked in 1992!”
Democrats won the majority of elections since the 90s.
And only one candidate (Clinton) won by going to the right. Obama ran as a progressive (and governed as a centrist-technocrat) while Biden ran on a progressive platform (which he couldn’t get passed because of Manchin and Sinema).
while Biden ran on a progressive platform (which he couldn’t get passed because of Manchin and Sinema).
Well, and because it was a pack of lies from the start.
and 10 other DINOS, machin and sinema were just the lightning rod for critcisim, for the ones that are afraid of getting primaried.
and governed as a centrist-technocrat
This is what got him elected and re-elected. Appealing to centrists
Obama won because he appealed to centrists
Why would a leftist vote for Harris or Biden? They are corporate Democrats who support MAGA and genocide. Leftists should vote for leftists, not Blue MAGA.
Because it is in their best interest to vote for them to prevent Trump from getting elected. Nobody votes for leftists. That’s why they never win elections.
And the leftists never show up. You’d be an absolute fool to rely on them to show up.
Progressives have an extremely high turnout rate, what a bunch of bullshit. You just like blaming us because then you don’t have to face the fact that the DNC leaders that you liars enable are fucking morons.
Every time you lose it’s magically the progressives’ fault. And you fall for it every single time. You can’t even turn out your own so-called “moderate” base, but you’ll never try to find out why. So much easier to play politics instead.
Every time the Dems even look left, they lose. Every single time. Then the next Dem goes to the center and wins. Every single time.
When have they gone center when campaigning and won?
Maybe Obamas 2nd term?
If they dont show up and you dont need their votes, why did Harris lose.
If the leftists can’t show up for their own friggin human rights, they either don’t exist or will literally never ever show up.
republicans didn’t show up to vote for you either. But you want to kiss their asses even harder. I’m starting to think you just like the taste.
Reported for trying to start a slapfight snd moving on.
You don’t have to announce what you do every time you disagree with someone.
There’s a difference between disagreement and you trying to start a slapfight, which is what you tried. Anyway ciao before you continue.
There’s a difference between disagreement and you trying to start a slapfight, which is what you tried.
I mean, that’s one way to say I was right about every last thing I said and that you have no rebuttal. You gonna tell the mods that you think are your pets to ban me because I was right?
Republicans: Democrats are all radical leftists!
Democrats: Fuck the left, we’re all centrist Republicans!
The left: well fuck me I guess. No representation but all the blame…
No representation but all the blame…
Great way of putting it.
We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas, he says while defunding new ideas.
You just have to listen to his “status quo” interviews to see where Jeffries falls. The one he did with Jon Stewart on his Weekly Show podcast … I was just disgusted. And disgusted Jon didn’t come down on him like a sack of hammers. I love Jon but that was sad.
All the interviews Stewart has done were so good and that one infuriated me the most. He really did try and push on him a little but the guy repeatedly avoided saying anything that wasn’t on message and totally useless. Just really pathetic.
I liked pretty much all the guests he has had on but I genuinely came away hating Jeffries. Dude either doesn’t get it or just doesn’t care. Just absolutely infuriating.
Idk, he comes off as too conciliatory so often. He had a guy on a few weeks ago, deep libertarian, and Jon really didn’t do much but agree with his points.
I don’t expect him to be a table-thumping communist in these interviews, but he has an audience that are there because of his views, and letting guests off the hook is something he should save for the TV show, this podcast promises to be (and usually is) more serious about being a political outlet.
When he gets someone on that he agrees with, like Ezra Klein, they get all fired up together and I really enjoy those discussions. I wish he’d get fired up with these Democrats that push the status quo and rip them new assholes.
Yeah, I was quite literally shouting in the car by myself listening to that one. Felt like he was saying the quiet part out loud, they just want people to feel like they’re doing something good, and whatever they actually accomplish doesn’t matter.
He’s not much better of a leader than Schumer, might even be worse in some ways - for one, he’s miserable at communicating to the public. We need a lot better from dem leadership.
At least chuck has the excuse of age, even though he’s always been awful.
Jeffrey wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Nancy
“We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump,” Hogg said. “We have to be a party that doesn’t have a 27 percent approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future. And the way that we change that is making sure that we have some different characters.”
Please do!
he has always been a corporate stooge pretending to be progressive. Dems wouldnt have allowed him to be in that position if they knew he wouldn’t protect the status quo. he can be voted out too.
The title is not supported by the article at all. Here’s the entirety of its quote from Jeffries:
“Here’s the thing,” Jeffries told Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m gonna really focus on trying to defeat Republican incumbents so we can take back control of the House of Representatives and begin the process of ending this national nightmare that’s being visited upon us by far-right extremism.”
It’s at best dodging the question. I assume Jeffries will support his incumbents and isn’t a friend to progressives in general, but this statement isn’t making clear anything.
He just opposed a plan to put money behind progressive candidates.
Progressive candidates in safe seats would allow them a platform to spread progressive messaging, showing americans that the Dems can offer a platform to get excited about, without sacrificing their ability to tack right in specific electorates where that’s tactically sound.
There are seats where the realistic choice is a fascist or a conservative dem. Focusing funds to those battles ensures the democratic party stays conservative, fails to offer a meaningful alternative, and fails to avert fascism.
There are seats where the realistic choice is a fascist or a conservative dem.
To hear centrists talk about it, this is all seats.
“He opposed” as in subtly redirecting the conversation to the preferred narrative of the opposition. He didn’t even say that money shouldn’t be spent, just that he was focused on the battleground seats. Which is barely a bullet point in a daily political activity summary, but became a whole story with a clickbait headline because news is about clicks, not importance.
How many times will the US elect a fascist before they realize the dems cannot be saved so long as they hitch their wagon to the donor class.
Clearly the answer to the dems problems is to push out progressives, bring republicans into the party, and continue supporting genocide. Why has no one thought of this before? Lets try it and see what happens.
I think most Democratic voters are going to associate Israel with Trump, given who their regime has been very vocally supporting. Democratic politicians need to get serious about this issue. Not that I actually expect them to.
Democratic politicians need to get serious about this issue.
Oh they have. They have been serious all along. In favor of netanyahu.
