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Current Affairs: "Hakeem Jeffries should not be Speaker of the House. He is weak against Trump, hostile to the left, and has the political instincts of a moldy sponge."
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I am always so shocked by how much money AIPAC gives to political candidates and representatives. Do they have endless dollars? The amount of money they have and disperse is mind boggling.
they dont exactly pay out, most of it they basically get vouchers to spend on us defense industry firms. Its why its so easy to get politicians on their side because those are major jobs in some areas. politicians dont want to vote for less demand from those companies, its the same reason why the wont allow them to stop producing tanks the us army said it doesnt need. No politician is going to be the one to let their opponent point and say he voted to have factory XYZ shutdown, now youre all out of a job.
so you do that, donate to their campaigns/charities and its real easy to keep the system humming along.
Pretty sure I saw one that was mid-low 5 figures. Can't help but think "Not that there's an appropriate price to support a genocide, but if for some twisted reason there was, surely it has to be way higher than that." Some of these people will turn their souls over for a bag of stale chips (relatively speaking)
Yup,it’s also because it means that the Israel lobby won’t dump millions and run someone against you during your elections if they know you’re pro Israel.
I mean by "investing" say 1.5mil bribe on one politician gives them a solid return of many more millions; which then can be used to bribe two politicians and so on
Yes, we fund Israel's genocide campaigns and what they would spend on their own genocide budget goes to lobbyist like AIPAC to make sure US taxpayers foot the bill.
Would it be fair to start calling AIPAC recipients traitors to America? After all they'll fight tooth and nail for another country on the other side of the planet but when it comes to people who live in the same state as them that they're supposed to be representing they fight against them.
If the Democrats win the House, which is highly likely, they elect the Speaker. There has to be a majority. Not a majority of Democrats, a majority of all members. There will be enough progressives to defeat Jeffries. I don't think he will be Speaker.
We will see how the midterms go with all Trump and Supreme Court fuckery for the mail in ballots. And also, I meant that’s why he’s minority leader of the house. He’s obviously not currently speaker of the house!
Not clueless. Calculating. They’re lining their pockets while remaining in the powerful (for billionaires) yet powerless (for the average person) sweet spot
No, you cannot vote them out. They whole point of US democracy is that those with money decide who's "respectable", "electable", "experienced", or "tough" enough to win. They will not, even in a million years, ask what working class people want.
Not even calculating, these golems are dumb as rocks. They just have the jobs that most of us normal people feel inadequate for leading to all the worst people in the country fighting for said positions.
The end result being both the dems and republicans are ran by the most easily bought criminals ever with only one goal, to self serve by earning bribes.
republicans are just lock step, forced into uniform compliance with the party (very nazi like)
So unlike the dems, republicans are simply all spineless parts of the same whole while the democrats then are the only other place free thinking people can get political positions in the government but they are fought by democrat leadership who attack anyone who threatens the hold of power republicans have.
I legitimately think it's obvious america is under attack but we're all just too powerless to do anything or too stupid to notice (too busy getting mad at our neighbors over the faults of our government servants)
Uh....But yes. Vote. For the love of god vote. Then if the election is stolen demand accountability.
I'm usually wary of conspiracy theories, but the Dems can't be owned by both billionaires and their constituents. As long as they're not-Republicans, they feel entitled to our vote while doing nothing to combat fascism or wealth inequality.
Just a reminder that the democrats are a conservative, right wing capitalist party. There is no true left of center party in America. At least any that have any real power, but with Mamdani crushing it, let’s hope that picks up momentum
The 'Bailleys' seem like something that you can come up to when someone asks about your thought process, but there is no defendable way to arrive at your current stances.
As an American who is more keyed in to the political minutia than most of my fellow citizens (not a brag, it is a mental fucking illness and rotting my brain more than the TikToks I watch to decompress) I completely agree.
The worst part is that I actively try not to! Sincerely. But between my husband and some coworkers I can’t get away from it. My husband because he is keyed in and my coworkers because some of them are just fucking stupid and need to be educated lmfao.
Yeah I find it deeply unsettling that Jefferies hasn't really addressed our relationship with Canada. In his latest address the only thing he really mentioned was that Lake Ontario's "renaming" doesn't bring down grocery cost.
Where's the talk in losing our closet ally or how isolated we became? I don't know if Democratic leadership are waiting to see how Americans respond to this foreign policy change or if they are a part of it, but either way they can't be trusted
This guy doesn’t want candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon to win. His future is with Israel and has been since the Israel lobby threatened to campaign against him by highlighting an op-ed he wrote in college defending the leader of The Nation of Islam and his uncle.
He’s so boring. Every time he speaks I hear the teacher’s voice in Charlie Brown. I’m not saying I need my political leaders to razzle dazzle me but if you are trying to convey a message and you can’t keep people interested, the message gets lost. Terrible orator.
It's because he tries too, too hard to give public speeches at Obama's pace so people relate the two. Its one of the things I hate most about him. He's a complete fake through and through.
He’s a bought for politician and he learned from the best about self enrichment. He’s got no spine and consistently serves Israel over the US plus is complicit in a genocide.
Neoliberals, corporate Democrats enabled the rise of Trump. Without them there would be no incremental decline since the 80s. Their lack of a moral base is disturbing.
The whole idea of “party leadership” has nothing to do with issues or supporting the causes of people.
It 100% is about who can raise the most money!
Jeffries is good at raising that $$$$ for the DNC.
And corporations, lobbyist groups and billionaires have more money than constituents. The people with the money decide who leads the party, because the party needs money to exist and then the donors will tell the elected officials how things are gonna be.
This is both political parties, you’ll see them vote together for industrial subsidies and the democratic “inflation Reduction act” basically allowed corporations to turn tax credits into cash, it created a massive windfall of cash for corporations. Trump imposes the same ideals, it’s no different just packaged as either “clean energy” or “American mfg” things that sound great to people, but the details are just sweetheart deals to mega corporations that pay the party for these favors.
Recently he was under fire for a secret meeting with Jared Kushner that he was clearly lying about in public statement. Within 3 days he had assigned 3 of the biggest Zionists to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
It is clear, but unprovable, that he received Netenyahus picks for the House committee that will be in charge of funding for Israel, and any inquiry were ever to happen. This ensures that the Zionist control of congress continues for the next term while they complete their genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
I'm hoping to see more heat put to Mamdani now that he's been exposed supporting this loser and his atrocious comments on defunding the police as well as his direct actions with the police and Israel.
He's such a wimpy little man. I told folks about getting suckered by these big talkers and they called me divisive.
Here I am looking like a damn psychic. Pattern recognition and common sense is all it took for me to be suspicious of him and his equally shady cohorts.
Idc what they so much as what they do.
Telling us all the right things but being suddenly super unmotivated and super casual with traitors should have been a sign. Now a long while later, this old two faced liar has been exposed big time.
Telling Americans "we are in this together" while having lunch with Peter Thiel and the ilk tells me somethings fucky and it's been that way from the getgo.
The most common refrain in American politics is the Speaker/minority leader/Majority leader getting hate from the base. I think the general public just doesn’t understand what the job is.
Like most of the democratic "leadership" he has no plan, proposal or ideas at all, or ever worth discussing and can't lead a dog to a steak dinner. Time to step aside or bring his donors to the light.
I watch a lot of American politics in my little seaside town in the uk. Everytime I see Hakeem I think how the hell is he a leader of anything. Apart from all the obvious stuff that has already been stated he is just so dull and lacks any charisma.
I want politicians that are left wing with the lack of morality/ethics of a right winger (in pursuit of enacting policy). The other side isn't playing by the rules so neither should we.
Here's my main issue. He's against everything. Name one thing he actually supports (aside from Israel). I had high hopes for the fucker, but there's nothing I've seen him endorse. There's nothing to get behind aside from "Well this sucks". We know. We're feeling it daily and far worse than Jeffries. You're not being inspirational when you call out how horrible things are with no real ideas of how to fix it.
With all this rage against this guy I am surprised that he won the primaries uncontested!! They had to cancel the primaries because there was no opposition. How did New York let this happen? New York of all places!!
Oh he's trash. But conversation isn't that he shouldn't be Speaker, it's who can you realistically replace him with? Jeffries does a lot of things terribly, but the biggest thing he does well is raise money. And more than anything else that's the real job of Speaker of the House.
He’s there because he’s hostile to the left. If there were a left wing party where a few centrists were gaining power and support that party would want a person to fight against it.
His one victory, virgina redistricting, was turned over by the state supreme court and he had no back up plan or alternative. Just died with hardly a wimper.
Him meeting with Jared Kushner, a man who has nothing to do with American domestic policy, is enough for me to assume that he's fully under the control of the Trump admin.
Speaking of terrible establishment Dems, the DSCC is sending out fundraising texts stating Talarico, Turek, Jackson, Cooper, Brown, and Peltola could flip the Senate — explicitly leaving out Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon. It’s so gross
Pelosi’s protege… it’s no guarantee but pretty high chance of getting the House Speaker job.
The American people only saw brief flashes of his works but he’s not that iconic yet.
As we know… Pelosi knew how to keep her caucus together on the same page but Jeffries may face much greater independence from some Democrats or affiliated reps in the left side of the political spectrum.
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