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!
Lol likewise
Well played!
He smiles even when he cries.
What’s this from??? Is there a miss Rachel mamdani crossover?
I seriously love this guy. Seeing his face just makes me happy. He gives me so much hope for the world.
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?!
Mamdani doesn’t have to smooth things over with anybody.
Also, it’s pretty silly that Jeffries would say he needs to have conversations with “members of congress,” seeing as those people lost, so they won’t be members of congress for very much longer.
Also, he’s the mayor of NYC, what the fuck does Congress have to say about anything he does?
Jeffries is acting like his own picks are the word of god and isn’t taking responsibility for the fact that he’s a milquetoast centrist who accepts AIPAC money and that the voters don’t like his picks.
Maybe if Mamdani’s picks are the ones who won the primaries then that just means Mamdani is more in touch with the average democratic voter. Maybe Mamdani should be the house minority leader, eh?
Mamdani isn’t the one who has to explain himself.
Federal Democrats are just the other side of a corrupt oligarch coin. Of course they are scared.
It’s not as simple as that. Many are, yes, but there’s also the progressive caucus and many who refuse to compromise on their integrity. AOC, Raskin, and many others.
Conversely, as someone already pointed out, there are also corrupt, corporatist state Dems, and probably even local ones too. It’s not the level of government that makes the corruption, it’s the sources of funding and how those influence their voting record.
Are they primarily funded by small donors and grassroots effort, or large donors and shadowy PACs? Do they serve their constituents or the oligarchy? These are the indicators we should focus on, not whether they’re state, local, or federal.
The problem with the Democratic Party establishment is that it’s run by milquetoast, centrist, corporatist Dems who in any sane country would be considered center-right. There are plenty of disruptors within that party and they’re gaining a lot of momentum and influence, but they just haven’t risen to the echelons of Democrat leadership yet. I think they will within our lifetimes, if we can pull our democracy out of this death spiral with the constitutional order still intact.
Honestly, I think the silver lining to all that’s happening now is that it’s really spurring people towards the progressives. And as people continue to see in larger numbers that progressive policy works (as in, it actually helps ordinary people and also as in it’s an electable platform), I think that momentum will become unstoppable.
I don’t want to jinx anything but within the next few election cycles I think we’re going to start seeing the progressive caucus really start to increase their influence and eventually claim a majority within the Democratic Party.
And hopefully that happens as the Republican party continues to fracture and shoot itself in the feet repeatedly as their ship sinks faster and faster, because all they know how to do is subvert, slander, lie, and manipulate, and people are catching on.
milquetoast, centrist, corporatist Dems
Will absolutely be the death of the democratic party,…
…and many state-level too, like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener. (As a Californian I am compelled to work “Fuck Newsom” into as many comments as possible.)
Commendable!
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.
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
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
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
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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?
“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.
What work to do? He’s mayor of NYC, he doesn’t need to explain shit to jefferies or any other national congressperson.
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
It’s not at all complicated. R&D vote in lockstep for corporate issues. They only differ on policies that affect living voters.
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.
This dumbass “republic not democracy” take has got to die already.
It’s true. 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.
Nobody means direct democracy when they say democracy. That’s not really a thing
You can speak for every single person on the planet. Oh, my bad. Just ust be right than.
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.
Jeffries and Booker are whores. AIPAC owned whores who would 100% pull a Clarence Thomas for enough money.
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.
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’s a traitor to regular people and workers everywhere.
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.
