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profgalloway.com • 38 days ago

From our live @ragingmoderates.bsky.social at @92ndstreety.bsky.social.

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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ruticious.bsky.social•38 days ago

Soooo we are assuming there will actually be elections in the future???

trans-porta-potty.bsky.social•37 days ago

Centrist blowhards who stand in front of cameras as the "leader" of the minority party and say "geez there's nothing we can do, guys!!" don't deserve your time. Interview people willing to fight, not politicians. The days of "politicians" need to be sunsetted.

sixfootfourman.bsky.social•38 days ago

I’d say they don’t focus on going on book tours and instead focus on stopping Trump in whatever way they can. See Hollen for ref.

brooklynamerican.bsky.social•37 days ago

How about Jeffries tells us how he'll help us survive 2025 and 2026?

tonytric.bsky.social•38 days ago

I have so little faith in that man.

worldundercurrent.bsky.social•35 days ago

Gdamn, I agree with ALL the comments here…
I assume Jeffries winning strategy is to resign and appoint AOC, Bernie, and Tim Walz to lead the party???

jules120.bsky.social•38 days ago

Hakeem is not the leader we need right now. He's stuck in the old playbooks. We need outrage and energy and endless lawsuits and shaming of every elected Republican.

sander001.bsky.social•38 days ago

He used to be decent before caving to AIPAC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/hakeem-jeffries-endoreses-ilhan-omar-aipac-00113394

okgrown.bsky.social•38 days ago

@sanders.senate.gov
&
@aoc.bsky.social
Have some ideas …maybe
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should take some notes

godsammitdam.bsky.social•37 days ago

Jeffries? I assume he'll say Dems can win by "meeting the moment" by "playing a strong game" or even "hitting the balls that matter."

Yeah, I'll pass on the guy who takes donations from big oil companies.

Dems will win by embracing those who meet the moment.
@aoc.bsky.social
@sanders.senate.gov

godsammitdam.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh look, he talks about how we'll do better, he talks about the past acts. What's the headline you're using going forward? What's your alternative vision for what's going on right now? How are you going to meet the moment to ensure we'll have 26/28 elections? The SAVE act ain't helping.

hansbkk.bsky.social•38 days ago

Read as Aging Moderates

vegassteve702.bsky.social•37 days ago

Elect new leadership to start

codeben.bsky.social•36 days ago

There won’t be a freaking mid term elections if Trump gets his way. It’s gonna be a Gaddafi style dictatorship in less than 2 months. He is going to start using the FBI to imprison political enemies. I don’t think the Democratic Party understands the gravity of what they are fighting against.

codeben.bsky.social•37 days ago

Here in lies the problem. Jeffries is approaching the current crisis we are in with a traditional approach to winning. Let’s deal with it in 2026.That is not going to work. Trump’s goal is to dismantle the whole framework so that elections will become a thing of the past or just rigged aka Russia.

codeben.bsky.social•36 days ago

Honestly, I don’t think Jeffries has the aggressiveness to react quickly and be 2 steps ahead in this crisis. Every time he talks it looks like he just woke up from a nap.

esluke.bsky.social•37 days ago

You and Jessica did a great job with that interview. Appreciated that you didn’t pull your punches. Still not hearing that Jeffries gets this moment right. Sounded more like business as usual.

friggitbird.bsky.social•37 days ago

If they let unbridled fascism run rampant until the midterms there will not be real elections ever again. You have to squash this now, they are at their most vulnerable right now and every day they get away with more that vulnerability shrinks

jmcgin1.bsky.social•37 days ago

“Oratory Flourish” — classic and deserved. His oratory flourish was tempered by your calling him out on the Pelosi call option trades.

ianmackay.bsky.social•38 days ago

Like the UK, everything comes back to wealth inequality. That's the central issue of our time - either address it or see the far-right (and their billionaire backers) continue to rise in one guise or another.

clarkethecynic.bsky.social•38 days ago

Hakeem is great for giving advice how to shrink the Democrats to a fringe party that will never win an election.

bonfire25.bsky.social•38 days ago

Well damn! Haven't heard @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social that articulate before! That was great.

galactus1999.bsky.social•37 days ago

It hasn't even been 6 months and they're already hunting people down they don't like. Democrats thinking they can wait 2 years to win is foolish.

foodlesweaver.bsky.social•36 days ago

Personally, I have no use for this guy. He’s an old Corporate Democrat, in a younger guy’s body.

williamladislaw.bsky.social•38 days ago

Well, JD Vance is a big nothing so he can't run and win. 🤣😂🤭

geekemeritus.bsky.social•37 days ago

This is overwhelming BS. ‼️
Looking behind what he says you discover that it is really "give us more money and we can do stuff', but never says what "stuff" is. No plan = No success.

geekemeritus.bsky.social•37 days ago

The first problem the democrats must solve is how to convince more than 21% of voters to believe them within 18 months. Their 2024 messages will not work.

For at least 16 years, democrats have:

geekemeritus.bsky.social•37 days ago

🔸Incited racism (BLM)
🔸Abandoned the rule of law by asymmetrical DOJ enforcement
🔸Invoked Mengele-inspired experimentation on children
🔸Sought to undermine the First Amendment by coercing social media platforms
🔸Promoted Marxist ideology in both public and private institutions

geekemeritus.bsky.social•37 days ago

🔸Convinced people that "the desires of the selfish outweigh the needs of the innocent"
🔸Forced false and counterproductive theories like DEI and ESG

There is much more but I am tired of typing.

citruchel.bsky.social•37 days ago

Unfortunately, I think the DNC "mastery of the fine print" has gotten us where we are. And while they quibble over whether or not to make headlines, the RNC is burning any print they find and making headlines with lies. Promoting this flavour of complicity helps destroy America.

You know this.

mizzmarymary.bsky.social•37 days ago

You mean whining Jeffries who cried “but but we have no power so we can’t do anything.” That Jeffries? I don’t need to listen to a freaking thing he says.

demystic.bsky.social•38 days ago

As a former Democrat, they will never win me back with milquetoast “leaders” like Hakeem Jeffries. I tried to find a good metaphor to describe my perception of him and all that came to mind was pudding and molded jelly.

4suzx.bsky.social•38 days ago

SERIOUSLY!!!😡. Let’s focus on the present— or — there will be no 2026 or 2028 !! FOCUS! Dammit🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

senoritajean.bsky.social•38 days ago

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social sucks as a leader, we need real opposition

jeditanker19k.bsky.social•37 days ago

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, trump said if you elect him, you'll never have to vote again. Get a clue!

phillipmschwartz.bsky.social•38 days ago

We were there. Very nice, intelligent man in front of the friendliest of audiences. When Prof G called him out on DNC's ignoring of young men, no answer. And Dem's inability to gather any goodwill from Infrastructure and Chips acts is nuts. Both were huge, but I guess Fox News didn't think so.

snowsandals.bsky.social•38 days ago

Well the stuff about Dems ignoring men is ridiculous. Men are the default. Everyone else is a “special interest.” Scott wants to plan everyone except patriarchy for the plight of men when men are the ones who set up every system they now suffer under.

phillipmschwartz.bsky.social•38 days ago

Right. But ( you knew that was coming ), I thought the goal was to win elections. Obviously all of the "special interest" can't bring victory across the fruited plain. If the election was today,many of the same people who will be hurt by his insanity would still vote for Cheeto. Gotta fix that.

snowsandals.bsky.social•38 days ago

That’s because white men choose patriarchy and racism over their own well-being every single time because they’d rather have the possibility of dominance than live in harmony. You don’t dismantle that without naming patriarchy as the culprit which Scott refuses to do.

phillipmschwartz.bsky.social•38 days ago

Scott said "the #1 factor of how successful a young person will be in USA is how wealthy their parents are". He gets it. I disagree with Bernie 98% of the time, but all he talks about the economy. He gets it. Fox News doesn't talk about the GOP & the economy, just scaring white people. They get it.

snowsandals.bsky.social•38 days ago

You just completely changed the topic. But as a Black woman, who like MANY Black women, is drastically more economically successful than my parents, Scott refuses to acknowledge that at least half of the most marginalized WOMEN defy all of his statistics while facing a much steeper climb than men.

marianferris.bsky.social•38 days ago

The only part that really struck me is the Dems are bad at messaging. No shit. Jeffries doesn't have the energy to deliver the message, or to rally his party to stand up and be louder.

autumnalskies.bsky.social•37 days ago

The Democratic Party has a problem with pandering to corporate donors. That shit needs to stop. Corporations are not voters. They shouldn't have a say.

tarynbshultz.bsky.social•38 days ago

I had to turn this off, he didn’t answer any of your questions. “We aren’t trump” can’t be the message. I would have been furious had I paid to see this.

tarynbshultz.bsky.social•38 days ago

All those things “brought to you by your friendly Democratic Party” obviously isn’t good enough because we aren’t winning elections…. There is a huge piece of the sandwich generation that are struggling and have seen none of the benefits of these programs he’s touting.

communitycafe.bsky.social•37 days ago

2026 and 2028? Too late.

The United States needs new strong leadership n o w.

Jeffries, Schumer, et al., sadly, not it.

sparky52.bsky.social•37 days ago

It bothers me that everyone is acting like it's a given that things will be relatively normal in 2026 and 2028. Look what they've dismantled in 3 months.

bluelivesmatter.bsky.social•37 days ago

You ain’t lying I’m scared of what’s to come mad nobody who is in position to do something isn’t

bluejay207.bsky.social•38 days ago

He's not the leadership material we need and few have confidence in him. Democrats need to realize Jeffries has reached his level of incompetence and needs to step down

sandraeb.bsky.social•37 days ago

Start doing town halls Hakeem

johnnyappleseed46.bsky.social•38 days ago

Here's a dude of reality:

If we don't stop Trump in the next 6 months - there won't be elections (at least not real ones anyway).

gigiagogroove.bsky.social•35 days ago

The D party is neither neighborly nor democratic to their own when presented w/a primary challenger. Pelosi, Wassermann-Schultz-just like Hillary-refuse to acknowledge any primary challenger even for a debate. Their hubris and allegiance the D apparatus and its’ corporate donors is why Ds lose.

gigiagogroove.bsky.social•35 days ago

Their NAFTA and deaf ears to the working class got us to where we are today.

gigiagogroove.bsky.social•35 days ago

blharland.com•38 days ago

No offense, but gonna taken any Jeffries hot takes with a grain of salt. He hasn’t exactly been walking the walk lately.

breezy217.bsky.social•38 days ago

🤦🏻‍♀️he’s the last person I would trust with anything other than polishing his rules and procedures book.

mattg.path.pub•37 days ago

What he's saying would be bad enough in a democracy but he's still in denial about what trump is doing. When the house is burning down, it makes no sense to talk about getting a new sofa. But you live in London now so you're already safe on the other side of the Orange Curtain so no big deal.

slight-speed.bsky.social•38 days ago

How they can win again

“choose new people to lead”
-everyone

cupcakebatter.bsky.social•38 days ago

i listened to this whole interview and it was cringe with platitudes and literally zero charisma, energy, or fire. Literally the problem with the Democratic party.

bizwiziwish1980.bsky.social•38 days ago

Just that clip I was trying to listen for substance. Not really anything.

fortynorth.bsky.social•37 days ago

HJ states the obvious while not apologizing for the failure in Nov. 2024 that is actual killing people and rewriting the next decade for our children. Flowery language isn’t a change agent. Walsh, Bernie, AOC and others are being the populist stopgap while the DNC can’t pivot fast and clean house.

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