I think they should go, but walk out as the Cabinet gets introduced, otherwise if the felon catches wind that seats will be empty, well he will just sell them, more profit.
There is no one leading this party right now. Certainly not @chuckschumer.com or @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social . They have both curled up in fetal positions and have given up. The Dems are ripe for a new leader to step forward. Sec Pete??
Sen. Sanders is going on a national tour starting tomorrow, where he'll use the bully pulpit to host town hall mtgs in working class swing-districts to make sure more Americans hear that they must unite & how they can fight back.
My recommendation is stop shit talking one of the few dem politicians people en masse actually like an respect, just because the collective 1000 year old party leadership hates her guts.
Oh you're mad that she's performing and garnering a crowd? I'm sorry you're right! That is bad! Only Chuck Schumer should be allowed to do that so he can suck the life from the crowd because he's an energy vampire.
Are you people so fucking dense that being politically engaged with people is bad?
She’s out every day teaching and encouraging the most vulnerable people how not to succumb to the authoritarian poison literally trying to arrest, destroy, and deport them. What are you doing?
She’s mobilizing and organizing the people. There is not a lot of work that can be moved forward with the numbers in Congress. This is work that can be done now.
Bravo @aoc.bsky.social , @repjasmine.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov We cannot wait for 2026
Though, perhaps / likely, a currently not-well-known GenX military commander will arise from seemingly nowhere and represent the strength, No BS and vision to take the country forward.
I didn't make that up. That's actually from "The #FourthTurning" book. Not an absolute scenario, but a likely one. The next Dem leader is not, in my opinion, going to rise out of the current pool of candidates.
By 2028, we'll likely be in or at the precipice of a "total war," as they are called.
Listening to Crockett and then listening to Jeffires is like listening to Churchill orate and then listening to Schumer with a chant of "We Will Win !"
AOC, Kenyatta, Crockett, Frost are all standing out by being educational and fighting for people. Raskin, Murphy, are doing some cool stuff as well. If you are looking Dems doing something are easy to find.
Democrats don't need a leader. Every Democrat should consider themselves the leader of the democratic party. What would you do to save this country? Do that.
I stand by my theory. The TikTok tarot readers all pulled "The Empress" cards in late October. They assumed that meant a Harris win. No, this foretold of Jasmine's rise 😎
Ken Martin at DNC seems good, but his PDF yesterday—a comprehensive rundown of Trump's actions thus far—showed that he's at a loss to propose any comprehensive pushback, likely because he guesses Schumer and Jeffries and other "centrists" won't support it.
It's not a real title. And there's really no such thing as a figurative Leader of the party until you've got a presidential nominee. It's wide open who that could be years from now.
That said, the leader is AOC.
Jasmine Crockett. AOC, Jaime Raskin, Pete Buttigieg. Elizabeth Warren Tim Walz. They are leading, I can see them from Wyoming. But the party? I dunno because it doesn’t seem like they were prepared to be defeated and then attacked-as seen from a rural RED state.
I lived 5 years in WA and Cantrell and Murray were "the senators" forever and I never felt like they were responsive or proactive. I don't even know what they look like.
It’s a big job to fill. The best thing Hakeem could do would be to form a war room and assign leaders to get out in front of the various fights we have. Pete for operations, AOC for Social rights issues. Marc Elias/Raskin/Judge Ludig for legal stuff. And we need a centralized “call to action”
The same oligarchs that own the Rs. American Politics is nothing more than a soap opera written, produced & directed by oligarchs with politicians being nothing more than actors on a stage acting out a script. Americans need to revolt and replace the bad TV show with a decent reality for all of us.
We decapitated them last election. What do you expect it to be like this soon after? It usually takes months for it to work out who the new leaders are
Who was the last leader during Trump 1.0?
We had some control of house or senate? Right?
Maybe that’s why I don’t remember.
It’s all a blur.
Could the Dems be waiting for it all to collapse in order to say we’re here, elect us?
Who has news of what’s really going on? Surely they have some plan???
At some point you just let the people have what they ask for. They did their part, at this point they should enjoy their lives. Let a new generation try their hand at fighting the good fight.
JB Pritzger is growing on me. Yeah, not looking for an old, rich white guy “savior”, up to here with that type, but his message feels like more than self-promotion.
AOC and Jasmine Crockett are also demonstrating fearless ferocity in the face of fascism. Put the fossilized Dem leadership in a museum where fossils belong and let these shining warriors lead the way.
It seems like it. Politics has changed, and these guys either don't understand that or don't care to adapt. Either way, they need to get out of the way.
JB and a couple of other Democratic governors, along with a VERY short list of Representatives are showing more spine than anyone in Democratic Leadership in either chamber.
They should be running the opposition since no one in DC seems willing or able to fight.
Certainly not the two people who historically would be the leaders: Schumer and Jeffries. They have proven themselves to be political cuckholds, terrified of Trump and Musk.
Serious answer. The majority of the Democratic Party is just as corrupt. They can sit back and passively let the Trump and Musk do the work for them and they keep their hands clean. Know your champions. If they are being attacked by the GOP, they are in your corner.
Kamala keeps emailing for money ? For the love of idiots- people are being tossed out of work illegally, the rest of us are holding our breath for a massive economic collapse and they want what few pennies we have left ? F them
Jeffries is good with strategy in the house but he completely sucks as a messenger. He is also one of the old guard who relies to heavily on polls which the younger generation doesn’t participate in. 2 weeks after Americans moved on from eggs, he was talking about them. He’s Reactionary.
I appreciate AOC, Crockett and others' direct calls to action. We need 11 million people in the streets. But congressmen saying the right things but immediately linking to their fundraising page are betraying the urgency of the moment. Act now or there will be no more elections.
Exactly. Dems had 4 years and mountains of evidence to put Trump away and failed. Despite that, they also had 4 years to win over enough independents and other disgruntled voters to get an electoral majority. Failed again. Except for AOC, Crockett, Sanders etc, our choice is Satan GQP or loser Dems
If they were going to do anything, they would have done it when they still controlled the levers of power. The GOP became MAGA, and the Democrats became a doormat. We need a new organization that isn't held back by nonsense like "they go low, we go high"
I'm real curious about your take on why it looked like things were building towards some kind of intervention that could prevent this coup, but that obviously never came to pass.
Great question! My analysis was always that it was /possible/ that the Biden admin was taking action behind the scenes, but was consistently careful to note that it could be interpreted differently as well.
What on earth has happened to Hakeem Jeffries? He sounds defeated and detached. He talked at Jon Stewart with so many words, so little fight. Here's hoping Run For Something finds more AOCs and Jasmine Crocketts while we still have functioning elections. https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/no-one-needs-your-thoughts-and-prayers
I guess he's not heard the multiple times DJT has hinted at a 3rd or indefinite term AS F'n Dictator Anti-Christ!
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It's been foretold in many a scriptures & prophecy throughout the ages & by many prophets that it would be the 3rd Gen son that would take that power.
I agree with many of the choices here, but what is the purpose of the question?
the party machinery will not acknowledge anyone but jeffries/schumer as the party leadership
unfortunately, the new chair, Ken Miller lost credibility with his milquetoast memo yesterday
Where's Kamala in that list?
She already ran a campaign, so she certainly has the "name recognition" aspect down
She's also a woman of color, with a mixed background ... like a majority of American citizens
She may have the Muslim vote this time too
Harris hasn’t “retired” per se, it’s customary for the losing national candidate to regress from the spotlight. She’s actually considering running for governor of California.
That's what we thought about the 2000 election also - but several years later a BBC investigation revealed pervasive vote manipulation in Florida. Given the right-wing bomb-threats, desperation, malfeasance & chicanery of this past election cycle, I don't think it unwise to investigate the results.
I can’t figure out why Katie Porter thought she could beat him, when he’s such a corporate dem, and the good old boy Dems want to keep that corporate dem thing going. it’s weird. She’s so much more valuable than him in all ways. If she just would’ve stayed in Congress.
I've been watching & listening to these three gentlemen. Wishing every other state leader would follow suit to help their own constituents like they seem to be.
Just to help calm our fears & to help encourage all of us to keep going.
You need someone with military and legal intelligence. I appreciate the concern for social issues, but the military and legal consequences is what will sink the US
Well, apparently not Hakeem Jeffries...he said he doesn't have any power.
Mr. Jeffries ..the rules have changed, the old system is dead and you are going to have to get faster on your feet. You may have to employ some obstruction. 🙄
What obstruction can Jeffries employ with no power? The Democratic Party works within the constraints of the law, if the other side ignores the law, it is not a political party that is reasonable for correcting this. That responsibility belongs to the people. Tyranny need be answered by the people.
Actually you have to create power where there isn't any. Call press conferences. Hold people's hearings. Question fired federal workers and people harmed by the Regime's insanity. Attention is power. Use your imagination. If you don't have any, get out of the way and give someone else a chance.
Yes, I agree. Bring in the MAGA voters who regret their vote for the felon. I also think they need to do this on their local state media that don't have felon sane washing repliers.
This is actually the method my Senator, Elizabeth Warren, used to create the now-defunded CFPB and ultimately to win a seat in the US Senate, having never before been elected to anything.
She was invited by Congress to lead a powerless (on paper) committee to oversee the TARP bank bailout.
Sensing a public hunger to understand what the hell had just happened that crashed the economy so badly, she went on the talk shows and became Harvard Bankruptcy Law Expert Explains Why the Banks Just Collapsed.
With the power of attention, she became someone the Obama Admin had to consult on nominations to senior finance positions. This enabled her to torpedo the nomination of Larry Summers to be Treasury Secretary. This kind of power enabled her to win the argument that the CFPB was necessary.
She wasn't able to swing becoming permanent head of CFPB herself, but Obama had to pick someone to her liking, Richard Cordray, who made it an effective agency that ultimately forced banks to return more than $20 billion of ill-gotten profits to consumers.
Of the Senators, I think we'd do well to listen to Whitehouse, Klobuchar, and Duckworth. In the House, Joseph Neguse, Jahana Hayes, Ritchie Torres, Madeleine Dean, and Pete Aguilar impress me the most.
Of those not currently holding office, Buttigieg and Harris.
Right now it's @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @aoc.bsky.social , @sanders.senate.gov, @repjasmine.bsky.social, @raskin.senate.gov & @warren.senate.gov. Jeffries, Ken Martin & Schumer are dissapointinh. The silence from legacy leaders is 🤯
a definite SANE GROUNDSWELL against toxic “masculinity” & anti-DEI hatred pointedly IN REACTION to beautiful BLACK & BROWN FEMALE VOICES‼️
they are coming out MUCH MORE CLEAR & STRONG than black & brown MALES (??)
MY EVIDENCE 🟰 Clarence THOMAS, Eric ADAMS, Hakeem JEFFRIES‼️
Exactly! They need to form a Resistance Council, schedule how to communicate, how to obstruct. Get rid of putative leaders (Schumer, for God's sake.) Pete, Crocket, AOC, Murphy, Pritzker, Raskin, others -- choose the speakers carefully, the themes. https://buddshenkin.blogspot.com/2025/02/will-there-be-credible-resistance.html
Not only is she the leader, it doesn't seem like her power is even all that contested. She ousted a president, ffs. Pelosi can snap her fingers and 80% of elected Democrats will jump to do her bidding.
55 yr old here. pelosi’s time has passed. i love aoc. she’s fearless, smart, quick-witted, and a great communicator who speaks truth to power. i’d love to see her in a leadership position.
Not shocked by Trump nearly as much as by the complete abdication of leadership by Democrats. I have dumb hunches as to what might be going through some elected D minds but generally I'm just mystified.
How dare you ask a"REAL"question Sir,however,since you've inquired,we'll respond to your inquiry when we get closer to the next"ELECTION"besides,OUR protection,is in our complexion as DEMS so,the"MELANATED"in our"CAUCUS" are gonna have to tough it out til we get around to YALL,amirite Sen Fetterman?
I wish former leaders like Obama, Clintons, Biden, Harris team up with emerging leaders AOC, Crockett, Raskin, and We The People to create mass mobilization against this grossly incompetent administration!
It pains me to admit Lara, our D-former influential leaders silently sailed away as were grasping at straws for hope. AOC, Crockett, Raskin, Newsome, Frost, Warren, Buttigieg, M. Cuban, loudly standing up drumming the drums for us today. Thoughts?
You NEED visible, high profile leaders, willing to shout from the rooftops that THIS IS WRONG
I would like to see AOC, with P Buttigieg alongside, both good solid speakers, both already out there
Crockett, AOC,Sanders, and Pritzker seem to be the only ones truly in the fight at the moment. The other Ds we trusted with our votes are asking for donations and telling the people they aren’t doing enough. It’s exasperating.
I’ve unsubscribed from all of it. This isn’t about money. They need to use their voice and position to stand up for Democracy. Frankly, that’s a free act.
I write back asking for proof of job performance. Elected officials are public employees. Paying them to do nothing is wasteful spending in my point of view. OTP vp
Watch them on YouTube fight. All they have is words as GOP controls House and Senate in votes. Jamie Raskin, Corey Booker, Hakeem Jeffries, all fighting. Chuck Schumer who told Dems to oppose all Trumps nominee’s, some didn’t listen. Vote these out especially Fetterman who went to MAL.
Words are great…but Rs held up several appointments and votes when Ds had the majority. Tuberville, Cruz, Paul all held up votes. Ds need use that playbook.
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@aoc.bsky.social
@warren.senate.gov
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
There you go. We have five.
Gretchen Whitmer
AOC
JB Pritzker
Honestly, any dem that has made an enemy of Dick Durbin at some point in their political career is leadership material for the party at large.
I bet you think she is just a poor waitress don’t you
Are you people so fucking dense that being politically engaged with people is bad?
ITS ALWAYS PERFORMATIVE
Nothing that she has done has been groundbreaking
I do nothing cause I did my job on NOV 5 and in 2016, 2020.
Maybe you should do something
There’s no cavalry coming to save America
If she refuses do that, what is the job you promise us she would do?
Bravo @aoc.bsky.social , @repjasmine.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov We cannot wait for 2026
Though, perhaps / likely, a currently not-well-known GenX military commander will arise from seemingly nowhere and represent the strength, No BS and vision to take the country forward.
But for now: it's just us.
By 2028, we'll likely be in or at the precipice of a "total war," as they are called.
I needed that giggle. 😂
It ain't gonna be her.
Jamie Raskin has shown much more leadership.
Chris Murphy.
AOC.
Buttigieg.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is 🔥 at protests - a vibrant, extraordinary orator with presence
Ken Martin at DNC seems good, but his PDF yesterday—a comprehensive rundown of Trump's actions thus far—showed that he's at a loss to propose any comprehensive pushback, likely because he guesses Schumer and Jeffries and other "centrists" won't support it.
She gets it.
That said, the leader is AOC.
It’s like their prepping for some big event while it all just burns down
The expression I heard when I lived in the UK applies:
They couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
She is a fantastic communicator and that’s what we need right now.
Also, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Schumer and Jeffries are weak, wimpish.
AOC, Pete Buttigieg, Jasmine Crockett, JB Pritzker speaking out.
Last summer taunted him at the DNC : "Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity.”
If we're going to be ruled by billionaires, he's the best one.
One of those.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is 🔥at protests, a vibrant, extraordinary orator with presence
With assistance from Adam Kinzinger
The old guard isTOO slow!
He's working to rip us all off.
The fat rotting tree. Fuck Barron too. Your daddy is setting you up for a lifetime of hatred you gangly fuck.
We had some control of house or senate? Right?
Maybe that’s why I don’t remember.
It’s all a blur.
Could the Dems be waiting for it all to collapse in order to say we’re here, elect us?
Who has news of what’s really going on? Surely they have some plan???
Kamala Haaaa......... nah.....
B... Barack Obama, probably.
They should be running the opposition since no one in DC seems willing or able to fight.
Also a serious question.
Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Every pro-Constitution American should be working daily to defend our democracy.
See this post for an example: https://tinfoilmatt.substack.com/p/six-signs-somethings-happening-behind
Instead, we're almost guaranteed to have a civil war anyway - except now Trump controls the military. Strategic failure.
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/no-one-needs-your-thoughts-and-prayers
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It's been foretold in many a scriptures & prophecy throughout the ages & by many prophets that it would be the 3rd Gen son that would take that power.
the party machinery will not acknowledge anyone but jeffries/schumer as the party leadership
unfortunately, the new chair, Ken Miller lost credibility with his milquetoast memo yesterday
Democrats should have a true leader, specially now
She already ran a campaign, so she certainly has the "name recognition" aspect down
She's also a woman of color, with a mixed background ... like a majority of American citizens
She may have the Muslim vote this time too
Katie is brilliant
Just to help calm our fears & to help encourage all of us to keep going.
Mr. Jeffries ..the rules have changed, the old system is dead and you are going to have to get faster on your feet. You may have to employ some obstruction. 🙄
She was invited by Congress to lead a powerless (on paper) committee to oversee the TARP bank bailout.
Of those not currently holding office, Buttigieg and Harris.
Pete/Jasmine are doing the best at leading
1. JB Pritzker
2. AOC
3. Tim Walz
[yawning chasm]
4.Hakeem Jeffries
they are coming out MUCH MORE CLEAR & STRONG than black & brown MALES (??)
MY EVIDENCE 🟰 Clarence THOMAS, Eric ADAMS, Hakeem JEFFRIES‼️
https://buddshenkin.blogspot.com/2025/02/will-there-be-credible-resistance.html
A leader can be compromised.
A leader wants to be king.
I want focused goals
McCain almost took Lieberman and pissed himself last minute w/Palin. D's need to rally America, not progressivism.
I would like to see AOC, with P Buttigieg alongside, both good solid speakers, both already out there