Ain't good. Compared to Senate Dems, House Dems have less leverage. One exception is the budget fight. But here's the Dem House Leader TODAY declining to use that leverage.
If you have a Dem rep, ask them to use their leverage. And tell them to tell Jeffries to lead.
Stay tuned - more to come.
If you have a Dem rep, ask them to use their leverage. And tell them to tell Jeffries to lead.
Stay tuned - more to come.
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JOURNALIST: To what extent will Dems withhold votes in the negotiations?
JEFFRIES: Repubs control trifecta, it’s THEIR govt. What leverage do we have? We’re going to continue to try to find bipartisan common ground...
JOURNALIST: Lessons learned since 2017 tax fight?
JEFFRIES: House Dems are the common sense caucus...we could have landed the plane right at 24-25% corporate tax rate like the CEOs asked for.
99% wealth tax on everything over $10mil now
We'll have a resource on this soon.
Has someone taken his loved ones hostage?
I did not expect him to get to bipartisanship!
What is going on?
Do they want the house back in 2026, or not?
Dems like these, who took no action after the 2008 financial crisis to help regular people (only banks) are a key reason why folks are soured on Dems being the party of working people.
So DO THAT, Dems. Talk abt & put forward specific things (see many of my prior posts) — make the Rs block ‘em.
Keep pushing! 💙
His message?
Trump cannot do what he is doing…
…because we have a System of Checks and Balances.
And we should lead with love.
I am now more frightened than I was before.
I wish the democrats were as caple of reinterpreting laws, making up laws, and finding loopholes as Republicans are when they are not in power.
Oh, and she's running for reelection.
We can't wait 6 or 7 months.
Nancy needs to retire.
I'm about to start using the more colorful words in my vocabulary. 😈🤬
So we have to call and pressure Dems to do their fucking jobs?
Like basic fucking shit?
Then we sent the wrong fucking people.
Could you be weaker?!
https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/we-need-a-communications-plan-to-combat-trumps-coup/
just not ok
wrong
Not wrong. You're being lazy. Do better. 💙
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I think about it this way. We got here because campaign-cash-compromised institutionalists had mixed incentives. Our job now is to change those incentives very quickly.
Wow this party is soft. 🙄 That's just embarrassing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/hakeem-jeffries-silicon-valley-donors-00203076
we've been calling like speed freaks on a tear for over a decade.
We either give up, or keep fighting. The current flood of calls has motivated sluggish Senators to act, so on we go!
But I'm on my Rep's ass...didn't see them at any of the buildings with the others.
Hey dems are you nuts or what? Trump/Musk have already shut down the government. Bipartisanship? Hell no. Do not negotiate with Johnson.
Either Trump dumps Musk or else.
My house dem @adamsmith.house.gov is literally useless, too. 😡🤬
When is it time to call for him to resign from leadership? He's one of the two Congressional electeds who should take calls and pleas from outside his district too. The least we csn do is ask him to get out of the way.
But, why not state that they will obstruct?
Hiding that *if it is an actual plan he’s committed to* only serves to demoralize people hoping for any opposition to fascism, & gives an opening for some dems to help fascists, no?
If they come out and refuse to vote for it and we do a shutdown, now it’s the dems fault for not voting.
"Yes, I shut down the government that is actively taking measures to exterminate undesirables and sell everyone else out to private interests. And I'll do it again."
We just passed Trump's border bill so we could trick Republicans into not supporting it.....
Intentionally killing it is not a great idea.
OPINION DISCARDED
If you want the GOP to get the blame then you say that you are 100% opposed to what they are doing and that you are going to do everything you can to stop it.
Not, "I'm powerless, but I want to be bipartisan."
Jeffries is deflecting BACK to the GOP b/c (A) the majority party in the House basically does whatever they want, & (B) we need the GOP 1/
You shouldn't want the Democrats to swoop in to save the day unless they get a SHIT ton of stuff back.
Jeffries is being smart in this instance.
Will you be asking Republicans who Elon and his thugs work for?
Union militants know: you need to attack the boss and when bad leadership get in the way, they'll either start leading or let new leaders in.
Trying to get Dems to act for voters has only kept people from taking other potentially effective action. Dems lull voters into inaction w/ their complicity ("can't do it," bipartisanship, press conferences, "just vote," make us do our job) w/ the GOP.
Dems told us who they are: VICHY
My Dem senator (1 of 2) JUST started posting about the rolling coup two days ago. They clearly don't know what to do about any of this.
He's putting responsibility for program cuts and mayhem on Republicans, because they have majorities.
You're getting mad at Jeffries when you should be focused on Republicans.
Ds should not negotiate with anyone disrespecting our freedoms and our democratic republic
Re Jeffries I think you're missing the point of setting expectations for the upcoming blame game over debt ceiling/default+ shutdown
He and Mike Johnson both use piety to promote their agenda
But Jeffries today was just setting expectations for the blame game so I am fine with that
So many Democrats were facing armed Homeland Security staff today and they were doing what we have asked - they are fighting back.
They should be commended and Republicans should be called out.
They are not equipped to handle what is happening now
Maybe when shit falls apart y'all motherfuckers will listen to us BEFORE the election.
Republican: Lawless
Democrats: Flawless
NYCers, please primary all of these GOP-lite Democrats.
You're pretending not to understand a classic game of chicken strategy on purpose just so you can stir the Dems Bad shit pot. While Trump is dismantling the government with a steam shovel and Dems need all the support they can get.
Christ almighty.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/hakeem-jeffries-silicon-valley-donors-00203076
“we should be republicans”
throw this fucking guy in the trash
"We should do what lobbyists tell us Romney would have done in 2014"
At least Republicans believe in something.
If we get to have another election, we need to primary these cowards.
Wake up!
This is an insane rhetorical strategy.
https://jeffries.house.gov/contact/
Those that cooperate with fascists are NOT the good guys.
Jeffries is explicitly using this rhetoric to highlight that this is *Republicans'* government, yet they still can't get their shit together.
https://youtu.be/lLclRBis1rg
Imma fix it for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social:
Republicans have a trifecta. They control this government for now. From what I see they are destroying it, but this is what the Republican Party, Trump, and every single member of their leadership team said they would do—and got the votes to do.
We as Democrats look forward to welcoming any Republicans who see the crisis they have created and are willing to do the right thing moving forward though. We can stop this.
*looks dead on to camera with a call me motion*
Y’all know how to find me when you have your come to Jesus moment.
Stand for something!
Tell me what that is.
Show me you’re as angry as I am.
If you don’t, I’ll find (and support) someone else.
When push comes to shove maybe we are powerless. But we don’t have to be acquiescent.
#NeverGiveUp #TraitorTrump #TraitorGOP #DemsMustFight
Time to start forming a new party.
What are you all so fucking useless?
His message?
Trump cannot do what he is doing…
…because we have a System of Checks and Balances.
And we should lead with love.
I am now more frightened than I was before.
That’s a hard no!
Jeffries, along with Schumer, needs to go….
Time for a new generation of Dem leaders that will fight!
Coalition of the fascism continues. You seem designed to undermine it happening.
divisions
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wheres-the-real-power-nexus-how-does-the-opposition-get-to-it
Rs currently don't technically need D votes right now to do a budget reconciliation bill, until they fail to pass something on party lines there is no reason for Jefferies to negotiate in public right now.
I’m sorry you’re mad sane people don’t mindlessly worship Nazi collaborators like you do
time to fight
fight or get the fuck out of politics
"oh well its their game, might as well give up"
They want you dead, what compromise is there to be had
Sounds like the Democrats have given up protecting us.
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I’m looking for a place to apply my anger and desire to act. And from what I see here Indivisible ain’t it.
Jeffries needs our support not a heckler claiming he should dump his leverage on the table to the press.
You guys are cocking this up.
If you won't stand up to N@zis, that makes you a N@zi collaborator.
Sorry but there it is.
I should have said you aren’t the personal audience of everything anyone in the world says.
::Govt Shuts Down:: ...who gets blamed?
Even Mike "Pastor" Johnson can see this. (He was complaining about it!).
That's your position?
Their posting is a stance to take to show their feelings. It’s fine. I can understand that. For some people emotional performance is their coping mechanism.
Mine is analysis and satire.
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What exactly is "bipartisan common ground" for what the GOP is doing here? Musk only gets to steal 85% of the Treasury vs 100%? Trump gets to blow up every department but the DoD?
My bad. It hasn’t shown up in my news feed yet.
You said he’s “enabling the takeover”. I asked for facts. And you’re telling me he said something.
These are not the same things. If Jeffries yields too much in these negotiations I’ll be pissed. Rightfully.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/07/congress/mike-johnson-shutdown-threat-00203080
Worthless zionist whose also a collaborator domestically.
This is Pelosi's chosen successor
And now, none of this is normal. Stop gaslighting dem supporters into believing this is normal.
Stop doing normal shit!
There will be nothing to salvage if you don't make drastic moves NOW.
"look the nazis already won, we should just comply"
In short it's a bad idea
He needs to step down. He clearly doesn’t have the will or stomach for this fight. He’s hurting us and needs to gtfo. I’m so disappointed in him. He might as well be Garland. That’s how useless he’s being. Fuck him and Garland.
He's saying he surrenders before the battle lines even form.
He's pathetic and unfit for office.
The pattern is this. GOP says horrible things. Freedom Caucus demands even more horrible things. Vote won't pass cause of thin margins. GOP has to cut a deal with Dems to pass. 1/
This is also why Congress is trying to let Trump get away with moving money. 2/2
That's absolutely a losing strategy, historically. I defy you to name one example in which that strategy worked, in which a country compromised their way out of a descent into authoritarianism once it got this far down the road.
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5132206-watch-live-hakeem-jeffries-democrats-donald-trump-agenda/
The captain of the ship needs to be leading and believing in the mission. If he doesn’t, move aside.
But a functioning government with social programs that benefit us all is ok too.
Jeffries is explicitly using this rhetoric to highlight that this is *Republicans'* government, yet they still can't get their shit together.
https://youtu.be/lLclRBis1rg
Dems folding like they always do means that they fail to provide backing for that leverage.
Useless.
You *know* most Rs say pretty awful things about the black man leading their opposition. Ds are smart enough to exploit R weaknesses.
Maybe go and ask Nancy Pelosi what sort of things the GOP used to do to slow the House down when she was Speaker
https://democraticleader.house.gov/live
and you can't hear the questions on the video
so freaking amateur hour, just unreal
also the sign in unreadable
Cool man. That's awesome.
"We should have landed the plane at 24-25% corporate tax rate like the CEOs asked for" is DAMNING
2) Sinema and Manchin blocked a significant amount of Democratic legislation.
The electorate has failed the nation, and we have to hope there’s something left in 2026.
I hope there are pieces left to pick up in 2026, at this rate, there's trouble
I know people are frustrated with when Dems *actually* give in to stupid things (like the Laken Riley BS) but they ALSO do quite a lot of kayfabing working for “common ground😉” bc people don’t actually like shutdowns and blame the party who seems responsible.
Ezra: WHY WON'T JEFFRIES COMMIT TO NOT HELPING REPUBLICANS.
And it’s terrifying.
Tear that brand down
Everything else is commentary
And I agree with>
https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3lhme5mnthc2i
No balls whatsoever.
The result was giving the remaining power of the government to the GOP.
The Dems are equally as powerful as citizens at this point, getting mad at them because that is true seems odd.
Pressuring the few remaining sane GOP that everything relies on seems more useful.
Oh wait they didn’t do that they tried to obstruct everything, even had a secret meeting about it and it worked.
Why can’t democrats be a basic opposition party?
If you're trying to get someone to own their fuckups why would you help them do it
You want to make sure that there's some blame to go around so the D's can also share the load in voting for some crony to lead an important part of our govt
so stupid
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The path to salvation isn’t to lose another 100 Congresspeople at the midterms.
We need to get every Dem we can, and when we have control, THEN we push left.
Meanwhile, Democrats are still to the Left of most major European left-wing parties on things like abortion, racism, immigration, LGBTQ+ people...
But I agree we have to keep the pressure on to make sure all Dems do the right thing
The rest of us don't matter to any of them. We're cattle to be slaughtered when convenient.
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
He and Schumer, though there are plenty of others, are utterly unfit. They've failed - and are failing - the nation.
This guy is the reason we are in the predicament we are in right now. We need to get rid of this type of element to lead the American ppl. NO MORE this bull crap footsie...
Jefferies is and always has been an OREO!
HE REFUSES TO SEE THAT BIPARTISANSHIP NO LONGER EXISTS!
THE SAME IS TRUE FOR CHUCK SCHUMER!!
TELL THE GOP "HELL NO ON EVERYTHING" LIKE YOU SAID YOU WOULD!😡
We need a Leader.
While they do the they need to scream from the mountain tops about all the horrible things Trump and his cronies are trying to do.
Flood social media, YouTube, everything with the message.
Not that hard, Jeffries!
1. Monkey wrench the House. Stop the machine/
2. Physically show up and confront Musk. He is literally dismantling the institutions of the government
WTF is wrong with Schumer/Jeffries?
I‘m thinking Jeffries declines to commit to using budget as leverage because of some Dem hold-outs. It‘s *imperative*
we pressure all Dem Reps.
Why is that so hard?
Are you fucking kidding me? What "bipartisan common ground" could you possibly find with fascists??? If you are not up to leading an opposition, STEP ASIDE. I'm sure AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Jamie Raskin, or a multitude of others are up to the task. 🤬🤬🤬
there is no budget?
government shutdown?
GOP would love for the government to fail.
99% of the people will get hurt either way.
You are with the Billionaires nazi or working class.
You need to not agree to shit. We DO NOT WANT BI PARTISANSHIP WITH AMERICAS HITLER!!!!
Read the fucking room already. We are pissed you guys didn’t challenge this shady ass election. Keep playing footsies with Nazi’s and find out.
Hell, if this keeps up Trump will just ignore the debt ceiling. He'll spend whatever he wants wherever he wants. If the D's don't stand up to the current crisis there's essentially nothing to fight for.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/hakeem-jeffries-silicon-valley-donors-00203076
Now.
Millions of people blocking off every street in the entire city shifts the power quickly
In.
He's not vocal enough against what's going on. Afraid to rock the boat.
Wringing hands and saying 'gee wilikers it sure is getting bad'?
Milquetoast.
It's a stupid fucking plan, but that is all they can come up with.
Why did she pushed for him?
Heck, I could do a better job than the spineless guy.
If we win the house on 2026 (if we still have elections and ate not rigged by elon) Hakim won't be SPEAKER
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhjagcm7xk25
Try not to buy into it.
And use every dirty fucking trick in the book to save whatever’s left of this nation- rules and laws be damned.
💰🐘💣💰🫏💣🏳️🙉🙈🙊
If we have actual 🌹🫏 leadership in the senate, it will heighten 🫏party contradictions & put pressure on Jeffries.
Just need to get @ossoff.bsky.social & center-left on board.
https://bsky.app/profile/anarchokoala.bsky.social/post/3lh2kic2jxk2t
NO COMPROMISE. NO COMMON GROUND. NO CAPITULATION. WE’RE DONE!! HOLD THE LINE. DELAY EVERYTHING.
Cowardly. Pathetic. Useless.