House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majority in the lower chamber after midterm elections.
“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.
The House minority leader has lauded Democrats’ push for redistricting nationwide in an effort to pick up additional House seats and signaled that the party will advocate more for working-class Americans, after Democrats saw losses from the key demographic in the 2024 election.
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PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves
Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷♀️
Nah we’re not doing this “genocide Joe” bullshit again.
Stop supporting and enabling genocidal cunts, then. Otherwise leftists such as myself will continue to endlessly effort post and create a scene.
You need to accept that the shitlib/radical centrist coalition is insufficient to get Democrats to win elections, as clearly demonstrated by Biden/Harris completely failing. You need to push the Democrats to the left. You need to have a candidate actually worth voting for, someone who actually excites the electorate to go out and vote to improve their lives, not just the “technically better than Trump” candidate. That doesn’t win elections, no matter how much you rant and rave and shame people.
Deal with this reality, or accept endless Republican victories.
Stop supporting and enabling genocidal cunts or I’ll do my best to kneecap the only viable opposition and empower MAGA and Trump!
The Democrats empowered MAGA and Trump by running a completely non-viable candidate. Stop blaming voters for the failure of the Democratic party. This is all on them, 100%.
That non viable candidate almost won and the world would be a better place if she did.
I’d say this was less on the voters and more on the non voters.
People didn’t vote because they felt like Harris was not worth voting for. She lost because she didn’t actually offer anyone what they wanted, she was just a harm reduction candidate at best. That isn’t sufficiently motivating to get people out to vote, no matter how much we rant and yell and shame people.
Please, I am begging you, accept this reality. I want Trump and the Republicans gone probably even more than you do. I am trying to help you understand that we lost for a very good reason and we need to learn from it.
I think she would have did a good job personally.
No war in Iran and no brownshirts shooting Americans in the streets.
What you think, and whether she would have done a good job, is completely irrelevant. Do you not understand my point? You win elections by having a candidate that people want to vote for, usually by advancing policies which are popular.
The genocide in Gaza is now like a 90/10 issue. It is known that it was a factor in why Kamala lost the election. If she had opposed the genocide, it is very possible that she would have won.
I am not shitting on Democrats just for fun. I am trying to explain that Trump won because the Democrats advanced a shit, genocidal candidate.
If you let them do the same thing again in 2028, we very well may see a Republican President even worse than Trump.
Please, demand more than the bare minimum.
She ran on a more lethal military and that Iran was our greatest enemy…
Oh yes, why reduce harm when we can not vote and get the option that will just endlessly stab with the wheel of staby knives.
People not voting are possibly more stupid than MAGA. At least MAGA morons have SOME sort of care, even if its motivated entirely by hate.
I’ve voted in every election I was ever eligible to vote in. I am simply explaining why the Democrats lost. You can hate the people who didn’t vote if you want, I understand that frustration, but there is a very good reason they didn’t vote - because they didn’t perceive the Democratic candidate to be someone worth voting for.
Advance a candidate with popular policies who isn’t a genocidal piece of shit and watch in amazement as political engagement ramps up.
harm reduction is a specific thing. voting is not harm reduction.
Funny how not setting your hand on a burning stove won’t result in third degree burns isn’t a good enough reason to not set your hand on a burning stove. You ever heard the phrase “don’t let better be the enemy of perfect”?
No shit Harris sucked, but she sucked a whole lot less than Trump and moving incrementally left from Harris would have been a HELL OF A LOT easier than moving left from Trump. I do absolutely blame the idiots who sat around and said “well, Harris doesn’t inspire me, so I’ll sit here and let the fascist collapse happen. That’ll show everyone how morally superior I am!”
The people who didn’t vote, I think, are worse than Trumo supporters because at least Trump supporters made moves to do what they thought was best while you sat around and twiddled your thumbs and let the world burn around you instead of doing the bare fucking minimum available to you to stop it, or at least slow it down to make it easier to change it in the near future
Take a look in the mirror. That’s what a fascist enabler looks like.
I have explained this, again, and again, and again: I am just explaining why and how the democrats lost. I have voted in every election I have ever been eligible to vote in, ALWAYS for the candidate which minimizes harm.
Please stop being so reactionary and try to understand what I am writing. Jumping to conclusions and getting angry at me for explaining why OTHER PEOPLE didn’t vote doesn’t make me a fascist enabler.
This is the most sane comment I’ve seen from you since I joined Lemmy.
Wow, “stop blaming voters”.
America, do you even understand how a democracy is supposed to work? Hint: it’s not fire & forget every N years.
Good luck you all, you need it.
Liberals have a real problem reckoning with the fact that Kamala Harris lost because she was an unelectable piece of genocidal trash who deserves to be put on trial for crimes against humanity alongside Biden for their unlimited support to the genocidal regime of Israel, who advanced precisely zero popular policies, and ran entirely on a platform of “We’re like the Republican Party, but slightly less worse”.
Liberals feel like their candidate was good, but only lost because voters are lazy, apathetic, stupid, etc. If the candidate was good, voters would overcome these obstacles and vote. I’m just explaining fundamental reality to people who do not want to come to terms with the fact that their political project, neoliberalism, is dead and gone.
If you’re an American then it is up to you to find a good candidate. It’s not going to work if you wait for someone to spoon feed you the “right”(enough) candidate.
I regularly encourage people to get engaged in the democratic process, especially primaries, as well as participating in workplace organizing and activist efforts. Please enjoy one of my many homemade copypastas:
Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.
- Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
- Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
- Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
- Don’t punch down.
- Don’t punch left.
- Educate yourself, politically.
- Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system.
They quit teaching civics in school in the US 30 years ago. So, no, the kids you’re arguing with do not understand how a democracy is supposed to work. Yet another Republican success story.
That explains a fair bit… Thanks! And good luck.
I love it, the left are both a large voting block for the Democrats but negligible enough to not be considered serious for legislation. Like with all fascists, you can’t reason with a neo-lib.
“it’s the only viable opposition because VBNMW only goes one way!”
If you want left wing votes, you better have left wing candidates. Unless you really like how 2024 turned out, I’d recommend learning that.
My best friend died in Trump’s concentration camps so I hope you feel good about teaching me that lesson.
I didn’t teach you that lesson. But seems you still need to learn it.
Hell nah, I’m not doing this tonight.
Perfection is the enemy of progress or something.
If you think electing a genocidal democrat is progress, as far as I’m concerned, you are as much an enemy of mine as a MAGA supporter is.
I am not asking for perfection. The bar is literally underground. We are talking about fucking genocide, here, not microaggressions.
This shit is literally how Trump got into power. You need to blame the Democrats for this. It was an entirely unforced defeat, all because Biden/Harris needed to dickride Israel directly into hell.
Fuck. That.
They keep proving the joke of “we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”.
The thing is, in their hearts, they know what the problem is. They need to give ground to the left. They’re just throwing a tantrum and refusing to accept it because in the past they’ve been able to win with a coalition of centrists, moderates and liberals. Those days are now gone, and this coalition, which has been looking down and sneering at the left for decades, really doesn’t want to have to capitulate to our demands. But if they don’t, they’ll just cause republican fascists to come to power. For many right wing democrats, fascism is preferable to socialism.
There is a very good reason the DNC hasn’t released the election post-mortem report, because it probably confirms something close to what I just described - though, probably watered down slightly. The leaks we do have confirm that the Democrats lost votes because of their pro-Genocidal stance.
And they won’t ever put their hands up and admit their approach is what caused defeat because they would require some self awareness, self analysis and then admitting that the ‘left’ not holding their noses and voting for their piss soaked candidate wasn’t the cause of the defeat.
I’m not in the US but only recently learnt that since ww2, no democrat has been elected with a majority of white voters. Carter came closest with 48%. Running a candidate who supported cop cities with her entire chest isn’t going to endear your core voter base.
“Genocide Joe” was bullshit? Are you denying the genocide or what his first name is?
What’s easy to deny is that the alternative would be any better, and was, in fact, much worse. At least there were calls within Joe Biden’s party to put a stop to it and headway was being made.
MAGA doesn’t give a fuck about Palestine and feels nothing when brown people die.
At least there were calls within Joe Biden’s party to put a stop to it and headway was being made.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.
MAGA doesn’t give a fuck about Palestine and feels nothing when brown people die.
Objectively better than you getting angry at anyone who refuses to vote for their butcher
Yeah his name is Benjamin
Literal nazi apologism
yup look at that user history. LOVES using the genocide cynically for their own selfish political goals, HATES anyone who talks about the genocide as it actually happened. Not good enough to murder children, with their blood fresh on your hands you have to pick them up by the dismembered shoulders and dance them around like marionette dolls begging to support their murderers to save their lives.
It’s hard to imagine Gobbles being capable of anything as disgusting
And these are the ‘good guys’ in America. Death to America.
You’re literally only helping the Republicans with garbage like this. Bye.
Oh no the bad people might do bad things
"guys, by not supporting Mussolini you’re just supporting Hitler!
Why can’t I defeat fascism?"
They probably won’t do shit about cost of living either. The only time it’s gone down in the past 20 years was in 2009 after the housing market crashed. That likely had more to do with the recession; and if anything the Democrats’ actions were a hindrance to that reduction.
You americans are going to have a rough time now that you have burnt all your soft power and goodwill. Sure you have other problems too, but I don’t think any political party can just “turn the ‘cost of living’ knob up”.
I think it’s fine to expect your party to be capable of doing things that aren’t accomplished by turning a single imaginary knob. Imagine applying this to any other situation: “sorry, there’s no ‘do the dishes’ switch so I’m gonna have to tell you to lower your expectations.”
Sure they could. Just cut the military budget in half and give it to the people, simple as. They just don’t want to.
Yeah, Obama and Timmy’s choice was to bail out Wall Street and let main street take the hit. And they still can’t figure out how they lost support in 2010.
PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves
Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷♀️
farts loudly
“Yeah I farted on purpose and yeah it stinks. I don’t care if you don’t like it, and I’m not listening to your complaints.”
“EDIT: Seriously, I don’t care. Just came back to make that clear. The part about me not caring. You better not think I care.”
Vote establishment out, they carry considerable blame for our current predicament. “Proud Zionist” Biden literally said last election “nothing will fundamentally change from Trump”, that’s who they are.
Jeffries, I hate it break it to you but if you think you’re going to pass anything while The Orange Menace is in the White House, I’d love to sell you my share of the Brooklyn Bridge.
You might as well keep trying to impeach Trump. In fact, we’d think you have balls if after each defeat in the Senate, you drum up another impeachment vote.
And I’d like to remind you that Republicans passed the repeal of Obamacare repeatedly in the last two years of Obama’s presidency.
I don’t like it, either, but it’s politically the smart thing to do (EDIT: I’m referring to not seeking impeachment here - ICE still needs to go for sure). Rather than reignite the partisan wars, show the less extreme Trump supporters that the other side is actually prioritizing “the people” & their needs more than Trump ever did - it’ll do more to win their support than attacking “their side” ever will.
I disagree. Democrats need to appeal not to reactionary right-wing or centrists, but rather people who did not vote, by using left-wing populist messaging to counter right-wing populism.
Look at the success of Mamdami as a template. That’s how we win - with candidates who are actually worth voting for, with policies that actively improve the lives of the working class, rather than the totally failed tactic of appealing to some mythical moderate voter with the “we’re slightly less terrible than the republicans” approach.
I don’t disagree with that, and I’m not saying Trumpers should be a priority, but attacking him is only going to stir up anger without accomplishing anything truly positive at this point. Plus Trump is at least a thorn in the puppet-masters" sides with his randomness, while Vance would be a good little boy and do exactly what he’s told by his handlers. I prefer Trump continue fucking up their plans a bit.
oh, I think I misunderstood, I thought you were saying that the left shouldn’t abolish ICE. I agree that removing Trump from office wouldn’t be worthwhile.
Ah, no - I was just referring to the impeachment. ICE - at least in anything vaguely resembling its current form - definitely needs to go.
show the less extreme Trump supporters
Doesn’t exist
Courting the right, like that Cheney stunt, it’s never worked before but I’ll bet it’ll work this time boy oh boy!
The image is about ice and the quotes are about impeachment. Nice use of right wing tactics.
Silly people here having arguments like they exist in a democracy that will change their lives for the better if only smart choices were made.
“So by decrease the cost of living that means doing more than offering a one time tax credit to small business and first time home buyers?”
“uhhhhhh… look over there Trumps doing a funny dance”
Restructure ICE to deport MAGA.
It’s hilarious that the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries thinks they’ll still be allowed on the stage after the Midterms. The first thing I expect the Dems to do after the Midterms is replace those two cowardly losers with people with the courage to fight MAGA on EVERYTHING!
And then it’s two years of relentless bullying, and impeachment is definitely a good part of the strategy, even if the Senate won’t vote to convict. We need to attack them aggressively on every front, especially anything that embarrasses and humiliates Trump. Impeach him over and over, every time he commits another crime. And frankly, we may get to a point where even MAGA realizes that maybe they’d be better off without him, and vote to impeach.
Then we can also go after everybody else, too, impeach one after another, just to put it on the historical record that we went after ALL the Traitors.
That will waste their time, make them scream and cry, and distract them, and keep them off balance. Drag them through investigations and hearings over and over, make them spend 3 days a week testifying in front of some committee or another, explaining themselves, and spending time in jail for contempt whenever possible. It will mean that we are closely watching and investigating them every second, making it much more difficult to pull off whatever insane strategies election fraud they’ll try to pull for 2028.
MAGAs and Anti-vaxxers are the only groups for whom it is appropriate to BULLY, so do it relentlessly.
Dissenters here. Ice isnt the problem, its been around for decades and few paid it any attention.
Blow hard trump is the problem. Hes making ice what it is.
ACAB
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I know this says low effort, but I mostly make memes on my phone and to get all the texts right in the picture would be pretty hard. So nice job. By the way, I didn’t read what it said.
Thank you I used a meme generating website and took a screenshot lmao
Oh nice, I should try that
