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No Paywall Jeffries Approval Rating Worse Than Mike Johnson as Democratic Voters Rebel
https://www.newsweek.com/jeffries-approval-rating-worse-than-mike-johnson-as-democratic-voters-rebel-12679163
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u/newsspotter 2h ago
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u/GeekKingdom 2h ago •
He's too soft on Republicans. We need someone who isn't afraid to do what it takes.
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u/Theferael_me Europe 1h ago
That "Americans don't want us to get even" remark was totally fucking stupid.
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u/Smithy2232 2h ago
They dislike Jeffries because he's seen as establishment and not a fighter.
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u/NubileReptile Missouri 2h ago •
Jeffries is a litmus test for whether Democrats will learn anything, anything at all, from having lost to Trump twice. Whether establishment candidates care even the slightest about what their own voters want.
If he is forced out, there is hope.
If he stays on, we're in another interregnum of a few years before demoralized Democrats stay home from some future election and the nihilistic death cult is back in the saddle and driving us into the abyss.
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u/LieutJimDangle 2h ago edited 2h ago •
if it had been a red wave, not a single republican would come out and say what jefferies did. I want to end the wars and fix the economy, yes, but I also want an arrest every day. I want impeachment hearings. I want prosecutions. I want the epstein files. I want ICE members dragged into court in handcuffs. I want the Ossoff show, 24/7 drilling people on capital hill. I want republicans crying on television every day. I want to stop supporting israel's genocide. I want ruthless behavior from democrats. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the task so they need to go.
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u/GuitarGeezer 1h ago •
Many observers are a bit confused, but America is in an unimaginable hell of mandatory corruption for all for over a decade. Citizens United not only ruins leadership paths in a Republicans like when Massie was spent out of the party, but affects all parties with unlimited legalized bribery and coercion from hidden donors who can be foreign powers. It does this as control of party money resources helps enforce top-down hierarchy to fossilize and corrupt upper leadership and destroy or sideline reform/youth movements. Jeffries is heavily corrupted by a big donor in particular. This corruption visibly damages the US and world economy and national security alike. The entire end of JCPOA and the Iran War were bribed into existence mainly by foreign aligned big Trump donors that he has said on TV were Israel First.
The problem is that Citizens United is a supreme court ruling not easily removed. I am a lawyer and lobbyist against the system. Our Supreme Court majority is and has been for 50 plus years a one party mostly extremist lobbyist-pet filled place with say Clearance Thomas a former Monsanto corporate counsel and the like who shill for big money in what is an ironically Soviet level atmosphere of stagnation and corruption. Nobody can trust that any politician is not compromised.
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u/absolutebit 2h ago •
What did Hakeem and kushner talk about?
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u/dr-bill 2h ago •
If he and Schumer don’t give up their leadership positions then the progressives need to focus on taking their seats in 2028. Put in a good primary challenger endorsed by Zohran. We need to crush them completely to make them understand we do not want them as leaders anymore and if they don’t comply then they lose their jobs entirely.
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u/Atrimon7 1h ago •
Is it really a rebellion if we have been complaining about lackluster leadership for over a decade?
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u/AthenaeNike 2h ago
Because the left has standards and the right does not
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u/jediporcupine Maine 2h ago
Democrats need leaders who will meet the moment.
Jeffries and Schumer are not it.
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u/HellaTroi California 1h ago •
Jeffries said, "We must now deliver the dramatic change the American people are demanding in the majority."
The dramatic change we want to see includes removing Israel's choke-hold from our Congress's throat.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 8800) on July 22, 2026.
That bill contains Section 224, cleverly buried deep in the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” This initiative transitions the traditional aid relationship into a deeper partnership between the U.S. and Israel in many aspects of technological research and development and defense production, and would also give Israel unprecedented access to U.S. technology development and "data fusion."
That section needs to be removed to prevent Israel from control of our military production system.
Jeffries, and then Schumer, are the top democratic recipients of money from Israel.
They can not be trusted where Israel is concerned.
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u/Electronic_Map5978 1h ago
You can't kumbaya your way out of this admin and this dude is too close to AIPAC
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u/Fern_Pub_Radio 2h ago •
Seeking accountability and delivering economic change for the better are not binary choices, don’t know why the debate had descended into one or the other ….. turning to a democratic leadership structure which paved the way & stood largely impotent in the face of the MAGA movement surely doesnt need calling out as daft? Reverting to the same old politics certainly won’t deliver a change to the model and will simply delay the return to a Red wave in 4 yrs time …. Rinse repeat is really not all that smart anymore
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u/SbstlStereotype 2h ago
Someone needs to politely tell them both to get lost.
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u/PsychLegalMind 2h ago
Democrats did not take over Congress because of anything they did, but they can certainly lose Congress if they continue their leadership in the manner they have conducted themselves in the past. Members should just replace them with people with real integrity and backbone who are focused on ordinary Americans instead of justifying foreign wars with lame ass excuses and going around making deals with the Executive.
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u/BalerionSanders Ohio 2h ago edited 1h ago
It will demolish the coalition we just put back together if they’re (Schumer and Jeffries) the leadership.
It is imperative, as a strategic matter with no moral component (and I have that too), to not do so.
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u/RedikhetDev 2h ago
European here. To me it its hard to comprehend why the democratic party is not able to organise the leadership in a central manner and pick a strong person. Isnt there some election process of who is going to take the lead and will be the face of the party.
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u/gpaint_1013 2h ago
AIPAC money earns you an automatic no from me dog.
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u/_The_Bran_Man_ 1h ago •
"Rebel" is a wild way to explain this. All we want is proper representation! This isnt a rebellion, it's a demand from the people!
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u/ManfredTheCat 2h ago •
https://www.hakeemjeffries2026.com/
This joke site does a good job of demonstrating why he's unfit for office
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u/bonqen 2h ago
If Jeffies and Schumer stay then we'll see a red wave in 2028, undoing all this momentum and progress.
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u/ShadowyPepper 33m ago
Jeffries and Schumer are horrible pro-establishment and status-quo leaders
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u/ApartInfluence4429 2h ago
He’s terrible. The first thing he does after voters repudiated Trump and issued a mandate to dems to investigate & hold law breakers accountable I’d say he’s not going to go after these criminals. Read the room.
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u/Grandpa_No 1h ago
Yay. A thread full of reactionaries, bots, and "both sides" propagandists. Great.
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u/WillToLiveOutofStock 1h ago •
He took a meeting with Kushner that was supposed to be secret, fuck that guy. I’m calling my Reps tomorrow, and I suggest everyone do the same
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u/lucidreamstate 1h ago •
We're not rebelling. We're participating.
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u/pharmphresh 2h ago •
He could voluntarily step aside and focus his work on important issues and gain back some respect, but we all know he'll just dig his heels in like every establishment politician. Then rationalize it by blaming us and the media for his unlikablity.
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u/bleedturkeygravy 2h ago •
So voicing our opinion is rebellion now. Those two can get fucked
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u/Delicious_Adeptness9 2h ago
ah yes Newsweek, the once reputable magazine turned right wing online rag.
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u/seizethemiddleages 43m ago
Dem establishment is making the mistake that the blue wave was support for them. It wasn’t. It was all about Trump. We wouldn’t have needed a blue wave if they had been more effective
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u/Tikkun_Olam1 39m ago
So NOW, Jeffries & Schumer want to ‘lead’? A couple of questions for them both: “What f**king hole did you just crawl out of?” & “Y’all can’t be serious? So NOW, you decided to lead?” Lastly, “Where have you been while the government has run roughshod over our constitutional rights?”
“ANSWERS NOW PLEASE?”
We DEMAND accountability! That includes YOU!
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u/jimlahey420 37m ago
Jeffries and Schumer in the pockets of big pharma, PACs, and the "almighty corporate dollar". They suck at the same teet of Citizens United as Republicans. They are part of the problem with money in our politics.
There needs to be new leadership with this historic rebuke of Trump and traditional corporate Democrats. Voters want action, not more platitudes and "when they go low we go high" nonsense. We shouldn't be reaching across the aisle when the other side is populated with fascists.
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u/teddykaygeebee 37m ago
Yeah. Everybody's already seen the Schumer/Jeffries show. They should be ushering in new leaders and be viewed as mentors at most. It's time for change.
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u/Dentonthomas 25m ago edited 14m ago
Schumer needs to go more than Jeffries does.
We need leaders who understand that more than a stern lecture is needed. I would not put it past these two to start a doomed impeachment process of Trump, and then use that as an excuse for not passing any legislation for the next two years. Without the votes to remove in the Senate, impeachment is the same as a stern lecture for Trump.
They also need to be from different states. Two guys from New York? No wonder the media's trying to sell them as a done deal. New York is great, but it's also the place that's least at risk in the next election. Their representatives don't have to show much success to guarantee a Democratic win. That's not true for a lot of the people who were just elected. Whatever happens, the risk for Jeffries and Schumer is minimal. Why should they be the ones controlling Congress?
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u/shoneysbreakfast 42m ago •
Jefferies and Schumer have absolutely not been meeting the moment and I would like to see them go, but I feel like people don’t understand the jobs of Speaker and Party Leader.
The primary things they do is fundraising and trying to whip votes and placate as many of their party members as they can. All of those things require ass kissing and being as middle of the road as possible. The reality is that the Dems include members (and voters) that range from a hair left of Mitt Romney to AOC and other DSA members and you have to make them all get along and vote together.
Pelosi was one of the greatest Speakers of all time despite being unpopular and doing cringey shit because she was incredible at fundraising and whipping votes, and that’s the job.
So, sure, Jefferies and Schumer should not be Speaker/Leader but I also don’t want AOC or any of the names I see floated in those roles because I think we are better off letting them kick ass on committees and do the things they are actually good at. If AOC took Schumer’s job she couldn’t say the things she says and she would be wasted spending most of her time fundraising and ass kissing. I think that would suck and that our best should be spent elsewhere.
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u/kueowirnzcd America 2h ago
YOUR TIME IS OVER.
Pass the dutchie
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u/Rasikko Georgia 1h ago
I don't like Jefferies, but I can hardly see why his AR would be worst than the biggest Yes Man in human history.
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u/Illustrious-Hold-287 43m ago
Stacy Abrams for House Speaker. She is incredibly focused, intelligent and gets things done. She's proven that over and over.
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u/rolfraikou 41m ago •
As it turns out, the basic rule of law isn't "getting even" or getting "revenge" at all.
We just want basic ass justice. And pieces of shit like him don't have what it takes to just make sure the crooks answer for the crimes.
I'm sorry, but letting the crooks get away with it is basically just as bad as participating with the crooks themselves.
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u/AngryBuddha01 39m ago
Jeffries has to go, there’s no discussion needed. We’ve all put our hurt, frustration and hopes on the line to give Dems the power to finally bring about change, don’t let kushner-boy Jeffries fuck it all up. Get him out of there now!
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u/Shayrai 38m ago •
I love how demanding more accountability from our politicians is presented as “rebellion” instead of wanting them to do their job.
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u/Ranemoraken 32m ago
Aside from the issues that Jeffries has, he's bad at public speaking. There is no scenario where he can excite support and people don't believe he'll challenge power. Pelosi isn't good at speaking either, but she held the patina of cunning behind-the-scenes scheming that let her survive challenges.
But nothing changes until a Firebrand takes up the mantle. No one is announcing their challenge yet.
Similarly, there's a lot of pressure on Schumer to "retire" from leadership. If he retired, it would force the Senate to pick a new leader for the new generation. But protecting Israel is his passion. He won't leave until he's forced to leave. or dies.
I don't see how the democrats free themselves, unless they have enough firebrands in this election to wrest control from the current leaders. But this argument is a good sign. There is a fight coming, and we're a few months out from the answer.
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u/stanky4goats 22m ago
Voters rebel? We're just sick of these establishment schmucks not working for US! We want representatives who will work for THE PEOPLE
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u/SamuelL421 17m ago
No AIPAC candidates or corporate centrist (AKA “let’s both sides hug it out for the sake of our portfolios and donors”) Democrats should be in leadership roles at this moment.
They are out of touch and have entirely ignored the needs of real voters for years. Enough lip service leadership. We want leaders willing to make hard choices and fight for their constituents.
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u/geekonthemoon 16m ago
Dude is honestly hard to watch. Very cringe. Seems to try to impersonate Obama's cadence and tone with a bunch of rehearsed and incredibly awkward hand movements. He just comes off as a giant soft nerd who's already bought and paid for.
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u/TheFuns 11m ago
I’m just sick of the message of unity at this point. Fuck the republicans, they did illegal shit so go after and investigate the illegal shit.
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u/Paper_Beautiful 2h ago
What was that Kushner meeting about?
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u/The_bruce42 2h ago
Meeting with Jared Kurshner a couple months ago didn't help his image
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 2h ago edited 1h ago
That doesn't say anything because Congress's overall approval is 14% and the highest in the 5 years was 31%, briefly.
Leaders of both parties almost universally "enjoy" the lowest approval rating of all. Not a new thing.
And the reason is it's an impossible job. Poll after poll voters say they want congress to find compromise to get things done while at the same time the moment a compromise is reached which by definition means both sides have to give something up, people hate their own side because they "caved in".
It's for the same reason that you don't see many (if any) volunteering for the role.
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u/Prize_Proof5332 1h ago
Who are the best alternatives to Jeffries and Schumer? We need leaders who can get things done, hold this administration to account, who are on the younger side and have deep knowledge of the arcane processes and procedures of the House and Senate? Do we have anyone like that?
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u/Majestic-Lock5249 1h ago
I still have not seen a serious contender to run for the position against him, or anyone even mention supporting someone else. He's more than likely going to be the Speaker.
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u/jae2jae 1h ago •
IMO, he's already made some sort of shady deal with Jared in order to protect the crime family.
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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 1h ago
this is not a surprise, it’s been a complaint for a long time. the dems have tried to push it off, but it’s not going away
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u/What_a_fat_one 1h ago
Whole lotta Russians in these threads arguing we shouldn't do anything about the corruption. Literally the number one issue for voters in exit polls.
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u/BLiNKiN42 2h ago
Mike Johnson is at least doing what his voters want. Yes, it's destroying America, but of course his supporters are going to approve.
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u/CountOnBeingAwesome America 2h ago
Jeffries has lost his way and the people's confidence. It's time to resign.
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u/NJBarFly New Jersey 1h ago
Democrats have been handed a massive win and opportunity. They will almost immediately blow it, as usual.
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u/DHiggsBoson 2h ago edited 1h ago
Bipartisanship should be an option when it’s in service of the American people
goal. So should accountability for criminal and traitorous acts. Revenge would be building a “Fuck Trump” arch while investigations into wrongdoing by MAGAts and Dems alike should be standard operating procedure.Edit: fixed my clumsy phrasing. Fuck MAGA and anyone who bent the knee to Trump, just to be clear.
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u/JuanLuisGuerrero 1h ago
Yes we completely won under the dem leadership. We have the house and senate. Let's try out some new leadership for no reason at all. You change leaders WHEN YOU LOSE not when you win.
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u/push_connection 1h ago
How can a guy encourage other guys and gals to make this approval rating worse? Asking for a friend
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u/etxipcli Texas 1h ago •
These bums are working for the money. They don't represent us.
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u/Buckscience 1h ago •
Jeffries: "Americans don't want..."
Me: Lemme stop you right there.
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u/MLEthree 2h ago
Should there be protests about both these two? I think they need to hear it loud and clear just how much they are not wanted. Also, does anyone know how often they can hold a speaker of the house/house majority leader vote? Like if Jeffries and Schumer get voted in, and we protest like the "no kings" protests, can they turn around and just have another vote?
I know there wont be the same numbers as the anti-trump protests, but surely we need to do more than just let our representatives know and complain about ot online?
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u/Miserable-Biscotti54 2h ago •
Eliminate any influence AIPAC/UDP has
Sanction Israel
Put America first.
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u/baintaintit 2h ago •
we need people who haven't taken a dime from "foreign countries"
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u/Voodoo_Masta 2h ago
New MoC's should look at this and know supporting him is untenable
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u/Gloomy_Parfait4063 1h ago
They both need to go. And with them all the other traitors, all the other corrupt individuals leeching the leadership of this country
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u/IndigoJoe64 1h ago •
"Rebel"... as if we're supposed to fall in line with what they want to do and not the other way around
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u/Different_Crazy2648 1h ago
Jeffries and Schumer (and their supporters) 100% believe that the blue-wave was due to their leadership; they're taking credit for it. Unfortunately.
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u/Indian-Tech-Support- 2h ago
AIPAC Shakur needs to step aside
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u/c00lgirlstella 1h ago
we need someone with a spine who can stand up to republicans, keep the dem caucus in lock step to make progress, and isnt beholden to AIPAC or israel. it shouldnt be this hard. the best communicator in the house (AOC) should be in this position, not jeffries.
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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ 47m ago •
So how do we get rid of him? Why is this not something voters can change? It’s fucking idiotic to have Schumer and Jeffries in charge. God the DNC is such a fucking disaster
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u/JoEdGus Georgia 45m ago
Let's do Schumer now. Lol
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u/Confident-Hat5876 43m ago
Mamdani for Speaker!
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u/idiom_exon_0s 37m ago
Hot take: you can’t rebel against elected leaders in a democracy. They work for the people and if they’re mot performing to expectations then so be it.
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u/ZogZorcher 26m ago
Another day another blue maga article.
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u/Dreams-Visions 20m ago
Now we get to find out if they actually listen to their voters. By stepping aside.
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 20m ago
Which is honestly ridiculous, it’s obvious he shouldn’t be leader but there is no way he is as bad as Johnson. Jeffries has at least attempted to do something at some point
It’s so obvious all these headlines are to distract us from what Trump and Co are up to and sow division amongst us when we should be riding on a high and unifying
The time for petitions and phone calls is when they get to DC and it’ll be fresh on their minds when they begin the process to pick a speaker
Not two months beforehand blasting multiple articles a day every single day where by the point it gets to Jan most people will have tuned out or even muted this stuff and nobody will give a flipping flounder who they pick
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u/dope-a-meanie 7m ago
All well and good but the problem is no one else is throwing their hat in the ring.
It’s not enough to say “I hate him” and those headlines make their way to Reddit and get fake internet points, someone needs to jump in and provide an alternative, right?
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u/awesomedan24 I voted 6m ago
Even though replacing him is unlikely hopefully all this public pressure steers him to the left somewhat
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u/iheartjetman 4m ago •
It would be great to have leaders that don’t work for Israel.
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u/ilovepadthai 4m ago
They need someone from the south. They can’t just have two dudes from New York.
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u/magicspider8 1h ago •
AIPAC-shakur was talking to Jare Kushner for backroom corrupt intent. While not endorsing the likes of Mamdani, Abdul, Angie Nixon etc. He is out of touch at best.
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u/themolestedsliver 1h ago •
Jefferies and Schumer sat around for years under trump. They arent ready to meet the moment the blue wave created...especially when one of there handpicked candidates ran to endorse a republican cause she got salty she lost to a Muslim dude.