Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.
Lol they can eff off then, don’t make threats those pos, they better step off is what they can do! They work for We The People so do what we want!
Grow a fucking spine. we elected all of you assholes to fight for us, not to sit there and fucking be turned into one of them vampires.
And he should report that right to The People so we know who to primary when the time comes.
In 2016, Bernie was looking great…until the DNC happened, he sported a black eye, and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason. The establishment Dems are just as corrupt as the Repubs. The only hope for America is in the new blood…because the milk’s gone bad.
Trump didn’t win in 2016…Hillary (and DWS) LOST.
and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason.
Trump was the reason. Bernie isn’t stupid and he knew what kind of dipshit Trump is.
The fact that they’re speaking about it openly gives me hope tbh
Israel has been expending all of its political capital since O7. It’s now almost entirely gone.
You see before this time, Democrats had a strong Jewish caucus in their coalition who equated support for Israel as opposition to antisemitism; same with the converse.
This meant that Israel mostly through AIPAC could bully Democrats by forcing a pledge of fealty in order to get not only their endorsement, but their money, and also an assurance they wouldn’t accuse them of being an antisemite and or supporting their opponent.
Cori Bush’s primary loss is textbook of this.
But now the tables are turning. The baggage is now associating with Israel and AIPAC. The cost of being tied to them is worse than the consequences of their opposition. Their ability to drive a wedge is diminishing greatly.
The more this is brought out in public, the better.
My fear is that short of political capital, they’ll start just assassinating people.
They are certainly capable of it.
I need names Donnie. Name the names
Yeah, record these conversations. Save the emails and text messages.
Agreed. I need to know where to donate my $$ in 2 years to primary the hell out of these GOP light types.
My guess is they are anonymous. Probably anonymous internet phone calls or calls from a burner phone.
If they were anonymous, we wouldn’t know they were “house members.”
Yeah, you’re right, the wording doesn’t leave room for anonymous threats.
“Big D” is just republicans from 40 - 50 years ago now. A little token social policy, but just hand everything else to the corporations. Keep us arguing over what bathrooms people get to use while they lose every economic and policy battle.
Bring it on
Then you’ll just have to go through living hell if you want to make a difference for our country. Unless you’re a coward.
Damn, not even any sympathy or appreciation just “sacrifice yourself for me or you suck”?
Yes. They wanted to serve the people now do it. I’ve no sympathy, they asked to be there now do the thing we elected you there for.
It doesn’t even sound like you’re on his side and think he deserves to have a rough time because he stepped up. I don’t think you deserve his service with that attitude; hopefully he doesn’t decide the same.
“If you’re going through Hell - Keep going!” -Churchill
They’ll never fight for us as hard as they fight for Isreal.
won’t somebody please think about the military industrial complex!
Oh so now they’re threatening members to do as they’re told? That isn’t very “democratic” leadership, is it? 🤔 …
No wonder Schumer and Jeffries have felt so confident about the seats.
end Citizens United
That’s the big one. The people running the party are going to defend their nut.
It would require a constitutional amendment, so that’s going to be a pretty big challenge.
yeah good luck with that.
What do we do with traitors? Jeffries is a fucking traitor who wants to hand us right back to the fascists. What do we do with him? Do we have absolutely no heroes?
We should be executing them.
we criminalize our heroes.
How does someone like Jeffries with absolutely no charisma get into politics let alone become the head of Dem House?
It’s probably because he’s boring that he got the nod. I bet boring ones get picked because they don’t threaten any of the actually charismatic politicians who have ambitions for higher office.
And also because doing the job takes so much effort (like herding cats on steroids, presumably) that politicians who want to go places don’t want to do it in the first place, which again favors boring, silent workhorse types.
I mean, how many party leaders from either the House or the Senate have actually been charismatic, compelling figures? Schumer, Jeffries, McCarthy, Boehner, Pelosi, some whose names I can’t even remember? None of them exactly oozed charisma.
Pelosi
APIAC has a lot of money to burn.
Sell out
