[–] -1 points 59 minutes ago

As I said, this is not everything he voted for. He made lots of other votes that you may agree with, but we can't list that when calling him a bad, bad, little incompetent man.

I don't support Jeffries. He still has to go, and I agree this needs to happen for any meaningful change, but this whole post is a bad look.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    He voted for lots of things beside these bills.

    It is not everything he voted for. You are cherry picking the bad stuff to insult him.

    Again, I agree with you. I just don't like the framing of the title and the title alone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago*

    To be fair to AOC, she's been burned several times before by not being more tactical with her (what I perceive as) disdain for established party leadership. not saying I agree with the move now; I think now is absolutely the time she could be outspoken in not supporting Hakeem given she'll likely be campaigning for Pres the next two years. But I can see her calculus in playing cautiously.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

    AIPAC Shakur

    Tupac came from revolutionaries and Black Panthers. Hakeem Jeffries does not have a modicum of the class consciousness that Tupac had. Find a different stupid nickname.

    "He returned time and again to the themes of class inequality, wealth redistribution, and the moral bankruptcy of capitalism. He described the police as an occupying army in black neighborhoods, spoke of prisons as modern-day plantations, and decried the horrors to which US imperialism subjected the Global South. Despite his popularity, he remained angry, impatient, and unrelenting in his belief that another world was possible."

    The Socialist Politics of Tupac Shakur

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  • [–] -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 child)

    I know he's said he's no longer running for president but I hope that isn't the case if he loses his majority leader bid. He gets a huge boost in name recognition so it's a win-win situation for him.

    I'd vote for him over AOC, who has terrible political instincts. Current example: She said she supports Hakeem because he's running unopposed, meanwhile, Ayanna Pressley is making all the moves to prepare for a speaker bid.

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