Day one, first order of business, the new congress needs to sideline them. They shouldn't even be allowed to take interviews.

Don't just tell them who not to pick. Give them a list names for better choices.

I wonder if it is too early to contact my new senator and house rep. I don't see a way other than sending an email to their campaign emails. I suspect Abdul and McCann already believe this, but want to make sure they know they have our support as well.

Did this less than an hour ago.

Maybe he can settle down in a nice west bank place with Joe and Eileen Bailey

Soon to be parroted by Jefferies in the House.

I was told that voting for the Democratic party would guarantee a witch hunt.

Do not disappoint me, Democrats.

It's worse than caving. Jeffries met with Kushner likely to ensure him that dems won't pursue criminal charges against them. Now this with Schumer. These people are traitors.

Vote them out and primary them both out

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Thank you for doing this. PBS turned off the comments so it's good to see what we all think about his useless platitudes here.

The first thing I did this morning was send a note to Chuck telling him to step aside because of his personal pick of the traitor Haley Stevens and then taking credit for everyone else's work.

And then I wrote my congressman telling him to not support Jeffries as speaker. My rep is super lefty in an uncontested seat. It's safe for him to fight for us because he doesn't need corporate money.

Schumer and Jefferies both accepted approximately $1.7 million from AIPAC. Each.

Don't forget Blackstone Group, his second-highest contributor during his reelection year.

Your summation is spot-on.

They heard stories of the struggle older generations had, and witnessed the resulting trauma and strength. Having never been through it themselves they developed the worship of struggle and elevation of suffering, as an affectation.

Then they foisted the self-loathing for themselves having never experienced it, on subsequent generations, claiming the subsequent generations were the first ones who never experienced it. And have tried to force suffering on us ever since, in an attempt to make us like their parents.

Truly the John Wayne generation, larping like the hard world gave them moral character, while sleeping in a soft Hollywood bed, coasting on the work left by real people, without even the grit of the ones who took it from the real people.

get off the bus lest under the bus

Use Firefox and the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" XPI.

I just have my settings to always go to reader mode. It bypasses most soft “paywalls”. It’s weird whenever I actually see any website design which is 80% shit.

So what are the ways to boot him and Jeffries out now? Not in 6 months, that’ll be too late.

The leadership positions are elected at the beginning of each term, which will happen at the beginning of January. Between now and then, we can write our Dem Senators and Representatives (be polite and clear--staff tally these), and we can hold demonstrations as two ways to express our demands directly. The more who do this the better.

Bloggers, columnists, and podcasters should be writing articles and conducting interviews publicizing what the people want.

We can't let the old guard redefine goals and set a false narrative. For example, Jeffries just came out and said,

"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf, because life is way too expensive"

He's trying to frame our expecting accountability as just petty "wanting to get even"--don't let him!

When you write your representative, you could include this quote (or one from Schumer along the same lines if writing your Senator). Say that enforcing the Rule of Law is not "getting even", rather it is the only way to cure corruption, which thrives when people in power who break the law are not held accountable. We demand a leader who understands this. Say that he is also implying that we have to choose between holding bad actors accountable or tackling the other issues. We demand a leader who can deal with multiple issues at the same time (or "walk and chew gum at the same time").

IMO we also have to continue with the demonstrations, holding signs that state our demands. If we don't they'll think we're complacent now that the elections are over, and that they can just go back to business as usual. But if we do, they'll realize we are serious and have certain expectations of them. The newly-elected Dems are going to be paying a lot more attention to us than the others (at least for a while!), so we should take advantage of this window of opportunity to make ourselves heard.

I'm the outsider and I've been looking across threads and I don't see real answer to this other than calling your reps.

Now I'm wondering how did those guys got into their positions? And why people or their colleagues can't do (or aren't doing) anything about it.

Couldn't Dems have meeting where somebody propose change to the leadership and somebody else second the motion, then they all vote on it? Or something. Again I'm outsider so..

You sound like the don't vote people that were around yesterday.

Ro Khanna for house. AOC has executive aspirations.

Everyone always forgets that Bernie’s an independent.

Yup, you're absolutely not wrong on that at all. This election isn't a endorsement of Democrats but a rebuke of Republican's actions and lack of actions against Trump's insane desires and should act accordingly to affect real change.

It would behoove Democrats and Progressives to understand that moving forward but at least for Democrats, I highly doubt it considering what the leadership have already said about today's elections results.

That's not necessarily true. Talarico beat Paxton by 20pts

While I do feel that some candidates were exactly that, I wouldn't ignore that some candidates have genuine merit.

God, not Booker. He attacked Hasan Piker without even knowing who he was... because a staffer told him to do it.

He's just a starfucking showboat.

The rest are great and I think Van Hollen should run for president.

Even if some people don't like Booker for his stances with respect to Israel, I think he has the energy required to actually effect the change demanded by Americans, which will still include progressive voices, whereas Schumer is using the leadership chair as if it was a retirement home like McConnell was.

If AOC wants to be President in 2028 (this is her choice and she hasn't indicated anything yet), I think even a two-year stint as House Leader will give her enough limelight and any big achievements will be able to bridge her to becoming the Democratic nominee (over scumbags like Newsom), Ossoff is good too to potentially be set up in a similar fashion. She is presiding over some important committees already, but this is a potentially huge opportunity, not that I would be upset with Garcia, Khanna or Raskin becoming leader either.

Jeffries is set to become the first African American sworn in as House Majority Leader in January, I know many Democratic establishment don't want to take away that moment from him, but this moment calls for way more than ceremony.

Jeffries https://c.org/XDXmJGd7tP

Schumer https://c.org/LWtJgcGnwj