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.

(Obligatory https://readsettlers.org/ )

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 🤷‍♀️

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[–] 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sure they could. Just cut the military budget in half and give it to the people, simple as. They just don't want to.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago*

    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.”

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Prices basically never go down, what you need is stability so that the earned income can rise to match the new prices.

    On the flip side, there isn't a whole lot the president can do to reduce inflation, but there sure as fuck is a lot they can do to make it worse.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Sure, but first we need to drive Jeffries and Schumer out of the House/Senate.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Don't forget the "Bi-partisanship" we needed after Jan 6th. Donald Trump tries to make a coup happen, but what we needed was "Bi-partisanship". Whole Republican Party kept backing Trump's play, and running cover for him, but we needed "Bi-partisanship".

    Still pissed about that particular speech even though it has been 6 years.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    "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"

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  • Yes maga is dogshit but the democrat leadership is in bed with them, that's the problem and there's no easy solution. Even if Ocasio Cortez and Sanders and others are amazing, they need more allies because schumer and jefferies are lockstep with trump behind closed doors.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Restructure ICE to deport MAGA.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    To where? I guess Russia might want them, can't think who else would. North Korea would take them just for publicity value. I can't think of any other country that would even consider taking a mass arrival of deported magas. I guess they'd learn what it's like to be an unwelcome immigrant.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Congratulations, you've just invented the Stasi.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My country's right-wingers, who I actually know and interact with, are horrid, despicable people who are constantly hate-criming minorities, holding back progress, and trying to bring back every backwards oppressive institution they can, they have no insight, nothing worth saying, they can't be reasoned or negotiated with, and they ought to at least be shut out of the political process, if not forcibly reeducated or removed from society.

    I don't know much about right-wingers in communist countries, but presumably they must be heroic freedom fighters who should be blindly supported at every opportunity.

    (Libs be like)

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I don’t know much about right-wingers in communist countries, but presumably they must be heroic freedom fighters who should be blindly supported at every opportunity.

    I mean, you joke, but that was straight up the rhetoric around Victor Orban when he came to power 16 years ago. Same with Putin in the early '00s. And now we're getting an earful of it about Reza Pahlavi with respect to Iran.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

    Meme aside, I'm absolutely voting blue no matter who because

    1. Literal fascists are in control of our federal government.

    2. There is no viable 3rd party. No 3rd party is seriously trying to be viable. And American citizens aren't taking 3rd parties seriously by voting for them in local/state elections. So there is absolutely no chance of a 3rd party accomplishing anything in the near or even remote future.

    I'm not sure if anyone remembers, but none of this crazy shit was happening before January 2025. I'm voting to go back in that direction.

    To be clear, I'm totally onboard with reforming the Democrat party by primarying out the bad actors. That's way, way more likely than making a 3rd party viable in the short amount of time we have left before we aren't a democracy anymore.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    I’m absolutely voting blue no matter who

    Well, then you've got a decision to make. Because even Senate Dems aren't voting Dem anymore.

    none of this crazy shit was happening before January 2025

    You remind me of the Israelis who cannot conceive of a historical moment prior to October 7th, 2023.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Well, then you’ve got a decision to make.

    No I don't. I'm not in Fetterman's district.

    You remind me of the Israelis who cannot conceive of a historical moment prior to October 7th, 2023.

    No I don't. I remind you of someone that can remember what living in the United States was like before January 2025 and it was nowhere near this insane and stressful.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck that, blue are the stupid party. Republicans the evil party. Voting for my dog, god i hope she wins. Belly rubs for all.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    the blue no matter who thing is funny because trump originally was going to run as a democrat. would they have still voted for him?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy

    Hillary was more afraid of Jeb Bush than anyone else in the GOP field, because she thought she'd lose to him the same way Gore lost to his brother. So she brought in her close friend and mega-donor, Donald J. Trump as a stalking horse who could humiliate Jeb from the right. Trump was more than happy to campaign as a Republican, because he had a chip on his shoulder over Barack Obama sullying the White House with his black ass. So the two conspired to give Hillary a Presidency and Trump a lucrative grifting opportunity.

    A vote for Hillary, in the primary, was effectively a vote for Donald to advance to the General.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    its still crazy to me how the "low energy" insult wiped out jebs campaign overnight

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Jeb's campaign was powered entirely by his ability to brown nose his mega-donor base of support. It wasn't that "Low Energy Jeb" mortally wounded his campaign. It was that Jeb never had much of a base of support to begin with.

    There's a fantastic exchange between Jeb and a constituent in New Hampshire, wherein the constituent bemoans the lack of quality plumbing and the need to rely on individual septic systems across the state. This is due to New Hampshire's hard granite foundation, which is expensive to drill through when laying public works. The constituent asked Jeb how the federal government could assist in improving New Hampshire's public works. Jeb responded that federal money going to New Hampshire public works would have infringed on the libertarian ideology of the state's people and its founders.

    At a town hall meeting in Raymond, Bush was asked three times about the small town’s strained septic system. “This is not the problem of the president,” Bush responded playfully. “I’m not going to solve your septic problem tonight, I’m afraid.”

    This was on a bus tour he'd dubbed the "Jeb Can Fix It" event. (There's a video archived somewhere, but this was the best reference I could find).

    Nobody who was voting actually liked this guy. That's why he came out behind both Kasich and Cruz in the NH primary.

    Without Trump running, my money is on Cruz - or maybe Kasich - prevailing in the end.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    No.

    That's why he didn't run as a democrat.

    Because he knew it wouldn't work.

    Because liberals hold their constituents to higher standards than conservatives.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    that goes against the "blue no matter who" thing

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  • [+] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    I don't think you understand how little these vegan Canadian anarchists living on indigenous soil don't care. Certainly they haven't constructed their entire personality around championing causes that they can use to stir up drama at the drop of a hat. They are just trying to live their lives in peace and uncaring bliss. To even suggest otherwise makes you sound like a milk drinker, and they hate milk drinkers.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Why there's no public support here for permissive immigration policies either. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the voters who are wrong.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (28 children)

    You can really see it ramp up in real time. The pro-china, pro-russia shit, the "both sides" shit, the "Dems don't do anything" shit. It's all bad actors making false equivalency arguments. Motherfuckers act like trump take 3 is gonna be better. Fuck off. Vote blue. Period. Call me out if you want, but if you vote red, if you vote third party, you are part of the problem. The system isn't set up for a third party, so if you do that, you only help the party that wouldn't have gotten your vote otherwise. Wish it wasn't that way, but it is, so you gotta go what you gotta do and vote blue, no matter how much you want to be a tankie slut.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Counterpoint: I’ve been doing that exact strategy for 26 years and all I have to show for it is Fetterman

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Fetterman suffered brain damage. You can't hold the strategy hostage because someone got hit in the head.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yes but he’s all I have to show for it. Literally no one else I voted for in the primary won, and the Democrats almost always lose.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Looks like you got more work to do. Get out and volunteer. Talk to peers. Drum up more enthusiasm about voting. Those bingo playing GOP mummies aren't resting on their laurels, they are telling all their friends at the function how to vote. All the time. Every time. You have to, too.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    I'm not sure what you are saying with this. Mamdani ran as a Democrat. Cuomo switched and ran independant when Mamdani beat him in the primary. So, a Democrat won, instead of a third party. Which is exactly what I said in my post. Am I misreading what you've said?

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    This is spot on. It's why they shit on Bernie despite him being way more popular than Hillary. If dems would've let Bernie run I think we avoid a trump presidency altogether.

    The biggest class in America is the working class.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The people that were against him are establishment asshats who want to keep the status quo. They didn't want a progressive challenge in the NYC mayoral race. They wanted Cuomo because Cuomo is easy. They aren't representative of the "Blue No Matter Who" voter strategy. People like Schumer, Jeffries, and Jacobs aren't progressive democrats, they are "just let us keep doing what we are doing" democrats.

    That being said, I'd take Schumer over Thune any day, and that's a 1:1. You can't say that voting another Thune into power is a better alternative to Schumer no matter how much you dislike him. The "Blue No Matter Who" theory still lines up with reality, especially when you can see the alternative already in power.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    They aren’t representative of the “Blue No Matter Who” voter strategy.

    They are representative of the sort of person who says "vote blue no matter who."

    That being said, I’d take Schumer over Thune any day,

    And Thune over anyone to Schumer's left.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago*

    Progressive ran in Minnesota and lost for mayor of Minneapolis.

    This whole "progressivism is the silver bullet" is horseshit. This is coming from someone who would like more mamdani candidates but youre a complete fool if you think people like him would win everywhere or win a presidential election by default.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I’m not sure what you are saying with this. Mamdani ran as a Democrat. Cuomo switched and ran independant when Mamdani beat him in the primary. So, a Democrat won, instead of a third party.

    And the "no matter who" wing of the party showed that they're massive hypocrites and tried to sink Mamdani after he won the nomination.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    I'm gonna need some citations on this one.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (7 children)

    I'm sure you don't consider Gillibrand's disgusting Islamophobic rant about him to be an example. "No matter who" is only for the left. As soon as the spoiled centrist wing doesn't get 100% of everything they want, which in this case was the sex pest they wanted running New York City into the ground for them, they revert back to "party unity my ass."

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, Gillibrand was genuinely awful and that was real Islamophobia. That's a legitimate criticism. But Mamdani still won as a Democrat, and that is exactly what I was arguing for. The answer to Gillibrand isn't third parties, it's primarying cunts like Gillibrand. Do you think someone on the right is going to treat Muslim Americans better? Because that's the actual alternative when you don't vote blue.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't that what we're talking about here? It ain't November. Primaries are currently happening. Yet you and your cohorts are mad at people for not supporting establishment Jefferies in this thread.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Just fuck off with your bad faith bullshit. Honestly. I'm done arguing with bots and trolls.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's the third time that you've gotten pissed off when someone pointed out your goal posts seem to be moving.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Since my previous response was removed by mod, I'll come back with a censor.

    Ok, [person lacking education], here's the deal.

    When people post memes like this, they spread mistrust in the system. They drive down desire to vote, because people believe that voting doesn't matter. "Oh, why vote for the dems if they aren't going to do what I want them to do?" Because the alternative is EXACTLY WHAT YOU DON'T WANT.

    [One who has sexual congress with their own mother], do you think the GOP is going to drive down the cost of living? Because we have a very long and fully documented history that says otherwise.

    So your options are

    A: Vote Blue and at least maybe the cost of living goes down, or option

    B: Don't vote, vote red, or vote third party and you get mecha Hitler.

    When people say voting doesn't matter, they are conning you. It does, and it comes in two flavors.

    First, during primaries, we get people that don't vote at all, and instead of a solid progressive candidate to replace the old guard, the incumbent just sticks around. This drives down the desire to vote even further because everyone is tired of the incumbent that is now the only choice in the general election.

    Second, during the general election, they don't come out to vote and the bad guys win.

    Do you see my [sexual congress] frustration yet? Are you [sexual congress] getting it? Or are you going to accuse me of moving the [sexual congress] goal posts again? Jesus [sexual congress] Christ, no one thinks more than three hours into the [sexual congress] future. VOTE [sexual congress] BLUE, NO MATTER WHO.

    If it isn't your candidate, well, tough [fecal matter]. It's better than a [sexual congress] NAZI, so just eat [fecal matter] and vote. Next time work at the local level, talk to your peers, and try to generate turn-out instead of posting "both sides" memes and talking about how voting doesn't matter. You bet your sweet [mammary glands] it does, Trump is evidence of that. Voting mattered to a lot of people that put that pedophile into office. Just because it didn't go your way doesn't mean it didn't work. I just means [fecal matter] like this [sexual congress] meme are a very potent anti-blue measure.

    So, first and foremost, VOTE. In a very, very close second, VOTE BLUE. When [bad people] like OP post things that divide the base and generate malaise, then it drives people away from the polls, and in this case, it drives democrat voters away. It's a very long and hallowed tradition of [other kind of bad people] that want to disrupt the west. If you are old enough to remember just two years ago, you'll see this same pattern when Trump was up for re-election, and two years before that, and before that, and before that... This isn't some new strategy. It's just a very efficient strategy because it spreads virally.

    So, please, kindly [sexual congress yourself] you [sexual congress] [person lacking education]. I'm not moving the goal posts, you just lack the ability to understand what's happening. Look at history. Study the patterns. Try to glean some understanding before you make another [uneducated] [sexual congress] comment.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You got the source you asked for. Those goalposts can stay put.

    Stop trying to convince me to vote blue. I already do. I voted for harris in the last election.

    Democrats will lose if they force another genocidal corpodem on us. This is an honest assessment of the electorate you have. You will interpret it as purity testing.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "Man our country is really going to shit, better keep doing the same thing and hope it'll be different this time."

    Yes, in the immediate near term vote blue "no matter who but if you think toothless dems are going to save us you're only going to be did disappointed.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yes, in the immediate near term vote blue "no matter who

    This is literally all we're saying.

    And we're saying it to the droves of idiots that don't seem to understand that you can't just magically vote a 3rd party into power. It will take DECADES of voting for them in local/state elections and building a 3rd party coalition in Congress, before it makes sense to vote 3rd party in a federal election.

    Those idiots are ALL OVER THIS PLATFORM. And they, along with the sewer scum non-voters, are the reason Donald Trump is our leader and fascism is alive and well in America.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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.

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