Let the door hit you on the way out, bozo
clearing the way for a younger generation of up-and-coming lawmakers to climb into the leadership ranks.
so the new leader will be 75 years old
He HATES the left and the DSA with a passion. He and AOC despise each other.
Who could've guessed they would take the opportunity to ratchet further to the right
Think the local DSA had plans to (or did) primary his stupid, sellout ass.
Righteous.
He’s a Neoliberal POS.
We can at least hope that the Dems dropping the idea of “coalition building” with leftists is enough to discredit the DSA’s dominant radlib faction and push the organization left.
It will not, they did not generally arrive at that position because of rigorous materialist analysis but like the vibe of leftism wrt the oppressed and worker power but are either too comfortable or too scared for actual change - i.e. socialist revolution. I hoped that getting spurned over and over but especially 2016 to 2020 would get the radlibs to figure it out but alas apparently not.
at this point pre-selected and not old as dirt would be amazing progress for those shitheads
I don't think that is automatically better. Being younger does not make someone's opinions better. And they're politicians they're not going to be in touch with people
oh im not even saying they won't be pieces of shit as far as ideology. im just sick of old pieces of shit making decisions that wont have repercussions until they are buried.
Jeffries will be the new leader. Similar ideology as Pelosi, but much more openly hateful of the left. He might work with the GOP and pass some right-wing stuff purely to "own" the left.
Hakeem Jeffries is opposed to class analysis and he watches Game of Thrones. He's an anti-socialism liberal.
“There’s a difference between progressive Democrats and hard-left democratic socialists,” Hakeem Jeffries told me. “It’s not a distinction that I’m drawing. They draw that distinction. And so clearly, I’m a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. That’s been my career, that’s been my journey, and it will continue to be as I move forward for however long I have an opportunity to serve. There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.”
Jeffries likes that phrase, bend the knee. He took it from Game of Thrones. “Black progressives do tend to tackle issues first and foremost with an understanding that systemic racism has been in the soil of America for over 400 years,” he said. “Hard-left progressives tend to view the defining problem in America as one that is anchored in class. That is not my experience as a Black man in this country. And perhaps that’s where we have a difference of perspective.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/hakeem-jeffries-nancy-pelosi-speaker-house/619695/
guess when youre rich all you gotta worry about is bigotry :shrug-outta-hecks:
Capitalist party ghoul doesn't think capitalism is a problem :stirner-shocked:
The ghouls before were at least putting up good theatre about making the rich “pay their fair share”. Now…
Obama, Hillary, and Biden all said that in their debate speeches and on the campaign trail.
Jfc he's really trying so hard to insist that these issues aren't intersectional
More 👏 trans 👏 capitalists amirite
There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.”
We might as well have Bill Clinton back.
Oh boy. This is like Obama again. Probably will get called racist for calling out his shit like with Obama.
more openly hateful to the left? Jesus christ. I hate this fucking show and I want to change the channel.
Amazing to me that, instead of slightly bending with the wind and nudging just a bit towards progressive/left-wing signaling to appeal to the base as is typically the case, the DNC is doing the exact opposite and will likely double down when called out about it.
I suppose their bloated egos from the midterms might be a factor.
Yeah, but they’re more than happy to adopt left wing rhetoric and aesthetics when it’s called for.
Is he? I thought he at least supported legalizing weed and police reform
Every dem says this until they are actually on the spot to vote
Police reform = 3 weeks of paid
vacationtraining and a 30% budget increase.
Ah yes, the bright eyes and young blood of Gen-Xers in their 50s.
Once the exit polls for this election came out a lot of left of center X'ers were shocked to find out that more than 50% of their cohort are Reaganite scum. Like no shit, guys. Don't you remember that everyone bullied and beat the shit out of you in highschool and everything you liked was called "alternative" and "counter culture"?
I've heard millenials described as the most progressive generational cohort in a century, but I'm skeptical. It'll be interesting to see if that descriptor still pans out when we finally inheret leadership of US institutions in 50 years or so. What's left of them anyway.
Party of the question is whether they inherit enough of the boomer wealth to shift them rightward. I'm thinking yes, but as global tensions increase the American empire is going to have more and more trouble generating the wealth needed to sustain the rightward pressure it's enjoyed throughout it's entire existence.
I think it'll be Zoomers and mostly Alphas who will really be picking up the pieces and actually having to contend with a less inflated living standard on a widespread basis.
There could be a "progressive" era that mirrors Teddy Roosevelt in regards to monopolies, but I don't see that happening for another twenty to thirty years.
I'd assume it's shorthand for wanting to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, to re-invigorate the public sector and welfare policies like universal healthcare, for being opposed to foreign interventions, etc.
they say that but then they do the opposite
its a term that has become entirely meaningless. maybe a slight tinge towards 'racism is bad'
most progressive generational cohort in a century
Biden fought for segregation. It's a low fucking bar.
seems like what we're learning here is that hitting politician's husbands with hammers is a viable way to bring about change :thinkin-lenin:
Wish I wasn't looking at he/him pronouns using a sexist insult against her but otherwise completely agree
I reserve it towards political ruiners of any semblance of progress, but I'll strive to be better. Thank you, comrade.
Yeah, 5 letter B derogatory; someone posted I should edit it, since I do regret it, so I did.
democrat spin never dies; instead of 'nancy pelosi completely blew what should have been the biggest democratic midterm sweep in the history of this country and will lose her title of speaker of the house next year,' it's 'Pelosi steps down,'
No. She lost it. She lost the house leadership and obviously it will go into effect next year when the new congress gets sworn in.
edit: I just remembered her dad was the mobbed up mayor of Baltimore, and I think her rapist brother had mob ties too. Is Pelosi the last visible holdover from the era when intelligence agencies and organized crime merged?
What should've made this a sweep?
I agree there are huge issues with how the Democrats campaigned, but the big issues I am thinking of is the DCCC only sending money to safe seats who it turns out didn't really need it. While a lot of other potentially winnable races got 0. But that lies at Sean Maloney and he is gone
Sweep relative to the usual drop after a party wins the presidency and especially when they control both houses too.
But the issue is it turns out Dems could have held the house except California and ESPECIALLY New York fucked up royally. New York is 15 dems and 11 republicans lmao, in a blue as fuck state. They should not have been allowed to become as demobilized and sclerotic as they are.
I agree New York was an especially fucked up situation. The podcast Deconstructed interviewed AOC about it last week.
I was just saying that the issue does not seem with Pelosi specifically. The House passed a lot of legislation.
It is kind of funny that Hakeem Jefferies is from New York though. That state fucked up and they are leading the Dems in both chambers of Congress!
New York got fucked up because Cuomo's friends gerrymandered the districts to favor conservatives more.
They could have rallied around literally anything they pretend to stand for, health care, prison reform, a welfare state, decriminalization, legal immigration, education, abortion rights; but these motherfuckers are literally too lazy to remember they aren't supposed to openly share all of the same values as the Republicans.
While I totally agree, that only works if the whole party buys in and it actually becomes law. The House did pass marijuana decriminalization but no midterm voters has a bill that died in the Senate in their mind
But when these people hang around for half a century and do so much damage I can’t find the enthusiasm to celebrate them leaving.
Like when that one Koch mutant died, or when indeed even Kissinger dies. The world will be better with these people out of it, but them dying of old age and surrounded by wealth and success and power is no victory.
It needs to be hammered home that she did a pretty bad job. Still, she hammered down some rules during her tenure and made her political opponnents take a real hammering.
Judging by the walking corpse Diane Feinstein still demanding her seat until the wind picks up and turns her to ash?
Nah, Nancy's staying for a while.
Edit: "Yet the departure is only partial: Pelosi will cede her formal leadership seat, but remain in Congress indefinitely, where she’s aiming to assume a mentorship role and grease the transition for whichever new leader fills the mantle."
Certainly would expect some kind of strongman firebrand to be next in line
Edit: “Yet the departure is only partial: Pelosi will cede her formal leadership seat, but remain in Congress indefinitely, where she’s aiming to assume a mentorship role and grease the transition for whichever new leader fills the mantle.”
Call me cynical but this whole thing is sounding like less of a big deal when you bother to read the details. She's "stepping down" but for all intents and purposes it sounds like she will continue to operate as the defacto leader of the house democrats. This only seems like big news if you were under the illusion that Pelosi isn't fucking immortal.
Jesus fucking finally. Which barely living ghoul is replacing her?
The only karmic compensation of this is the relief of her going away, it isn't enough
That's 2 wins for adventurism in the last 6 months. :bonk: :the-doohickey:
If there's any police evidence photos of that hammer, i've got a banger emote idea
:pelosi-pulverizer: Alternatively, :the-doohickey-mk2:
