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.
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.
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.
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 criminalize our heroes.
How does someone like Jeffries with absolutely no charisma get into politics let alone become the head of Dem House?
APIAC has a lot of money to burn.
Sell out
I went from not supporting Jeffries to flat out hating the sob. What a pile of traitorous shit. Schumer too. Asswipes.
It is a good sign that a newcomer is broadcasting how the sausage is made rather than falling into line. I hope all these newly elected dems support each other and hold the line against the establishment.
Not going happen. Just like how AOC fell in line her first year. She once changed her vote after the cunt Nancy had a strong word with her.
You may be right, but this time could also be different. There’s a whole crop of energetic newcomers who seem to understand that people are tired of the same old bullshit. I wouldn’t bet the farm on it going either way, but there’s no harm in hoping.
Dude read the article, the DNC aren’t giving them opinions. They are flat out saying it is Jeffries and Schumer period. Fucking DNC don’t give a fuck the will of the people. And these new Democrats either fall in line or will be sumb and will get no appointments and nothing they want will even be brought to a vote. Like they are saying as Nancy Pelosi before do as we say or we make your time in Congress hell. Just ask AOC she got told behind close doors how it was going be, and man has she been good little doggy and voted party line. Hell she support Jeffries for the position and promise she won’t change that. If anything she be champion for him when times come. Just watch and see. But be nice if I was wrong.
We’re in agreement here. The DNC is trying to tell them how it is, they way they’ve always done. But it’s a big class of freshmen who seem to still be in touch with the actual people they represent and got to where they are on some bold promises. All I’m saying is, I hope they stay true to those promises despite what the establishment tries to push them into.
We’ve seen plenty fail at it, but there seems to be a bit more energy than usual right now, and there are a lot of freshmen, so maybe something can actually change. Just maybe.
But the vote comes up this month. Does the new members get a vote?
The vote for who is nominated as leadership is 18th and 19th this month. The new Congress doesn’t get sworn in until January. So don’t think they get a vote.
This is why Schumer and Jeffries are not worried.
Does citizen’s united need a constitutional ammendment to overturn?
I guess the ruling is that 1st amendement money is speech. But that means money is lies, terrorism, oppression, fraud, fascism or abridgement of other constitutional rights. We already view “yelling fire in a crowded theater” to not be protected speech. Why should well funded “The theater is completely fine and greatest theater in history of time” lie be protected speech?
They overturned Roe just because they felt like it. “Settled law” is now utterly meaningless. You just need the right justices.
There is already a proposed constitutional amendment in the works to do just that, among various other measures at the state level, and it has already been ratified by twenty-five of the necessary thirty-eight states necessary to pass. Here’s the text of the proposed amendment:
Section 1. We the People have compelling sovereign interests in the freedom of speech, representative self-government, federalism, the integrity of the electoral process, and the political equality of natural persons.
Section 2. Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to forbid Congress or the States, within their respective jurisdictions, from reasonably regulating and limiting contributions and spending in campaigns, elections, or ballot measures.
Section 3. Congress and the States shall have the power to implement and enforce this article by appropriate legislation and may distinguish between natural persons and artificial entities, including by prohibiting artificial entities from raising and spending money in campaigns, elections, or ballot measures.
thank you,
Amendments are not vetoable, but 2/3rds of both chambers required to propose. Then 38 states need both legislatures to vote for it. (50%). No governor veto.
already been ratified by twenty-five of the necessary thirty-eight states
The non binding state resolutions are promising, but ratification happens only after congress proposes amendment.
This is significantly related to the Israel first rule over America issue, and congressional leadership devoted to perpetuating it. Money failed this mid term, and most Americans understand Israel’s war on Iran is a US collapse threat. But unlimited Israel money still wins/keeps some politicians for them.
ratification happens only after congress proposes amendment.
Quite right; I meant to say “ready to ratify.” Fortunately the site gets it right. Thank you for the correction.
From the article: “Roughly 40 Democrats would need to vote for someone else in order to prevent Jeffries from taking the gavel.”
From another article: “Democrats have now flipped over 40 House seats.”
🤔
Yeah but how many will hold their vote against Jeffries? You count AOC out, can’t believe she even thinking of running for president. She has no spin and sadly not the squad she once was.
To be fair, she is interviewed in OP, she does give an out that “there needs to be a race” as a practical matter to get to an alternative. She’s only saying that she has no option today.
Doesn’t matter the choice is being made on the 18th and 19th and the new Congress that was elected will not be given a voice or vote who will be in leadership.
Lean over and whisper in their ear, “the people are coming. Fuck you.”
Then bite off the lobe.
Leonard, who flipped Ohio’s heavily Republican 15th Congressional District blue last Tuesday, said he told senior party leaders that, to win his support, Jeffries would have to meet with him and his constituents to discuss two priorities. One was a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the 2010 US Supreme Court ruling that struck down restrictions on independent election spending by corporations and unions. The other was ending “US support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
In a video covered by Drop Site News, Leonard said the unnamed party leaders he met with responded with threats that felt like “the stuff you see in the movies.”
Names.
I want to know the names of these fucking people who have sold out their constituents.
Dear NYC DSA, it’s time to primary Jeffries.
At present, the only person who could possibly pull that off is Mamdani, if he wants it.
Which, if we got Mamdani ousting Jeffries and AOC ousting Schumer in 2028, that would be massive.
Depends which tree Mamdani wants to scale from here — Federal, or State (his journey ending with Governor and no further). Alternatively, he could choose to eye Gilibrand’s Senate seat. Nice bit of redemption for how she snubbed him too.
I seem to recall that state governors have won the presidency.
Yes but Mandani cannot be President, unfortunately.
Constitutionally, naturalized citizens cannot be President.
El-Sayed, however, can.
Ah, I didn’t even consider that because I don’t generally think of people in those terns.
He was elected this year. His primary opponent dropped out after a DSA internal vote. He’s starting a whole new term.
Every house rep is starting a whole new term
Not exactly, no, US Congressmen terms start and end on different years. For example, of the 53 GOP Senators only 20 were up for reelection in 2026.Therefor it’s worth noting that Jeffries WAS up for reelection in 2026.EDIT: No, I’m wrong, just checked and every House Rep was up for election, neat. They only have 2 year terms nationwide.
It’s understandable. You’re thinking of senators, who are divided into three classes with elections every two years. These Senate elections are staggered in such a way that one state never has both senators up for re-election at the same time.
He should expose them ao people do not vote for them next time
They’re gonna make it very very obvious who they are in the next 2-4 years.
AIPAC is already making it obvious.
100% this
For speaker yes
for primary yes
for general no if he wins again like this year then we need him to win the general next time as well.
Fuck that. Expose and vilify every piece of shit you can. I had almost no faith that our elections weren’t compromised in a severe way. These results gave me hope and I’m a pessimistic piece of shit. We need to be loud. Name, shame, expose, get them the fuck out, investigated, and convicted. Sick of the “if you suck me I won’t fuck you” game. No. No more. Pedophiles out, investigated, mulched. AIPAC and all supporters the fuck out. Citizens United eliminated. That’s just to start.
I disagree. If there is such a strong dem majority in the house, then fuck it, let the GOP have Jeffries’ seat. If they refuse to listen to us saying to not make him speaker this time, then let’s make him unemployed next election. He’s a greedy coward and he needs to either step to the side or fuck off for good.
Yeah we have a wide enough margin now that we can afford a few strategic sacrifices, especially if it means getting someone out of the way for new leadership to come take their place.
If we back milquetoast centrist leadership unconditionally, we’ll lose the whole margin anyway.
There will never, ever, under any circumstance, be an instance where a DNC is as bad as a GOP. We need the GOP to have zero seats before we can put a single Democrat on the chopping block in the generals.
I’m sorry, I don’t think you picked up what the other guy was saying. He’s saying that “there’s no dnc now… there’s the people and there’s the door”.
It’s time for the dnc to figure out if aipac or the people are buttering their toast.
The people are about to get their buns forcefully buttered by a bunch of zionist scumbags if they’re actually considering letting DNC lose the generals.
