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.
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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 🤷♀️
That non viable candidate almost won and the world would be a better place if she did.
I’d say this was less on the voters and more on the non voters.
But she chose a losing policy and lost. The entire left was telling you she was going to lose. But the left isn’t netanyahu, so centrists didn’t listen.
What “losing policy” did she pick?
Genocide, obviously. Unlimited, unreserved pro-zionist support for Israel. Neoliberalism. Take your pick, really.
Oh, not quite.
We chose unlimited, unreserved pro-zionist support for Israel over limited, reserved pro-zionist support for Israel.
I’m aware that most of us wanted neither of those.
Thats a losing policy? Thats been the general policy for 5 decades.
And the world became a better place, so centrists’ only policy is no longer popular. Abandon it.
Cool. Tell me how that is working out. Ignoring reality will not get you out sess pit without long term planning and hard work. Knee jerk reactions will only send you deeper.
Poorly so far. Congratulations.
Dont congratulate me. I voted for sanity.
Yes, it’s a losing policy now, as evidenced by Kamala Harris losing in 2024. Demographic change is real.
Doubt it. It most likely simple old fashion racism and misogyny. 2020 biden was the same 2024 biden. And kamala was carrying the same policies. Or do you really think 4 years was enough for people to forget about the mango which was obviously carrying far worse policies?
Biden only won in 2020 because he was the anti-Trump candidate and Trump fucked up the handling of COVID, it wasn’t because Biden was particularly popular or because anyone liked his policies.
In fact, I can’t think of a single good policy he pushed for or enacted, and I can think of a bunch of things he did wrong.
But, yeah, you can believe whatever you like. We’ll see how the next election goes, but I’m sure neoliberals will continue to come up with some sort of explanation to continue believing in neoliberalism even as it becomes more and more apparently a failed, dead ideology.
the fact that i can’t think of much from biden’s presidency is a good thing. no, really. brain rest need please.
I’m pretty happy about the trains. Also fixing infrastructure. The green energy credits and green manufacturing were also pretty great. I liked USAID as it was. I’m also a pretty big fan of the first, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments. I also really appreciated our ability to vote.
There were several things that was a positive from biden administration. I mean… its pretty easy to find them. Just look for trump’s EO’s that reversed them all…
We can bitch and moan about bad president candidates, but the fact is simply we have two choices. If you want more you need to vote for representatives to pass legislation to allow more parties to have a chance. Until then you have to deal with the options your have. Or sit on your ass and cry while the facists strip the remaining rights you got.
The genocidal will never accept that the only thing they have ever wanted is unpopular.
This is nonsense, as shown by the Dems own post mortem.
But let’s pretend it’s true. Why then would you have run Kamala?
And people have been fighting for the ownership of their stupid holy land since man has existed. Who gives a fuck about either side in Israel/Palestine. Let them wipe each other out while the rest of the world slowly moves on ffom acting like LOTR version zero is any sort of reality.
What an absolutely revolting way to talk about real people, especially when we’re talking about a hundred thousand innocent people being killed intentionally as part of a genocidal endeavor.
This isn’t a fair fight we’re talking about, it’s a series of massacres that have been going on since 1948, conducted by a nuclear state which is backed by the world’s foremost superpower, supplied with the latest weapons to ethnically cleanse and eradicate an entire indigenous population who are forced to live in an open-air prison by a settler-colonial state, and their justification is that they want the land that those people are living on because it was promised to them by God according to the Bible.
Entire cities have been completely flattened, ambulances and humanitarian supplies destroyed, children targeted by snipers, civilians intentionally targeted by missile strikes, then when help arrives, another missile strike.
You have never seen a movie or the horrors of anything the likes of this since the Holocaust. And if you live in the US, your tax money goes towards enabling all of it, your government is providing them with all of the guns, bombs and tanks they need.
Genocide.
People didn’t vote because they felt like Harris was not worth voting for. She lost because she didn’t actually offer anyone what they wanted, she was just a harm reduction candidate at best. That isn’t sufficiently motivating to get people out to vote, no matter how much we rant and yell and shame people.
Please, I am begging you, accept this reality. I want Trump and the Republicans gone probably even more than you do. I am trying to help you understand that we lost for a very good reason and we need to learn from it.
I think she would have did a good job personally.
No war in Iran and no brownshirts shooting Americans in the streets.
What you think, and whether she would have done a good job, is completely irrelevant. Do you not understand my point? You win elections by having a candidate that people want to vote for, usually by advancing policies which are popular.
The genocide in Gaza is now like a 90/10 issue. It is known that it was a factor in why Kamala lost the election. If she had opposed the genocide, it is very possible that she would have won.
I am not shitting on Democrats just for fun. I am trying to explain that Trump won because the Democrats advanced a shit, genocidal candidate.
If you let them do the same thing again in 2028, we very well may see a Republican President even worse than Trump.
Please, demand more than the bare minimum.
So you voted trump to stop all the forever wars, release the Epstein files, etc?
Democracy isn’t just about voting once in a while, and boy democracy is less about “getting what you want” than removing wannabe dictators.
But then again your whole system is broken, so good luck, because you need to fix it, and that happens by hard work from the bottom up.
I have no idea where you got the idea that I’d ever vote for Trump. I’m an anarchist, and a union rep, and an activist doing organizing in my local community, but I also always vote for the best candidate I can to mitigate harm. All I am doing here is trying to help liberals understand why Harris lost the election, because I want the Democrats to win. I want to try and avoid another fascist dictatorship, which is inevitable if the Democrats continue to be fascism lite.
It’s what centrists assume when anyone says something they don’t like.
Single issue voters are the worse and the only reason we’ll have a republican president in 2028 is if people try to suppress the democratic vote again.
You know what really suppresses votes? Genocide. Supporting the continued existence of the organization that is abducting your neighbors. Not being able to afford healthcare and having the D candidate not even lie about wanting free healthcare.
I’ve only seen the genocides get worse since Trump won so that’s a hard reality to sell.
So it should be the easiest fucking layup in the world to run on reversing all of Trump’s policies, using every means at your disposal instead of crying how powerless the literal fucking president is. But that didn’t happen under Obama, or Biden, and the dems still refuse to admit they did anything wrong and course-correct.
Obama brought in the biggest positive chance to American healthcare in modern times and Biden’s policies were more progressive then his.
Keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel better. I’ll be over here, in the real world, fighting for a better world.
Give me someone better to vote for who has a chance of winning and I’ll vote for them.
Until then I’m going to vote for the people with a chance to fix this country.
Well, hopefully a socialist candidate can win the primary. If it’s fucking Harris or Newsom or some neoliberal right wing/centrist shitlib we will be completely, 100%, unbelievably, irredeemably fucked by 2036.
If a socialist wins the primary it’s a guaranteed Republican win.
Hopefully a better candidate wins, despite the party’s inevitable fuckery in the primaries. Because if another genocidal corpodem “wins” the nomination, they will lose in the general.
That’s not me threatening to take my ball and go home. That’s not purity testing. That’s not whatever thought terminating cliche you centrists use whenever you don’t want to listen to someone to your left trying to interrupt you when you’re making a mistake.
That’s an honest assessment of the electorate you have to get votes from if you want to win.
You would rather lose, blame the left, and move to the right. Genocide wasn’t far enough to the right for you or any other centrist.
She ran on a more lethal military and that Iran was our greatest enemy…
Oh yes, why reduce harm when we can not vote and get the option that will just endlessly stab with the wheel of staby knives.
People not voting are possibly more stupid than MAGA. At least MAGA morons have SOME sort of care, even if its motivated entirely by hate.
I’ve voted in every election I was ever eligible to vote in. I am simply explaining why the Democrats lost. You can hate the people who didn’t vote if you want, I understand that frustration, but there is a very good reason they didn’t vote - because they didn’t perceive the Democratic candidate to be someone worth voting for.
Advance a candidate with popular policies who isn’t a genocidal piece of shit and watch in amazement as political engagement ramps up.
maga has candidates that they’re excited to vote for.
democrats do not.
Second worst is not good enough to win. Appealing to the voters is not beneath you.
If you have to be excited to do the right thing I have a bit of bad news about adulthood in general.
I voted for harris.
Second worst still wasn’t good enough to win. Appealing to the voters is still not beneath you.
For all their “yOu DoNt KnOw HoW gOvErNmEnT wOrKs” gaslighting, the genocide wing is determined to never learn how voters work.
Excet you can’t really magically appeal to all progressives/leftists/liberals/center people.
Some single issue Trans rights.
Some single issue Palestine.
Some single issue dumping ICE
Etc etc.
The only thing that MAGA has to single issue is hate. With a dash of “abortion bad”.
Oh why oh why can’t we keep people on board! We only betray one tiny worthless demographic at a time!
Yes. The Democrats fucking suck.
You know who fucking sucks 1000x more.
The fucking Nazis running the GOP.
Its like the Turkey election. Everyone was all "yay they got rid of the dictstor asshole. Except by all accounts, the new guy is not a whole lot better or different. But he is BETTER. And everyone has been praising the shit out of that.
It’s like clockwork. Say something a centrist doesn’t want to hear, and they assume you want a lecture.
I’m very tired of having to repeat to you centrist-splainers that I voted for harris.
Yes, republicans are worse. But being second worse by as narrow a margin as you think you can get away with is not enough to win. You have seen that happen before your eyes. You have seen the consequences. And you still think you can berate and scold and lecture your way out of this, to people who knew you were going to lose all along, voted for the genocidal shit you wanted anyway, and get blamed for the loss they tried to warn you about.
You need voters to win. And no matter how much the prospect disgusts you, They won’t vote for second worst in sufficient numbers for you to win. It’s so unfair that you have to give the voters more than capitulation and genocide.
harm reduction is a specific thing. voting is not harm reduction.
Funny how not setting your hand on a burning stove won’t result in third degree burns isn’t a good enough reason to not set your hand on a burning stove. You ever heard the phrase “don’t let better be the enemy of perfect”?
No shit Harris sucked, but she sucked a whole lot less than Trump and moving incrementally left from Harris would have been a HELL OF A LOT easier than moving left from Trump. I do absolutely blame the idiots who sat around and said “well, Harris doesn’t inspire me, so I’ll sit here and let the fascist collapse happen. That’ll show everyone how morally superior I am!”
The people who didn’t vote, I think, are worse than Trumo supporters because at least Trump supporters made moves to do what they thought was best while you sat around and twiddled your thumbs and let the world burn around you instead of doing the bare fucking minimum available to you to stop it, or at least slow it down to make it easier to change it in the near future
Yeah, being mad at trump supporters voting for trump is like being mad at your dog for eating its own shit. It’s a dumb animal that eats shit and garbage, what were you expecting? I’m more mad that they have, not just equal, but over representation in this political system. We need a system where ideally, the stupid dogs have no representation, or at a minimum, equal representation to actual thinking human beings.
No excuses for the 3rd party/non-voters in 2024. Life is full of shitty compromises made worse by inaction. I’m amazed they’ve made it this far in life without noticing that, but it’s time to adult the fuck up.
Primaries for Congress are going on right now, and each one of those whiny lazy chucklefucks that got us into the mess ought to be out there stumping for their ideal candidate every waking hour of every day until November.
Take a look in the mirror. That’s what a fascist enabler looks like.
I have explained this, again, and again, and again: I am just explaining why and how the democrats lost. I have voted in every election I have ever been eligible to vote in, ALWAYS for the candidate which minimizes harm.
Please stop being so reactionary and try to understand what I am writing. Jumping to conclusions and getting angry at me for explaining why OTHER PEOPLE didn’t vote doesn’t make me a fascist enabler.
almost won? She lost every single swing state. It was a slaughter and not even close.
In the history of the USA Harris got the third most votes ever.
It goes:
Biden with 81,283,501 Trump (2024) with 77,302,580 Harris with 75,017,613 Trump (2020) with 74,223,975
Listen sweater maybe you don’t understand how elections work
In 2024 besides Trump who was the next closest to winning the election?
This is the most sane comment I’ve seen from you since I joined Lemmy.
He almost gets it, like Kamala almost won.
yeah what gives? did we slip into a mandala universe again? (we spell it mandala here)