Well over half the population in Jeffries' district relies on Medicaid and/or CHIP, based on data from Charles Gaba tracking every US district. This makes Jeffries' constituents exceptionally vulnerable to the GOP's budget cudgel, with its demand for $880 billion in cuts--almost certainly from Medicaid.
What am I saying? He is close to the last Dem who can "afford" to completely alienate the other party; his constituents' lives depend on it. Keep that in mind perhaps before exhorting him to throw THEIR lives away.
I wrote both of my senators just a few minutes ago; Here is the letter:
Good morning Senator:
How long do you think before Donald Trump sends you all home? I got your message about social security, but I am still concerned. The text message on my phone says this: "Elon Musk's DOGE announced 232 million in Social Security cuts."
Now, you wrote me and said there would be no cuts to Social Security. So who is right? The Nazi Apartheid Foreign businessman or my government?
I am retired and rely on my Social Security payments to pay my mortgage, and yet Musk thinks that this is waste, fraud and abuse? Hmmm. Nice of a billionaire would-be American president to tell my government what it should do.
It is way past time to shut this Trump dumpster fire down before ISIS or some other foreign terrorist group decides to bomb another city.
So, get on it. DO YOUR JOB and protect the citizens of this country from the domestic terrorist in the White House, and the foreign terrorist who does his bidding - or we are all toast with a new fascist government because you and your colleagues are too frightened to set him straight.
Unless, of course, you are perfectly fine with overthrowing the form of government we have had for 250 years. So what is your choice? Treason or your oath of office to protect the US Constitution and our nation?
Please let me know before Vladimir Putin gets a hero's welcome in the oval office and addresses a joint Congress to announce his new government.
I don't remember Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Green being censured when they screeched like banshees pretty much anytime Joe Biden ever spoke during his entire presidency. The Democrats seriously need to grow a backbone, quickly.
As I feared, the Dems have YET AGAIN failed to learn a DAMN THING from the election. You lost and lost in a lot of ways you shouldn't have. And do you know why? Because of SHIT LIKE THIS!
People that WOULD have voted for you either didn't bother showing up or voted for a write-in or third party in "protest", because they have yet to see you show that you give a FUCK about what's going on beyond wringing your hands and mewling about "decorum".
But they seem oblivious to this and while Musk, Trump, and co are going about dismantling democracy for their neo-apartheid fascist fantasy, which they SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO LIKE OH MY FUCKING GOD!
And what do you do? Sit around with your twee little paddles and pretend that does anything, especially when you have people in the party voting to confirm the mad king's nominees. If ANYONE needs a "come to Jesus" meeting, it's those people.
Democrats, this is not the time for "decorum". That ended when Trump came down the escalator in 2016. This is a time to fight and fight dirty and fight like a SONOVABITCH! You need to be in their faces every day, calling them out for the pieces of treasonous shit they are. You need to be calling Trump out on his lies in person every time he speaks. You need to be telling the public as often and as clearly as you can about what he's doing and how it is and will wreck people's lives.
FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET MAD, GROW A SPINE AND FIGHT FOR ONCE IN YOUR FUCKING CAREER! Because if you don't, you're going to keep losing because noone's going to see a point in voting for you when you do NOTHING with it.
I've written off the Democratic party. I don't know what has to happen to compel these cowards into doing their jobs. AOC and the Squad can't do it alone.
Kindly remember, Wussy Dems, Trump's side is into death threats, harassment, and showing up outside the doors of Dem Congressfolk and others who dare to defy Trump. You can afford to get more pissed.
Yes! We need Good Trouble, and a lot of it. Channel our anger and frustration at this slide into fascism into massive demonstrations in the streets; national mass strikes; town halls even if reps don't hold them, and get the press in; constant 24/7 calls to Congress people to tell them we do not want kings or emperor MuskX's, or white supremacists in charge of federal agencies. We need to be united, loud, and boisterous. And not a single Democrat should vote for ANY Republican bill or resolution. Take a lesson from civil rights leaders. Did they write memos and tremble at police and KKK opposition? Hell no!
Reach back to your British roots, America, and get in Congress and make fart noises and call the Repukes a bunch of useless gits while yelling so loud they can’t be heard over the noise.
Shit, we’re stereotyped as polite and we still get politicians threatening one another and challenging one another to boxing matches. Break out some Shawinigan handshakes! Grow a set!
You have to break eggs to make an omelet and revolutions are definitely going to offend oppressors. If it doesn't, it's not a revolution, it's capitulation.
It’s hard to be strong and resist effectively without being terrible. It’s a very delicate balance. Republicans have no boundaries, and will debase themselves to throw newsworthy tantrums. There are very few John Lewises in the world, and we don’t have him now. There aren’t even any McCain, Romney, Cheney types in the GOP to frown occasionally at Trump’s worst impulses. It feels pretty hopeless. I’m not even convinced a market crash or recession would turn the tide against this. Trump is going to Make America a Great Depression Again.
Rules? Civility? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! The Rs threw those out DECADES ago. Wake up! Fight, sabotage, be nasty, stop listening to Nancy, Hakeem, and Chuck- they are trying not to alienate the ruling class and selling out The People instead (as the last election demonstrates). Guess what guys? The Rs will always offer them a better deal. Be like Rep Crockett, Rep Greene, and AOC, be like Bernie and Merkley, and the late sainted John Lewis.
Exactly. Johnson was a real hypocrite, invoking rules and civility. I didn't see ReTHUGliKKKans being civil while Biden was giving his SOTUs. Congress was a wild place before it went all Robert's Rules of Order on us. Why are we supposed to be civil when ReTHUGliKKKans are anything but? Nancy, Hakeem and Chuck are totally useless. All they seem to want is to "go along to get along". Forget that nonsense! Appeasement didn't work in 1938 and appeasement of TrumPutin isn't going to work now.
Well over half the population in Jeffries' district relies on Medicaid and/or CHIP, based on data from Charles Gaba tracking every US district. This makes Jeffries' constituents exceptionally vulnerable to the GOP's budget cudgel, with its demand for $880 billion in cuts--almost certainly from Medicaid.
What am I saying? He is close to the last Dem who can "afford" to completely alienate the other party; his constituents' lives depend on it. Keep that in mind perhaps before exhorting him to throw THEIR lives away.
I wrote both of my senators just a few minutes ago; Here is the letter:
Good morning Senator:
How long do you think before Donald Trump sends you all home? I got your message about social security, but I am still concerned. The text message on my phone says this: "Elon Musk's DOGE announced 232 million in Social Security cuts."
Now, you wrote me and said there would be no cuts to Social Security. So who is right? The Nazi Apartheid Foreign businessman or my government?
I am retired and rely on my Social Security payments to pay my mortgage, and yet Musk thinks that this is waste, fraud and abuse? Hmmm. Nice of a billionaire would-be American president to tell my government what it should do.
It is way past time to shut this Trump dumpster fire down before ISIS or some other foreign terrorist group decides to bomb another city.
So, get on it. DO YOUR JOB and protect the citizens of this country from the domestic terrorist in the White House, and the foreign terrorist who does his bidding - or we are all toast with a new fascist government because you and your colleagues are too frightened to set him straight.
Unless, of course, you are perfectly fine with overthrowing the form of government we have had for 250 years. So what is your choice? Treason or your oath of office to protect the US Constitution and our nation?
Please let me know before Vladimir Putin gets a hero's welcome in the oval office and addresses a joint Congress to announce his new government.
A constituent of yours
(And my name)
I don't remember Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Green being censured when they screeched like banshees pretty much anytime Joe Biden ever spoke during his entire presidency. The Democrats seriously need to grow a backbone, quickly.
As I feared, the Dems have YET AGAIN failed to learn a DAMN THING from the election. You lost and lost in a lot of ways you shouldn't have. And do you know why? Because of SHIT LIKE THIS!
People that WOULD have voted for you either didn't bother showing up or voted for a write-in or third party in "protest", because they have yet to see you show that you give a FUCK about what's going on beyond wringing your hands and mewling about "decorum".
But they seem oblivious to this and while Musk, Trump, and co are going about dismantling democracy for their neo-apartheid fascist fantasy, which they SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO LIKE OH MY FUCKING GOD!
And what do you do? Sit around with your twee little paddles and pretend that does anything, especially when you have people in the party voting to confirm the mad king's nominees. If ANYONE needs a "come to Jesus" meeting, it's those people.
Democrats, this is not the time for "decorum". That ended when Trump came down the escalator in 2016. This is a time to fight and fight dirty and fight like a SONOVABITCH! You need to be in their faces every day, calling them out for the pieces of treasonous shit they are. You need to be calling Trump out on his lies in person every time he speaks. You need to be telling the public as often and as clearly as you can about what he's doing and how it is and will wreck people's lives.
FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET MAD, GROW A SPINE AND FIGHT FOR ONCE IN YOUR FUCKING CAREER! Because if you don't, you're going to keep losing because noone's going to see a point in voting for you when you do NOTHING with it.
Ta, Gary. I love some good trouble.
I've written off the Democratic party. I don't know what has to happen to compel these cowards into doing their jobs. AOC and the Squad can't do it alone.
What we progressives must do is to sit quietly while the Gestapo drives bulldozers over us. Oh wait, that's what we're already doing.
Yes fascism is much more civil than democracy. Don’t want to offend them.
Kindly remember, Wussy Dems, Trump's side is into death threats, harassment, and showing up outside the doors of Dem Congressfolk and others who dare to defy Trump. You can afford to get more pissed.
Yes! We need Good Trouble, and a lot of it. Channel our anger and frustration at this slide into fascism into massive demonstrations in the streets; national mass strikes; town halls even if reps don't hold them, and get the press in; constant 24/7 calls to Congress people to tell them we do not want kings or emperor MuskX's, or white supremacists in charge of federal agencies. We need to be united, loud, and boisterous. And not a single Democrat should vote for ANY Republican bill or resolution. Take a lesson from civil rights leaders. Did they write memos and tremble at police and KKK opposition? Hell no!
Reach back to your British roots, America, and get in Congress and make fart noises and call the Repukes a bunch of useless gits while yelling so loud they can’t be heard over the noise.
Shit, we’re stereotyped as polite and we still get politicians threatening one another and challenging one another to boxing matches. Break out some Shawinigan handshakes! Grow a set!
“Stop doing illegal shit” seems to us like a fairly minimal ask!
> this may end up on a protest sign tomorrow.
Right. "The Party of Law and Order" MY ASS!! They're as (blatantly) crooked as they come!
Hey Jefferies! Being Elon Trump Johnson's Step-N-Fetchit, is not a good look........
You got that right! I'm disgusted with him, along with pretty much the whole Democratic leadership.
It's tough to call it "leadership" any more!
You're right!
As John Adams in the musical 1776 stated “this is a revolution, damn it; we’re going to offend somebody.
You have to break eggs to make an omelet and revolutions are definitely going to offend oppressors. If it doesn't, it's not a revolution, it's capitulation.
It’s hard to be strong and resist effectively without being terrible. It’s a very delicate balance. Republicans have no boundaries, and will debase themselves to throw newsworthy tantrums. There are very few John Lewises in the world, and we don’t have him now. There aren’t even any McCain, Romney, Cheney types in the GOP to frown occasionally at Trump’s worst impulses. It feels pretty hopeless. I’m not even convinced a market crash or recession would turn the tide against this. Trump is going to Make America a Great Depression Again.
Rules? Civility? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! The Rs threw those out DECADES ago. Wake up! Fight, sabotage, be nasty, stop listening to Nancy, Hakeem, and Chuck- they are trying not to alienate the ruling class and selling out The People instead (as the last election demonstrates). Guess what guys? The Rs will always offer them a better deal. Be like Rep Crockett, Rep Greene, and AOC, be like Bernie and Merkley, and the late sainted John Lewis.
Exactly. Johnson was a real hypocrite, invoking rules and civility. I didn't see ReTHUGliKKKans being civil while Biden was giving his SOTUs. Congress was a wild place before it went all Robert's Rules of Order on us. Why are we supposed to be civil when ReTHUGliKKKans are anything but? Nancy, Hakeem and Chuck are totally useless. All they seem to want is to "go along to get along". Forget that nonsense! Appeasement didn't work in 1938 and appeasement of TrumPutin isn't going to work now.
Exactly.