the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular, fiscally disastrous, callous and cruel and devastating to Americans in need. And still we have national Democrats out on the Sunday morning TV shows criticizing their own party's mayoral candidate. A real wakeup call. Something's gotta give.
Which democrats are doing this? Name and Shame. We all want to know so we may ensure they are never re-elected.
people need to show how unpopular it is
in the streets
Because they are closer politically to the Republicans than they are to progressives in their own party. They are not even the status quo; they are just one face of big money.
The Dems never stand solidly behind their own while the Repubs stand staunchly behind theirs...no matter how evil he is.
Who? Where?
Thanks. Did they discuss anything else?
POS HAkeem Jeffries for one
I have only voted for the current Democrats due to lack of any other viable option. There have been maybe 5 that have shown they care or tried to make the current situation better. They all have asked me for money though. I’d applaud a reworking of the entire party to realign with what they preach.
It’s like they’re clueless. Sorta like running a black woman against a bigot and his base.
BS! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Waiting on the Dem version of the BBB…our Project 2026/28?Why r Dems not out in every state screaming what our version of the bill/agenda is? Cuz there is none! You/DNC r weak, reactive and an embarrassment. Total failure all!
Yeah, I don't think I've ever been more done with this party. I'll vote for individuals I like, but "vote blue no matter what" is just not gonna work for me anymore. I've literally voted Dem my entire life.
The only positive is hardly anyone watches the Sunday morning shows anymore. Nothing positive to say about Democrat leaders and their messaging.
AIPAC to its Congressional employees: read the fine print in your donation acceptance...you'll see where it clearly states "for legislative activities and other actions that may be required from time to time"
He was answering a question about Mamdani's catastrophic answer about Infatada. He's completely right that it needs to be clarified.
What was catastrophic about his answer?
He himmed and hawed over global infatada. All he has to say was, as mayor I'll make it my number one job to protect the people of NY. I don't support terrorism in any way and I will work to stop antisemitism. Then, he can go and explain how Infatada means different things to different people.
He's already said all that. Brad Lander has already said that Zohran has said all that. It's disgusting to make muslims denounce terrorism if you're not making everyone else denounce terrorism.
Anyone running for mayor of NY is going to highlight their intent to protect the city from terrorism. It wouldn't be hard at all for him to construct a canned line reassuring people of that. Being Muslim, he knows the question is coming.
The fact that you can’t spell what you’re condemning speaks volumes.
Does it?
Yes, it does. His answer was completely inoffensive to anyone who sees Muslims as equals. There's no explanation other than Islamophobia.
Maybe so, but they're going to use to bury him if he doesn't clarify that he doesn't support terrorism, which should be easy to do. You can probably imagine that "bringing the violent conflict of the middle east to our shores" is not very appealing to NY voters.
I guarantee in coming days he will make a statement like that.
He won't. It's time for Jews to deal with the problem in Israel, not us.
Gross.
They care more about a NYC mayoral candidate than they do about millions of Americans losing healthcare. The current Democratic leadership has to go.
The current TOP Democratic leadership is not going to "wake up". They are too meek & incompetent at fighting authoritarianism. Rest of the leadership is not stepping up. The rank and file should force a change in TOP leadership of the party. That is the wake up call - the need of the hour!
Democratic rank and file are energized. The crowd that elected Trump is feeling the pinch, Trump is brazenly corrupt. Administration is blatantly incompetent. Still the Democratic leadership is almost invisible. It will be a long, long wait, waiting for them to receive that wake-up call.
Democratic leadership & the American Press are among our institutions that has no idea how to handle authoritarianism. Put together, no wonder they are oblivious the crucial issues. If both of them were up to their jobs, we wouldn't be here in the first place!
I’m losing my mind with this. Primary everyone. Primary the chiefs of staff. Primary the donors. Primary their parents. Primary anyone that sells them coffee that doesn’t spit in it.
Abandon hope. Voting is the only way outa this. They don’t care about sound policy. Only fear of MAGA
ICYMI: bsky.app/profile/poll...
They'll all get primaried at this point. They want to kill their own careers? So be it. They'll get primaried.
Genau die welche das kritisieren gehören aussortiert, Trump Lakaien gibt es weis Gott genug.
Democrats have become a finely honed machine for turning out candidates who drive white centrists towards the GOP.
NEW Dept of Fascism=ICE Marine budget 2025 = ~53 billion Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates bill will direct an astounding $168 billion of the budget to immigration and border law enforcement, and there is even more for agencies that indirectly support immigration law enforcement.
Certain Dems are making it real clear about who they truly serve and it ain't the average American voter.
Washington Generals-ass party
What are the Democrats doing? I only hear Booker and AOC.
Asking Mamdani to clarify a murky statement for the idiots who get all their info from the nice people on the teevee is not an attack, hth
Party captured by aipac
Political suicide. I'm not confident that they'd be acting any worse if they were a controlled opposition.
what Biden and Congressional Dems did in late 2023 - adopting the Stephen Miller position on immigration and screaming repeatedly about it to voters - was even worse; it was as if they were trying to throw it to trump
late 2023 through the 2024 Election, I should make clear; it was their entire strategy to win the election! hahaha I wonder why support for mass deportation increased by 200% from late 2023
if was so obvious that doing this would massively raise the salience of the far right coded elements of Immigration and further radicalize the electorate
Yes, it is infuriating and shameful that Dems looked at public opinion polls on immigration and said "let's cater to nativism" rather than "let's forcefully fight against this and try to change public opinion"
They are! By the same money, anyway.
I think this is AIPAC. They’ve spent decades buying out these Democrats and their allies and they are 100% getting word that a Mamdani endorsement sends the money to opponents. They already pulled off a genocide with no real opposition- why not a mayor’s race where their biggest donors live?
It is coordinated at the messaging level from the most senior outgoing email servers, that’s for sure!
So interesting how every fascist immigration atrocity this administration perpetrates is a distraction — yet they have plenty of time for their own racist nonsense
Feel free to tell @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social just what you think of his words and actions today jeffries.house.gov/contact/
We as a nation cannot afford this negative leadership. They flat out need to go. Here’s how to tell him what you think jeffries.house.gov/contact/
I thought we were supposed to “Vote Blue No Matter Who”?
The Dems never learn.
Which dems?
The meaning of that anyone would've been better than trump and he needed to be kept out of power to prevent the damage he'd do.
And that everyone should vote for the 'Republican Lite' party instead of just letting it crash and working to replace it with FDR style Democrats.
The conventional wisdom at the time is that most people would want normalcy, that being a slow move towards progress step by step. That was, apparently, very wrong. I can't speak for anyone but me, but now I honestly don't know what people want anymore, but the possibilities are unsettling.
You could look back to the 2016 election when both parties had choices between supporting the wealthy establishment or supporting someone claiming to be for 'the people'. Democrats went with the establishment and lost to the one who promised to help the poor - same happened in 2024.
The big difference between 2016 and now is Mamdani won the primary. He’s literally their candidate for the general. There’s no excuse.
My point is simply Democrats have a candidate. If the party leadership instead supports the “independent” guy who lost by a wide margin simply because he used to be the governor, then they are not leaders, and essentially not Democrats. Step the fuck up time for them.
This is a moment of truth for Democratic leadership. If they cannot bring themselves to support their party’s candidate, they have no reason to be leaders.
Tbh now might be the time to blow it all up and start over from a party standpoint. As long as it can be done in a way that doesn't give the Rs a supermajority, it can't really get much worse in the short term.
If the BBB budget passes we’re gonna see violence. No way around it.
Im still curious why there are rumors of barricades going up around the treasury building. I never figured there'd be anything there worthy of storming the place for. Not sure what that'd actually accomplish.
I don't know how much violence would occur; it will take time before it really starts affecting people in a major way and I don't know if that population will get all that violent. (I don't know a lot! Also who knows how much violence will be reported and how it will be reported.)
And at this point all Republicans in general. This is the moment to practice what they’re preaching. Mamdani IS the Democratic candidate. He WON the primary. If the party leaders won’t support him and instead back Cuomo (who lost by no small margin), then that phrase rings hollow.
Tbh, them backing Cuomo is wild to me. He had to resign as gov in disgrace, and you wanna back him to replace another mayor who is leaving in disgrace? That's the Republicans schtick. Need an overhaul of party leadership fr. Get some new blood in, but someone with realistic, achievable goals.
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Abolish both parties. Open, ranked choice primaries. Only top two candidates can be on the general. Problem solved. Why hasn't it happened yet? Both parties love power.
Grow up.
Never
Who’s the national dem criticizing Zohran? Hakeem? He’s right. Zohran does have to fess up about some statements related to Palestine and he would do well to get that out of the way now.
No he does not. Good bye if you think this. Israel is a pariah state.
Ok. If he wants to ignore the large number of Jews and Zionists who live in NYC, that’s his decision to make. Bye.
Here's a newsflash, there's far less of them than you think, idiot.
It’s too late, they would rather talk about the mayoral candidate somewhere they don’t live than help their constituents