punting on 2nd and 3 at the opponent’s 20 is something we will never ever see in football, because if a coach was trying to throw a game there are many more subtle ways of doing so. this is probably the closest thing to that we’re likely to see
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Hakeem thinks he's some kind of Third Way genius. Meanwhile, I'm getting memories of this.
jun 29, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view
If they feel they have to say something they should just congratulate him for his win and say they hope he wins in the fall. I don't know why this is so hard for some of them.
jun 30, 2025, 4:49 am • 0 0 • view
I swear they're going to form some kind of #NeverMamdani coalition
jun 29, 2025, 3:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Their smear is as ineffectual as their leadership We know Mamdani isn’t antisemitic, yet they deploy insinuation with such ease that the accusation loses gravity. Weaponising such a serious charge not only demeans the accusers, it erodes its power just as real antisemitism is dangerously on the rise
jun 29, 2025, 5:15 pm • 6 0 • view
"World's Saddest Punts (Politics Edition)"
jun 29, 2025, 3:40 pm • 2 0 • view
The "Vote Blue No Matter Who" folks really don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot
jun 29, 2025, 4:15 pm • 23 0 • view
What? How does "vote blue no matter who" even apply to a democratic primary where all the options are blue?
jun 29, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Gee, it might have something to do with all the Democratic leaders spending all their time bashing the winner of the Democratic primary, AFTER the primary is over.
jun 29, 2025, 9:41 pm • 10 0 • view
That does not remotely answer my question. Again, how is the phrase "vote blue no matter who" relevant to any this?
jun 29, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
"vote blue no matter who", as i understand it, is a philosophy of lining up and uniting behind the democratic nominee, saving one's criticism for a time when a general-election campaign is not happening. jeffries does not seem to be adhering to this principle.
jun 29, 2025, 10:05 pm • 9 0 • view
Yeah, I'm aware of all that. The way gruelly's posts are worded make it sound like they're talking about someone who IS adhering to it, so I'm not sure what it has to do with Jeffries.
jun 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
i think the complaint is that the principle has been applied selectively — people who espoused it in the past, when they liked the nominee, are abandoning it now that they don't like the current nominee.
jun 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the grievance is with the posture of the democratic party as an institution, as indicated by the statements of its leadership. the basic charge is still of hypocrisy: they wanted us to "vote blue no matter who", but they're unwilling to do the same.
jun 29, 2025, 11:34 pm • 2 0 • view
That all makes sense, but I still don't think it applies here. I don't know if Jeffries actually espoused it in the past, and even if he did, that would just mean he was right then and is wrong now. If Coumo had won the primary, the phrase would be just as true for him as it is for Mamdani.
jun 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Imo, establishment dems being salty about their loss here doesn't mean anything about "the vote blue no matter who folks" in general.
jun 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Gruelly is pointing out that the phrase rose to prominence from the right half of the party asking the left to fall in line for the general. In this instance the left is asking for the right to fall in line for the general, and the right is having a meltdown about it.
jun 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 8 0 • view
That's not actually true, though. I was there in 2008 when the phrase rose to prominence and it was mainly being said by progressives trying to convince moderates/centrists to vote for Hillary. I don't know if or when the "right half of the party" ever adopted it themselves.
jun 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view
2008? I hadn't seen it that early, I saw it rise to prominence in 2016. I think a lot of people may have also heard it then, when it was often coming from the right half of the party in my personal experience.
jun 30, 2025, 12:07 am • 3 0 • view
Wait, I miscounted. 2016 was the one that was Hillary vs Trump, that's when the phrase started. Still I don't remember it being said by the right half of the party. I don't think the party even had a "right half" back then.
jun 30, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
The accusation is that a significant chunk of the right half of the party was using the phrase disingenuously, which I think is probably correct, much to the irritation of those of us on either side who actually meant it.
jun 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Now that the leftist candidate has the D next to their name the centrists are doing everything they can to shit on him. Is that really hard to understand?
jun 29, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I understand it just fine. What I don't understand is who in this situation is saying to vote blue no matter who?
jun 29, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m not going to do your homework for you Cletus
jun 29, 2025, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Who tf is Cletus?
jun 29, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Jerry is trying to call you unintelligent by deploying an offensive stereotype of a rural person, because Jerry isn't clever enough to either understand or answer your question. I don't think Jerry is worth your time, honestly.
jun 29, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
the person saying “vote blue no matter who” is the progressive aiming the comment at Jeffries who is not committing to backing the D candidate. I thought that was so painfully obvious it didn’t need an explanation and this guy was just being willingly dumb. got it jethro?
jun 29, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Miscalculating how many of us are at least disillusioned if not done with the D party altogether.
jun 29, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s like butt fumble 4.0
jun 29, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 0 • view
We gotta stop electing prosecutors expecting them to be anything other than Cops.
jun 29, 2025, 3:16 pm • 64 3 • view
This mother-fucking idiot would be on his own goal line 4th and inches, and call an audible for a shotgun pass. And then snap, and run out of the back of the end zone, and then applaud loudly that he didn't get tackled.
jun 29, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Jeffries has been such a disappointment, and I had high hopes for him.
jun 29, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Surrender index: Well above infinity
jun 29, 2025, 3:06 pm • 87 0 • view
So the dems finally get a shot at righting some wrongs and maybe fight back against the fascists and this is what their so-called leaders do. Small wonder the fascists can move so quickly.
jun 29, 2025, 3:35 pm • 12 0 • view
This means Chuck Schumer will pull a swinging gate play just like the Jets did. Art.
jun 29, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Apt analogy.
jun 29, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They are afraid of him.
jun 30, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is that the same group of people on both of the teams.
jun 29, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know him personally, but can he really not think on his feet? I ask by way of knowing a few very smart people who can't.
jun 29, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
The root of all evil still growing strong within this one 🙄
jun 29, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
God @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is such a fucking loser
jun 29, 2025, 3:32 pm • 10 0 • view
Jon. Elect me coach of the Jets. I promise that I will punt the first opportunity I get with a 2nd and 3 and my opponents 20.
jun 29, 2025, 3:05 pm • 29 0 • view
Hm, just got a text from the DNC “We NEED your donation NOW to stop NYC from being taken OVER by SOCIALISM!”
jun 29, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
When will people start believing me that Democrats don't want to win... they don't want to beat trump.
jun 29, 2025, 5:02 pm • 6 0 • view
(explaining politics to an american) so imagine a football game, right?...
jun 29, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
All that aipac money really gave him shit for brains.
jun 29, 2025, 3:48 pm • 8 1 • view
4th Down Bot just tweets the chess blunder “??” notation
jun 29, 2025, 3:07 pm • 67 1 • view
Folks you can tell @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social exactly what you think of his actions jeffries.house.gov/contact/
jun 29, 2025, 3:31 pm • 3 1 • view
I never thought Hakeem Jeffries was the right guy for the job and at every turn he’s proven he is not the heir we’d hoped for. Dude’s gotta go. He’s weak and ineffective
jun 29, 2025, 3:50 pm • 24 0 • view
jun 29, 2025, 3:11 pm • 11 0 • view
Considering the fact Mamdani won Jeffries' district and his approval is nosediving I don't think Jeffries understands how much this is pretty much guaranteeing he'll be primaried in 2026.
jun 29, 2025, 3:10 pm • 135 2 • view
No doubt he assumes AIPAC will dump 7 or 8 figures into keeping him there, the way they did to get rid of Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush -- or to get rid of Jeffries himself, if he chose not to be their mutt anymore.
jun 30, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
None of them understand the consequences, really. They're just asking to be primaried and they don't even see that it's happening. That's on them. They want to get primaried without even knowing it? They can go ahead and do that.
jun 29, 2025, 3:30 pm • 44 0 • view
I think they plan on winning primaries by ratfucking their opponents instead of by being popular
jun 29, 2025, 5:05 pm • 4 0 • view
They tried with Mamdani. It failed. The ratfucking could only work for so long.
jun 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah I mean I don’t think it’s a GOOD plan lmao
jun 29, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Indeed. It's definitely a plan, but it's not really a plan that'll actually work. The voters they're trying to trick with that aren't dumb enough to fall for it. If they were, Cuomo would've won the nomination. He lost in a pretty decisive way.
jun 30, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view
Why do you think the feckless Dems removed David Hogg from his leadership position when he advocated for primaries for ineffective Dems? No wonder they keep losing to the GQP. And they didn't select Rep Crockett to the Oversight Committee. The worst opposition party ever.
jun 29, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I think they wrongfully assume they're invincible. Even after Mamdani's win a lot of them don't understand how vulnerable they are. Their attacks on Mamdani endanger them politically far more than it endangers him. Soon they'll realize.
jun 29, 2025, 3:35 pm • 32 1 • view
Here's to hoping
jun 29, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. They don't realize that people like him have got all the cards and they have absolutely none. They're gonna learn, though. They'll learn that they dicked around too much and their careers are donezo as a result.
jun 29, 2025, 3:38 pm • 8 0 • view
Kirk Ferentz: Bet
jun 29, 2025, 3:04 pm • 16 0 • view
james franklin-ass politician
jun 29, 2025, 4:08 pm • 4 0 • view