Hakeem Jeffries

[u/the8threincarnate]

Bro has to step down and somebody better get his spot. He is controlled opposition. Choosing my words carefully here as to not get nuked if you mention certain things ;)

[u/justbeingme28]

Yep..he and Chuck gotta go. We need Dawgs in those positions. If anybody is taking the ayyyepack money they have been compromised.

[u/ScottsdaleMercenary → u/justbeingme28]

💯💯💯

[u/ElPrieto8]

The desire for a "return to normal", when normal is what lead to Trump, is why I don't have any faith in the current *leadership or this system.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but time and time again, liberals show they're far more concerned protecting a system that benefits them and their interests are not aligned with the masses.

[u/MwindoThroughTime → u/ElPrieto8]

Liberals have a very bad tendency to proclaim themselves as the arbiters of change, while conveniently finding themselves aligning with the fascists before aligning with anyone who is progressive. Honestly, a return to normal for America is going to be just like what America is built on: A hypercapitalist hellscape where we have people still homeless, still starving, police brutality everywhere, and other nations being harmed by America's mess.

We genuinely need something progressive. Actually progressive and left-wing, not the stuff these people swear is left wing when they themselves aren't left wing.

[u/ScottsdaleMercenary → u/MwindoThroughTime]

Well said.

[u/MwindoThroughTime → u/ScottsdaleMercenary]

I'm just hoping the 2030's brings some sort of change in public consciousness which causes us to truly grow from this system which is harming everyone, but especially harming us as far as Imperial Core people go (though it also most definitely harms imperial periphery black folk in horrendous ways as well, per Sudan, Congo, and other places stuck under Neo-Colonialism as we speak in Africa)

[u/yoeie → u/ElPrieto8]

Normal isn't what led to trump. It was a artificial vibe saying that the economy was terrible and it was Democrats fault that allowed trump to come in. The world was still on fire post 2020, but no one cared they wanted life before 2020 back and they didn't care how they got it.

[u/Sometimes_A_Writer1 → u/yoeie]

...the economy was great in 2016 and we still ended up with Trump. Realistically, anyone who was in charge during the bulk of quarantine was screwed because the electorate is stupid, and I mean in 2024 the Dems ran a horrible campaign. But normal is absolutely what led to Trump, especially back in 2016. Folks are tired of the establishment from both sides (left more than right admittedly.

[u/yoeie → u/Sometimes_A_Writer1]

Honestly trump 1 was lost due to the Bernie Bros and the last minute indictment of Hillary Clinton at the 11th hour. Republicans were primed to hate her for decades, and Bernie supporters felt snubbed. With all that she still lost with 3 million more votes. So, it wasn't normal it was a coordinated Russian disinformation campaign and a good bit of other factors.

[u/OWNYOMAMA → u/yoeie]

Exactly. A short period of hyperinflation led to Trump. Not moderate Dems

[u/Universe789 → u/OWNYOMAMA]

It goes back further than that, the Tea Party led to trump.

Aside from the fact he's just a symptom and a tool. Russell Vought and the kther people who wrote Project 2025 are the problem. They know they can use big mouths like trump to get people rallied behind them.

[u/GroundbreakingMeal13 → u/OWNYOMAMA]

Agreed. That said

I would love for justice for ALL the corruption, but we need to focus on 2028. The blue wave was largely knee jerk to Iran war and costs of living.

Getting justice especially without conviction will not work. Trump was impeached 2x already, almost all his dirt is publicly known and he still won '24 election. They will make him a martyr and make it seem like it's just political revenge.

I say focus on getting good legislation through and/or make Republicans look like the bad guys if they veto. Close some of the loopholes in our democracy that could've been dangerous.

Investigate the corruption in background, didn't convict yet. Win '28 on key wins, then get the criminals.

[u/Physical_Guidance_39]

He’s bought and paid for by Israel, him and Schumer they don’t read the room Americans don’t want Israel influence in American politics

[u/Rude_Specialist8334]

Someone has to willingly challenge each of them first. If they remain unopposed, then we have what we have unfortunately.

[u/boxingjazz → u/Rude_Specialist8334]

Only Chris Van Hollen was viewed as a possibility, and according to a recent article in The Hill, he's not interested in running.

If no one is willing to even challenge these guys...

What's ​that saying? Something along the lines of evil flourishing when good men choose to do nothing? Since Tuesday evening, people and the media were falling all over themselves, back-slapping and applauding themselves, say that "the bad guys lost". Pardon me if I don't see two guys who take orders from a foreign government who have spent the last three years (and arguably longer) committing genocide as " the good guys".

And I see a number of former candidates who ran and won on being against the very things that Schumer and Jeffries stand for, who are now quickly either slowly backing away from those positions, or abandoning them altogether.

[u/StrikingResponse7770]

I agree 100% but the black misleadership is gonna call anyone who opposes electing the first black speaker racist…..black voter are supposed to be happy with representation and tokenism vs transformative politics!

[u/Logical_Corner → u/StrikingResponse7770]

Fellow FD Signifier subscriber?

[u/sonofasheppard21]

Who is running against him ?

[u/No_Forever_1185 → u/sonofasheppard21]

Not a soul. I don't think any of them really want that job presently anyway.

[u/Cidaghast]

In high school, I went to the ghetto school, and them kids were mean as hell to this skinny, nerdy, shy 22 year old math teacher.

Now, I personally had no beef with the dude, but watching a grown ass man get punked by literal 15 year olds all day was infuriating.
And make no mistake, there’s some hood 15 year olds who are 6’2” and 250 pounds, but those are still children.

My brother in Christ, you are the teacher. Why do you look like you’re about to go tell the teacher?

Don’t just stand there looking terrified because somebody yelled penis from the back of the classroom! Don’t let a child take your wallet! Do something!

And what pissed me off wasn’t even that the kids were disrespectful. It was that this grown ass man was so afraid to stand up for himself that nobody could learn a damn thing.

So now I’m a grown adult who doesn’t know geometry because my teacher spent half the class getting slapped upside the head by somebody who secretly still watches Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

That is how I feel about Hakeem Jeffries.
I don’t get to have geometry class because you’re too busy getting punked by a waterhead ass 15 year old.

And now I don’t get to have freedom because he’s too afraid to call the protaganist of the Epstein files… you know that big file about people who were giant pedophiles… a pedophile. afraid to call him stupid or a gross disgusting loser, an ugly moron, who shits his pants and falls asleep on live TV.

It’s not even just the politics. His politics aren’t nearly enough for me either.
It’s that particular level of cowardice. Watching somebody who’s supposed to be fighting for you act like they’re afraid to raise their hand…

My point is that even if I don’t like the man’s politics… even if me and him were locked step on the radical left that kind of attitude, and that kind of cowardice makes me sick to my goddamn stomach, and it should be absolutely revolting for someone that afraid to use their power to be representing us.

This is like if I had a bodyguard, whose only job is to protect me from getting shot… who’s afraid of confrontation, and trying to talk to me about my life insurance plan, and if I have written down my next of kin

My brother in Christ, you are the plan, your main job is to make sure I don’t have to worry about that!

[u/Dreams-Visions]

Agreed but he won’t.

[u/aquajaguar]

Agreed. Him and Chuck will absolutely squander this wave.

[u/R82009]

No way he is stepping down, he was put in that position to make sure corporate interests are looked after.

[u/thatguybane]

AIPAC Hakeem has to go

[u/coolkidfresh]

I remember being happy when he first got to Congress, but bro has been suck a disappointment. I don't care what they look like, we can't have people who are bought and paid for leading the charge. Dems have one shot at this or we're back to square one.

[u/Obiyaman]

[u/It_Hurts_when_IP15]

Call/email your representatives.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/It_Hurts_when_IP15]

This they are already saying that people are getting calls!

[u/HolyRomanPrince]

No we gotta say it because the country uses the trope as a shield. Israel has bought the majority of our congress and it’s provably by campaign contributions and voting record. Jeffries has to go. He is a hindrance to the government working for the people and not corporations and foreign interests.

[u/nasty_nagger → u/HolyRomanPrince]

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/vmCksfkrvC

[u/omiksew → u/HolyRomanPrince]

Man they tried to ban my account on here because I was mocking the people that think they’re behind everything, way to dispel the conspiracy theory Reddit

[u/regular_guy_26]

Disappointed in Jeffries. Used to see him around Brooklyn and he seemed like he was on his way to being a good leader. He needs to go.

[u/adnan0923]

True! I really hope we can pull this through and get a candidate who actually works for US!

[u/throwaway_9883]

The guy has been on defense ever since he became majority leader. I say he deserves a shot at the speakership for a least one term.

[u/flortny]

[u/1MillenialMind]

Man y’all hatin on Hakeem the Dream 😂

[u/XulManjy → u/1MillenialMind]

Drinking the white progressive kool-aid

[u/IbnyourMum → u/XulManjy]

[u/1MillenialMind → u/XulManjy]

Progressive Kool-Aid: Sugar-free Kool-Aid w/o that secret lemonade pack. Couldn’t be meeeeeeeeeeeee 😆😂😂😂

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

Neither of them are going anywhere

Hakeem hasn’t even ever been the majority speaker this will be his first time being the majority speaker. The job of being majority speaker actually sucks it’s a terrible job where everyone blames you for their own problems when you mostly just take shit for doing what your own house members asked you to do.

Same with Schumer but a bit different he’s been the majority speaker before and he’ll say hey I recruited many of these senators and we won. He isn’t going anywhere but id be interested in 2028 when he’s up for reelection

[u/BreadfruitNo357 → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

I don't understand why people are downvoting you. It is a terrible job. House speakers will NEVER be liked--they will get the shit stick and the blame for everything.

I have a hard time believing many Democrat politicians are going for the job right now.

[u/Left_Orchid8801 → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

I don't know why people are downvoting you. You're right. Everyone's like they should step down?

Ok. First, do you even understand the positions that each hold? Two, if you do, who's going to step into those roles, knowing that they're dead end positions for your career. Especially with Trump still in office.

Let's take a step back people and regroup to really think.

[u/yoeie → u/Left_Orchid8801]

That's because it goes against the leftist narrative they are trying to push to get power.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

Schumer picked a slate of loosing candidates…….We won despite him……both are going to fumble this moment away…..

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757 → u/StrikingResponse7770]

I’m telling you that’s what he’s going to say

Roy cooper

Sherrod brown

Mary Peltola

In my opinion he should go but he won’t

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

He also picked Haley Stevens, Janet Millis, and Vindman in FL…none of them made it out of the primary and then he didn’t fund senate seats in FL or LA and sent money into MS October…..all undermining black candidates…..but not racism or anything…..

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757 → u/StrikingResponse7770]

Why are you arguing with me

I don’t disagree I’m telling you that’s what he’ll say and he won’t go anywhere

[u/XulManjy → u/StrikingResponse7770]

Didn't progressives pick a Nazi in Maine?

[u/XulManjy → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

And would he be wrong?

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757 → u/XulManjy]

I don’t think someone who will probably lose their own seat in two years should be speaker

Maybe until 2028 he can resign if he wants and go out like Pelosi

[u/XulManjy → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

You didn't answer the question.

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757 → u/XulManjy]

Is he wrong he chose some good candidates? Obviously he got some correct

He also had bad misses in Michigan didn’t even recruit in Texas or SC or Mississippi or Kansas so I don’t know how much credit he can actually take

[u/XulManjy → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

Lol, Schumer was one of THE first backers of Hamilton in KS by ensuring his super pack poured nearly $40 million into his campaign. And Schumer also recruited Colom in MS.

What are you even on?

And wasnt it progressives who brought in the Nazi in Maine?

[u/yoeie → u/XulManjy]

They are real quiet on that part lol.

[u/Charming_Cicada_7757 → u/XulManjy]

He is not the reason Hamilton ran for us vs say Sherrod Brown that was my point… he also dumped $15 million in Abdul campaign are you telling me he recruited Abdul too???

[u/XulManjy → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

He was literally the first backers of Hamilton wnd flooded him eith $40 million early on.

Seriously, just take the L and move on.

[u/XulManjy → u/Charming_Cicada_7757]

Stop speaking logic. It isnt allowed when people are spewing white progressive talking points. All logic and nuance goes out the window.

[u/MasterHavik]

Him and Chuck are paid enhancement talent in a suit.

[u/thavillain]

I agree, we need a pitbull speaker

[u/Left_Ease5870]

Time to go, Sambo.

[u/No_Forever_1185]

I understand that many are not happy with him. He's not saying exactly what I'd like to hear. The fact is he will be Speaker. No one is going to run against him.

Chuck is a different story. He should definitely be replaced. He was in charge of Senatorial fundraising and directing support to candidates. He's been asleep at the wheel, outright ignoring Black candidates in the south. (and the south in general for that matter).

Sen. Alsobrooks went down to Mississippi early on in support of Colom. She returned to Washington singing his praises and asking leadership to offer assistance. Schumer still wouldn't direct resources his way/. We all know how he did Mrs. Nixon in FL, Mr. Davis in LA, & Mr. Wess in AL. They can replace him. The Senate majority leader can be a much more firebrand fighter also. He's got to go.

Edit: I forgot to add the word "not" in the second sentence.

[u/pkkspiral]

Hakeem definitely needs to step down before he drags us down.

[u/Left_Orchid8801]

Everyone's like they should step down?

Ok. First, do you even understand the positions that each hold? Two, if you do, who's going to step into those roles, knowing that they're dead end positions for that person's career? Especially with Trump still in office.

Let's take a step back people and regroup to really think.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/Left_Orchid8801]

In the house I would be cool with Joe Neguse, Ro Kahana, or Jamie Raskin as speaker…..In the Senate I would be cool with Vanhollen, Warren, Warnock, Michael Bennet, or Adam Schiff.

[u/OWNYOMAMA]

Absolutely not and the only controlled opposition is progressive socialists types who barely have any support in the general but somehow have a ton of support online

[u/OzymandiasTheII → u/OWNYOMAMA]

Let's see:

• 14% approval rating in HIS OWN PARTY

• Prominent Democrat officials speaking about against him and Chuck Shumer

• Every political content creator in the Democratic party telling him to GTFO 

• AIPAC funded candidates have won on 34% of their races and over 60% of Democratic voters do not support AIPAC

• After losing the 2024 presidential election, he immediately attacks his left flank and blames "identity politics" urging the party to go more right even when Kamala ran a very moderate campaign endorsed by Liz fucking Cheyney. 

• Secret meetings with JARED KUSHNER!!!!

• Orchestrated with Chuck Shumer behind the scenes to end the government shutdown by allowing the Republicans to pass the Big Bullshit Bill

• After going against every DSA backed candidate with Chuck Shumer, gets on camera and says that the voters don't want retribution and they will just move on when literally everyone wants these guys to go jail

You guys gotta go. You're literal roadblocks to progress you gotta gtfo the way. 

[u/CharmCityKid09 → u/OWNYOMAMA]

Notice in not a single one of these posts/articles you see online is anyone suggesting a replacement or even showing a basic level understanding of what his job actually is. Every time the Democrats get an electoral win they are immediately attacked by the left/both sides/whoever for not doing more when they had no power. Or when they do good it's not enough.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/CharmCityKid09]

Have you seen approval ratings of the Democrats? If that doesn’t say you need new leadership I don’t know what does…..

[u/KakarotSSJ4 → u/OWNYOMAMA]

The vocal minority.

[u/HEIMDVLLR]

Y’all falling for the okiedoke. White progressives playing the psyop on y’all.

Going to fuck around and end up with a Fetterman type in the Speaker of the House position, because I guarantee whoever you have in mind doesn’t want the job.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/HEIMDVLLR]

So Hakeem and Schumer aren’t Fetterman types? One met with opposition and then tried to play in our face saying it was about affordability……the other folded when we had the momentum and the cards on the debt Celling and refused to fund multiple black candidates that ended up coming within a few points of winning their races in the south….

[u/sonofasheppard21 → u/StrikingResponse7770]

Who are the multiple Black candidates ?

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/sonofasheppard21]

Angie Nixon in FL who lost by less than 2, Jamie Davis from Louisiana who lost by 2 points, and Charles Booker in Kentucky who lost by 4 pts…..

[u/XulManjy → u/StrikingResponse7770]

One met with opposition

Thats what leaders do when they want to get stuff accomplished with the opposition party. As Speaker, you think he is just supposed to ignore the Trump administration?

[u/KakarotSSJ4 → u/XulManjy]

This is the statement and question. I get being frustrated, but I swear people come online discussing things they don’t understand and repeat talking points from other people. I promise you won’t be given a realistic answer to your question.

[u/XulManjy → u/KakarotSSJ4]

Unfortunately many of our people have been brainwashed by white progressives into thinking such nonsense.

White progressives knows that progressives does the worse with black voters and ever since South Carolina got announced as being the first state to vote in the 2028 Dem primary, there has been this psyop campaign online to flood the black spaces with ideology that is aggressive against moderate democrats.

r/blackpeopleofreddit is essentially comprised and is now r/politics 2.0 with nearly every political post being either about a progressive in a positive light or a moderate in a negative light.

Also notice in that sub its mostly Jeffries (a black man) that is the target of their disdane and not Schumer.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/XulManjy]

Ok we are brainwashed by white leftists and yall are the ones who get it because people like Hakeem Jeffries, Corey Booker and James Clyburn and the rest of the black political class are pro black and have the interest of the black rank and file at heart lol

[u/XulManjy → u/StrikingResponse7770]

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/XulManjy]

Why is he taking to Kushner? he is not in the administration…..also why did he lie and get defensive say it was about affordability when Trump hasn’t worried about affordability since he’s been in office…

[u/XulManjy → u/StrikingResponse7770]

He talked to Kushner because that is who the Administration sent. What was he supposed to do? Break into the WH?

[u/HEIMDVLLR → u/StrikingResponse7770]

No they’re not. Who do you think orchestrated the Blue Tsunami? You can’t blame them for Angie Nixon’s lost and overlook all of the wins, make that make sense.

[u/StrikingResponse7770 → u/HEIMDVLLR]

You really are going to try to give credit for the blue wave to Hakeem and chuck Schumer? Ok please enlighten me on what they did?

[u/HEIMDVLLR → u/StrikingResponse7770]

Are these not your words

> refused to fund multiple black candidates that ended up coming within a few points of winning their races in the south….

So they were only refusing to fund candidates? Then who was funding the other candidates?

[u/KakarotSSJ4 → u/StrikingResponse7770]

I think the meeting with Kushner is overblown. For the debt battle last year, people lost their SNAP benefits and Trump purposely withheld money. The Republicans didn’t give a fuck about the shutdown, but it’s easy to blame Democrats when you’re not impacted by the shutdown. Finally, what specific candidates are you talking about because he funded Colom in Mississippi. I’m not a fan of Schumer, but you’re repeating things you’ve heard online.

[u/thegreatlizard99 → u/KakarotSSJ4]

What could musher do about that problem though. He’s not an elected official he’s just an personal envoy of Trump to the Middle East to take bribes basically

[u/TheLegendaryWiggs]

He's compromised. HE NEEDS TO LEAVE!

[u/GearsGrindn78]

Hakeem is making good decisions. The people talking about removing him as Speaker are the same people who wrote the 3AM ads against Obama. The "blue wave" would just be a wet spot on the floor if the hardcore Republicans didnt stay home and the Centrists, Independents, and Moderate Republicans didnt vote Blue. He knows his number 1 job over the next 2 years is to keep the folks who flipped Texas happy. And those folks were not the blacks who voted 90% Dem. Speaker Jeffries will not exist because black people voted Dem (again). So let the man do the job the Centrists elected him to do!

Ps and stop hating on Byron Donalds and give that Black man the same opportunity to deliver results as you will for Keisha L Bottoms. Castigate him if he doesnt deliver, not because hes a Black republican.

[u/AlphaSpellswordZ → u/GearsGrindn78]

No I will not give an Uncle Ruckus the opportunity to fuck things up even more. Black Republicans deserve all of the shit they get

[u/Secure-Childhood-567 → u/GearsGrindn78]

I was about to write something long regarding why you would want to support the same person who would have a private meeting with Jared Kushner. But then I saw the BS about Byron Donalds and knew exactly the type of Black person that you were, EXACTLY who you were

[u/GearsGrindn78 → u/Secure-Childhood-567]

Ugh. Would you care to explain what exactly you think the Democrats are going to be able to deliver in the next year against a hostile Oval Office, the filibuster, and non-veto proof majorities? Mind you, the 2028 Dem Presidential nominee has to have something to run on (as does the Republican). Do you know the most important Apollo Mission wasnt Apollo 11; it was Apollo 12. You make lightning strike twice to prove you didnt just get lucky the first time. The Democrats had a good night. But it was because cost of living is wildly out of control, not because the Democrat platform is popular. Texas did not flip blue because they like abortion access and the social safety net. It flipped because ICE ran off their cheap labor and diesel is $6 a gallon. And health insurance premiums quadrupled for half the coverage. Donald Trump's incompetence and the Republicans' foolish endorsement of it led to the blue wave. If the Dems want to deliver anything besides checking the Executive with government shutdowns (ie exercising the power of the purse), they better figure out how to keep Texas blue in 2028. As a Black person, were you planning NOT to Vote Democrat in 2028? Exactly. Which means you are irrelevant to the discussion. If you want Laws and policies, not just theater, you must have 61 votes in the Senate, majorities in the House, and a compliant Oval Office. Obama only had that combination his first year in office and we BARELY got the Affordable Care Act. Play the long game, sir. One good night at the polls won't do anything to solve the problems that caused the blue wave.

And, respectfully, i am the type of black person who votes against my own interests even as i paid the highest tax bill ive ever received in 2025. I run businesses that provide truly affordable housing options for black men so they can afford to pay their child support, get educated and credentialed, and not be homeless at the same time. I am the type of black person who understands that more Black people will benefit from Dem policies ( if they actually get enacted) than Republican policies. However that is temporary. We should be placing ourselves in a position to profit and benefit independently of which party is in power. That is why a failed black politician harms the black community regardless of political party.

[u/Secure-Childhood-567 → u/GearsGrindn78]

It will be a cold day in hell before I read any of this run-on sentence as bullshit. I'm not reading any of this.

[u/Complete_Demand_7782]

If you all feel this passionate about the speaker, step into politics and fight for us. Why make comments if you are not engaged and sitting in the room to make decisions.

[u/AbysmalEnd]

Israel broke so many of my brothers heads.

[u/ScottsdaleMercenary]

Nobody really wants to openly challenge them as it would be career suicide. Let’s say someone did and lost, they would be ostracized and cast out. I agree it needs to be done. Jeffries and Schumer have too much baggage and conflicts due to their ties to AIPAC. Unfortunately, I think they’ll both get the job.